Ghosts of Futures Past

On Friday 29 November, curator Nadine van den Bosch will open her last exhibition for Garage Rotterdam: Ghosts of Futures Past includes the work of the artists Jaasir Linger, MingJou Chen, Oscar Santillán, Saar Scheerlings, Sondi and Venus Jasper.

The artworks in Ghosts of Futures Past show a constant back-and-forth between the past, present, and future. They bring up images of ghosts from the past and possible futures, making us think about how history continues to affect us and what the future might hold. How do we find meaning in a quickly changing world, and how we relate to our surroundings, our future, and our past?

Join us for the festive opening with live music on Friday 29 November! During the opening of Ghosts of Futures Past, the second edition of Spoiler (open call) will also be launched.

Garage Café #2.5

Join us for Garage Café: a test-site-with-audience for experiment, showing research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work.

Speakers of the upcoming edition: Paracetamol Zero, Cecilie Fang, Szu-Han Lin & Wen-Hsuan Lin, Marie Caye and Jenny Konrad.

Garage Café #2.5 will take place on the 11th of December 2024. Walk-in 6 PM, start presentations 6.30 PM.

Entrance €2,00 (door tickets)
Soup by Lon Luna €5,00

The evening will be moderated by Nicole Sciarone.

Visuals for Garage Café #2.5 are designed by Lili Huston-Herterich

Garage Café is supported by Erasmusstichting and Gemeente Rotterdam

Join us at Garage Rotterdam in beginning of 2025, for a presentation by Dorin Buduşan on Eastern European history, anthropology, folklore, critical theory and the ghosts that are fighting our battles with us.

This lecture is part of the project Ashes to Ashes by Helena Łomnicka, who was selected for Garage Rotterdam’s Spoiler open call. With her proposal, Helena curated the bookshelf in the front space of Garage Rotterdam with artist publications that explore the theme of hauntology, in connection with our recently opened exhibition Ghosts of Futures Past.

The lecture will take place on Sunday 12 January from 2 – 4 PM and will be held in English. Free entry!

Graphic design: Jan Wojda

Join us during Brandstof on Saturday 18 January 2025 at 4 PM for a performance by the artist MingJou Chen, displaying work in the exhibition Ghosts of Futures Past.

The artist MingJou Chen finds beauty in how we gather information through our senses and memories. By experimenting with different forms of media — blending body movement, film, objects, sound and speech — she explores a nonlinear approach to storytelling. 

According to MingJou, performance serves as a medium to communicate experiences and gain insight into understanding personal differences. By studying body movement and through collaborations with artists across diverse fields, MingJou Chen aims to create profound connections and encourage significant exchanges.

Join us at Garage Rotterdam on 26 January for a workshop on story-telling, (dis)arming mythological archetypes and exploring the monsters that grow out of our limbs by Seré.

This workshop is part of the project Ashes to Ashes by Helena Łomnicka, who was selected for Garage Rotterdam’s Spoiler open call. With her proposal, Helena curated the bookshelf in the front space of Garage Rotterdam with artist publications that explore the theme of hauntology, in connection with our recently opened exhibition Ghosts of Futures Past.

This event will take place on Sunday 26 January from 2 – 5 PM and will be held in English.

Graphic design: Jan Wojda
Photography by: Kristýna Le Thi

Visit Garage Rotterdam on the 2nd of February for a lecture on the genealogies of “spirituality”, exorcisms on reality TV, magic under capitalism, significance of the non-secular and haunt-logical qualities of the esoteric by Spoiler curator Helena Łomnicka.

This lecture is part of the project Ashes to Ashes by Helena Łomnicka, who was selected for Garage Rotterdam’s Spoiler open call. With her proposal, Helena curated the bookshelf in the front space of Garage Rotterdam with artist publications that explore the theme of hauntology, in connection with our recently opened exhibition Ghosts of Futures Past.

This event will take place on Sunday the 2nd of February from 2 – 4 PM and will be held in English.

Graphic design: Jan Wojda

Join us on Friday 7 February 2025 to close off the exhibition Ghosts of Futures Past in a festive and culinary way.

Enjoy a vegetarian four-course menu together with your family members, friends, curator Nadine van den Bosch and the artists out of Ghosts of Futures Past.

Four-course menu by chef Marnix Benschop €50,00
Wine pairing by Gouden Ton €30,00

Reserve your seat at our dinner table via info@garagerotterdam.nl