TENT Rotterdam

Profil

TENT Rotterdam is an exhibition room at 1000 m2 programming is an art show that focuses on the significance of place and context. With group exhibitions as Tracer (2004), Neo-beginners (2006) and Wrong Time, Wrong Place (2007) TENT questioning. the ratio of local art, the city of Rotterdam and the world around it. In other words: Location, Location, Location is key in TENT. And especially, what the artists were moving on. TENT has a socio-cultural view of contemporary urban issues.

TENT Events as Rahter Than Home or The Evening of Entertainment Rotterdam for diverse audiences the importance of a metropolitan context for art is examined. In education projects Ego's Real And Fake Images (April 2007) with high school students on the basis of the exhibited art examine the malleability of identity.

TENT continues to strive for quality in the exhibitions of Rotterdam driven approach, and the clichés - which simply always been - on local arts test. In short, TENT choose a content-driven program that is oriented to the present globalized society. That is our view all 'now', and thus the best way to support the arts.

TENT is the Exhibitions Department of the Rotterdam Art Centre. TENT opened on September 9, 1999 its doors to the Witte de 50. TENT Rotterdam was founded to visual art to show in a broad context, with attention to the interdisciplinary and (inter) national character that the Rotterdam art features. TENT is the continuation of Villa Alckmaer, the exhibition space of the Centre for the Arts since 1994 on Westersingel was located. Initially TENT led by the triumvirate Ove Lucas, Arno van Roosmalen & Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern. In 2006 Lucas became director of the Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam where Mejier zu Schlochtern now responsible for international policy. Arno van Roosmalen left in 2004 to director of Stroom The Hague to be.

Opening hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 11.00 - 18.00hrs. Regular evening opening on Thursday evenings, see TENT Events. TENT is closed during exhibition preparations.