Events

During this edition of Brandstof, artist Eric Peter will perform a choreopoem performance, from his long-term project Economy as Intimacy. Through intimacy and relationships this project speculates about late capitalism. Because for people, work contracts, individualisation and competition are intertwined.

Museumnacht010 at Garage Rotterdam: For What It’s Worth x Protest Supplies Store

To conclude the exhibition For What It’s Worth, on Friday, July 8, Garage Rotterdam transforms into a unique restaurant for an artistic and culinary evening.

Enjoy a four-course dinner in unique company, prepared by chef Laurence van Bergeijk, in the middle of the exhibition For What It’s Worth. For this edition of Natafelen, in collaboration with North Sea Round Town, there will be two musical interludes by Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silvia. In addition, curator Youri Appelo and involved artists will talk about their work and the exhibition For What It’s Worth.

Reserve a seat at the table now at info@garagerotterdam.nl!

Four-course menu: € 45,00
Wine pairing: € 25,00

We hope to see you Friday 8 July at Garage Rotterdam!

Garage Rotterdam is proud to present the exhibition Flying Condor Crossing Borders by Marcha van den Hurk in collaboration with visitors to the Pauluskerk Rotterdam.

The exhibition will be officially opened by Sjarel Ex, director of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, followed by a reading by poet Ishmail Kamara.

During the exhibition, there will be various activities from the Pauluskerk’s cultural program. There will be dialogue drawing workshops, musical afternoons, and a performance.

On Saturday, July 16, you can join Marcha van den Hurk for a workshop Dialogue Drawing
With a performance by Ieke Trinks
1.30 – 3.30 pm.

You can sign up for these programs at carpool@garagerotterdam.nl

During the exhibition, there will be various activities from the Pauluskerk’s cultural program. There will be dialogue drawing workshops, musical afternoons, and a performance.

On Sunday, July 17, choir leader Ed Versloot and percussionist Adrian Goormachtigh of Pauluskerk Rotterdam will provide a musical afternoon.
1.30 – 3.30 pm.

You can sign up for these programs at carpool@garagerotterdam.nl

During the exhibition, there will be various activities from the Pauluskerk’s cultural program. There will be dialogue drawing workshops, musical afternoons, and a performance.

On Saturday, July 16, you can join Marcha van den Hurk for a workshop Dialogue Drawing
1.30 – 3.30 pm.

You can sign up for these programs at carpool@garagerotterdam.nl

During the exhibition, there will be various activities from the Pauluskerk’s cultural program. There will be dialogue drawing workshops, musical afternoons, and a performance.

On Saturday, July 16, you can join Marcha van den Hurk for a workshop Dialogue Drawing
1.30 – 3.30 pm.

You can sign up for these programs at carpool@garagerotterdam.nl

In 2022 Garage Rotterdam celebrates its tenth anniversary during the Garage Rotterdam Festival from Tuesday September 27 until Saturday October 1st.

At Wednesday the 28th of September, Garage Rotterdam organizes a dance workshop for children (and their parents). In collaboration with dancer Rochella Prinsen.

Entry €5,00 per child + attendant.
We sell tickets at our door. Do you prefer to reserve a spot online? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl or check out our tickets page.

In 2012 Garage Rotterdam opened its doors. This year the exhibition space for contemporary art celebrates its tenth anniversary. The past ten years, Garage Rotterdam has contributed to the Dutch art scene with 40 exhibitions by 15 curators and more than 200 different artists.

Wednesday the 28th of September until Saturday the 1st of October, Garage Rotterdam celebrates her tenth anniversary during the Garage Rotterdam Festival. The exhibition space organizes a wide range of festive activities within the theme of upcoming talent. Within five days, Garage Rotterdam looks back upon her rich history and will present her promising future plans.

See all activities of Garage Rotterdam Festival in our activities menu.

After two years, Garage Café makes her reentrance at Garage Rotterdam. A pitch-event for young makers. The first edition will take place during Garage Rotterdam Festival. In collaboration with Sue van Geijn, Nicole Sciarone and the Willem de Kooning academy.

Speakers: Tijs van Bakel, Daan Timmer, Lu Lin, Lorena Rode, Qiaochu Guo, Anna Spiliotopoulou.

Entry €5,00 | student €2,00
We sell tickets at the door. Do you prefer to reserve your ticket online? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl or check out our tickets page.

An evening with Anastasis Sarakatsanos and Margo van de Linde.

In this event, musician, composer, and storyteller Anastasis Sarakatsanos will be playing music and telling stories about people who live on the border lines, about their cultures, languages, and forbidden songs. Closing the night, theatre director, improviser, and performance coach Margo van de Linde will improvise a spoken word piece on live music.

Note: the evening will be in English

Entry €5,00
We sell tickets at the door. Do you prefer to reserve a ticket online? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl or check out our tickets page.

The anniversary edition of Natafelen on the 30th of September is fully booked.

One night per exhibition, Garage Rotterdam transforms into a unique restaurant. Enjoy a vegetarian dinner by Rotterdam chef Laurence van Bergeijk accompanied by a wine arrangement of the Gouden Ton.

In 2022 Garage Rotterdam celebrates its tenth anniversary during the Garage Rotterdam Festival from Wednesday September 28 until Saturday October 1st. During the anniversary edition of Natafelen on the 30th of September, Garage Rotterdam will look back upon her rich history and will present its promising future plans.

Four course menu by Laurence van Bergeijk €45,00
Wine arrangement by Gouden Ton €25,00

Do you want to reserve your seat during the anniversary edition of Natafelen on the 30th of September? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl

In 2022 Garage Rotterdam celebrates its tenth anniversary. From Wednesday September 28 until Saturday October 1st, we celebrate our anniversary with a wide range of festive activities during Garage Rotterdam Festival.

On Saturday the 1st of October, we close off Garage Rotterdam Festival with a party. During the evening House of GHOD will organize a performance and the nominees of the Garage Rotterdam Prize for young curators will be announced.

Free entry!

From Wednesday the 28th of September until Saturday the 1st of October, Garage Rotterdam celebrates its tenth anniversary during the Garage Rotterdam Festival. Within five days, we organize a wide range of festive activities within the theme of upcoming talent.

During Garage Rotterdam Festival at the 1st of October, Trendbeheer will organise a festive artquiz to challenge your knowledge about Garage Rotterdam, art in the public domain and in times of a pandemic, NFT’s, and more!

Entry €5,00. We sell tickets at the door. Do you prefer to reserve a ticket online? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl or check out our tickets page.

From Wednesday the 28th of September until Saturday the 1st of October, Garage Rotterdam celebrates its tenth anniversary during the Garage Rotterdam Festival. Within five days, we organize a wide range of festive activities within the theme of upcoming talent.

On Saturday the 1st of October, Garage Rotterdam invites curators to explain their practice to curators and artists at the start of their career. Moderator Pádraic E. Moore will host a conversation with Youri Appelo, Bas Hendrikx, Yasmijn Jarram and Fadwa Naamna about the ins- and outs of curating.

Entry €5,00 (free entry for students).
We sell tickets at the door. Do you prefer to reserve a ticket online? Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl or check out our ticket program.

On Friday the 18th of November at 8 PM, we gladly invite you to join the opening of the exhibition Meditations on Europe by curator Youri Appelo for Garage Rotterdam.

Artists: Hamza Halloubi, Nina Støttrup Larsen, Ghita Skali, Giulio Squillacciotti, Remco Torenbosch, Katarina Zdjelar.

What will the future hold for Europe? A great deal of uncertainty has been looming over Europe for years. Tensions are rising from both inside and outside of the continent. Growing right-wing nationalism that is advocating for separation from the European Union (EU) and the lack of democracy in the union is putting pressure on all member states. At the same time the war in Ukraine, refugee crises and the political instability in America are forcing Europe into collective action.

In the spirit of the fragmented and fluid nature of Europe, Meditations on Europe presents a series of independent and critical stories that deal with European histories, identities and issues. Meditations on Europe does not provide concrete answers, while it operates in line with the plea for a more democratic Europe. Every conscious and unconscious participant in the European project has the right to formulate their own answer to the question: how can we shape a more democratic, equal and pluriform future of Europe, based upon our personal positions and imaginations?

During Brandstof: A European sense of belonging, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) will give a presentation on how they contribute to a more inclusive, democratic and culturally conscious Europe. Friso Wiersum works in the communications department at ECF and during his presentation, he will reflect on ECF’s history, vision and their imaginations for the future of Europe. Can a sense of belonging exist without solidarity? Can culture sketch a common future?

In Meditations on Europe visitors have the right to formulate their own answers to what a more democratic, equal and pluriform Europe looks like in the future. Join this edition of Brandstof to dive into the answers of ECF.

During Natafelen on January 20, we kick-off the new year together with curator Youri Appelo and the artists in the exhibition Meditations on Europe. Enjoy a vegetarian four course menu accompanied by a wine arrangement at our dinner table surrounded by art.

Four course menu | €50,00
Wine pairing | €30,00

Send an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl to reserve your seat at the dinner table.

Looking for oneself has been a journey throughout history. In this quest, humankind has used various technologies, from dark reflective water and luxury mirrors on walls, to the screens on our phones. We have created myths and fairytales around these mirrors, delivering warnings about fragile humanity and its values. Mirrors have also been used to entertain drunk guests or laugh at (bully) them at public celebrations.

Today, an object that reflects a “clear” image of oneself is the screen of our phones. The hidden and fast-evolving cameras behind those screens now show us our clear, distorted, adjusted and beautified faces – the protagonists of contemporary fairytales. With face filters on a daily basis, we are engaged in a ritual of masking in front of our phones, challenging binary structures, and experiencing another self. All while feeding into exploitative social media production, ambitious startups and AI development. With every technological development, a slice of fiction becomes a reality. Fiction is a temporary state of identity searching for freedom of movement and expression. While being occupied with ourselves, new fairytales are being produced.

On Thursday evening 9 February at 20.00, the Art Rotterdam afterparty will take place at Garage Rotterdam. We will usher in the evening with music, art and a tour of the current exhibition Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? by curator Bogomir Doringer. Free entry!

Brandstof is a recurring public programme including lectures, talks, music and performances, to dive into the theme of Garage Rotterdam’s exhibitions. During Brandstof on Saturday the 4th of March, Garage Rotterdam and Museumnacht 010 will join forces. This special edition of Brandstof, curated by Bogomir Doringer, will focus entirely on the theme of his current exhibition Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

During the evening, the artists Natalia Kharetskaya and Zalán Szakács will perform together.

Natalia Kharetskaya is a Lithuanian-born vocalist, composer and producer. Her performance Cosmic Bride pushes the boundaries of a concert experience by using movement-based control systems, altering the sounds of the string quartet and voice. With wearable sensor technology, movement becomes a musical instrument and a new dynamic expression.

“The possibilities to tell stories through unique materiality of immersive audio are awe-inspiring – it elevates the experience with the sensation of being in orbit around the voice of the performer and takes the listener into a literally spatial adventure.”

Zalán Szakács created the scenography of the Cosmic Bride performance. He uses volumetric projection techniques inspired by his ongoing research into expanded cinema. Geometric shapes become spatial as they transform the gallery space into an immersive environment. Based on Cosmic Bride’s sounds, the light beam will be triggered, changing its colour, speed, and opacity. The scenography creates an immaterial space, as the light creates a veil between the performer and the audience.

Get your tickets for Museumnacht 010 via www.museumnacht010.nl

We are excited to share that Garage Rotterdam is joining Art Central Rotterdam XL on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 March, including our participation in its central exhibition at Baanhof.

Art Central Rotterdam XL will shine a light on contemporary art and culture in the city of Rotterdam. A cultural event in which 30 Rotterdam-based art spaces and institutions open their doors for free. Drop by to see the exhibition Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? by curator Bogomir Doringer.

To highlight the presence and connection between all the players in the Rotterdam art scene, the central exhibition at Baanhof “SUBJECT:TRANSITION” curated by Anna Buyvid, will be a collection of artworks out of the 30 art spaces. The exhibition aims to reflect on transitions in the broadest sense.

“SUBJECT:TRANSITION” at Baanhof opens on Friday 17 March at 8 PM. The exhibition will be on show every Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 8 PM until 10 April 2023.

Read more about Art Central XL via www.artcentralrotterdam.nl

Enjoy a vegetarian four-course menu accompanied by a delicious wine arrangement in our exhibition space. During this edition of Natafelen, you will be seated together with the curator and artist of the exhibition Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who’s the Fairest of Them All?

Four course menu | €50,00
Wine pairing | €30,00

Reserve your spot at the dinner table by sending an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl

Speaking of Land and Seasons | Stories on contemporary farming and fieldwork by Seasonal Neighbours 

Take a deep dive into the exhibition At the Table during our in-depth programme Brandstof on Wednesday 24 May. For the evening, the curators Tiiu Meiner and Rawad Baaklini invited the collective Seasonal Neighbours to host a four part story-telling session, about participating in the seasonal farming cycle.

Anastasia, Ioana, Max, and Yacinth will share their experience about their fieldwork as pickers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Using a series of objects and memorabilia connected to this fieldwork, they will touch upon aspects of seasonality and labour, cohabitation and land, as well as how their experiences have influenced their creative research. The format of the event will simultaneously engage the audience in a reflective discussion about what it is to work in the realities of farming today, and the challenges of avoiding extractivist practices for artists and exhibition spaces. 

The event features a story-telling inspired dinner. 

Menu:
Borscht | Beetroot soup with pickled vegetables 
Dolmas | Filled mallow leaves with rice, wild herbs and nuts 
Grilled aubergines | Served with wild herbs and flowers 
Strawberry salad

Tickets: € 5,00

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 #2.2 will open its doors again on the 8th of June for 5 presentations and performances of 10 minutes, with food, drinks, and time to discuss.

Speakers: Cemre Kara, Ali Rıza, Atakan Gür and Metincan Güzel, Blise Orr, Ciska Mei & Alma Kim.

Natafelen with Amanny Ahmad is sold out!

At The Table is paired with three different food happenings that tackle various appetites. For the opening, Micheline Nahra will host a food experience shaped by the paradox of diplomacy. For Natafelen, Amanny Ahmad will provision a Palestinian dinner foraged from industrialised and natural landscapes.

‘Ifrich : Rub’

Garage Rotterdam invites you to the final dining event of the exhibition At the Table, by artist Amanny Ahmad. ‘Ifrich : Rub’ is an exploration of our relationship to the land, presented through the experience of a family style dinner. Through the lens of her Palestinian heritage, Ahmad presents a meal, alongside sounds, images, and text that expand on the interconnectedness of our bodies to the landscapes that keep us alive. The recipes she serves are both a record and a manifestation of resistance and survival within Palestine, through not only their ingredients, but also through the stories of the people and seeds they tend to.

Amanny Ahmad is a Palestinian-American artist, chef, land worker, and folk herbalist, currently based in the high altitude desert of the land of the pueblo people, taos, New Mexico. In her research-based practice, she studies things small & large: whole systems design, food as language, land as life, historical & contemporary relationships between humans & non humans, botany, mycology, indigenous culinary traditions & plant use, histories of resistance; and how those things can teach us about preservation, survival, and world-making. Her research culminates in a variety of forms: writing, photographs, objects, garden design, fermentation, herbal medicines, and most publicly, large scale meals, often cooked over live fire, incorporating wild ingredients. Being in, on, off, and with the land is her main priority and joy.

Four course menu €50,-
Wine pairing €30,-

Reserve your spot at the dinner table by sending an email to info@garagerotterdam.nl

Save the date!
Opening Choreographed Events
By curator Bogomir Doringer

On Friday the 1st of September, we will kick-off the cultural season with Choreographed Events, the second exhibition by curator Bogomir Doringer.

The interactive artworks in Choreographed Events may be choreographed by various factors. It could be the curator or artists behind this exhibition who have created the activations for you, it might be technology, it might be algorithmic processes choreographing the activations. Or you might be the choreographer within this exhibition because of your presence and interaction with the works.

The exhibition Choreographed Events could be designed to challenge conventional narratives, which some viewers might interpret through a conspiratorial lens. From another perspective, the lights, sound, motion and patterns could establish the relationship between activations in the exhibition space and natural phenomena.

Artists: Aliki van der Kruijs & Jos Klarenbeek, Heleen Blanken, Harm van den Dorpel, Jeppe Lange, Nanno Simonis, Studio Moniker and Sweet Scope.

Choreographed Events will be on show from 2 September – 5 November. Join us for the exhibition opening on Friday the 1st of September at 7 PM!

On Thursday the 5th of October, Garage Café 2.3 returns at Garage Rotterdam. Garage Café is a testsite-with-audience for experiments, showcasing research, new collaborations, performances and all other types of artistic work.

Speakers:

Chiara Pitrola
Matilde Stolfa and Eva Garibaldi
Vivianne von Arx
Bernat Sanjuan
Ile Sen Ay Avec Toi
Toni Brell

Programme:
6.30 PM | Walk-in with soup
7 PM | Start talks

Soup during the evening will be served by Chiara Zoë Tichelman.
Nicole Sciarone will moderate the conversations during Garage Café 2.3.

Visual design: Blise Orr

During Brandstof: Leaning Sounds and Touches on Saturday 7 October, the artistic duo Sweet Scope will perform in their installation Leaning Sounds (2022), on show within the current exhibition Choreographed Events. On the same evening we will present the première of an experimental performance together with the work Heliotrope (2019) by Heleen Blanken and Daniel de Bruin, centered around the interaction between the human and the machine.

The installation Leaning Sounds (2022) by artistic duo Sweet Scope invites visitors via simple harmonic structures to naturally make music. During Brandstof, Sweet Scope will perform in their installation together with Sound of Touches: an intuitive instrument which transfers colorful shapes into sound.

During the evening programme you can also discover a theatrical performance together with the work Heliotrope (2019) by Heleen Blanken and Daniel de Bruin. This new experiment, a collaboration between the human and machine, is an idea by technical producer Machiel Kunst.

Programme
8 PM | Walk-in
8.30 PM | Start performances

Tickets (€5,00) can be purchased via our website or at our door.

On Friday evening the 3rd of November, we officially close off Choreographed Events, together with a talk by curator Bogomir Doringer and a Q&A with the artist Nanno Simonis and the duo Sweet Scope – who will also host a performance within their installation Leaning Sounds (2022) during the evening.

Enjoy a vegetarian four-course menu by chef Marnix Benschop with a matching wine pairing by the Gouden Ton, while sitting in the midst of all the artworks, listening to the talks and immersing yourself in the performances.

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

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

On Friday the 17th of November, curator Nadine van den Bosch will open her first exhibition Traces for Garage Rotterdam.

Artists: Isabelle Andriessen, Maurice van Es, Alex Farrar, Vibeke Mascini, Narges Mohammadi, Noor Nuyten, Clémence de la Tour du Pin.

The scent of perfume, a cloud of breath dissolving in cold air, a tiny drop of sweat or the dying echo of a word that was spoken long ago. These are fragments of an impression that we wanted to leave behind, separated from the person to which they belong. We strive to create the best possible first impression, but we have no control over the hyper personal traces that remain after we disappear.

This emotional residue lingers in the room after our departure. The traces that we unintentionally left behind disappear as time goes by, slowly dissolving and becoming one with the world around us.

The exhibition Traces shows the slowly disappearing traces of our presence that is no longer there. What remains in the end are the memories that we leave behind – traces in
someone else’s brain.

Brandstof together with the artist Alex Farrar.

The purpose of our eyelashes is to protect our eyes and our vision. Despite their inconspicuous form, eyelashes are immediately identifiable as being ‘of us’. Under the title of Whimper – which could be a misspelling of the Dutch word ‘wimper’ – the artist Alex Farrar will make a site-specific intervention with eyelashes collected from the floor of Garage Rotterdam. This edition of Brandstof will highlight our corporeality and produce an intimate encounter between visitors to the exhibition Traces.

During Natafelen on Friday 12 January 2024, we will celebrate the new year with a culinary event in the midst of the artworks out of the current exhibition Traces. Enjoy a vegetarian four-course menu by chef Marnix Benschop and wine pairing by the Gouden Ton, while listening to talks by curator Nadine van den Bosch and the artists out of the exhibition.

The enigmatic prohibition on bubbling during the Summer Carnival of 2023 in Rotterdam triggered a broader exploration of dance’s role within societal dynamics. Dance, a powerful form of non-verbal communication, has always been linked to socio-political shifts. It establishes collective ties across various settings, shaping culture and urban landscapes. Yet, attempts to control freedom of movement have led to the oppression of communities and individuals who dance differently, this way dance becoming a tool for racial profiling and reinforcing patriarchy.

The second edition of ‘NO DANCING ALLOWED’, the last exhibition curated by Bogomir Doringer at Garage Rotterdam, explores dance rituals in times of global constraints like the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and recent bans on raving and protesting in Italy. The exhibition dives into the historical interplay between body politics and dance, unravelling the threads that connect them and asking for thinking reflections on the moving spirit of dance within this evolving narrative.

The exhibition gathers works around Bogomir Doringer’s PhD and the term dance of urgency. This dance rises in times of personal and collective crises and aims to empower individuals and groups. The first edition of ‘NO DANCING ALLOWED’ unfolded at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space in MuseumsQuartier Vienna in 2022.

Join us for the official Art Rotterdam afterparty!

| Doors open at 20:00
| Performance by Selma Selman at 21:00
| DJ set by smother until late

Selma Selman will say it loud and clear: all spaces are taken, and our selfishness is causing global problems. After that, she speaks to Omer, maybe a fictional character, a deity, an acquaintance, a brother, a lover, or her homme fatale. Evidently, Omer personifies the patriarchy itself as the world we were born into, not the world we chose.

| This event is part of the exhibition NO DANCING ALLOWED / 2
NO DANCING ALLOWED / 2, the last exhibition curated by Bogomir Doringer at Garage Rotterdam, explores dance rituals in times of global constraints like the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and recent bans on raving and protesting in Italy. The exhibition dives into the historical interplay between body politics and dance, unravelling the threads that connect them and asking for thinking reflections on the moving spirit of dance within this evolving narrative.
The exhibition runs from January 27 until April 7

| Doors open at 20:00
| Performance by Luiz Felipe Lucas at 21:00
| This event is part of Museumnacht 010. Tickets are available via museumnacht010.nl

The criminalization of funk is the starting point for the artists’ research into the longstanding suppression of Afro-descendant’s artistic expressions in Brazil. Through looking at institutional prejudices — such as an anti-vagrancy law that resulted in the illegality of capoeira and other cultural manifestations — they tell a story of silencing. The project unites artists Mbé, Leyblack Beats and Luiz Felipe Lucas.

| This event is part of the exhibition NO DANCING ALLOWED / 2

NO DANCING ALLOWED / 2, the last exhibition curated by Bogomir Doringer at Garage Rotterdam, explores dance rituals in times of global constraints like the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing wars, and recent bans on raving and protesting in Italy. The exhibition dives into the historical interplay between body politics and dance, unravelling the threads that connect them and asking for thinking reflections on the moving spirit of dance within this evolving narrative.
The exhibition runs from January 27 until April 7

This edition of Natafelen will be completely in the spirit of Mariana Luiza’s work Redemption. The night will feature a presentation and performance by Mariana, in which she elaborates on her work and Brazil’s racial whitening policy.

The vegetarian four-course menu has been put together in collaboration between Mariana and our chef Marnix van Benschop, and will feature Brazilian culinary staples.

Reservations: info@garagerotterdam.nl

Price four-course menu: € 50,-
Wine-pairing: € 30,-

“1911, 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘭 𝘶𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯çã𝘰 𝘥𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘮) 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘭. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴”.

𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 110 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘪𝘻𝘢 – a 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 woman – 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘭’𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳-𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 in three acts.

Identity Flux refers to a state of constant change in our being. Our identity and the way in which we present ourselves to the world is always in flux and subject to change. There is never merely one authentic self, but an interplay of various sides that appear in different situations. Playing a role or taking on an alter ego is a way to explore and develop the various aspects of our identity. It is a way to cherish hidden characteristics, to discover emerging desires and to explore various aspects of our identity within a framework we have chosen ourselves.

Creating an avatar in cyberspace, exploring gender roles, wearing a uniform: these are some of the answers to the human desire to escape from the restrictions and expectations of everyday life. These are ways in which we can give room to all aspects of our existence.

Identity Flux is the second group exhibition by curator Nadine van den Bosch at Garage Rotterdam. It offers insight into a parallel world in which appearances are carefully constructed and turn up in different – at times very subtle – ways. The exhibition explores alternative identities and celebrates duality.

Air Tonalities is a performance that explores air as an artistic medium to create form and sound. Elise Ehry and Kitty Maria van Ekeren perform as two unemployed air hostesses using their non-industrial instruments like clay horns and silent flutes. The intimate sounds of their hand-crafted instruments come together with the sounds of DIY soldered electronic circuits. The voices of the air hostesses are amplified creating noisy and disruptive soundscapes.