Summer programme 2025

Application deadline: 10/07/2025

Language(s)
During this summer break, Garage Rotterdam will become a common ground for the students and alumni of ArtScience (KABK) and the Piet Zwart Institute (WdKA). This exhibition aims to be more than a display, it is an evolving process, a meeting point for conversation, collaboration, and unexpected connections. Through this crossover between institutions, generations, and disciplines, we wish to cultivate a sense of continuity and exchange for students coming from different backgrounds and sometimes at different stages of their practices. It is an opportunity to connect, cross paths, and allow ourselves to shape new ideas. By creating a space for showing, listening, performing, and discussing, we hope to weave new connections within those artistic communities while showcasing the wide range of mediums and practices hosted in those schools. The theme « Language(s) » aims to convey these principles while encouraging a constructive dialogue shaped by a multitude of expressions.

General information for application

• Exhibition between 01/08 – 10/08/2025 (Exact dates to be defined when the program is confirmed)
• Location: Garage Rotterdam
• Application deadline 10/07/2025

Conditions

• Be a student or alumni from either the Piet Zwart Institute or KABK ArtScience
• Be able to present one or more completed or well on tracks works related to the theme «Language(s)»
• Be present and available during the exhibition’s days

We are open to all kinds of works, subjects, concepts or mediums. However, we would like to put a particular emphasis on the notion of exchange and collective dialogue in accordance with the theme Language(s). We invite you to consider how this concept can be interwoven into your practices.

To participate please make a PDF containing:

• Your name & contact information
• Title of the work
• Category of work (workshop – performance – lecture – discussion – physical – moving image)
• Description (max 300 words)
• Material needs (electricity, dark space, projector, etc…)
• Visuals / sounds (pictures of the project/videos/sounds/etc…)

Send your proposal to: info@sweetscope.studio before the 10th of July 2025

Garage Rotterdam opens up their space during summer breaks to inspiring projects and initiatives. This open call during the summer of 2025 is organized by Sweet Scope studio, who previously showcased work at Garage Rotterdam.

Language(s)
A meeting ground for students and alumni of Piet Zwart Institute & KABK ArtScience
2 – 9 August 2025 at Garage Rotterdam

This summer, you can enjoy an exhibition, together with film screenings, performances and workshops by students and alumni of Piet Zwart Institute & KABK ArtScience.

The exhibition Language(s) is initiated and curated by Sweet Scope studio – who previously showcased work at Garage Rotterdam – and supported by Garage Rotterdam.

Language(s) aims to be more than a display, it is an evolving process, a meeting point for conversation, collaboration and unexpected connections. A crossover between institutions, generations and disciplines.

Free entry on all exhibition days. Reservation is not mandatory, but if appreciated via free tickets in our ticketshop.

Full program

Saturday 2 August
18.00 | Opening & drinks
20.00 | Performance by Tingyi Jian

Sunday 3 August 
16.30 | Performance by Giulio Palma
17.00 | Performance by Daniel Lythgoe
17.30 | Performance by Michel W
19.00 | Workshop by Ziheng Wang
19.30 | Performance by Ecaterina Grigorieva
20.00 | Screening of short movies

Tuesday 5 August
18.00 | Workshop by Yu Yin
19.00 | Workshop by Chris Paraschou

Wednesday 6 August 
13.00 | Workshop by Oria Kelly
20.00 | Screening of short movies

Thursday 7 August 
19.30 | Performance by Aitana López Rodrigo
20.00 | Performance by Tingyi Jiang

Friday 8 August 
20.00 | Screening of short movies

Saturday 9 August 
15.00 | Workshop by Ringallė Demsytè
16.00 | Workshop by Ruby Reding
18.00 | Performance by Wouter van den Elzen
18.30 | Performance by Toke Nielsen
19.00 | Performance by Daniel Lythgoe & Heu Hsu

Big thanks to all participating artists: Agata Sznurkowska, Aitana López Rodrigo, Anaïs Lossouarn, Anna Luczak, Benjamin Schoones, Christina Paraschou, Claudio Tola, Conor Croasdell, Daniel L. Lythgoe, Ecaterina Grigorieva, Gill Baldwin, Giulia Crivellaro, Giulio Palma, Gweni Llwyd, Gweni Llwyd & Nadine Ghandour, Ilja Kolosovs, Inneke Taal, Iza Koczanowska, Jake Caleb, Max Lester, Michel W, Nihal Goel, Noah van de Wetering, Oliver Doe, Omer van Soldt, Orla Kelly, Ringaile Demsyte, Ruby Reding, Salvador Miranda, Suehyun Kim, Tessa Langeveld, Tingyi Jiang, Toke Nielsen, Wouter van den Elzen, Yannis Mihos, Yu Yin, Ziheng Wang, Zorm (Tesse Baardman).

Join us on Wednesday 13 August at 5 PM for the opening of a sponteneous summer exhibition: The One Meter Series.

Full of paintings and video works by the artist Marit Shalem.

The exhibition The One Meter series is on show from 13 – 17 Aug.

On Saturday 16 August at 7 PM, you can join an audiovisual performance with metallic subtle sounds: Tribolumina #2, with Dirk Bruinsma and Christian Smith.

This exhibition is part of Garage Rotterdam’s summer programme.

Free entry during the opening, exhibition and performance.

Thanks to Mondriaanfonds, CBK Rotterdam and Machiel Kunst Innovations for supporting The One Meter Series by Marit Shalem.