De Huidenclub

HUIDENCLUB: LAUNCH OF A NEW EXPERIMENTAL AND INCLUSIVE PLATFORM IN ROTTERDAM

The Huidenclub, a new experimental and inclusive platform for contemporary culture located in a repurposed tannery, will open its door for the first time on 30 June 2021 until 4 July 2021 during the Rotterdam Art Week.

Its first theme entitled Self-assemble will be introduced at the occasion. Three exhibitions, focusing on art and design, the two main axes of the Huidenclub, will address how as a bottom-up non-institution it can self-assemble and strategically address societal and ecological justice.

The art exhibition highlights Huidenclub’s mission to research how art can have a political and social significance at its own scale. The show investigates different ways artists are creating and shaping new social norms. How to clear a path and make your voice heard within the current power structures in place?

Artists invited: Pauline Boudry + Renate Lorenz, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Andrea Eva Gyori, Patricia Kaersenhout, Janis Rafa, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Jennifer Tee, and Kubilay Mert Ural.

Besides, as a testimony to the city’s boom over the last few years on the design scene, a design exhibition will gather works from worldwide acclaimed Rotterdam-based designers, concentrated in a dense 20 sqm cube.

Designers invited: Laurids Gallé, Sabine Marcelis, Tim Mastik, and Phil Procter.

Spread across the rest of the building, recent works from our future residents and furniture designers will be shown highlighting how the Huidenclub organically will grow as a community.

Designers and photographers invited: Anna Aagaard Jensen, Jonas Lutz, Pim Top, and Johan Viladrich.