Tuesday, November 4, 2025 – Sunday, January 25, 2026
Image: Fran Herndon, Jack Spicer and his Radio, 1960, oil on canvas, 58.4 x 71.1cm.
november
Fran Herndon: A Folio
Monday, November 24, 2025 – Sunday, January 25, 2026
Image: Fran Herndon, Children and Grey Figure in a Garden, date unknown, oil on canvas, 68.58 x 63.5cm.
Online publication
Fran Herndon: A Folio
Text #2: Tumelo Mtimkhulu
january
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Image: Logo for the broodfonds.
Information Session
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Beginning a Broodfonds, Part 2
Archive
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Artist talk
6:30 PM
Duotones: A series of artists talking
Talk #4: Ilke Gers and Dagmar Baumann
Moderated by Kathrin Wolkowicz
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Image: Logo for the broodfonds.
Information Session
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Beginning a Broodfonds
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Image: Family portrait of Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon in their living room, 2019. Photo: Maddelin McKenna.
Opening
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: The Clock Wife
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Image: Danae Io, Untitled (Hours), 2025, PVC pipe, mirror, metal clamps, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Akwa Ibom, Athens.
Artist Talk
6:30 PM
Artist Talk by DANAE IO as part of FIELD SCHOOL: The Laboratory for Art and Research at A Tale of A Tub
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Artist talk
6:30 PM
Duotones: A series of artists talking
Talk #3: gabi dao and Rana Hamadeh
Moderated by Arsalan Ishaqzai
Thursday, September 25 – Sunday, September 28, 2025
Exhibition
Hold Your Horses: An exhibition by PIET ZWART INSTITUTE FINE ART CLASS 2025
Wednesday, September 10 – Sunday, September 14, 2025
Image: A new garbage chute installed in the kitchens of the Justus van Effencomplex, 1961. Image courtest of Stadsarchief, Rotterdam.
Festival
Open Monument Day 2025
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Image: gekte huilt snel. credo miste veel raad., drawing-writing anagram by Anne Krul, 2015.
Workshop
2:00 – 4:30 PM
Zine-making with anne krul and Tabea Nixdorff
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Unica Zürn, Ein Märchen Buch für Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern [A Storybook for Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern], 1963–1964, 17 watercolor and ink drawings on six 6 folded sheets of paper, single page, 32 x 25cm
Publication Launch
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Literary text production is not my goal: Publication launch and Finissage
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Still from anne krul, Deconstructie-Constructie, 2010, video, 4min 20sec
Guided Tour
3:00 PM
Neighbourhood Tour with anne krul and Tabea Nixdorff
Friday, June 6 – Friday, July 11, 2025
Open Call
Artistic Residency
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Artist talk
6:30 PM
Duotones: A series of artists talking
Talk #2: Daniel Tuomey and Eveline Visser
Moderated by Daniël van der Giessen
Hosted by TENT, Coolhaven 32, Rotterdam
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Opening
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN: ANAGRAMMA TICS
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Workshop
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Furniture Building Workshop: Part 2
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Workshop
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Furniture Building Workshop: Part 1
Friday, May 9, 2025
Artist talk
6:00 – 8:30 PM
Duotones: A series of artists talking
Talk #1: Toon Fibbe and Han Hoogerbrugge
Moderated by Antye Guenther, representing Varia
Hosted by TENT, Coolhaven 32, Rotterdam
Sunday, April 20, 2025
A possible model, sketch for The Difference Machine, Greenpoint, NYC, Taylor Le Melle, 2021, graphite pencil on paper, 14.8 x 21cm.
Lecture-workshop
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Replenish Your Capacity: A lecture-workshop and latte tasting with TAYLOR LE MELLE
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Image: Seedlings from Natuurstad ready for the market.
Market
12:00 – 5:00 PM
Seedling Market and Flea Market
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Image: Stock render of people used for property developments, sourced by Brianna Leatherbury.
Tour
6:00 PM
Guided Tour of The Drain with BRIANNA LEATHERBURY and ISABELLE SULLY
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Information Session
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Pension Planning Practicalities: An Introduction to financial planning for freelance and other arts workers with PETER VAN DEN BUNDER, CHRIS RIJTEN and JAY TAN
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Image: Texture swatch of a metal surface from a 3D render program, sourced by Brianna Leatherbury.
Opening
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: BRIANNA LEATHERBURY: The Drain
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Image: Still from Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters (1968), a film by Hung-Min Chen.
Screening
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters at KINO Rotterdam
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Christmas Market
12:00 – 5:00 PM
Justus van Effencomplex and friends celebrate Christmas!
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Image: AI render of a mountain by Jay Tan.
Opening
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: JAY TAN: Pension Planning
Saturday, October 26 – Sunday, October 27, 2024
Workshop
3:00 – 6:00 PM
Open Wave-Receiver Workshop with SHORTWAVE COLLECTIVE and RADIO WORM
Friday, October 25, 2024
Image: Bia Davou, [Newspaper Collage], 1991, mixed media, 39.2 x 29.2cm.
Publication launch
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Spangen Buurtkrant: Launch of Edition #2
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Photo: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais by Jos Bitelli
Talk
6:30 PM
Access Toolkit for Artworkers:
A Talk with IARLAITH NÍ FHEORAIS
Thursday, October 10 – Sunday, October 13, 2024
Exhibition poster by the participating students, 2024.
Exhibition
Heating Systems: An exhibition by PIET ZWART INSTITUTE FINE ART CLASS OF 2025
Opening: October 10, 6–8PM
Saturday, September 14 – Sunday, September 15, 2024
Justus van Effenstraat during the renovation of the Justus van Effencomplex, circa 1985. Photo: Stadsarchief, Rotterdam.
Festival
Open Monumentendag 2024
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Patty Chang, Glass Urinary Device, 2017, hand-blown borosilicate glass, plastic and tape.
Event
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: PATTY CHANG: Glass Urinary Devices
Friday, August 30, 2024
Performance
6:00 PM
Flax, baby! Flax! [Interludes]
Performance by LIZA PRINS & MARIE ILSE BOURLANGES
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Opening and Performance
4:00 – 8:00 PM
Flax, baby! Flax! [Interludes]
Performance by LIZA PRINS & MARIE ILSE BOURLANGES at 5PM
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Image courtesy of the Houweling Telecommuseum, Rotterdam
Guided Tour
2:30 PM
Guided Tour of the HOUWELING TELECOMMUSEUM with PELUMI ADEJUMO and ARNOLD ABELS
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Double hammer, source image from the archive of Harriet Rose Morley
Artist Talk
2:00 PM
Artist talk with OLGA MINCIŃSKA and HARRIET ROSE MORLEY
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Crop from De strijd om de broek, Cornelis van Kittensteyn, 1610–1663. Source: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Performance
4:00 PM
Vrouwenproblemen: Spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking
Performance produced by READING ROOM ROTTERDAM with ANDREA CELESTE LA FORGIA and GLORIYA AVGUST
Friday, May 17, 2024
CAConrad by Augusto Cascales
Workshop
4:00 – 6:00 PM
(Soma)tic Poetry Workshop with CACONRAD
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Atsuko Tanaka installing Work (Bell) in 1955
Event
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Opening: The Lips of History
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Workshop
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Songs of Flax: Chapter 3: Over the Heckle
by MARIE ILSE BOURLANGES, LIZA PRINS
and BERGUR ANDERSON
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Workshop
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Songs of Flax: Chapter 2: Breaking Refrains
by MARIE ILSE BOURLANGES, LIZA PRINS
and BERGUR ANDERSON
Sunday, January 21, 2024
