Talking Soil

Guillem S. Arquer and Kate Price in conversation with Carolien van Eykelen

Following their bike tour 'Tracing Soil Movements' organized as part of TENT's public program of Sustaining Small Acts, artists Guillem S. Arquer and Kate Price returned to the municipal Soil Bank with Gemeente Rotterdam Organic…

A hole in a wall

Anita Hrnić and Judith Vorwerk in conversation with wolf angels and jip van der hek

Anita Hrnić and Judith Vorwerk talk to artists wolf engelen and jip van der hek about Kunstlab+Buren, a children's studio and meeting place in Rotterdam's Zuidwijk. Here, children from the…

Redefining the playing field

Erik Peters in conversation with Gabriel Fontana

Gabriel Fontana draws on a social design framework, combining design strategies, pedagogies, and queer theory to imagine alternative team sports. He uses sports as a metaphor for society, where the idea of ​​playing 'against each…

Samira Ben Messaoud in conversation w/ Babette Kleijn

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Samira Ben Messaoud in conversation w/ Bik Van der Pol

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Honey Kraiwee in conversation w/ Samboleap Tol

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Jeanine van Berkel in conversion station w/ Bert Frings

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Jeanine van Berkel in conversation w/ Maike Hemmers

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Samira Ben Messaoud in conversation w/ Dirk van Lieshout

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or…

Samira Ben Messaoud in conversation w/ Yoeri Guépin

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, which is established from the painter's estate, is awarded every two years to a leading Rotterdam or Curaçaoan…

Jeanine van Berkel in conversation w/ Ada M. Patterson

The Dolf Henkes Prize will be awarded for the tenth time in 2023. The Rotterdam art prize, created from the painter's estate, is awarded to a leading Rotterdam or Curaçao creator every two years. This…

Food system reform as a power struggle

Essay by Floris Visser

Floris Visser is the founder of Public Food, an organization that fights for food justice through public debate and concrete action. What we eat is currently determined by agro-industrial multinationals, whose only goal is to maximize…

Forming roots with more-than-human collaborators

Marika Vandekraats and Lucie Havel discuss the relationship between unruly natures and human perspectives

Starting from Lucie's project “How I fell in love with the enemy”, Marika Vandekraats and Lucie Havel discuss the relationship between unruly natures and human perspectives. The work centers on Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant…

Noise in the Hood

These babies will be put on trial

Tune in to the livestream Noise in the Hood by Concrete Blossom on Friday 3 March 2023 at 20.00pm. As part of the exhibition There is no party so noisy as the one…

Beyond the Cornerstone

Roel Meelkop in conversation with the KOKRA family

The KOKRA family, an artist collective of line kramer and marjolijn kok, uses humor, respectful engagement and microactivism to stretch all kinds of pigeonholing, including the concept of 'family'. Roel Meelkop talks to them about family formation, collaboration, queer thinking…

The Streets Are Our Brushes, the Squares Our Palettes

Anke Bangma in conversation with Ine Lamers and Elian Somers

Ine Lamers and Elian Somers share a fascination for utopian worldviews. Independently, they investigate what becomes and remains of such utopias—socially, politically, and in the built environment. From their shared background in…

Intergenerational Courses

Poetic reflections by Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro, Nagila Muller, Zaire Krieger and Onias Landveld

In collaboration with storyteller RVDINA, Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro and Nagila Muller reflect on what diasporic life means to them. In 'Intergenerational Curses' their words and gestures are interwoven…

What if home is no longer there?

Poetic reflections by Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro, Nagila Muller, Veronika Babayan and Anita Hrnić

In collaboration with storyteller RVDINA, Gyonne Goedhoop, Shari Maduro and Nagila Muller reflect on what diasporic life means to them. Their words and gestures are interwoven with passages from…

The Past - Close by

Nagila Muller, Shari Maduro and Gyonne Goedhoop in conversation with Djé-rimo and Julia Jouwe

In collaboration with platform Beyond Walls, Nagila Muller, Shari Maduro and Gyonne Goedhoop will talk to Djé-Rimo and Julia Jouwe. The focus will be on the legacies of the Dutch colonial past and the political…

Becoming a DJ of thought

Abraham Meeuwsen in conversation with Yessica Deira

Abraham Meeuwsen speaks with graphic designer, artist, DJ and producer Yessica Deira. In her work, Deira experiments with reconstructing collective consciousness through design, music, film, sound and performance. The conversation explores…

It's good to dream big! New commons, new coops: De Nieuwe Meent and De Bundel

A field trip with architect Andrea Verdecchia, meeting with Selçuk Balamir, Tayfun Balçik and Loraine Smith

In contrast to Rotterdam, Amsterdam supports the development of cooperative housing projects. There is an online map with the future locations for cooperative housing tenders: 10 to 20 projects in the next 4 years. The…

De Warren, Amsterdam Housing Coop under construction

Why it works in Amsterdam! A conversation with Chander van der Zande

As early as October 25, 2019, FGA read about housing cooperative De Warren in the Volkskrant and wondered: Why does it work in Amsterdam and not in Rotterdam? Without a cent in the bank, together…

'Resilience' within the MENA community

Gyonne Goedhoop, Nagila Muller and Shari Maduro in conversation with Imane, Berksun and Ibrahim Alaoui

Gyonne Goedhoop, Nagila Muller and Shari Maduro talk to…

Tokovisie: an identity of many

Abraham Meeuwsen in conversation with Pris Roos

Abraham Meeuwsen speaks with artist, curator, researcher and storyteller Pris Roos. Pris…

It is possible! Strowijk IEWAN

Hanneke Beld: Housing associations have land and money, we have a plan, ideas and a community

IEWAN 'Initiative Group Ecological Living Nijmegen' consists of 24 social rental homes, 44 adults and 9 children. On the lushly vegetated facade hangs a banner: IT IS POSSIBLE! IEWAN is social housing, sustainable, affordable, diverse, and ecological.

Land grabbing, or the rescue of the gardens of Striving for Improvement

A garden is a hub of histories. Visiting Renee Turner and Cesare Davolio

The Rotterdam Community Gardens Striving for Improvement were suddenly confronted with a plan by the municipality to clear and demolish 1/3 of the complex, approximately 60 gardens, to create an artificial grass football field…

Residents' cooperative garden village Wielewaal

Ben wants to talk about the Wielewaalers' own plan for affordable rental housing

Wil de Ben, together with Jan Verschuren and others, is the face of the Union of and for Wielewaalers and of the resistance against the sale of the Rotterdam residential area De Wielewaal to a project developer. The…

Introduction Rotterdam Cultural Histories #19: Homes for people not profit

Anke Bangma in conversation with makers Robert Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma from FGA

How do we want to live? What kind of place do we need to live and work? What alternatives exist to dominant ownership structures and market-driven housing policies in an era where…

Katayoun Arian and Natalia Sorzano

Katayoun Arian: "What is the role of magic in healing?"

How can efforts at mourning, repair, and healing look, feel, or sound in an era of planetary crises resulting from centuries of exploitation of our living environment? The project Who Wants to Live in a World…

Jay Tan and Geo Wyeth

Geo Wyeth: "I recorded sounds in the basement at TENT, of the pipes and the water and I used some of those with other industrial, feedback sounds I recorded in the city. They come in a rhythmic pattern."

Jay Tan makes sculptures, performances, sound and video work. In atmospheric work Tan creates – often with everyday household or DIY materials and mechanics – magical, open worlds. Decoration is a political gesture for them. Geo…