New Years Greetings! 2011

We quit with our highly appriciated Art Agenda. It is to much work for us, besides that there is a hip new agenda you can consult. They claim they own the city.
As we said in the beginning we made the Art Map and agenda to re-connect with the art scene of Rotterdam. The first Art Map with 77 aesthetic zones we published and printed in May 2009, followed a year later by Art Map 2.0 March 2010. This time we made clear categories: project spaces, institutes, galleries, independent magazines and publishers, web based projects, collective studio buildings with a public program. And we listed 73 aesthetic zones in Rotterdam. Not bad! But is it also good?

Who is your audience?
Where is the audience?
Where is the excitement?
Where is the eagerness?
Where is the happiness?

In our Good Blog we will try to address this issue starting from January 2011.

Merry X-mas and all the best for 2011.

Stay tuned. See you next year!
Rob and Nienke, editors of Fucking Good Art

New publication!

Fucking Good Art edition Nr.2

Front Desk / Back Office
The secret world of galleries in 39 pictures and two texts

Photos: Rob Hamelijnck

Texts: Olav Velthuis and Thibaut de Ruyter

Language: English

Editor: Rob Hamelijnck
Design: Nienke Terpsma
Published by Fucking Good Art & post editions
Size:12,5 x 19,5 cm, color, 84 pages
ISBN: 978 94 6083 031 0

Edition: 500

€ 15,00 (including postage)

Order: mail@fuckinggoodart.nl

Fucking Good Art edition is a series of special artists’ editions published by Fucking Good Art and a co-publisher. The first edition – an enlarged and revised reprint of the magazine Beuys in Rotterdam 1980 – was published in 2008 in association with the City Art Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Summer Break!

Dear fans,
The editors are out of town.
Back in September.
See you soon...

Art Agenda Rotterdam: July 2010

Thu 01 / De Zwarte Ruyter - AFRIKANER BRAAI.
BBQ Marathon - BYOF&D, Otherwise Drinks & Foodsticks €1,50
Tonight from 6 p.m. juli 1st De Zwarte Ruyter hooks up with the BBQ
Marathon crew of Daan den Houter. Be welcome, bring your own
food and drinks or get eat them at our wonderful new green
Gardenbar.
Time: 6 pm
Location: van der Takstraat 107 / Noordereiland

Fri 02 / Het Wilde Weten - Evening program with artists talks of four artists, WK, a BBQ and the opening of the show of Jan Bokma.
Time schedule:
WK quarter-final, Brazil -Netherlands: 4 pm

Artist talk – Ron Saunders and Macenzie Bristow: 6 pm

Artist talk – Jan Bokma: 6:30 pm

Artist talk – Gerben Meinders: 7 pm

The exhibition of Jan Bokma is open during the events.
Location: Robert Fruinstraat 35

Fri 02 / Piet Zwart Institute - Disrupting Systems.
Graduation show of the Master Media Design & Communication: Networked Media. Graduating students: Emanuele Bonetti (IT), Loredana Bontempi (IT), Selena Savic (YU) (RS), Farrah Shakeel (PK) in collaboration with Emaan Wahaj (UK). opening speeches: Richard Ouwerkerk & Hajo Doorn
Opening: Friday July 2, 8 pm
Continuing: Saturday July 3rd – Friday July 9th, 12.00 – 05.00 pm
Location: WDW63 building a.k.a 'Het NRC gebouw', 'de oude fotomuseum', or the future WORM location

Sun 04 / ADA - Lazy Sunday Afternoon Party
Area for debate and art.
Time: 3 - 11 pm
Location: Bree 93-B, Rotterdam Zuid

Sun 04 / De Player – LAST EVENT BEFORE SUMMERBREAK!
Preview BIGMAG. #4 - MATT HULSE (uk), a Cinematic Audio Sunday.
Because of the fact that we are working together with Matt Hulse on a BIGMAG. #4 (based on his Audible Picture Show), we are very pleased to show a glimpse of the result.
Time: starts 4 pm until 11 pm
Location: Hillelaan 49-d

Mon 05 / WORM - MINDFUCKMONDAYS
The mindfuckmondays operates from The Hague to support the underground art movement, performance art, guerilla art, culture jamming, reality hacking, chaos magic and much more. On the fith of July the mindfuckmondays takes place at WORM in Rotterdam for all music lovers, artists, musicians and anyone who feels related. The evening starts with a legislative live act followed by an experimental music performance, live electro, jungle, breakcore, and technodub. Visuals by Jorick.tv
Time: 8 pm
Location: Achterhaven 148

Wed 07 / Witte de With - Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists. Book launch!
Time: 8 pm
Location: Witte de With straat 50

Wed 07 / Piet Zwart Institute - Show & Tell: The Politics of Silence and the Power of Discourse.
Premiere Screening. Show & Tell was produced by seven artists who are currently studying Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academie Rotterdam University. This documentary film focuses on interviews with artists, curators and writers, including Judy Radul, Martha Rosler, Anton Vidokle and Jeff Wall, and charts the current status of discourse production in the field of art making.
Time: 8 - 10 pm
Location: Witte de With, Witte de Withstraat 50

Thu 08 / V2 - Test_Lab: The Invisible City
Time: doors open: 7:30 pm
Location: Eendrachtsstraat 10
http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-the-invisible-city

Fri 09 / Piet Zwart Institute - If you say something, see something.
Graduation exhibition of the Master of Fine Arts Course. The exhibition presents work by Ghislain Amar (FR), Derek Brunen (CA), Diana Duta (RO), Priscila Fernandes (PT), Bitsy Knox (CA), Tom Kok (NL), Sjoerd van Leeuwen (NL), Bat Sheva Ross (IL), Marnie Slater (NZ), Jay Tan (UK), Selina Taylor (UK), Annie Wu (AU) and is on display in TENT until 22 August.
Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab, in collaboration with Guy Ben-Ner.
Time: opening 6.30 pm
Location: Tent.CBK Witte de Withstraat

Fri 16 / Tent CBK - TENT. Academy Awards 2010
After the TENT. Academy Awards, the nominated films are shown in TENT. until 22 August.
New this year: TENT. Academy Award For Best Foreign Film!
LIMITED SEATS! Tickets on sale at the reception desk in TENT.
Time: 8 pm
Location: Filmzaal Kriterion, Groothandelsgebouw

Art Agenda Rotterdam: June 2010

Fri 04 / Zwervende tentoonstelling #15@Koetshuis – 100 x 100.
Only open Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 from 2 - 6 pm.
Opening: 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Baden Powelllaan 14 Park Zochers

Fri 04 / V2 – Augmented Reality: Artistic Explorations
In this Augmented Reality Expert Meeting we bring together artists, developers and theorists to discuss what AR brings as a medium. The meeting is open to invited guests only. If you want to be part of this discussion, contact Jan Misker via ar-ecosystem@v2.nl Please indicate your area of expertise, as we aim for a balanced mix of professionals.
Time: 1:00–6:00 p.m.
Location: Eendrachtsstraat 10
Expert Meeting
http://www.v2.nl/events/v2_ar-artistic-explorations

Fri 04 / De Zwarte Ruyter - Johan Thom and Hand Wilschut.
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Van der Takstraat 107, Noordereiland

Tue 08 / Piet Zwart Institute - What the Animal Saw (and I Never Knew)
A lecture series by Jan Verwoert.
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Location: Mauritsstraat 36

Fri 11 / Sculpture International R'dam.
Presentation by Jeroen Jongeleen in Grrr Jamming Squeak
Time: 7.30 p.m.
Location: Coolsingel 63

Wed 16 / WORM – We Are Fine: Thai shorts.
Time: 8.30 pm
Location: Achterhaven 148

Thu 17 - Sun 20 / Route du Nord 7th edition.
Time: opening Fri 18 7 pm
Location: Zwaanshals, Rotterdam Noord

Fri 18 - Sun 20 / Witte de With - Act IX Let Us Compare Mythologies.
A three-day cycle of staged events presenting international artists exploring the nature of the performance.
Featured artists: Danai Anesiadou, Baktruppen, Genevieve Belleveau, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Keren Cytter & Andrew Kerton, Oskar Dawicki, Simon Denny, Lili Reynaud- Dewar, D.O.R., Leeroy the Duck, Yngve Holen, Gergely Laszlo, Mark Leckey, Nishiko, Patrizio Di Massimo, Tris Vonna-Michell, Rory Pilgrim, Eliza Newman-Saul and Jeremy Shaw
Curated by Renske Janssen and Dorothea Jendricke.
Locations: WdW, Arminius, Bonheur, Nordic Seamen's Church, Roodkapje
Download PDF programme here!

Sat 19 / HalfJuni - New Zealand artists Raised By Wolves present a new work, Chasing Losses. Raised by Wolves are Amy Howden Chapman (Los Angeles) and Biddy Livesey (Rotterdam).
Chasing Losses is a new performance using a series of banners and actions to present a narrative about color as color, and the colors, patterns and psychology of the recent financial crisis.
This performance is timed to fit between events forming part of the Witte de With Performance Cycle. Food will be served.
Time: 7.30 pm
Location: Wolphaertsbocht 51

Sun 20 / WORM - Cinema Brut
An alternative genealogy of avant-garde film.
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Achterhaven 148

Mon 21 / Wallgallery - Summer of Love.
First Wallgallery groupshow with Hester Scheurwater, Barbara Witteveen, Michel Wieggers, Saminte Ekeland, Sophie Krier, Lidy Jacobs, Karin Arink, Nel Pak, and you.
Time: 9 pm
Location: Wijnburgstraat 330, Red Apple 37th floor

Wed 23 / Piet Zwart Institute - The Material Insurrection of the Soul
A lecture series by Jan Verwoert.
Time 7.30 pm
Location: Mauritsstraat 36

Wed 23 / WORM - Blind Date: Michael Snow ( 1982 16mm)
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Achterhaven 148

Art Agenda Rotterdam: May 2010

Thu 06 / ADA – Dropping Machines, by Anne-Mari Huttunen.
Time: Opening 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Bree 97C

Thu 06 / Roodkapje – my space, your space, our space: my space, Sabrina Basten. Presentation by Pythagorium. Pythagorium Bass Clarinets is an improvising ensemble.
Time: Opening at 9:30 pm.
Location: Meent 131

Sa 08 / De Player - COM.POST #13 / THE MOURNING SHOW by ERGO PHIZMIZ (uk)
A Suitcase Opera about Death, Magic and Radio. An evening of adventurous homegrown operesqette business about the English talk-radio-DJ Chris Evans doing a phone-in show. Somehow by the end he'll be dead. Starring Erik Bumbledonk as Chris Evans and The Travelling Mongoose as a mental aspect
Time: 8:30 pm
Location: the OLD PLAYER Tolhuisstraat 107

Sa 8 / Paranoot – A World in Shreds, exhibition with work of 4 painters: Raimonda Griksaite, Rijnder Kamerbeek, Matijs vd Kerkhof, Machteld Solinger.
Time: Opening 5:00 pm.
Location: Essenburgsingel 68 (10 min. walk CS)

Sa 08 / Wilfried Lentz gallery – During the month May, Wilfried Lentz gallery is showing a program centering on the use of recent historical music or sound, every week featuring a performance or film installation by a different artist. The openings for these shows will be on Saturdays at 8 pm. The first show we will host is a performance by Nico Dockx (BE, 1974) and Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE, 1956).
Time: 8 pm
Location: Groot Handelsgebouw, Stationplein 45 UNIT C 1,140
www.wilfriedlentz.com

Mo 10 / Piet Zwart institute – Lost in the Cloud of Unknowing: Contemporary Art and the Attraction for the Occult. A public lecture by Marco Pasi. Marco Pasi is Assistant Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The lecture takes place in the framework of the exhibition Enigma and is also part of the programme Office for the Unknown led by Alexis Vaillant of the Piet Zwart Institute.
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Mauritsstraat 36

Wed 12 / Witte de With - Act VI: Remember Humanity and Act VII: Of Facts and Fables.
Time: Opening 6 - 9 pm. Performance by Nicoline van Harskamp.
Location: Witte de Withstraat 50

Wed 12 / WORM – Cartune Xprez: Fututre Television with Peter Burr and Hooliganship [video and performnace].
Time: Starts 9 pm.
Location: Achterhaven 148

Sa 15 / Wilfried Lentz gallery – Sound Track Stage a video made by Rotterdam based artist Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
Time: 8 pm
Location: Groot Handelsgebouw, Stationplein 45 UNIT C 1,140
www.wilfriedlentz.com

Thu 20 / V2 - Urban Screen Savers, Test_Lab. Critical reflection on the urban screen as an artistic medium.
Time: 8 pm
Location: V2 Ground floor Eendrachtstraat 10

Thu 20 / ADA project space - Cinema Sunset: Films by Charles and Ray Eames.
Time: Starts at 8:00pm.
Location: Bree 93B, Rotterdam Zuid

Fri 21 / Tent.CBK – Enigma Film Night Down The Rabbit Hole. Until 2 o’clock in the morning, current blockbusters & classic cult films in which the fantasy world, the surreal, unbelievable, absurd, terrifying and inexplicable occupy centre.
Time: Starts 8 pm.
Location: Witte de Withstraat 50

Sa 15 / Wilfried Lentz gallery – Seasonal Unrest, video installation by Dani Gal (Israel) who live is Berlin at the moment. This is the third show in the May program – a weekly program featuring a performance or installation by a visual artist that centers on the use of recent historical music or sound. Seasonal Unrest is a large-screen portrait of a foley artist who is producing the new sound track for a film in a recording studio. The film for which this new soundtrack is produced is the 1970 documentary, “Grenade in Gaza’.
Time: 8 pm
Location: Groot Handelsgebouw, Stationplein 45 UNIT C 1,140
www.wilfriedlentz.com

Zo 23 / WORM – Live presentation of the science fiction radio play workshop by Felix Kubin.
Time: Starts 9 pm.
Location: Achterhave 148

Thu 27 / Sils - Pyrrhic Fortune, with André Kok, Mai Hofstad Gunnes.
Time: opening: thu may 27th, 9 pm.
Locatie: Sils c/o A-Locatie, Wolphaertsbocht 51
www.silsprojects.info

Fri 28 / Piet Zwart Institute - BarCamp / European Design Festival 2010. A BarCamp is an open source/open participation 'unconference' for presenting new media projects, a collective and self-organized speaker's corner for media people. Designers, artists, activists can come, sign up on the schedule and give a presentation on their current work and projects. No pre-registration is required. This is the second BarCamp in Rotterdam. It is organized by the research programme "Communication in a Digital Age" of the Piet Zwart Institute in the context, and on the location, of the European Design Festival 2010.
Time: 5:30-11:00 pm.
Location: Foyer of the Willem Burger Zaal, De Doelen, Schouwburgplein,
Rotterdam
http://www.europeandesign.org

Fri 28 / SIR-Sculpture International Rotterdam - GRRR JAMMING SQUEAK. Live perforrmance by Culture Brothers alias Karma Lama, a Tibetan composer who lives in Alaska.
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Coolsingel 63
www.grrr.nu

Sa 29 / Wilfried Lentz gallery – These Are The Days, by Matt Stokes.
This is the 4th show in our May program – a weekly program featuring a performance or installation by a visual artist that centers on the use of recent historical music or sound. These Are The Days is a large two channel video installation featuring a punk gig in Austin Texas as well as a punk band from the same city playing a new sound-track to it.
Time: 8 pm
Location: Groot Handelsgebouw, Stationplein 45 UNIT C 1,140
www.wilfriedlentz.com

Sa 29 / Galerie Hommes - Transition Part 1. With: Marga van den Meydenberg, Janine Schrijver, Mladen Suknovic, Sjoert Willemstein. The Transition Exhibition presents a photographic view of a changing borough. Four photographers from Charlois were invited to capture the transition process in pictures. The exhibition has two parts: Part 1 in 2010 and Part 2 in 2013.
Time: 4 pm.
Location: Charloisse Kerksingel 14

Sat 29 / B.a.d Foundation + ZiM - Ears Up, an exciting eclectic music night, the evening program of 'Het Kunstweekend Charlois 2010' in Rotterdam.
Afterparty: From 01:00 Studio Pompstraat, Pompstraat 44c.
EARS UP 2010 is a collaboration between foundation ZIM and foundation B.a.d
Time: Door open 8pm. Admission: € 3, - fee = two drinks.
Location: B.a.d foundation: Talingstraat 5
http://www.kunstweekendcharlois.nl/evenementen/1-ears-up/

Sat 29 / Gallery 182 A - Inside Job, organized by Jeroen Jongeleen. This project consists in secret interventions within Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. This exhibition will be on view till 6th June.
Opening from 6 pm onwards.
Location: Verboomstraat 182 A