On the occasion of the launching of the DVD Lagos Wide & Close by Bregtje van der Haak, there will be a special video installation in Witte de With during the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam(IABR). The installation, in which the different video …Read more
Agenda Tuesday, March 15 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. Brainstorm evening Friday, April 29 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Public guided tours with the curators Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel Wednesday, May 11 7:30 – 10:00 p.m. Pre-debate Wednesday, May …Read more
Book Launch Witte de With, center for contemporary art, and D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers are pleased to announce book launch events in New York and Los Angeles for Under Fire, volumes 1 and 2. NEW YORK Thursday, April 28, 2005, 5 …Read more
A project by UNTITLED: Milica Topalovic, Bas Princen, Office Kersten Geers David van Severen. FEAR OF THE CITY Rotterdam’s public ground reveals a pattern which is to a large extent build to the comfort of its inhabitant. Ticket machines, ATM …Read more
Book launch with discussion between Tariq Ramadan and Willem Schinkel, respondent Wendelien van Oldenborgh; preceded by projection of Van Oldenborgh’s slide work Supposing I love you. And you also love me., 2011, featuring Tariq Ramadan.Read more
Bonheur, RAiR, WORM, TENT, Showroom MAMA, V2, Ro Theater en Witte de With offer you a monthly cultural agenda in the format of a live show.Read more
Bonheur, RAiR, WORM, TENT, Showroom MAMA, V2, Ro Theater en Witte de With offer you a monthly cultural agenda in the format of a live show. Bringing forth the best of their own discipline, these cultural institutions come together on …Read more
Exhibition Introduction by Zoë Gray (Curator, Witte de With).
Bonheur, RAiR, WORM, TENT, Showroom MAMA, V2, Ro Theater en Witte de With offer you a monthly cultural agenda in the format of a live show. Read more
Conversation between Nicolaus Schafhausen and Razvan Ion (co-director of Bucharest Biennale – Bucharest Biennial for Contemporary Art and co-editor of Pavilion – journal for politics and culture).Read more
Sustainability mecca or evergreen Dubai? Vancouver architectural critic and curator Trevor Boddy explores pluses and minuses of his city’s acclaimed urban innovations in the illustrated lecture “From Vancouverism to HybridCity.” Read more
Zin Taylor is one of the participating artists in Melanchotopia. His work can be seen at Weenink bedrijfskleding on Westblaak 13, Rotterdam. The conversation is held in English.Read more
From 17 October to 14 November 2011 the Berlin-based curator and author Axel John Wieder is curator-in-residence in Amsterdam at the Goethe-Institut. Towards the end of his stay in the Netherlands, he will engage in a conversation with Frédérique Bergholtz over his curatorial concepts. He will also highlight some of the ideas and experiences brought about by his stay as curator-in-residence.Read more
Exhibition introduction by Belinda Hak (Business Coordinator, Witte de With).
Exhibition introduction by Karin Schipper (education project curator, Witte de With).
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Nicolaus Schafhausen in conversation with Juan Gaitán (curator, Witte de With).
Pierre Bismuth’s work explores the multiple manifestations and products of knowledge and culture. Through a practice of inversion, proliferation and repetition, Bismuth challenges any logic of efficiency and usefulness, and gives a critical look at our contemporary condition.Read more
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Exhibition introduction by Amira Gad (assistant curator, Witte de With).
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Exhibition introduction by Zoë Gray (curator, Witte de With).
Monika Szewczyk (Head of publications) talks to Erik van Lieshout about his work COMMISSION and about Rotterdam.Read more
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Nicolaus Schafhausen in conversation with Justin Hoffman (director, Wolfsburg Kunstverein). Location: Witte de With, Melanchotopia Epicenter (3rd floor) Admission € 2,50 evening event € 5,00 evening event + Melanchotopia exhibition guide € 10,00 Passepartout valid the entire exhibition …Read more
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Nicolaus Schafhausen (Director, Witte de With) in conversation with Anne-Claire Schmitz (Junior Curator, Witte de With). Location: Witte de With, Melanchotopia Epicenter (3rd floor) Admission € 2,50 evening event € 5,00 evening event + Melanchotopia exhibition guide € …Read more
Harold Ancart describes himself as a draftsman, yet his is a draftsmanship that mocks its own precision with errors, stains, traces and burns. His artistic practice ranges from sculptural installations to drawings. More recently, Ancart’s practice has made way for using an image taken …Read more
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Guided tour at SPAR Corendewal (World of Witte de With)
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Guided tour at SPAR Corendewal (World of Witte de With)
Photo 2011: Steffen Jagenburg Exhibition introduction by Fabian Schöneich Location: Witte de With, Melanchotopia Epicenter (3rd floor).
To accompany the exhibition COSIMA VON BONIN’S FAR NIENTE FOR WITTE DE WITH’S SLOTH SECTION, LOOP # 01 OF THE LAZY SUSAN SERIES, A ROTATING EXHIBITION 2010 – 2011 a sequence of events have been planned at Witte de With …Read more
On three occasions, between the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art organized three symposia under the title Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists. Each three-day event focused on one agent in the art world, looking at their expectations, positions and the contexts in which they operate.Read more
In the lecture Acconci and the Senses, Anne Wagner looks at the work of Vito Acconci and reveals insights into the understanding of the sensory in relation to the development of new media. According to Marshall McLuhan, understanding media means …Read more
To accompany the exhibition BODYPOLITICX, Studium Generale (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is organizing, in cooperation with Witte de With, an evening-long program, where porn and especially the ‘pornofication of our culture’ become transparent and open for discussion. Porn has carved its way …Read more
Witte de With re-opens on Friday 7 September with the group exhibition BODYPOLITICX. Restricted to visitors above 18. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7 3:00 p.m. Press preview 6:00 p.m. Exhibition opens 7:30 p.m. Welcome by Nicolaus Schafhausen and a short introduction by …Read more
To bring to an end Margaret Salmon’s exhibition at Witte de With, and to conclude the international range of side programs, we present the classic masterpiece of Soviet cinema Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba). Directed with innovative techniques and beautiful …Read more
Exploring some of the themes touched upon in the work of Margaret Salmon, Witte de With screens two Italian film masterpieces: Rome Open City (1946) by Roberto Rossellini, followed by Una giornata particolare (1977) by Ettore Scola. Language: Italian with …Read more
To mark American independence day, Witte de With presents an evening of readings from American realist fiction and drama, including Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck and Arthur Miller, to accompany Margaret Salmon’s exhibition. Language: English Entry: Free (with beer, lemonade and …Read more
An afternoon of panel discussions, presentations and lectures to discuss and explore Isa Genzken’s work in depth. With Alex Farquharson, Kasper König, Vanessa Joan Müller, Juliane Rebentisch and Karel Schampers. With the Isa Genzken Special Witte de With hosts an …Read more
Thursday November 16, Street: behind the cliché at Witte de With in Rotterdam closes, a show at De Appel in Amsterdam opens. Please join us for events at both locations and a special musical journey. Thursday 16 Nov Finissage of …Read more
Invited by WdW Education, a group of young people aged 18 to 26 have worked behind the scenes over the past few weeks to create the event Is it because I’m black. With this project, they have had the opportunity …Read more
An evening organised for and by students, with meetings with artists, a workshop or debate and drinks, fingerfood, and music … Witte de With strives to provide a platform for students to experience contemporary art and share their ideas with …Read more
A group of participants in the International Film Festival Rotterdam will be invited to Locals International, a restaurant serving the ethnic cuisine of imaginary countries, to be presented by CAC TV at Witte de With. Thursday February 2, 8 pm. …Read more
The daily Satellite of Love talkshow with hostess Mieke van der Linden. From Friday 27 January through Friday 3 February, from 6 to 8 pm. A prominent guest of the festival shows his or her television preferences. There is hotchpotch of mashed …Read more
Announcing the opening of the Satellite of Love exhibition, a giant video wall on a truck will screen Color Bars by the British artist Simon Payne. What usually stands for a pretty boring test card image to calibrate the setting …Read more
Ingredients: special guided tours for adolescents by adolescents, workshop on ‘how to occupy space’, music and a drink afterwards. Program: 20.00 – 21.30 Visit Occupying Space in the three institutions 20.30 – 21.30 Workshop ‘occupying space’ by Alexandra van der …Read more
Having breakfast with curators/artists and camping visitors from Camping Rotterdam, a bicycle tour and an artistic follow-up at TENT., Nederlands fotomuseum and Witte de With. On Sunday July 17 2005 Tent., Nederlands fotomuseum, Witte de With and Camping Rotterdam welcome …Read more
Cultural Transfers: Histories and Sharings, conference and screenings. Speakers: Marc Augé (anthropologist and author of A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness & Relevance of Anthropology and other books), Thomas Michelon (guest curator for TRACER / Cultural Attaché of the …Read more
Indonesian video makers and artists speak about their artist practice in Jakarta, show their recent work and discuss about the intrinsic references and frameworks, the different organisation structures in which they work and the future of the video art in …Read more
In de context of the exhibition Coartadas/Alibis Witte de With en TENT. present: THE GREAT NORTEC COLLECTIVE – BOSTICH and PEPE MOGT – 2 dj’s from Tijuana, Mexico, a hot mix of tradition and techno. “What Mogt (Pepe Mogt, red.) makes of it …Read more
