Rotterdam

Initiatives

Venues

• De Aanschouw, gallery
• ADA
• B.a.d Foundation, studios, *1987
• Bcademie, self-organised art school, *2015
• Blaak 10, gallery
• Clone, record store for electronic music, *1993
• CrossLab
• DEK–22
• Duende, studios
• Fam.RUIM, gallery
• Half Juni, cafe, *2009
• Herman, music, performance & poetry venue, *2017
• De Kapsalon, *2009
• Kaus Australis, studios, *1985
• Klangendum, *2013, Koffie5euro, *2012
• Kunst&Complex, studios, *1981
• Kunst Rotterdam Noord
• Leeszaal Rotterdam West, *2012
• Showroom MAMA, *1997
• MiMa, performance and event venue, *c.2013
• NeverLand Cinema, *2016
• The New Institute, *2013
• De Nieuwe Ruimte, *2015
• OCW, small-scale stage, *2009
• Paranoot, exhibition space
• Peach, exhibition space, *2015
• The Performance Bar, *2017
• Pink Pank, music venue
• Het Plafond, *1997
• De Player, sound gallery
• Poortgebouw, culture centre
• Post--Office, P--O, *2012
• PrintRoom, artists' publishing space, *2003
• Rib, art space, *2015
• Roodkapje, cultural supermarket, *2010
• Scrap XL, store
• Sils Rotterdam, project space
• SingerSweatShop, studios, *2007
• Sub-Urban Video Lounge, *2004
• Tender Center, community center for culture, *2018
• TENT, exhibition space, *1999
• De Unie
• Upominki, gallery, *2012
• V2, *1981
• Varia, space for everyday technology, *2017
• W1555, artist-run housing project, *2017
• Het Wilde Weten, studios
• Witte de With, art centre, *1990
• W Lf_rt Projectspaces, community space for performance art
• WORM
• WORM.Filmwerkplaats, film lab
• De Zwarte Ruyter

• More: Autonomous Fabric maps Rotterdam's self-organised initiatives (*2018).

• Past spaces: ONONO (project space, 2016-2019), Moddr (*2007), more.

Initiatives and collectives with no permanent event venue

• Algolit, *2012
• The Force Of Freedom, *2009
• Fucking Good Art, *2003
• Homebrew Server Club
• L.P. Hendriks
• MONU, magazine on urbanism, *2004
• NAC
• Pages, magazine, *2004
• Piet Zwart Institute, *2001
• Post Editions, publishing house
• Publication Studio Rotterdam, *2015
• RAiR, *2008
• Roger 10-4
• Sea Urchin, publishing house
• STEALTH.unlimited, *2000
• Studio 3005, publishing house.
• Surinoemer, *2007
• WORM Parallel University, *2013
• Zwervende Tentoonstellingen, *2005

Events

• deaf, festival, *1994
• Floppy Totaal, festival, *2014
• Relearn, summer school, *2017
• Zine Camp, *2014

• Event listings: We Own Rotterdam, Uitagenda Rotterdam.

Past events

• November Complex, 2014-2016
• Dorkbot Rotterdam, *2003
• P2P Conference, 1997
• ISEA96, conference, 1996
• V2_East Meeting on Documentation and Archives of Media Art in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 1996
• Manifestation for the Unstable Media, festival, 1986-1993

Art workers

• Aldje van Meer
• Amy Suo Wu
• Ana A. Fernández (1979)
• Ana Džokić (1970)
• André Castro (1983)
• Angeliki Diakrousi
• Aymeric Mansoux
• Bram van Waardenberg
• Brigit Lichtenegger
• Catherine Somzé (1977)
• Clara Balaguer
• Cristina Cochior
• Daniela Swarowsky
• Deanna Herst
• Dennis de Bel
• Donna Metzlar
• Edwin van der Heide (1970)
• Florian Cramer (1969)
• Florian Weigl (1985)
• Gottfried Haider (1985)
• Ingrid Commandeur
• Irina Shapiro
• Jasper van Loenen
• Javier Lloret (1983)
• Joana Chicau
• Jolande Bosch (1976)
• Joris Strijbos
• Julie Boschat Thorez
• Károly Tóth (1957)
• Katarina Zdjelar (1979)
• Leslie Robbins
• Lídia Pereira
• Manetta Berends (1989)
• Marc Neelen (1970)
• Mariëtte Groot
• Marijn Verbiesen
• Mathijs van Oosterhoudt
• Micha Prinsen (1988)
• Michael Murtaugh
• Michaela Lakova
• Nat Muller
• Peter Fengler
• Renée Turner
• Raluca Croitoru
• Roel Roscam Abbing (1990)
• Sabrina Basten (1980)
• Sandra Fauconnier (1973)
• Silvio Lorusso
• Simon Pummell
• Sjoerd Westbroek (1979)
• Steve Rushton
• Stock
• Susana Pedrosa
• Timo Klok
• Vivian Sky Rehberg
• Walter Langelaar
• Yoshinari Nishiki

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