On Sunday, Yoeri Guépin will bring you along on a tour to his 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 tour, the artist introduces various ecological services of allotment gardens and their value as archives of biological and cultural diversity.
The tour starts with a presentation in TENT on the forms of ecological resistance, gardening on polluted land and the importance of allowing zones in the city to run wild. Afterwards, we depart by bike to Rotterdam’s oldest allotment garden association, Hof Van Noord. Following a route along a number of gardens in the city center, we reach the complex located right next to the highway.
First location — TENT
Tickets — €5 (link)
Language — English
Time — 11:30 – 14:00h
Click here to view the corresponding programme on Saturday 21 October at A Tale of A Tub.
Please note that during this event we will be biking between locations. Would you like to participate, but is biking not your thing? Please contact us and together we will look for alternative transportation.
This program is a collaboration between TENT Rotterdam and A Tale of A Tub. Visit Yoeri Guépin’s solo exhibition ‘The Smallest Gesture’ at A Tale of A Tub through November 5, 2023 and his installation in the group exhibition of the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023 at TENT through January 7, 2024.
About Yoeri Guépin
YOERI GUÉPIN (he/him) is a visual artist, researcher, and gardener. His projects are long term and collaboratively oriented, involving experimental forms of care, working with embodied knowledge, storytelling, and ecosystems at the margins. His experience of being brought up at a biodynamic farm, helping his parents in the fields from a young age led to an interest in (agri)cultural histories. Guépin holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute. His work is nominated for the Dolf Henkes Prize (2023) and has recently been exhibited at TENT Rotterdam (2023), the Sharjah Biennale (2023), and Kadist San Francisco (2022). In 2022, he was a fellow at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. He is a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht for 2023-2024.