Events

After two successful editions, we are very happy to invite you to the Garage Café #3!

During Garage Café #3 presentations and performances by upcoming artists based in Rotterdam will be presented. We are very happy to invite you to this special event at Garage Rotterdam. Hear all about the new projects of these upcoming artists and have a drink with us afterwards!

Participating artists to be announced.

When: Thursday 6 April 2017
Open: 18.30h
Start: 19.30h sharp
Where: Garage Rotterdam

The presentations will be in English, with some small possible switches to Dutch.

Tijdens de tentoonstelling Humble zal Harry Haarsma dagelijks naar Garage Rotterdam komen, om een werk uit de kast te pakken en te vervangen voor het werk van de dag ervoor. Iedere dag prijkt er een ander werk aan de muur. Op deze manier zijn er ook iedere dag veel kunstwerken die niet zichtbaar zijn, die blijven opgeslagen in de stellingkast uit zijn atelier. De installatie die Haarsma toont, benadrukt de aandacht voor dat ene beeld afgezet tegen de veelheid van beelden in de stellingkast.

Garage Rotterdam is celebrating its 5th anniversary! We look forward to welcoming you on Friday 12 May so we can start celebrating this anniversary with you during the opening of Humble. Will you join the party?

In an era in which social media and self-promotion seem important, we are specifically encouraged to display our ambitious and vain characteristics, in order to get on in life, to carve out a career. Would being humble make sense in this day and age, or would you simply be working against your own interests?
The group exhibition Humble exhibits works of art that reflect the significance of being humble. This is an exhibition which certainly doesn’t have an enormous ego.

Garage Café #4 will open its doors again on the 1st of June, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes food, drinks, and time to discuss,…

Garage Café is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, showing research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work. This event is a joined force of the WdKA, Garage Rotterdam and CBK to collaboratively work on creating more stages in Rotterdam for anybody with an interesting story.

Thursday 1st of June 2017
entrance free

Garage Rotterdam
Goudsewagenstraat 27

Doors open & soup: 18.30h
Start presentations: 19.30h

Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Speakers:
Alexander Zeitlin
Luuk Smits
Marie Lexmond
Corina Popa
Harmen de Hoop
Giacomo Boffo and Tommaso Buresti

Anders Ouder Worden, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam en Garage Rotterdam hebben de handen ineen geslagen en organiseren op zondag 4 juni Kunstkijken in de Wijk voor de ouderen van het Hoogkwartier. Met een workshop kunst kijken bij de Kunstuitleen en een interactieve rondleiding door de tentoonstelling Humble bij Garage Rotterdam geven we een idee van het kunstaanbod in de wijk.

Onder begeleiding van beeldend kunstenaar, schrijver en ‘de ongekroonde koning van het kijken’ Hans Aarsman gaat Brandstof op vrijdag 23 juni over uitzoomen. Welke inzichten levert het op als je jezelf klein maakt ten opzichte van de wereld? Hans Aarsman neemt je mee langs ideeën, aannames, en observaties. Hij zoomt uit en laat je anders kijken. “De dingen zitten soms anders in elkaar dan verwacht. Vaak zelfs precies andersom.”

Hans Aarsman’s (1951) bezigheden laten zich het beste omschrijven als veldwerk. Met zijn fotografische werk zoekt hij naar verbanden in de gigantische hoeveelheid beschikbare fotografie. Hij staat dit jaar met alweer zijn derde show in het theater en heeft een wekelijkse bijdrage in de Volkskrant en De Tijd met De Aarsman Collectie. Het werk van Hans Aarsman is tot 16 juli 2017 te zien in de groepstentoonstelling Humble in Garage Rotterdam.

Reserveren voor deze avond is niet meer mogelijk

For one night only during each art exhibition at Garage Rotterdam, the venue turns into a unique setting for dinner & drinks. Enjoying good food and great company in a very special venue. Being surrounded by works of art. This is what Natafelen is all about: a culinary night at Garage Rotterdam.

We would like to invite you for a delicious dinner on Friday 30 July 2017 during the exhibition Humble. The curators and several artists taking part in the current exhibition will join you for dinner and tell you more about their work.

Master Chef Laurence van Bergeijk will prepare a sumptuous, vegetarian three-course dinner. Local and seasonal vegetables are the main ingredients for his dishes. The Gouden Ton, our wine merchant at Garage Rotterdam, will serve exquisite wines that have been carefully selected to accompany the food.

Price: € 35,- incl. 3 course dinner and entrance fee exhibition. Wines selected by the Gouden Ton: € 17,50.

Please make your reservations at info@garagerotterdam.nl

Garage Rotterdam will start the new cultural season by opening Nora, a group exhibition. We want to extend to you our warmest welcome to attend the preview of this exhibition on Friday 1 September at 19:00 hours. During the same evening we would also like to introduce you to our new curator, Sjoerd Kloosterhuis.

Nora is the main character in Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘A doll’s house’ dating from 1879. She had the courage to go in search of her own identity, and dared to pursue her own individual liberty. The search for identity is, however, timeless, and not restricted solely to women. In a contemporary performance of ‘A doll’s house’, a man or someone with a less traditional gender identity could just as easily play the role of Nora.

The group exhibition Nora criticises the current belief that identity is unalterable. Recent years have seen increasing openness surrounding various forms of sexuality. Nevertheless, a lot of ignorance on this matter still prevails among the public at large. It is the exhibition’s ambition to contribute, by displaying videos and installations, to increasing the visibility of gender diversity.

We cordially invite you to come and see the exhibition during the opening on Friday 1 September at 20:00 hours. Some of the artists who are participating – and our new curator Sjoerd Kloosthuis – will also be present and they will be happy to discuss their work with you. During the opening, the curator will explain the idea behind the exhibition and there will be music from Celestial Terrestrial & Nelson (Club von Westen).

Garage Café #5 will open its doors again on the 26th of October, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Thursday 26th of October 2017
entrance free

Doors open & soup: 18.30h
Start presentations: 19.30h

Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Speakers:
Andreea Peterfi
Arthur Cordier
Eleanor Zurowski
Nolwenn Salaün
Sander Coers
Hugo Rocci

Garage Café is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, presenting research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work. This event is a joined force of the WdKA, Garage Rotterdam and CBK to collaboratively work on creating more stages in Rotterdam for anybody with an interesting story.

Wat is de link tussen het liefdesleven van premier Mark Rutte en individuele vrijheid? Kunstenaarscollectief J&B legt in hun nieuwe film Question mark een opvallend verband tussen beiden. Luiz Roque laat in zijn film Modern (2014) zien wat de voordelen zijn van meer genderdiversiteit. Hij toont een mix van stilte en dans, hoge en lage cultuur, geschiedenis en toekomst.

Op uitnodiging van curator Sjoerd Kloosterhuis tonen J&B en Luiz Roque tijdens deze editie van Brandstof twee films binnen het thema van de tentoonstelling Nora. Na de wereldpremière van de film Question mark gaat kunstcriticus Edo Dijksterhuis in gesprek met J&B na wat hen drijft. Waarom zijn ze bijvoorbeeld zo geïnteresseerd in de schoonheid van vanitas?

Op haar beurt plaatst Risk Hazekamp de recente aandacht voor genderdiversiteit in historisch perspectief. Hazekamp geldt als een van de pioniers op het gebied van identiteit, gender, representatie en massamedia. In haar fotografie speelt ze met iconische beelden van mannelijkheid en vrouwelijkheid. Ze laat gender zien als constructie die ontstaat door hem te spelen.

The Talisman
Workshop with Gijs Assmann

Doors: 13:30 hrs
Start workshop: 14:00 hrs

Please make your reservation at info@garagerotterdam.nl

Garage Cafe #6 will open its doors again on the 11th of January, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Thursday 11th of January 2018
entrance free
Doors open & soup: 18.30 hrs
Start presentations: 19.30 hrs

Speakers:
Emma Grout
Jaleel Roy Lindsey
Kasia Prints
Oana Clitan
Sónia Barreiro
D’Avellonne van Dijk

Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Garage Cafe is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, presenting research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work. This event is a joined force of the WdKA, Garage Rotterdam and CBK to collaboratively work on creating more stages in Rotterdam for anybody with an interesting story.

You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition Gaia in the Anthropocene on 2 February 2018. We look forward to welcoming you at 20.00 hrs!

For this opening there is no entrance fee and it is not necessary to register in advance.

De zaterdagavond van de Art Rotterdam Week sluit je dit jaar af in Garage Rotterdam! Stroom na het sluiten van de beurzen door naar Garage voor de speciale avondopenstelling van de tentoonstelling Gaia in the Anthropocene én een borrel zoals je van ons gewend bent.

Garage Rotterdam is op zaterdag 10 februari geopend van 12.30 – 17.30 en in de avond vanaf 21.00 uur

Garage Rotterdam presenteert tijdens de Museumnacht010 de dansperformance D NO BODY #5 transcending van choreograaf Dario Tortorelli.

D NO BODY is een serie dansinstallaties die de betekenis van identiteit verkent. Op welke manier wordt ons imago vormgegeven en weerspiegeld door anderen? In Garage Rotterdam zie je het vijfde deel uit de serie. Hierin schrijden drie lichamen in slow motion voort, in een poging zichzelf te ontstijgen, zoekend naar een ontastbare identiteit.

De performance wordt tijdens de Museumnacht twee keer opgevoerd. Om 20.30 uur en 22.00 uur. Tussen 20.00-01.00 uur is doorlopend de tentoonstelling Gaia in the Anthropocene te bezichtigen.

Zaterdag 3 maart , 20.00-01.00 uur
Performance: 20.30 en 22.00 uur

D NO BODY #5 transcending by Dario Tortorelli

Concept en choreografie: Dario Tortorelli
Dans: Nicole van den Berg, Paolo Yao Kouadio, Patrick Schmatzer
Muziekcompositie: Thierry Castel
Beeldend kunstenaars: Annika Kappner en Nikki Hock
Repetitor: Judit Ruiz Onandi

Brandstof is het verdiepende programma bij de tentoonstelling Gaia in the Anthropocene (te zien van 2 februari t/m 31 maart 2018)

Eén avond per tentoonstelling verandert Garage Rotterdam in een uniek en gezellig restaurant. Tussen de kunstwerken van de tentoonstelling Gaia in the Anthropocene én aan tafel met de kunstenaars en curatoren Sjoerd Kloosterhuis en Madelon van Schie geniet je op vrijdag 23 maart van een bijzonder vegetarisch diner. Bereidt door chef-kok Laurence van Bergeijk (winnaar Gouden Pollepel 2017) met een bijpassend wijnarrangement van de Gouden Ton. Een etentje anders dan anders. Leuk met een groepje vrienden, maar ook met een kleiner gezelschap schuif je gemakkelijk aan!

Kom je graag meer te weten over de tentoonstelling? De kunstenaars en curator van de tentoonstelling Gaia in the Anthropocene vertellen tussen de gangen door graag meer over hun werk.

Gaia in the Anthropocene
De kunstenaars in Gaia in the Anthropocene verkennen de mogelijkheden die mythen vandaag de dag scheppen en zoeken naar nieuwe verbindingen tussen mens en aarde. Wat is de betekenis van mythen in deze tijd van angst en onzekerheid over de toekomst van de aarde?
Met werk van Jonathas de Andrade (BR), Milena Bonilla (CO), Rometti Costales (FR & BY), Pauline Curnier Jardin (FR), Jimmie Durham (US), Thierry Oussou (BJ) en Maya Watanabe (PE). Curatoren: Sjoerd Kloosterhuis en Madelon van Schie.

Natafelen
Datum: vrijdag 23 maart 2018
Tijd: 18.00 – 22.00 uur
Locatie: Garage Rotterdam, Goudsewagenstraat 27

Tijdens Natafelen serveren we een vegetarisch diner bereid door de Rotterdamse chef-kok Laurence van Bergeijk met een bijpassend wijnarrangement van de Gouden Ton.

Prijs diner: € 35,-?
Wijnarrangement (optioneel): €17,50

Reserveren kan gemakkelijk door voor zaterdag 17 maart een e-mail te sturen naar info@garagerotterdam.nl o.v.v. Aanmelding Natafelen. We horen graag met hoeveel mensen je komt en of er specifieke dieetwensen zijn waar we rekening mee moeten houden.

From 20 April 2018 Garage Rotterdam presents the group exhibition Detached Involvement by curator Bas Hendrikx who is the new curator of Garage Rotterdam. Featuring the work of eight visual artists. This exhibition is about works of art that became known to the general public in an unconventional way.

The history of how most works of art become known is clear to us: they originate in the artist’s studio and make their way to exhibitions and the general public. However, Detached Involvement is about works of art that did not become known to the public in a conventional way. These works were sometimes only ever seen from the corner of an eye, in a film or on a poster. Other works disappeared backstage after a while.

Detached Involvement is about props, replicas, objects that were considered lost and projects that were never carried out. They evolve or disappear over time, either because of lack of, or excess of visibility.

This exhibition offers a view of the circumstances in which these objects and works of art were created. And how has the double life that these works of art have led influenced their status?

Featuring the work of Max Cole (US), Kristien Daem (BE), Michel François (BE), Philip Janssens (FR), Inge Meijer (NL), Marina Pinsky (RU), Raniero Vrancken (NL) and Blaine Western (NZ).

New Curator:
Bas Hendrikx is the new curator of Garage Rotterdam! He has developed exhibitions in the Netherlands for De Appel, Impakt, Marres, museum De Domijnen. Also abroad for Skulptur Bredelar (Germany) and CIAP Kunstverein (Belgium). His book Authenticity? Observations and Artistic Strategies in the Post-Digital Age was published by Valiz in 2017. Hendrikx has extensive experience with digital art working for stedelijk.nl, deappel.nl and impakt.nl. He is the former curator of P/////AKT and he is currently working on Kunsthalle Amsterdam.

Detached Involvement is on show from April 20- July 8, 2018.

Extra activities:

Brandstof:
In collaboration with: Poetry International
June 2, 16.30 hrs.

Garage Rotterdam toont tijdens deze speciale editie van Brandstof een performance van Puck Vonk, en in samenwerking met Poetry International een voordracht van dichter Nachoem M. Wijnberg.

It all starts with breathing is een spoken word performance van Puck Vonk. Haar performance gaat over de lichamelijke aspecten van taal, zoals de ademhaling en de manier waarop het lichaam zich voorbereidt op het spreken. Naast de vraag wát je gaat zeggen, denk je onbewust ook na over hóe je dat gaat zeggen, wanneer je inademt en welke spieren je daarbij gebruikt.

Nachoem M. Wijnberg draagt in Garage Rotterdam voor uit eigen werk. Hij wordt weleens omschreven als de meest complexe hedendaagse dichter. Hijzelf echter noemde zichzelf eens “een van de begrijpelijkste dichters”. Zijn onderwerpen komen vaak uit de hedendaagse maatschappij, wat ook te maken kan hebben met zijn andere carrière als econoom.

Curator Bas Hendrikx leidt de middag in met een introductie op de tentoonstelling Detached Involvement.

Deze editie van Brandstof is onderdeel van de 7e Poetry + Art Gallery Tour waarmee Poetry International samen met Rotterdamse galeries en kunstinstellingen een tour presenteert langs kunstwerken op het snijvlak van poëzie en beeldende kunst.

Zaterdag 2 juni, 16.00 – 18.00 uur
Start performance: 16.30 uur

Entree: € 2,- (gratis op vertoon van een Museumjaarkaart, Rotterdampas of ticket Poetry + Art Tour Noord). Vooraf aanmelden voor het programma in Garage Rotterdam kan via info@garagerotterdam.nl o.v.v. Aanmelding Brandstof 2 juni

We would like to invite you to a new edition of the art & dinner event Natafelen on Friday 29 June 2018. This event marks the start of the summer and the end of the cultural season. We will also say goodbye to the visual artists whose work is exhibited in Detached Involvement. All the more reason to come and enjoy dinner surrounded by art at Garage Rotterdam.

A vegetarian 3-course dinner menu will be served by Rotterdam chef Laurence van Bergeijk, including wine suggestions by the Gouden Ton. Would you like to find out more about the exhibition? Curator Bas Hendrikx and visual artists Kristien Daem, Raniero Vrancken and Inge Meijer will tell you more about their work in between courses.

When? Friday 29 June 2018, 18.00-23.00 hrs

Tickets: €35 (including a 3-course dinner and admission to the exhibition)
Wine sellection (optional): €19.50

The number of seats at the dinner table are limited, so please make your reservation in good time. You can make your reservation by sending an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl stating Reservation Natafelen on 29 June. We would like to hear how many guests your reservation is for and whether there are any dietary requirements (the 3-course dinner is vegetarian).

Wednesday evening September 12th, Garage Rotterdam will host the weekly Dansateliers Movement Class. The class is taught by choreographer Connor Schumacher who will perform several guided tours with his robot character The Fool during the exhibition. By the use of physical exercises and tasks he will share the ideas and starting points behind his artistic movement language. The class is open to anyone interested in movement, body awareness, choreography and dance. Everybody is welcome, experience is not required.

20:00-21:30 (doors open from 19.30)
One class: € 5,= / 10-lessons card: € 45,=
More info: dansateliers.nl/lessen/

The Fool is a theatrical guided tour by choreographer Connor Schumacher. Using the basic metaphoric code of Opening and Closing, The Fool analyzes what is real, what is moving, what is meaning and what are the myths we gather around us. The Fool helps us to reflect on the body and its ability to perceive its surroundings and the way it uses the past and the future to help construct meaning for our survival. Following The Fool is to draw a card of new beginnings, to take the risk of not believing, and of childlike wonder.
A Dansateliers production, financially supported by De Gemeente Roterdam and Fonds Podiumkunsten/ Nieuwe Makersregeling.

Garage Cafe is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, showing research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work.

Garage Cafe #7 will open its doors again on the 27th of September, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Speakers:
Mondays Collective
Luis Bracamontes
Bart Lunenburg
Alina Lupu
Jim van Geel
Jonathan Oron

Thursday the 27th of September
Doors open & soup: 18.30 hrs
Start presentations: 19.30 hrs
Entrance €2
Language: English

Speakers to be announced soon.

Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Brandstof on location: Metallica performance by and with Jimmy Robert.
Location: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

For one night only during this exhibition, Garage Rotterdam turns into a unique setting for dinner & drinks. Enjoying good food and great company in a very special venue. Being surrounded by works of art. This is what Natafelen is all about: a culinary night at Garage Rotterdam. The curator Sjoerd Kloosterhuis and several artists taking part in the current exhibition will join you for dinner and tell you more about their work in-between courses.
Master Chef Laurence van Bergeijk will prepare a scrumptuous, vegetarian three-course dinner. Local and seasonal vegetables are the main ingredients for his dishes. The Gouden Ton, our wine merchant, will serve exquisite wines that have been carefully selected to accompany the food.

Price: € 35,- incl. 3 course diner and entrance fee exhibition.
Selected Wines: € 20
Please make your reservations by 24 October 2018 before 12:00 hours at info@garagerotterdam.nl with the subject: Natafelen | Prosecute my Posture. Let us know with how many you will be joining us!

With Philip Janssens, Hans Köhler, Georg Nees, Sylvia Roubaud, Manfred Robert Schroeder, Samantha Thole, Edward Zajec and Vilko Žiljak.

What if technology is not adequate and sufficient? This question has become superfluous in our day and age of machine learning. What’s more, in this start-up society we tend to look down on impossibilities. We use words like ‘opportunity’ and ‘challenge’ in stead. And we learn algorithms to get to know our habits so they can be of use to us, whether we asked for it or not. Technology is there to serve us and if it doesn’t exist, we create it.

Having said that, the first visual artists started using algorithms and formulas to generate images as early as the 1960s. The range of options was obviously much more limited at that time, but this art form was popular in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Croatia. Despite its mechanical nature, these works of art
often resemble patterns from nature, biology and astronomy. The Blossom exhibition shows how these unusual works of art relate to the work of contemporary visual artists.

Garage Cafe is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, showing research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work.

Garage Cafe #8 will open its doors again on the 29th of November, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Speakers:
Kwinnie Lê
Zuzanne Loch
Milica Jovicevic
Pim Steinmann
Jean-Philippe Paumier
Julie Slauke

Thursday the 29th of November
Doors open & soup by Lonneke Jonker: 18.00 hrs
Start presentations: 19.30 hrs
Entrance €2
Language: English

Do you want to know more about the artists, art works and the creation process of the exhibition Blossom? Join curator Bas Hendrikx for a guided tour and learn more about the background of this exhibition.

Entrance: €2
Museumcard or Rotterdampas: free entrance

Brandstof | Secret Gardens
with Samantha Thole, Bas Meeuws en Bas Hendrikx

Flowers are typically Dutch..
Although flowers wilt quickly, they have always been popular components or materials for artists to work with. In the Brandstof, Secret Gardens we examine the works of artists and Avantgarde florists.

Production company HotelRebel (Rotterdam) is commissioned by the Dutch Flower Council to create a series video portraits – EXPOSÉ – about the inspiring floral artists, both home and abroad. The serie is broadcasted in four countries. We see how flowers are immortalised in ice, sugar and bouquets by true floral artists.

One of them, Bas Meeuws will be there to tell you about his work. He creates digital flower still lives that exhibit many similarities with paintings of the golden age.

Artist Samantha Thole, that created the flower murals for Blossom, teaches us about her research gendered botany. She tells us about the hidden stories in horticulture and shows us that flowers can be used as a form of protest.

For one night only during this exhibition, Garage Rotterdam turns into a unique setting for dinner & drinks. Enjoying good food and great company in a very special venue. Being surrounded by works of art. This is what Natafelen is all about: a culinary night at Garage Rotterdam. The curator Bas Hendrikxs and several artists taking part in the current exhibition will join you for dinner and tell you more about their work in-between courses. Diner Diner €40, wine-arrangement (optional) €20

Master Chef Laurence van Bergeijk will prepare a scrumptuous, vegetarian three-course dinner. Local and seasonal vegetables are the main ingredients for his dishes. The Gouden Ton, our wine merchant, will serve exquisite wines that have been carefully selected to accompany the food.

Please make your reservations by 11th January 2019 before 12:00 hours at info@garagerotterdam.nl with the subject: Natafelen | Blossom. Let us know with how many you will be joining us!

The first exhibition of our new Brazilian curator Marina Coelho, The House Where You Live Forever, opened on Friday 1 February 2019. The international artists in the group exhibition scrutinise the obsession with the perfect body in current society. Heide Hinrichs, Robin Kolleman, Julia Dahee Hong were present and Sophie Dupont performed her performance We Always Carry Our Body.

Special ART Rotterdam evening, with dj’s and drinks.

This will be a special Museumnacht010 edition of Brandstof.

Our permanent Natafelen-chef Laurence van Bergeijk invites chef Marnix Benschop to prepare the diner for this special vegan edition. Marnix Benschop was born on Terschelling. He was an intern in the famous Noma restaurant in Copenhagen. Afterwards he worked as a sous-chef in several Michelin-star restaurants, including the renowned Ivy. He was responsible for the kitchens of The Suicide Club, Biergarten and recently Marnix took on the challenge of cooking all-vegan at our neighbours, the brand new restaurant Dumbo. On April 12th he cooks at Garage Rotterdam. Sommelier Joost Meenks selects matching wines.

Want to know more about the exhibition The House Where You Live Forever by Marina Coelho? Marina 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 12 April, 18.00-23.00 uur
Costs: €40 (incl. 4 course diner and entrance exhibition)
Wine arrangement (optional): €20

Please make your reservations by 10th of April 2019 at info@garagerotterdam.nl with the subject: Natafelen | The House Where You Live Forever. Let us know with how many you will be joining us and if you have any allergies.

De stad, de stad (The city, the city) is the final exhibition of curator Bas Hendrikx in Garage Rotterdam. The group exhibition explores the experience of the urban space. While some artists approach the city as a social space or a place for adventures, others perceive it as oppressive. How can you make the city your own?

With: Moyra Davey, Risk Hazekamp, Dorian Hiethaar, Richard John Jones, THE KOKRA FAMILY line kramer en marjolijn kok, Jaanus Samma, A. Staal, Sille Storihle en Arthur
Bueno | Rob de Vries.

Garage Café #10

Garage Cafe is a test-site-with-audience for experimenting, showing research projects, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work.

Garage Cafe #10 will open its doors again on the 23rd of May, for 6 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Hosted by Nicole Sciarone
Soup by Lonneke Jonker

Speakers:

Rosa Johanna
Julia Dahee Hong
Chiara Zoë
MOÏRA
Judith van den Berg
Abel Wolff

Special feature:
Sue van Geijn
Luis Bracamontes and Jowi Kemper
Lonneke Jonker

Garage Cafe is an artist run initiative started by Sue van Geijn in collaboration with Garage Rotterdam, WdKA and supported by CBK Rotterdam. Currently led by Nicole Sciarone in collaboration with Garage Rotterdam, and kindly supported by the City of Rotterdam, department of Culture (dKC). Collaboratively working on creating more stages in Rotterdam for anybody with an interesting story.

Thursday the 23rd of May
Doors open & soup: 18.00 hrs
Start presentations: 19.00 hrs
Entrance €2
Language: English
Garage Rotterdam
Goudsewagenstraat 27, Rotterdam

Marthe Ramm Fortun’s performances present themselves through recited, site-specific texts and ephemeral sculptural boundaries. There are always several languages at play– the linguistic and the poetic; the sculptural and the bodily– interwoven and deliberate, they inscribe closed off institutional spaces with persistent and poetic feminisms. On a lawn of spring flowers in-between the Medieval cast iron fences of access and risk, Fortun presents a new work within the exhibition context of De Stad, de stad.

TALKS about architecture is a lecture-series that offers a podium to emerging international architecture practices. TALKS approaches architecture primarily as an artistic discipline which derives its social relevance from its poetical and spatial qualities. TALKS is an initiative of Rotterdam-based architecture office De Kort Van Schaik and is organized in collaboration with AIR.

We are proud to announce that Mary Duggan will kick-off this series of TALKS about architecture. Her lecture on Friday June 14th will be the first of four in the 2019 TALKS about architecture program. Mary Duggan Architects is an architecture and design studio established in March 2017. Duggan is committed to the delivery of well-conceived and thoughtfully-detailed architecture. The ethos of her practice is driven by the ambition to understand the spirit of the places in which they build. Interested in the creative potential of cross-disciplinary interaction, the practice supports a residency program for emerging and established artists and makers. To date this residency includes a ceramicist, an illustrator and a sculptor, all of whom contribute to the development of live projects in the office. Check the portfolio on www.marydugganarchitects.com

Tickets: €10

Op 15 juni wordt het nieuwe rondleidingen programma Kunstmotor in Garage Rotterdam gelanceerd. Tijdens het pilotprogramma kunt u deelnemen aan een verdiepende rondleiding bij de huidige tentoonstelling De stad, de stad, die ingaat op de beleving van de stedelijke ruimte. Rondleider van Garage Rotterdam en beeldend kunstenaar Miriam Sentler vertelt meer over de deelnemende kunstenaars, hun werk en het tentoonstellingsthema.

KUNSTMOTOR
Wil je kennismaken met Garage Rotterdam als kunstinstelling? Of ben je geïnteresseerd in extra verdieping bij de tentoonstelling? Onder het programma Kunstmotor biedt Garage Rotterdam vanaf heden rondleidingen op maat aan. Op basis van jouw wensen wordt het niveau, het programma en de insteek van de rondleiding bepaald. De rondleidingen kunnen worden aangeboden in het Nederlands, Engels of Duits.

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DE STAD, DE STAD
De groepstentoonstelling De stad, de stad van curator Bas Hendrikx gaat in op de beleving van de stedelijke ruimte. Waar sommige kunstenaars de stad benaderen als sociale ruimte of plek voor avontuurtjes, ervaren anderen deze juist als beklemmend. Op welke manier kan je de stad naar je hand zetten?

Met werk van Moyra Davey, Risk Hazekamp, Dorian Hiethaar, Richard John Jones, THE KOKRA FAMILY (line kramer & marjolijn kok), Arthur Bueno | Rob de Vries, Jaanus Samma, Arthur Staal, Sille Storihle
Curator: Bas Hendrikx

Start rondleiding: 15:00
Kosten: gratis met geldig toegangsbewijs
Voertaal: Nederlands

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