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Garage Rotterdam is a medium-sized exhibition centre for contemporary art in the city of Rotterdam

Garage Rotterdam is a medium-sized exhibition centre for contemporary art in the city centre of Rotterdam. Founded in 2011, it is housed in a unique 500m2 building which used to function as a Volkswagen Garage, but has been transformed into a dynamic non-profit art centre with coffee-corner under the leadership of architect Remy Meijers. By organizing four qualitative art exhibitions yearly, Garage Rotterdam connects local Rotterdam-based artists with established names from the international art scene, therefore creating a platform for upcoming and established artists and curators. The exhibitions are complemented by a carefully chosen public program, consisting of screenings, talks, music, performances and readings, bringing together different disciplines and fields. While the event Brandstof brings depth to the exhibitions through a program of talks, readings and performances, the event Natafelen enables the visitors to dine with the artists and curators of the show, all within the ambience of the exhibition and under the culinary vision of chef Laurence van Bergeijk.

16/10/2026

On Friday 23 October, Garage Rotterdam presents an evening of experimental electronics, drone and improvisation, with live performances by A. Crespo Barba () and the trio Lucija Gregov () Christine Cornwell () and Ruben Kotkamp () ⊹

𝐀. 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚
Barcelona-based artist, composer and researcher A. Crespo Barba works across experimental music and multidisciplinary practices. His work explores the physical and emotional potential of sound, with a particular interest in sonic friction and the liminal territory between beauty and degradation. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Artistic Research, investigating sonic friction as a generative force for creating new aesthetic possibilities and futures.

𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐣𝐚 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐯 + 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 + 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐨𝐭𝐤𝐚𝐦𝐩
Transdisciplinary artist and electroacoustic musician Ruben Kotkamp works with cellist Lucija Gregov and violinist Christine Cornwell, exploring the tension between fixed media and free improvisation. Their cyclical process draws on second-order cybernetics: feedback between composed material, live improvisation, the space and the audience continuously reshapes the music. Each performance feeds into the next, creating an iterative system in which composition and improvisation evolve together over time.

📍 Garage Rotterdam
⊹ Friday 23 October, 20:00–23:00
✦ Admission by donation - RSVP via link in bio

15/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Thursday for 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙛𝙚 #16 ⊹

Here’s a glimpse of the evening, with presentations and performances by anna andrejew (anna andrejew), Yang Yu (Yang Yu), Minh Thu Nguyen, Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang (Cloud Poetry Film 雲朵影像詩) and Romana Klementis (Romana Klementis).

From rivers and rice to memories, borders and the body, our five contributors shared ongoing research, experiments and works in progress through readings, film, performance and conversations with the audience.

A special thank you to Nicole Sciarone (Nicole Sciarone) for organising and hosting Garage Café, curator Cynthia Jordens () for her thoughtful feedback and Samyuktha Rajagopal for the soup ⊹

Kindly supported by Elise Mathilde Fonds (elisemathildefonds), Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland (Het Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland) and Volkskracht ().

📸 Cecilie Fang cecilie fang | 方亦文

14/10/2026

𝗜𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: 𝗔𝘁𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗵 Atousa Bandeh

Atousa Bandeh’s monumental installation ‘A Thousand Sunsets’ (2026) became an important point of departure for 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣. The exhibition title is taken from a poem by Etel Adnan (1925–2021), the poet, artist and thinker whose work evokes the sun as both a life-giving force and a witness to violence, war and displacement.

In ‘A Thousand Sunsets’, Atousa Bandeh translates the colours of countless sunsets into a monumental textile installation. Layers of everyday fabrics, lace, tablecloths and domestic textiles are combined with paint and pigment to form a sculptural whole that evokes a mountain landscape, a curtain or a shelter. These domestic materials carry associations with memory and migration, referring to a home that may feel tangibly close while remaining out of reach. The recurring sunset marks the passing of time and the longing for a home that continues to exist in memory.

This tension between seeing and not fully seeing also runs through Bandeh’s other works in the exhibition. In ‘Boy in a Yellow Vest’ and ‘Two Boys’, figures emerge through layers of textile, pattern and paint, complicating what can be read from outward appearance alone.

𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣 is on view until 15 November 2026, curated by Cynthia Jordens.

📸 Aad Hoogendoorn

De monumentale installatie ‘A Thousand Sunsets’ (2026) van Atousa Bandeh vormde een belangrijk uitgangspunt voor 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣. De titel van de tentoonstelling is ontleend aan een gedicht van Etel Adnan (1925–2021), dichter, kunstenaar en denker, in wier werk de zon naar voren komt als zowel een bron van leven als een getuige van geweld, oorlog en ontheemding.

In ‘A Thousand Sunsets’ vertaalt Atousa Bandeh de kleuren van talloze zonsondergangen naar een monumentale installatie van textiel. Lagen van alledaagse stoffen, kant, tafelkleden en ander huiselijk textiel worden gecombineerd met verf en pigment tot een sculpturaal geheel dat doet denken aan een berglandschap, een gordijn of een schuilplaats. Deze huiselijke materialen roepen associaties op met herinnering en migratie en verwi

01/10/2026

Coming up at Garage Rotterdam 💫

Join us for talks, performances, shared meals and new encounters in the coming weeks.

✦ Friday 2 October 2026 | TALKS about architecture

Felix Holland of Localworks Localworks takes the stage at TALKS about architecture .

19:30–21:30 · Lecture + Q&A · Drinks afterwards
Language: English · Tickets via the link in bio.

✦ Thursday 8 October 2026 | Garage Café #16

Garage Café opens its doors again for its sixteenth edition. An informal meeting place for artists, makers and audiences, Garage Café offers space to encounter new work and exchange ideas. During ten-minute contributions, artists share ongoing research, experiments and works in progress.

Featuring anna andrejew anna andrejew, Yang Yu Yang Yu, Minh Thu Nguyen, Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang Cloud Poetry Film 雲朵影像詩 and Romana Klementis Romana Klementis

18:00–20:00 · Admission: €2 or pay what you can · Soup: €5

✦ Friday 23 October 2026 | Live at Garage Rotterdam

An evening of experimental electronics and improvisation, with live performances by A. Crespo Barba Adrián and Lucija Gregov Lucija Gregov, Christine Cornwell Christine Cornwell and Ruben Kotkamp ʀᴜʙᴇɴ ᴋᴏᴛᴋᴀᴍᴘ.

20:00–22:00 · Admission by donation
RSVP via the link in bio.

✦ Friday 30 October | Both Hats On
Meet-up for Artist-Parents & Workshop: Creating a Working Conditions Rider for Artist-Parents THE ARTIST AND THE OTHERS

This meet-up brings artist-parents in the Netherlands together to discuss current challenges, share best practices and find a supportive community.

09:30–13:30 · Language: English · Free

✦ Friday 13 November 2026 | Natafelen

Dining among the artworks? Take a seat at Garage Rotterdam for a four-course dinner within An Eye Dreads the Sun. Together with the curator and participating artists, discuss the exhibition in a more intimate setting.

The dinner is prepared by chef Marnix Benschop, with an optional w**e pairing by De Gouden Ton.

18:00–22:00 · Four-course menu: €50 · W**e pairing: €30
Reservations: [email protected]

⏩️More information and tickets via the link in bio.

17/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday to celebrate the opening of 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣 ⊹

Here’s a glimpse of the opening, featuring works by
AYO Ayo, Taqwa Ali Taqwa Ali, Atousa Bandeh Atousa Bandeh, Nolan Oswald Dennis nolan oswald dennis and Jennifer Tee Jennifer Tee, curated by Cynthia Jordens.

The exhibition brings together works in which materials carry stories and traces of origin and loss, and transmit knowledge. Earth, plant-based pigments, textiles, sound and the human voice become vessels of memory, allowing what has been displaced, silenced or lost to resurface.

And a special thank you to ˙⋆✮PARSA for the tunes.

𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣 is on view until 15 November 2026.

𝗨𝗣𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚
Saturday 19 September, 20:00 – A Score for Atat’s Homestead, performance by AYO Ayo, performed by Phantom Wizard Phantom Wizard - Composer.

More info via the link in bio. 🔗

📸 Bas Czerwinski

15/09/2026

Saturday 19 September, during GRAW, AYO’s installation ‘A Score for Atat’s Homestead’ will be activated in a performance by Phantom Wizard. ⊹

𝘼 𝙎𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙩𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙
Performance by Ayo, performed by Phantom Wizard - Composer

Witness an intimate rendition of AYO’s A Score for Atat’s Homestead at Garage Rotterdam, currently on view as part of 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣, performed by composer and improviser Phantom Wizard under AYO’s artistic direction. In her work, AYO explores how sound can make hidden histories and a lost homeland audible. During the performance, sculptures, field recordings, instruments and live improvisation come together, giving personal and collective memories form through sound. The Abu, AYO’s glass interpretation of a traditional Luo wind instrument, also takes on a new sonic dimension within the performance. In this way, the installation becomes a living, shared memory.

AYO is a Kampala-raised, Rotterdam-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, sound, performance, and film. Through time-based and collaborative works, she researches how intangible cultural heritage – language, memory, oral transmission, Indigenous knowledge systems – presses against and enters material forms, opening rooms where histories are enlivened, shared, and at times, misunderstood.

Phantom Wizard (b. 1998, Amsterdam) is a composer and improviser whose work dissolves boundaries and reimagines traditions. Phantom Wizard blends natural soundscapes, the sonorities of Afro-diasporic music, experimental electronics and the many ancient traditions sourced from the Surinamese melting pot.

📍 Garage Rotterdam
⊹ Saturday 19 September, 20:00
✦ Free entry

11/09/2026

👀 Sneak peek… a closer look at the materials of 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣.

1. Detail of drawing in ‘A Score of Atat’s Homestead’ (2025) Ayo
2. Hibiscus, sea salt and water on paper, ‘Until the Salt in the Sea Ferment to Honey’ (2025) Taqwa Ali
3. Hand-dyed wool and ceramic Jennifer Tee
4. Detail of ‘A Score for Atat’s Homestead’ Ayo
5. Seashells in ‘The Rainmaker Who Took The Gods To The Streets’ (2025), installation, Taqwa Ali
6. Textile, metal, acrylic paint, detail of ‘A Thousand Sunsets’ (2026) Atousa Bandeh
7. Textile, ‘Boy in Yellow Vest’ (2026) Atousa Bandeh
8. Detail of ‘Tampan Tree of Life, Naga~Nagini’ (2024), collage of tulip petals, piezography Jennifer Tee
9. Hibiscus, ‘The Rainmaker Who Took The Gods To The Streets’ (2025) Taqwa Ali
10. Detail of ‘Specifications for a Reverse Archeology (2022–23)’, Nolan Oswald Dennis nolan oswald dennis

Come see the works in full and celebrate the opening with us! ⊹

Join us tonight, Friday 11 September, for the opening of 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣 at Garage Rotterdam, curated by Cynthia Jordens.

📍 Garage Rotterdam
✦ 19:00–23:30

25/08/2026

Up next at Garage Rotterdam → 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣

We look forward to welcoming you back in September for the opening of An Eye Dreads the Sun, curated by Cynthia Jordens.

Materials are not silent witnesses. They carry stories and traces of origin and loss, and transmit knowledge. In 𝘼𝙣 𝙀𝙮𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣, earth, plant-based pigments, textiles, sound, and the human voice act as vessels of memory. In the works in this exhibition, materials offer a way of tracing the marks left behind by history.

The title, drawn from a poem by Etel Adnan, evokes an ambiguous image: the sun as a life-giving force as well as an eye that witnesses violence, strife, and displacement. In the monumental installation ‘A Thousand Sunsets’ (2026), Atousa Bandeh gives this tension material form. The installation brings together the ever-changing colours of sunsets, seemingly suspending this fleeting moment in time.

The exhibition focuses on what often remains out of sight and what the sun ultimately brings to light. Taqwa Ali works with natural materials such as seawater, salt, hibiscus, and limestone to explore the relationship between landscape and displacement. In ‘A Score for Atat’s Homestead’, AYO evokes a remembered homeland through sound. In Jennifer Tee’s work, the tulip refers to colonial trade networks, while Nolan Oswald Dennis reworks the tools and logic of archaeology to question how histories are extracted from land.

Opening: Friday 11 September 2026, 19:00–23:00
On view: 12 September – 15 November 2026

With works by: AYO Ayo, Taqwa Ali Taqwa Ali, Atousa Bandeh Atousa Bandeh, Nolan Oswald Dennis nolan oswald dennis, Jennifer Tee Jennifer Tee

Design Jesse van Meel

15/07/2026

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 🗯️ This is your last chance to visit 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 at Garage Rotterdam. The exhibition is on show until Sunday, July 19. Don’t miss it!

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝘀: Wednesday–Sunday, 12:30–17:30.

⏭️ 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 | 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Saturday, July 18, 16:00–17:00

Join us for the finissage, where curator Marijn Bril will guide you through the exhibition and share more about the works, the underlying themes, and the questions the exhibition raises. What does it mean to live through the instructions we face every day, and how do instructions shape our behaviour?

Participating artists: Effi & Amir, Tingyi Jiang, Eva & Franco Mattes, Lana Mesić, Yoko Ono, José Quintanar, Coralie Vogelaar, and Erwin Wurm.

Curated by Marijn Bril, winner of the 2026 Garage Rotterdam Prize for Young Curators.

Marijn Bril Effi & Amir Tingyi Eva & Franco Mattes Lana Mesić Yoko Ono

📷 1, 4, 5, 8 & 9: Bas Czerwinski
📷 2, 3, 6, 7 & 10: Aad Hoogendoorn

03/07/2026

Curator Marijn Bril takes us through 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, introducing some of the works featured in the exhibition.

⏭️ The exhibition is still on view until 19 July and open Wednesday–Sunday, 12:30–17:30.

Finissage | How To: Curator Tour
Saturday 18 July, 16:00–17:00

Join us for the finissage, where Marijn Bril will guide you through the exhibition and share more about the works, the underlying themes, and the questions the exhibition raises.

Registration is free - link in bio.🔗

Video by .bo4e

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Goudsewagenstraat 27
Rotterdam
3011RH

Openingstijden

Woensdag	12:30 - 17:30
Donderdag	12:30 - 17:30
Vrijdag	12:30 - 17:30
Zaterdag	12:30 - 17:30
Zondag	12:30 - 17:30

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