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73 zones for contemporary art
It has been almost 1 year since we published our first Art Map Rotterdam. We made this map because we thought nothing was happening in our city, that good old Rotterdam was a cultural desert.
This revised version shows again there are many art spaces, aesthetic zones or platforms for contemporary art currently active (and open!), and that the city still offers possibilities for artists and cultural entrepreneurs. This time we made clear categories: project spaces, institutes, galleries, independent magazines and publishers, web based projects, collective studio buildings with a public program. There are 11 new spaces, and we deleted 15 spaces that quit, were not active or visible (to us), or went back into hibernation. It is a dynamic process. Like a Tamagotchi: the live span varies depending on the love and attention. The moment this map went to print we counted in total 73 aesthetic zones of which 35 are white cube exhibition spaces, big or small. But it is of course the quality and not the quantity that counts.
Rive Gauche or Rive Droite?
The map shows the biggest concentration on the Rive Droit (Right Bank or Noord), and a small cluster on the Rive Gauche (South Bank or Op Zuid) in Charlois, and some scattered around Afrikaanderplein. The trend is that the city council is moving cultural venues to the South Bank and stimulate cultural entrepeneurs to move to Zuid to help the urban renewal of this poor residential area. Richard Florida is responsible for this. In some cases it probably will make a difference. But I really doubt a few artists, kunstenaarsparticipatie, and socio-artistic public projects are going to solve the big problems of Rotterdam; unemployment 8,5%, poverty, education, bad housing, poor integration, middle class leaving the city, and the lack of cultural elite. (note: see pdf Marcel Möring)
Rive Gauche generally refers to the Paris of an earlier era. It connotes a sense of bohemianism, avant-garde and creativity. Sorry, Zuid is not Montparnasse and Laan op Zuid certainly not Boulevard Saint-Germain. Yes artists benefit from this with cheap housing and affordable studio spaces – artists are always opportunistic, they have to – and hopefully at the same time if they still have some critical thinking they will try to influence the cultural political agenda. Still if you look at the new initiatives like Sils (with coffee bar Half Juni), L.P.Hendriks, and the cultural map Charlois 2009-2010 you will see that the (international) art community on the South Bank is growing. And maybe the crisis offers new opportunities to occupy empty spaces when new office towers will stay empty on Manhattan-Like Wilhelmina pier, and when all cultural venues have moved out of downtown Rotterdam.
We like to mention 11 new art spaces; Bob Smit Gallery, De Kapsalon, Galerie Van Krimpen, L.P.Hendriks, OCW- Podium voor kleinschaligheden, PAE (Performance Art Event), Roodkapje Rot(T)terdam, Sensational Mix, Sils, Wallgallery, and De Zwarte Ruyter. And finally we also like to share this information: starting from May artists can (again) apply for funding at CBK (read FGA#21). There is 300.000 euro available for research and development.
p.s.
In every other city where we go to openings you will always have the change meeting famous curators, critics, and art-stars. All the openings we attended in Rotterdam the last half year we did not see one of the curators or director of our beloved art institutes. We wonder why? It would really make a difference.
Help us to develope the Art Map#2.0 Rotterdam, send an email.
In the meantime we will keep a dynamic update here on our website.
^Rob Hamelijnck
19 Project spaces - white cube & black box
1 ADA Rotterdam
http://adarotterdam.nl
Area for debate and art.
Artists’ initiative since September 2008, initiated by 7 Rotterdam-based artists: Maja Bekan, Deirdre M. Donoghue, Loes Hoeijmakers, Gerwin Luijendijk, Margo Onnes, Esmé Valk and Sjoerd Westbroek. First space was located in Scheepvaartkwartier, now moved to Zuid.
Bree 93-B
3074 BD Rotterdam
Tram 25 Sandelingplein
2 De Aanschouw
www.aanschouw.nl
This might be the smallest gallery in the world. Size: 40 x 67 x 115 cm. It is a parasite (show-window next to the door) on café De Schouw. Almost 400 artists have exhibited work here. Exhibition changes every Friday night at 20.30.
Witte de Withstraat 80b
Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
3 DEK–22
www.dek-22.com
Internationaal Lokaal Creatieve activering.
Curating young Rotterdam artists. In the basement: Ruim22.
Willem Buytewechstr. 22
3024 BN Rotterdam
Metro Coolhaven, Tram 8 Pieter De Hoochweg
4 Half Juni
halfjuni@gmail.com
1ste coffee-bar and hang-out Op Zuid. This is how the artists Iddo Drevijn and Martijn in ‘t Veld see their meeting zone. They have really good coffee from an Italian coffee machine, free WLAN, artists publications and magazines. Open from Thursday – Sunday 1pm – 5pm. It is nice, go there! See also Sils.
Wolphaertsbocht 51 Rotterdam
Metro Maashaven / change to Tram 2 + Bus 44, 46 Wolphaertsbocht
5 De Kapsalon
http://nowshow.it/Kapsalon
Established in 2009 by Ashley Nijland en Coen van der Steen at Afrikaanderplein. Works connected to site-specific intervention made inside the gallery.
Bloemfonteinstraat 3
3072 HA, Rotterdam
Metro Rijnhaven
6 Kunst Rotterdam Noord
CGMholland@yahoo.com
Artist Carlo van Driel started runs this art space in Station Noord, a 1950s building by neglected
Dutch architect Sybold van Ravesteyn. Contact via email.
Contact: Bergweg 8
3036 BA Rotterdam
Tram 4, Station Noord
7 L.P. Hendriks
l.p.hendriks@gmail.com
Nomadic project space by Piet Zwart Institute graduate David Stamp (UK), and PZi student Derek Brunen (CAN) and Martijn In't Veld (see also Half Juni). It is a good thing that artists stay in this city and initiate an art space. Very important...SUPER! Contact via email.
8 OCW - podium voor Kleinschaligheden
arnosch@wxs.nl
Artist Arnold Schalks (see also Surinoemer) opened a space for art, dance, music, literature, theatre and cinema in an old school building.
Osseweistraat 35, lokaal 11
3023 DB Rotterdam
Metro Coolhaven, Tram 4 Ruilstraat
9 PARANOOT
paranoot@gmail.com
Expositieruimte voor moderne kunst (exhibition space for modern art) founded in November 2008 by Evelien de Jong and Richard Trifunovi.
Essenburgsingel 68 bgr.
3022 EB Rotterdam
Bus 38, 40, 44 Beukelsdijk, or 10 minute walk from Central Station
10 Performance Art Event - PAE
www.performanceartevent.nl
International platform for performance art initiated by artists Nina Boas and Martijn Stellinga. Their partners are; dKC Rotterdam; Nina Boas; Stichting NAC; Tent.CBK; Wolfart Projectspaces.
Contact: mail@performanceartevent.nl
11 Het Plafond
www.hetplafond.org
Ruimte voor kunsten en cultuur in the apartment of artist Willem Besselink and art historian Guus Vreeburg. Since spring 1997, no regular opening hours. Visible day and night.
Gedempte Zalmhaven 761
3011 BT Rotterdam
12 De Player
www.deplayer.nl / www.com-post.nl / www.deli-light.nl / www.big-mag.nl
DE PLAYER, DSPS, BIGMAG., COM.POST, DELI-LIGHT... The legendary highbrow underground to low-fi über-grund: sound gallery and performance stage.
Hilleweg 46-b + 49-d
3072 JE Rotterdam
(Next to Sex Shop Helen)
Metro Rijnhaven, and good for bikes
13 Roodkapje 2.0
www.roodkapje.org
From March 2010 - 2011 Roodkapje (2.0) presents project ROT(T)TERDAM in 700 m2 casco space located at de Meent opposite Dudok. They call it a cultural supermarket. Monthly exhibitions etc. in the spirit of Berlin, Barcelona and Istanbul. This is project space new style. Never seen so many sponsors: VSB fonds, CBK, OBR, DKc, Centrumraad, Roteb, HEMA, Schadee Fonds, St. Bevordering Volkskracht, PG2, Het Beeldgebouw, www.idrukker.nl, Quintus Belichting, Piekfijn, and the late J.D Salinger & Lee Alexander McQueen for broadening their view.
Meent 119-133
3011 JH Rotterdam
14 Sensational Mix
http://sensationalmix.blogspot.com
A new initiative op Zuid by curators Roland Groenenboom (Sensational Fix) and Nathalie Houtermans (Mixtura). Sensational Mix wants to do justice to the cultural potential of Rotterdam Zuid by realising noteworthy international art projects on Rive Gauche.
15 Sils Rotterdam
committee.sils@gmail.com
Sils Rotterdam is a new project space hosted by A Locatie (see also coffee bar Half Juni). The programme 2010 will feature a series of 5 group exhibitions. The space is run by an international team of curators/artists; Stefano Calligaro, Rachel Carey, Teresa Iannotta, David Stamp co-founder of L.P.Hendriks, Martijn in’t Veld co-founder of the social platform/ coffee bar Half Juni, and Kathrin Wolkowicz.
c/o A Locatie
Wolphaertsbocht 51
Metro Maashaven / change to Tram 2 + Bus 44, 46 Wolphaertsbocht
16 Sub-Urban Video Lounge
www.sub.urbanespressobar.nl
Initiative of Toine Horvers in the basement of Urban Espresso Bar since November 2004. Video projections from 12:00 to 17:00. Open Tuesday–Saturday from 09:00 to 7:30, Sunday and Monday from 11:00 to 17:30.
Botersloot 44a
3011 HH Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 21 Blaak
17 W Lf_rt Projectspaces
www.wolfart.nl
Small community space for performance based art, with 2 project spaces, a communal garden and kitchen.
Wolphaertstraat 25b+c
3082 BK Rotterdam
Metro Maashaven / change to Tram 2 + Bus 44, 46 Wolphaertsbocht
18 De Zwarte Ruyter + Bookstore
www.dezwarteruyter.net
De Zwarte Ruyter is a new research and presentation space for contemporary art and visual culture by Tijs Bakker, Judith Vogt, and Bonno van Doorn. Just opened: BookCase is a bookstore for artist books, publications, editions, and magazines.
Van Der Takstraat 107
3071 LK Rotterdam
Bus 32 and 48 Noordereiland
19 Zwervende Tentoonstellingen
www.zwervendetentoonstelling.nl
Since 2005 (named De Salon) Tamar de Kemp and Maartje Berendsen have organised temporary exhibitions, each time at a different location. We haven't seen much lately?
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9 Magazines & Publishers
20 Club Donny
www.clubdonny.com
Biannual magazine about the personal experience of nature in the urban environment. Published by Frank Bruggeman, Ernst van der Hoeven and Ben Laloua/Didier Pascal. Club Donny claims to be ‘stricktly’ unedited.
21 Fucking Good Art
www.fuckinggoodart.nl
Initiated by artists Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma. Non-academic freestylers with a do-it-yourself attitude, agitprop publishers and knowledge producers, working within a specific local context. Since the publication of the first Rotterdam issue in December 2003 they have made issues in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Copenhagen, Riga and Zurich. Fucking Good Art is published in print and online.
Calandstraat 3-b
3016 CA Rotterdam
Tram 7 Willemsplein
22
(A5 The New 16 MM)
hOUTSKOOL is a quaterly published xeroxed artzine in a print run of 500 copies. It is focused on the work-in-progress by international contemporary artists and art critics based in The Netherlands. Correspondence only via snail mail.
hOUTSKOOL
Postbus 1446
3500 BK Utrecht
23 MONU – Magazine on Urbanism
www.monu-magazine.com
Bi-annual international forum for artists, writers and designers that are working on topics of urban culture, development and politics. MONU has been founded in 2004 by Bernd Upmeyer together with his Rotterdam based Bureau of Architecture, Research and Design (BOARD) and managed by MONU's managing editor Beatriz Ramo.
Delftsestraat 27
3013 AE Rotterdam
24 Pages
www.pagesmagazine.net
Pages was launched in 2004 by Rotterdam-based Iranian artists Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi. Pages’ projects are defined through activities such as the bilingual Farsi?/ English magazine, architectural proposals, video documentations and installation works.
25 Post Editions
www.post-editions.com
Publishing house by Nina Post.
Marconistraat 52
(harbour 357)
3029 AK Rotterdam
Metro Marconiplein
26 SEA URCHIN
www.sea-urchin.net
Small independent publishing house run by Ben Schot specialising in works of the historical avant-garde and the counterculture. Started collaboration with freelance curator Roland Groenenboom from Sensational Fix fanzines.
SEA URCHIN editions
Postbus 25212
3001 HE Rotterdam
27 Studio 3005
www.studio3005.nl
Small independent publishing house run by Marc Vleugels for literature, art, architecture, and philosophy.
Insulindestraat 93-b
3038 JG Rotterdam
28 Surinoemer
www.arnoldschalks.nl
Artist Arnold Schalks, formerly of Vrije Schuur and Schuurpapier fame, treats us to a new project: the Surinoemer. The first issue was launched on 11 December 2007 in Paramaribo, in an edition of 250, photocopied. Digital copy available on the website.
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3 Web-based projects
29 De Serafijn
mail@qsserafijn.nl
A PDF briefing by artist and writer Q.S. Serafijn. Distribution (irregularly) via mail. Subscribe to De Serafijn.
30 Trendbeheer
www.trendbeheer.com
Digital meeting place (digitale hanghoek) of Jeroen Bosch, Niels Post and friends. They post updates with their smart phones on new trends in the (Rotterdam) art world. Fotolog and blog.
31 Volksrekorders
www.volksrekorders.com
Web-based platform run by 9 artists with an interest in public art.
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9 Collective studios + residency + public events
32 B.a.d Foundation
www.foundationbad.nl
Studios, guest studios, events and exhibitions. Founded in 1987 B.a.d currently has 15 members, 2 residencies and 4 guest studios. Good news is that under the banner BTTF! B.a.d to the Future, the building will be turned into a permanent studio complex in 2010.
Talingstraat 5
3082 MG Rotterdam
Metro Maashaven / change to Tram 2 Van Blommesteynweg + Bus 46 Boergoense vliet
33 Cucosa
www.cucosa.nl
Artists’ collective in spaces under Hofplein station. They have 14 members working in Cucosa and a large project space.
Raampoortstraat 16
3032 AH Rotterdam
Tram 4 Heer Bokelweg, 10 minute walk from Central Station
34 Duende
www.duendestudios.nl
Studios, guest studios, events and exhibitions. Duende is a self-organised and independent artists’ cooperative housed in a building that has provided 42 studios since 1984 including 2 guest studios.
Tamboerstraat 9
3034 PT Rotterdam
Tram 7 Boezemweg
35 Fam.RUIM
http://familieruim.wordpress.com
This is a studio, gallery and office for projects. Fam.RUIM is an initiative of Floor Margarita Cornelisse, Anique Alice Weve and Marlous Wessels.
Nieuwe Binnenweg 226a
Rotterdam
Tram 4 Claes de Vriese-laan
36 Het Wilde Weten
www.hetwildeweten.com
Twenty studios and one guest studio, events and exhibitions.
Robert Fruinstraat 35
3021 XB Rotterdam
Tram 4 Heemraadsplein
37 Kaus Australis
www.kausaustralis.org
Studios, guest studios, events and exhibitions. Established in 1985. 1360 m2, four studios plus three guest studios / presentation space.
Melanchtonweg 137
3045PN Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 20, 25 Melanchtonweg
38 Kunst&Complex
www.kunstencomplex.nl
Studios, guest studios, events and exhibitions. 17 studios, and 3 guest studios and presentations. Established in 1981.
Keileweg 26
3029 BT Rotterdam
Metro Marconiplein, actually you’d better come by car or bicycle
39 Sandersgeluk
www.sandersgeluk.nl
Interdisciplinary collective founded by Fransje Kraaij, Sander Zweerts de Jong and Rineke Kraaij.
Every Wednesday communal breakfast (werkontbijt) from 8.00–9.30 am.
Pupillenstraat 68 Rotterdam West.
Pupillenstraat 68
Postbus 25063
3001 HB Rotterdam
Tram 4 Aelbrechtskade
40 SingerSweatShop
www.singersweatshop.nl
Studios, events and exhibitions. Young artists from various fields have their studios and organize exhibitions, events, workshops, parties, high teas, filmnights, and promote “gezelligheid” of the highest level! SingerSweatShop started in August 2007.
Hoogstraat 170
3011 PV Rotterdam
Entrance around the back on Zijl.
Metro Blaak
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NAC
www.stichting-nac.nl
Foundation NAC (New Studios Charlois) is a non-profit organisation, initially founded to arrange the self-management of studio spaces for artists. NAC has over a hundered addresses in Charlois. Their aim is to stimulate artistic activities and supports: L.P. Hendriks, Club Attent, W Lfr_t project spaces, BART-store, Gallery 182 and Half Juni. NAC also has 2 guest residencies called Zimmerfrei #1 & 2. NAC-Office is open on Wednesdays from 10:00-14:00
Godschalkstraat 5
3084 RA Rotterdam
RAiR–Rotterdam Artist in Residencies
www.rair.nl
RAiR is a new foundation initiated in 2008 by B.a.d Foundation, Duende Studios, Kaus Australis, Kunst & Complex and Het Wilde Weten. These artist-run studio buildings joined forces, aiming at a cooperation between their different residency programmes in order to maximise their potential and to create a platform for international artists in Rotterdam and beyond.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
MISS READ – September 3 to 5
Friday: opening from 3 – 7 pm
Opening Party with basso & friends from 7 pm
Saturday and Sunday: noon – 7 pm
For the second time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to show their artist books at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. As a genre of its own, the artist books reflects contemporary ways of artistic production and publishing to a great extent and also addresses issues of presentation and circulation as well as new strategies of distribution. Presenting a selection of more than 40 of the most active contributors in this field, the festival provides the rare opportunity to encounter and explore the contemporary scene of independent publishing.
MISS READ Programme
A programme in collaboration with Christoph Keller.
Saturday, September 4
2 pm Brett Bloom (Half Letter Press / Temporary Services): The Smell of Books Surrounds You!
3 pm Zak Kyes: On-Site: Publication as Practise
4 pm Achim Lengerer (Scriptings): Models For Rehearsing The Script
5 pm Jeff Khonsary (Fillip): On Free Content
Sunday, September 5
2 pm Eva Weinmayr: I Wonder What the Silence Was About. Film Screening and Talk
3 pm Artist lecture by Michael Stevenson
www.kw-berlin.de
Fucking Good Art will be represented at Preview Berlin in the media table.
www.previewberlin.de
Frozen Moments – Architecture Speaks Back
July 22 – 25 2010, Tbilisi Georgia. In the Former Ministry of Highways of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Entrance from Gagarini St. 29a
Laura Palmer Foundation, Other Space Foundation and GeoAIR present: Research & Leisure. Art, architecture, talks, concerts, field trips, and more from 22 - 25 July, 16.00-21.00 in the framework of the Project public talks and discussions will be held (in English) in the former Ministry building. Free and open to all!
LINKS:
Ruins of our times
Frozen Moments Photo Album
www.laura-palmer.pl
Fucking Good ArtTitle: Tower I, Floor XIII
+ performance Going up, going down
In the almost fully destroyed Ministry of Highway the elevator room and smoking corner in Tower 1 on the 13th floor seemed rather untouched. It was not a specially characteristic place for the building though. It looks like the 70s international style. If you would take out the Russian signs and typography it could look like a Swiss hotel elevator or any institutional building anywhere in the world. We cleaned it thoroughly, waxed and glossed it, repaired what was broken, and added what was missing. The replacing parts we found in 5 other locations in the building. What came out under the dirt is a time capsule that, according to one of the Armenian artists in the project Ruben Arevshatyan, smells like a Soviet institutional building.
Performance:Going Up Going Down
An informal dialogue about elevators, architecture, art, exorcism, fame and glory, power and decay, and about an ant that meets a sugar cube.
*From “The Ant, Respect and Fame”, by Anton Koolhaas (Rem Koolhaas’ father, who was a well known Dutch fables writer).
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Downloadable and ready-to-print PDF of the latest version of Rotterdam Art MAp 2.0 will be available here soon. Published under Creative Commons Licentie14 Galleries
41 Bob Smit GALLERY
www.bobsmit.com
Bob Smit, a 3rd year Willem de Kooning student with ambition started a beautiful gallery in February 2010. He just signed a lease for 1 and a half year.
Eendrachtsplein 16
3012 LA Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 4 and 7 Eendrachtsplein
42 BuroDijkstra
www.burodijkstra.com
BuroDijkstra Four Years! Albert Dijkstra opened the gallery in an industrial space (Kunst&Complex) in the port of Rotterdam end 2005. in February 2007 he opened a second space in Amsterdam called the BuroDijkstra Private Viewing Space Amsterdam.
Keileweg 26
3029 BT Rotterdam
Metro Marconiplein, or by car or bicycle
& Van Noordtkade 16B
1013 BZ Amsterdam
43 Galerie Cokkie Snoei
www.cokkiesnoei.com
Established in 1989 on the Witte de Withstraat. Since 1995 in her current location. Cokkie opened a second gallery in Amsterdam.
Mauritsweg 55
3012 JX Rotterdam
Tram 4 and 7 Eendrachtsplein
Cokkie Snoei Amsterdam:
Hazenstraat 11
1016 SM Amsterdam
44 Galerie Delta
Hans Sonnenberg organised the first ZERO exhibition in 1959. Galerie Delta started in 1962 in the Witte de Withstraat. In 1977 he moved to the current location. Delta was the first Dutch gallery to show Jean-Michel Basquiat. This is the only gallery I know of without a website.
Oude Binnenweg 113
3012 JB Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 4, 7 Eendrachtsplein
45 Hommes + 2 residencies
www.hommes.nl
Exhibition space for contemporary art including espresso bar and reading table.
Hommes started a residency program with 2 Artists in Residence-studio's. Foreign artists can apply for a residency of 6 months upto 1 year.
Charloisse Kerksingel 14
3082 DA Rotterdam
Metro Maashaven / change to Tram 2 Wolphaerstbocht + Bus 46 Rietdijk
46 Gallery Van Krimpen
www.wimvankrimpen.nl
Wim van Krimpen former director of de Kunsthal and Gemeente museum Den Haag opened his gallery on Saturday 9. His bigger plan is to establish a cluster of 5 galleries in 1 building.
Oude Binnenweg 25.
47 De KunstSuper – Galerie
www.dekunstsuper.nl
Galerie and project space by Frank Taal (see also De Aanschouw), René Boonstra and Leo de Bie. 6 show a year.
Grote Visserijstraat 7B
3026 CA Rotterdam
Tram 21 and 23, Mathenesserbrug
48 Mirta Demare + residency
www.mirtademare-art.nl
Contemporary art mostly from South America and residency exchange programme.
Bergsingel 176-b
3037 GN Rotterdam
Tram 4 Eudokiaplein
49 MK Galerie
www.mkgalerie.nl
Karmin Kartowikroma and Emmo Grofsmid opened their gallery in The Golden Years. They opened a beautiful big second space in Berlin. Together with Onno van Toor Karmin started the gallery magazine: What's Up. www.whatsupmagazine.nl
Witte de Withstraat 53
3012 BM Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26 (former Kochstrasse 60) Berlin.
50 Phoebus Rotterdam
www.phoebus.nl
Established 1990. Also readings and discussions. Eendrachtsweg 61
3012 LG Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
51 RAM
www.ram-art.nl
Blekerstraat 10
3011 CH Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
52 Vivid
www.vividvormgeving.nl
Gallery for design and art run by Aad Krol and Saskia Copper. They issue a monthly e-newsletter.
William Boothlaan 17-a
3012 VH Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
53 Wallgallery
www.wallgallery.nl
Michel van Adrichem – known from Salle de Bain and Salle Demain – started a gallery on a 24 meter long wall in his home in The Red Apple. His motto: Free Panorama Views for ALL. Wallgallery opened on the magical date and time: 9.09.09 at 9pm. Visits by appointment only, or join the guest list.
The Red Apple at 37th floor.
Wijnbrugstraat 330
3011 XW Rotterdam
Metro Blaak
54 Wilfried Lentz
www.wilfriedlentz.com
The gallery space opened in 2008 and is tucked away in the middle of the Groot Handelsgebouw– designed by Dutch modernist architect Hugh Maaskant.
Groothandelsgebouw Unit C1.140. Stationsplein 45
3013 AK Rotterdam
Centraal Station
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14 Institutes
55 Arminius
www.arminius.nu
Podium for art, culture and debate in late 19th-century church opposite Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Museumpark 3
3015 CB Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
56 Blaak 10
www.blaak10.nl
Gallery of Willem de Kooning Academie.
Witte de Withstraat 7a
3012 BK Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark + Trams 8, 20 Blaak
57 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl
Collections of old masters, modern and contemporary art, applied arts and design. Annual budget is approximately 12 million euros, admission 9 euros. Free admission on Wednesdays.
Museumpark 18 - 20
3015 CX Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
58 Nederlands Foto Museum – NFM
www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl
Las Palmas
Wilhelminakade 332
3072 AR Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 20 Wilhelminaplein
59 't Gemaal
Tent.CBK, The Historical Museum and Kosmopolis are joining forces for two years starting January 2009 at the Afrikaanderplein. This programme is supported by Pact op Zuid and Vestia.
Pretorialaan 141 Rotterdam Zuid
Metro Maashaven
60 MAMA
www.showroommama.nl
MAMA (1997) is a project by the Public Art Squad Foundation. It is a platform for visual culture on the cutting edge of visual arts and popular culture. Former chef Nous Faes was recently succeeded by Ariadne Urlus.
Witte de Withstr. 29-31
3012 BL Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
61 Piet Zwart Institute
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl
Institute for postgraduate studies and research. Public programme with exhibitions, lectures, screenings and publications. The institute also organises presentations at WORM on a regular basis. Vanessa Ohlraun from Berlin is Piet Zwarts' second director.
Karel Doormanhof 45
3012 GC Rotterdam
Metro + Trams 4 & 7 Eendrachtsplein.
62 Rechtsachter
www.cbk.rotterdam.nl
Small exhibition space (± 40 m2) in Centrum Beeldende Kunst. CBK was established in 1982 to support art production in Rotterdam and stimulate the art scene. It also houses the Kunstuitleen (art rental).
Nieuwe Binnenweg 75
3014 GE Rotterdam
Tram 4 Gouvernestraat, 7 Eendrachtsplein
63 Sculpture International Rotterdam
www.sculptureinternationalrotterdam.nl
Head: Dees Linders. Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR) was set up in 1999 to focus attention on the city’s impressive collection of public sculptures and to ensure their long-term preservation. Over the next few years their focus is on the complex and intriguing public domain around the Coolsingel (from the Hofplein to the Erasmus Bridge) the area around the Central Station and the Laurenskwartier.
SIR opened a FREE cinema in October 2009. Tuesday - Friday 5 - 8 pm, Saturday and Sunday open from 2 - 6 pm.
Coolsingel 47
Rotterdam
Metro Stadhuis
64 Stadscollectie
www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl
A collection of contemporary art by artists working in Rotterdam and Rijnmond, established in 1988 within Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Former curators were Jan van Adrichem, Dees Linders, Arno van Roosmalen, Wilma Sütö and the trio: Patricia Pulles, Bregje van Woensel and Annemartine van Kesteren a.k.a Digital Little Sisters. New stadsconservator since 2009 Saskia van Kampen.
Museumpark 18 - 20
3015 CX Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
65 Tent. CBK
www.tentrotterdam.nl
In the same building as Witte de With CBK rents 1000 m2 exhibition space since 1999. Tent. was established in order to show art from Rotterdam and is currently led by Mariette Dölle.
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
66 De Unie
www.deunie.nu
Platform for debate, art and culture, café and restaurant. Monthly film programme Off Screen organised and presented by Christiaan van Schermbeek.
Mauritsweg 34 - 35
3012 JT Rotterdam
5 minute walk from Central Station
67 V2
www.v2.nl
Institute for the Unstable Media. In 25 years V2 has developed from an artist-run space (started in Den Bosch) into an interdisciplinary centre for art and media technology. Maybe best known for the DEAF festival organised every 2 years. Residency program currently consists of two fully funded and technically supported residencies a year (full residency) and irregular residency positions in the form of providing a workplace within the V2_Lab (support residency).
Eendrachtstraat 10
3012 XL Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
68 Witte de With
www.wdw.nl
20 Years! Established in 1990 as a centre for contemporary art with the mission to introduce contemporary art and theory in the context of the city of Rotterdam. Former directors: Chris Dercon, Bartomeu Marí, Catherine David, Hans Maarten vd Brink. Current director: Nicolaus Schafhausen.
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
Tram 7 Museumpark
69 WORM
www.wormweb.nl
WORM concerts, WORM cinema, WORM bar, radio WORM, WORM station, WORM book and record shop and Film workshop (16mm). Chef de mission: Obersturmbahnführer Hajo Doorn of the V.O.C. He hopes to move to a building downtown.
Achterhaven 148
3024 RC Rotterdam
Metro, Tram 4 Delfshaven
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70 Art Rotterdam
www.artrotterdam.nl
International Art Fair in the old Cruise Terminal building of the Holland America line. First week of february.
Metro, Tram 20 Wilhelminaplein
71 IFFR-Rotterdam Film Festival
www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Main stream and independent, innovative, international and experimental cinema as well as a series of film-related visual arts exhibitions and live performances. Starting last week of January: twelve festival days in 24 screening venues located within central Rotterdam.
72 Museumnacht
All museums of Rotterdam present a special programme.
73 De Wereld van de Witte de With
www.festivalwww.nl
Three days of street art for the people. Second week of September.
Critical essay by writer Marcel Möring (in Dutch) on Rotterdam. There are to many festivals and no cultural elite – Rotterdam is het afvoerputje van de Randstad. Published in NRC weekend edition September 19/20 2009.Download CLICK here
ART AGENDA ROTTERDAM CLICK here!
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Fucking Good Art is a printed and online editorial art project by artists Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma. Fucking Good Art is an artists' magazine for research, has a participatory strategy and it is by nature highly sensitive to its context. We collect and generate textual and visual content, including critical writing.
Fucking Good Art – Rotterdam
Editors – Rob Hamelijnck en Nienke Terpsma
Typography – Nienke Terpsma
Print – De Boog, Rotterdam
Paper – La Gazetta dello Sport
Webdesign – catalogtree.net
Webmaster – Guy Lux
First issue December 2003
Editorial studio – Calandstraat 3b, 3016 CA Rotterdam
Reactions – mail[at]fuckinggoodart.nl
ISSN: 1874-0227
Special editions (in other European cities):
2004 - München edition - A3
2005 - The Interviews - pocket book, 140 pages Dutch/Eng.
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