Coolhaven 32

Exhibition Out of Place

in collaboration with Wasteland Collective

What makes something waste? Is it because it's broken, unwanted, or simply not in the right place? This is the question that opens the exhibition and public program "Out of Place." Waste is not… Read more

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Piet Zwart Institute MFA Graduation Show

Opening Thursday June 26, 17.00-20.00 PM

TENT and the Master of Fine Art of the Piet Zwart Institute invite you to the graduation exhibition of the MFA graduates of 2025. Graduating artists fill TENT's recently opened exhibition space in… Read more

Coolhaven 32

Walk on by

Curated by Joy Davis.

A project that started as a Cultural Exchange and celebrates six artists connected by the Black Atlantic and two port cities, Rotterdam and Baltimore. Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

Justice beyond Revenge. Recalling Louk Hulsman

Robert Glass, Curator: Anke Bangma

In 'Justice beyond Revenge' artist Robert Glas invites you to question your views on justice. The prevailing focus on severe punishment seems almost unchallenged but was not always so obvious. Until the mid-80s… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

what it is, what it means and what I would like it to be

Pris Roos, Curator: Honey Kraiwee

Through a mixed-media installation with portraits and stories of nine individuals, artist Pris Roos invites you to delve into the complexity of our lives. The portrayed, all with a connection… Read more

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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #25

25 years of Tubelight - Critical art criticism

This edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories celebrates the 25th anniversary of Tubelight with an anniversary exhibition. At number 53 of the Witte de Withstraat, directly opposite TENT and Kunstinstituut Melly, lie the roots of Tubelight. Here… Read more

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Exhibition: Dolf Henkes Prize 2023

Curator: Annosh Urbanke

Artists Ada M. Patterson, Babette Kleijn, Samboleap Tol, Yoeri Guépin, Bik Van der Pol, Bert Frings, Dirk van Lieshout and Maike Hemmers are the nominees for the Dolf Henkes Prize 2023. The art prize was awarded this… Read more

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De Grote Hoop 'Camping workshop for children'

Camping workshop for imaginative kids

This summer, the TENT gym will transform from an empty space into a warm, cozy day camp. This is where De Grote Hoop lives. That hope is yours and mine. The camp manager, the animation team and also the… Read more

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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #24

Mama Aisa

Art Institute Melly invited Boris van Berkum and Marian Markelo in the context of the 150th commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Suriname, which was celebrated with Keti Koti on July 1, 2023. Van Berkum… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

Leopold Emmen: I dream about this house every once in a while

Nanouk Leopold, Daan Emmen

Filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen develop video installations together in which they experiment with film as a spatial experience. In TENT, the duo builds the kaleidoscopic installation triptych, in which equal roles are reserved for the… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

Sustaining Small Acts

Curator: Anke Bangma.

The artists in Sustaining Small Acts work from the connection with their physical environment. The starting point for their work is often close by, in their daily living environment: their own household waste, the weeds in the city, the… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

There is no party so noisy as the one you're not invited to

Compiled by Linnea Semmerling

Soft sounds can be hard to hear, while loud sounds can be very reassuring. Together with artists, musicians and activists, curator Linnea Semmerling investigated the impact of such reactions on the Rotterdam soundscape. Read more

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Material Memory

Compiled by Katayoun Arian

Material Memory explores the workings of memory in the tangible and material world. The group exhibition taps into the perception that everything in the material world – whether it is water, bodies,… Read more

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Throw Like a Girl

film presentation Maja Bekan

'Throw Like a Girl' is a collaborative project between women from two worlds: art and the military. Artist Maja Bekan brought them together through an open call, and asked them to reflect on the work… Read more

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Traveling without Moving

Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot

In Traveling without Moving, artist duo Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot takes you to an in-between space where we can break away from the current world and dream a new future. After the performance installations with which they… Read more

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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #22

Hortus Botanicus

Our building, located at Witte de Withstraat 50 in Rotterdam, stands on the original site of the city's 1826th-century Hortus Botanicus. This botanical garden, which occupied this site from 1870 to XNUMX, was… Read more

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SUCH SUMMER

SOHERE

Making together, capturing, packaging, storing, guarding, exhibiting, exchanging, taking along, collecting, breaking or transforming. In the ZOHIER SUMMER children's studio, for children between 4 and 12 years old (and everyone who still feels like a child after that),… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

That doesn't play here

Bart Scholten

With Dat speelt hier niet Bert Scholten gives new meanings to the historical rituals and customs of the cookie board. Our local cultural identity of stories, customs and rituals has always been subject to change. The… Read more

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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #21

Gone Within 2 Years, The Studio Crisis

In this edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories we draw your attention to the working conditions that artists face in the city’s rapidly changing cultural landscape. While a growing number of Rotterdam art institutions have… Read more

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TENT Welcomes: V2_&PZI Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?

PZI Graduation show

V2_ is pleased to present 'Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?', the graduation show of the Master's program Media Design & Communication at the Piet Zwart Institute, a postgraduate program of the Willem de… Read more

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Open & faster

Ilke Gers

With chalk line drawings on the floors of TENT, Ilke Gers responds to the architecture, history of use and rhythms of the spaces. She plays a game with movement and lines, how we read spaces and relate to them physically… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

P for Performance: Nothing Is Accidental

May Bekan

By working together with others, artist Maja Bekan creates space for encounter. She stages settings and situations—inside and outside the art context—in which people can get to know each other and form a temporary collective. Together, they take… Read more

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Aberrant Readings

Educational program

A collaboration between TENT, KABK and WdKA resulting in an exhibition of new work(s). As part of our annual collaboration with the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Willem de… Read more

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Joined Narratives #3, Things Unseen

Heidi Vogels

As the third and final edition in the series Joined Narratives, Heidi Vogels shows the film installation Things Unseen (2022). The work is part of her long-term film project Gardens of Fez (2012-present) about the disappearing gardens in the former Moroccan… Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

To Be Like Water

Enriches the meaning of code switching

To Be Like Water explores and enriches the meaning of code switching. The exhibition revolves around a multi-layered understanding of identity, with code switching as a manifestation of the multifaceted and fluid way in which identity functions within the social field of forces. Curated by Kris Dittel. Read more

Witte de Withstraat 50

Awareness of appearances

An exhibition that unfolds like an untamable stream of thoughts.

In TENT, Marjolijn van den Assem presents an exhibition that unfolds like an indomitable stream of thoughts. The performative side of her art practice, in which thinking is a physical action, is given free rein. Read more

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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #20

the Museum of Education and Art

A presentation about the Museum for Education and Art that was located in the Witte de Withstraat from 1880 to 1884. The twentieth edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories is a presentation about the Museum for… Read more

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Who Wants to Live in a World without Magic?

This multifaceted project explores practices that invite us to imagine a future in which a magical worldview is central.

Throughout time and culture, art, sound and music have played a prominent role in the healing traditions of shamans, mystics and other healers. In this time of planetary crisis, these cosmic restorative practices can contribute… Read more

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By All Means Necessary

a quirky new project on the image formation surrounding hip hop culture

Dimitri Madimin responds to the image surrounding hip-hop culture with a unique new project. Rap ​​music in particular is constantly being blamed for violence. An installation of tracksuits with historical scenes of violence questions this stigma. That… Read more

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Atelier (Un)explained

children's studio

Everything here has been waiting for you. Artist Hilde Onis and designer Jasmijn Muskens design a world where nothing is what it seems. Move like a chameleon through the colorful space, write messages to a tree that misses its family… Read more