Saturday, November 15 | Concert by Lebanese artist Charbel Haber
Practical information:
Special Opening hours: 18.00 PM - 22.00 PM
Ongoing: Sunset cocktails by artist Guillaume Aubry
19.00 PM: Some words by curator Rawad Baaklini and artistic leader Anke Bangma
20.00 PM: Concert Charbel Haber
Free admission
Sunday, November 16 | Courser le Soleil (Chasing the Sun) Performance by Guillaume Aubry
Practical information:
Exhibition opening hours: 12.00 PM - 18.00 PM
Performance times: The first performance starts around 16.15 PM. The second performance starts around 16.50 PM (max. 15 -20 people per performance)
Registration for the performance is mandatory via tickets@tentrotterdam.nl, subject line: November 16
Free admission
On Saturday, November 15th, and Sunday, November 16th, we invite you to our opening weekend of the exhibition Sun, Don't Rush to be Red. Son, Don't Rush to be Read. By approaching the sunset as a natural phenomenon, image, and metaphor, the exhibition reflects on transition, love, and collective memory. The sunset appears as both finite and enduring beauty. This universally shared experience becomes a memory that celebrates itself even as it fades. Crystallized in the moment of disappearance, it remains indelibly present. The exhibition hopes to create space for intimacy, perhaps even romance, without shying away from the pressing realities of today.
The show is curated by Rawad Baaklini. Participating artists include: Noor Nuyten, Guillaume Aubry, Nanno Simonis, Mandy Franca, Donald Schenkel, Studio Soda Lime, Alaa Abu Asad, Ginevra Petrozzi, Nadim Choufi, Noor Abuarafeh, Czar Kristoff J.P., and Marieke van der Lippe.
Saturday, November 15 | Concert by Lebanese artist Charbel Haber
Practical information:
Special Opening hours: 18.00 PM - 22.00 PM
Ongoing: Sunset cocktails by artist Guillaume Aubry
19.00 PM: Some words by curator Rawad Baaklini and artistic leader Anke Bangma
20.00 PM: Concert Charbel Haber
Free admission
Charbel Haber is a Lebanese musician, composer, and visual artist whose work explores memory, decay, and the shifting identities of a region suspended between East and West. A leading figure in Lebanon’s experimental scene, he works across music, film, and performance, blending the personal with the political and the sonic with the spectral. His practice often examines how histories—both personal and collective—echo through sound and image. Currently based between Beirut and Paris, Haber continues to expand his practice through international collaborations and residencies, including projects with the New Atlantis Orchestra, the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and Studio Tarek Atoui in Paris, the Cité Internationale des Arts, and the Onassis Foundation in Athens.
The work (concert) he presents is closely tied to a sense of Mediterranean melancholia, of which the sunset is a crucial and recurring motif—an image of beauty, loss, and transformation that resonates deeply with the spirit of the exhibition. There are places, like Beirut, where you can never escape the sunset. The concert will be accompanied by three films projected at the same time on loop from Charbel and some copies of his book A Common Misunderstanding of The Speed of Light.
Trained as an architect and co-founder of the Freaks firm, Guillaume Aubry is also a visual artist, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and a researcher in the visual arts. In 2022, he defended his dissertation entitled "Courser le soleil" (Radian Programme), in which he explores the aesthetic experience of sunsets as a spectacle of the (end of the) world that repeats itself daily. His artistic work questions our shared and intimate relationship with landscapes. For the Saturday opening, Guillaume will be providing cocktails to allow the sunset to become part of the moment.
Sunday, November 16 | Courser le Soleil (Chasing the Sun) Performance by Guillaume Aubry
Practical information:
Exhibition opening hours: 12.00 PM - 18.00 PM
Performance times: The first performance starts around 16.15 PM. The second performance starts around 16.50 PM (max. 15 -20 people per performance)
Registration is required via tickets@tentrotterdam.nl, subject line: November 16
Free admission
Courser le Soleil (Chasing the Sun) is a body of artistic and theoretical research developed by Guillaume Aubry over the past ten years. It explores the aesthetic experience of landscapes, both intimate and shared, with a particular focus on those transformed by the light of sunset. Aubry presents a reading-performance that traces the evolution of critical and aesthetic thought on sunsets. The performance is punctuated by references to art history, from antiquity to the present day, moving through modernity, the invention of the paint tube, and the practice of painting sur le motif. For his first performance in the Netherlands, Aubry will also reflect on Dutch light and its significance in art history.
