What if Women Ruled the World?

On Friday 6 September the exhibition What if Women Ruled the World? by curator Imke Ruigrok for Garage Rotterdam opens. In the group exhibition What if Women Ruled the World? five international artists explore imaginations of temptation, roleplay and the relationship between being male and female through performance, installation, mural and film.

With: Wafae Ahalouch, Tyna Adebowale, Yael Bartana, Hadassah Emmerich, Caz Egelie, Alexis Blake (artist talk) and Marijke De Roover (performance)

This edition of ‘Brandstof’ will be hosting two outstanding artists invited by Nina Folkersma, curator for this performance programme on the occasion of the exhibition ‘What if Women Ruled the World?’.

The renowned artist Alexis Blake (US, 1981) will talk about her multidisciplinary practice in conversation with Nina Folkersma.
In her work she brings together visual art and performance through various methods of translation such as choreography, sculpture, video, text and script. She explores the language of movement, creates spaces to expose and elude systems of representation and mechanisms of subjectivisation. In doing so she aims to reformulate the relationship between the object and the subject.

Marijke De Roover (BE, 1990) will be showing her performance ‘Live, Laugh, Limerence, 2019’, which premieres this week in both London (Frieze Art Fair) and Rotterdam.*
De Roover works with video, text and performance. She focuses on the meaning of identity and its performative aspect and thereby also touches on their social and political constructions.

* Commissioned by David Roberts Art Foundation.

doors open: 12.30 hrs
start performance: 15.00 hrs
entrance: €4,50

TALKS about architecture is the lecture series that offers a stage for emerging international architectural practices. On Thursday 17 October, Site Practice will be the first speaker in this series of TALKS about architecture.

Site Practice is an architecture and design studio based in Mumbai and Amsterdam and is led by Dutch architect Anne Geenen. With projects in Southeast Asia, India and Europe, they explore the design process through acts of making and engage with collaborators from various backgrounds and disciplines. In response to local conditions, human interaction and material considerations, we aspire to create buildings, spaces and objects that become moments of quality in daily live.

start programme: 20.00 hrs
entrance: €10
To buy tickets for this event visit www.talks-about-architecture.eu

Our permanent Natafelen-chef Laurence van Bergeijk invites will prepare the diner for this special vegan edition. Sommelier Joost Meenks selects matching wines.

Want to know more about the exhibition ‘What if Women Ruled the World?’ by Imke Ruigrok? Imke and some of the artists will be present to tell you more about the expo. Enjoy great food and good company in a unique setting and join.

Friday 1 November, 18.00-23.00 uur
Costs: €40 (incl. 4 course diner and entrance exhibition)
Wine arrangement (optional): €20

Please make your reservations by 30 October 2019 at info@garagerotterdam.nl with the subject: Natafelen | ‘What if Women Ruled the World?’
Let us know with how many you will be joining us and if you have any allergies.