For this EXPERT MEETING #2 we host our friends from the IMPAKT Festival Utrecht with a preview of the Festival 2010, which will take place from 13 through to 17 October. This preview will be a selection of MATRIX CITY and the main program, which is curated by STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen, Rotterdam/Belgrade) & Kristian Lukic (Novi Sad).

Exposition of the work of Kimberly Clark, Iris van Dongen, Margi Geerlinks, Risk Hazekamp, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Juul Krayer, Ilse Leenders, Desiree Palmen, Schilte&Portielje, Bert Sissingh, Jean Marc Spaans, Marie Cecile Thijs, Lorelinde Verhees, Edwin Zwakman. Curated by Rommert Boonstra.

Presents ‘Les Follies’
A performance where boundaries blur between French electro music, performance art, theater, dance and live video projections.

The performance begins at 20.30.
Afterwards DJ draai een plaatje voor mij will spin some records.

Artist and architect Daan Roosegaarde builds interactive landscapes – installations that respond intuitively to sound and motion. His first book, Interactive Landscapes, gives a futuristic view of everyday reality.

The Idler’s Playground by Cosima von Bonin with musical performance by Coolhaven!

At the Hofplein, just in front of the Hilton Hotel, Sculpture International Rotterdam, will unveil a new sculpture on Saturday 9 October at 20.15: The Idler’s Playground by visual artist Cosima von Bonin (Germany, 1962). Cosima von Bonin is one of the best-known artists of her generation, certainly since her participation in the most recent Documenta in 2007.

Opening of a exposition in the Bazar Bizar Minishop, showing work of Andrei van der Spek and Daan Botlek.

Windows is a research project by Stout/Kramer and Nicole Martens into the meaning of a window as a display, glass case, advertisement, temptation, space, reflection and projection. Every 1st day of the month we will present a new proposal. Windows V2 will continuously change during the month october.

Beautiful drinks by BarrelProof Boutique

An art auction to collect money for Pakistan at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. Check out the interesting collection, live music & get your portrait taken by Fred Ernst. You can also improve your survival skills: find out how to drink the water out of the pond next to the Nai.

In the recently squatted house of the Witte de Withstraat 74 will open a wide ranging exhibition that presents squatting in the Netherlands over the past fourty years.

September 28, 2010 – January 9, 2011

In the Eighties the city of Rotterdam moved to the forefront of photography. Several photographers decided to turn away from realism and chose to create their own worlds with the camera. A ´Rotterdam School´, influenced by Surrealism, took root in a city that proudly boasts of its no-nonsense attitude. Guest Curator Rommert Boonstra selected work from more than 20 artists, photographers amd film makers. Their fantastic imagery is shown in the seventeenth century Schielandshuis, strewn throughout a cityscape of folded paper with the Rotterdam of the Eighties as a backdrop.

On thursday, September 30th, KunstInzigt presents the expo: ‘Lit’. Autonomous light works in a darkened gallery. The expo lasts till October 21st.

Exhibitors: Flying Kimsa, Macular and Co2RO

Three artists construct cities from their own fascinations. During the exhibition we are invited to step into the worlds of these cities. Bander van Ierland creates cities of geometric shapes that relate to space-time algorithms. Georg Bohle uses stories of actual places and situations as elements for his drawings of imaginary cities. Bart Isings shows a selection of found images, photographs and drawings, with these elements he reconstructs the city from his memory.

TENT. presents an expo about the cultural infrastructure of the South of Rotterdam. with Patching Zone, Kunstplatform de Kapsalon, Luuk Bode, Gil & Moti and Creative Factory.

Het Wilde Weten Foundation would like to invite you to an evening of art works presentations, interactions and drinks! Curated by current artist in residence Yolanda de Los Bueis. The conductive thread for the evening is the connection between physical and digital space and how it relates to everyday life, to physical intimacy, to the individual and collective emotional spaces, and to the way we relate to space and to each other. In a world over-saturated with data and virtuality, is emotional rescue possible through physical media?

On 25th of September Opperclaes opens his doors on the Claes de Vrieselaan in Rotterdam West. This pop-up galerie will host the next four months many different expo’s, activities and meeting. Their first expo will be SuperStitionHeroes from S.P.A.M. van Griensven.

For MAMA’s (I Can) Feel the Pulse, an exhibition dealing with the influence of hiphop on contemporary art and culture, we offer you a lecture and debate featuring Emory Douglas (USA, 1943), Jefferson Pinder (USA, 1970), and Douglas’ master-class participants.

The openings in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen are famous for the great atmosphere, nice people and lots of art.
This saturday the big opening of the season is on again.

Alles is goed hier (everything is good here)

Joris Kuipers (Installation), Sarah van der Pols (photodrawings) en Marcel Wesdorp (film) showing new work at Gallery 300% Rotterdam

With live music and Joris’ S.O.S. (Soup On Saturday)

With the Bridgin’ exhibition, we are opening the new season with a broad view, showing video, drawings and graphic work made by artists from immigrant backgrounds as well as Dutch backgrounds, and from both North and South. The touchstone of all the work is creating connections.

Work by

• Fatima Barznge
• Laan Irodjojo
• Dwight Marica
• Heleen Schröder
• Daniela Swarowsky
• Kees Touw
• Ellen Vomberg
• Anton Vrede
• Efrat Zehavi