Through the keyhole

December 6, 2025 to January 4, 2026 
Het Archief / Art Space, Robert Fruinstraat 52, Rotterdam
Opening hours: Thursdays to Sundays, 1-5pm, free entry 

Artists: Chupan Atashi, Kirila Cvetkovska & Vera Zalutskaya, Witosław Czerwonka, Małgosia Goliszewska, Andrea Éva Győri, Marta Hryniuk & Nick Thomas, Michał Kucharski, Honorata Martin, Sands Murray-Wassink, Józef Robakowski, Daniel Rumiancew, Selma Selman, Ania Witkowska, Zorka Wollny, Wojciech Zamiara

Curators: Megan Hoetger, Jolanta Woszczenko, Weronika Zielińska

Through the Keyhole is a group exhibition featuring video and audio works, photographs and documentary productions from seventeen artists, all created between 1999 and 2025, which turn the audiovisual gaze upon their own everyday situations and encounters in order to interrogate these questions. The exhibition expands upon an initial curatorial presentation realised by Jolanta Woszczenko at the Center for Contemporary Art ŁAŹNIA in Gdańsk, Poland. In Rotterdam, the curators bring a selection of works from the first iteration of the show into conversation with works by artists from a range of cultural contexts and diasporic lines of flight between the Netherlands, Poland, and other parts of Europe. In constellating these practices, Through the Keyhole offers a reflection on convergent and divergent understandings and embodiments of privacy, intimacy, closeness, and personal memory, as well as intergenerational (familial) dialogue, diasporic experience, and the affective dimensions of collective histories. Across the works on display, visitors are invited to take a closer look at how interpersonal relationships and ways of creating memories are being formed and negotiated under the terms of today’s telecommunications-driven cultures.

Organizer: LAZNIA CCA and City of Gdansk
Partner: Het Archief

The exhibition is funded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund. Additional support was also received from CBK Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund.