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To Be Like Water
To Be Like Water explores and expands on the meaning of code-switching. The exhibition aims to examine and complicate the notion of identity, and consider code-switching as a manifestation of a fluid multiplicity that operates within vectors of power. Curated by Kris Dittel.Β In linguistics, code-switching denotes the practice of alternating between two or more languages in a conversation by multilingual speakers. Now, the term also commonly refers to the adaptation of a s...
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A convo about code-switching
Sabrina Starke x Concrete Blossom A conversation about the conscious and unconscious ways we continually adopt different cultural and linguistic indentities in different situations....
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Guided tour in Dutch Sign language – CANCELLED
NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED On Sunday 22 May, the last day of the exhibition To Be Like Water, you are welcome to join us for a guided tour in Dutch Sign language by Renske Maes (Stichting IN gebaren). The tour starts at 14.00 until 15.00 p.m. The exhibition aims to examine and complicate the notion of identity, and consider code-switching as a manifestation of a fluid multiplicity that operates within vectors of power. In linguistics, code-switching denotes the practi...
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Monsters Inside Me
Monsters Inside Me was a programme for high-school students and was inspired by the xhibition Dark Matters. Artist Jeroen Kuster gave high school students an interactive exhibition tour and a workshop about viruses, bacteria, and scary diseases. The programme for Monsters Inside Me, which took place in the context of the Cultuurtraject, took off with an interactive exhibition tour through Dark Matters. The artists in this group exhibition explored the immeasurable and the ...
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Open Set – Graphic Design Summer School
The annual design conference Open Set β Graphic Design Summer School takes place in Rotterdam this year, from the 28th of July till the 9th of August. Open Set was invited by Kunstblock, a Rotterdam based foundation, set up by five cultural institutions that reside on the Witte de Withstraat. The different workshops and presentations that are part of the Summer School take place in the different Kunstblock affiliated locations. Workshop Participants of Open Set are invited t...
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Giuseppe Licari – Schlak
Schlak was the latest chapter in Giuseppe Licari's research into the relationship between man and nature. Working like a geologist in one of the most important raw-material producing areas of the European steel industry, Licari collected the stones that remain as a residue after the iron is smelted at 1535ΛC. Licari showed his slag stone collection alongside images that evidence how human activity has created a whole new geological layer. Giuseppe Licari (Erice, Sicily, 19...
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Exhibition tour by curator Kris Dittel
Sign up for a guided tour of the exhibition To Be Like Water on Sunday, May 22. Please note that this is the last day of exhibition To Be Like Water and curator Kris Dittel and artists Jay Tan, Evelyn Taocheng Wang and Katarina Zdjelar will be present for a final, collaborative tour of the expo. In linguistics, code-switching denotes the practice of alternating between two or more languages in a conversation by multilingual speakers. Now, the term also commonly refers to t...
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De Derde Dinsdag
On Tuesday 17 November at 20:00, De Derde Dinsdag (The Third Tuesday) cultural talk shows is a high-speed update on whatβs happening in the next month in Rotterdam in the fields of theatre, music, film, visual arts, festivals, and more. This editionβs host is Anna Visser. Accompanying her is the writer Elfie Tromp, whose second novel, Underdog, a tragicomic novel about failure, is published on 27 November. Elfie will bring her hairless dog, which was her inspiration for di...
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TENT Rotterdam cares a lot about your privacy.Β We therefore only process data that we need for (improving) our services and we handle the information we have collected about you and your use of our services.Β We never make your data available to third parties for commercial purposes. This privacy policy applies to the use of the website and the services provided by TENT Rotterdam.Β The starting date for the validity of these conditions is 17/05/2018, with the publication of ...
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TENT does not stand still. We focus all our efforts on topical developments and trends in the art scene, and organize comprehensive and educational programmes for both young scholars and well-informed professionals. During cultural manifestations, we work together with other organisations in our city, and we host activities for trend-setting Rotterdam initiatives, such as the Dolf Henkes Award and the TAA. In addition to the financial backing of the municipality of Rotterdam,...
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Anytime Now
Anytime Now focused on feelings of tension and global instability. The exhibition responded to a ubiquitous feeling of anxiety engendered by a constant sence of threat -- of war, terrorism, climate change, social polarisation, and the erosion of the welfare state. The exhibition also questioned the perception that the end of times is near. With impressive images, the artists evoked both a sense of immediate threat and measures of time beyond human comprehension. With the ...
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Free Heri Heri For All (Keti Koti)
With Keti Koti, we commemorate and celebrate the abolition of slavery in 1863 every year on July 1. On July 1, 2023, Kunstinstituut Melly, TENT and the Kunsthal join forces to celebrate Emancipation Day. Emancipation Day in Suriname is called Ketikoti, "the breaking of chains." We warmly invite everyone to join us for one of the 575 free Heri Heri meals, prepared in WORM's kitchen. This day comes about in partnership with Free Heri Heri for All. Why Heri Heri? Heri Heri c...
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Nothing could be slow enough | Piet Zwart Institute
From 28 june till 25 august TENT presents the graduation shows of the Master Fine Art and Master Media Design and Communication programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the postgraduate institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie, will open in TENT on 28 June. The graduation works from the Fine Art programme, led by Vivian Sky Rehberg and with the cooperation of curator Arnisa Zeqo, and Media Design and Communication programme, led by British director Simon Pummell and with th...
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Julien Grossmann & Giuseppe Licari
On Thursday 16 March at 20.00 hrs, Julien Grossmannβs solo exhibitionΒ Customs and Claims and Schlak by Giuseppe Licari will open inΒ TENT Rotterdam, while DJ Love on the Beat is going to perform. Julien Grossmann - Customs and Claims Sculptural sound works play the leading role in this first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Julien Grossmann. Grossmann ingeniously transforms musical instruments and sound equipment, uses sound recordings from the early 20th century to t...
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Utopian Dreams
Utopian Dreams showsed the plans and dreams of artists and architects for a new Rotterdam. As part of βRotterdam viert de stad!β (Rotterdam celebrates the city!), the collector and former museum director Reyn van der Lugt compiled a number of historical and contemporary future fantasies about Rotterdam. These acclaimed and imaginative projects inspire a wider debate on the future of the city. Since its post-war reconstruction, Rotterdam reinvented itself through large-sc...
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The Back Room – Esma YiΔitoΔlu
This solo exhibition was the final edition of a special collaboration between TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, showcasing underexposed yet iconic Rotterdam artists. Curator was Noor Mertens. Esma YiΔitoΔlu (Zincidere, 1944 - Rotterdam 2009) grew up in Turkey and left to study in Rotterdam at a very young age. She was the first Turkish student at the Willem De Kooning Academy. YiΔitoΔluβs oeuvre consists of sculptures, drawings and paintings. The sculptures YiΔito...
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Book launch ‘Type Compass, Charting New Routes in Typography’
The evening of Wednesday 10th April is devoted to innovations in typography in the context of the new publication by designers Emilio Macchia and Michael Brenner (VosBrenner), 'TYPE COMPASS, Charting New Routes in Typography'. Whilst the typography of printing has existed for centuries, Internet type designs still have a young history. What are the most innovative type designs of the moment and in which directions is typography developing? During the evening, designers Emilio...
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TENT Welcomes De Aanschouw
On Friday 12th January De Aanschouwβs notorious annual artΒ auction takes place in the TENT gym, doors will open at 18.30. Works by contemporary artists, photographers, and designers are auctioned this evening. Viewing days The viewing days will take place in TENT from Tuesday 9th January till Friday 12th January from 11.00 to 18.00 hours. Entrance to the auction exhibition is free of charge. The auction catalogue will be available as pdf from approximately January 3rd. ...
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Dark Matters
The artists in Dark Matters explore the misty recesses of a dark universe. They show a world that seems to be neither utopian nor dystopian, a place whose nature does not immediately reveal itself. What does this world tell us? Meaning is not given. However, there is room for reflection on our own time and ourselves. Universal themes, such as growth and destruction, good and evil, were shown in monumental drawings, sculptures, and installations. Sandro Setola sketches a gr...
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No You Won’t Be Naming No Buildings after Me
With 'No You Won't Be Naming No Buildings after Me' guest curator Vincent van Velsen explored embodied legacies and modes of commemoration. The title of the exhibition was taken from the song βA.D. 2000β, written by singer Erykah Badu in remembrance of 23-year old Amadou Diallo, who was killed through police violence.Β "No you won't be naming no buildings after me To go down dilapidated No you won't be naming no buildings after me My name will be misstated, surely" Β Β Β ...
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Dutch Design Port
This exhibition featured ten leading designers and was curated by Aad Krol and Saskia Copper (Stichting Vivid Vormgeving), as a sequel to their promiment international showcase of Dutch Design in the Milk Gallery in New York. One aspect was remarkable about the international Dutch Design exhibition: all the key figures of Dutch Design were living or working in Rotterdam. The Treetrunk Bench by Jurgen Bey, the No sign of design furniture by Richard Hutten, the Bone Chair by...
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Post-Opera
Interconnecting the perspectives of visual art, technology and opera, Post-Opera explored the changing relationship between the human body and the voice today. For this cross-disciplinary project guest curator Kris Dittel and musicologist Jelena Novak initiated a collaboration between TENT and V2_Lab for the Unstable Media and Operadagen Rotterdam. Post-Opera explored timely questions about the voice. The human voice has been central to our psychological and social underst...
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OPEN CALL: Participants for TENT x Tate 2017 (ages 18 – 25)
OPEN CALL: Participants for TENT x Tate 2017 (ages 18 to 25) Tate Modern London: 15 β 22 October 2017 TENT Rotterdam: 19 β 25 November 2017 TENT Rotterdam and Tate Modern are working together for the second time on an intensive youth exchange programme. Ten young people (aged 18 to 25) from Rotterdam and London can join a workshop programme which addresses the question, 'where does culture happen?' During workshops, field trips, and discussions, the group researches wh...
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Informatiebijeenkomst CBK Materiaalfonds
Ever wondered how other artists have arranged the financing and production of their projects, what their subsequent observations were, and what tips they can give? On 12 November at TENT, there will be a briefing of the CBK Rotterdam's new Materiaalfonds (Material Fund). On 1 January 2014, the CBK Rotterdam in collaboration with the Materiaalfonds launched the CBK Rotterdam Materiaalfonds. This special Materiaalfonds provides interest-free loans, where Rotterdam artists and...
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Redefine the Enemy
Can art express an opinion on current political issues, religious tolerance or the power of capitalism? Redefine the Enemy examined the political potential of art in a changing society. While artists would previously assume the position of independent observer, they now realize that they, as well as the public, are part of a larger political-economic system that steers and influences us. Is there still a role for social criticism in contemporary art? The artists in the exh...
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Workshop Art Mediation: FAQ on Q&A with Geert Maarse
Educators and art mediators working within the field of arts and culture are invited to join a workshop by Geert Maarse. During this workshop we will explore the βartβ of the conversation. Art mediation should not be geared towards the supplying of ready-made chunks of cultural information but should focus on the inherent ability of people to ask questions; questions to oneself and questions to each other. A key element of any guided tour in a gallery setting is dialogue and ...
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Where does culture happen?
On Saturday 23 March TENT x Tate present the publication release of 'Where does culture happen?', during a lively public programme with music, film, presentations and workshops. In addition to the exhibition, a publication was developed in which makers from Rotterdam and London provide answers, both in text and image, to the question: βWhere does culture happen?β They shine light on the collective places and moments where the culture they regard as their βownβ emerges and ...
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Priscila Fernandes – Those Bastards in Caps
Priscila Fernandes questions the influence of artistic processes such as creativity and non-conformism and explores how therse are used, for both practical and ideological purposes, in education, labor and play. This solo exhibition brought together recent installations and newly developed work. The full title of the exhibition was 'Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory'. Priscila Fernandes (Coimbra,...
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TENT Welcomes de Kunstenbond
Youβve been a creative entrepreneur for a while, or become one recently, and youβre busy putting yourself on the market. However, youβre asking yourself: am I doing this correctly? Are there hints and tips I could use? De Kunstenbond is going to help you out! On Tuesday 28th November, TENT Welcomes de Kunstenbond! De Kunstenbond organises a one-off event in TENT including speed-dates with their experts and a State of the Art β Geld telt (βmoney counts/mattersβ) themed meet...
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TENT Welcomes de Kunstenbond
Youβve been a creative entrepreneur for a while, or you've become one recently, and youβre busy putting yourself on the market. However, youβre asking yourself: am I doing this correctly? Are there hints and tips I could use? De Kunstenbond is going to help you out! On Tuesday 28th November, TENT Welcomes de Kunstenbond! De Kunstenbond organises a one-off event including a State of the Art β Geld telt (βmoney counts/mattersβ) themed meet-up in TENT and speed-dates with the...
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Masterclass Art Mediation: Sepake Angiama & Clare Butcher
TENT, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and MAMA are organizing a series of professional development workshops for art teachers, art mediators and educators working within the field of arts and culture. In line with 100% Contemporary, the collaborative art education program for secondary education, these events will focus on sharing knowledge of mediating contemporary art in both the classroom as in an exhibition setting. For each session an (inter)national guest wor...
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Fieldwork Friday
Can artists use their practice to play a role in changing ideas about value in the commercial economy? Artists and managers from Rotterdam based companies discuss whether the arts can contribute to an alternative view of the business economy. The Rotterdam artist Weronika Zielinska conducted research into hospitality in the hotel industry at Hotel van Walsum. Artists Oblique International discuss the productivity of idleness and the work exercises they developed in colla...
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Danza Macabra
For the third time, TENT & WORM will enter into a bloody brotherhood: on Saturday 31 October from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m.Β we will giveΒ a Halloween Party. You may expect dusky pop music and dark electro (live) by Machine est mon Coeur (FR) and Lucia Lip (DE), gruesome beats by DJ David Vunk, DJs Mark du Mosch & Billy Ray de la Hay, JD LaRue & Furillo (System Steady),Β the DJ-duo Legs on Fire (Richelle Soigni + Monica Electronica) and, of course, DJ Go Home (Roel Meelko...
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Risky Business
The exhibition Risky Business brought together four female artists who use fake identities in their work: they engage in role-playing games with an alter ego in the leading role. By continually balancing between fiction and reality, these artists create a sanctuary in which any identity can be assumed or lost. They challenge traditional gender stereotypes in a crossover between fashion, visual art, and styling. Kimberly Clark (a collective consisting of Josepha de Jong, El...
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Studio Luisterbuis
BeyoncΓ©, Ali B, Broederliefde: everyone is busy with his or her ancestors and history. Who you are is the story you tell about yourself. What and who make up that story? What would you rather leave out from your story? Are only your experiences important? Or do the stories of your family (mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, and beyond) also belong to you too? Studio Luisterbuis is a project that has been developed by artist duoΒ RoosWiesBlauw for students in yea...
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Art Rotterdam Week w/ Sol Archer, Kris Dittel, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Katarina Zdjelar
Finally Art Rotterdam again! This year, you're welcome at TENT again during Art Rotterdam, from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 May. Programme 19 - 22 May: - Exhibition To Be Like Water, curated by Kris Dittel Friday, May 20 - 18:00-23:00 p.m. The Art Evening XL (De Kunstavond XL), TENT, Kunstinstituut Melly, WORM &V2 offer free admission and extra long opening hours to all exhibitions and events. - 20:00-22:00 p.m. During The Art Evening XL (De Kunstavond XL), TENT p...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #12: Witte de With, Whatβs in a name?
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art dedicated this edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories to the name of the institute. Witte de With was recently challenged, through the process of the 'Cinema Olanda: Platform' project by Wendelien van Oldenborgh, to reconsider the legacies of its name. The question that was posed by the Platformβs programmers during preparations for the project, and later through an open letter addressed to the institution, was βWhat does it mean ...
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Julien Grossmann – Customs and Claims
Sculptural sound works played the leading role in this first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Julien Grossmann. The artist ingeniously transforms musical instruments and sound equipment, uses sound recordings from the early 20th century to the present, and makes astute connections to histories of culture and globalisation. The exhibition offered as much an auditory experience as a visual one. Julien Grossmann (Metz, 1983) was trained in both music and the visual arts....
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In/ Between Cities
What is currently the best place for seeing and making art in Europe? This seems to be a topical question for Rotterdam now that the home of the renowned Duende studios is closing, and the arts in general no longer seems to occupy a natural part of city life. In the Groene Amsterdammer art critic Anna Tilroe writes about the lure of the great art metropolises, and in the latest series of the TV art-cowboys 'Artmen' they ignore the Netherlands in their tour of major European c...
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Free Entrance Fridays | All exhibitions
On all Fridays between March 11 and April 21 you can visit TENT completely free of charge! From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. our hosts are waiting for you to give you a free tour, additional information on the exhibitions or just have a chat. Discover Pris Roos' nine life-size portraits or dive into Robert Glas' video works with conversations about the Dutch prison system. Drink a cup of tea and take a seat on the comfy couches in story space Hoffie, with Pris Roos' carefully curated bo...
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Public programme ‘Under the mango tree’
These events are part of the public programme of exhibition 'Who do you think you are?', initiated by Sabrina Starke. Date: 13.10.2018 A CONVO ABOUT CODE-SWITCHING Sabrina Starke x Concrete Blossom Time: 7-9 p.m. A conversation about the conscious and unconscious ways we continually adopt different cultural and linguistic indentities in different situations. Date: 14.10.2018 YOUR STORY IN A SONG Sabrina Starke x Music Matters Time: 12-6 p.m....
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25 Years of Wildstyle
Screening of the films Wild Style and Style Wars, two classic films that serve as documents of the emergence of a new creative subculture in the 1980s. In a detailed introduction Siebe Thissen, author of the book Mooi van Ver, will share his view of the eighties in Rotterdam and the shift from official mural art to the unofficial genre of graffiti on the city's walls. Style Wars (1983) is regarded as the breakthrough documentary for the graffiti scene, the film that introd...
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Pilar Mata Dupont – Only Weeds Emerge
TENT presented the first solo exhibition by Pilar Mata Dupont in the Netherlands. In three monumental video-installations, she examined the latent presence of colonial legacies in contemporary culture and in the natural landscape. Invasive plants, slumbering seeds, the red soil of northern Western Australia and a tap dancer played the leading parts. Undesirable bodies This monumental video-triptych immerses the viewer in an oasis in the Pilbara desert, in north-west Austr...
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Peter Fengler performances
Peter Fengler performs: "Le Depart & J'arrive", two performance evenings, with Max Moolenaar, Gerard Herman, Reinier van Houdt As part of the 'MK Award 2017' and Fengler's installation 'Nasi Kip Met Glas', Fengler i.c.w. DE PLAYER present two nightly performances at TENT that explore notions of time and place. The performances have a strong connection to Fengler's performative oeuvre and are similar in spirit to previous DE PLAYER productions such as the 'Stromboli' an...
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Aberrant Readings
A collaboration between TENT, KABK and WdKA resulting in an exhibition of new works. As part of our annual collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, students from the two academies work together to create new works for a presentation at TENT. For the two-month project, the artists draw inspiration from To Be Like Water, the current group exhibition at TENT, in a programme that includes workshops by artists from...
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Open Call TENT Online Cinema
Open Call TENT Online Cinema After the overwhelmingly positive response to the first open call for TENTβs Online Cinema, weβre excited to announce that we are organizing a second edition leading up to IFFR 2022! Have you made work in 2020 or 2021 that you would love to share with an audience but have not been able to show much or at all? TENT Online Cinema offers Rotterdam-based artists an alternative platform. We welcome experimental video work in all its forms β narrati...
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TENT Welcomes: EMBODIMENT, ACTIVISM, AND THE ARTS WORKSHOP BY RAE JOHNSON
Embodiment, Activism, and the Arts Workshop by Rae Johnson Date: Wednesday 4 October 2023 Time: 10am - 1:00pm Location: Tent Auditorium, Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands No. of participants: Maximum 30 Hereby the Master of Education in Arts of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, warmly invites you to take part in the workshop Embodiment, Activism, and the Arts. This experiential workshop delves into the intricate interplay between the body, ...
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Boerenzij meets RURAL IMAGINATIONS (UVA)
On Tuesday December 17, Wapke Feenstra of the Boerenzij exhibition and artistic director Anke Bangma (TENT) will have a conversation with research group RURAL IMAGINATIONS (UVA). In the exhibition space at the Boerenpraat table, they focus on the questions that have arisen around the research of RURAL IMAGINATIONS and Boerenzij. Professor Esther Peeren and researchers Anke Bosma and Tjalling ValdΓ©s Olmos are present on behalf of the University of Amsterdam and the RURAL IM...
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Tickets + Pricing
Welcome! We are open on adjusted opening hours from Wednesday to Sunday between 11.00-18.00. Because we are in the same building together with kunstinstituut Melly you can also opt for a combi ticket.Β Ticket prices β¬ 5,00 Entrance fee TENT β¬ 9,00 Combi ticket TENT & FKA WDW β¬ 4,50 Combi ticket, discount for students / CJP / 65+ Free admission: < 18y / Museumkaart / Rotterdampas / ICOM Every Friday evening is de Kunstavond (art evening), free admission betwee...
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DUURβ’ZAAMβ’HEID β How do we have time together?
For our exhibition Sustaining Small Acts, creator Sheray of Light, together with Carlijn van Heusden, developed the workshop "DUURβ’ZAAMβ’HEID β How do we have time together?" for grade 7 and 8 students. On Tuesday, July 11, from 5:30-7:00 p.m., this one-time workshop will be offered free to adults. This workshop is for anyone who wants to find a moment of peace in a world where everything has to be short and fleeting. This workshop focuses on the question "How do we have ti...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #8: Hard Werken
This edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories highlighted the renowned magazine Hard Werken. Between 1979 and 1982, only ten editions of this cultural magazine were published, yet it had a significant influence on a whole generation of graphic designers in the Netherlands and beyond. The presentation was curated by Reyn van der Lugt and Marjolein van de Ven. Voice against new drabness The striking A3 format, its anarchic design contrary to typographic currents, the focus o...
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Book Launch David Maroto
On Sunday November 16 at 15:00, artist David Maroto's new gamebook β The Wheel of Fortune β will be presented. Based on 350 text fragments, the book reads like a game in which the reader determines how the story will unfold. Maroto's work investigates how the medium of the book can play a prominent role in artistic practice. During the presentation, David Maroto talks with Kim Gorus (research assistant Visual Writing & Narrativity, Sint Lucas Academy, Antwerp) and Micah Hr...
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Mourning School presents ‘Thea – on eulogies pt.II’, online lecture performance
As part of the exhibition βWho Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?β, curated by Katayoun Arian, TENT hosts the online Mourning School event βThea - on eulogies pt.IIβ. A chance encounter, a deathbed scene, and an attempt to write a eulogy for a stranger. In this lecture performance, Lucie Gottlieb and Rosa Paardenkooper from Mourning School invite you to take part in an ongoing conversation on the different ways we organise the last moments of living and the first afte...
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TENT x Project Wiaspora | Conversations about hope and connection
TENT x Project Wiaspora explores how online platforms may provide a space for gathering and connection. Together with Richard Kofi & Simone Zeefuik from Project Wiaspora, Gyonne Goedhoop will engage in conversations with various guests on three Friday evenings in April and May. They will speak about producing culture in this time of Corona. What could we learn from this interruption of regular society? How to document this period? How to work towards a post-Corona era?...
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Studio Luisterbuis
Who you are is the story you tell about yourself. What and who make up that story? What would you rather leave out from your story? Are only your experiences important? Or do the stories of your family (mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, and beyond) also belong to you too? Do you like telling stories, making sound recordings and time travel? On Thursday December 28, you can participate in Studio Luisterbuis at TENT. Located in the middle of TENT's exhibition space...
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Take a walk with… Giuseppe Licari
On Sunday afternoon 2 April at 14:00h visual artist Giuseppe Licari gives a tourΒ through his solo exhibition Schlak in TENT. Schlak is the latest chapter in Giuseppe Licariβs research into the relationship between man and nature. In one of the most important raw-material producing areas of the European steel industry, like a geologist Licari collected the stones that remain as a residue after the iron is smelted at 1535ΛC. Licari shows his slag stone collection alongside imag...
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3Radicals
With the thematic programme Free Radicals the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 turned the spotlight on artists who wilfully and vigorously steer their own course. Three central figures in this festival programme each received a solo presentation in TENT: Paul Sharits, Robert Breer and Cameron Jamie. The exhibition was curated by Edwin Carels. Paul Sharits (1943 -1993) made films about film: his themes are the image frame, the emulsion, the perforation, and the fi...
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WDKA MAKES A DIFFERENCE β KNOWING BODIES
TENT welcomesΒ the Willem de Kooning Academy on Saturday 18 February from 13.00 till 19.00 hrs. As part of WDKA makes a Difference, a project wich researches the processes of inclusion and exclusion in art education, workshops and a public event take place this afternoon in TENT. Knowing Bodies, workshopsΒ 13.00 β 15.30 hrs The projectΒ WdKA makes a DifferenceΒ organises workshops, that engage with the question of different modes of learning and sharing, that seldom find ...
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Free concert Yuri Landman & Friday Wilkinson
On Saturday April 11 at 15:00Β Yuri Landman will performΒ a special concert with the Friday April 10 workshop participantsΒ and members of the band Friday Wilkinson using the instruments made during the workshop. Afterwards, artist Hidde van Schie will perform with his new band Friday Wilkinson at 15:30. These concerts take place as a part of Motel Mozaique and may be visited freely. The band toured through the Netherlands and Belgium under the name Offshore and featured duri...
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TENT x Project Wiaspora | Alles anders?
TENT x Project Wiaspora explores how online platforms may provide a space for gathering and connection. Gyonne Goedhoop and Richard Kofi in conversation with Malique Mohamud in Alles anders? (Is Everything Different Now?) The corona crisis has brought much of the existing societal system to a halt. This may mean life will never be the same. Luckily! says ever-optimistic activist Malique Mohamud. Together, we will speculate about the post-corona era. A conversation about ...
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There Is No Place Like Home…
Thursday evening January 11th, 2007 we will ask ourselves the question: Is Rotterdam still the place to be? What is on the Rotterdam Agenda for 2007? Why should you come to, or remain in Rotterdam? Or why should we in fact leave Rotterdam far behind? Is Rotterdam sufficiently exotic or actually too dull to be true? With statements by eight prospective cultural key players in Rotterdam: Marijke de Ruyter (Motel MozaΓ―que), Elda Dorren (journalist for Het NRC Handelsblad), Pat...
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Sound Spectrums
Dennis de Bel Machinefabriek Geert Mul & Michel Banabila Telcosystems On the evening of Saturday 16 June, TENT presents four heavyweights of Dutch media art, who appear more often at innovative festivals than within the traditional white walls of an institute for contemporary art. Dennis de Bel, Machinefabriek, Geert Mul & Michel Banabila and Telcosystems have developed soundscapes, visuals and music performances specially for the βwhite cubeβ of TENT. Dennis de Bel ...
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Book launch O&O
On 26 April at TENT, CBK Rotterdam launches its latest publication about its Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling (Research & Development) scheme. At the presentation, Lex ter Braak, director of Van Eyck post-graduate institute, talks about the importance of free space for research and experiment. Artist Teun de Graaf performs his Fanfare for Progressive Folk Music, for which he received an O&O grant. About the O&O publication The publication reviews four years of art...
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t.z.t.
Temporarily Untitled is a workshop for a group of 25 high school students to conduct twelve weeks of artistic research accompanied by artist and designer Sophie Krier. The students had a temporary studio at TENT, where they worked every Thursday afternoon. The process had no predetermined target; all discoveries could lead to exploring new roads. In the Temporarily Untitled workshop, content was further developed (or not) by the students. Temporarily Untitledβs starting p...
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Back Room Discussion: The Flexible Artwork
On the afternoon of Saturday 3 December at TENT, artists and curators will discuss how art can test the art institutionβs conventional boundaries and propose alternatives for exhibition practice. The debate is the culmination of The Back Room, a collaboration between TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in which curator Noor Mertens presents work by a senior generation of artists in the context of TENTβs current programming. The Flexible Artwork Artworks are flexible: t...
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Neem een loopje met Woody van Amen
On Sunday March 22 at 12:00 hours, none other than Dutch Pop-Art legend Woody van Amen will guide you through his new duo-exhibition New Romantic Spirit, realized in cooperation with painter/musician Hidde van Schie. Woody van Amen left for New York in the early 1960's to explore its art-scene. Here, he met Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. He later traveled to Indonesia, Bali, Japan and Switzerland. The influence of the Pop-Art scene and his extensive travels are clearly ...
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A Walk With V & B
On Sunday March 1st at 12:00 hours, Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker, also known as V&B, will provide a special tour of the Shift & Drift exhibition. Shift & Drift exhibits work by seventeen artists that were able to experiment in their art with the help of the Research & Development regulation of the CBK. A centerpiece of the tour will be their own monumental work From Hermetic to Coherent (The Rotterdam Meta-Masterpiece), 2013 β 2015. This enormous triptych shows the w...
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A walk with Jeroen Jongeleen
On the day of the Rotterdam marathon, Sunday April 12, at 12:00 hours, running artist of the Rotterdam Jeroen Jongeleen, will take you on an energetic tour of the Shift & Drift and New Romantic Spirit exhibitions. Jeroen completed Limburgs Zwaarste [Limburg's Heaviest], a 100 kilometer walk, as an art project. Running-shoes and sweatbands are permitted because the energy explosion that is Jeroen Dongeleen never stands still for very long and speaks incessantly about the works...
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Between the Map and the Territory
Between the Map and the Territory was an exhibition inspired by a book. In 2010 the French author Michel Houellebecq wrote his bestselling novel 'The Map and the Territory'. Its title is derived from the assertion made by Polish linguist Alfred Korzybski, βThe map is not the territoryβ. The map-territory relationship describes the impossible relationship between a location and the representation of that location, such as the relationship between a city and its map. In his ...
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And the nominees for the TAA 2011 are…
On Friday 15 July 2011, the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT is organizing a festive edition of the TAA: the annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations from all the art academies in the Netherlands. In addition to students from the Dutch art academies, students from Belgium and Luxembourg are also competing for the highly coveted prize for graduating audiovisual talent. This week TENT announces the nominees for the TAA 2011. Over the ...
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Mini-symposium & performance Jeremy Evans
Radio Calling explores radio as a tool, platform, and medium for contemporary art. How can the medium contribute to the production and perception of a work of art? Friday begins with an afternoon symposium on current radio projects in art. Curator Huib Haye van der Werf talks about the 'The Voice of West' internet project, which functions as web-radio archive for the mapping of local socio-cultural changes. Artist Ernst Markus Stein introduces DIY Church, an open internet ...
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TENT Welcomes Nicola Unger
On Friday 28 April, TENT welcomes artist Nicola Unger. At 18:00, Unger presents videosketches of her latest work, Transmission, to the public. For this project, she researched genetic and cultural transmission within generations. Nicola Unger draws on an archive of images of war and peace, everyday life, and DNA. In TransmissionΒ she treats the body as a βcontainerβ of histories and future generations. What do we carry within us? What do we transfer? Do we have control ove...
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Justice beyond Revenge. Recalling Louk Hulsman
In this exhibition, artist Robert Glas invites you to confront views on justice. The prevailing focus on harsh punishment seems almost unchallenged, but this was not always the norm. Until the mid-1980s, there was a lively public and political debate in The Netherlands about which response to criminal behaviour would best serve society in the longer term.Β This debate on the effects of the penal system was spearheaded by Rotterdam legal scholar and abolitionist Louk Hulsma...
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Dutch Design? Cosmo Design!
Just how 'Dutch' is Dutch Design? Is Dutch Design an international language, or should it be more representative of our cosmopolitan society? An evening with and about cross-cultural initiatives such as el Hema (Mediamatic), Moslima Fashion (Showroom Mama), Memardutch (architecture) and Wereldservies by Imre Bergmann. Are other cultures being treated as a source of inspiration for Dutch Design? Is there such a thing as an interaction between different design cultures? Are the...
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TENT Welcomes: Design chewing festival
Vrijdag 15 t/m zondag 17 november is Designplatform Rotterdam te gast bij TENT met het Design Chewing festival. Bekijk het programma hier. βTijd om te kauwen op 3 volle designdagen! Tijd voor de waarheid. Design chewing biedt een mondvol activiteiten die kritische reflectie stimuleren. Dit is voor waaghalzen die niet bang zijn om te kauwen op existentiΓ«le design issues en hun eigen werk. Samen voelen we ons verantwoordelijk om onze professie continu naar een hoger ...
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Book launch Marjolijn van den Assem (live stream)
With guest presentations by Mirjam Westen and Florette Dijkstra, Marolijn van den Assem will present her latest artistβs book βawareness of semblanceβabout the theatre between letter and counter letterβ.Β This book brings together seven years of work. Negotiating the borderline between drawing and performative writing, Van den Assem engages in a dialogue with the abrasive, mutable thought of Nietzsche in order to gauge our daily life with all of its duties, conventions and...
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ART CENTRAL ROTTERDAM XL – ART WEEKEND
Lockdown is over, time to bring you fully up- to- date with what the Rotterdam art scene has to offer right now! On 12 and 13 March 2022, from 12.00 to 17.00, join us for a guided tour around the galleries and exhibition spaces and celebrate Rotterdam's lively visual arts scene as a valuable part of the city. Rotterdam is the cultural breeding ground for contemporary art; the galleries and exhibition spaces exhibition spaces showcase the latest developments in the visual a...
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Opening Cultural Season of TENT
Programme for Opening of the Cultural Season of TENT 27.09 β 30.09.2018 This year TENT opens the cultural season with a long-weekend programme of festivities, starting Thursday 27 September with the opening of Only Weeds Emerge, a solo exhibition by Rotterdam-based Australian artist Pilar Mata Dupont. Friday 28 September, TENT presents two exclusives: the opening of the exhibition Who do you think you are? curated by Rotterdam singer-songwriter Sabrina Starke, and the ver...
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Master Education in Arts Graduation Presentation 2019
Pedagogy of Insist_ence βWelcome. Feel free to engage or just observe. Take a seat, walk around, talk to us. Listen to our presentations, join our discussions. Have something to eat. We are the class of 2019 and this is Pedagogy of Insist_ence. A safe space, a learning space, an βotherβ space. Where going against the grain is something we believe in, even though it leaves its marks. Where we push through our own discomfort and where we invite you to be uncomfortab...
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Imagining Incarceration | A talk with Robert Glas and Hanneke Stuit
Orange Is the New Black, Prison Break or Prison Escape, a real-life game you can undertake in a former prison, for example in Utrecht or Breda; in recent decades there has been no shortage of popular representations of the prison experience. Like popular culture, political arguments and public debates around the prison system are infused with conflicting dreams of social control, the desire for harsh punishment and personal retribution, narratives of moral redemption, and the...
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Opening Florida 2
Opening Florida 2 and kickoff proposals for Kunst op Zuid, incl. opening lecture by Dr. Erik Braun (university lecturer City Marketing, Erasmus University Rotterdam), launch of art magazine and cultural agenda βThe Weekendβ, start of beamer project Creative Factory and cookery performance by Kunstplatform de Kapsalon. Immediately followed by Zatmibo, the Saturday afternoon get-together for the world of art and culture in Rotterdam and environs....
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Night of the Museum – Lightbox Sequencer 2.0
Create your own audiovisual show with the interactive Lightbox Sequencer 2.0 by Jonas Vorwerk. As an artist, DJ and designer, Jonas Vorwerk (Rotterdam) is known by several names, such as Beatnologic, and as a member of the Rotterdam-based collective Tictoc. Vorwerk is a multimedia designer and creates interactive installation art. In his work Vorwerk aims to initiate interaction with the public by operating on the border between autonomous and applied art. This approach has l...
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Free guided tour with Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk
On Sunday, May 3 at 12:00 hrsΒ TENT Curatorial Fellow Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk will give a free guided tour through the exhibition he curated: The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. Temporary walls, press releases, plants, work descriptions, plinths, projectors and sockets move to the foreground; guiding objects that inform the vocabulary of an exhibition, yet tend to be withheld from sight and thought to the audience, as βsupport structuresβ and βcarriersβ of a work. ...
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TENT 20
Sophie Anglionin, Ivan Barbosa, Maarten Bel, Bloesembar, Bar Prima by Daisy Kroon, Dean Bowen, Vernon Chatlein (Live), Marco Douma, Dineke van Huizen, KAMP HORST, Erik van Lieshout, MOOIS, Dax Niesten, Mette Sterre, T&D, Transformerz, Elfie Tromp, Gyz La Riviere, BRF Soundsystem (BRF Enterprises), Roel Meelkop, Gery Mendes, Nazif Lopulissa (Nas Bami), STOOKOLIE 010, Maher Al Sabbagh, Raoul de Jong, Anton Vrede. Download the timetable here. TENT celebrates its 20th a...
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TENT 20
Sophie Anglionin, Ivan Barbosa, Maarten Bel, Bloesembar, Bar Prima by Daisy Kroon, Dean Bowen, Vernon Chatlein (Live), Marco Douma, Dineke van Huizen, KAMP HORST, Erik van Lieshout, MOOIS, Dax Niesten, Mette Sterre, T&D, Transformerz, Elfie Tromp, Gyz La Riviere, BRF Soundsystem (BRF Enterprises), Roel Meelkop, Gery Mendes, Nazif Lopulissa (Nas Bami), STOOKOLIE 010, Maher Al Sabbagh, Raoul de Jong, Anton Vrede. Download the timetable here. TENT celebrates its 20th a...
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Workshop Slogans For Rotterdam
For the Slogans for Rotterdam project by Elfie Tromp Douglas Coupland Created his own slogan for Rotterdam. On May 18, he reveals his statement, talks with Elfie Tromp about his background, and gives the go-ahead for the project. Afterwards, the writers from Mwah will give a slogan-writing workshop. What should you look out for and how can you avoid platitudes and clichΓ©s? For the Slogans for Rotterdam project, author, and fourth generation Rotterdammer, Elfie Tromp invite...
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TENT X TATE: Where does culture happen?
TENT x Tate: Where does culture happen? 24.11, 12:00 β 13:00 hours Operator Radio; 18:00 β 19:00 hours TENT Rotterdam For the second time, TENT Rotterdam and Tate Young Peopleβs Programmes work together on an exchange project for young creatives. Ten young people (18 β 25 yrs.) from Rotterdam and London participate in a workshop programme Β where βWhere does culture happen?β acts as the central guiding question. TENT x Tate in London In October, the group stayed i...
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Who do you think you are?
At the occasion of her new album 'Underneath the Surface', Rotterdam singer-songwriter Sabrina Starke was guest curator of a special exhibition and cross-disciplinary public programme around the multiple dimensions of identity: Who do you think you are? In her sixth album, βUnderneath the Surfaceβ, Starke takes us on a personal journey through the layers of her own identity. As she explains: "On my album, I wanted to share my search, and the desire arose to take this expl...
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Neem een loopje met…Marieke van der Lippe
On 18 March at 14:00 hrs, filmmaker Marieke van der Lippe gives a free guided tour of In a World We Can't See, an exhibition featuring four artists working with film and photography. The exhibited works revolve around contemporary historical events and issues, approaching them from a search for deeper layers but without judgment and pretensions to current events. Marieke van der Lippe, herself a filmmaker, both autonomous and documentary, also organises and presents the mo...
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Book Launch Esther Kokmeijer & Première Charlois Wine 2013
15:00: Book Launch of Sheep by Esther Kokmeijer Last summer, Esther Kokmeijer travelled from Beijing β where she participated in a Residency project β across the border to Mongolia, to participate in the Land Art Biennial. She took a special companion, a symbolic gift for an artist friend: a sheep. In the book, Sheep, she documents her adventures in text and images. She published the book in-house. The photos and texts recount a personal travelogue with universal implication...
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Breaking the Bank I
During a series of two evenings we will discuss the role of the arts, artists, institutions and the market. We will follow the money, track the markets, sniff out actors and agents, map out pockets of compliance and resistance, and debate how value in the arts is to be critically (re)viewed and articulated in a more expanded form. Breaking the Bank I Artists have always been pushed in many roles: from chroniclers of history, romantic geniuses, agents provocateurs, to increa...
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Atelier WeerZien | Workshops for children
Are you between theΒ ages of 4 and 12 years? Come and visit Atelier WeerZien during the summer holiday's, the laboratory for children developed by artist Anton Klein as an children's edition of the exhibition Solid, Liquid, Vapour. Imagine yourself as a creative researcher with liquid experiments, such as making clouds and other icy discoveries. At Atelier WeerZien children get the space and freedom like artist Esther Kokmeijer to research the element water in solid, liqui...
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Atelier WeerZien | Workshops for children
Are you between theΒ ages of 4 and 12 years? Come and visit Atelier WeerZien during the summer holiday's, the laboratory for children developed by artist Anton Klein as an children's edition of the exhibition Solid, Liquid, Vapour. Imagine yourself as a creative researcher with liquid experiments, such as making clouds and other icy discoveries. At Atelier WeerZien children get the space and freedom like artist Esther Kokmeijer to research the element water in solid, liqui...
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Mariette DΓΆlle wordt de nieuwe directeur van Kranenburgh
Mariette DΓΆlle is departing as the artistic director of the TENT art institution in Rotterdam. From 1 June 2016, she will be the director of Kranenburgh in Bergen, a contemporary art museum with a permanent collection of works from the Bergen School. Since mid-2006, Mariette DΓΆlle has been the artistic director of TENT, the exhibition space for contemporary art in Rotterdam's Witte de Withstraat. Under her leadership, TENT has developed into a springboard for young artists...
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TENT Welcomes: Extra Extra Night
Special live event: Extra Extra celebrates the launch of the 10th edition of its nouveau magazine erotique. Extra Extra will present an evening at TENT filled with desirable voices from near and afar; bound to stimulate all your senses. Extra Extra presents an evening filled with desirable voices from near and afar; bound to stimulate all your senses. Enjoy lingering interviews hosted by Abdelkader Benali, indulge some finger-licking snacks while experiencing the lush βSug...
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Authentic Boys – Slide Night
Join us Friday, September 16th at 20:00 in TENT for the one and only Authentic Boys Slide Night. Did you make the trip of a lifetime this summer or did you simply take your caravan to a French campsite (again)? Did you experience an exciting adventure that others must know about? Then why not share your photos and stories with the Authentic Boys, friends, family, and the audience at TENT. Bring a selection of your pictures on a USB stick and we'll take care of the rest. It wi...
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Strategies of Empowerment
On Thursday, June 4 from 20:00-22:00 hrs a public lecture and debateΒ will take place with Ane Hjort Guttu, as part of the programme Cartographies of Acting Pedagogically: Working with Liquid Logic. The event is part of the exhibition Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory by Priscila Fernandes. The public lecture and debate will take place on account of FernandesΒ΄ installation, The Book of Aesthetic Educat...
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Izzy Wu Ramos is THUIS bij TENT
"Inbetweeness, alienation, identity, race and spirituality are all very important layers that collectively forms her art. It is complex, questions the norm and is sometimes a bit uncomfortable."- Izzy Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β b...
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Raw Rotterdam
Rawness appears inherent to Rotterdamβs DNA. But what happens to this cityβs rawness once its centre becomes a βcity loungeβ and its unplanned fringes disappear? What makes Rotterdam unique? On Thursday 12 May at 20:00, the artists Joep van Lieshout and Wim Gijzen, designer Richard Hutten discuss Rotterdamβs DNA with moderator Christine de Baan. Then, there is a public discussion with statements by the Municipality of Rotterdam's head of Landscape Architecture, Annemieke Font...
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Dance of the Dead
For Halloween on Friday 31 October, TENT and WORM present a special club event, Dance of the Dead: a fright-filled night with three DJ collectives, performances, horror stories, cocktail bar, a β¬1 peepshow, and, of course, visual arts. TENT and WORM, the centre for avant-gardistic recreation, bring young and established names from the arts, music, and poetry together for a one-night club event. Putting a light under the eveningβs fire will be the dark electro, old-school hou...
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Face Value
In Face Value, four established designers abandoned their commercial bestsellers, winning house style designs or attractive logos to show the work in which they seek, hesitate or fail. The exhibition provided a critical commentary on the dominant focus on the creative industry and market-oriented thinking. The spectre of market-oriented thinking as a solution for everything was ruling in the Dutch cabinet policy. The world seemed interpreted solely in economic terms: if yo...
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100% Contemporary
100% Contemporary is a new educational alliance between Showroom MAMA, TENT, and Kunstinstituut Melly, which are all located a stoneβs throw from each other in the centre of Rotterdam. During 100% Contemporary, pupils get acquainted with contemporary art in its broadest sense. Teachers may select a programme and choose from the various exhibitions or a workshop or both. In the workshop, students consider what kind of artists they would be and then work individually or coll...
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About TENT
TENT is the platform for contemporary art in the Rotterdam context. We realize exhibitions, new productions, educational projects, performances and events with artists from the city and elsewhere, and host local partners and initiatives in our guest programme. Rotterdamβs vibrant urban culture is the basis for our activities, informing our engagement with topics and developments that matters here, as well as in the world around. History TENT forms the exhibitions depart...
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TENT 20
Save the date, 20 years of exhibitions, events, performances and education. Time for a proper celebration! Download the timetable here. Programme Saturday 28 September, 17.00-00.00. π―ββοΈ Performances by: - Maarten Bel - Dean Bowen - Mette Sterre - Elfie Tromp - Dax Niesten π¬ Film screening: - The official premiΓ¨re of documentary TENT 20, by Moois Rotterdam & T&D - Rotterdam 2040, Gyz La RiviΓ¨re - Sugarman, Ivan Barbosa - Commission, Eri...
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Finissage Dolf Henkes Prize 2023 Exhibition: In conversation about works Babette Kleijn & Dirk van Lieshout
Sunday 7 January is your last chance to visit the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023 exhibition. Artists Ada M. Patterson, Babette Kleijn, Samboleap Tol, Yoeri GuΓ©pin, Bik Van der Pol, Bert Frings, Dirk van Lieshout and Maike Hemmers showed specially selected or developed work. The art prize was awarded for the tenth time this year to a leading creator from Rotterdam. On 10 November, the jury announced that Samboleap Tol won this year's prize. From 14:00, join an explanation and excha...
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Florida 2
Florida was a long-term research project in which TENT examined the significance of art and culture for the climate for setting up in South Rotterdam. How is art settling into this changing district? What effect does the growing cultural infrastructure have on South Rotterdam? Richard Floridaβs theory, as formulated in his 'Rise of the Creative Class' (2004), speaks of the positive economic effects that creative entrepreneurs can have on the city or district in which they ...
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Kunstavond XL (free admission)
On Friday 2 February, TENT will be open until 11pm as part of Kunstavond XL. Rotterdam is the epicentre of art and culture this week. Our exhibitions: πΈ what it is, what it means and what i would like it to be | Solo exhibition by Pris Roos πΈ Justice Beyond Revenge - Recalling Louk Hulsman | Solo exhibition by Pris Roos Entrance is free between 18.00 - 23.00...
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Traveling without Moving
Traveling without Moving is an exhibition by artist duo Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot that takes you to an in-between space. A space where we can break free from the present-day world and dream of a new future. After their performance installations that have enthralled the theatre world, Traveling without Moving is their first major exhibition, with multimedia installations that unfold as a stratified and immersive experience.Β An old world is dying, and a new one is struggling t...
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Joined Narratives
In three solo presentations, Joined Narratives shows work by the young filmmakers Katarina Jazbec, Lavinia Xausa and Heidi Vogels, created in close collaboration with the protagonists. The narrative film works brought together by curator Mariska van den Berg question how experiences of exclusion, uprooting and loss - which are hidden from view - Β can be visualized and put into words, and made tangible and discussable. The emotional world, memory, desire and imagination are ke...
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OPENING OPTIC MOUNTAINEERING, HAPPYLAND β AUTHENTIC BOYS, TENT ACADEMY AWARDS 2016 AND THE BACK ROOM- ARIE DE GROOT
On Thursday 21 juli, TENT opens four new exhibitions; Optic Mountaineering, Happyland β Authentic Boys, TAA 2016 en The Back Room- Arie de Groot. Music by dj Richelle Soigni. Optic Mountaineering This group exhibition features work by thirteen artists as part of a long-term cultural exchange between Basel and Rotterdam. For fifteen years, Atelier Mondial in Basel and Kaus Australis artistsβ initiative in Rotterdam have jointly organised residencies for talented artists. I...
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neveroddoreven | Piet Zwart Institute
Neveroddoreven was the 2007 graduation show of the MA Fine Art of Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute. The exhibition was conceived in collaboration with artist duo and tutors Bik Van der Pol. The enigmatic exhibition title was a word game, while the joint exhibition statement was playfully generated through a combination of sources, such as Lycos Retriever, the dictionary and discussions between the artists. "'Never odd or even' can be read from left to right and right to le...
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A Map of Misreading | Piet Zwart Institute
The graduation shows of the Master Fine Art and Master Media Design and Communication programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the postgraduate institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie, will open in TENT on 6 July. For the first time, the graduation works from the Fine Art programme, led by Vivian Sky Rehberg, and Media Design and Communication programme, led by British film director Simon Pummell, can be seen in a single overview. With the cooperation of curator Christina ...
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Bel’s Kitchen
Bel's Kitchen is an educational programme for students in primary and secondary educaiton. Consisting of a one-hour interactive tour and a stimulating one-hour workshop with visual artist Maarten Bel. Interactive tour Central to the exhibition is Esma YiΔitoΔlu (1944-2009), a Turkey born artist, who died in Rotterdam. As TENT is an exhibition space for contemporary art and Esma YiΔitoΔlu is not exactly a contemporary artist, this exhibition taking place during the Bel's K...
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Book Launch Eva Olthof: Return to Rightful Owner
A presentation of Eva Olthof's new publication, Return to Rightful Owner, takes place at TENT on Sunday 17 May at 15:00. In conversation with Steven ten Thije, research curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Olthof will explain how the book takes the history of the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin as its starting point. The book launch takes place in the context of her exhibition In der Freihand at TENT. Steven ten Thije talks to Eva Olthof about the making of her book, for whic...
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Mourning School presents: ‘Could I wear your loss on my sleeve?’ (Live event)
Mourning School and TENT warmly invite you to Could I wear your loss on my sleeve?, an exercise in shared mourning through collective embroidering. This workshop takes place at TENT on 5 November, 18:30-20:30, in the context of exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?, curated by Katayoun Arian. This workshop and gathering departs from the tradition of memorial handkerchiefs, a gift offered to convey your condolences for the loss of a loved one, intended to b...
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City vs. Animal: Bert Frings in conversation with Anton Vrede and pigeon lady Aash
In Bert Frings' still lifes, currently on view in the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023 exhibition, (humanized) animals appear decorating various food packages. With his installation, the artist explores how active street life interacts with life-sized triptychs. With guest speakers Anton Vrede, pigeon lady Aash (duivenvrouwtje010) and moderator Jeanine van Berkel, he draws a broader conversation. Following in the footsteps of Frings' still lifes, the speakers further discuss the rol...
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Wartaal β Atelier voor woord en daad
Fantasize about your ideal dream world, use your whole body to spell your name or give an unforgettable ballet performance on a real stage. A small selection from the selection of the 26 activities you can do this summer at the performance lab 'WARTAAL-Atelier voor Woord en Daad'. During the entire summer holiday, you can experience what performance art is and does at TENT. In addition to performance as an art form, language is also an important theme. Written language, inven...
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Deschooling / Deskilling & Re-public
On Thursday 18 October, TENT and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art present a joint evening programme that focuses on alternative forms of cultural transfer. Traditional education strategies are called into question in contributions from Vivian Sky Rehberg (on the invitation of Witte de With) and Sophie Krier (TENT). The evening kicks off with a lecture titled Deschooling / Deskilling by Vivian Sky Rehberg (program director Piet Zwart Institute), followed byartist/desi...
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TENT Welcomes Piet Zwart Institute Master of Education in Arts
TENT welcomes The Master of Education in Arts of the Piet Zwart Institute for their 2017 graduation show. Titled Act Otherwise, the research and graduation projects of seven students will be presented to the public, taking shape as seven different attitudes towards contemporary issues at stake in education. Together the students address the question: How to Act Otherwise? The graduation projects are interconnected with and referencing each other, reflecting the research of...
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Authentic Boys – Happyland
Holidays! Since the advent of the commercial holiday, the tourist has superseded the historical figure of the traveller or pilgrim. We fantasise about escaping daily routine, for a couple of weeks every year, to places where stress, worry, and the pressure to perform are irrelevant. We depart for paradisiacal resorts, blue skies, authentic cuisine, and friendly locals. During the Summer months, collective Authentic Boys presented Happyland, a portrait of the holidaymaker in a...
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Neo-Beginners
In the exhibition Neo-beginners, artist Reinaart Vanhoe looked at the city as a place that is overwhelmed by the super-abundance of imposed meanings. The city is covered with advertising and marketing slogans (Rotterdam Durft, I amsterdam), and is turned into a stage for festivals intended to reinforce its economy or identity. Every square metre is filled with a banner, a logo, a new complex, a restriction, or an urban development programme. With each attempt to make the c...
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Borderline Behaviour – Drawn Towards Animation
The exhibition Borderline Behaviour looked at animation as a state of mind rather than a specific cinematic genre. Since its very beginning, animation has been a liberating process that enables the expression of ideas and fantasies. Guest curator Edwin Carels compiled a kaleidoscopic exhibition as part of the International Filmfestival Rotterdam, in which he examined the relationship between cinema and the visual arts. The βfatherβ of animationβEmile Cohlβformed the histor...
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Rotterdam and the River
Rotterdam is one of the world's largest harbour cities; the Maas is the engine upon which the city runs. However, the 'harbour' is now many kilometres away from the city and the river divides Rotterdam into two unequal parts. Now that Rotterdam plans to build two new bridges, the question of how the city relates to the river is again of interest. On Wednesday 1 June at 20:00, the artists John KΓΆrmeling and Elian Somers discuss with moderator Christine de Baan the magic of the...
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Installation tour w/ Natalia Sorzano
On Sunday 5 December, the last day of the exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?, curated by Katayoun Arian, Natalia Sorzano takes you on a tour around her installation Contesting Madness. How do we imagine madness? How much of our imagination and perception has been imposed by external agents, including the state, religion, or the family? How can we reimagine, decolonise, or respond to those impositions? These questions lie at the heart of the work Contes...
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Opening IFFR Art Directions 2020
On Friday, January 24, IFFR will open its full Art Directions programme from 2020 at TENT, with the new film and exhibition New Neapolis by Gyz La Rivière and the immersive installation DREAM POOLS & COLLECTING HOLES by Quay Brothers on location. IFFR Art Directions is an extensive programme with installations, performances and exhibitions throughout the city. DREAM POOLS & COLLECTING HOLES, installation 24.1 t/m 2.2.2020 With this immersive installation the Quay...
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Kunst in het Witte de Withkwartier
The festival βKunst in het Witte de Withkwartierβ (Art in the Witte de With Quarter) will open the new cultural season providing a βState of the Artβ of the Rotterdam art sector. With that, the art festival will show a rich cross-section of all that Rotterdam has to offer on the cutting edge of performance art and visual art, with fashion, music, design, photography, video art and interventions in the public space. Program During the festival, the following exhibitions ar...
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Artist Talk – Erik van Lieshout
Liesbeth Levy, director of Stichting LOKAAL and former artistic director of De Unie in Debat, talks with Erik van Lieshout about the background to his new video work, DOG. What were Van Lieshoutβs motivations for making the work and why locate it in the Pauluskerk? How does he see his work in relation to the topical issue of refugee policy in the Netherlands? In a subsequent group discussion, Levy will also discuss her questions with some of the Pauluskerkβs regular visitors....
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OTSEFINAM (MANIFESTO) …or how to activate a fanzine
On Friday the 4th of December from 18:00 until 20:00 in TENT, the department Artistic Research from the KABK in The Hague will present the results conveyed during a previous two-day workshop about expanded fanzines.Β The workshop leader Antoni HervΓ s (visual artist, Barcelona) invited by the Artistic Research teacher Anna Moreno (visual artist, Barcelona) has put together an event to present the results of an experimental and collective process around a photocopy machine. I...
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Who Stole the Tarts?
Knowledge, research and debate appear increasingly to be the pillars supporting contemporary artistic practice. In talks and performances young artists test the traditional forms of knowledge transfer. With Deirdre Donoghue, Roxane Borujerdi, Hedwig Houben, Abner Preis and The Dogs of Shame. Performance programme in the framework of the group exhibition Enigma....
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Trixter
Six women from different artistic disciplines put their boundaries to the test in a collective improvisation. Nina Boas displays her multidisciplinary artistic practice in the exhibition Blurrr and teams up in an extraordinary improvisation collective Trixter on Saturday September 26 in TENT. Trixter performance: oefeningen/in/samen/zijn (exercises/in/being/together) Trixter consists of six artists between the age of 28 and 50 who, in addition to their individual practices,...
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OTSEFINAM (MANIFESTO) …or how to activate a fanzine
On Friday the 4th of December from 18:00 until 20:00 in TENT, the department Artistic Research from the KABK in The Hague will present the results conveyed during a previous two-day workshop about expanded fanzines.Β The workshop leader Antoni HervΓ s (visual artist, Barcelona) invited by the Artistic Research teacher Anna Moreno (visual artist, Barcelona) has put together an event to present the results of an experimental and collective process around a photocopy machine. I...
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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (The MoUS) was a temporary fictional museum at TENT that redistributed the hierarchies between artwork and the objects that make their presentation possible. The project was curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, TENT Curatorial Fellow 2015. The group exhibition lent its framework from the prologue to the eponymous novel by Dubravka UgreΕ‘iΔ from 1998. The text puts forward a situation in which a number of objects come together coinc...
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Covid-19 measures
Your safety and that of our staff are paramount. We follow the guidelines of the RIVM and the Museum Association to make your visit as pleasant as possible. What you need to know before you visit TENT - If you are older than 13 years, you need a valid corona ticket until 25 February 2022. A corona pass includes a negative test certificate, a vaccination certificate or a recovery certificate....
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Take A Walk With… The Beckman Family
At 14:00 on Sunday 10 April, the last day of The Back Room β Paul Beckman, two members of the Beckman family give a special free tour through the exhibition. The furniture sculptures of the artist Paul Beckman (1946 β 2000) grace the front exhibition spaces of TENT. By making furniture that became increasingly free in its form, Beckman addressed critical questions about how we shape our environment and examined the boundaries between art and design. His brother GΓ© and sister ...
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TENT Welcomes Piet Zwart Institute Master of Education in Arts
Opening: Thursday 6 July, 18.00 hrs TENT welcomes The Master of Education in Arts of the Piet Zwart Institute for their 2017 graduation show. Titled Act Otherwise, the research and graduation projects of seven students will be presented to the public, taking shape as seven different attitudes towards contemporary issues at stake in education. Together the students address the question: How to Act Otherwise? The graduation projects are interconnected with and referencing...
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Atelier (On)verklaarmaar
Everything here is waiting for you. Artist Hilde Onis and designer Jasmijn Muskens have created a world in which nothing is quite as it seems. Move like a chameleon through the colourful space, write messages to a tree who is missing its family, and make an amulet to protect you. This summer, the TENT gym has been transformed into a discovery studio for children aged 4 to 12 (and anyone older who still meets their inner child). Sprinkled around the space are sentences to s...
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Een herinnering aan Louk Hulsman
The Wichmann society of criminal law students and artist Robert Glas join forces to organise a special event around Louk Hulsman, who was both a professor in criminal law and a penal abolitionist. βPeople have no idea of the enormous amount of suffering produced by the criminal justice system. Most people seldom come into contact with it, except through the media, which re-inforces the myths.β (Louk Hulsman, 1971) Please note that this event is in Dutch. For decades, Lo...
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An Evening with 75B: Art. A farce in two companies.
On 15 December Pieter Vos, Rens Muis and Jetse Batelaan are at the centre of a farcical debate evening. In it they are assisted by Jacques Herb, singer of the well-known sentimental song Manuela, fitness club owner DaniΓ«l Monteiro and head chef Manuela Goncalves Tavares. What happens when this group tackles questions such as βWhere lies the future for art?β. How seriously should we take the answers and is it a case of mistaken identity? Art. A farce in two companies is a game...
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Fieldwork Friday
Can artists use their practice to play a role in changing ideas about value in the commercial economy? Artists and managers from Rotterdam based companies discuss whether the arts can contribute to an alternative view of the business economy. Philosopher Karim Benammar reflects on the discussion and talks about his idea of value creation and wealth production. The Rotterdam artists Gil & Moti spent a week working at the cleaning company VS Schoonmaak BV. Company employee B...
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Sustaining Small Acts [last chance]
The artists in Sustaining Small Acts develop their work from the connection with their physical environment. Their work often springs from what they find close to home, in the material of their daily surroundings: their own household waste, the weeds in the city, the ground under our feet. This everyday material is entwined with fundamental questions. Questions about humans as the only animals that foul their own nest, with planetary consequences. About the legacies of the we...
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Unlinked | Piet Zwart Institute
Can media foster community yet also create isolation and foster loneliness? This question was central to Unlinked (dislocations, disappearances & deprecations), the graduation show of the Master Media Design & Communication of Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute. The graduation show of the media students from the Piet Zwart Institute reflected a shift in popular culture. Whereas no self-respecting media self-help book or newspaper article published in the early 21st c...
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Current Values
What is of value and how is it determined? Current Values is a series of evenings where artists, thinkers, writers, and journalists put the term 'value' under the microscope. In keynote lectures, live interviews, and video program 'How do you earn your money?' Current Values examines contemporary thinking about value(s) and economy, and the role art can play therein. As Oscar Wilde said, 'People know the price of everything and the value of nothing'. How do you determine wh...
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TENT Welcomes: Looking back to the future we want, celebrating 20 years of Myvillages
TENT Welcomes Myvillages. In 2003 Myvillages was launched (then called myvillages.org) as a shared cultural space for opening up the rural as a working place for artists. Fed up with the ubiquity of urban cultural hegemony, they self-organised ways of thinking together, working within and publishing about the rural as a particularity without any urge to define it. 20 years later and numerous and invaluable encounters, relationships and projects later, Myvillages wants to c...
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Atelier wartaal kids workshop met Nina Maissouradze
On Wednesday 24 July, illustrator and performer Nina Maissouradze will give a free workshop for kids in which coincidence determines the direction. Image, language and own stories are mixed up, which in turn creates a new story. You go home with a self-made piece of art that you could never have expected in your wildest dreams to make something like that. The workshop takes place in WARTAAL - Workshop for word and deed. The place where you can shine on a stage this summer, wh...
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The Traveller – a visual journey by Alexander Ramselaar
The Traveller presented a selection of works from the private collection of the Rotterdam-based collector Alexander Ramselaar. At a time when the Dutch government is reducing its commitment to the arts, it is remarkable that private initiators such as Alexander Ramselaar are increasingly seeking the context of the art world. What motivates him? Ramselaar intensified his involvement in the world of contemporary art, not only through collecting, but also by being active as p...
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Company outing
Are you in search of an enjoyable company outing? TENT is the right place to be. Together with your colleagues, have a discussion about and associate with the art shown in TENT and in the public space in the Witte de Withkwartier. Enjoy a challenging workshop to try to find the artist that is hidden within you. In addition, you will become more acquainted with all those colleagues, with whom you work every day, in a playful and creative way. TENT likes to help think about ...
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A Conversation with the Shapeshifties
Shapeshifty is an artwork by Amy Suo Wu made in collaboration with SamiΒ Hammana, Karen Huang,Β Sarafina Paulina Bonita,Β andΒ Sandim Mendes. It comprises a garment in two modalities, each including a scarf, hat with veil and tags. It builds upon Wuβs body of work, which engages with encoded forms of message transmission and fashion as instruments to carry and disseminate meaning. An βembodied publicationβ, the work is a meditation on the politics of visibility and invisibilit...
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The Great Hope ‘Camping atelier for creative kids’ [last chance]
This summer, TENT's gymnasium transforms from an empty space, to a warm cozy day-camp. Here lives The Great Hope. That hope is yours and mine. The campsite manager, the animation team and also the Great Hope itself are very curious: What do you hope for? Come camp for a day this summer holiday at TENT! Clay, draw, tickle or mess around, and make The Great Hope even more beautiful. Or laze around in front of the tent, play badminton until you weigh an ounce or paint the nai...
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Museum Night 2016
Museumnacht010 takes place on Saturday 5 March 2016 at more than thirty locations all over Rotterdam. All the museums and cultural institutions taking part are open from 20.00 to 01.00 hrs, offering a programme full of entertaining extras that provide a slightly different view of Rotterdam. A unique opportunity to take a nocturnal ramble through all the art and culture Rotterdam has to offer! I Pie Quantify Imagine 24 hours of your life mapped on a special pie chart at TE...
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Dolf Henkes Prijs 2010
Four nominees for the Dolf Henkes Award 2010 presented their practices at TENT: Aji V.N., Lara Almarcegui, Otto Egberts, and Jasper Niens. The winner of this edition was Lara Almarcegui. The Dolf Henkes Award is one of the larger prizes for visual art in the Netherlands, and has been awarded every two years to a prominent Rotterdam-based artist since 2004. An indepent jury shortlists four artists who fit the profile, inspired by the artist and city chronicler from whom the...
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By All Means Necessary – TALK
A table discussion and spoken word performance with Dimitri Madimin, Elisabetta Stumpo (IT) and Black Ice (USA) comparing symbolic violence and points of view in classical Renaissance art and contemporary Hip-hop music, led by music journalist Job de Wit.Β Artist, musician and DJ Dimitri Madimin a.k.a. Dim Browski initiates a conversation to shed a surprising light on the age-old discussion about violence in rap lyrics. Can we shift the discussion by taking a longer view, ...
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Philosophy Tour
During this tour, children discover that it is not only nice to look at art, but it is especially nice to talk to each other about it. Young children are naturally inquisitive: put them in front of a work of art and they automatically start talking about it. They ask each other questions, give answers, and even enter into a discussion. To challenge the pupils to think even deeper about specific subjects, a TENT exhibition guide leads the discussion and asks astute questions. ...
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Meet an Artist
What is it like to be an artist? What do they do all day, and where do they get their ideas? To answer these questions, students can meet a Rotterdam artist in their studio, in the classroom, or at TENT. The artist talks about their work and life as an artist and the children get the opportunity to ask questions. More information: judith@tentrotterdam.nl ...
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The Back Room – Paul Beckman
This solo exhibition was the first part of a special collaboration between TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which showcased underexposed yet iconic Rotterdam artists. Curated by Noor Mertens, curator of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. A presentation of βunsung heroβ Paul Beckman (Schiedam, 1946-Rotterdam, 2000) marked the launch of this collaborative research project. His furniture sculptures addressed critical questions about the way we shape our environment, and he...
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Book launch Antje Guenther
On Sunday 12 June from 15:00 to 17:00, TENT hosts a book presentation of What if a counter proof makes any proof an illusion? This photography book by the artist Antje Guenther explores how aesthetic impulses and the desire to prove continue to influence the development of theories and hypotheses. In conversation with the collector and former museum director Reyn van der Lugt, Guenther will discuss her workβs context and the bookβs realisation. The publication includes an acc...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #17 | Artists as city makers
Artists have long played a crucial role in Rotterdamβs cultural development as makers and as city makers. This edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories questions how that role can remain possible in the city, taking Kaus Australis as a research case. Rotterdamβs current landscape of art institutions emerged in the 1990s. In contrast, artists have been shaping the cityβs artistic milieu since the late 1970s. Artist initiatives provide workspace, presentation possibilities, l...
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Breaking the Bank II
During a series of two evenings we will discuss the role of the arts, artists, institutions and the market. We will follow the money, track the markets, sniff out actors and agents, map out pockets of compliance and resistance, and debate how value in the arts is to be critically (re)viewed and articulated in a more expanded form. Breaking the Bank II The past decade the contemporary art market exploded from a niche economy to a globalised operation. What are the ins and o...
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Erik van Lieshout – DOG
Well-meaning aid workers, forlorn refugees, and an upset asylum seeker: the artist Erik van Lieshoutβs new video installation, DOG, shows all of their vulnerabilities and powerlessness in the face of problems larger than themselves. TENT presented the work at Rotterdamβs Pauluskerk, known for caring for societyβs most vulnerable people. Van Lieshout's video is a monument for the Russian rocket scientist Aleksandr Dolmatov, and addresses the current practical and everyday c...
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Closing Post-Opera
On Sunday 30 June the closing event of exhibition Post-Opera takes place at TENT. An afternoon with performances and a tour through the exhibition with curators Kris Dittel and Jelena Novak. Programme 16.00-17.00h Curator's Tour with Kris Dittel and Jelena Novak. Language: English & the performance How we learn the old songs by Paul Elliman. A small group of singers attempt to replicate the sounds of an arriving fleet of emergency vehicles. [video width="1280"...
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For Us By Us: Decolonize this Dancefloor
On Saturday August 19,Β a radio symposium and party centralising takes place in which,Β the relationship between feminism, queerness, street culture, and visual language in contemporary urban arts and culture are central topics. With a DJ Workshop for Wxmxn, a collective B2B DJ set, a DJ lecture and performances. To decolonize the dancefloor, one needs to dismantle not only the dance, the floor but also what we do and want with itΒ and on it. This dismantling needs to stay tr...
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Futurosity Summit
The Futurosity Summit offers a two-day program with lectures, workshops, tours and debate by artists, writers and thinkers with a keen eye on the future. Next to a Keynote lecture by Douglas Coupland together with Shumon Basar, there will be contributions by Max Dovey & Manetta Berends, Helen Hester, Charlie Koolhaas, Dennis MuΓ±oz EspadiΓ±a, Willem Schinkel, Lukas Simonis, Elfie Tromp, Tommy Ventevogel en Liesbeth van Zoonen. What are the forces that pull us out of the ...
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The Real Deal
On 3 and 4 October, the international drawing festival βThe Big Drawβ will come back to Rotterdam with the aim of getting everyone to enjoy drawing. During this two-day festival, the visitors can take part, free of charge, in workshops, masterclasses and guided tours from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the participating art institutions: TENT, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Showroom MAMA, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and Villa Zebra. The Real Deal β Silas This year, ...
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TENT Welcomes Club Solo: How Do We Proceed From Here?
On Saturday May 14, we will host the event βHow Do We Proceed From Here?β by Club Solo. This gathering departs from emerging theoretical and experiential knowledges with regard to labour and value producing mechanisms in the field of art. During How Do We Proceed From Here?, speakers, respondents, and audiences are invited to navigate some of the paradoxes in the politics of labour and value producing mechanisms in the arts that are perceived, for example, in the nexus bet...
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Summer Carnival Street Parade by Alida Dors
Together with choreographer Alida Dors, TENT participated in Rotterdamβs Summer Carnival for the third time. Dors created a parade inspired by the role of dance in Afro-Caribbean funeral processions. Her project connected the political power of hip hop to the Caribbean carnival as a moment for reliving and reinventing cultural traditions. With her roots in hip hop, Rotterdam-based choreographer Alida Dors has developed a singular dance language. For her carnival parade Dor...
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TENT Welcomes Extra Extra, Getting to Know the Graphic Novel: A Journey in 3 Parts (workshop)
On Saturday 9th April, Extra Extra β hosted by TENT Rotterdam β will present a workshop programme devoted to the urban, erotic dimensions of graphic novels. Guided by expert graphic novelists, during two workshops and a lecture, youβll get the chance to actively develop your personal and professional skills in writing and drawing respectively. Topics are broad: for example, you will learn how to write and draw autobiographically in a playful way, as well as how to bring a tru...
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Exhibition: Dolf Henkes Prize 2023
Artists Ada M. Patterson, Babette Kleijn, Samboleap Tol, Yoeri GuΓ©pin, Bik Van der Pol, Bert Frings, Dirk van Lieshout and Maike Hemmers are the nominees for the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023. The art prize was awarded for the tenth time this year to a leading creator from Rotterdam. On November 10th, the jury announced Samboleap Tol to be the winner of the prize. To celebrate this notable anniversary, Stichting Henkes invited all previous winners to choose an artist to nominat...
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New Utopians
Rotterdam is perhaps the most diverse city in the Netherlands, and by 2025, it will become more diverse than ever. What does this mean for the city's future? How does Rotterdam give form to this transformation? The range of diversity is one of the major issues of our time. What are its challenges and solutions? In a world of blurring boundaries, what will the city of the future look like, and what policies should it develop? On Wednesday 22 June at 20:00, artists, writers, an...
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accesibility
Accessibility TENT and Kunstinstituut Melly are accessible with wheelchairs and mobility scooters . In our entrance area there are quite heavy doors that you cannot be opened alone by people with mobilty issues. Please call us in advance of your visit so we can arrange proper assistance upon your arrival, or bring a supervisor whom will receive free admission. The building has an elevator and a restroom for people with a disabilty. The building is also accessible for assista...
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Utopian Rotterdam
The Utopian Rotterdam guided tour by OMI (Office for Metropolitan Information) takes place on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June and explores various designs for the utopian urban planning of pre- and post-war Rotterdam. Led by an enthusiastic guide from UrbanGuides, the tour starts at OMI and visits several of the cityβs realised and unrealised projects. Rotterdam has always been a place with progressive ambitions. Long before the centre was bombarded, a major restructuring began ...
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Ecoscape
A growing group of artists are examining the complex relationship with our own everyday surroundings. Ecoscape brought together a number of artists whose work places them in a critical position in the current debate on how we interact with our habitat. The current social engagement with environmental issues has developed into a debate of mythical proportions: the struggle seems to be between good and evil, between fact and fiction, and between fear and hope. But can the di...
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Radio Calling
On Friday 16 May, TENT presents the second episode of Radio Calling, a series about the relationship between (online) radio broadcast and (live) performance, in collaboration with Camden Arts Centre, London. This episode brings together artists, curators, and theorists in an intense afternoon program focusing on the notion of 'liveness': the simultaneous presence of creator and audience, but not necessarily in one place. With contributions from Tate Modern's curator of perfor...
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Open & Sneller
Opening event: Saturday 4 June, 15:00 - 18:00h The chalk drawings Ilke Gers has made across the floors of TENT, respond to the architecture, history, use and rhythms of the building. She plays with movement and signage, and our reading and physical negotiation of the built environment. The designed environments we inhabit facilitate our movements , but also script them. Yet its everyday users donβt necessarily follow the official line. They take short-cuts and detours, ...
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Take a walk with…Donya Batta
During Youth Pride week, young spoken word artist, musician and writer Donya Batta will be giving a free tour of the exhibition 'Among other things, I've taken up smoking' on Sunday September 24 at 14:00. In this exhibition, artists give their visions on gender and sexuality. Donya is a nongender, asexual, panromantic and polyamorous boi who grew up in Amsterdam and Bonaire. Donya's biculturality contributes to the question of the meaning of identity when it comes to natio...
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Active Listening Workshop door Sekai Makoni
As an extension of Pris Roos' exhibition "What it is, what it means and what i would like it to be" and Robert Glas' exhibition "Justice Beyond Revenge," Sekai Makoni hosts an active listening workshop. The workshop is linked to the honest and personal conversations central to Roos' nine life-size portraits and Glas's video works. What does it mean to really listen to someone? Join Sekaiβs listening workshop to practise your own capability to actively listen and learn more...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #14: May 1968
The fourteenth edition ofΒ Rotterdam Cultural Histories focused on how the city newspapers reported on international and local events during the revolutionary times and spirit of May 1968, considered then, and still today, a turning point of our times. This was just before television became a common household staple, and when printed newspapers, as well as radio, functioned as the main media channels for distributing information. May 1968 The month of May 1968 is...
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Mannerist Compositions: Vital Gestures in Contemporary Practices
The twentieth century has already seen three major attempts at rescuing mannerism from its stigmatization as βdegenerate art,β the first allied with expressionism, the second with surrealism, and the third with postmodernism. Today we are witnessing a new reappraisal, one closely tied up with shifting boundaries between nature and culture, but also with the multiple crises of very late capitalism. In learning to perceive the world not in terms of essences or identities but of...
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The Temporary Autonomous Bureau: Anomalous Institutions
Anomalous Institutions is a discussion around processes and methods of βestablishingβ self-organised cultural projects and alternative institutions. What do small, independent organisations have to overcome in order to function and exist on their own terms? This event brings together agents from the cultural scene of Rotterdam who have challenged and circumvented the problematic relationship between self-governance and the law. What can we learn from their experiences in r...
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Workshop Stop being an instrument and sing your own songs!
On Friday the 13th of April, The Autonomous Bureau organises a workshop in order to explore slogans as means of expression and resistance. Using the contentΒ of the previous events within The Autonomous Bureau, we will experiment with an algorithm that produces slogans following a specific structure. The discussion will ponder on their potential for activist use, as well as look back at the history of banners within activist culture. Please bring your own laptop. The result...
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BirdBecomeBird & Solo Acoustic Performance
Join us Fridaynight during Kunstblock for a very special performance at TENT. Suzanne Walsh and Janneke van der Putten during two vocal performances, who each stretch the boundaries of the human voice. Questioning the human-animal divide is a reoccuring theme in Suzanne Walsh'practice, which encompassed writing, music and visual art. Her vocal performance BirdBecomeBird, commits to the idea that music trecends species boundraries and reframes the bird song as a form of voc...
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Opening event New Exhibitions
Upcoming Friday the 8th of July during De Kunstavond (Art Night), we open our summer programme with three new exhibitions at TENT. We'll be open from 11.00 am onwards, and the official opening event will start at 18.00 and last until 21.00. During De Kunstavond and all our openings, visitors have free admission and are not required to make a reservation. Curious about our programme? Read more below. Besides the opening of three exhibitions on Friday, one day later the exhi...
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Timetable CAMPSITE (TimeWindow)
Each week of CAMPSITE festival, artists from different disciplines are thematically grouped into on-site residencies to create new work. As a starting point every artist brings an existing artwork to deconstruct, and from Wednesday to Friday they combine their artworks to create something new. From Friday to Sunday, artists present the outcome of their collaborations to the audience, either as an exhibited work and/or as a performance. Every weekly program is ended with a ...
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Aspect Ratio
Aspect Ratio, compiled by guest curator Edwin Carels for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, explored the impact of current visual technologies as our window on the world. The point of departure for the exhibition was The Powers of Ten (1977). In this legendary film by Charles and Ray Eames, a simple photo of a picnicking couple provides the starting point for a journey through the cosmos and the tiniest molecules of the human body. By now the technology has progres...
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Dolf Henkes Award 2014
This exhibition showcased the four nominees of the Dolf Henkes Award 2014: Rotterdam artists Silvia B., Esther Kokmeijer, Ewoud van Rijn, and Lidwien van de Ven. The Dolf Henkes Award is awarded every two years to an artist from Rotterdam. At the bequest of the Rotterdam artist Dolf Henkes (1903-1989), the prize is intended to reward artists who are as iconic to the city as the awardβs namesake. Previous winners were Jeroen Eisinga, Erik van Lieshout, Melvin Moti, Lara Al...
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TENT Welcomes The Meal is Language
This is a gathering for the delusional, for the imaginative, the ones in this world but not of this world. Taking inspiration from Lola Olufemiβs work, we will open up a space for thinking otherwise.Β Otherwise as in, 'the political horizon awaits', as in 'the firm embrace of the unknowable',Β as in refusing the structures that confine while thinking of other ways of existing. Join us and sit down in conversation, as we ask ourselves and each other: What else is possible when w...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #13: The Temporary Autonomous Bureau
For this edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories the Shared Space of TENT and Witte de With was transformed into The Temporary Autonomous Bureau, a temporary office for researching different interpretations of autonomy in cultural or social projects within Rotterdam. The project connected with the history of Rotterdam's Poortgebouw. The Poortgebouw The Poortgebouw is a 37-year-old organisation that hosts cultural activities, as well as a community of 30 people. Over the...
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In a World We Can’t See
In a World We Canβt See premiered new video installations by Margo Onnes and Arthur Kleinjan, and showed impressive multimedia works by Ine Lamers and Anoek Steketee. Each of these artistsβ singular approach to lens-based practices touches upon a deeper reality behind our immediate actuality. By exploying the surreal atmosphere and logic of magical-realist narratives, memories, and dreams, the artists evoke a collective subconsciousness that lies dormant beneath the surfac...
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Wrong Time, Wrong Place
The exhibition featured work by more than twenty international artists staying in Rotterdam as artists in residence. Wrong Time, Wrong Place highlighted the major influence that five studio complexes have exerted on the dynamism of the artistic climate in Rotterdam. Rotterdam possesses a network of artist residencies, unique in the Netherlands, which operate on an artist-to-artist principle. B.a.d, Kaus Australis, Het Wilde Weten, Duende, Kunst & Complex and others are...
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(fully booked) It Γs possible! Guest presentations for RCH#19 ‘Homes for People Not Profit’
On Sunday 19 September, Fucking Good Art will host guest presentations by Arie Lengkeek and Bureau Viertel in the framework of their project RCH#19 βHomes for People Not Profitβ with guest presentations by Arie Lengkeek and Bureau Viertel. How do we want to live? What are the alternatives to dominant forms of ownership and market-driven housing policies when space is increasingly scarce and expensive, and citizens are being pushed out of their homes? It Γs possible: many type...
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W1555. A film screening for RCH#19 ‘Homes for People Not Profit’
On Friday evening 17 and Saturday 18 Septemberβas part of Rotterdam Cultural Histories#19 'Homes for People Not Profit'βa special film portrait will be on view in our auditorium, adjacent to the exhibition: 'W1555, Conversations with an Accidental Community'. A documentary-style work by Honey Jones-Hughes about the community of people living between numbers 15 and 55 on Wolphaertstraat, Oud Charlois; an area of Rotterdam undergoing a sequence of city-led changes. Honey Jon...
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TENT X Tate
TENT Rotterdam and Tate Young Peopleβs Programmes ofΒ Tate Modern are intensively working together for the second time on an exchange project oriented on young creatives. Ten young people (aged 18 to 25) from Rotterdam and London are joining a workshop programme which addresses the question, βwhere does culture happen?β. Hybrid culture, representation and subcultures are a few subjects βTENT x Tateβ will tackle. During workshops, discussions and field trips the group of par...
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An Encounter On The Other Side Of Reality
In a programme of performances, mini-lectures and discussions, artists, curators and academics examined the connection between the Caribbean carnival and contemporary art. They explored how the carnival and the carnivalesque function as a space where the cultures of our current βglobal villageβ become manifest. With Artwell Cain, Nana Adusei-Poku, Charl Landvreugd, David Bade, Vincent van Velsen, Marga Weimans, Mette Sterre, Jaleel Roy-Lindsey, Junadry Leocaria. This sem...
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Blurrr
TENT celebrated its tenth anniversary with the jubilee project Blurrr. The exhibition highlighted a new cultural practice of young artists crossing the borders between different disciplines, presenting themselves as homo universalis 2.0. Ever since the renaissance, artists have adopted the position of jack-of-all-trades and their work involves more fields than just that of visual art. And yet, thanks to the possibilities of the Internet, it seems that multitasking has beco...
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Current Values
For the summer edition of Current Values, Rotterdam neuro-science professor Maarten Frens presents a mini-lecture on neuro-economics. Why do you buy that jacket in the sales when you don't really want to spend any money? Frens explains how emotions affect making a decision. Artist Jeroen Kuster is interviewed about his work and how he earns his money. Maarten Frens, Professor in systems physiology, will talk about biological processes in the human brain when making decision...
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TENT Welcomes: HECTOBAR (Kunstavond XL)
Friday 7 February it's time for Kunstavond XL and that means that all cultural locations on and around Witte de Withstraat will offer free admission until 11 p.m. TENT Welcomes HECTOBAR. An exchange and sale evening for contemporary artists, collectors and fans. All artworks have the same price, 100 euros. Everyone can participate, buy art and enjoy a drink. Artists can also trade art. How does it work? - Participation is free - Participating artists bring 1 - 3 work...
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Opening Graduation Shows Piet Zwart Institute
The graduation shows of the Master Fine Art and Master Media Design and Communication programmes of the Piet Zwart Institute, the postgraduate institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie, will open in TENT on 28 June. The graduation works from the Fine Art programme, led by Vivian Sky Rehberg and with the cooperation of curator Arnisa Zeqo, and Media Design and Communication programme, led by Simon Pummell and curator Willie Stehouwer, can be seen in a single overview. ...
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TENT presents street parade by Marga Weimans in Palais de Tokyo
Guided by loud drum rolls, the Carnival Carnivalesque (Trade) street parade by Rotterdam fashion designer Marga Weimans opens on Friday 8 April as part of the DO DISTURB three-day performance festival at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. TENT presents the performance at the invitation of the Palais de Tokyo.Β Β Β Led by Vogue superstar Amber Vineyard (House of Vineyard/Hip Hop House), twenty Vogue dancers wearing Marga Weimansβ specially designed costumes and monumental head pie...
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TENT X TATE Collective
This summer, TENT and Tate form a unique partnership in a pilot exchange programme for young people and artists. Eight young people from London and Rotterdam will form a collective with four artists from both cities. As part of this intensive programme, participants work collaboratively to presentation reflections of two cities geographic, cultural and creative landscapes. The outcomes will be shown at TENT and at Tate Modern in the form of a series of events. For this int...
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Dimitri Madimin: By All Means Necessary
Dimitri Madimin responds to the image of hip-hop culture with a remarkable new project. Rap music, in particular, is regularly identified as an instigator of violence. An installation featuring tracksuits and historical scenes of violence questions this stigma. The idea that rap lyrics incites violence has dominated public debate, even in the Netherlands. The hip-hop community fiercely contests this assumption, contending that violent incidents are rooted in societal cause...
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Matters in the Dark
As part of the Dark Matters exhibition, TENT developed an extensive project for art academy students. Three academic groups each worked for a week in TENTβs project space adjacent to its exhibition spaces. Led by a visual artist (Silvia B., Marc Bijl, or Renie Spoelstra), students worked on a βside showβ β a group exhibition discussing the themes raised in Dark Matters and the relationship each artist has towards these themes. The project focused on the dilemmas and quest...
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Motion / Labour / Machinery
Motion / Labour / Machinery aimed to generate playful and speculative avenues for critical reflection on ways to think about labour and the city on micro to macro levels. The exhibition was curated by Manuel Segade, in cooperation with Mariette DΓΆlle and Jesse van Oosten from TENT. Rotterdam as case study Rotterdam is a perfect case study of the late capitalist city where the constant spatial displacement of people and goods in the harbour generates an economy in motion. ...
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Tent during National Museumweek 2015
This is the last weekend that the New Romantic Spirit (Woody van Amen & Hidde van Schie) and Shift & Drift will be open to the public. On Saturday 18 and Sunday 19, you can participate in the free Museumweek Kunstblock Tour at 14:00; a special tour that passes every cultural institute on the Witte de Withstraat. Reservations through: tours@kunstblock.nl.Β For more information:Β www.kunstblock.nl/tours....
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Motel MozaΓ―que @ TENT
VPROs 3voor12 podium will be our guest on April 13 & 14. In TENT, musicians will give a sneak preview of their evening performances on the large podia of the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Off_Corso and Lantaren/Venster (a.o). Friday and Saturday, TENT will be open from 11.00 β 23.00hrs, free admission during Motel MozaΓ―que. This is the seventh edition of Motel MozaΓ―que. This Rotterdam multi-arts festival offers a dazzling mix of art, music, theatre, and film. For the line-up, ti...
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TENT at WIRED
From 14 to 16 april, TENT takes part in the festival WIRED with a workshop inΒ light of the exhibition Utopian Dreams. WIRED is a three-day festival that brings together youngsters, art, culture and education. In the exhibition Utopian Dreams project designs for public spaces of Rotterdam are presented that were never carried out. Utopian plans: dream images for RotterdamΒ one might say. One of these plans was "a pasture with cows on the Schouwburgplein" from 1969 by Wim Gij...
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TAA 2008
The TAA is an annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations of all Dutch art academies. On Thursday evening 17 July, the 2008 nominations were screened at Cinerama Film Theatre. This evening, the jury chose the final winner and the public voted for the Public's Choice Award '08.The jury consisted of Arjon Dunnewind (director IMPAKT festival), Juliètte Jongma (gallery owner), Rutger Pontzen (visual art editor of De Volkskrant) and Froukje ...
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Take a walk with… Mariette DΓΆlle
On 25 October at 2 p.m., you can choose to go on a tour with Mariette DΓΆlle, TENTβs artistic director, through the spectacular solo exhibition as created by Nicky Assmann. This exhibition presents a number of room-filling kinetic installations in which Nicky Assmann combines topical technological developments with elementary physical processes. You can observe soapΒ films that freeze in the open air, the beauty of copper oxidation and the bursting of an enormous film of soap l...
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Efrat Zehavi – Anonymous Glossy
Efrat Zehavi presents Anonymous Glossy, an artwork in the guise of a luxury magazine. This image-rich glossy features portraits of Rotterdammers, who tell of their experiences and desires. Before launching this special project, Γzkan GΓΆlpinar, currently researching Contemporary Art Beyond Boundaries at Leiden University, in discussion with Efrat Zehavi, independent curator and critic Nat Muller presents a lecture, and Landa van Vliet recites some of the stories. Efrat Zeha...
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Frame the Artist
During the first weekend of April at TENT Rotterdam, the results of Frame The Artist β a photographic and video project by students from the Audiovisual and Photography Department at the Graphic Lyceum Rotterdam β are on show. In an assignment set by TENT and Showroom MAMA, the students visited Rotterdam artists and designers in their studios to make video and photographic portraits of them. What questions help to capture the artist's personality and practice? What role do...
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An evening with Lara Almarcegui
On the occasion of Lara Almarcegui's solo show at TENT, Rotterdam (on view until 26 June 2011), Latitudes will host a conversation on 19 May, 20.00hrs with the Spanish-born Rotterdam-based artist to discuss their long-term collaboration as well as the editing of the forthcoming monograph Lara Almarcegui. Projects 1995-2010. During the event Latitudes will also bring forward a selection of questions posed by curators, gallerist, artists, colleagues and collaborators of Almarce...
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Take a walk with… Noor Kloosterman
On 20 March at 14:00, TENT's assistant curator Β Noor Kloosterman gives a free tour of the exhibition Spending Quality Time with My Quantified Self. Noor has been actively involved in realising this exceptional exhibition that questions the human bodyβs relationship to digital technology. To what extent are apps and other digital measuring devices an extension of ourselves, and can we exist without them? The guided tour is ideal for anyone wanting to know more about the works ...
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Animistic Beliefs & Jeisson Drenth present: CACHE/SPIRIT Listening Session
The Dutch premiere of the installationβ―CACHE/SPIRITβ―by Animistic Beliefs and Jeisson Drenth is currently on view at TENT until October 17 as part of the exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?, curated by Katayoun Arian. On Saturday, October 9, the Rotterdam-based producers Animistic Beliefs (Marvin Lalihatu and Linh Luu) and media artist Jeisson Drenth will host two exclusive live, meditative listening sessions at TENT. In addition to β and part of β their ...
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TENT Welcomes PZI: Affective Pedagogies
Piet Zwart Instituteβs MEiA heartily invites you toΒ Affective Pedagogies, a public event hosted by TENT.Β at Friday March 10. Affective PedagogiesΒ aims to explore the relational and reparative potential of affect around a set of pedagogical questions. Performer and choreographer Raoni Muzho Saleh will lead a call and response moaning session. Scholar Sanne Koevoets will give a lecture on feminist and visual practices of mending. MEiA tutor ΓaΔlar KΓΆseoΔlu will offer a brief in...
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Take a walk with… Ishmail Kamara
Take a walk with Ishmail Kamara, poet and city guide, on Sunday 14th January at 14.00 hours, through the spectacular group exhibition Going Back to Forget in TENT. For questions, email: Judith@tentrotterdam.nl The tour is free of charge and in English...
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Open Atelier with Anouk Griffioen
Every Thursday, an Open Atelier takes place at the Pauluskerk. A regular core of Pauluskerk visitors participates in this workshop, which focuses on visual expression, conversation, and exchange. On Thursday 24 November, from 14:00 to 16:30, we move the Open Studio to TENT. Join in and see Anouk Griffioenβs solo exhibition together with regular visitors from the Pauluskerk; then all work together with Griffioen on a charcoal on paper artwork. During the workshop, there is tim...
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Enigma
TENT presented video installations, drawings, sculptures and photographs by six Rotterdam-based artists whose work does not shy away from the inexplicable and unfathomable. Enigma offers a view of a complex, fanciful world without the foothold of logic. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, 'unknown terrain' is increasingly difficult to find. Google leaves no part of the earth unobserved, no archive unopened and no theory unpublished. And still there must be mom...
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No You Won’t Be Naming No Buildings after Me
A project with Kader Attia, Kristina Benjocki, Marcel van den Berg, Alexis Blake, Aslan Gaisumov, Quinsy Gario & Glenda Martinus, Yoeri GuΓ©pin, Gert Jan Kocken, Dana Lixenberg, Taus Makhacheva, Uriel Orlow, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Bert Scholten and AimΓ©e Zito Lema. Curated by Vincent van Velsen. In βNo You wonβt Be Naming no Buildings after Meβ, guest curator Vincent van Velsen investigates, in collaboration with an international group of artists, modes of commemoration ...
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The Juice; Nightlife and Hip Hop as cultural capital
What is the current state of Rotterdamβs nightlife? Which enterprises are recognised as valid culture makers? These questions are central to the Concrete Blossom programme at TENT. We shall discuss, with leaders from the club scene, how hip-hop and nightlife have enriched the city. The conversations focus on identity, friendship, and coming of age; how successive generations of grassroots artists make clubs, art institutions and related areas more relevant; and about their cu...
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Art Evening
Discover the versatility of contemporary art in the Rotterdam art quarter: inside and out, from visual arts to music, from photography to film and more. An evening full of inspiration for you in the areas of rural culture in Rotterdam, links between gambling and migration and the relationship between politics and art. Between 18.00 and 21.00 there is a free opening tonight at TENT, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, MAMA, V2 and WORM. Programme at TENT Wild ...
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Israeli Breakfasts with Gil & Moti
On the occasion of the exhibition Available for You in 't Gemaal, artist duo Gil & Moti will organize a series of breakfasts. Sunday April 5th, 12.00 - 14.00hrs Gil & Moti will serve their first Israeli Breakfast (with special guest) in a series of three, for neighbours, local residents and interested parties in the new cultural podium βt Gemaal. TENT presents Available For You, a long-term project by Gil & Moti in which they offer their services free of charge to their A...
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Take a walk with… Santa Claus – Kids Only
On Sunday 20 December at 14:00, Santa Claus is coming to town and will be giving a free tour of TENT for children aged between 5 and 12. Together with their cheerfully festive friend, children can explore the enchanting world of Nicky Assmann's solo exhibition, 'Radiant'. For one of her films, Assmann travelled to the home of Santa Claus β Lapland β to research what happens when liquid soap freezes. The result is a colourful and hypnotic film. Nicky Assmann has also created a...
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Jeugd Vakantiepaspoort
To children in Rotterdam, the summer holiday means Jeugdvakantie Paspoort fun! Again, this year you can visit TENT for a big portion of art and creativity. There are two exhibitions on display by diverse artworks from Caribbean artists. Different forms of art will be discussed, like photography, film, paintings, installations and a lot more. There will be something for anyone! Besides visiting the exhibitions, you can participate in a fun workshop in which you will explore...
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The Travelling Hand
The Travelling Hand is a ludic, immersive game-installation revolving around a macabre archeological discovery in Goa, India. Artist Gayatri Kodikal invites you on a poetic and forensic journey, navigating across different geographies and times through interactive, hybrid game elements, archival material, film and documentary fragments, to unearth a complex web of geopolitical histories. Commissioning curator is Katayoun Arian.Β In 2005, archaeologists found bone debris of...
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Carly Rose Bedford | Utopian Redux
With Utopian Redux, Carly Rose Bedford transforms the exhibition space at TENT into an immersive artificial landscape, inviting us to look at queerness and nature. Bedford is the winner of the MK Award, which she received during Art Rotterdam at the opening of the show. There is a multitude of readings we can put on any natural phenomenon. Β Yet nature and the natural have become embedded in a narrative of what is normal, naturalising certain bodies or behaviours, while dee...
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BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this?
BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this? was a multidisciplinary group exhibition and public programme by guest curator Metro54. This collective invited architects, designers, rappers, producers, and artists to show new and existing work that explores and articulates the complex relationship between architecture and street culture. Rotterdam is known as the Dutch capital of hip-hop, where architecture, urban arts, and urban culture are deeply intertwined with the city...
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Tour: Tracing Soil Movements (sold out)
Rotterdam soils are constantly shifting: some being excavated to make room for new underground household βwasteβ containers, others being carted in as foundations for new parks. Some, if too polluted, into depths distant from human bodies. Join artists Kate Price and Guillem S. Arquer as they jump on their bikes to guide us through and follow the trails of soil movements in the city of Rotterdam. The tour, which takes us to the Soil Bank and Voedseltuin, will confront our per...
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Publication Available for You
In the spring of 2009 TENT presented the exhibition Available for You in the exhibition space 't Gemaal in Rotterdam South. The Israeli-Dutch artist duo Gil & Moti offered their services free of charge to immigrants from Arab countries. In exchange for their support they documented these encounters and the conversations they held about contemporary life as a migrant. Thursday November 19, TENT presents the book Available for You, which is an account of the project. Guid...
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TENT is looking for models (m/f) for Summer Carnival with Marga Weimans
Are you not afraid to be the center of attention? Have you always wanted to participate inΒ the street parade of the Rotterdam Summer Carnival?Β If so, TENT is looking for you! We are looking for modelsΒ to walk in the street parade designed by Rotterdam-based fashion designer Marga Weimans. Experience is not a must, but energy, courage and comfy (dance)shoes definitely are! On the other side of reality, 25 juliΒ β 27 September, TENT The street parade during the Summer Carniv...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #21: Gone Within 2 Years, The Studio Crisis
This edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories draws attention to the working conditions for artists amidst the cityβs rapidly shifting cultural landscape. While a growing number of institutions has provided Rotterdam with space to present and enjoy contemporary art since the 1970s, it were the artists working and living in the city who formed the foundation for the cityβs vibrant artistic milieu. The mix between established institutions and the many grassroots initiatives t...
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Selectiedag Zomersalon
TENT/CBK presents the Summer Salon in Het Gemaal op Zuid. In the Summer Salon, Het Gemaal shines the spotlight on undiscovered talent, established artists and ambitious amateurs from South Rotterdam. After the example of the annual Summer Expo in The Hague, an expert jury chaired by Hans Walgenbach, director of Museum Rotterdam, selects the works to be exhibited. The best work of art wins a place in the presentation space of the Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam. The Summer...
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TENT Guest Shelf
Every quarter, TENT invites a special bibliophile to make an unmissable selection for the Bookshop. The guest shelf of TENT's Books Hop is curated by Karin de Jong of PrintROOM. PrintROOM, at Schietbaanstraat 17 in Rotterdam, is an organisation specialising in artists' publications. With her presentation room and bookstore for printed art, Karin de Jong operates at the intersection of art, photography, and graphic design. PrintROOM is Rotterdam's only venue for self-publishe...
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TAA 2007
TENT presents the eighth edition of the TAA, a competition between the best graduate videos, films, shorts en animations from all the Dutch art academies in 2007. Thursday July 19, the nominated films were screened in Cinerama Film Theatre. That evening, the jury, consisting of Arjon Dunnewind (director IMPAKT), Wendelien van Oldenborgh (visual artist), Kees Brienen (programmer IFFR, IDFA) and Lars Henrik Gass (director Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen) chose a winner, ...
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Chapter Three: ASYMMETRY β LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Unequal social, political, and economic relations in the city of Rotterdam are central to the final symposium of the exhibition Asymmetry by Castro and Γlafsson, and curated by Adam Budak. Hein Klemann (Professor of Social and Economic History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam), Sonja Lavaert (Professor of Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels) and Gwen van Eijk (urban sociologist and criminologist at the University of Leiden) shed light on their individual perspect...
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THE BEHEADING OF THE FRUIT FLY
Join us Friday night the 24th of June during De Kunstavond for a vinyl publication launch: 'THE BEHEADING OF THE FRUIT FLY', now available in our online bookshop VETgedrukt. THE BEHEADING OF THE FRUIT FLY (How will I know if you are truly a sentient being?) is a vinyl publication that deals with seductive, nevertheless problematic computer-brain-analogies while acknowledging potential other-than-human intelligence and intelligent behaviour. It unfolds a poetic narrative of...
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Book Launch: Kairos Time
On May 20 at 20:00 hrs, a panel discussion titled βIt All Started with Opportunityβ will take place, Β on the occasion of the launch of the catalog of Kairos Time, the group exhibition featuring the 2014 graduating artists of the Piet Zwart Institute Master of Fine Art that took place at TENT. Rotterdam last summer . The panel is gathering a group of artists that took part in Kairos Time in conversation with a group of curators based in Rotterdam, all born in the late 70s a...
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Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?
Across cultures and histories, consciousness-altering practices by shamans, mystics, and other healers, have had a longstanding relationship with art making, and with sound and music in particular. At this time of radical planetary disorientation, imagining restorative processes by way of cosmic consciousness can assist us in creating fertile grounds towards a path of mourning and healing rooted in a collective capacity. The works in the exhibition and hybrid events programme...
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The Value of Nothing
The Value of Nothing reflected on our current economies and value systems, with newly commissioned projects, Fieldwork Residencies, and an in-depth public programme. The project was curated by Jesse van Oosten and Michiel van Dartel. The Value of Nothing sprang from long-term research initiated by TENT into shifts in thinking about value and economy, and the role that art can play therein. In the aftermath of the global economic crisis increasingly urgent questions arise t...
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MOVING OUT CEREMONY | FUNERAL ECSTASY – The Paradise
The second to last evening before TENT is moving out off Witte de Withstraat won't pass by unnoticed. We invite you on Thursday, April 25th, for a very special performance by the Rotterdam artist collective HipSick. The Paradise marks the beginning of FUNERAL ECSTASY, a series that challenges conventional ideas about finitude. Can we accept that everything is perishable? Immerse yourself in an impressive audiovisual installation, and be taken on a journey through a mix of sou...
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Among other things, Iβve taken up smoking
Among Other Things... presented perspectives on gender and sexuality. Recently, there has been a proliferation of categories for defining oneβs sexual and gender identity. For example, in addition to the standard βmaleβ or βfemale,β Facebook currently offers its users 71 gender identification options. Does this range of labels contribute to the freedom of expressing one's identity? And does everyone want to identify themselves with a label anyway? With a group exhibition ...
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At Work
On Thursday evening 19 November the Spanish curator Manuel Segade talks about curatorial labour, the visibility and invisibility of an exhibitionβs creator, and the curatorβs position regarding their operational context. Art historian Menno Vuister reflects on the role and position of the artist in the neoliberal economy in a spoken column, and artists Doris Denekamp and Geert van Mil introduce their reader If You Work It, You Own It! The evening takes place in the context of...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #19: Homes for People Not Profit
Rotterdam-based artist collective Fucking Good Art, together with several partners, is investigating the possibilities and impossibilities of co-operative and self-organised forms of housing in Rotterdam. How do we want to live? What kind of place do we need to live and work? What are alternatives to the dominant forms of ownership and the market-driven housing policy at a time when space is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, and citizens are being pushed out of t...
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TAA 2011, the Benelux edition
On Friday July 15, TENT screened the films that were nominated for the TAA 2011, in Cinerama, Rotterdam. This evening, the jury announced the 2011 winners, and members of the audience voted for their favourite. This year for the first time, students from Belgium and Luxembourg also got the chance to win an award: the TAA For Best Foreign Film. Auke de Vries (AKV St. Joost, Breda) won the TAA 2011. Quinten Leon (Sint Lukas, Brussels) won the TAA For Best Foreign Film. Sarah...
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Elfie Tromp – Slogans for Rotterdam
Author Elfie Tromp invited fellow Rotterdammers, including artists, thinkers, and writers, but also a barkeeper and students, to create a slogan for the future of Rotterdam. With this project, the cityβs omnipresent slogan, βMake it Happenβ, was questioned. Is this the perfect slogan for Rotterdam or can we propose a better motto to the cityβs Mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb? Slogans for Rotterdam was part of the exhibition Utopian Dreams. Tromp occupied a deskΒ in the exhibition t...
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TENT for Rent
Are you looking for a creative and central location for organizing meetings, presentations, performances, meetings, training, workshops or film screenings? TENT is the space for contemporary art in Rotterdam and because of our good facilities and central location in the city it's an ideal and inspiring place for organizing your event. TENT is housed on the ground floor of a listed building in the lively Witte de Withstraat. In our exhibition area of 1000 m2, we can take c...
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Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self
Digital technology is increasingly becoming integrated into our daily lives. Using apps, digital extensions, and portable measuring equipment, we collect information about our performance, endurance, and ourselves. In this exhibition curators Nikolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk and Jesse van Oosten collated a number of artistic positions, key to which are the embodiment of the human, the body-to-be, and the body with which we are inextricably linked to our digital society and data e...
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Colophon
All contentΒ©2019 TENT Rotterdam Concept + design + web development Studio Beige Video homepage As Rotterdamβs platform for contemporary art, we take our inspiration from the art and culture in the city. So rather than making our own claims about what TENT is, we figured it made more sense to ask artists to articulate their view. Director Puck LitaayΒ is the first to formulate a visual response to the question: What defines TENT? Directed by: Puck Litaay Cinematogr...
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Current Values
In the third edition of Current Values, philosopher Sjoerd van Tuinen describes how human emotions influence economic considerations and artist Antonia Hirsch discusses conflicting concepts of value. Can value only be expressed in money or are there other possibilities too? What factors play a role in determining value? Artist Hester Scheurwater tells us how she earns her money. Among other things, philosopher Sjoerd van Tuinen will talk about the economy of abundance and w...
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CBK R’DAM x TENT x Operator Talks
During the Art Rotterdam week tune in to Operator Radio studio (live) on Thursday 1 July from 10:30 am for a new edition of CBK R'DAM x TENT x Operator Talks. In a series of informal table discussions, the programme makers of Operator Radio question artists and curators about their projects at TENT or in the city. How do makers contribute to the current art climate in Rotterdam? How do the curators arrive at their exhibition concept? What inspires and motivates the artists...
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TENT x Tate
TENT Rotterdam and Tate Modern are intensively working together for the second time on an exchange project oriented on young creatives. Ten young people (aged 18 to 25) from Rotterdam and London are joining a workshop programme which addresses the question, βwhere does culture happen?β. During workshops, field trips, and discussions, the group is stepping out of their comfort zone by gaining new experiences, researching where culture is produced and how it relates to the exhi...
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Your story in a song, the showcase
Sabrina Starke x Music Matters In a showcase, together with Sabrina Starke, upcoming musical talents share their songs about the question: Who do you think you are?...
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TENT Welcomes De Rotterdamse Beeldmaatschappij
TENT Welcomes De ROTTERDAMSE BEELDMAATSCHAPPIJ with their event Linkse Hobbies (Leftist Hobbies) on 21st January at 14.00 hours in TENT. During this event, the pilot episode of a series of films about Rotterdamβs art sector after the cuts will be premiΓ¨red. The short film considers existing prejudices about the theatre world and reflects on the term Leftist Hobbies. De ROTTERDAMSE BEELDMAATSCHAPPIJ doesnβt pretend to know everything (or anything at all) about art, but they...
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Eva Olthof – In der Freihand
Where is history 'made'? Inspired by this question Eva Olthof has worked since 2010 on projects in which she researches certain events or locations through testimonials and documentation. Eva Olthof (Nijmegen, 1983) collects fragments, photographs (both taken by herself and found), archival material, texts and objects, searching for the boundaries between the documentary and imaginary image. At TENT, Olthof presented an installation in which her new publication 'Return ...
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Paint It Back
Art historian Bregje van Woensel talks to artists Hans Hoekstra, Marie Civikov, Rob Birza and Serge Game. They speak about their artistic practice, their position within the international developments in art and the power of the painter's medium. An evening of searching for the answer to the question why the art of painting is more relevant than ever. The discussion will take place against the background of the exhibition Every Picture Tells A Story, on show in TENT to 10 Apr...
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TENT Welcomes WdKA
TENT Welcomes WdKA students following the minor Cultural Diversity, with their presentation Not a single story, on Friday 22nd December at 11.00 hours at TENT. This presentation is the result of their research into diversity and migration in Rotterdam. Not a single story Rotterdam has 630.000 residents from more than 170 different nationalities. Diversity, like migration is a politically sensitive question in this city, as in many others. The students have addressed t...
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TENT Welcomes WdKA
TENT Welcomes WdKA students following the minor Cultural Diversity, with their presentation Not a single story, on Friday 22nd December at 11.00 hours at TENT. This presentation is the result of their research into diversity and migration in Rotterdam. Not a single story Rotterdam has 630.000 residents from more than 170 different nationalities. Diversity, like migration is a politically sensitive question in this city, as in many others. The students have addressed the...
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About Love; Mr. & Mrs. Chan in Het Gemaal op Zuid
In August Kosmopolis Rotterdam is organizing three Saturday afternoons with film, music and debate referring to the exhibition Far From Fong in Het Gemaal op Zuid. On Saturday 6 August at 15.30, the film About Love; Mr. & Mrs. Chan by filmmaker Ting Chan is being screened, in collaboration with CinemAsia. After the screening a discussion will take place with Ting Chan and young Chinese filmmakers among others on the question: What is the new generation of Chinese artists do...
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Poetry + Art Gallery Tour
On Friday 2 June and Saturday 3 June, this yearβs Poetry + Art Gallery Tour culminates with poetry recitals at TENT by the Mookie Katigbak, CheriΒ + Jefferson, and the winner of the CβBuddingh Prize (announced on 1 June). The tours begin at 13:30 at Ro Theater, taking participants along various sites of art and poetry in the city and onwards to TENT, where the recitals begin at 15.30h rs. For this sixth edition of the Poetry + Art Gallery Tour, Poetry International, togeth...
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Contemporary Passages – (Temporary Roots & Interweaving Paths)
Inspired by the artist-in-residence experience of being temporally located in a new context, Contemporary Passages questioned how physical mobility affects the production and communication of meaning, with particular reference to the dimensions of time, space and locality. The exhibition was curated by Angela Serino, TENT Young Curator 2007. Other than in the recent past, when moving was an exceptional experience and journeys were finite, today more people move for tempora...
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Where does culture happen?
With their roots in hip-hop and a βfor us by usβ mentality, various makers and creatives in Rotterdam are building new social and cultural connections. Outside and sometimes in collaboration with institutions, they develop ways of working in which they can be themselves and find each other. Through an exhibition, publication, performances and debate, TENT engaged with the shifts they impart within todayβs cultural landscape. Damoon Foroutanian: Dissonant Structures Under ...
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Open Set β Graphic Design Summer School
From July 24 to August 6 2016, Open Set challenges you to enter an entirely new environment of design and education in Rotterdam. Open Set's 5th edition is planning to transform 14 days into a universe of exciting creativity, rebellious discussions, and education. βOpen Set is about how the greatest international designers, artists, and thinkers together with the young generation of creatives influence the image and role of design today and tomorrowβ, says Shapiro, artistic ...
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βLow Budget Projects | Do not expect anything out of the blueβ publication soft launch
On Saturday, 25 February from 13:00-14:00 pm you are welcome at the Temporary Office for those afraid of closed envelopes for the soft launch of the publication "Low Budget Projects | Do not expect anything out of the blue", by Gizem ΓstΓΌner. The event will take place at Santiago Pinyol's installation, as part of exhibition There is no party so noisy as the one you're not invited to, curated by curator Linnea Semmerling. In addition to the publication, an afternoon will be...
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Youth Holiday Passport at TENT
This summer, children who participate in the Youth Holiday Passport can take a touristic expedition at TENT. In the Authentic Boys' video installation Happyland, one imagines they are abroad. Step into the shoes of a group of idealists who freely roam the world hitchhiking with backpacks and guitars, or follow the martyrs toughing it out climbing a mountain in severe weather. Or maybe you'd rather float around on an azure-blue lake in a luxury yacht? If so, then you'll love H...
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Take a walk with… Anouk Griffioen
On Sunday 16 October at 14:00, artist Anouk Griffioen gives a free guided tour through her solo exhibition Navigating the Imaginary at TENT. Griffioen talks about the twenty-two meter-long charcoal drawing that she has been working onΒ for the past two years, 3D video mapping, and her inspiration and love for charcoal. Learn about her fascination for nature and why she likes working deep into the night on her monumental black and white drawings. Admission: free Language: D...
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The Big Draw
On October 1st and second the international "The Big Draw" festival is back in Rotterdam with the aim to get everyone to draw. During the two-day festival visitors can participate to free workshops, master classes and tours between 1pm and 5pm at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, MAMA, TENT, Villa Zebra and the Art Library. It's your party! - Femke Gerestein Witte de With and TENT host a workshop by artist Femke Gerestein who will t...
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Take a walk with… Raoul de Jong
On Saturday 2 July at 14:00, Raoul de Jong β author, TV presenter, dancer, and bon vivant β gives a free tour of the exhibition Utopian Dreams. In this exhibition, TENT displays plans and dreams by artists and architects for a new Rotterdam. In his Mirakel TV programme, Raoul de Jong humorously explores how the past shapes Rotterdam's contemporary identity, uncovering myths such as the Maas God and the Rotten Nymph. Although such myths are no longer believed, the water is sti...
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Long (Long) Weekend Spaghetti Forever
Spaghetti Forever - Giuseppe Licari Giuseppe Licari organizes a special pasta workshop in TENT. The evening is devoted to this typical Italian family occasion. The public is invited to prepare various sorts of pasta under the artistβs supervision, and to enjoy it together afterwards. Applications via spaghettiforever@gmail.com Food & Design - Romy & Alexander What if you have to choose between too sweet, too salty, too bitter or too sour? Romy Tielman and Alexander Groot...
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OPENING UTOPIAN DREAMS & THE BACK ROOM β CHARLY VAN REST
On Friday, April 22 at 20:00 TENT opens two new exhibitions: Utopian Dreams and The Back Room - Charly van Rest: The second part of the collaboration with the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. With music by DJ Dandy Dave. The duo Les Morts Vivants, consisting of Elfie Tromp and Jerry Hormone, will rewrite and perform one of Rotterdam's vintage songs for this occasion. Utopian Dreams Wim Gijzen, Claes Oldenburg, Rem Koolhaas - OMA KΓΆrmeling, Atelier van Lieshout, Utopia, Elfi...
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Gyz La Rivière | New Neapolis
Gyz La RiviΓ¨re's New Neapolis is a declaration of love for a new fictional European city that can arise when four port cities β Rotterdam, Liverpool, Marseille and Naples β forge an alliance. With an exhibition, docufiction and an inimitable logic, artist Gyz La RiviΓ¨re manifests the connections these cities have always shared, with their sailortowns, quays and alleyways; migrants, workers and rascals; poverty, friction and vibrant informal economies; and the frantic atte...
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Wild Bet | Gil & Moti
Wild Bet focused on gambling as a social and psychological phenomenon. Artist duo Gil & Moti took the viewer into a world of public gambling machines, seductive gambling halls, simple back rooms and illegal gambling, and into the promise of happiness they offer. Gil & Moti saw a connection between the chances gamblers take in the hope of monetary luck and the gamble that migrants take when they leave their home in the hope of a better life. They delved into the gam...
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Troost om te vieren
Troost om te vieren (Comfort to Celebrate), by artists Liza Wolters and Katrein Breukers and theatre practitioner Peerke Malschaert, investigates together with pupils the visible and hidden power of rituals. Participants take an imaginary journey to two worlds: the tent of comfort and the garden of celebration. The first space is a warm and soft place where big and small emotions are received, nurtured and made manifest. In the second, there is a party, where the pupils...
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TENT Welcomes DIVERGE
DIVERGE is a multimedia art festival featuring musicians, artists, thinkers and creators outside of dominant cultures. As a part of the Rotterdam UnlimitedΒ Festival, DIVERGE asks: What does it mean to diverge from the mainstream? What can we learn from communities that are surviving outside of the norms? OrganisorΒ Rae Parnell,Β writing performerΒ Naomi Veldwijk, podcasterΒ Mariam El Maslouhi, and artistΒ Keith King, Nazrina Rodjan, Strict Nurse,Β andΒ Manuel Ricardo GarciaΒ present ...
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Artists as city makers: the timeline of Kaus Australis
Artists have long played a crucial role in Rotterdam's cultural development as makers and city makers. Kaus Australis is a telling example of how artists literally create space for art. In 1993, the artists took the initiative to develop a DIY model ands commissioned and partly built the facility themselves. The booming real estate market is now putting Kaus Australis under pressure, and they have been ordered to dismantle the building. What impact will current real estate po...
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KABK & The Value of Nothing
In the gym TENT presents three works by students of the Royal Academy The Hague (KABK). They participated in a project developed by TENT in which they were invited to explore the topics addressed by the curators in the exhibition. The Value of Nothing brings together artistic practices and projects that reflect on our current economies and value systems or that focus on alternatives. The students took part in a research program that resulted in several artistic project...
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Opening: The Great Hope (camping atelier for kids)
This summer, TENT's gymnasium transforms from an empty space, to a warm cozy day-camp. Here lives The Great Hope. That hope is yours and mine. The campsite manager, the animation team and also the Great Hope itself are very curious: What do you hope for? Come camp for a day this summer holiday at TENT! Paint, draw, tickle or mess around, and make The Great Hope even more beautiful. Laze in a beach chair, dance your sweat off in the disco tent or send a card to your grandmo...
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Gil & Moti – Available for You
Available For You was a long-term project by Israeli-Dutch artists Gil & Moti with prior editions in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Stockholm (2008-2013). Gil and Moti helped out in shops, babysat children or were asked to leave, meanwhile casually capturing a portrait of the immigrant community. For a period of two months, they also offered their services in Rotterdam South, free of charge, 24 hours a day. In 't Gemaal, Gil and Moti presened the materials they collected in...
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winnaars TAA 2014
Jasper Bruijns and Joel Autio are the big winners of the annual competition for the best graduation videos, films, shorts, and animations. On Saturday 12 July, Jasper Bruijns won the TAA 2014 for the best video from a graduate of Dutch art academies. Joel Autio won the Award for Best Foreign Film, the prize given to the best video from a graduating audiovisual student from this year's host country, Finland. Lyubov Matyunina won this yearβs Audience Prize. Before a sold-out th...
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Working together for art eduction in the city: Rotterdams CKV
TENT is actively involved in the development and professionalization of art education in the city. In close cooperation with other art institutions and teachers of Cultural and Artistic Education (CKV), TENT commits to involving high school students in art projects and to excite them for art in its broadest sense. In order to achieve this, TENT has joined the βRotterdams CKVβ: a collaborative project in which hundreds of specialists in cultural education have gathered i...
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TENT Welcomes: Piet Zwart Institute Graduation Presentation 2023 ‘Prompts for the Time Being’
Immediate. Instantaneous. Precise. Punctual. Qualities connected to the word 'prompt', which points to a readiness and quickness to act as the occasion demands. When we are prompted to do something, our minds, hearts and bodies are simultaneously set in motion. For a fraction of a second, time is suspended: we are completely present for the action at hand. βPrompts for the Time Beingβ is part of the Graduation Show 2023, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy.Β By...
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P for Performance: Nothing Is Accidental
Artist Maja Bekanβs collaborative projects create possibilities for gathering and encounter. Both inside and outside of art institutions, she stages settings and situations for individuals to come together and form a temporary community. They explore personal histories and truths as well as social and economic relations. In the process, they seek a common ground and find ways to connect across different life paths and societal divisions.Β Β Bekan often collaborates with wom...
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Sol Archer’s publication release: Held by Hands / A Muitas MΓ£os:K-pop and the social potential of fandom
Friday the 20th of May, during deKunstavond XL, TENT presents Sol Archers publication release of Held by Hands / A Muitas MΓ£os: K-pop and the social potential of fandom. The collaborative publication brings together personal and theoretical reflections on the constructive potential of contemporary fandom. It is written by young members of the Brazilian K-pop community, spanning experiences of occupying public space through collective dance practices, pop culture fandom as ...
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Press
Want to stay up to date with our programming? Fill in your details below and sign up for press releases and royalty-free press images of exhibitions at TENT. TENT is pleased to offerΒ journalists and film crews the opportunity to visit exhibitions and activities. We will gladly think along on how to create an exclusive item onΒ our program.Β Admission to TENT is free for press card holders. To offer journalists, professional photographers and film crews the best ser...
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TENT Welcomes: Sarmad Magazine, Un-Making Image #10: βPrince, a Dialogue for One Voiceβ
On friday 1 November TENT Welcomes Sarmad Magazine. In this 10th session of the βUn-Making Imageβ project, Sarmad editor Alireza Abbasy will perform a theater piece, followed by a discussion with the audience.The piece, written and performed by Alireza, titled βPrince, a Dialogue for One Voiceβ is part of his growing repertoire of theatrical plays in which there is no spectacle. Happening in total darkness, this particular piece is in form of a dialogue between a man...
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TENT Welcomes: Sarmad Magazine, Un-Making Image #10: βPrince, a Dialogue for One Voiceβ
On friday 1 November TENT Welcomes Sarmad Magazine. In this 10th session of the βUn-Making Imageβ project, Sarmad editor Alireza Abbasy will perform a theater piece, followed by a discussion with the audience.The piece, written and performed by Alireza, titled βPrince, a Dialogue for One Voiceβ is part of his growing repertoire of theatrical plays in which there is no spectacle. Happening in total darkness, this particular piece is in form of a dialogue between a man and a w...
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Ada M. Patterson, XTRADIOL & DYKEHOUSE: Sounds of Physicality
Between sounds, listening and silence, Ada M. Patterson looks at different embodied stages of sounds. Sounds of physicality.Β Reflecting on her work,Β you know a repercussion when you feel one, featured at the 2023 Dolf Henkes Prijs Exhibition at TENT Rotterdam, she invites XTRADIOL, a radio show meditating on the sound of transness and the transness of sound, hosted byΒ Alma Noor. Alma Noor will be in conversation with Ada M. Patterson and DYKEHAUS, iconic Rotterdam DJ and m...
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De Wereld van Witte de With and 24 uur Cultuur
During De Wereld van de Witte de With, for three whole days the Witte de Withstraat serves as a podium for the arts. For TENTβs outdoor programme Concrete Jungle three Rotterdam collectives have been invited: De Bende, Drunken Lion Soundsystem & Mesh Print Club. De Bende is a group of artists, designers, furniture makers and other creative spirits. This movement seeks constructive solutions for the huge mountain of leftover material created by our desire to consume. During ...
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Source Material
Source Material presented the work of eight artists whose practices involve archiving, collection and classification in order to reconsider the meaning of history, identity and time. The exhibition responded to the growing interest in documentation and archiving in contemporary art. In the current era of Wikipedia and Web 2.0 technologies, the access to source material has become virtually unlimited and the Internet functions as the archive of all archives. How can that im...
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TAA 2014
This summer, the TAA 2014 features the best video work from art academies in the Netherlands and this year's academy host country, Finland. The Dutch and Finnish winners shall be chosen from nominated clips, films, documentaries, and animations, and announced during an award show at Cinerama Cinema on July 12th at 20:00. Under the leadership of Juha van 't Zelfde, artistic director of Lighthouse, this year's jury shall choose the winners of places on artists residencies in He...
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Authentic Boys City Tour
Sold out. There are stillΒ several places available for Authentic Boys Slide Night. Did you makeΒ the trip of a lifetime this summer or did you simply take your caravan to a French campsite (again)? Did you experience an exciting adventure that others must know about? Then why not share your photos and stories with the Authentic Boys, friends, family, and the audience at TENT. https://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/event/authentic-boys-slide-night/ OnΒ September 10Β from 15:00 ...
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Opening Wartaal- Atelier voor woord en daad
Letterkoekjes, magisch spraakwater en feestelijke beeldende performances! Maak je klaar voor de opening van Wartaal- Atelier voor woord en daad, op zondag 21 juli bij TENT van 16:00-18:00 uur. Drie performers nemen je bij de hand en op reis, mee naar de wonderlijke wereld van letters en taal. Geschreven taal, verzonnen taal, uitgesproken taal, visuele taal, geheimtaal, vreemde taal, babytaal en taal met ander schrift. Letters spelen deze zomer bij TENT de visuele hoofdrol ...
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Museumnacht 2015
Especially for Museumnacht010, the painter and musician Hidde van Schie plays at 21:00 and 23:00 hrs a guitar improvisation on his guitar sculptures together with a drummer and five guitarists, in his exhibition with Woody van Amen β New Romantic Spirit. Superduo will be in TENT again with a special Button Bar. Create your own button, inspired by the works in the shows New Romantic Spirit and Shift & Drift in TENT. For more information and tickets (β¬17.50): www.museumnacht...
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Casper Hoogzaad – How green you think I am?
Painter Casper Hoogzaad produces his own paint. To a base of egg tempera and pigments, he adds crystals, minerals, seeds and fruits, which he obtains from the floor of the tropical rainforest in Suriname, where he stayed regularly in recent years. While there, the inhabitants taught him about plants that might be useful to medical science and helped him find ingredients for his paintings. The Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam presents his Surinamese drawings and paintings. Th...
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Conversations on Paramaribo Perspectives
What determines the wider context for Surinamese art? How is Surinamese art production interpreted and recorded? How, in the light of current political developments, are cultural relations between the Netherlands and Surinam influenced? These and other questions are the focus of three panel discussions. Γzkan GΓΆlpinar (journalist and Fonds BKVB programme manager) will discuss in depth the Artist, the Discourse and the Context, together with artists, critics and curators. With...
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Iddo Drevijn – Coffee Conversations
Iddo Drevijn graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2008, with a text-based piece that raised so many questions that the examiners initially intended to let him fail. Did he really and actually make art? Mid June 2009, he opened the coffee bar Half Juni (Mid June) in Rotterdam Charlois, together with artist Martijn in 't Veld. In the exhibition Blurrr, Iddo will engage the public in informal conversation: not about art, but as art. The following dates, Iddo Drevij...
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Wapke Feenstra | The Rural Side
The Rural Side was a project about rural culture by artist Wapke Feenstra with Rotterdammers. The project questioned the supposed contradiction between the countryside and the city that dominates not only popular perception but also urban and rural planning and politics. The urban and the rural are inextricably interrelated. But the urban perspective dominates. We consider urbanisation and urban culture as synonymous with progress. From this perspective, the countryside a...
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The Back Room – Charly van Rest
This solo exhibition was the second part of a special collaboration between TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, in which underexposed yet iconic Rotterdam artists featured in four solo exhibitions. Curated by Noor Mertens, curator of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.Β The oeuvre of Charly van Rest (Jakarta, 1949) comprises assemblages, photographs, collages, sculptures, and installations and is underscored by experimentation with techniques from which he develops witty an...
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Solid, Liquid, Vapour landscape dinner
On the 16th of September, the final date of her exhibition Solid, Liquid, Vapour at TENT, artist Esther Kokmeijer will present a special artwork in the form of an edible polar landscape dinner. Vapour as an appetizer, Liquid as a main course and Solid for dessert. An edible landscape inspired by the glaciers and icebergs of Antarctica. Each course will be introduced by a special guest: tornado chaser Melody Sturm (Vapour), oceanographer Gerbrant van Vledder (Liquid) and sc...
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TENT Welcomes Nicola Unger
On Friday 28 April, TENT welcomes artist Nicola Unger. At 18:00, Unger presents her performance, Transmission, to the public. For this performance, she researched genetic and cultural transmission within generations. Nicola Unger draws on an archive of images of war and peace, everyday life, and DNA. In her performance, she treats the body as a βcontainerβ of histories and future generations. What do we carry within us? What do we transfer? Do we have control over this? O...
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Material Memory
Material Memory is a group exhibition that traces the mechanisms of memory in the tangible and material world. The exhibition echoes the perception that all matter βΒ be it objects, water, bodies, or buildings β contains traces of past encounters with other sentient and non-sentient matter. In what ways does matter retain memory? Can we develop a more responsible relation to water β an inherently ancient substance that remembers and retains all human endeavour β by consider...
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Twitter – Radio Calling
Questions or remarks about the lecture, performances or panel discussion? Let us know via #radiocalling!...
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State of the Art: De visie van.. Wim van Krimpen
On Thursday 21 April the focus is on Wim van Krimpenβs view. Van Krimpen has a long record of service in the Dutch art world: he initiated the KunstRAI, was the inaugural director of Kunsthal Rotterdam, is former director of the Gemeente-museum Den Haag and is currently an independent cultural entrepreneur. In a recent article in the Groene Amsterdammer he was critical of the cultural activities on offer in Rotterdam. How does this βpaterfamiliasβ of the Rotterdam art scene v...
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The Back Room – Arie de Groot
This solo exhibition by Arie de Groot was the third part of a special collaboration between TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which highlighted underexposed yet iconic Rotterdam artists. Curator was Noor Mertens, curator of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Arie de Groot (Hendrik Ido Ambacht, 1937 - Rotterdam, 2016) developed a unique idiom and worked mostly out of the public eye. His oeuvre mainly consists of works on paper that incorporate vulnerable materials such ...
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Frame the Artist
During Easter weekend Friday 3 until Monday 6, the cinematic and photographic results of the Frame The Artist projectΒ by students of the Audiovisual and Photography department of the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam can be viewed at TENT. Β On assignment for TENT and Showroom MAMA, the art students visited the studios of Rotterdam artists and designers in order to make cinematic and photographic portraits of them. What questions do you ask the artists to get a good representatio...
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Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self and The Back Room: Paul Beckman
On Thursday 11 February at 20.00 hrs, the second day of Art Rotterdam, two exhibitions will open in TENT: Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self and The Back Room: Paul Beckman, the first part of a new collaboration with Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. During this evening you can expect performances by Momu & No EsΒ andΒ artist duoΒ Anni Puolakka & Jenna Sutela. Richelle Soigni spins tunes. Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self This group show presents ...
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Contact
Questions?Β Please contact us! E-mail: info@tentrotterdam.nl KvK nummer: 24384027 BTW nummer: NL8150.38.926.B.01 ...
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Hidden Bar at Art Rotterdam
TENT participated in Art Rotterdam with Hidden Bar. A concept by De Jongens Ronner, it is decorated with presentations curated by: the curator Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, the young collective of the Blu Heron Social Club, and artist Remty Elenga. Mette Sterre will perform on the opening night. The Hidden Bar is open during Art Rotterdamβs visiting hours. With the Hidden Bar, TENT breaks the format of an exhibition stand and creates a place for meetings, where lots of Rot...
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TENT and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art have reopened!
This fall and winter, TENT and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art are renovating the façade and the ground floor of their building at 50 Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam. By doing so, a long-cherished wish, held by both institutes, will be fulfilled. The renovations will include enlarging the windows in the façade and rearranging the layout of the ground floor, where Witte de With will also be taking on a new exhibition space. These alterations will improve the buildin...
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TAA 2013
This summer is dedicated to the best young video art from the Netherlands and guest country Greece in the annual TAA. This film competition presents the best of the final exam videos, movies, and animations from Dutch and Greek art academies. During a festive award show in a Rotterdam cinema the nominated films will be screened and the winner announced. The video work of the nominees will also be exhibited at TENT and then goes on tour to various film festivals and institutio...
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TENT Runs for young talent
On 13 April, TENT will run the Rotterdam Marathon in a unique fundraising activity to support young artistic talent. TENT is running the marathon to enable the artist residencies that are awarded to the best graduating audio-visual talent in the TAA. TENT is convinced that artist residencies helps to broaden young artist's horizons, develop their networks, and contribute to the city's vibrant arts offerings. In specially designed shirts and supported by the marathon running a...
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TAA
The TAA (TAA) is the annual competition for the best graduation films, shorts, and animations from all Dutch art academies and a host country. Every year, a team of expert scouts select the best audio-visual work from graduation exhibitions. During the TAA screening and award show these worksΒ were judged by a jury composed of prominent figures from both the art and film worlds, and they selected the winners of the TAA and the Best Foreign Film Award. The TAA 2016 jury members...
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Room for Imagination
Specifically developed for vocational and high-school students, Room For Imagination was an educational project for the solo exhibition Anne Wenzel β The Opaque Palace. The two-hour programme included an interactive exhibition tour and a physical workshop in collaboration with the Ro Theater. The Opaque Palace The Opaque Palace unfolded as a journey through an abandoned palace, loaded with old, almost forgotten stories. For more than a decade, Wenzel has worked on a disti...
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A Banquet for Wandering Ghosts
On 31st October, TENT and WORM proudly present A Banquet For Wandering Ghosts, an all night program of performances, films, videos, dance, readings, art, night walks, mini-lectures, and food design, that explores the interfaces between Halloween and contemporary art. Theater and music performances by Melanie Bonajo, Boris van Berkum, Maartje Dijkstra, Glass Eyes, holographic art and psychedelic music by The Carnival, Ernest van der Kwast tells an akward story, Boijmans van...
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OPEN CALL for radio performances
TENT invites artists to send in proposals for a radio performance as part of the Radio Calling weekend event, which takes place at TENT from 13 to 15 December in Rotterdam. The open call is part of Radio Calling, a series of events in which radio is explored as a medium and platform for performance art. TENT gives a number of artists the opportunity to make a new radio work. It will be recorded in public, at TENT, on Sunday 15 December and streamed live to an internationa...
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Veiling De Aanschouw (art auction)
After three lost Corona-years, this summer's legendary (art) Veiling De Aanschouw finally returns! On July 6, 2001, the first exhibition was held in De Aanschouw, the former announcement showcase on the façade of Cafe de Schouw on Witte de Withstraat. Since then, every week a new artist has shown his work here. On July 6, De Aanschouw will celebrate its 22nd anniversary with its 1135th exhibition. Works by De Aanschouw artists will be offered at this auction. In the days o...
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ART Central XL
More than 30 art spaces and institutions join forces to put the spotlight on Rotterdam's contemporary art scene. From 17 to 19 March 2023, the city of Rotterdam will become in its entirety the spotlight of contemporary art and culture during the Art Central Rotterdam XL. This is a cultural event in which thirty art spaces and institutions in Rotterdam will simultaneously open their exhibitions with extended opening hours, to offer a complete program of activities accessib...
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A walk with Hidde van Schie
On Saturday April 11 musician/artist Hidde van Schie will give a tour of his exhibition New Romantic Spirit at 14:00. At 15:00 Yuri Landman gives a concert together with the participants of the workshop, followed by a performance by Friday Wilkinson, Van Schie's band. The concerts can be attended free of charge. The tour is free...
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Take a walk with… Jesse van Oosten
On Sunday 29 January at 14:00, TENT curator Jesse van Oosten gives a free guided tour of the 2016 Dolf Henkes AwardΒ exhibition. Since the nominees were announced, Jesse has been involved as a curator in the implementation of this exceptional exhibition. Together with the nominated artists β Daan Botlek, Rana Hamadeh, Rory Pilgrim, and Katarina Zdjelar β Van Oosten decided what work is shown and where and how the presentations are best displayed, and she interviewed the artist...
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what it is, what it means and what i would like it to be
On all Fridays between 11 March and 21 April visit this exhibition and Justice Beyond Revenge free of charge. TENT is open on Fridays between 11:00 - 21:00. During these Fridays, a dedicated host can give you a free tour. Through a mixed-media installation featuring portraits and stories of nine individuals, artist Pris Roos invites you to delve into the complexity of our lives. The individuals in the portraits, all with connection to Rotterdam, unfold their multilayered j...
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Atelier wartaal kids workshop met Gino van Weenen
Language is more than just a letter or word. You can also draw or build with those letters. Maybe you want to make a fish scream or hear a dog bleat. In this free workshop for children with spoken word artist Gino van Weenen, you learn to see the letters as legos. Experience is not necessary, just a good portion of sense. Age: 6+ Reserve your tickets via the ticket link. Participation is free....
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Meet the artist: Emma van der Leest
On Saturday 2 February Emma van der Leest (Foundr BlueCity Lab), nominee of the Dolf Henkes Award 2019 takes you around on a tour around her current expo at TENT. In the new material age Van der Leest envisions, humans co-create with nature to establish conditions in which organisms can grow materials and shapes. With her presentation at TENT, she invites us to imagine that a future is within reach where garments, food, and many other things around us are organically grown. P...
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Take A Walk With… Nicky Assmann
On Sunday 10 January at 14:00, Nicky Assmann takes you on a free tour of her solo exhibition at TENT. On this tour, she talks about the physiological processes of materials, such as copper and liquid soap, and how she visualises these processes within her large installations. She is a specialist in producing moirΓ© patterns and she plays with the viewer's perception. What exactly are these moirΓ© patterns and how do the science-based subjects and techniques of her work relate t...
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Sit Down With… Noor Mertens
On WednesdayΒ 25 MayΒ at 12:30, Noor Mertens, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, expands on one ofΒ Charly van Rest'sΒ works in the exhibition The Back Room. Based on remarkable anecdotes and referencingΒ to the worksΒ in the exhibition, Noor Mertens reflects on the eventful life of Charly van Rest.Β Every Wednesday, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a concise introduction to a work from its collection under the heading βPak een sto...
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De Kunstavond XL
Visit all art locationsΒ on the Witte de With quarter for free from 18.00-23.00h. Check out our full programme here. Free weekly KunΒstavond art tour Starts at Witte de WithΒstraat 50, at 7 pm. The Art QuarΒter is known as the arΒtisΒtic and inΒnoΒvΒaΒtive area of RotΒterΒdam. ...
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Marjolijn van den Assem – bewustzijn van schijn (awareness of semblance)
Marjolijn van den Assem presents an exhibition at TENT that unfolds like anΒ indomitableΒ stream ofΒ consciousness. The performative side of herΒ practice, where thinking is an embodied act, is given free rein.Β Β The sharpening stone for Van denΒ AssemβsΒ thinking is theΒ abrasiveΒ philosophyΒ ofΒ wanderingΒ nomad Friedrich Nietzsche. In her dialogues with his books, letters and travels, she negotiates the borderline between drawing and performative writing. What does it mean to hone...
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Sit Down With… Noor Mertens
On Wednesday 9 March at 12:30, Noor Mertens, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, expands on one of Paul Beckman's works in the exhibition The Back Room. Based on remarkable anecdotes and referencing the furniture sculptures in the exhibition, Noor Mertens reflects on the eventful life of Paul Beckman.Β Every Wednesday, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a concise introduction to a work from its collection under the heading 'Pak ...
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Navigating Anouk Griffioen
Surround yourself with the monumental charcoal drawings by Anouk Griffioen during Navigating Anouk Griffioen, on Friday 28 October at 20:00 hrs.Β The writers Rien Vroegindeweij and Sladjana LaboviΔ, poet Anne Bloemendaal, and singer Lilian Hak performatively will guideΒ the public through Anouk Griffioenβs solo exhibition at TENT. Each in their own way, the speakers connect their words to Griffioenβs mysterious black and white images in the exhibition spaces. Listen to poet...
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Liza Wolters is THUIS bij TENT
"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud." -Β Γmile ZolaΒ Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a space f...
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Derek Otte is THUIS bij TENT
"What is we wouldn't relate ourselves with the world around us, but with the univere inside us."- Derek Otte Programme maker Gyonne Goedhoop invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a spac...
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Jorge Coffie is THUIS bij TENT
"He almost lost a part of himself. That's why having a clear view on your past is essential to be able to grow."Β - Jorge Coffie Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge ...
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TENT op Zuid
Tonight, TENT is off to Southside of Rotterdam where we will be visiting Foundation B.a.d, Talingstraat 5 (Charlois). TENT is on the move, in analogy to the exhibition Wrong Time, Wrong Place, which opened last Friday and presents the work of more than twenty international artists currently working in Rotterdam as artists in residence. Tonight's focus is on the cultural prospects of Rotterdam South. The collective ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles: Elma van Boxel and Kristian ...
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Olave Ndjuwanje is THUIS bij TENT
"I carry my anger close to my heart, I tuck it under my armpits, I fold it neatly into the knot of my waist wrap, I hold it dear and near, sheltered, cherished and valued." - Olave Ndjuwanje Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but whic...
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Vernon Chatlein is THUIS bij TENT
"Walk, even though you think you are not ready... WALK!" -Β Vernon Chatlein Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a space for marginalised perspectives in...
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Ibrahim Alaoui is THUIS bij TENT
"Be the plug, not the plague"- Ibrahim Alaoui Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a space for marginalised perspectives in all their potency and vulner...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories 6#: Video at the Lijnbaancentrum
The sixth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories highlighted a lesser known aspect of the renowned Lijnbaancentrum, its video studio, which offered equipment and expertise to the first generation of local and international video pioneers. The Lijnbaancentrum The Lijnbaancentrum (1970β1984), led by Felix Valk, was the renowned exhibition space of the Rotterdam Arts Foundation (RKS). In the center of Rotterdam, various exhibitions were presented on art and visual culture,...
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Carina Fernandes is THUIS bij TENT
" If I can't do it, I'll learn it" - Carina Fernandes Programme makerΒ Gyonne GoedhoopΒ invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a space for marginalised perspectives in all their potency an...
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Florida at ‘t Gemaal
This project was a collaboration with varous artists' initiatives in the south of Rotterdam. Around 2009 a network of spaces initiated by artists had evolved in the Charlois district, establishing themselves next to the local shop, the sex shop or the police station, in old shops, former commercial properties and schools. They were often informal, small-scale initiatives focused on artistic experimentation and personal connections with their surroundings and the public. Th...
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The Partial Declaration of Human Wrongs is for sale
The Partial Declaration of Human Wrongs is for sale. The proceeds will support the exhibition by Libia Castro and Γlafur Γlafsson in TENT Rotterdam. Libia Castro and Γlafur Γlafsson wrote βThe Partial Declaration of Human Wrongsβ together with British writer and philosopher Nina Power. Nina Power comments, in a dialogue with the artists, upon the current global political upheaval by deconstructing a βUniversal Declaration of Human Rightsβ and replacing it with a philos...
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Winnaars TAA 2013
The winner of the TAA is Florian Krepcik (AKV| St. Joost, Den Bosch) with his film 'Is this real love? Of course not!'. He wins an artist-in-residence in Skopelos, Greece. The Best Foreign Film Award went to Vasileios Karvounis (Athens School of Fine Arts) for his film 'My Friends...'. He won an artist-in-residence in the Wilde Weten, Rotterdam. The public vote award went to artist-duo Frank Blommestijn and Michiel van der Werf for their film 'Things that may not really be th...
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A Night at the Museum of Unconditional Surrender
On Saturday 6 June, from 21:00 onwards, TENT presents A Night at The Museum of Unconditional Surrender: an unconventional, meta-museum night. Artworks become performers and performances become objects. The division of roles between the public and the art object, the museum director and the artist, is renegotiated through performance, music, interviews, and artist lectures β all within the framework of The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, an exhibition curated by Niekolaas J...
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ZOHIER ZOMER
Making together, documenting, preserving, storing, guarding, exhibiting, exchanging, bringing, collecting, destroying or transforming. ZOHIER ZOMER is a workshop for children between four and twelve years old (and anyone still a child inside), where everything is allowed. ZOHIER collective has invited more than fifteen artists for you to work with throughout the summer holidays. From making robots to drawing sand patterns and building the ideas house, there is something ne...
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Sessions ACT TWO Alexis Blake
After the ACT ONE improvisation sessions and the performance on Sunday 1 September, Alexis Blake continues her work at TENT and the exhibition as a work and rehearsal room for part two (ACT TWO). Also for this part, you can be there too. Alexis Blake has a practice that coalesces visual art, movement and performance. She engages with the female body, critically examining how womxn are represented. In her collaborative works she explores how a language of movement can be a ...
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Knowing Nothing of Agility | Piet Zwart Institute
Knowing Nothing of Agility presented the graduates of the Master of Fine Arts course at Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute. Ruth Legg (UK) worked with artistic materials or ideas that seem exhausted β used up, like a joke that has been told too often. She explored ways of restaging these clichΓ© materials, and finding potential in their exhausted condition. Ruth Buchanan (NZ) engages in intimate, often humorous, negotiations with the artistic legacies that also influence h...
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Masterclass Art Mediation: Yana Klichuk
On Thursday October 19th from 15.00 till 18.00 Yana Klichuk, Head of Education and Learning at Manifesta,Β gives a masterclass that focusses on the intentions and objectives of art mediation. She will share her ideas on art mediation at the intersection of institutional contexts and the role of a mediator in relation to the public and the complex organism of a cultural organization. TENT, Witte de With, and MAMA present a series of professional development workshops for art...
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Sessions ACT TWO Alexis Blake
After the ACT ONE improvisation sessions and the performance on Sunday 1 September, Alexis Blake continues her work at TENT and the exhibition as a work and rehearsal room for part two (ACT TWO). Also for this part, you can be there too. Alexis Blake has a practice that coalesces visual art, movement and performance. She engages with the female body, critically examining how womxn are represented. In her collaborative works she explores how a language of movement can be a ...
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Jan Adriaans, ‘Swarming Chants’, bij V2_
Swarming Chants is based on sound recordings of various football fans from across Europe. The work explores how their chants spontaneously erupt during football matches and become a collective singing voice without a singular body or defined epicentre. Jan Adriaans connects these chants with the swarm intelligence observed in flocking birds or swarming fish, which involves an unconscious process whereby individual action is subordinated to the dynamic of a group. Join us f...
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Motel MozaΓ―que & TENT
Motel MozaΓ―que is back on April 8 and 9! Visitors of the festival receive free admission to TENT by showing their wristband. The Motel MozaΓ―que Festival is the place to be for discovering trendsetters in the field of music, theater, dance and visual art! Motel MozaΓ―que is regularly praised by press and visitors for the ever-sharp programming. During the 16th edition the program includes DIIV, Damien Jurado, Jamie Woon, Leon Bridges, jennylee (Warpaint), Protomartyr, De Dan...
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TENT Welcomes Graphic Novel Weekend Rotterdam
The launch of new comic 'ROFFE'. At the end of 2022, 7 writers and 17 illustrators came together in TENT to create a comic about Rotterdam in one weekend. The result will be festively presented on Saturday, May 20 at 15:00. This afternoon, you can purchase the book for just β¬8,-. ROFFE and this event are both in Dutch. Rotterdam's growth is unstoppable. Systems are taking over ordinary life and an unstoppable robotization means that workers like Sjaak are falling between t...
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Meet & Greet with Marjolijn van den Assem
In 2019 Marjolijn van den Assem won the Hendrik Chabot Award, the Dutch art prize for artists from Rotterdam, which is awarded once every three years. Her solo presentation at TENTβawareness of semblanceβis both a culmination of her distinctive and uncompromising practice, and an experiment. An exhibition that unfolds like an indomitable stream of consciousness. The sharpening stone for Marjolijn van den Assem's thinking is theΒ abrasiveΒ philosophyΒ ofΒ wanderingΒ nomad Friedr...
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Neem een loopje met Rieke Vos
On Sunday, May 31 at 12:00 hrsΒ independent curator Rieke Vos will give a free guided tour through the solo exhibition of Priscila Fernandes. Rieke Vos knows Fernandesβ work well and enjoys sharing her knowledge aboutΒ her sometimes hard to grasp, comprehensive work with the audience. Fernandesβ installations offer enough starting points for interesting discussions about education and art, labor and leisure and the relation of these subjects to past and current events. Rieke...
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MOVING OUT PARTY: MULTI-AVOND
Saying goodbye to a place that has been your home for 25 years is quite something. Therefore we host a worthy moving out party! Join us for a very last captivating, sizzling, tumultuous goodbye programme on Friday 26 April. We'll gather for drinks, performances, and DJ sets during our legendary MULTI-AVOND! An evening filled with captivating music, diverse performances and installations, energizing DJ sets, and refreshing drinks. 18:00 β 23:00 hrs Free admission, no reg...
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Meten = Weten?
24 November 2015. Sleep: 7.4 hrs. Weight: 60.3 kg. Number of steps: 4971. Health status: 79%. Stress Level: 40%. Glasses of water: 3. Days lived: 10,870. Current mood: Mild. Meten = Weten? is an educational project as part of the group exhibition Spending Quality Time With My Quantified Self, and was specially developed for year six students of primary school Het Landje in Rotterdam. The project consists of a series of six meetings, starting with a visit to TENT. Data c...
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Conversation event w/ Maja Bekan
Following the Throw Like a Girl project, a collaborative project by Maja Bekan between women from two worlds: the arts and the military, Bekan invites you to engage in conversation about the project, the film presentation and her practice. The conversation events are learning sessions for all involved where the angle is to learn from each other. On Friday the 4th of November, Federica Bueti will also be present, adding an extra voice from her own expertise Federica Bueti w...
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Award Ceremony & New Year’s Drinks
Carla Klein, Gyz La RiviΓ¨re and Renie Spoelstra have been nominated for the Dolf Henkes Award 2012, and are exhibiting their work at TENT. Which one of them shall receive the honour and β¬12,000 prize? Jury chairman Joop Caldenborgh shall announce the winner at the award ceremony on 10 January. This initiative once again provides a positive impetus to art now in Rotterdam. On this exciting evening we shall also toast the New Year. It shall be a celebration of art in Rotterda...
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Vampire Empire from Dusk till Dawn
February 13th, TENT Young curator Fatos Γstek organizes a film screening and introduction on the vampire as an important source of inspiration for artists. Blood for Dracula (1973) by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey is an artistic adaptation of the classic horror story of Count Dracula. Warhol shot part of the film in Italy in cooperation with Joe Dallessandro and Roman Polanski. Originally the film was only distributed in small circles due to its violent and sexual scenes. In...
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Masterclass Radio Calling
As a part of the Radio Calling manifestation we will host the Radio Calling Masterclass on sound- and performance art for art students and artists on May 12th. Peter Fengler artist and artistic director of De Player (platform for performance art) gives an interactive lecture on the use of sound in the art of concrete poetry of the 70s until now. Artist Floris Visser gives a workshop soundcollage as a part of his project Radio Voicemail. The London performance duo Lucy beech &...
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Club Imagine 7/7: Desire
On Thursday 28 June at 5pm, TENT and Theater Rotterdam present a special edition of Club Imagine around Esther Kokmeijerβs exhibition. Club Imagine seeks imaginative answers to climate crisis issues. This season it is dedicated to the Seven Deadly Sins, and the upcoming edition concerns lust: what awaits us if pleasure and desire become our compass? Can we radically change our relationship with the world? How can we stop prioritising ourselves and instead enter into the wider...
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Award ceremony Dolf Henkes Prize 2023
On Friday, November 10, the Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time. This year's nominees are Ada M. Patterson, Babette Kleijn, Samboleap Tol, Yoeri GuΓ©pin, Bik Van der Pol, Bert Frings, Dirk van Lieshout and Maike Hemmers. The works of eight leading Rotterdam artists are now on display at TENT. To make the tenth anniversary of the Rotterdam Art Prize extra festive, all the winners of recent years have been asked to nominate a fellow artist. This means that in...
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TAA 2012
On the evening of Friday 13 July 2012, TENT presents the TAA, the annual film competition that shines the spotlight on the best graduating audiovisual talent from the Netherlands and abroad. The TAA will be presented by an international jury, including Defne Ayas and Sacha Bronwasser, during the award evening in Cinerama Filmtheater. An award will also be presented to the best graduating audiovisual artist from the guest country Turkey. International Jury in 2012 This yearβ...
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One Day Collection for a Future Project
In the framework of the Open Set Summer School 2016 and its theme Memories of the Future, curator Joanna van der Zanden (NL) will lead a one-day long workshop βOne Day Collection for a Future Projectβ. The workshop will be hosted by TENT on July 28th, 2016. Curator and creative director on cross-disciplinary (social) design projects Joanna van der Zanden (NL) is particularly interested in the exploration of cultural formats where the public at large gets involved in the c...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #9: Manifesta 1 Revisited
This ninth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories revolved around Manifesta 1, the travelling European biennale that had its very first manifestation in Rotterdam from June to August 1996. Through never before shown archival and video material, Rotterdam Cultural Histories explored how Manifesta came about and the artworks and themes it offered a stage. Manifesta was an initiative led by Hedwig Fijen and Jolie van Leeuwen, aiming to create a format for a travelling art ma...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #18: The 1980s art scene on the Witte de Withstraat
This edition ofΒ Rotterdam Cultural HistoriesΒ focuses on the 1980s art scene on and around the Witte de Withstraat. The exhibition presents research material, such as oral histories, as well as historic photographs and documentation of art spaces active during that decade β and just before the opening of Formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in 1990. This documentary-based exhibition is one in several upcoming projects that focuses on an ongoing research ...
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Current Values
Erasmus University researcher Esther Keymolen gives a lecture on the intricate balance between the online sharing of personal information and the act of being shared as a piece of information, and how this privacy paradox is a major challenge for today's information society. Designer David BenquΓ© introduces his fictional activist group βThe New Weathermenβ, consisting of biohackers who use DIY biology as a form of direct action against climate change. NRC-next columnist Floor...
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Michiel Ubels and Pascal Reinmann win the TAA 2016
Michiel Ubels and Pascal Reinmann win the annual competition for the best graduation videos, films, shorts, and animations. On Friday 15 July, Michiel Ubels won the TAA 2016, the prize for the best video artwork by a graduating artist from a Dutch art academy. Pascal Reinmann won the Best Foreign Film Award, the prize for the best video work by a graduating artist from 2016βs host country, Switzerland. The Publicβs Prize was awarded to Dinu Comendant. On behalf of the interna...
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Mourning Sociality w/ Raoni Saleh Muzho
As part of the event programme of the exhibition Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?, curated by Katayoun Arian, Raoni Muzho Saleh presents Mourning Sociality. For this event, Raoni invites a limited Β group of participants to come together in a space that holds our grief and centres our mourning. A space where you don't have to get rid of your grief, but where your mourning is the proof of the love for the person or thing lost. A space that honours the fissures in our...
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TENT Welcomes MK Award
Friday November, 17Β till 17 DecemberΒ at TENT Rotterdam of a special exhibition presenting new work by Peter Fengler, Saskia Janssen and Ad de Jong, the nominees for the MK Award 2017 is on view. The MK Award Foundation grants the prize, amounting to β¬ 5.000, biennially to honour sincere and coherent artistic activity; it pays homage to the creative legacy of the late Emmo Grofsmid and Karmin Kartowikromo, owners of the former MK gallery Rotterdam/Berlin.Β This year, at the...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #11: Disclaim the street
This eleventh edition of Rotterdam Cultural histories focused on the history of hip hop culture in Rotterdam. Guest curator Navin Thakoer made the ongoing discussion concerning hip hop and its heritages visible by appealing to social media, asking: Who are the legendary Rotterdam hip-hoppers and why? For 40 years hip hop has been more than one movement: what it claims to be, what it takes as its domain, and which voices matter, all keep shifting. The same applies for...
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Dolf Henkes Award 2016
This exhibition presented the four nominees for the 2016 Dolf Henkes Award: Daan Botlek, Rana Hamadeh, Rory Pilgrim and Katarina Zdjelar. This biennial award is granted by the Henkes Foundation to an iconic Rotterdam artist. Dolf Henkes Award At the request of the Rotterdam artist Dolf Henkes (1903-1989), a part of his estate has been allocated for a stimulation award for artists who are just as iconic for the city of Rotterdam as the name giver himself used to be. At t...
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Now for sale: Anne Wenzel – Prospects of Perception
Accompanying the solo exhibition Anne Wenzel - The Opaque Palace is an extensive monograph, Anne Wenzel - Prospects of Perception, published by Lecturis in collaboration with TENT and designed by 75B. It includes texts by Philippe Van Cauteren (director S.M.A.K. Ghent), Sjarel Ex (director Museum Boijmans van Beuningen), Daria de Beauvais (curator Palais de Tokyo, Paris) and Mariette DΓΆlle (artistic director TENT), and photographs of her most important sculptures and installa...
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TENT Welcomes MK Award
Friday November, 17Β till 17 DecemberΒ at TENT Rotterdam of a special exhibition presenting new work by Peter Fengler, Saskia Janssen and Ad de Jong, the nominees for the MK Award 2017 is on view. The MK Award Foundation grants the prize, amounting to β¬ 5.000, biennially to honour sincere and coherent artistic activity; it pays homage to the creative legacy of the late Emmo Grofsmid and Karmin Kartowikromo, owners of the former MK gallery Rotterdam/Berlin.Β This year, at the...
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De Derde Dinsdag
De Derde Dinsdag The Travelling Arts & Culture Preview Show De Derde Dinsdag (The Third Tuesday) is a speedy, monthly live preview of Rotterdamβs upcoming events in theatre, music, film, visual arts, festivals, and more. Every month, we are hosted by a different cultural hotspot; this time, itβs V2_Institute for the Unstable Media. Anna Visser interviews her guests for all the ins and outs, and for each edition, a special guest assists her. The coming season featu...
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Going Back to Forget
Going Back to Forget centred on remembrance and personal connections to larger histories. The participating artists pursue the traces of their family backgrounds, in order to explore their own interconnectedness with the historical events and migrations that have formed todayβs world. Going Back to Forget reflected the growing, shared interest among younger generations in the Netherlands in history, cultural legacies, and their own interconnectedness to global relations....
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Sleep ceremony (sold out)
In the Incubation Room, you can participate in special sleep ceremonies. In this ceremony, created by BVDS, you are invited to join the Incubated Seekers to open new levels of reality: a meditative ritual inspired by the ancient incubation practice from a prepatriarchal time, when God was still a woman. Sleep is an elusive activity in which reality and reason are abandoned. Can we see the associative stream of images triggered in our subconscious at night as a source of wi...
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State of the Art: De visie van Bik Van der Pol
On Wednesday 8 June, attention focuses on Bik Van der Polβs point of view in State of the Art. The artist duo Bik Van der Pol have lived and worked in Rotterdam for over 25 years already. Among other things, they founded Duende and won an important art prize last winter. Victor Vroegindeweij talks to the artists in response to their inspirational essay for State of the Art βWork To Doβ, which will be inaugurated that evening. Is Rotterdam a shrinking city with nothing to lose...
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State of the Art, de visie van Rutger Wolfson
On Thursday evening 29 September in TENT, Rutger Wolfson offers his view on the future of art and culture in Rotterdam. Rutger Wolfson is director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which attracts a large public to see the pioneering films every year in January.Wolfson worked as curator at Witte de With from 1996 through 1999, after which he became director of De Vleeshal in Middelburg in 2000. He has published several volumes of essays on the arts, including Kunst...
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Dutch premiere of Erik van Lieshout – DOG
On Wednesday 27 Januari at 17.00 hrs, TENT Rotterdam proudly presents the Dutch premiere of DOG, a two-channel video by the artist Erik van Lieshout. The video is a monument for the Russian rocket scientist Aleksandr Dolmatov, and addresses the current practical and everyday consequences in Rotterdam of European refugee and asylum policy. TENT presents the installation in the context of the Pauluskerk, an organisation painfully aware of the consequences of such policies. Sjan...
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Take a walk with… Vincent Cardinaal
On Sunday 29 November at 14:00, take a walk through the Motion /Labour /Machinery exhibition with the writer Vincent Cardinaal. He will engage visitors in conversation about the exhibition's works and share his views on our relationship to labour, leisure time, and art's role within these. He also challenges whether Rotterdam is still a working class city. Vincent Cardinaal writes forΒ Humo magazine,Β Nieuwe RevuΒ and NRC Handelsblad. He is also one of the people behind Vers Bet...
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Joint opening: ‘Justice beyond Revenge – Recalling Louk Hulsman’ & ‘what it is, what it means and what I would like it to be’
Be the first to discover TENT's last exhibitions on Witte de Withstraat on Friday 26 January, during the opening night of solo presentations by Pris Roos and Robert Glas. Glas immerses visitors in a gripping exploration of the dehumanising prison system with a 1-to-1 model of a cell from Rotterdam's Schie prison. Following the immersive installation, two films will be shown. Roos brings a brand new collection of nine life-size portraits to TENT. Visitors are introduced to her...
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Rotterdamse Uitdagen
DuringΒ the Rotterdamse Uitdagen, TENT andΒ Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art are open on Saturday 10 September from 11.00 until 23.00 hrs. Admission is free. Click here for the complete programme. On the Schouwburgplein, TENT will present a screening of the TAA 2016....
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What Are We Up Against and What Are the Possibilities?
On Friday , May 22 from 20:00-22:00 hrs a public lecture and debate will take place with Adelita Husni-Bey andΒ Ine Gevers,Β as part of the exhibition Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory by Priscila Fernandes. The public lecture and debate will take place on account of FernandesΒ΄ installation, The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School, and the accompanying schoolbook about the history of art, ΒΏ...
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TENT Welcomes: Sarmad Magazine
This Friday TENT Welcomes Sarmad Magazine for 'Un-Making Image #7: Transitional Archives of War'. The first session of Un-Making Image in 2019 taking place at TENT Rotterdam, Sarmad Magazine hosts a talk by researcher, architect and activist Armina Pilav. In this talk, based on her pluriannual research about military war destruction and human capacity to transform military violence, Armina Pilav will show different materials related to the body, nature and architectures as...
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De Derde Dinsdag in TENT
De Derde Dinsdag (The Third Tuesday), the monthly live talk show and preview of upcoming events, will be hosting choreographer Conny Janssen. Writer Abdelkader Benali expands his vision for the future of βhisβ city of Rotterdam, in response to Jan Hiddink's essay 'Rotterdam, wat nu?'. Serena RΓΆntgen, project leader of the TAA 2015, will introduce the upcoming edition including guest country Italy. Furthermore, interviews and presentations from Hotel Modern, CLUB GEWALT,Β V2_S...
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Anansiβs Folktales: Unveiling the Witty Metaphors
Stories hold immense power in shaping our lives, lingering in our memories and molding our thoughts and personalities. They serve as a profound form of communication, capable of evoking deep emotional reactions and fostering both connection and disconnection. Publisher Wilde Haren and KwEN TA KWE KU aNANZI podcast producer Julian Crestian bundle forces to discuss the folktales of Anansi the Spider. Anansi the Spider, originating from Akan folklore, embodies a trickster arc...
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THUIS bij TENT – Public programme
Programme maker Gyonne Goedhoop invites the public and ten makers from Rotterdam to explore what identity means today. The multiple perspective is central to this programme, which takes place at TENT. Narratives that convey different experiences, perceptions, and thoughts β but which resonate in different yet equally valuable ways β will converge to establish a space for marginalised perspectives in all their potency and vulnerability. THUIS bij TENT From 14.1...
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Museumnacht: Painting By Numbers – For The Time Being II
Artist Daan den Houter presents the installation For The Time Being II in which the public has the power to influence the image in the painting. With the push of a button the visitor decides whether to pour a layer of white latex paint over the work....
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TENT Welcomes: A Masterpiece w/ Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck
On Friday 17 and Saturday 18 March, TENT welcomes Studio Dennis Vanderbroeck with the performance A Masterpiece. In the performance A Masterpiece, Dennis Vanderbroeck tries to make a masterpiece. Based on performances by his heroes, ranging from Yves Klein and Bruce Nauman to Tina Turner, Dennis attempts to find his genius through theirs. The voice of his father, 61 years and with Alzheimer's disease, as his instruction manual. His father's process of progressive forgetfulnes...
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Anke Bangma new artistic director at TENT Rotterdam
Anke Bangma is the new artistic leader of TENT Rotterdam as of 1 October 2016. Most recently she worked as curator of contemporary art at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. Before this, she worked at the Piet Zwart Institute and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, both in Rotterdam. TENT Rotterdam is a platform for contemporary art in Rotterdam that connects the cityβs art with what is happening around the world and, via a wide-ranging programme, focuses on relevant deve...
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TAA 2015
Art critics, curators and film experts visited Dutch and Italian art academies this summer to find and select the best video art talent for the upcoming TAA 2015. A jury of experts led by Franziska Nori (director Frankfurter Kunstverein) selected the winners who are granted an artist-in-residence position abroad. On Friday 17 July at 20:00 hours, Cinerama screened the selected films, documentaries and animations, and hosted the award ceremony. The nominated works are on view ...
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Stand Well Back to Appreciate – Murals in Rotterdam
Mooi van Ver (Stand Well Back to Appreciate) revolved around the turbulent history of murals in Rotterdam, in which commercial motives, social engagement and autonomous expression alternate as a source of inspiration. The exhibition was based on the publication 'Mooi van Ver β Muurschilderingen in Rotterdam' by Siebe Thissen, and consisted of a historical section, and a series of new commissions for the walls of TENT. Advertising and reconstruction With a documentary sect...
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TENT & Alida Dors participate in Rotterdam Summer Carnival
On Saturday 29 July, TENT participates in Rotterdamβs renowned Summer Carnival for the third time. For this edition, choreographer Alida Dors creates a parade inspired by the role of dance in Afro-Caribbean funeral processions. The parade, with over thirty dancers, connects the political power of hip hop to the Caribbean carnival as a moment for reliving and reinventing cultural traditions. For this project, Dors works with dancers fromΒ three hip hop houses in the Netherla...
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Therapy Session
On Thursday evening, 24 March, artists, thinkers and the public analyse the interaction between the human body and digital technology in an intensive session of lectures, performances, and a concert of water sounds. Therapy Session speculates on more qualitative forms of living and self-understanding in our current data-dominated society. Using digital tools such as sleep trackers, calorie counters, and heart-rate monitors, we increasingly collect data about our daily exi...
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TENT WELCOMES: THE NEW CURRENT WORKSHOP W/ YOERI MEESSEN
The New Current aims to help upcoming artists with finding their place in the art world. Creating good art is part of this, obviously. However; entrepreneurship, positioning yourself, creating a valuable network and working on your visibility might be equally as important for you to succeed. Do you feel like you could use some guidance on those subjects? This educational program might be just right for you! Workshop:Β Three coaching sessions with Yoeri Meessen in a ...
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TENT WELCOMES: THE NEW CURRENT WORKSHOP W/ YOERI MEESSEN
The New Current aims to help upcoming artists with finding their place in the art world. Creating good art is part of this, obviously. However; entrepreneurship, positioning yourself, creating a valuable network and working on your visibility might be equally as important for you to succeed. Do you feel like you could use some guidance on those subjects? This educational program might be just right for you! Workshop: Three coaching sessions with Yoeri Meessen in a small gr...
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TENT Welcomes: The New Current Workshop w/ Yoeri Meessen
The New Current aims to help upcoming artists with finding their place in the art world. Creating good art is part of this, obviously. However; entrepreneurship, positioning yourself, creating a valuable network and working on your visibility might be equally as important for you to succeed. Do you feel like you could use some guidance on those subjects? This educational program might be just right for you! Workshop: Three coaching sessions with Yoeri Meessen in a small gr...
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Secret Gardens
Sometimes romantic, meditative, fickle, alluring and at times even threatening; nature played the leading role in the exhibition Secret Gardens. Fifteen artists took nature as a symbol of longing for beauty, mystery and aesthetics in new works that focused on introspection, emotion, spontaneity and imagination. Installations, sculptures, photo series and drawings transported the viewer to an insatiable desire to give meaning, a craving for a world view less defined by mate...
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Discussion Am I Black Enough for You?
Final evening in the Paramaribo Perspectives discussion series, organized in collaboration with De Unie, Kosmopolis Rotterdam and Fonds BKVB. Artists Charl Landvreugd and Patricia Kaersenhout invited documentary maker and film curator Tessa Boerman, director Hesdy Lonwijk, writer and publicist Clark Accord and fashion designer Marga Weimans to join in the discussion. Is it possible to view 'black aesthetics' separately from a cultural, political and historical background? ...
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Cooking Workshop: Food as Public Good x Food as Medicine (sold out)
Have you ever thought about food as a public good or as medicine? Join Floris Visser and Zuzanna ZieliΕska for both a thought-provoking and culinary journey on August 24th. At the Volkskantine, the newly opened eatery annex knowledge centre at De Hillevliet, we get together for a cooking workshop and talks. Β During this evening, we explore the relationship between "food as public good" and "food as medicine": two perspectives on food that can serve as the basis for a new ...
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Less is More, More Or Less
Rutger Bregman, Jan van Adrichem, Omar MuΓ±oz Cremers, Siebe Thissen, Hans van Houwelingen, Sacha Bronwasser, Observatorium, Hans Abelman, Ida Jager, Marco Jongeneel, Atelier van Lieshout, Kamiel Verschuren, Co Westerik, Lon Pennock, erven HΓ©man, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Witte van Hulzen and Sander Breure, Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk, The Force of Freedom, Yasser Ballemans On Friday June 7 at TENT Less is More, More Or Less opens the discussion on the col...
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Cooking Workshop: Food as Public Good x Food as Medicine (sold out)
Have you ever thought about food as a public good or as medicine? Join Floris Visser and Zuzanna ZieliΕska for both a thought-provoking and culinary journey on June 22nd. At the Volkskantine, the newly opened eatery annex knowledge centre at De Hillevliet, we get together for a cooking workshop and talks. Β During this evening, we explore the relationship between "food as public good" and "food as medicine": two perspectives on food that can serve as the basis for a new fo...
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de Kunstavond radio
KunΒstavond RaΒdio airs every FriΒday night at 9 pm (CEST) at Radio Worm. The 6 KunΒstΒblock inΒstiΒtuΒtions, loΒcated in the city cenΒter of RotΒterΒdam are the hosts of the show. They inΒvite artists, cuΒraΒtors, and parΒticΒiΒpants to talk about conΒtemΒpoΒrary art and culΒture. Tune in every FriΒday night on RaΒdio WORM and this page! Programme Friday 25 june Kunstinstituut Melly presents:Β In collaboration with artist Giovanni Maisto Ferreira and Het Nieuwe Instituut,...
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Radio Calling
The rise of internet streaming, podcasts, and online platforms, informed a remarkable resurgence in the interest of radio for artists. With a symposium, a masterclass and live radio performances, Radio Calling explored radio as a tool, platform, and medium for contemporary art. The project was a collaboration between TENT and Camden Arts Centre in London. Symposium - Radio as a disembodied performance space On the first day, the Radio Calling symposium explored radio and ...
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Holographic Futures
In response to recent plans for a LGBTQ+ monument and meeting place in the public space in Rotterdam, Rory Pilgrim is creating a new performance piece. Together with the LGBTQ+ community of Rotterdam, Pilgrim researches the ways to create a place that is representative of this diverse group of people. The internet has become a platform for the LGBTQ+ group to share experiences, but Pilgrim is specifically interested in the ways in which physical space continues to play a part...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #4: Paul Thek at the Lijnbaancentrum
This edition of the Rotterdam Cultural Histories series focused on 'Jackβs Procession: Whatβs Going on Here?' an environment by legendary artist Paul Thek at Rotterdam's Lijnbaancentrum. The Lijnbaancentrum The Lijnbaancentrum played a key position in Rotterdam as a platform for contemporary art and other cultural activity from 1970-1984. Located in the center of the city, it presented a broad range of forms of art and culture through playful and associative exhibitions. ...
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Joint opening Woody van Amen / Hidde van Schie and Shift & Drift
Join us on Thursday February 5 for the joint opening of New Romantic Spirit and Shift & Drift. New Romantic Spirit: Woody van Amen and Hidde van Schie present new and existing work in an exhibition in which art's power to touch people is central. Paintings of birds inconsolably crying, enthusiastic flashing light sculptures, magical 'taxat' symbols, and serene neon paintings pay homage to an art that wants to give a new, romantic impetus to the relationship between the artwo...
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Throw Like a Girl
βThrow Like a Girlβ is a collaborative project between women from two worlds, the arts and the military. Artist Maja Bekan brought them together through an open call, and invited them to reflect on the work and roles performed by women. This film installation gives an impression of their encounters. A reference point for their exchanges was the life of Jeanne Merkus, a social activist from Utrecht. In 1875 Merkus joined Herzegovinaβs uprising and led soldiers into battle a...
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TAA 2010 in Kriterion Theatre
Friday evening July 16, TENT screened the films that were nominated for the TAA 2010, in a historical cinema in the Groot Handelsgebouw, Rotterdam. This evening, the jury announced the 2010 winners, and members of the audience voted for their favourite. This year, the TAA included an international competition. For the first time, students from German art academies also got the chance to win an award: the TAA For Best Foreign Film. AslΔ± Toy (Gerrit Rietveld Academie A...
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TENT Welcomes
TENT Welcomes is our guest programming policy. As from 2017, TENT will make space for projects that need a temporary platform alongside our own programming and productions. Rotterdam is home to a great diversity of makers and organisations. Many of these are already part of TENTβs network, while others operate beyond our current scope. TENT Welcomes aims to respond flexibly to new initiatives and developments and better connectΒ to the vibrant art and culture scene of Rotte...
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Chapter Two: ASYMMETRY IN A PASSAGE
Chapter Two: Asymmetry in a Passage is the second part of the symposium and includes a lecture by Pascal Gielen, professor of art sociology at the University of Groningen, followed by a discussion with art critic Anna Tilroe and the artists. Pascal Gielen will give a lecture on the way Post-Fordism and neoliberalism exploits artists and creative systems. He will address the relationship between large institutes such as biennales, immaterial labour, globalization, and artistic...
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Take a walk with… Hajo Doorn
On Sunday 14 May, the final day of the Julien Grossman and Giuseppe Licari solo exhibitions, none other than the inspiring Hajo Doorn leads a guided tour at TENT. During the free tour, he will spotlight works in the exhibitions from his own unique perspective. Hajo Doorn was WORMβs director for the last 20 years. Since passing on the reigns, Doorn is now a dramaturge at Theater Rotterdam. Doornβs mission is to connect the artistic lines of the theatre with Rotterdamβs...
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TENT Welcomes: ‘An Invitation to DANCE’
Opening: Sunday 26 May 16.00β18.00. Location: TENT Rotterdam, Witte de Withstraat 50 Admission: free On Sunday 26 May 2019, TENT opens βAn Invitation to DANCEβ, a film installation made by film-maker Noud Heerkens and choreographer LoΓ―c Perela. The work, presented as part of the Dansateliersβ 25th anniversary, results from an investigation into the cinematic experience of dance. In a converted dance arena at TENT, this work combines dance, cinema, and technology, allowing ...
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Take a walk with… Maurice Specht
Take a walk through the exhibition Anytime Now with philosopher, researcher and true optimist Maurice Specht. Language: Dutch Admission: free ...
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TENT op bezoek bij: Kelin Mesa Tabares
Kelin Mesa Tabares gave an unforgettable performance during THUIS bij TENT.Β She took us with her through her story about sorrow, wisdom, power and transformation. Kelin sang, she danced and shared her art with us. Sunday 26 May TENT will visit Kelin where her story will extend, by showing us what she does in her work for others. This event 'TENT op bezoek' means TENT is visiting the maker in there own space. Are you joining us on this day? Language: Dutch Locat...
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The Wishing Well
During Art Night you pass the magical pit 'The Wishing Well' and lose reality in this floating space. Follow your path in the pit and let mystery guide you. Free entry....
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Opening new exhibitions
On Friday 2 December at 7pm, you are welcome to attend the festive opening of two brand new exhibitions at TENT. Programme opening Friday 2 December 19:00 pm Walk-in 19.15 pm Word of welcome by Anke Bangma (artistic leader), Linnea Semmerling (curator) and Katayoun Arian (curator) 19.30 pm Performance Dollhouse Dreaming by Clementine Edwards 19.45 pm Performance Siren by Serene Hui & Remigijus Kazukauskas 20-22.00 pm Exhibitions open DJ Richelle Soigni There i...
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An Evening with Han Hoogerbrugge
On Thursday 23 February, journalist and programme maker Sarah Meuleman (from VPROβs Sarahβs barbaren a.o.) talks in depth with Han Hoogerbrugge about the background to his solo exhibition in TENT (open till 18 March). Using his favourite film fragments and his own videos, Hoogerbrugge tells about his work, life and sources of inspiration. Film fragments from The Party (with Peter Sellers) by director Blake Edwards and from his heroes Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch, among o...
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Take a walk with… Alpinist Rene Bouman
On Sunday 18 September at 14:00, architect and alpinist Rene Bouman takes you on an expedition through the exhibition Optic Mountaineering. This group exhibition coalesces artists' work originating from a long-standing cultural exchange of residencies between Basel and Rotterdam. By interpreting Optic Mountaineering as the visual equivalent of mountain navigation, Rene Boumanβs exhibition tour looks for metaphorical relationships between artistry and mountain climbing β betwe...
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Hot Chocolate Artist Tour – Gyz La RiviΓ¨re
This Christmas join us with friends or family and enjoy a special TENT tour hosted by Gyz La Rivière. From his own perspective he'll discuss the works of the current exhibitions whilst enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. Fun for young and old! Sat 22.12.2012, 14.00 h: Gyz La Rivière The tour is free, visitors only pay the TENT entrance fee. Reservations via: tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl...
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Hot Chocolate Artist Tour – Daan Samson
On Saturdat 29th of december Daan Samson wil host a special tour in TENT. From his own perspective he'll discuss the works of the Dolf Henkes Award nominees and Alexander Ramselaar's collection whilst enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. Fun for young and old! Sat 29.12.2012, 14.00 h: Daan Samson The tour is free, visitors only pay the TENT entrance fee. Reservations via tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl...
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Museumweekend – Walk & Talk
During the museum weekend, TENT offers free guided tours of the exhibitions 268 Masterpieces in RGB by Villeroy & Boch and Before and After by Olaf Mooij. Saturday and Sunday at 15.00hrs. Saturday the tour is conducted by curator Willie Stehouwer, on Sunday by programme director Mariette DΓΆlle....
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Make your own Bling
Join us at TENT for a special βblingβ workshop with artist Roxette Capriles. During the workshop you will get the opportunity to reveal things about yourself others cannot see. Do you prefer to keep such things secret? No problem, pack it in your homemade bling amulet. Free workshop for all ages!...
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Opera of Things
Jasna VeliΔkoviΔ performs her Opera of Things Power adapters and remote controllers get a voice this Friday night at TENT! The Velicon is an electro-acoustic instrument consisting of a metal board with magnetic figures. ArtistΒ Jasna VeliΔkoviΔ leads a coil over the magnets, triggering the magnetic fields to produce their βvoiceβ. VeliΔkoviΔ uses a similar procedure to capture the βvoicesβof power adapters or remote controllers. The title of this work alludes to the concept...
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Your story in a song (sold out)
Sabrina Starke x Music Matters Music workshop for young talent (ages 16-30), led by Sabrina Starke and accompaniment by professional musicians. Participants write a song inspired by the exhibition Who do you think you are? What is your story and how do yoy incorporate it into a song? Participation: free, registration required. Please fill in this form. Language: Dutch ...
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Hot Chocolate Artists Tour – Charlotte Schleiffert en Jeroen Kuster
Join us on the 4th of January for a special TENT tour hosted by Charlotte Schleiffert en Jeroen Kuster in the role of their alter egos Charles and Joe Kisser . From their own perspective they'll discuss the works of the Dolf Henkes Award nominees and Alexander Ramselaar's collection whilst enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. Fun for young and old! Fri 04.01.2013, 14.00 h: Charlotte Schleiffert en Jeroen Kuster as Charles and Joe Kisser The tour is free, visitors only pa...
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Dolf Henkes Award exhibition 2021
Artists Kevin Osepa, Koes Staassen, Jay Tan and Geo Wyeth are the Β Dolf Henkes Award 2021 nominees. The Henkes Foundation awards the prize biennially to an iconic artist from Rotterdam or CuraΓ§ao. On Thursday, July 1, Geo Wyeth was awarded the prize, and a sum of 12,000 euros. The presentations of all nominees can still be visited until August 22, 2021. This editionβs jury β chair Nathanja van Dijk (curator and former director Kunsthal Rotterdam), Fons Hof (director Art Ro...
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Hot Chocolate Artists Tours
This Christmas join us with friends or family and enjoy a special TENT tour hosted by a well-known Rotterdam artist. From their own perspective they'll discuss the works of the Dolf Henkes Prize nominees and Alexander Ramselaar's collection whilst enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. Fun for young and old! Za /Sat 22.12.2012, 14.00 u/h: Gyz La Rivière Za /Sat 29.12.2012, 14.00 u/h: Daan Samson Vr /Fri 04.01.2013, 14.00 u/h: Charlotte Schleiffert en Jeroen Kuster als Charles en ...
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Screening: By The Throat
Join us on Friday the 27th of Januari at 19:00 pm for the screening of By The Throat, a video by Effi & Amir, as part of exhibition There is no party so noisy as the one you're not invited to, curated by Linnea Semmerling. Your native language and pronunciation can reveal your origins. By The Throat shows how voice, language, and pronunciation are still used worldwide to mark such boundaries. Artist duo Effi & Amir's film introduces individuals navigating these bor...
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Sketch ACT TWO, Alexis Blake
The grand finale after the last improvisation sessions of Alexis Blake and her performers takes place on Sunday, 15 September, 15.00-16.00. Alexis Blake has a practice that coalesces visual art, movement and performance. She engages with the female body, critically examining how womxn are represented. In her collaborative works she explores how a language of movement can be a means to disrupt and renegotiate systems of representation and power. In her new work crack nerve ...
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Hot Chocolate Artist Tour – Hidde van Schie
Enjoy a special TENT tour on Sunday the 6th of January, hosted by the well-known Rotterdam artist Hidde van Schie. From his own perspective he'll discuss the works of the Dolf Henkes Award nominees and Alexander Ramselaar's collection whilst enjoying a mug of hot chocolate. Fun for young and old! Sun 06.01.2013, 14.00 h: Hidde van Schie The tour is free, visitors only pay the TENT entrance fee. Reservations via tent@cbk.rotterdam.nl ...
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Extra: Erik van Lieshout – DOG
Due to popular demand and to coincide with the Art Rotterdam art fair, the Pauluskerk and TENT are extending the exhibition of Erik van Lieshout's video installation DOG from 10 to 14 February. DOG (2015) looks at the everyday problems faced by refugees and asylum seekers. In recent days, the work has been visited by many people with a surge of reactions in the press. Many visitors have also been talking with the regular attendees of the Pauluskerk. Ongoing screeningΒ of th...
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Sit down with… Wouter Welling
On Wednesday 9 November at 12:30, Wouter Welling,Β curator of contemporary art at the National Museum of World Cultures, expands on one of Esma Yigitoglu's works in the exhibition The Back Room. Based on remarkable anecdotes and referencing to the works in the exhibition, Wouter Welling reflects on the eventful life of Esma Yigitoglu. Every Wednesday, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a concise introduction to a work from its collection under the heading βPak een stoe...
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Singing Machine & Velicon
Afternoon around two unique instruments: Jasna VeliΔkoviΔ performs her Opera of Things on the velicon and Martin Riches demonstrates his Singing Machine. Free admission. Jasna VeliΔkoviΔ performs her Opera of Things The Velicon is an electro-acoustic instrument consisting of a metal board with magnetic figures. The performer leads a coil over the magnets, triggering the magnetic fields to produce their 'voice'. VeliΔkoviΔ uses a similar procedure to capture the 'voices'...
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Neem een loopje met Marga Weimans
On Sunday afternoon 27 September at 2 p.m., the famous fashion designer Marga Weimans herself will tell about the voluminous project On The Other Side Of Reality. Inspired by the Caribbean Carnival, Marga Weimans designed a street parade with all the features: various headdresses for 45 models and dancers, a float, and soundtracks made together with Rutger Zuydervelt. What happens when you, as an art institution and fashion designer, decide to participate in the Rotterdam Sum...
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Villeroy & Boch – 268 Masterpieces in RGB
Villeroy & Boch have been painting together since 2007, yet two years later they had already produced 268 masterpieces. The title of their presentation leaves no uncertainty about their artistry, while doubt still runs rife in the work. In their monumental, colourful paintings they regularly feature themselves as (anti-)heroes, holding their own in an overcoded society. Ellemieke Schoenmaker and Alex Jacobs are familiar names in the Rotterdam art world. Schoenmaker is ...
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Presentation Fine Art (WdKA)
On Friday, December 1st, we're presenting a showcase where seven top talents from the Fine Art (WdKA) programme shine a spotlight on their art. This unique exhibition is infused with inspiration drawn from the themes and artistic practices of the Dolf Henkes Prize exhibition. The students unleash their imagination, working with existing pieces from their own repertoire, inspired by the profound content of the exhibition. We'll also be hosting artists Samboleap Tol and Maai...
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Precarious Pedagogies: Knowledge Production in the Age of Cognitive Capitalism
On Thursday, June 18 from 20:00-22:00 hrs a public lecture and debate will take place with Joost de Bloois,Β as part of the exhibition Those bastards in caps come to have fun and relax by the seaside instead of continuing to work in the factory by Priscila Fernandes. The public lecture and debate will take place on account of FernandesΒ΄ installation, The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School, and the accompanying schoolbook about the history of art, ΒΏY EL ARTE?. ...
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Conversation event w/ Maja Bekan
Following the Throw Like a Girl project, a collaborative project by Maja Bekan between women from two worlds: the arts and the military, Bekan invites you to engage in conversation about the project, the film presentation and her practice. The conversation events are learning sessions for all involved where the angle is to learn from each other. On Thursday the 10th of November, Milica TrakiloviΔ will also be present, adding an extra voice from her own expertise. Trakilovi...
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Opening exhibition: I dream about this house every once in a while
On Friday April 21st, TENT opens the new exhibition I dream about this house every once in a while, that presents an architectural video installation by Leopold Emmen. Filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen will construct a kaleidoscopic video installation in three parts, in which equal roles are reserved for the characters in the films, the space in which they move, and the architectural settings that envelop the viewer.Β You are warmly invited to the opening n...
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Talking Heads with Yue Wu
Artist, illustrator, and street culture connoisseur Yue Wu presents his basketball court, which is inspired on the first court he designed with Stephane Ashpool, founder of Pigalle.Β Yue WuΒ talks with curator of BLUEPRINT Amal AlhaagΒ about his work and its underlying themes, such as French cultural politics, global street culture, and power structures. Language: English Wu Yue (δΌζ) was born in 1983 in Beijing, he spent his childhood at the academy of the fine arts of Bei...
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Sketch ACT ONE by Alexis Blake
Alexis Blake has a practice that coalesces visual art, movement and performance. She engages with the female body, critically examining how womxn are represented. In her collaborative works she explores how a language of movement can be a means to disrupt and renegotiate systems of representation and power. In her new work crack nerve boogie swerve Blake concentrates on the notion of breaking breaking norms, breaking free from constraints, liberating oneself from the confi...
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TENT during Art Rotterdam
Wednesday 10Β February until Sunday 14 February, 12.00 - 16.30 hrs and from 17.30 - 21.00hrs - Erik van Lieshout, DOG inΒ the Pauluskerk The two-channel video DOG by the artist Erik van Lieshout is a monument for the Russian rocket scientist Aleksandr Dolmatov, and addresses the current practical and everyday consequences in Rotterdam of European refugee and asylum policy. TENT presents the installation in the context of the Pauluskerk, an organisation painfully aware of the c...
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Olaf Mooij – Before and After
The Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij has achieved particular fame with his public sculptures of cars. Renowned is his Braincar, a car whose top has been transformed into a brainpan. During the day, the car drives through a neighbourhood, city or street, and in the evening it dreams of its day through video projections on the matt white brain surface. Since the early nineties, Mooij (Rotterdam, 1958) has looked to the street as a stage for his work. Typical of his generation, in...
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A tour with Bert Scholten through Dat speelt hier niet (That doesnβt come into play here)
On Sunday 28 August, artist Bert Scholten will give an exclusive tour of his exhibition Dat speelt hier niet (That doesnβt come into play here)Β in TENT. In the exhibition Dat speelt hier niet (That doesnβt come into play here), Bert Scholten assigns new meanings to the historical rituals and customs associated with the koekplank (Dutch biscuit boards). Our local cultural identity, with its stories, customs and rituals, has always been subject to change. However, homogenisa...
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Morabeza Records music event
Morabeza Records, the first Cape VerdeΒ record label in the world, was founded in 1965 in Rotterdam by JoΓ£o Silva - better known as Djunga de Biluca. This iconic record label has, with Rotterdam as its base, an important place in the Cape Verdean history and music sector. The creation of the label was part of the colonial struggle for independence against Portugal, led by AmΓlcar Cabral. On 20 September DJ Morabeza and DJ Jose Lizardo will play records and show us the cont...
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ART Rotterdam Night – Premiere Lecture/ Audience/Camera
TENT presents the Dutch première of the film Lecture/Audience/Camera by Wendelien van Oldenborgh. The Rotterdam-based artist band Coolhaven closes the evening. In autumn 2008, TENT organized an overview of recent work made by Wendelien van Oldenborgh. The exhibition focused mainly on film and video installations that considered Dutch colonial history. The film Lecture/Audience/Camera (2008) is more abstract, and deals with communication and interaction between individuals, ag...
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Hunting Mosquitos Tour
Driven by her interest in urban sonic technologies and the politics of public space, artist Angeliki Diakrousi has been tracking down the Mosquito devices installed around the city of Rotterdam. She has been visiting these locations for the past two years, together with friends and collaborators, and talking to the young people who gather at night and the residents who feel deprived of sleep and quiet in their homes. Starting out from Angelikiβs installation in the exhibi...
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Burn! Filmscreening
Friday evening October 24, San Sebastian-based critic and curator Peio Aguirre will give an introduction to the screening of Burn! (Queimada), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1969. The screening is part of the exhibition programme As Occasions by Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Although a feature film, Burn! addresses the postcolonial discourse with surprising accuracy: several of its findings are directly relevant to our modern society. The film, regarded as one of the masterpiece...
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LIKE & WIN
Do you want exclusive tickets for the exclusive opening of ART Rotterdam at 6 February? 1. Like TENT on Facebook 2. Post a picture or comment about your Dolf Henkes Award favourite on the Award Ceremony eventpage 3. Get free ART Rotterdam tickets for the exclusive opening!...
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Closing Event / Preview Liquid Solid
On the last day of the solo exhibition 'Nicky Assmann β Radiant', her short film, Liquid Solid, made in collaboration with Joris Strijbos will be previewed in TENT. Preceding the preview, Nicky Assmann provides a tour in English of the exhibition, which features four large installations. The evening will end with a Q&A led by Mariette DΓΆlle. Work by the artist Joris Strijbos is currently on show at EYE as part of the exhibition 'Close-Up β A New Generation of Film and Vid...
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TENT Welcomes Ode to Doubt
TENT Welcomes Ode aan de twijfel (Ode to Doubt), an afternoon with performances by artists Toine Klaassen, Bart Lodewijks, Bart Groenewegen, and Fokka Deelen, and a lecture by philosopher Tim de Mey. Spoken-word artist Joost van Kersbergen concludes the day with a poem. The event is in Dutch, admission is free. Ode to Doubt is an initiative of Madelinde Hageman and Saskia van Broekhoven and is supported by Het Lyceum Rotterdam, Lyceum Schravenlant, Einstein Lyceum, H.M....
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Language & Art Gallery Tour
TENT is part of the Language & Art Gallery TourΒ by Poetry International. During the free guided tours through the city and over 20 Rotterdam art galleries,Β different artists areΒ displayedΒ to whom language,Β words and poetry are an important source of inspiration. On Wednesday June 8 and 10, a spoken word performance will follow after the Language & Art Gallery Tour in the exhibition space. Thursday June 8Β β 4:00 pm; Dean Bowen and Robbert Meijntjes Friday June 10...
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Opening Traveling Without Moving
On Friday the 16th of September we celebrate the opening of exhibition Traveling Without Moving. In the upcoming weeks TENT will serve as a play field for makers Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot who will take you to a new world. It is an imagined journey into an alternate reality that is simultaneously a spiritual origin and a possible future. After their performance installations that have enthralled the theatre world, Traveling without Moving is their first major exhibition. The duo ...
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Opening Motion /Labour /Machinery
On Thursday 29 October at 20.00 hrs the group show Motion /Labour /Machinery opens in TENT with works by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Doris Denekamp & Geert van Mil, Fotini Gouseti, Anne Maria Εuczak, Fran Meana, Carme Nogueira, Charlotte Schleiffert, Werker Magazine. The group exhibition aims to generate playful and speculative avenues for critical reflection on ways to think about labour & the city on micro to macro levels. The artists in the show deal with the contradi...
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Preview & talk with Rana Hamadeh
Sliding from dreams to trance to horror, Rana Hamadehβs evolving video-work Standard_Deviation (I) ventures into Sophoclesβ famed tragedy Oedipus Rex. Rather than re-narrating the misfortunes of Oedipus, king of Thebes, whose grievous journey of self-discovery unfolds at the height of the Theban plague, the work conducts a reading of the dramatic constructs of Sophoclesβ play itselfβthat is, of his figuration of tragedy as a βtechnology of endurance.β Hamadehβs phantasmagoric...
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State of the Art, de visie van ZUS
On Thursday evening 3 November in TENT, Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman of ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] give their view of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. Victor Vroegindeweij interviews the two architects on their experiences with the Schieblock building, the Guggenheim Lab and the coming International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Van Boxel and Koreman are bridge builders, who see the crisis as reason the get people off their islands and bring them tog...
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25 Years of Tubelight with a performance by Antrianna Moutoula
The current edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories, on our first floor, celebrates the 25th anniversary of Tubelight with an exhibition. In the exhibition space, you can discover all previously published editions of Tubelight, view a small selection of artworks and read related reviews. On Friday 15 December, you are cordially invited to celebrate this special anniversary together with Tubelight, and a performance by Antrianna Moutoula. Tubelight's roots lie at number 53 ...
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An Evening With myvillages.org
On Thursday evening 27 October, in An Evening With myvillages.org, the artists will be in discussion with curator Huib Haye van der Werf and philosopher Maarten Doorman. In the arts the city, rather than the countryside, is always assumed to be the place where innovation occurs. But is that a reasonable assumption to make? myvillages.org is asked why they, on the other hand, see the countryside as an important place for contemporary art. Capitals are generally regarded as the...
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A walk with Ernest van der Kwast (Kids Only)
Writer and master storyteller Ernest van der Kwast provides a special tour made for children ages 5 to 12 of the New Romantic Spirit exhibition. Van der Kwast takes the kids on a journey exploring the art of Dutch Pop-Art legend Woody van Amen and the colorful paintings by the younger artist/musician Hidde van Schie. Coffee and tea will be provided for the parents. Registration via judith@tentrotterdam.nl The tour is free...
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Artist Talk Thomson & Craighead
Artist duo Thomson & Craighead will give a lecture about their works in the exhibition Anytime Now. They use sculpture, live data and odour to examine humankind's relationship to time, from biblical visions of end times to our inability to imagine our own impact on the distant future. Admission is free. Language: English...
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TENT Welcomes.. Sarmad Magazine
Sarmad, a magazine for alternative and experimental photography, organizes an event with Miguel Peres Dos Santos to discuss in what sense exactlyΒ the time we live in today can be considered post-colonial. More info about the eventΒ here. Language: English Free admission...
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Take a walk with Gil & Moti
On the last day of the Wild Bet exhibition, artists Gil & Moti will take you through their works at TENT. View the exhibition from the perspective of these makers and join the conversation. Gil & Moti saw a connection between the chance gamblers take in the hope of gradual happiness and the gamble that migrants take when they leave their home in the hope of a better life. Free entry. Language Dutch. ...
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State of the Art: De visie van Rein Wolfs
On 5 July, State of the Art will revolve around the vision of Rein Wolfs. Wolfs co-founded the migros museum fΓΌr gegenwartskunstin ZΓΌrich in 1996, and became its first director. He came to Rotterdam in 2001, upon Chris Dercon's invitation to become the head of presentations at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. There, Wolfs programmed high-profile exhibitions of the work of Maurizio Cattelan, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Erik van Lieshout and others. In the autumn of 2007, he became the d...
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Film Screening: Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?
During the Kunstavond, in collaboration with V2_, we are pleased to present a film screening featuring works from 'Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?', the graduation show of the Master of the Media Design & Communication program at the Piet Zwart Institute, a postgraduate program of the Willem de Kooning Academy / Rotterdam University. Featured Films Martin Osowski - Will Thy Kingdoms Not Persist?Β (28 min) Tessel Schmidt - The In Between (3 min) Geo ...
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De Kunstavond
Every Friday we celebrate art night in the evening at Witte de Withkwartier art venues TENT, MAMA, Kunstinstituut Melly, V2 and WORM. Our doors are open until 21:00 pm, with our exhibitions and events. Curious about this week's programme? Take a look and plan your personal art route! Free admission ...
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TENT Welcomes.. Sarmad Magazine. Un-Making Image #6 : Crypto_Fantasies: Coloniality, Blockchain and Art
Sarmad, a magazine for alternative and experimental photography, organizes an event with artist and researcher,Β Eric Patel. HeΒ relates colonial protocols, blockchain hype and artistic methods to ask how racial and gender discrimination can be challenged on digital platforms today. More info about the eventΒ here. Free admission. ...
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Locker Room – Charlie Koolhaas, Afaina de Jong
Friday July 7, photographer and sociologist Charlie Koolhaas and architect Afaina de Jong host a conversation with Brendan McGetrick about the kitsch YouTube videos, reality shows, Facebook feeds, and the secrets that influence and inspire the creative processes of designers and architects. Brendan McGetrick is an independent writer, editor, and designer. His work has appeared in publications in over twenty countries, including Wired, Art Review, Domus, and Vogue Nippon. H...
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Meet & Greet Nicola Unger
On Saturday 13 January at 15.00 hrs Nicola Unger will talk about her video-installation Transmission - Symmetries in Fate in TENT and about previous projects. The video installation Transmission is part of a lively public programme that runs parallel to the group exhibition, Going Back to Forget. Performance artist Nicola Unger (Germany, 1974) is interested in the connection between generations and the (conscious and unconscious) repetition of patterns and histories. Admis...
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The Temporary Autonomous Bureau: Anatomy of Autonomy
Over the past months, a temporary collective of artists, designers, and residents of the Poortgebouw in Rotterdam initiated conversations and formulated questionnaires to investigate how independent cultural organisations can stand their ground in the contemporary city. They will present their conclusions, based on the input they received from everyone who participated, in the manifesto βAnatomy of Autonomyβ. Admission: free Language: English This event is part of the ...
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We are closed today
Today, Friday 20 October, the exhibitions at Kunstinstituut Melly and TENT are closed at the request of various participating artists and team members supporting the General Strike for Palestine. We care about our community and audiences expressing their dreams, promoting their causes, and feeling safe, brave, and creative in our organisations. If you would like to reach out to us to share ideas or experiences of the political uncertainty we live in at the moment and how it i...
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Beats, Battles & Biographies
Sabrina Starke X HipHopHuis On Sunday 30 September singer-songwriter Sabrina Starke sets up a dance battle in collaboration with HipHipHuis at TENT. Musicians whom play live percussion, professional dancers from different continents and the artwork 'Under the Mango tree' by Jasper Niens will serve as the scène. A professional jury will announce the winner of the contest. This event is developed as part of the public programme of exhibition who do you think you are? and ...
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Gallery Talk with… Gerbrant van Vledder
Visit and explore the exhibition Solid, Liquid, Vapour through the eyes of oceanographer Gerbrant van Vledder. Together with artist Esther Kokmeijer, he went on a research trip to the Marshall Islands. Free entrance Language: Dutch ...
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Opening The Most Electrified Town in Finland
During the International Film Festival Rotterdam The Most Electrified Town in Finland (2004-12) by film maker and artist Mika Taanila shall be presented in TENTβs back room. This three-channel video installation shows the construction of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant in the town of Eurajoki, Finland and was shown at dOCUMENTA (13) in the summer of 2012. The installation premieres in The Netherlands from Thursday 24th January, and TENT shall be open until 22:00. Afterwar...
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TALK with Wapke Feenstra: Monocultures and rural mind-sets
Artist Wapke Feenstra presents a personal selection of publications, that will subsequently be part of the book inventory in MELLY. The selection includes a list of books that will shed light on "the rural" from different perspectives. Feenstra wonders: How can we draw a diverse culture? Working in and on THE RURAL is not just another topic - it is an institutional criticism of urban hegemony and centrifugation in art and culture. The countryside is nowadays consumed more ...
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TENT Welcomes: Sarmad Magazine
For new perspectives you join this gathering organised by Sarmad Magazine about 'othering'. In this talk, Urok Shirhan presents a speculative collection of found materials and practices of 'othering' that utilise language as forms of imagery. Looking at the relations and encounters between language, image, and power, she considers how mechanisms of image production and distribution engineer particular forms of encounters, and as such, amount to what she calls the Slow Violenc...
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Kids concert Sabrina Starke: ‘Mijn Suriname, mijn Nederland’
On this family day (6+) Sabrina Starke shares her personal journey through aspects of identity, taking participants on a musical journey. Admission: children free (ages 12 and under). Adults 5 euro, buy your ticketsΒ here. Language: Dutch...
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Voice & Space
During the workshop βVoice and Spaceβ, Janneke van der Putten and about fifteen participants will work together on a collective exercise in imagination, focused on making it possible to experience a room by means of listening sessions, breathing exercises and the repetition of the sound of songs and voices. During the workshop, she will investigate how the positioning of the body can be determining for making it possible to experience the room and the architectural elements i...
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TENT Welcomes: WET Lounge #1
TENT Welcomes WET Lounge, a series of five expanded screenings. The events will take place between June 2019 and January 2020, and are hosted by TENT. During each Lounge, we will showcase works by artists operating in the gaps between video art and cinema, taking a broad view of what can be considered cinematic in order to incorporate elements of performance, music and installation. We will be treating TENT as a potent space, somewhere between the communality of cinema and th...
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Motel Mozaique 2008 @ TENT
The cross cultural, multi-arts festival Motel MozaΓ―que offers a dazzling mix of visual art, music, theatre and films. April 11 & 12, TENT will hosts VPROs 3voor12 podium (free admission). The 3voor12 podium will present additional sessions by several acts from Motel MozaΓ―que '08, amid the exhibition Redefine the Enemy. With performances by The Helio Sequence and Jamie Lidell and others. VPROs 3voor12 will record the performances in audio and video, which will be available af...
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Sessions ACT ONE Alexis Blake
Alexis Blake has a practice that coalesces visual art, movement and performance. She engages with the female body, critically examining how womxn are represented. In her collaborative works she explores how a language of movement can be a means to disrupt and renegotiate systems of representation and power. In her new work crack nerve boogie swerve Blake concentrates on the notion of breaking β breaking norms, breaking free from constraints, liberating oneself from the confin...
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Sleep ceremony (sold out)
In the Incubation Room, you can participate in special sleep ceremonies. In this ceremony, created by BVDS, you are invited to join the Incubated Seekers to open new levels of reality: a meditative ritual inspired by the ancient incubation practice from a prepatriarchal time, when God was still a woman. Sleep is an elusive activity in which reality and reason are abandoned. Can we see the associative stream of images triggered in our subconscious at night as a source of wi...
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Bear Country: A Transformative Artistic Research Journey
βBear Countryβ is an engaging artistic exploration by the Rotterdam-based audiovisual art studio, Berkveldt. This thought-provoking project delves into the rising European bear population and their potential migration towards the Netherlands, igniting crucial discussions on the Dutch coexistence between humans and wildlife. On the 25th of June, 2023, Berkveldt will offer glimpses of the footage they collected during their research and share their first experiences and insight...
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Current Values
In the second edition of Current Values, a series of evenings where thinkers, writers, and journalists put the term 'value' under the microscope, the socio-economic functions of money are addressed. Does money have a symbolic meaning that determines status and identity? The Greek economist Georgios Papadopoulos will talk about the consequences of expressing social value in money, artist RenΓ©e Ridgway will give a lecture on forms of exchange, and Jeroen Jongeleen tells us how ...
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Take Over #2: Family Values
The Heart Breakerz Crew is an international all-female Hip Hop crew. Perhaps, the onlyΒ queer, feminist alliance of artists in the hip hop (dance) world. The collective focuses on collaborations to energize and challenge each other, their scenes and global dance communities. The Heart Breakerz share a passion for hip hop culture and use movement, music and art in their performances and work as ambassadors and representatives of various subcultures and collectives across the wo...
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Symposium | Installing the voice
Keynotes: Michal Grover-Friedlander, Paul Elliman. Presentations: Hannah Bosma, Kris Dittel, Brigitte Felderer, Jelena Novak, Veronika Witte, Katarina Zdjelar. The symposium Installing the Voice focuses on the ways in which contemporary artists, composers and performers reinvent the relationship between the body and the voice.Β There is hardly any other artistic genre where the voice is more essential than in opera. Yet the operatic singing body was long taken for granted ...
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh – As Occasions
As Occasions was the first significant review of the work of Rotterdam-based artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Her film and slide-installations feature musical disputes, political pleas, personal histories and historical accounts to offer a stage to multiple perspectives on the social reality of today. Van Oldenborgh (Rotterdam, 1962) presented a constellation of eight works in an exhibition design by architect Milica Topalovic. The works were presented in various rooms aro...
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BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this?
On Thursday June 1st from 19.00 hrs, the opening of the multidisciplinary group exhibition BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this?Β and the presentation Rotterdam Cultural Histories #11: Disclaim the street takes place at TENT Rotterdam.Β The introductory clip about BLUEPRINTΒ by Malique Mohamud will be screened this evening. Tunes by DJ InnavisionsΒ and DJ Boris Becker! The Metro54 collective presents BLUEPRINT: Whose urban appropriation is this?, a multidisciplinary gr...
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Public rehearsals
For the project Throw Like a Girl, Maja Bekan and her group uses TENT as a hybrid space for intimate and public gatherings, conversations, exercises, rehearsals and learning and work collaboratively towards a performance in August, which will eventually result in a film work. Β Β Bekan put out an open call and convened a group of women from the two different worlds of the arts and the military. They will reflect on the work and roles women perform and how times of conflict ...
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Summer Carnival Parade with Mette Sterre, Klaar van der Lippe & Bart Stuart
For the second time, TENT participated in the Rotterdam Summer Carnival parade. For this edition, TENT teamed up with the Kunsthal. Artist Mette Sterre and artist duo Klaar van der Lippe & Bart Stuart worked with Tirzo Martha, David Bade and participants from the Instituto Buena Bista Summer School on an artistic float for the parade. This artistic contribution to Rotterdam's Summer Carnival explored the cultural significance of the Caribbean carnival tradition. In the...
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TENT x Tate Collective
This year, TENT and Tate ModernΒ form a unique partnership in a pilot exchange programme for young people and artists. Eight young people from London and RotterdamΒ form a collective with four artists from both cities. During the Summer, the participants have been working together in TENT as a collective, for five days. In TENT, the collectiveΒ exploredΒ artistic issues around themes such as power, systems and chaos, by means of workshops, excursions and discussions. As a result,...
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Existence is the continuity of blood
On 1 and 4 November, the installation 'O Brasil nΓ£o Γ© para principiantes' (Brazil is not for beginners) by Maaike Gouwenberg and Joris Lindhout is transformed into the set for the opera-performance 'Existence is the continuity of blood'. The book launch of Gouwenberg and Lindhoutβs study of Brazilian Gothic, made during their stay in Brazil, also takes place on 1 November. Gouwenberg and Lindhout wrote a pastiche for the opera-performance, in which they introduce the twenti...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #24: Mama Aisa
Kunstinstituut Melly invites Boris van Berkum and Marian Markelo in light of the 150th commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Suriname which is celebrated during Keti Koti on the 1st of July. Van Berkum made a sculpture in collaboration with Markelo, of the Winti goddess Mama Aisa, who represents love, compassion, and inclusivity. With the work forming the focal point of this exhibition, we aim to center care, understanding, and connection with each other. Part of Keti ...
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O&O studio tours: Visit the Artist
Join us for studio visits to different artists in Rotterdam! Discover two artists every Wednesday evening in May, and get to know their ideas and working methods. Robert Glas, Maud van den Beuken, Frank van der Salm, Marielle Buitendijk, Eva Olthof, Cihad Caner, Eloise Sweetman, and Johannes Langkamp welcome you into their studios for a look behind the scenes and to talk about the projects they have realised through the O&O scheme. Visit the Artist is organised as part...
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myvillages
Artists' initiative Myvillages focuses on the countryside as a place for and of cultural production. In TENT, Myvillages made their first presentation for a Dutch public, with an exhibition, a programme of events and the International Village Shop. In 2003, Kathrin BΓΆhm (GER/UK), Wapke Feenstra (NL) and Antje Schiffers (GER) formed the collective Myvillages to explore the village as a source of knowledge in contemporary art. All three artists grew up in small farming villa...
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Dolf Henkes Award 2019
This exhibition presented the practices of the four nominees for the Dolf Henkes Award 2019: Roxette Capriles, Priscila Fernandes, Emma van der Leest, and Evelyn Taocheng Wang. This yearβs jury β Fons Hof (director Art Rotterdam), Ingrid Commandeur (art critic and Course Director MA in, Art Piet Zwarte Institute), Tirzo Martha (sculptor and performance artist), and Katarina Zdjelar (winner Dolf Henkes Prize 2016) β gave the following statement on the nomination: βOur selec...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #7 – Perish festival
This seventh edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories revolved around the performance festival 'Perish'. The festival explored the relationship between early performance art and performances from the late 1990s, reflecting on the role video occupied as a medium and meditator within both contexts. 'Perish' was organised on May 24 & 25, 1997, by artistsβ initiative Duende in Rotterdam. For 28 years, 1984-2013, Duende offered studio spaces, residencies and exhibitions to R...
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Lidwien van de Ven wins Dolf Henkes Award 2014
Lidwien van de Ven is the winner of the Dolf Henkes Award 2014, which is awarded every two years to an iconic Rotterdam artist. The jury chairman, Joop van Caldenborgh, announced the winner to the public on Thursday 18 December during the festive award ceremony in TENT. The jury was impressed by the engagement of Lidwien van de Ven and the aesthetic way that engagement is then depicted in her photographs. The work of the winner and the other three nominees β Silvia B., Esther...
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De Derde Dinsdag
Tuesday 20 January, Adriaan Visser (Alderman of Finance, Inner City, Culture and Sports for the municipality of Rotterdam) is this monthβs guest at the monthly Live cultural shows that previews Rotterdam's cultural agenda. Hidde van Schie will talk about his exhibition at TENT with the Pop Art legend Woody van Amen; the creative organisation Fresh gives a preview of their performance 'Fysiek Theater XL'; and Vincent Taapken, advisor for urban and project development, responds...
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From The Life Aquatic to Aquatic Life in the Attention Spa
On Thursday evening March 31, researcher Lisette de Senerpont Domis is invited by artists Anni Puolakka & Jenna Sutela for a discussion and visual presentation about the current state and intertwinements between human life and aquatic organisms and ecosystems. Since November 2011 Lisette de Senerpont Domis works for the Dutch Institute of Ecology as project manager Research valorisation. In this position, she aims to make ecological principles operational for aquatic ecos...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #3 – Steen in water
This edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories focused on a remarkable public artwork by Teun Jacob (1927-2009) and Kees Verschuren (1941). In the 1970s, the artists made what at the time was the largest work of art in the Netherlands.Β Over a five year period, they created 'Stone in Water', an impressive work of land art on the 1st Maasvlakte, adjacent to a power station. The work was commissioned by the municipality of Rotterdam together with the Municipal Energy Company (...
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State of the Art blog: Alexander Ramselaar
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. For State of the Art the Rotterdam-based art collector Alexander Ramselaar writes about his ob...
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FITAX1000 at Art Rotterdam
FITAX1000 is an alternative way of wheeling & dealing art. The goal of the event is the direct exchange of art works between collectors and artists without any intermediate or money. You can trade one artwork for another artwork of the same estimated value of approximately 1000β¬. Starting from Wednesday the 5th of February you can register and hang your artwork. Registration is 5 euro for 1 artwork, with a max. of 2 artworks for 10 euro. Official trading event of artwo...
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TENT Welcomes: Design chewing festival
TENT Welcomes: Design Chewing Festival Friday 15 - Sunday 17 november at TENT. Design Chewing Festival offers a mouth full of activities that spark critical reflection. Time to chew, masticate, and digest three full days of design. They believe that growth can only be achieved by reflecting. This is not for the faint of heart, but for those creatives who love to chew on existential design issues and their own practice. Together we should feel responsible for continuousl...
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Dolf Henkes Award 2010 goes to Lara Almarcegui
Chairman of the jury Wim van Krimpen announced the winner of the Dolf Henkes Award 2010 in a crowded room in TENT Rotterdam, last Thursday. He awarded the prize, consisting of 20,000 euros, to Lara Almarcegui. About Lara Almarcegui Lara Almarcegui has been building up a consistent body of work over the past years, revolving around her fascination for spaces that escape the design of architects and urban planners. She presents the results of her study of waste terrain, demoli...
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Opening performance with Marga Weimans in TENT
The Rotterdam Summer Carnival is cancelled due to extreme weather conditions. However, TENT is very pleased to continue its festivities with an indoor program! At 20.00, the exhibition On The Other Side Of Reality will open with a special opening performance created by fashion designer Marga Weimans. Dancers, models and a brass band will present her new monumental fashion installation, which is inspired by the Caribbean carnival. Throughout the whole day, TENT is open to...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Eric Jan van de Geer
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. Artist Eric Jan van de Geer is one of the initiators of βSchuilen in het Rijksβ, in his testimonial...
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TENT Welcomes: Campsite A TimeWindow Festival
CAMPSITE is a festival organized by the art community TimeWindow at TENT Rotterdam, which takes place from the 24th of March to the 10th of April 2023. At CAMPSITE, unexpected collaborations develop between 23 TimeWindow artists working with diverse disciplines - theatre, dance, spoken word, film, photography, and illustration. These collaborations flourish during artistic residencies throughout the festival, where artists create new works based on a process of coexistence an...
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Woody van Amen & Hidde van Schie – New Romantic Spirit
Woody van Amen and Hidde van Schie presented new and existing work in an exhibition in which art's power to touch people is central. Paintings of birds inconsolably crying, enthusiastic flashing light sculptures, magical 'taxat' symbols, and serene neon paintings payed homage to an art that wants to give a new, romantic impetus to the relationship between the artwork and the viewer. Beyond irony and cynicism, the two artists created a space for emotions, for sentiment, as...
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Genderosity
On Friday 27 OctoberΒ from 17.00 till 19.00 hrs the openingΒ ofΒ Genderosity takes place in the gym of TENT. The presentation shows the results of a collaboration between KABK and WdKA students, taking the theme of Among other things, Iβve taken up smoking as a starting point for their work. Following the opening, Rory Pilgrim will perform, starting at 19.00. Participating students: Celia Descours, Daniele Formica, Silvana Gordon Valenzuela, Chantell Hassan, Yulong Jin, Anast...
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An evening with Daan Botlek & Rory Pilgrim
As part of the 2016 Dolf Henkes Award, TENT presentsΒ onΒ Thursday 19 JanuaryΒ anΒ event for the public to get further acquainted with the artistic practices of Daan Botlek and Rory Pilgrim. Together with Rana Hamadeh and Katarina Zdjelar they are nominated for the Dolf Henkes Award 2016. Rory Pilgrim makes films, performances, and text posters. This evening he shows two films from the Sacred Repositories cycle β N.1: VIOLENTLY SPEAKING and N.3: THE OPEN SKY. The film N.2: AF...
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An Evening With Nicky Assmann
On Thursday 10 December, the artist Nicky Assmann and independent curator Petra Heck discuss the position of Assmann's work in relation to other art of today, using film, sound clips, and the occasional guest. Assmannβs work also provides the context for a discussion of topics including art and science, technology, and the friction between the natural and the artificial. Artist Joost Rekveld opens the evening with a reading about perception, perception theory, and the sensory...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #15: Orphaned Sculptures and Public Favourites
βArt is elitistβ is a common accusation levelled at art: a βtaste terrorβ that nobody wants, imposed by βso-called expertsβ. βCitizens are always obstructive when it comes to artβ, is a common suspicion from the other side. It is for this reason that some call art and public participation incompatible. Rotterdam Cultural Histories #15 told a rather different story. Three examples showed how the people of Rotterdam cherish their cityβs sculptures, lobbying and campaign for ...
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TENT Welcomes: Being | The New Current
The lecture and master class of Friday January 10, focusses on how you find your way within the art sector and how you develop a good basis for yourself. An in-depth program for artists at the start of their career. This program is spread over four days; Friday 10, Saturday 11, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 January 2020. Every day has its own theme; Being, Change, Collab and Beyond.Β Note: lectures and masterclasses are in Dutch only. For the schedule, please visit our Faceboo...
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Phantom City Films – Kim Bouvy
Phantom City Kim Bouvy talks to radio producer/journalist Marten Minkema about the contrast between promotional films for Rotterdam and the image that the city is given when it serves as a background for feature films and crime series. Bouvy shows a number of historical promotional films that inspired her to make her installation for the exhibition Source Material, such as Rotterdam, directed by Eimert Kruidhof after a scenario by Jan Blokker from 1962. Book presentation:...
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TENT WELCOMES: Beyond | The New Current
The lecture and master class of Saturday January 18, focusses on how you find your way within the art sector and how you develop a good basis for yourself. An in-depth program for artists at the start of their career. This program is spread over four days; Friday 10, Saturday 11, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 January 2020. Every day has its own theme; Being, Change, Collab and Beyond.Β Note: lectures and masterclasses are in Dutch only. For the schedule, please visit our Faceb...
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Green Light / EcoΓ±o
TENT opens the New Year with an evening full of ecologically-sound activities, compiled by MaΓ±ana, an initiative of artist/curator Baschz and deejay/creative communicator Jan Joost Jullens (Julstar). Three characters that dominate the current environmental debate are the focus of performances, do-it-yourself art and film screenings: the 'activist', who has swapped squatting and banner waving for Hollywood and autograph sessions; the 'Calvinist', who has been taking cold sh...
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Optic Mountaineering
This group exhibition featured work by thirteen artists as part of a long-term cultural exchange between Basel and Rotterdam. For fifteen years, Atelier Mondial in Basel and Kaus Australis artistsβ initiative in Rotterdam jointly organised artists' residencies. Independent curator Annina Zimmermann, who was also the exchangeβs first resident, curated the exhibition. Optic Mountaineering reflected on the experience of living and working in a new place, freed of one's usual ...
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De Derde Dinsdag in TENT
What to do, where to go, where to find a hot stove still burning? De Derde Dinsdag leads the way, Tuesday November 20th in TENT. Now the division of budgets is manifest, we will point our attention to the local housing policy for artists and institutions. Which will not be without severe consequences. Luckily the Kapsalon Festival will provide us with an extra rind of fat in cold days. And Linda Malherbe will provide food for thought on the topic of migration. Versus demonstr...
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My Travels with Barry | Piet Zwart Institute
My Travels with Barry was the graduation show of the Master Fine Art of Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute. The exhibition was realised in collaboration with artist Bernd Krauss and critic Jan Verwoert, both tutors at the Institute. They gave this conclusion of two years of joint studies the motto of a journey in unexpected company. Fellow travelers Imagine being lost in transit, stuck in an odd place together with a guy named Barry. Heβs more of the silent type. But once s...
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Pataphor – Hidde van Schie
Pataphor is an amphibious vehicle which carries you to topographies βbeyondβ, away on wings going eagerly to nowhere in particular.. Pataphor, an anthology composed of drawings, collages and paintings is the first artist publication by Hidde van Schie. Its format is based on that of a pulp comic, a small paperback of 160 pages, mainly black-and-white with a colour section in the middle. The book gives an impression of Van Schieβs artistic mentality. In his work, psychologi...
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La Luna Piena
In this exhibition, Rotterdam-based artists, architects and photographers present the cityβs architecture as a mirror of the soul. An approach reminiscent of the well-known cinematic imagery of Michelangelo Antonioni, in which the urban environment reflects the main protagonistβs state of mind. Rotterdam is a city of exceptional architecture and yet it is not the particular location that is presented, but rather the cityβs potential to fire the imagination. As a familiar envi...
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Teambuilding – Helmut Smits
Team BuildingΒ is an unconventional football game specifically developed for high-school students in collaboration with the artist Helmut Smits and the KCR Cultuurtraject. Helmut Smitsβ work is characterised by small and direct statements, often realised through simple interventions in daily life, whereby any situation can give rise to a work. For Team Building , Smits adapts the rules of football by applying a controversial team selection procedure. After an interactive e...
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The People United Will Never Be Defeated
Connecting with concurrent developments in the Dutch political arena, this exhibition critically examined the relationships between art and politics. Artists have long been aware of the social implications of their work. Politicians also frequently talk about the role of art in society. A certain form of social engagement can after all be found in almost every work of art. The People United Will Never Be Defeated was, however, not about art demonstrating its engagement. It...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #20: The Museum of Education and Art
The twentieth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories is a documentary display about the Museum of Education and Art sited on Witte de Withstraat from 1880 to 1884. This short-lived museum in Rotterdam was located just a few steps away from Kunstinstituut Mellyβs building, which, for its part, was constructed in the 1870s as an all-women civic school. The Museum of Education and Art was founded by the Rotterdam publishers J. van der Hoeven and D. Buys. Their approach to th...
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A Night at the Museum with Drifter TV
What could be more fitting for an exhibition about animation as a state of mind, than Drifter TV, who presents a dazzling and crazy animation show in TENT? Drifter TV is an electronic, audiovisual dance act where eye-wrenching animated images and pumping techno, acid and punkfunk beats fuse together in a dazzling stage show. Music and image are mixed in a dynamic and exhilarating βin your faceβ live performance. In the show everything revolves around the 'Drifters.β These ...
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Night of the Museum – Radical Lightning
Saturday March 1st, itβs time for the annual Rotterdam Night of the Museum. In the dark of the night, TENT radically opts for the light. Make your own light-drawings and allow yourself to be blinded by Sint Elmo! As part of the βMuseum Night 2008 Set a Lightβ, the artistsβ collective PiPS:lab presents the Luma2solator. PiPS:lab has developed a technique that enables everyone to become an artist. Write or draw with light β make a spectacular piece, leave a tag or paint your ni...
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Workshop instrumenten bouwen met Yuri Landman
Yuri Landman is a musician and designer of experimental musical instruments, and has created special instruments for bands such as Sonic Youth, dEUS, Blood Red Shoes, and Health. He will lead a workshop inspired by the famous geometric-abstract paintings of the Russian artist Malevich. Based on the participantsβ insights, they will create a composition using snares on a wooden plate. The snares will cross each other, creating a sound palette reminiscent of the sound of gongs,...
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De Derde Dinsdag #12
On Tuesday evening 18 December, its time for the twelfth edition of De Derde Dinsdag, an initiative by Bonheur, Witte de With, RAiR, WORM, Showroom MAMA, Museum Rotterdam, the Ro Theater, and of course TENT. Join us for an entertaining monthly dose of Rotterdam art and culture! With: Leen Steen, Bernd van Buuren and Marijn Schotte, Duende, Joey Verberkt, actrice Nastaran Razawi Khorasani and Kerst aan de Cool. Entrance: β¬3 Doors open: 19.30 Start: 20.00 End: 21.30 L...
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Tour with Yoeri GuΓ©pin: Resisting ecosystems at the margins (TENT x A Tale of A Tub)
TENT Rotterdam and A Tale of A Tub organise a weekend in which artist Yoeri GuΓ©pin invites you on a journey to the rituals of his childhood on a biodynamic farm with a workshop and a field trip urban ecology. On Sunday, Yoeri GuΓ©pin will bring you along on a tour to hisΒ garden, adjacent to Rotterdam's ring road. The ecological value of such places is often not recognised, which is why many of these biodiverse areas are threatened by urban development projects. During the ...
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AUCTION DE AANSCHOUW
On Friday 13 January from 18:30 to 21:00h, De Aanschouwβs notorious annual auction takes place in the TENT gym. Thirty works by contemporary artists, photographers, and designers including Olphaert den Otter, Anouk Griffioen, Kuin Heuff, Willem Besselink, and Ruben Dario Kleimeer are auctioned this evening. Auctioneer Daan den Houter shall ensure the auction runs smoothly. For an overview of the work, the viewing days, and additional information, visit https://veilingdeaansch...
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Sense and Sensitivity
If there is such a thing as a βRotterdam styleβ of art, then this is often said to be confrontational, critical of the social structure, and in-your-face. Sense and Sensitivity introduced a number of young Rotterdam-based artists, whose work instead is characterized by a great sensitivity, attention to artistic research, and an ethical perspective. Rossella Biscotti presented her new film The Sun Shines, which revolves around the Russian filmmaker Shevchenko. In 1986 he wa...
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Far from Fong
Based around two monumental gowns by legendary fashion designer Fong-Leng, TENT offered a podium to six contemporary Chinese-Dutch artists from various disciplines. Fong-Leng (1937) was born on βde Kaapβ (Katendrecht, Rotterdam) to Chinese-Dutch parents. She became world-famous for a spectacular series of coats and gowns in which oriental techniques and motifs were combined into a stylish look for the Dutch beau monde at that time. The exhibition explored how, forty years ...
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Long (Long) Weekend Games & Plays
13.00 /16.00 h National Championship Midget Shuffleboard 2010 - Theatergroep Powerboat Midget shuffleboard is a unique combination of shuffleboard and midget golf. Designer Bas Kortmann of Theatergroep Powerboat designed a total of 14 different midget shuffleboard boards. From 13.00, visitors in TENT are invited to practice for a place in the final, which takes place at 16.00 hrs. 14.00 h Dwelling for Intervals - book launch and video presentation Yvette Poorter (English s...
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PaintShop Pro
To accompany the exhibition Every Picture Tells A Story, TENT developed an extensive educational programme for high-school students. Since there is still an evident love for painting among Rotterdamβs artists, TENT showed the work of young artists from the cityΒ and who liberate painting from its stuffiness by bringing it back to life. Exhibition conversation The tour of Every Picture Tells A Story took the form of an exhibition conversation in which students were encourag...
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On The Other Side Of Reality | Summer Carnival Street Parade
With the three-year long manifestation On the Other Side of Reality, TENT left its institutional walls to take part in Rotterdamβs Summer Carnival. With this project, TENT aimed to stretch its disciplinary borders and cultural frame and to connect with the Afro-Caribbean diaspora culture present in the city. This first edition encompassed a fleet by fashion designer Marga Weimans and the youth project The End of Normal with artist Mette Sterre. The Summer Carnival was fi...
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Book Launches Janine Schrijver and Benjamin Li
On Sunday 21 June from 15:00 to 17:00, two book launches take place at TENT. Janine Schrijver presents Our Nature, an extensive photographic research into the phenomenon of city parks. Benjamin Li presents his publication TE KOOP. The artists will be interviewed by Fleur van Muiswinkel curator and co-director of A Tale of a Tub. For 20 years, Janine Schrijver has been documenting public spaces, people's behaviour within it, and the subsequent configurations thereof. Over t...
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The Visual Life of Social Affliction
βThe Visual Life of Social Afflictionβ is a traveling exhibition with 11 artists from across the Caribbean and its diaspora. With poignant but also beautiful and hopeful works, these artists critically engage with long-standing experiences of loss and social suffering in the region. Recognising the real senses in which the Caribbean was born in the structural violence of Native genocide, African slavery, and Asian indenture instituted by colonial powers, and thei...
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TENT Welcomes: Collab | The New Current
The lecture and master class of Friday January 17, focusses on how you find your way within the art sector and how you develop a good basis for yourself. An in-depth program for artists at the start of their career. This program is spread over four days; Friday 10, Saturday 11, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 January 2020. Every day has its own theme; Being, Change, Collab and Beyond.Β Note: lectures and masterclasses are in Dutch only. For the schedule, please visit our Faceboo...
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Tour: Weemoed, Weelde, Wildernis (sold out)
Weemoed, Weelde, Wildernis (melancholy, abundance, wilderness) is a summer day tour around nature island Tiengemeten, where artist Maidie van den Bos will take you through her artistic research on the Canadian Goldenrod. In the week leading up to the programme, Maidie will stay on Tiengemeten to (re)investigate the colorful exotic. On Saturday 26 August, Maidie will take us around the island by bike, to share her findings. A botanical printing workshop is also part of the tou...
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TAA 2011 in Cinerama
On 15 July 2011, TENT Rotterdam is staging the annual competition to decide who deserves the title of this yearβs best recently graduated audiovisual artist: the TAA. Jury chairman Bart Rutten will present the TAA during the award ceremony in Cinerama Filmtheater on Friday 15 July. This year, students from Belgium and Luxembourg are also competing for the TAA For Best Foreign Film. The Benelux edition The Benelux edition of the annual competition between the best graduati...
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Rotterdam Art Rocks
Itβs striking that a large number of artists in Rotterdam are about to set up new activities, programmes and artist spaces in their own neighbourhood, street or studio building. Reason for TENT to wonder: who are these initiators and what motivates them? Why do they choose for a place so close to home? This evening, new initiatives share the podium in TENT to explain why they want to set Rotterdam in motion. Rotterdam will certainly rocks February 7th, thanks to the artist...
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Chapter One: ASYMMETRY BEYOND ABSTRACTION
During the exhibition ASYMMETRY by Libia Castro and Γlafur Γlafsson, TENT is organising a symposium divided into three chapters on 9 February, 13 March and 17 April. The symposium reflects on asymmetric relationships of current social, political, and cultural relations, which are also key themes in the artists' work. The speakers will discuss legal issues, protest, and unequal power relations. Chapter One: ASYMMETRY BEYOND ABSTRACTION is the first part of the symposium and ...
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TENT event weekend with Piet Zwart graduates
A weekend of various activities. Saturday July 19, the artists from the exhibition My Travels with Barry will give a special guided tour of the show. EsmΓ© Valk will give an artist talk and the afternoon will conclude with a reading by Terje ΓverΓ₯s from his writing project Decapitated Snake Descending. The afternoon begins at 15.00hrs at the reception desk of TENT. Sunday July 20 at 15.00 hrs, it is time for the Sienna X Spray Tan Introduction Party, for everyone who wan...
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Among other things, I’ve taken up smoking
On Thursday 7 September at 19.00 hrs, TENT opens the group exhibition Among other things, Iβve taken up smoking, in which artists convey their perspectives on gender and sexuality. The exhibition shows work by All the Cunning Stunts, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Alberto GarcΓa del Castillo m/ Steev Lemercier & CΓ©sar Segarra, Angelica Falkeling, Hannah James, Alex Mawimbi, Floriane Misslin, Olle Lundin, Rory Pilgrim, Julius Thissen, Geo Wyeth and engages with the LGBT+ ...
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Lost in the Cloud of Unknowing – Marco Pasi
'Lost in the Cloud of Unknowing: Contemporary Art and the Attraction for the Occult', a lecture by Marco Pasi, Assistant Professor in the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. This lecture about the esoteric and magical as sources of knowledge is also part of the Office for the Unknown at the Piet Zwart Institute/Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam. For more information, please consult the website of the Piet Zwart Institute....
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Scores of Rotterdam
Join artist Mercedes Azpilicueta and urbanist John Bingham-Hall for a site visit and performance of Scores for Rotterdam on location by a local choir. Urban spaces influence and transform the human voice, affecting not only what we can hear, but also how we can make our voices heard within them. Mercedes Azpilicueta and John Bingham-Hall explore this relationship through vocal experiments recorded at three Rotterdam sites, selected for their distinct sonic qualities: metro...
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Auke de Vries & Quinten Leon win the TAA 2011
Auke de Vries and Quinten Leon are the big winners of the TAA 2011; the annual competition between the best final exam videos, films, shorts and animations of all the Dutch art academies. On Friday 15 July, Auke de Vries from the AKV St. Joost, Breda won the TAA 2011, the prize for the best audiovisual graduation work of all the Dutch art academies. Quinten Leon from the Sint Lukas Academy, Brussels won the TAA For Best Foreign Film, the prize for the best graduation piece fr...
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An Evening With Woody van Amen & Hidde van Schie
βUsing the motto New Romantic Spirit, junior and senior engage in twinkling artistic dialogue.β Sandra Heerma van Voss in NRC Handelsblad β 06.02.2015 Woody van Amen and Hidde van Schie speak to art-critic and writer Hans den Hartog Jager about their work, friendship, the New Romantic Spirit exhibition and the recently published artist's book. A selection of unique images; performances by Woody van Amen, acting by Hidde van Schie in, amongst others, Spangen and cinematic exp...
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Material Forces
On Thursday 17 April, set against the background of Anne Wenzel's solo exhibition, Sacha Bronwasser talks to three major sculptors who do not shy away from the major themes of power, violence and history, and therein make radical choices in their work. How do they see the current position of the artist, the influence of their art, and the power of material? Folkert de Jong, Harold de Bree, and Anne Wenzel talk openly and in detail about their work, their background, and pract...
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Leopold Emmen: I dream about this house every once in a while
In their collaborative video installations filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen experiment with film as a spatial experience. At TENT they will construct a kaleidoscopic video installation in three parts, in which equal roles are reserved for the characters in the films, the space in which they move, and the architectural settings that envelop the viewer.Β Β The films that are brought together at TENT to form a layered installation resulting from a special ...
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Open Call Radio Calling
OPEN CALL for radio performances TENT invites artists to propose a radio performance as part of the second edition of Radio Calling, which takes place on 16 May. This open call is part of Radio Calling, a series of events exploring radio as a medium and platform for performance art. Open Call The idea of "going live" is central to this second edition, which examines the broadcast of performance via radio. What exactly do we mean by "live"? What is left...
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A conversation with Jenny Brady
In the context of the exhibition To Be Like Water, filmmaker Jenny Brady will be at TENT on Saturday 7 May for an in-depth conversation with the exhibition's curator, Kris Dittel. In her artistic practice, the Dublin -based (Ireland) filmmaker, explores ideas of translation, communication and the limitations of language. Bradyβs film, Receiver, presented in the exhibition To Be Like Water, brings together footage of protest at a university for D/deaf students, a crossed te...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #22: Hortus Botanicus
Our institutionβs building β located on Witte de Withstraat 50 in Rotterdam β stands on what was the original location of the cityβs nineteenth-century Hortus Botanicus. Sited on these grounds from 1826 to 1870, this botanical garden was established for educational purposes, especially used by the Clinical School (1828β1866). In 1870, the Hortus Botanicus was demolished to pave new roads, including Witte de Withstraat, and to build the surrounding area as envisioned in a city...
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Shift & Drift
Shift & Drift shows a selection of Rotterdam artists, who had the opportunity to experiment thanks to the CBK Rotterdam's Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling (Research & Development) grant. Guest curator for the exhibition was Eelco van der Lingen. O&O-scheme The exhibition celebrated the fifth anniversary of the O&O scheme. In 2010, The CBK Rotterdam established this scheme for projects, residencies, publications, and research, to stimulate exceptional project...
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Kairos Time | Piet Zwart Institute
This exhibition featured twelve international artists whose works deployed a multiplicity of poetics. Kairos Time was the 2014 graduation show of the Master Fine Art of Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute, curated by Matteo Lucchetti. Kairos Along with Kronos, Kairos is an ancient Greek word for time. But while Kronos refers to chronological, sequential time, Kairos alludes to the moment when action must be taken, inevitably affecting the course of things. It represents an i...
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Radio Calling ‘Liveness’
In Radio Calling, TENT and Camden Arts Centre in London explored the relationship between (online) radio broadcast and (live) performance. This second episode brought together artists, curators, and theorists around the notion of 'liveness': the simultaneous presence of creator and audience, but not necessarily in one place. The rise of internet streaming, internet radio, and podcasts means (audio) content is accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Does being pr...
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TENT x Tate Collective wrap-up
On Friday 19 Augustus in the afternoon, the finissage of TENT x Tate Collective takes place in TENT. The participants in this project will develop the concept and program of the event during the project week in TENT from 15 to 19 August. During this afternoon, the first ideas for the presentations in Tate Modern will be announced. In TENT x Tate Collective, eight young people from London and Rotterdam will form a collective with the Rotterdam-based artist Charl Landvreugd and...
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TAA 2016
On Friday 15 July 2016 at 20.00 hrs,Β the TAA (TAA)Β will take place in Cinerama. The TAA isΒ thΓ© competition that showcases the best graduate audio-visual talents from home and abroad. This year, it's the turn of young Swiss video artists to join the most talented artists graduating from Dutch art academies. An international jury, headed by Roos Gortzak, director of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, will choose the best video artist, who wins a residency abroad. CLICK HERE AND ORD...
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TENT in het Gemaal op Zuid
Het Gemaal op Zuid was the name under which Kosmopolis, TENT and the Historical Museum (now Museum Rotterdam) developed a varied art and cultural programme in the South of Rotterdam between 2009-2012. The project regarded the specific urban condition of this part of Rotterdam as illustrative for the development of the new Dutch society: the entire southern part of the city was on the brink of large-scale urban and socio-economic redevelopment. 'Rotterdam South will be hip ...
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Curatorial Visit during Art Rotterdam
During Art Rotterdam, four cutting edge curators have been invited by TENT to get to know Rotterdam: Franziska Nori, director of the Centre of Contemporary Culture Strozzina in Florence, Daniel Muzyczuk, curator at Muzeum Sztuki in ΕΓ³dΕΊ and curator of the Polish pavilion at the last Venice Biennale, Kevin Muhlen, Director of Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, and GΓΌrsoy DoΔtaΕ, a freelance curator, writer and artist. Fansziska Nori is the director of the Centre of C...
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Less is More, More Or Less
The project Less Is More, More or Less was part of a discussion on the collecting and de-collecting of art in public space. Thinkers formulated opinions on policy, experts undertook field trips to look at examples in practise, and artists presented case studies in TENT showing how they make de-collecting part of their own work. The project was a co-production between TENT and BKOR. In a city like Rotterdam, over a thousand works by famous and less famous, international a...
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Long (Long) Weekend Maatschappij Voor Volksgeluk
Lecture - Maatschappij Voor Volksgeluk, op eigen risico (Society for Public Happiness, at your own risk) Maatschappij Voor Volksgeluk (MAVV) was founded for the purpose of raising the general happiness levels in and beyond Rotterdam and offers unique concepts and experiences that make people happy. By now MAVV is world famous in Rotterdam for their groundbreaking performances and parties in undeveloped locations. In TENT visitors are invited to attend a lecture by Rotterdam ...
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Gyz La RiviΓ¨re – Rotterdam 2040
"You can't move forward without looking back", was the motto for Gyz La RiviΓ¨re's new film 'Rotterdam 2040'. In an energetic mix of facts, fiction, and futurism, the artist outlines the highs and lows of Rotterdamβs development. 'Rotterdam 2040' is not a factual documentary but a film in which La RiviΓ¨re (Rotterdam, 1976) presents his personal view on the development of Rotterdam, from the bombardment of the second world war until now, 100 years after the bombing and the...
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Katarina Zdjelar wins the Dolf Henkes Award 2016
Katarina Zdjelar is the winner of the 2016 Dolf Henkes Award, awarded every two years to an iconic Rotterdam artist. Chairman Alexander Ramselaar announced the winner to the public during the award ceremony on Thursday 9 February. The jury was impressed with how Katarina Zdjelar is building a consistent body of work that continues to crystallise. She remains true to its principles, media, and themes, and her affecting work is repeatedly convincing. The work of the winner and ...
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State of the Art essay: Bik Van der Pol – Work To Do
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. The artist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol) have lived and worked in Rot...
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Art’s Birthday
In 1963, the Fluxus artist Robert Filliou declared his birthday as the official birthday of 'art'. On Saturday 17 January, Kunstblock celebrates the anniversary together with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. Starting at 20:00, Kunstblock presents Art in the Parking Space, with performances by Fraser Stewart, Lucas Lenglet, Peter Fengler, Jasper Griepink, and Marnix De Nijs. Time: 20:00, Location: Muhka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp. Click here for the full program. ...
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State of the Art essay: Gyz La RiviΓ¨re – Treurniet
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. Gyz La Rivière is an artist, designer, filmmaker, writer, performer and you name it! He is regarded...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Chris Kabel
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. Chris Kabel belongs to the new generation of major Dutch designers. His work is increasingly ga...
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TENT presents the street parade by Marga Weimans in Palais de Tokyo
Guided by loud drum rolls, the Carnival Carnivalesque (Trade) street parade by Rotterdam fashion designer Marga Weimans opens on Friday 8 April as part of the DO DISTURB three-day performance festival at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. TENT presents the performance at the invitation of the Palais de Tokyo. Β Led by Vogue superstar Amber Vineyard (House of Vineyard/Hip Hop House), twenty Vogue dancers wearing Marga Weimansβ specially designed costumes and monumental head pie...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Liesbeth Levy
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. What are the opportunities for Rotterdam according to Liesbeth Levy?...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Jonas Staal
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. What are the opportunities for Rotterdam according to artist Jonas Staal?...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial Joep van Lieshout
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. What are the opportunities for Rotterdam according to artist Joep van Lieshout?...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Nat Muller
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. In her YouTube testimonial, curator Nat Muller makes five suggestions for Rotterdamβs art world. Wha...
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Anouk Griffioen – Navigating the Imaginary
Anouk Griffioen's exuberant, life-sized charcoal drawings came to life in one enormous total work of art in which flora, fauna and human figures flow into each other to form a surreal world. She responded to new digital developments by using techniques such as video mapping for her drawings, taking her traditional art practice onto new roads. Anouk Griffioen (Enschede, 1979) has created a distinctive oeuvre of monumental charcoal drawings, which she sometimes works on fo...
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TENT Welcomes: Change | The New Current
The lecture and master class of Friday January 11, focusses on how you find your way within the art sector and how you develop a good basis for yourself. An in-depth program for artists at the start of their career. This program is spread over four days; Friday 10, Saturday 11, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 January 2020. Every day has its own theme; Being, Change, Collab and Beyond.Β Note: lectures and masterclasses are in Dutch only. For the schedule, please visit our Faceboo...
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Artist Talk with Pilar Mata Dupont & Wayne Modest
As a closing event for her solo exhibition at TENT, Pilar Mata Dupont and Wayne Modest will talk about colonial legacies in contemporary culture and the natural landscape. Starting point for their conversation is Pilarβs interest in the historical role of botanical gardens, invasive plant species, the European ideal of the picturesque landscape and its impact on indigenous ecologies. Wayne Modest is Head of the Research Center for Material Culture at the National Museum of...
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State of the Art YouTube-testimonial: Ina Klaassen
What does the future hold for the arts in Rotterdam and what is that worth to us? TENT, WORM, CBK Rotterdam and the Ro Theatre take the initiative with State of the Art: a series of inspirational essays and YouTube testimonials in which artists, writers, thinkers and experts express their views. State of the Art compiles visions of the future for art and culture in Rotterdam. What are the opportunities for Rotterdam according to Ina Klaassen?...
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Head Lights // Talent Nights, Momu & No Es
The laser animation by the artist duo Momu & No Es is exhibited at Het Nieuwe Instituut on Thursday 23 June at 22:00 as part of HEAD LIGHTS // TALENT NIGHTS. Momu & No Es create dynamic installations, videos, and performances that explore the boundaries of fantasy and obscure symbolism. For ten weeks, as part of Rotterdam Viert de Stad!, HEAD LIGHTS // TALENT NIGHTS asks talented Rotterdammers to present a new work on the exterior of Het Nieuwe Instituut. Every Thu...
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Kunstblock Tour
Come and join the Kunstblock Tour en get introduced to the βnowβ of arts and culture. In an enthusiastic and accessible way we will guide you through all the Kunstblock art venues in the Witte de With city quarter. Together these organizations offer a diverse program for a broad public. Get introduced to WORM, the example of avant-garde recreation; with instable media art in V2_; Showroom MAMA, home base of the young generation artists; international art at Witte de With C...
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Award Ceremony Dolf Henkes Award 2019
Artists Roxette Capriles, Priscila Fernandes, Emma van der Leest, and Evelyn Taocheng Wang are the nominees for the Dolf Henkes Prize 2019. The jury, led by Fons Hof, nominated the four artists for the β¬12,000 prize.Β From Friday 14 December 2018 to Sunday 17 February 2019, an exhibition of the nomineesβ work takes place at TENT. The award ceremony starts at 18.00h at TENT during Art Rotterdam, onΒ Thursday 7 February 2019, This yearβs jury βΒ Fons HofΒ (director Art Rotterda...
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myillages.org: day trip Rijk Zwaan
Friday revolves around the basic principles of food production in a daytrip to Rijk Zwaan, a company that specializes in vegetable seed. Rijk Zwaan is oriented towards developing high-quality vegetable varieties for commercial cultivation. The daytrip offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes at this company, which does not normally open its doors to the general public. Reservations are required for the daytrip due to the limited number of seats available. (For reservations,...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #5: Summer Carnival, the first years
This fifth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories featured Robert De Hartoghβs photos of the early years of the Rotterdam Zomercarnaval (Summer Carnival). The pictures show the birth of a unique explosion of creativity in which the cultural, economic, social, and political ideas about the city come together. The Rotterdam Summer Carnival was held for the first time in 1984 and attracted more than 15,000 visitors. Now, more than thirty years later and with more than 750,0...
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Award Ceremony & TENT’s Pre-Christmas-Party
Silvia B., Esther Kokmeijer, Ewoud van Rijn, and Lidwien van de Ven have been nominated for the Dolf Henkes Prize 2014. The Dolf Henkes Prize is Rotterdam's most important art prize for artists and was established by the prize's namesake β the Rotterdam artist Dolf Henkes. This evening, the jury chairman Joop van Caldenborgh will announce the recipient of the β¬12,000 award, and we raise a glass to the winner. Kunstbeeld, the monthly art magazine, will launch its Christmas ...
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Destination Rotterdam
On Saturday 17 September, the MK Award Foundation, in collaboration with TENT, is organising a 'double debate' on the vitality of Rotterdam's art scene. Despite budget cuts and austerity policies, in the past five years, all kinds of new initiatives, such as home galleries, presentation platforms, project spaces, and agencies, are playing an increasingly important role in Rotterdam's art scene. Artists, designers, students, and independent curators set up these initiatives, a...
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TENT x Project Wiaspora | Hoop en Realiteit
TENT x Project Wiaspora explores how online platforms may provide a space for gathering and connection. Gyonne Goedhoop and Simone Zeefuik in conversation with Jeanette Chedda in Hoop en Realiteit (Hope and Reality) Can our current lockdown also be a source of hope? Could sharing this experience of having limited freedom of movement inspire us to be more sensitive to accessibility and inclusion in regular life? Could this lead to more equal access or will we end up with mo...
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TENT x Project Wiaspora | Tussentijd
TENT x Project Wiaspora explores how online platforms may provide a space for gathering and connection. Gyonne Goedhoop and Simone Zeefuik in conversation with Bibi Fadlalla in Tussentijd (The In-Between Time) Many say the corona crisis is a historical event we will never forget. But who will capture this in-between time for the future? Who are given the main roles in this narrative, and who takes the role of the storyteller? Is there an ENDGAME or is this our ARMAGEDDON? ...
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Opening Shared Space #4, curated by Aad Krol
Witte de With and TENT present Shared Space #4, a spatial design curated by Aad Krol (Galerie VIVID) for the two institutionsβ communal area. For this project Krol composed an interior with work by young designers Jack Brandsma, Thomas Eurlings, Jelle Feringa and Dennis Parren. In doing so, Krol has transformed the Shared Space into a reading-room, soberly furnished with a table, chairs, bookshelves, a hanging lamp sculpture and a mirror....
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‘Real and Unreal’ solo presentation Vasilis Karvounis
In 2013, The Greek video artist Vasilis Karvounis won the TAA for Best Foreign Film. Now he's back in Rotterdam for the artist residency he was awarded. In the exhibition Vasilis Karvounis negotiates on the concepts of suggestion and autosuggestion in relation to the individual and collective unconscious. He is interested in the notion of submission as a potential state of enforcement and configuration of consciousness, commenting on the media, religion as well as the role o...
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Robert de Hartogh: Summer Carnival, the first years
Rotterdam Cultural Histories #5 Robert de Hartogh 25.07 - 11.10.2015 Opening 25 July, 21.00 hrs On Saturday 25 Juli at 21.00 hrs, the opening takes place of Robert de Hartogh: Summer Carnival, the first years. De Hartogh is one of the few Dutch photographers who has made visible the development of economic migration since the early 1970s. Robert de Hartoghβs pictures show the birth of a unique explosion of creativity in which the cultural, economic, social, and politica...
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De Derde Dinsdag
The cultural talk show De Derde Dinsdag (The Third Tuesday) provides a high-octane update on Rotterdamβs cultural offerings for the coming month in the fields of theatre, music, film, visual arts, festivals, and more. Anna Visser hosts this episode and Jan de Vries, founder of the new Kino cinema, joins her. Charlotte van Lingen, senior curator at the Kunsthal, talks about the exhibition βRed Wealth. Soviet Design 1950-1980β on the history of Soviet design. Thomas Dudkiewi...
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #10: Naum Gabo
This tenth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories focused on the iconic public sculpture by Russian-American artist Naum Gabo (1890-1977) on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam. The untitled sculpture is his largest constructivist artwork ever placed in a public space. At the time, βthe thingβ or βthe stylized flowerβ as the 26 meter high, 40.000 kg work has come to be known, was a symbol of modernity. The work was initially commissioned by Van der Wal, director of Bijenkorf depa...
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Symposium: 100% Hedendaags
Location: Auditorium, TENT and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Language: English. Buy your tickets here This conference cultivates and empowers a community of engaged teachers, educators and museum professionals to advance arts education for secondary schools and intermediate vocational education. The arts curriculum in schools is currently undergoing far-reaching changes. Which forms of contemporary arts education are being developed by schools and b...
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TENT Welcomes IFFR w/ Quay Brothers
As part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 the Quay Brothers presented their immersive installation 'Dream Pools & Collecting Holes' at TENT. IFFR curator was Edwin Carels. The Quay Brothers have been working on their third feature film for several years, taking their cue from Bruno Schulz's novel 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' (1937). In this installation they introduced a number of motifs, images and objects from this project. A man tra...
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MK Award Ceremony
On Friday 1 December te MK Award Cermony takes place at TENT Rotterdam. Peter Fengler, Saskia Janssen and Ad de JongΒ areΒ the nominees for the MK Award 2017. The MK Award Foundation grants the prize, amounting to β¬ 5.000, biennially to honour sincere and coherent artistic activity; it pays homage to the creative legacy of the late Emmo Grofsmid and Karmin Kartowikromo, owners of the former MK gallery Rotterdam/Berlin. This yearβs jury consisting ofΒ Reyn van der Lugt (art...
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Assemble Relatives | Piet Zwart Institute
Fourteen international artists invited the public to a temporary assembly across three Rotterdam art spaces: TENT, MAMA and ramfoundation. 'Assemble Relatives' was the graduation show of the Master Fine Art at Rotterdam's Piet Zwart Institute. The conversations, relationships and practices these artists developed over two years at the Piet Zwart Institute coalesced in this single moment, before they dispersed into new constellations. MAMA, TENT and ramfoundation provided...
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TAA 2008 screening
The TAA is the annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations of all Dutch art academies. July 17, the work of the nominees will be screened at Cinerama Film Theatre. This is the opportunity for the audience to discover new Dutch talent. After the screening, the winner of the TAA '08 will be announced by the jury and the audience will vote for the Public Choice Award '08. If you would like to know more about the nominees, click here....
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Symposium, Rehearsal: Emerging Learning Sites
The MA Education in Arts cordially invites you for the two-day public symposium, entitled Rehearsal: Emerging Learning Sites hosted by TENT. This symposium is part of the Piet Zwart Instituteβs 2022 Graduation Shows that are taking place at various venues across Rotterdam. For more info about the programme and reservations, click on button below....
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Culinairy hot spot in hidden alley of TENT
TENT's hidden alley is usually closed to the public, but on Saturday 27 August it is open for one day. In the alley on the Witte de Withstraat, the Hidden Alleys Food Art Festival shows the The Emma InnΒ cafΓ© and beauty salon: a pink, plush dream where shiny painted nails and fluorescent-pink leggings mingle with beehive hairdos and pink razors. Artist Emma Walch designed Rotterdam's smallest cafΓ©. Be enchanted by this glittering world under TENT's fire escape and enjoy its cu...
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Anne Wenzel – The Opaque Palace
The Opaque Palace transformed the exhibition spaces of TENT into an installation in which the monumental sculptures of Anne Wenzel provided a coherent representation of the major themes in her work β power, destruction, heroism, history. Daria de Beauvais (Palais de Tokyo) curated the exhibition. For her largest solo exhibition to date, Anne Wenzel (SchΓΌttorf, 1972) used works from the past decade to construct a mental puzzle in TENT. The exhibition unfolded as a route t...
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Museumnacht010
Saturday, June 18 th, Museumnacht010 is back. More than 50 galleries, museums and exhibition spaces will open their doors for this occasion between 20.00 -01.00 hours with a special programme. A chance to rediscover Rotterdam's art climate together! Programme at TENT: Get carried away by the transformative magic that dance collective Amenti brings. In the interactive improvisation programme Elemental Exchange, together with the audience, Amenti challenges dancer...
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Abhishek Thapar – My Home at the Intersection
Theatre maker Abhishek Thapar takes us back to the conflict in the Indian province of Punjab, where his family also lost their home. A performance for the senses, with forceful imagery and movingly told stories navigating between contradictory official histories and a journey through three generationsβ of personal memories. Abhishek Thapar (Moga, 1985) is a theatre maker, performer and puppeteer from India, currently based in Amsterdam. He studied physical theatre at LISPA...
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Abhishek Thapar – My Home at the Intersection
Theatre maker Abhishek Thapar takes us back to the conflict in the Indian province of Punjab, where his family also lost their home. A performance for the senses, with forceful imagery and movingly told stories navigating between contradictory official histories and a journey through three generationsβ of personal memories. Abhishek Thapar (Moga, 1985) is a theatre maker, performer and puppeteer from India, currently based in Amsterdam. He studied physical theatre at LISPA...
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Book Launch: Anne Wenzel – Prospects of Perception
On Thursday 27 February at 20:00, Saskia van Kampen-Prein (curator at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen) and the artist Anne Wenzel discuss her solo exhibition at TENT. To mark the occasion of the publication of Anne Wenzel - Prospects of Perception, they will talk about her self-determined approach to handling materials and the major themes of her work. The designers, 75B, will leaf through the book, Rob van Gameren of The Yes Please will give an acoustic performance and a v...
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Museumnacht – Save Your Face
During Rotterdam's 2014 Museum Night, TENT presents Save Your Face, a project where visitors are challenged to immortalise themselves in clay. How would you immortalise yourself? As a hero, (mythical) animal, monster or just as yourself? Beautiful, ugly, angry, happy? Accept the challenge and join TENT's hall of fame for the night. Professionals will provide tips and tricks. The artist Anne Wenzel will choose three winning works that will be kiln baked and exhibited. Save yo...
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TENT Welcomes Sarmad Magazine
Sarmad, a magazine for alternative and experimental photography, is organising Un-Making Image, a series of lectures. At TENT, photographer and theoretician Ali Shobeiri will preview his forthcoming book and speak about his work in relation to place, materiality, and memory. Artist Gert Jan Kocken will comment on the photograph that inspired Shobeiriβs observations. Click here for more information....
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Award Ceremony Dolf Henkes Prijs 2010
The presentation of the Dolf Henkes Award 2010 takes place in celebratory fashion on Thursday evening 10 February. Jury chairman Wim van Krimpen will announce which of the four Rotterdam artists nominated - Otto Egberts, Lara Almarcegui, Jasper Niens and Aji V.N. - has won the cash prize of β¬ 20,000. The festive evening with music, performances and live bands, is not only to celebrate the winner of the Dolf Henkes Award 2010, but also to honour the four nominees. Performanc...
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myillages.org: Dorpsbrunch
myvillages.org is organizing a festive Dorpsbrunch (Village Brunch), with a table full of village food. Visitors are invited to bring and share their own village produce. Everyone is welcome β either with (surprise us!) or without (for a small contribution) village produce, regional dishes or specialities β to pull up a chair and enjoy the food, talk and share stories about its origins and background. With the cooperation of Rotterdam Oogst. Through this form you can sign u...
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De Derde Dinsdag
Where to go next month? Cultural talkshow The Third Tuesday will give you a highspeed update in one and a half hour with short interviews, performance, film previews, Β theater scenes and live music. During The Third Tuesday ,artist Ilke Gers conducts her new performance, Laps, made especially for TENT. Furthermore, this eveningβs special guest is Bianca van der Schoot, the Ro Theaterβs new artistic director. The Kunsthal presents The Museum of Everything, a large-scale and au...
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TAA 2014
On Saturday 12th July at Cinerama, the best young video artists from the Netherlands and Finland β this year's guest country β can be seen in the annual TAA. The nominated films will be shown during an award ceremony at Cinerama, where the winners of the TAA and Best Foreign Film Award will also be announced. An international jury evaluates the nominated works, this year led by Juha van 't Zelfde, artistic director of Lighthouse (a platform for digital culture in Brighton)...
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Dat speelt hier niet (That doesnβt come into play here)
In the exhibition Dat speelt hier niet (That doesnβt come into play here), Bert Scholten assigns new meanings to the historical rituals and customs associated with the koekplank (Dutch biscuit boards).Β Our local cultural identity, with its stories, customs and rituals, has always been subject to change. However, homogenisation over the years has lessened this malleability. Consequently, an antagonism surrounds the adaptation of widely accepted customs and rituals, while many ...
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Perforance afternoon To All Tomorrows Parties
On Sunday 9 October no less than four performances will be taking place in the exhibition To All Tomorrows Parties. To All Tomorrows Parties is an exhibition focusing on the interfaces between performance, theatre, dance, fashion and sculpture. Five artists, four choreographers and a fashion designer turn away from a more object-oriented art form and express themselves in theatre-like performances, physical sculptures and cross-border activities. On 9 October performances by ...
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Breadfellows Workshop (Kids Only)
Workshop with Clare Breen and Anni Puolakka. Clare Breen will lead a workshop in response to Anni Puolakka & Jenna Sutelaβs work Attention Spa at TENT. In this workshop, children are invited to come to TENT for a private tour of the exhibition and to talk about the artworks on display. Later in the day we will use clay to make some artworks together in the gallery that will become part of the exhibition. Clare BreenΒ is an Irish artist studying Education in the Arts ...
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