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EXHIBITION | HOME GROWN by Iriée Zamblé
27 November - 17 December
12:00-17:00
Finishing a two-year residency period at the Hamburger Community of Art, Iriée Zamblé challenges herself to transform the exhibition space of Roodkapje for her solo exhibition HOME GROWN. Not only by including new paintings, but also by making several murals made specifically for the exhibition. The title of this exhibition is as much about a sense of belonging in African Diasporic cultures and Zamblé’s bi-continental background in the perspective of Afro-Europeanism, as it is about her development during her time in Rotterdam. Including paintings, wall and floor, Zamblé carefully constructs an environment that embodies her artistic premise, while transforming the exhibition space into a home for the protagonists of her work.
In HOME GROWN, Zamblé continues to entice her audience with her cool and colourful, dignified paintings of people from the African Diasporas. Drawing from those she meets on the streets, friends and acquaintances, the people appearing in Zamblé’s paintings are signified by an air of coolness. Focussing on the details of their appearance, she makes them into bold and authentic figures, painting them with a sharp eye for style and self-expression. Often looking directly at the spectator, the painted subjects claim their own space, expressing control and ownership, as Zamblé shapes our collective perspective on Black consciousness.
Until December 17 at Roodkapje Rotterdam.
* free entrance *
Tue- Sat 12:00 - 17:00
HOME GROWN is a production of Roodkapje’s Hamburger Community of Art, and was made possible with the kind support of Stichting Bevordering van Volkskracht, Stichting Ondernemersbelangen Rotterdam, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, CBK Rotterdam, Fleur Groenendijk Foundation, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds and the Gemeente Rotterdam.
WORKSHOP | Jazz Up Your Shirt with DragaDina × Zambleezy
Friday, 17th December
14:30 - 17:00
Roodkapje’s Hamburger Community of Art Resident Iriée Zamblé is joining forces with Rotterdam-based fashion designer DragaDina as part of the current program *HOME GROWN*, showing you their ways of jazzing up outfits. Wrap yourself into their world of colours, patterns and paint and create your very own design on a shirt, using tools like fabric paint, cut-outs and sequins. Afterwards, your beautiful look will be immortalised within a pop-up photo shoot inspired by West African studio photography from the 60’s and 70’s.
If you own a shirt you would like to work on, feel free to bring it with you. Otherwise we will provide you with one in the beginning of the workshop. We are looking forward to meeting you and spending a nice, crafty afternoon together. This is also the last chance to see the exhibition HOME GROWN at Roodkapje, so feel free to come early to have a peek around 👀
The workshop Jazz Up Your Shirt is a collaboration between HCL resident Lousia Teichmann and HCA resident Iriée Zamblé accompanying the exhibition HOME GROWN by Iriée Zamblé on view till the 17th of December.
Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3yBjoZ8
NOTE: events take place on the 16th & 17th of december; if you want to view the exhibition HOME GROWN without too much distraction come by between now and the 15th of December
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-17:00
**LIVE PERFORMANCE | EXHIBITION**
WRONG SIDE OUT
Saturday 18 December
with Werner van der Zwaan, Experimental Publishing, Federico Poni, Jeroen Rijnart, Acidic Male, BABeurs/044
Programme with expo & music 14:00 - 17:00
Mark your calendars for our almost-end-of-the-year event called WRONG SIDE OUT. Where the Roodkapje Hamburger Community LIVE residents join forces to wrap up the year. The residents are working tirelessly to bring us a deranged blend of experimental electronica, live performances and deviant music put together to create a one day programme.
Join for the whole day or for the workshop & live performances separately.
Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3HLluKW
Ever wake up feeling that you stepped out of bed with the wrong foot? We are here to celebrate the oddities these days bring. When messing with the routine and conventions manifests into creativity. “Wrong Side Out” surfs the strange soundwaves, challenging your perception, giving life to inanimate objects and presenting them to you as a mozaique of well crafted madness.
Our program consists of a deranged blend of experimental electronica, live performances and deviant music put together to create a one day program to end your year in total confusion.
**Expo:**
Werner van der Zwaan (Sound Installation)
Experimental Publishing PZI: Max Lehmann, Clara Noseda, Avital Barkai, Anna Sandri, Mika Motskobili, (Sound Installation)
Federico Poni (Sound Installation)
Jeroen Rijnart (Visuals)
**Workshop:** (buy tickets for the workshop separately here: https://bit.ly/3HLluKW)
Gijs Gieskes
**Sounds:**
Acidic Male (Live)
BABeurs/044 (Live)
Wrong Side Out is a collaboration between HCL residents Lousia Teichmann, Ruta Genyte and Arjuna Vlasblom
**WORKSHOP | EXHIBITION**
WRONG SIDE OUT
Saturday 18 December, from 11:30 - 14:00
with Gijs Gieskes
Roodkapje invites electronic artist Gijs Gieskes during “Wrong Side Out” to open up his world of strange sound machines, beeps, boops and white noise. During this hands-on workshop, you will assemble your own sine wave generator, a small circuit producing tones. Dive into the world of resistors, volts and wires, and become a master of modulation.
Gijs Gieskes is an industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use. The devices are often sold as kits but also pre assembled. He also gives workshops, concerts, lectures and has exhibitions.
*When I started to make electronic things I knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions I managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance I used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing little I used my creativity in a none efficient way, I invented things that already existed. But I feel proud of these inventions, for instance the Relay the Vactrol and the Phase Locked Loop. Nowadays I know much more about electronics, but I still want to work the same way as when I started.*
WORKSHOP | Strange Sound Machines (How to make your own synthesizer) 11:30 - 14:00
LIVE PERFORMANCE | Exhibition & live music 14:00 - 17:00
Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/3HLluKW
30 euro per person (including “Pieper Kit” to take home after)
35 euro per person (including “Pieper Kit” to take home after) + LIVE PERFORMANCES
Ever wake up feeling that you stepped out of bed with the wrong foot? We are here to celebrate the oddities these days bring. When messing with the routine and conventions manifests into creativity. “Wrong Side Out” surfs the strange soundwaves, challenging your perception, giving life to inanimate objects and presenting them to you as a mozaique of well crafted madness.
Our program consists of a deranged blend of experimental electronica, live performances and deviant music put together to create a one day program to end your year in total confusion.
Wrong Side Out is a collaboration between HCL residents Lousia Teichmann, Ruta Genyte and Arjuna Vlasblom
Roodkapje offers a unique art programme, an exhibition space and an artistic development program in downtown Rotterdam.
Our art program is dynamic, surprising and multi-voiced at heart. Exhibitions, workshops, installations, talks, performances, experiments and the new Hamburger Community of Art residency form the basis of our programme. Whether it’s making Russian dumplings, performing a group choreography, creating face masks or indulging in a jelly fruit performance - you can engage in our public art program in many, many ways.
The Hamburger Community of Art artists-in-residence and the various art programmers are the ones who have the strongest say in the development of Roodkapje’s art programme. They determine the content and shape of the many activities that are being organized throughout the year and, thereby, are an integral part of Roodkapje. Without them, Roodkapje would not be the same.
If you are looking for unconventional, experimental yet accessible art, then Roodkapje is the place for you.
Monday | Closed
Tuesday | 15:00 - 20:00
Wednesday | 15:00 - 20:00
Thursday | 15:00 - 20:00
Friday | 15:00 - 20:00
Saturday | 12:00 - 20:00
Sunday | Closed
The Hamburger Community of Art (HCA) is a yearlong artistic development program for emerging artists. During this pilot year, Roodkapje aims to equip the selected artists – as well as the audience – with skills to be resourceful and self-sufficient in assembling diverse voices through training, mentoring and with support in organizing events, presentations and workshops. The HCA will produce and host cultural events, social activities and projects that will be open to all audiences.
The HCA is based on the principles of experimentation, collaboration and developing new artistic practices. Questions we need to ask ourselves are: What can artists learn from each other? How can (young) artists stimulate their development collectively? What can society learn from artists and vice versa?
Roodkapje is excited to introduce to you the residents of Hamburger Community of Art for 2021. These five artists will provide for you the majority of Roodkapje’s program as they stay with us until the end of the year. As COVID heavily impacted our program and residents last year, some of this year’s faces may already be familiar to our loyal visitors. Read more about our HCA residents below or follow them via https://hamburger.community/
Pictures by Julia Vroegh
Iriée Zamblé
Expressively painted figures of self-assured black people are playing the lead in Iriée Zamblé’s work. Zamblé puts a magnifying glass upon some of the passengers that pass us daily, but are nonetheless underrepresented in art today. Acquaintances, passengers and friends lay at the base of the paintings. By appropriating details of their appearance, Zamblé shapes a new, bold and vivid figure. Zamblé positions black people as the standard rather than an exception.
Danielle Hoogendoorn
Danielle Hoogendoorn works impulsively and associative, and so is her use of materials. Based on her experiences, she tells her stories portrayed by her favourite animals. Animals play and important role in her life and work. They are a means to see how far she can go before the border between art and kitsch is crossed. Even though Daniëlle’s work appears sweet and girly at first sight, things are not always as peaceful as they seem. Through her direct approach she tries to take the formal character of painting and the museum’s white wall out of account, looking to redefine these existing conventions with banality and humour.
Erik Peters
Erik Peters is a multidisciplinary artist and designer combining graphic and spatial design with investigative research and speculative storytelling. He creates scenarios, publications and artefacts which explore possible futures in its plurality. Through queering ecology and technology he examines more-than-human perspectives within an ecosystem of interdependencies.
Lavinia Xausa
Lavinia Xausa (IT) works, lives and pretends to learn Dutch in Rotterdam. The center of her artistic practice consists in applying semiotics and sacred art research to an ongoing, participatory art practice, by involving groups of people on self analysis and auto-recognition of their own role in history. Shifting through different kinds of media, from photography to moving images, found footage, sound and text, from writing to performance, she aims to reframe the present in the light of ancient narratives well established in the collective memory
Gill Baldwin
Gill Baldwin uses analog and digital methods to explore the biases and behaviours of contemporary digital technology. Her background as an interior architect explores the incorporation of digital technologies within the built environment and their effect on the neighbourhood, the self, and human agency.
Roodkapje is the breeding ground for young musicians, programmers and other upcoming talent from home and abroad.
From bedroom folk, minimalist electro and dreampop to noise, downtempo beats and trip-hop – all is heard first at Roodkapje. Both local and global fresh talents often kick-off at Roodkapje, where they receive the support and freedom needed to experiment. A music night at Roodkapje means a night full of undiscovered and emerging bands, DJs, labels and collectives. Keep an eye or two on our music events and be the first to discover new talent.
Bound Centre
Bound Centre is a label, collective and club night based in Rotterdam. It is initiated and represented by Victor Metske, S x m b r a, Ice Viper, Imhotel and Holowave. Together they aspire to provide a new soundtrack to the contemporary reality of the city by fusing scenes, genres and ideology. Thereby taking Rotterdam club culture to a whole new (and next) level. Bound Centre's mix of sounds and influences takes shape during their club nights, organized on a regular basis at Roodkapje Rotterdam.
Graphic design: Jonathan Castro
Keep an eye on their Facebook and Instagram to be part of the cult.
Kampung
Kampung is a Rotterdam-based music collective / label focused on the development of talent. They aim to be a platform for beginning artists who struggle to find their way in the jungle that is the contemporary music scene. Combining Downtempo Beats, Trip-Hop, Hip-Hop and other styles of a beat type nature, Kampung aims to create a family-like environment for their creators.Artists in their roster include Gita Buhari, Glimlip, Imhotel, BoiMesa and more to be announced soon.
After their first succesful club night on March 1st 2019 at Roodkapje (with Radius ETC, Boi Mesa, Filosofische Stilte and Imhotel) we are more than happy and excited to see what Kampung has in store for us in the future.
The creative mastermind behind Kampung is Rotterdam-based musician and producer Arjuna Vlasblom.
Graphic design: Luc Schol.
FOEF
FOEF is a platform for the queer community based in Delft. They offer a space to come together and celebrate what it means to be out and proud. At the beginning of March 2019, FOEF flew over to Rotterdam to throw a fairytale-themed night at Roodkapje full of magical STARDUST, poisonous apples, glass STILETTOS and golden carriages.
At FOEF, you do not have to dress in a certain way, talk about certain things, dance in a certain way and love in a certain way. You can dress/talk/dance and love however and whoever you want! So you don’t have to be gay to join: the more diversity, the better!
Join this queer initiative next time for a non-conformative art, music and fun party.
Kontra
KONTRA is a grass roots project that focuses on supporting countercultures and subversive art. It is Rotterdam-based but welcomes all dissidents from any and everywhere. KONTRA explores the boundaries between art and social activism and offers alternative ways of art making, partying and art management. We search for countercultures
In March 2019, KONTRA pulled off Rotterdam's very first Slut Walk and organized a banner-making workshop and extended cultural programme at Roodkapje. We are happy and proud to support KONTRA and are eager to march on together.
Keep up with KONTRA and all they have to offer via their Facebook and Instagram.
The Hamburger Community of Live is Roodkapje’s yearlong development trajectory for five young, talent event programmers. Throughout the year, the programmers of the HCL will work collectively on five interdisciplinary programmes build around the work and research of the Hamburger Community artists, while also producing individual live-events. During their working period at Roodkapje, the programmers receive individual mentorships by professionals from the field, helping them to further develop themselves as event organisers and continue to expand what live events could be like in the future.
Roodkapje is excited to introduce to you the residents of the Hamburger Community of Live for 2021. These five programmers will provide for you the majority of Roodkapje’s program as they stay with us until the end of the year. As COVID heavily impacted our program and residents last year, some of this year’s faces may already be familiar to our loyal visitors. Read more about our HCL residents below or follow them via https://hamburger.community/
Pictures by Julia Vroegh
Louisa Teichmann
Louisa is a Rotterdam based digital artist working with themes around gaming and the effect of new technologies on the player's perception of reality. By analysing gameplay methods and implementing them into Real Life settings, she is creating scenarios in which the viewer turns into the protagonist of an interactive fictional narrative.
Instagram: __louisa__
Arjuna Vlasblom
Arjuna Vlasblom is a musician, producer and promoter active in bands like Gita Buhari, Smudged, Paksoi among others. As a promoter he specialises in Hip-hop, Trip-Hop and other Beat oriented music for Kampung, and in Experimental electronica for Bound Centre. As a musician Arjuna has always been active in multiple genres ranging from Hip-hop to Krautrock and from Soul to Electronica and during his residency he’d like to expand his programming palate to go beyond the electronic oriented genres he specialises in at the moment. Beyond that he’d like to be able to add a musical perspective and input to the visual artists of the HCA when a specific project demands it. Other than that he’d like to get more experience and expertise when it comes to multidisciplinary curation.
Instagram: imhotel_imhotel
Mitchell Quitz
To combat against boredom in his small hometown of Castricum, Mitchell began organising concerts at the local youth center from 2008. After moving to Rotterdam to attend the Zadkine Pop Academie, the urge to organise concerts returned. In 2011, he organised his first event in Rotterdam, at Roodkapje during their stay at the Meent. From that moment onwards he programmed for several stages and festivals such as Eendracht Festival, Ekcit, Iguanarama at Pompenburg, The Gravel Pit and our own Roodkapje Sub space. Over the past 6 years he has worked as booking agent for Rock ’n Roll Highschool, supporting bands like Iguana Death Cult, The Homesick and many others, bringing them to stages ranging from V11 to Lowlands’ X-ray venue. As part of the HCL residency, Mitchell will continue to focus on live music, with the aim of bringing people from different disciplines together, and hopes to inspire fruitful collaborations between the Dutch art and music scenes.
Instagram: quitzchell
Rūta Genyte
You might have seen Rūta around at Pinkman, Worm, or as of most recently, Roodkapje. She is a freelance creative, working within the field of PR & communication in music alongside some writing and radio making. She also recently decided to share her music obsession with the rest of the world through DJing.
Facebook: ruta.genyte
Instagram: ruta.gen
Lodewijk van Dijk
Lodewijk is 24-year-old born and raised, proud Rotterdammert. Graduated from the ‘Theatherhavo/vwo’, Lodewijk studied dance at Codarts for 2 years before going in a different direction. After his departure from Codarts, Lodewijk performed at DOX, started organising parties such as NOCHE and LÓlÓ’S DISCO TOKO, and develop as a freelance performer and clubkid. In this role he hosted, organised, performed and acted as doorbitch for various parties and events. During this time he also developed his alter ego LÓLÓ VON DYK. With the HCL residency, Lodewijk is taking a step away from the spotlight and will focus on organising and curating live events. “I want to learn how to make my concepts come to life, and to be a good programmer, organiser, and partyguru.” During his time at the HCL, Lodewijk will try to find a way to combine all his interests and talents into one big creation.
Facebook: Lodewijk van Dijk
Facebook event page: Nochenightsofficial
Instagram: Lolovondyk
Instagram event page: Lolo.presents
Monday | Closed
Tuesday | 12:00 - 17:00
Wednesday | 12:00 - 17:00
Thursday | 12:00 - 17:00
Friday | 12:00 - 17:00
Saturday | 12:00 - 17:00
Sunday | 12:00 - 17:00
Burgertrut is open for take-out on Tue-Sun 12:00-20:00 / Fri-Sat 12:00-21:00
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If you can't show any of these, unfortunately we won't be able to let you in.
We currently do not take reservations.
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