With Staging Merihaka a work by Sarah Gerats, You have been tracking us a works by Teresa Solar and the documentary American Movie. This movie night is part of the APPEAL TO PROBABILITY project.

For Melanchotopia, Olivier Foulon dives into Rotterdam’s history of public art commissions. His contribution to the exhibition involves an interpretation of the history of Ring, a work by German artist Isa Genzken commissioned by Commissie Beelden in de stad [Commission Sculptures in the city] in 1988.

Witte de With and TENT present Shared Space #4, a spatial design curated by Aad Krol (Galerie VIVID) for the two institutions’ communal area.

In his work Van de Geer (1965) concentrates on things and their visualization. However, it cannot be pinned down to one artistic technique. The starting point of his investigations are summary Polaroid photographs.

‘Met vriendelijke groet’ (‘With kind regards’), consists of 98 letters with 75 answers. Whether personal or intimate, embarrassing or delicate, hilarious or touchingly wonderful, all letters are written to people (from celebrities to close friends to very loose acquaintances) who have in some way touched the life of the author, Dienand Christe.

Eleni Kamma, Doris Denekamp, Eva Olthof and Patrícia Sousa present their new publications.

Re-use and recycle. From found videofootage, the religion of upcycling, newly produced sounds from secondhand tapes and the hunt for durability!

Second hand 2.0

In the exhibition Face Value, four established designers abandon their commercial bestsellers, winning house style designs or attractive logos and actually show the work in which they seek, hesitate or fail. What is the value of autonomy, authenticity and originality – so characteristic for the work of a visual artist – in the practice of product designer Bertjan Pot, graphic designers 75B, designer Sophie Krier and fashion designer Marga Weimans?

printed art swapping

Frans Leidelmeijer, Design expert, known from ‘Tussen Kunst and Kitsch’, has an important ‘vintage’ design collection. VIVID selected top pieces from this collection: Rietveld, Berlage, Gispen and many more. Also famous Dutch graphic designer Jan van Toorn will show a serie of prints ‘Still Lifes with Borrowed Furniture’.

Test_Lab: Who Wants to Be…? is a social experiment in the form of a raucous game show developed by art collective The People Speak. All visitors chip in 10 EUR in advance to enter the game, after which they brainstorm, argue, and vote on how to spend the collective money.

After Vienna and Budapest, Europe’s premier intercultural platform to offer affordable art through its ever-growing exclusive selection of limited edition pieces by contemporary artists (including photographs, fine art prints and videowork) is setting up shop at the Roodkapje in*Rotterdam

Today we present the results. Appeal To Probability is a project by Marijke Appelman.

Appeal to Probability is a project by Marijke Appelman and started a year ago as a Dropbox -file hosting service- folder giving the invited artists the opportunity to exchange images, text and other files. Now, a week long, the artists will work and meet at Het Wide Weten daily in an attempt to not only finish a piece but also exchange information and craftsmanship.

Performances by Janneke van der Putten (NL) and Cristóbal Yáñez Lanzarini (CL).

Bieke Versloot and Lieke van Pruijssen, founders of Veldwerk, talk about the making of their film Niemandsland (2011, 23 min., Dutch), and about the audio tour project they developed especially for Melanchotopia.

We have some great artists around this autumn! Come by next Wednesday at Het Wilde Weten and hear about their work and plans during their stay in Rotterdam. This evening 10 current Artists in Residence show their work and tell about the plans for their stay in Rotterdam. The presentations are 10 minutes each.

Dek22 presents the exhibition Salon de Spam: a collection of work by artists concerned with the media and the literal space in which they exhibit. They take inspiration from Facebook, Google search, Youtube, magazines, films and television, but a lot of the works on show are site-specific improvisations.

No pictures, just the smell of fresh paint, a beautiful studio with over 40 different paintings and hopefully a tremendous atmosphere in which you can partake!