Spaanse Kubus, February 4 - 9
A former parking garage in Spaanse Polder, an industrial area in Rotterdam, literally made room for young makers during Art Rotterdam Week, 4-9 February 2020.
During the exhibition, the artists examined the space between human experiences and digital technologies, which seem to move increasingly further away from our natural reality. With an area of 2.000m2 at their disposal, the makers were literally given the space to make site-specific and entirely new work during Art Rotterdam Week, commissioned by The New Current. With this grand, non-commercial exhibition, the artists got the rare chance to present themselves and create large and engaging work.
Participating artists: Quinda Verheul, Teun Wolters, Ana Brumat/Henrietta Muller, Oana Clitan, Nikki Hock, Jochem Esser/Boris Acket/Vincent Rang, Roland Spitzer, Jan Kuhlemeier, Cem Berendsen, Alexander van Bakel, Sarah Amrani, Freerk Wilbers, Federico Murgia, Ai Hashimoto, Kim Nuijen, Johan Roelofs, Julie Patard, Sandy Harry Ceesay, Sunna Svavarsdottir, Oana Clitan, Lara Bruggeman.
The work shows a continuous deviation that rhythmically returns. The work is a metaphor for a mysterious emptiness that always demands our attention. Excavated landscapes that provide us with minerals and raw materials. Looking at the void does not work. That reflection of denial, our own contributions to destruction.