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Jungle By Night / Rotown
Nine passionate young musicians from Amsterdam bring the enthusiasm of a rock band to Nigerian afrobeat and Ethiopian jazz, playing festivals across the country.
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On Reality / Re - - act / De Gouvernestraat
The dance performance by Douglas Bateman asks the audience to consider the nature of reality, while Melissa Ellberger’s performance generates absurd systems of movement derived from circus trapeze acts and breakdance, removed from their original context.
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Epicenter for the Contemporary Urban Wizard Practice / Roodkapje in de Meent
For a period of 5 weeks Roodkapje ROTTTERDAM transforms into a habitat of the contemporary city wizards Jasper Griepink, Toine Klaassen and Piet Langeveld.
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Hermetic City / Garage Rotterdam
In photos, pencil drawings, models and interactive installations, eight artists use architecture as a visual language, a voice that allows them to represent their unseen inner landscapes to the outside world, only rarely depicting other people.
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Jan Elburg. Experimental painter and poet / Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
The exhibition is a comprehensive overview of all aspects of his artistic calling. Paintings, drawings, gouaches, monoprints, candle-wax compositions, (photo)collages and pop-art-like assemblages demonstrate, along with his poems, the creativeness of Jan Elburg.
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Sylvie Zijlmans and Hewald Jongenelis. The Present. The Elimination of Possibilities / Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
The exhibition consists of five video presentations and a spatial work, in which the play and the perception of time fulfil a crucial role.
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ZigZagCity2012 / Lijnbaankwartier
The first edition of ZigZagCity allows you to experience the city of Rotterdam in an unexpected way from 20 April until 6 May 2012. You will discover new spots by taking an alternative route through the heart of the Lijnbaankwartier.
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ABSALON / Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Although he died young, French-Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) had an imposing and acclaimed oeuvre. This one-man retrospective displays a selection of his enigmatic Cellules. The exhibition also includes furniture, drawings, photos and films, reflecting his rage and his yearning for security and safety.
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Celebration of the photobook / Nederlands Fotomuseum
Overview of the development of the Dutch photobook since 1945 and its significance for Dutch photography. With highlights from the past 65 years, including many important Dutch photographers and graphic designers.
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Chuck Close - Prints: Process and Collaboration / Kunsthal Rotterdam
Retrospective of 130 life-sized photorealistic portraits painted by American artist Chuck Close (1940) between 1972 and the present, using various print techniques.
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Music Matters presents / De Unie
Concert with talented young local musicians.
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New boundaries, new impressions / FutureLand
70 amateur artists immortalised the Maasvlakte 2 land reclamation project in paintings and drawings made on a gorgeous summer day in 2011.
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The broad perspective (De wijde blik) / Chabot Museum
A wide view on the works by Henk Chabot and contemporaries. Rotterdam artists like Leendert Bolle, Jan Kamman and Adriaan van der Plas, who formed a close circle of friends with Henk Chabot since their art academy days, are at the core of the exhibition.
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Maarten van Heemskerck – Ancient Rome Relives / Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Prints, paintings and drawings from a 16th-century artist inspired by the relics of classical antiquity. English brochure guides visitors on a visual tour of ancient Rome.
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POPPY - Trails of Afgan heroïn / Nederlands Fotomuseum
Antoinette de Jong & Robert Knoth follow the trail of Afghan heroin. They show us through an impressive, but also beautiful, installation the downside of globalization.
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- Date: 19-04-2012 - 26-04-2012