16.o7 – 22.o8, 2o1o
SCREENING: Friday 16.o7, 2o1o [2o.ooh]
in filmzaal Kriterion (Groot Handelsgebouw, Rotterdam)


TENT. ACADEMY AWARDS 2o1o


The annual competition between the best final exam videos, films, shorts and animations from all the Dutch art academies.

On Friday 16 July, TENT. screened the nominated films in a historical cinema in the Groot Handelsgebouw, Rotterdam. On this evening the jury announced the 2o1o winners and members of the audience voted for their favourite. This year an international competition was included in the programme of the TENT. Academy Awards. For the first time, students from German art academies also got the chance to win an award: the TENT. Academy Award For Best Foreign Film.

Aslı Toy (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam) won the TENT. Academy Award 2o1o.  Florian Riegel (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) won the TENT. Academy Award For Best Foreign Film. And Gwendolyn Keasberry (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag) won this year's Public Award.

The nominated films are shown in an exhibition in TENT. until August 22.

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o9.o7 – 22.o8, 2o1o
Opening o9.o7, 2o1o 2o.ooh


If You Say Something,
See Something.


Ghislain Amar (FR), Derek Brunen (CA), Diana Duta (RO),
Priscila Fernandes (PT), Bitsy Knox (CA), Tom Kok (NL),
Sjoerd van Leeuwen (NL), Bat Sheva Ross (IL), Marnie Slater (NZ),
Jay Tan (UK), Selina Taylor (UK), Annie Wu (AU)

Ghislain Amar, 2o1o

Graduation show of the Master Fine Art Programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, a postgraduate programme of the Willem de Kooning Academy/Rotterdam University. Twelve artists from various countries present new installations, photographs, videos and performances developed specifically for the exhibition at TENT.

By way of their own individual languages and interests the artists flirt with different meanings of fiction: imaginary prose, false beliefs held to be true for expediency's sake, and sheer fabrication. The art works on view conjure up an idea of the artist as amateur - adventurer, researcher, poet - delving into, and perhaps uncovering, the convenient falsehoods with which we are surrounded.

The title of the exhibition If you say something, see something. is taken from the title of a poem by Charles Bernstein and like this word play, skews the habitual hierarchy of form and content.

The exhibition is curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Guy Ben-Ner.

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By Sebastiaan Straatsma

Sebastiaan Straatsma, Shared Space #2, 2oo9 (photo: Bob Goedewaagen)

Witte de With and TENT. present Shared Space II, a spatial design on the 1st floor by Rotterdam based designer Sebastiaan Straatsma. Shared Space is a long term collaboration project between Witte de With and TENT. in which designers from Rotterdam are invited to work on an overall concept for the space used by the two institutions. This in-between space on the 1st floor is used by visitors as well as by staff members of both art institutions. The project Shared Space is not only meant to be a design, but also a space in which visitors are allowed to touch objects. In contrast to other spaces in the building, sharing is not only meant to be visual but also tactile.

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TENT. [Previous Shows]

29.o4 – 27.o6, 2o1o
Opening 29.o4, 2o1o 2o.ooh


ENIGMA


Lorenzo Casali, Martina Florians, Marcha van den Hurk,
Juul Kraijer, Joris Kuipers, Lieke Snellen

Lorenzo Casali

From 29 April to 27 June, TENT. presents video installations, drawings, sculptures and photographs by six Rotterdam-based artists whose work does not avoid 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 moments, places and people, who avoid the assignment of meaning, that exist without us knowing them. Enigma is not an exhibition that provides answers, but which poses questions.

Lorenzo Casali’s video installations have an ephemeral character. Shadows and spots of light dance across a wall without ever forming a recognizable picture. Casali filmed the light entering the space, which casts shadows in empty rooms, on abandoned furniture or flaking layers of plaster. They become shadows of a disappearing past.

The laboratory-like set-ups of Martina Florians often strike an absurdist tone. Florians is not engaged in science. Instead she uses objects, odours, liquids and humour to tells personal stories, or she offers solutions that are not solutions. Her installation in TENT. is based on an anecdote about a Slovak sausage maker, who creatively managed to evade the European regulations.

The work of Marcha van den Hurk typically features vagrants, the anonymous figures that inhabit large cities. Non-conformist, independent and unpredictable, the vagrant withdraws from society. In Van den Hurk’s photographs and sculptures, the figure of the vagrant becomes an anonymous form, an object that stands midway between a human figure and a landscape element, between dreamed and real life.

Mysterious women, merged with nature, emerge from the paper in Juul Kraijer’s refined drawings. These are creatures of nature that escaped from mythology and which have their origins in art history and Indian miniatures. For some years now Kraijer has also been making ceramic sculptures and videos, a number of which are shown in the exhibition.

The spectacular cutout paper wall reliefs and drawings by Joris Kuipers appropriate so much space that the observer is absorbed by them, almost becoming part of them. A tangle of light-red forms appears to stream down the wall, has no beginning or end. The game with size and scale and the uncontrolled growth of indefinable forms evokes a sensation in which fear of the unknown alternates with curiosity for the unknown.

After graduating from the Piet Zwart Institute (2oo7), Lieke Snellen’s artistic practice soon developed towards autonomous sculpture, in which questions on the basic principles of sculptural art and medium-specificity (referring to the well-known art critic Rosalind Krauss) play an important role. The sculpture presents itself as autonomous, free of any direct reference, coagulated in a precarious balance between the surreal and the realistic, the banal and the spectacular, the aesthetic and the conceptual.

19.o2 – 18.o4, 2o1o
Opening 19.o2, 2o1o 2o.ooh
BAVO, Joep Bertrams, Marc Bijl, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson,
Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries, Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum,
Tellervo Kalleinen en Oliver Kochta, Sjoerd Oudman,
Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Jack Segbars, Jonas Staal.

Jonas Staal, Politiek Kunstbezit, 2o1o
Relief Huibert Bernardus Wilhelmus de Ru
Vrijheid, Arbeid, Brood - Socialisme! (collection PvdA, Rotterdam) Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg


From 19 February to 18 April, TENT. presents the group exhibition The People United Will Never Be Defeated. In view of the recent developments in Dutch politics, this is an exhibition of topical interest, which critically examines 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. In The People United Will Never Be Defeated it is, however, not about art demonstrating its engagement. The focus is on artists who emphatically, and explicitly, raise the issue of the political system: the voting, the speechmaking, the campaigns, the meetings, the decisions. By getting close to the politician they enter into dialogue with the established order.

New and existing works; videos, drawings, installations
In the space-filling installation ‘Politiek Kunstbezit’ (Political Art Collection), Jonas Staal (1981) brings together works from the parliamentary chambers of the political parties in Rotterdam. Thus, the public can consider the meaning of art & culture from a political context. Filmmaker Rob Schröder (195o) interviewed the political parties about their art collections. This documentary is incorporated into the installation by Staal. Sjoerd Oudman (1982) composed a campaign song for all the political parties. Iratxe Jaio (1976) and Klaas van Gorkum (1975) swapped six campaign billboards in the centre of Rotterdam for their own new billboards. This intervention and the reactions of the public during the election period were recorded on video and will be shown in the exhibition. From an information stand, BAVO, consisting of Gideon Boie (1975) and Matthias Pauwels (1975), offer advice on the artists’ position in society and how to improve it. Jack Segbars (1963) made a video report of his trip to Israel / Palestine. In a video installation he shows that the impressions he gained were often conspicuously different than the images and information that we are familiar with. Marc Bijl (197o) made a mural especially for and in TENT., in which a political statement has the central role. In the video work Lobbyists Libia Castro (1969) & Ólafur Ólafsson (1973) portray lobbyists during their work at the European Parliament. The video uses different genres and is both a documentary and a music video. Fernando Sánchez Castillo (197o) makes a new work, which focuses on important figures in European political history. Political cartoonist Joep Bertrams (1946) is invited to present a selection of his drawings made for the Parool newspaper. Several years ago, Tellervo Kalleinen (1975) and Oliver Kochta (1971) started their project Complaints Choir, in which they appeal to the inhabitants of a city to gather together their complaints and to sing them in this choir. TENT. shows an installation of the project and the Rotterdam Complaints Choir will sing in the exhibition space on 3 March. The video work by Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries (1983) (previously selected for the TENT. Academy Awards) gives a penetrating account of how reason alternates with emotion in the voting for the Netherlands’ most controversial politician Geert Wilders. The title of the exhibition refers to a Chilean protest song from the nineteen seventies: “El Pueblo Unido jamas sera Vincendo” by Sergio Ortego. This was a period in which many Chilean artists fled to Europe and Rotterdam. And in the years that followed they expressed their political protests on the walls in the heart of the port city.

Post-Propaganda
The motivation for the exhibition is the essay Post-Propaganda (published by Fonds BKVB) by Jonas Staal, with which he aims to further the discussion on art and politics. On Staal’s invitation, Klaas van Gorkum and Iratxe Jaio, BAVO and Sjoerd Oudman have all produced new works in the public domain in Rotterdam.

By popular demand, the Campaign Songs by Sjoerd Oudman
are now available on CD in TENT.

o3.12, 2oo9 until o7.o2, 2o1o
Opening o3.12, 2oo9 2o.ooh

Katarina Zdjelar, Everything Is Gonna Be, 2oo9 (video)

Parapoetics is the first significant solo exhibition of the Rotterdam-based artist Katarina Zdjelar. TENT. presents recent video works by Katarina Zdjelar, in which she uses the singing, pronunciation, alteration or forgetting of language to examine notions of identity, authority and community. In January, a series of events is taking place around the themes in her work, with speakers including performer/writer Caroline Bergvall, sociologist Willem Schinkel and philosopher Mladen Dolar. The exhibition is accompanied by a guidebook with a conversation between Katarina Zdjelar and Mariette Dölle. The exhibition architecture is by Claus Wiersma.

o9.o9 until 15.11, 2oo9
OPENING: o9.o9, 2oo9 [19.ooh]




Nina Boas, Iddo Drevijn, Sophie Krier, Walter Langelaar,
Gyz La RiviÈre, Strange Attractors, Studio Spass,
EsmÉ Valk, Volksrekorders



HuMobisten, Come Closer and Ask Me for a Dance (performance) (photo: Menno Mono)

This autumn the Rotterdam exhibition space TENT. celebrates its tenth anniversary and presents the jubilee event BLURRR from 9 September to 15 November 2oo9. TENT. reveals a new cultural practice in which the young artist goes beyond the borders of different disciplines and presents him/herself as homo universalis 2.o.

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 become the most important basis for the practice of art without being noticed. Artists are simultaneously a performer, singer or designer. They work alternately in collectives, duos and groups. They share their knowledge or work on social network sites such as Facebook, Hyves or MySpace and assign the public an active role in their work. With BLURRR, TENT. poses the question: What consequences does this have for their artistic practice and how will this movement continue further? And how should the exhibition space relate to artists who constantly choose a new form of presentation?

A large-scale educational project for students of secondary and further education
is being organized to accompany the exhibition.



BLURRRR Festival programme is supported by Rotterdam Festivals
in the framework of the opening of the cultural season in Rotterdam.

Many thanks to Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht, DeltaPORT Donatiefonds, Erasmusstichting, Festival Wereld van Witte de With, WORM, Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming Rotterdam, Studium Generale, Centrum Beeldende kunst Rotterdam

1o.o7 until 23.o8, 2oo9
OPENING: Friday 1o.o7, 2oo9 [2o.ooh]








Isa Andreu (ES), Hadar Bernstein (IL), Rachel Carey (US),
Aline Keller (CH), Anke Kuipers (NL), Cornelia Heusser (CH),
Esperanza Rosales (US), David Stamp (UK),
Joshua Thies (US), Kathrin Wolkowicz (DE/PL)

David Stamp, Two Teapots (2oo8, variable, photograph)

Graduation Show of the Master of Fine Art Programme
of the Willem de Kooning Academy/
Rotterdam University

“Never odd or even” can be read from left to right and right to left. The word palindrome – which is what this fascinating phenomenon is called – comes from Greek language, where “palin” means “to return”, “to go back on your own trace”, and “dromos” means “the way”. Palindromes date back at least to 79 A.D., when a Latin word square – a sort of graffiti – was found at Herculaneum, buried by ash in that year. Palindromes require quite some flexibility from the reader; while the correct sequence of characters is there, the spacing may not be. It works with numbers as well – palindromes can be formed from almost any number by adding the original number to its reverse form. For example, 47 is not a palindrome. If you add 47 + 74 (the reverse of the original number), you get 121, which is a palindrome. And, last but not least: they are also connected to the origin of life. Palindrome sequences are required for the recombination of DNA molecules. This show takes “neveroddoreven” as its title, because – as with art and as with most group shows – you can invest time in thinking about what it may mean, as you can try to construct implied meaning from spatially organized relations. Or, you can perhaps think about the game with words or numbers that functions backwards as well as forwards.

(This text is generated through a combination of sources, such as Lycos Retriever,
the dictionary and discussions with and between the artists in this show and Bik Van der Pol.)

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16.o7 until 23.o8, 2oo9
SCREENING: Thursday 16.o7, 2oo9 [2o.ooh]

(Nominee) Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure, You’ll never walk alone, 2oo9

The TENT. Academy Awards are the annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations of all art academies in The Netherlands. On Thursday night 16 July the work of the sixteen nominees will be shown in Film Theatre Cinerama. This is the opportunity for the audience to discover new Dutch talent. The winner of 2oo9 will be announced by the jury and the audience will vote for the Public’s Choice Award ‘o9.

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14.o5 until 28.o6, 2oo9
Opening: Thursday 14.o5, 2oo9 [2o.ooh]

Marjolijn Dijkman, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

SOURCE MATERIAL presents the work of eight contemporary artists who use catalogueing, collection and classification as an artistic method in order to reconsider the meaning of history, identity and time. In recent years the art world has seen a striking interest in documentation and archiving. In the current era of Wikipedia and Web 2.o technologies, the access to source material has become virtually unlimited and the Internet functions as the archive of all archives. How can that immense amount of information be tamed? The artists in Source Material use an unorthodox way of unlocking, of 'knowing', in which the desire for order and clear arrangement can be converted into a passion for understanding the world. Surrounded by a flood of images, in their work they use archives, databases, and encyclopaedias or set up their own image bank. The traditional meaning and hierarchy of the images is made subordinate to a new logic, to a subversive, narrative or summarizing way of showing the world.

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19.o3 until o3.o5, 2oo9
Opening: Thursday 19.o3, 2oo9 [2o.ooh]

Villeroy & Boch, Pleasing panorama, 2oo9

Villeroy & Boch - 268 Masterpieces in RGB

Villeroy & Boch have only been painting together since 2007, but they already have 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.

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Olaf Mooij, Carskin, 2oo8 (foto: Olaf Mooij)


Olaf Mooij - Before and after

The Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij (1958) has achieved particular fame with his car sculptures on display in public space. Almost everyone knows 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.

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22.o1 until o8.o3, 2oo9
Opening: Thursday 22.o1, 2oo9 [18.ooh]

Simon Starling, Charles & Ray Eames, Carlo Zanni,
Joachim Koester, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Jodi,
Roman Ondák, Simon Norfolk, Roy Arden, Ken Jacobs,
Louis De Cordier, Morgan Fisher

Charles & Ray Eames, The Powers of Ten,1977

A psychedelic dance of graphic patterns, an infinite expanding sea of humanity, a solitary photographic particle of silver enlarged to a cinematic format, a panoramic vista of an other-worldly landscape, a series of mirrors with cinematographic image dimensions, a metres-long enlargement of a subatomic tube, an animated manipulation of Google Earth, a dazzling parade of thousands of colourful jpegs, a series of close-ups of the CERN particle accelerator, or indeed a profound human melodrama, reduced to the screen of an iPod: all these images belong, in any case, to the same universe that constantly invites better understanding.

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With the exhibition Aspect Ratio TENT.is participating
in the International Film Festival Rotterdam (21.o1 - o1.o2, 2oo9).
The exhibition is compiled by Edwin Carels.

Open: during the International Film Festival Rotterdam,
TENT. is open daily from 11.oo-18.ooh.
50% discount on admission fee with IFFR festivalpas.

22.o1 until o8.o3, 2oo9
Opening: Thursday 22.o1, 2oo9 [18.ooh]





Carla Åhlander, Iddo Drevijn, Antje Peters,
Bettina Pousttchi, Elian Somers

Elian Somers, Alzijdige #1, 2oo8 (photograph)

The exhibition Immortality is curated by Fatos Üstek (1980, Ankara, lives and works in London). She is TENT. Young Curator from January through March 2009. Immortality deals with the continuation of ideas, and how notions about ourselves and others are invariably passed on, becoming a collective body of thought and influencing our daily lives. With photographic works by Elian Somers (Rotterdam), Antje Peters (Rotterdam) and Carla Ahlander (Berlin), an installation by Bettina Pousttchi (Berlin) and a text piece by Iddo Drevijn (Rotterdam).

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21.11, 2oo8 until 11.o1, 2oo9
Opening: Friday 21.11, 2oo8 [2o.ooh]

Ine Lamers, Pim Palsgraaf, Jan van Nuenen,
Aletta de Jong, Frank Bruggeman, Beatrice Jansen,
Erik Sep, Arjen van Krieken, Duotuin.

Pim Palsgraaf, Multiscape 1o, courtesy MK Galerie

The current social engagement with environmental issues has developed into a debate of mythical proportions: the struggle seems to be one between good and evil, fact and fiction, fear and hope. But can the dividing line between the environmentally friendly and environmentally polluting be drawn so accurately? Ecoscape brings 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 works in the exhibition allow us a view of a confusing world, in which the polluted landscape appears paradisiacal, a global issue becomes personal, and beauty also has a gruesome aspect.

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12.o9 until o9.11, 2oo8
Opening: Friday 12.o9, 2oo8 [18.ooh]









Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Maurits Film, 2oo8, pruductie still (foto, Leo Don Miro)

As Occasions is the first significant review of the work of Rotterdam-based artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh. Musical disputes, political pleas, up-tempo rap performances, personal histories, lively jam sessions and historical accounts are presented in eight film and slide installations, which offer a wide range of views on the social reality of today. Van Oldenborgh is an artist who examines the heterogeneous present-day through the mirror of the past in an exceptional manner, and who makes new connections visible.

PUBLICATION
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication. The publication is available
from the reception desk of TENT. and can also serve as a guide to the exhibition.

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o9.o7 until 24.o8, 2oo8
Opening: Wednesday o9.o7, 2oo8 [2o.ooh]





Terje Øverås [NO], Mirjana Stojadinovic [RS],
Inger Alfnes [NO], Maja Bekan [RS], Egle Budvytyte [LT],
Sjoerd Westbroek [NL], Gerwin Luijendijk [NL],
Jacqueline Forzelius [SE], Edward Clydesdale Thomson [UK],
Margo Onnes [NL], Esmé Valk [NL], Esther de Vlam [NL],
Gunndís Yr Finnbogadóttir [IS]

Margo Onnes, Untitled, 2oo8, photo (Excerpt: 'Nola Dee and the ongoing invasion of the Rats')

Imagine being lost in transit, stuck in an odd place together with a guy named Barry. He’s more of the silent type but once he gets going, it’s hard to stop her. She will speak about the future, the past and the place she is from, in ways which aren’t that easy to comprehend. She talks in images, allusions and ciphers. Sometimes she gesticulates so intensely that her gestures seem like they are part of a ballet of sorts. Conversing with Barry becomes like performing some kind of choreography together. After a while there are moments when you feel you catch his drift and get his jokes. Was he even joking? With Barry it’s difficult to tell. But there are some things you have in common: you both love Hitchcock and you’d do anything to leave this place behind. So you go, you travel with Barry to magical and mysterious places. Other times you just go for coffee or a walk in the park. The exact nature of your travels is difficult to describe. You might say, they feel a bit like two years at an art school and one exhibition. [Read On]

18.o7 until 24.o8, 2oo8
Screening: Thursday 17.o7, 2oo8 [2o.ooh]





Jeff Metz, Untitled (2oo8)

The TENT. Academy Awards is an annual competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animations of all Dutch art academies. On Thursday evening 17 July, the 2oo8 nominations are being screened in Filmtheater Cinerama and the jury will choose a winner. The exhibition of the selected nominees for the TENT. Academy Awards can be seen in TENT. from 18 July until 24 August 2oo8. In an installation by artist Jasper Niens. Subsequently, the Academy Awards embark on an (inter)national tour. [Read On]

15.o5, until 29.o6, 2oo8
Opening: Thursday 15.o5, 2oo8 [2o.ooh]

Tonio de Roover, La Primavera, 2oo7 (photo: Frank Hanswijk)

In the exhibition La Luna Piena, Rotterdam-based artists, architects and photographers present the city’s 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 protagonist’s state of mind. Rotterdam is a city of exceptional architecture and yet it is not the particular location that is presented, but rather the city’s potential to fire the imagination. As a familiar environment that suddenly seems like an unknown city in the faint glare of the full moon – La Luna Piena. [Read On]

2o.o3, until o4.o5, 2oo8
Opening: Thursday 2o.o3, 2oo8 [2o.ooh]

Justin Wijers, Blumchen, 2oo8, Mixed media on paper (100x150 cm),
(Courtesy Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag, photo: Casper Rila)

Can art express an opinion on current political issues, religious tolerance or the power of capitalism? Redefine the Enemy examines the political potential of art in a changing society. While artists were, until recently, still assuming 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 exhibition put the opinions of the public to the test with works in which established social standards and values are undermined, denied and reversed. [Read On]

Robert Breer, 3-D Mutoscope, 1978/1980, wood, paper, glass,
20,5 x 56 x 23 cm (courtesy the artist and gb agency, Paris, photo: Gérard Konings)


24.o1 until o2.o3, 2oo8
Opening: Thursday 24.o1, 2oo8, [18.ooh]


Robert Breer,
Paul Sharits, Cameron Jamie

With the thematic programme Free Radicals, the International Film Festival Rotterdam turns the spotlight on artists who wilfully and vigorously steer their own course. Three central figures in this festival programme each receive a solo presentation in TENT.: Paul Sharits, Robert Breer and Cameron Jamie. The exhibition 3Radicals revolves around the artists featured in the Focus Programmes of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. In three linked solo presentations in TENT., Paul Sharits, Robert Breer and Cameron Jamie demonstrate how self-willed pioneers of experimental film are once again relevant for the latest generation of audiovisual iconoclasts. [Read On]

Co Westerik, Het touwtje springend meisje (1976)
(Townpainting politiebureau Haagseveer © GAR Collection, Catalogue number: 2oo5-6112, Photograph: A. de Herder)


16.11, 2oo7 until 1o.o1, 2oo8
Opening: Friday 16.11, 2oo7 [2o.ooh]

Mooi van Ver (Stand well back to appreciate) is based on the publication Mooi van Ver – Muurschilderingen in Rotterdam by author Siebe Thissen. The book is a study of the sometimes turbulent history of murals in Rotterdam, in which commercial motives, social engagement and autonomous expression alternate as a source of inspiration for the artist. What has contemporary art in the past decades tried to convey to us on the exterior walls of the city? The exhibition sheds light on the history of wall painting and a number of artists have been invited to explore the power of expression of contemporary wall painting on the TENT. walls. [Read On]

Atelier van Lieshout - AVL - Workskull, 2oo5
(photo+copyright Atelier Van Lieshout commissioned for Lensvelt)


o7.o9 until 28.1o, 2oo7
Opening: o7.o9, 2oo7 [18.ooh]



Jurgen Bey, Demakersvan, Simon Heijdens, Richard Hutten,
Hella Jongerius, Chris Kabel, Joris Laarman, Atelier van Lieshout,
Bertjan Pot, Wieki Somers.

In the spring of 2oo7, Aad Krol and Saskia Copper (Stichting Vivid Vormgeving) organized a showcase of ten prominent Dutch Designers in the Milk Gallery New York. Dutch Design Port was a resounding success, thus rightfully earning the title of ‘must-see’ exhibition. One aspect was remarkable: all the featured designers live or work in Rotterdam. They receive international attention as representatives of what has become known as Dutch Design. And almost everyone is familiar with at least one of their objects. The Treetrunk Bench by Jurgen Bey, the No sign of design furniture by Richard Hutten, the Bone Chair by Joris Laarman, and the pieces of furniture by Atelier van Lieshout – all are ‘Made in Rotterdam’. What does it mean for Rotterdam, to be the home base for these internationally successful designers? Nowhere else in the Netherlands can such a high concentration of design talent be found. For this reason TENT. presents: Dutch Design Port, ten leading designers with Rotterdam as their home port. [Read On]

Ruth Buchanan, Normal Desires, 2oo7


12.o7 until 26.o8, 2oo7
Opening: 12.o7, 2oo7 [2o.ooh]



Alexis Blake [US], Jérémie Boyard [FR], Ruth Buchanan [NZ],
Angeline Dekker [NL], Deirdre M. Donoghue [FI/IE], Rafael F. Mendieta [PE],
Ruth Legg [UK], Lieke Snellen [NL], Niels Vis [NL]

Knowing Nothing of Agility presents the graduates of the Master of Fine Arts course at the Piet Zwart Institute, the post-graduate course of the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. [Read On]

Also on show,
from 12.o7 until 26.o8, 2oo7

TENT. presents the eighth edition of the TENT. Academy Awards, a competition between the best final exam videos, films, shorts and animations from all the Dutch art academies in 2oo7. This year for the first time, the Awards include an exhibition in TENT. [12.o7 until 19.o8], where this year’s selection is presented alongside the previous editions of TENT. Academy Awards. The presentation is designed by Ooze. Towards the end of August the TENT. Academy Awards embark on an (inter)national tour. [Read On]

Trixi Weis, Ecole Buissonnière, 2oo4


25.o5 until o1.o7, 2oo7







Sofian Audry [CA], Simon and Tom Bloor [UK], Bernhard Bretz [DE],
Frank Bruggeman [NL], Teresa Cebrián [ES], Derek Cracco [US],
Laetitia Gendre [FR], Nikolaus Gansterer [AT], Giancarlo Pazzanese [CL],
Silke Koch [DE], Giuseppe Licari [IT], Maider Lopez [ES],
Marcela Moraga [CL], Yvette Poorter [CA], Nathan Redwood [US],
Susan Schmidt [DE], Andrea Schneemeier [HU], Helmut Smits [NL],
Trixi Weis [LU], Aeneas Wilder [UK], Emile Zile [AU]

Wrong Time, Wrong Place is an exhibition featuring work by more than 2o international artists currently working in Rotterdam as artists in residence. Wrong Time, Wrong Place also highlights the major influence that five studio complexes have exerted on the dynamism of the artistic climate in Rotterdam. [Read On]

Also on show,
from 25.o5 until o1.o7, 2oo7

Marjolijn Dijkman [Rotterdam], Emilio Fantin [Bologna]
& Luigi Negro [Lecce] & Giancarlo Norese [Milaan]
& Cesare Pietroiusti [Rome], Francesca Grilli [Amsterdam],
Merel van 't Hullenaar & Niels Vis [Amsterdam]

In conjunction with WRONG TIME, WRONG PLACE, guest curator ANGELA SERINO [IT] developed the presentation CONTEMPORARY PASSAGES. Every year TENT. invites a young exhibition maker to interpret the function of TENT. and the artistic climate in Rotterdam in a presentation. Serino is TENT. Young Curator 2oo7. Inspired by the artist-in-residence experience of being temporally located in a new context, CONTEMPORARY PASSAGES questions how physical mobility affects the production and communication of meaning, with particular reference to the dimensions of time, space and locality. [Read On]

Kimberly Clark, Swan Song, 2oo7


29.o3 until 2o.o5, 2oo7

Kimberly Clark, Monique van Heist,
Cora Roorda van Eijsinga, Lydia Schouten

The alter ego is more topical than ever in contemporary artistic practise. Why does the modern-day artist make use of a constructed identity? The exhibition Risky Business brings together four 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. Kimberly Clark, Monique van Heist, Cora Roorda van Eijsinga, and Lydia Schouten challenge traditional gender stereotypes in a crossover between fashion, visual art,
and styling. [Read On]

Saul Levine, Darklight, 1998-2oo7


25.o3 until 18.o3, 2007

Knut Åsdam [NO], Aram Bartholl [DE], Juliana Borinski [DE],
Emile Cohl [FR], Tony Conrad [US], Paul van der Eerden [NL],
Christian Faubel/derstrudel [DE], Sandra Gibson/Luis Recoder [US],
John Latham [GB], Saul Levine [US], Julien Maire [FR],
Anthony McCall [US], The Art of the Overhead [DK/SE],
Marwan Rechmaoui [LB], Ana Torfs [BE], Peter Tscherkassky [AT]

The exhibition Borderline Behaviour regards animation more as a state of mind 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 (MuHKA, Antwerp) has complied a kaleidoscopic exhibition as part of the International Filmfestival Rotterdam, in which he examines the relationship between cinema and the visual arts, with the ‘father’ of animation – Emile Cohl – as historical starting point. [Read On]

17.11 until 14.o1, 2oo7

Rossella Biscotti [IT], Susanne Kriemann [DE], Toine Klaassen [NL],
Axel Reusch [DE], Boris van Hoof [NL], Lizan Freijsen [NL]

If there is such a thing as a ‘Rotterdam style’ of art, then this is often said to be confrontational, critical of the social structure, and in-your-face. Sense and Sensitivity introduces a number of young Rotterdam-based artists, whose work instead is characterized by its great sensitivity, attention to artistic research, and an ethical perspective. The artists
in Sense and Sensitivity explore bygone eras and bring history back to a personal narrative. [Read On]

o5.1o until o5.11, 2oo6

Özlem Altin [DE], Merav Artzi [IL], Isabel Cordeiro [PT],
Elidoor Gerrits [PT], Lina Issa [LB], Birgit Knoechl [AT],
Tobias Laukemper [DE] & Kelly Warman [UK],
Renée Ridgway [US], YU [JP], Katarina Zdjelar [CS]

The exhibition Wherein certain persons… presents the most recent graduates of the Piet Zwart Institute, the post-graduate course of the Willem de Kooning Academy. The work they display reflects the experiences, knowledge, and opinions they have acquired during the past two years of their study in Rotterdam. The international character of the course, the curriculum’s emphasis on theoretical research, and the multi-ethnic context of the city attracts an international group of participants. [Read On]

31.o8 until 24.o9, 2oo6

Forum Lenteng, Nilsmagnus Sköld, Rolf Engelen, Gert Robijns,
LAb[au], Toine Horvers, BAVO, Ruangrupa, Taco Stolk, Roel Meelkop,
BMB.con, Roger Teeuwen, Reinaart Vanhoe, Matthijs van Zessen,
Gunndís Yr Finnbogadóttir, Frans de Waard, Matt Mullican,
Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Daniel Robberechts, Kristof van Gestel.
And with Messieurs Delmotte, Olivier Maarschalk/Pieter Kock,
Michael Snow, a.o.

In the exhibition Neo-beginners, Belgian artist Reinaart Vanhoe (lives & works in Rotterdam) regards the city as a place that strains under the superabundance of imposed meanings. Covered with advertising and marketing slogans (Rotterdam Dares, I amsterdam), and décor for festivals intended to reinforce its economy or identity. Every square metre is required to be filled with a banner, a logo, a new complex, a restriction, or an urban development programme. But with each attempt to make the city more visible, it actually becomes harder to discern, obscured by the plethora of images and symbols. [Read On]


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TENT. [Upcoming]

Sat 17.o7, 2o1o [15.ooh] Performance 'Presentations on the Raccoons in the Netherlands' by Sjoerd van Leeuwen. +
[16.ooh] Performance 'The emotional plague' by Annie Wu.


Sat 24.o7, 2o1o [15.ooh] Performance 'Presentations on the Raccoons in the Netherlands' by Sjoerd van Leeuwen.




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