Opening Friday July 18, 15.00 to 19.00 PM
Free admission!
This July, Wasteland Festival returns with Out of Sight, a city-wide, interdisciplinary festival that explores hidden infrastructures and ecologies of waste through exhibitions, workshops, tours, conversations and performances. Across multiple locations — including TENT, the Nieuwe Instituut, Gemaal op Zuid and Roodkapje — the festival invites audiences to reflect on how waste shapes urban life, both visible and invisible.
As part of Wasteland’s main programme, TENT presents an interactive summer exhibition – Out of Sight: Out of Place – that invites children and families to explore the worlds of urban waste through play, imagination and discovery. Through interactive artworks, tactile installations and guided discovery, the exhibition allows young visitors to experience and reflect on what waste is, how we live with it, and where it goes once it disappears from view. The exhibition brings together a vibrant mix of artworks and installations: from interactive play areas surrounded by hedges and fences, to triptychs, wall drawings, river objects and clay sculptures, theatrical sets and sound artworks made from waste materials.
In addition to the artworks in the exhibition space, the program also invites visitors to venture out into the city with a series of monthly, artist-led activities that explore Rotterdam’s waste infrastructures up close. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to participate in these performative excursions: What makes something waste? Where does it go once it’s out of sight? What creatures live with it, care for it, or make it their home? How far does it travel? And can we imagine a future city without waste?
The exhibition includes a new work commissioned by Caz Egelie and is part of the Rotterdam Holiday Passport programme.
Special thanks to Kaisa, Mingus and Dolores for your beautiful handwriting!
Artwork by Martin Foucaut
