Kunstinstituut Melly

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Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Hours:
Wednesday–Sunday 1:30–6pm,
Friday 6–9pm

T +31 10 411 0144
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February 8, 2021

[1] Lisa Tan, My Pictures of You, 2019. [2] View of Simon Fujiwara, A Conquest, 2020 at Dvir Gallery, Brussels. Courtesy of the artist and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv / Brussels. [3] Sasha Huber, Rentyhorn, 2008. [4] Iris Kensmil, Six Women (Understanding Futurity), 2019. Charcoal on paper, acrylic on wall, 325 x 1435 cm. Museum of Art, Haifa. [5] Jasmine Thomas Girvan, Rooted - Terra Incognita, 2016. Bronze, wood and feather, 12 x 80 ⅜ x 9 ⅞ inches. [6] Interior of the Museum of Education and Art, ca. 1880. Collection of the Rotterdam City Archives.

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2021 program

January 26, 2021

Stijn Kemper and Yahaira Brito Morfe, Wie is Melly (location shot). A production for Melly TV Episode 1: Vulnerability, featuring an adapted version of Ken Lum’s artwork Melly Shum Hates Her Job, 1990.

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September 1, 2020

[1] Usha Seejarim, detail of Lobe, 2020, wooden pegs and wire, artist collection, courtesy Thys Dullaart. [2] Christian Vinck, carlos castillo (camara super 8), 2019, courtesy the artist and the hochschild collection. [3] Ceramic replicas of rice grains of the variety Oryza glaberrima (African rice), 2020, courtesy Kapwani Kiwanga. [4] Michael Stevenson, Door handle mock up, 2020. [5] Courtesy Cokkie Snoei. [6] Image courtsey Stadsarchief Rotterdam. [7] Photographer: Jeroen Lavèn.

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2020 autumn exhibitions

May 5, 2020

Images drawn from Instagram posts by Moosje M Goosen, Lili Huston-Herterich, Junghun Kim, Adam Patterson, and Tina Rahimy & Carolien van den Bos.

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Introducing a new online platform

January 14, 2020

[1] Adriana Varejão, Azulejaria de Cozinha com Presuntos [Kitchen's Tiles with Hams], 1995. Oil on canvas, 140 x 160 cm. Photo: Vicente de Mello. [2] Alia Farid, At the Time of the Ebb, 2019. Video loop, stereo, master 4K, 21 minutes. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Imane Farès, Paris. [3] Studio snapshot Adriano Amaral.

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Alia Farid, a solo exhibition
Adriano Amaral, new work
An exhibition with works by Athos Bulcão, Marcos Castro, Anna Franceschini, Ni Haifeng, Nicolás Lamas, Praneet Soi, Adriana Varejão, Ana Vaz, Bouke de Vries, Raed Yassin, and Karlos Gil & Belén Zahera

September 3, 2019

[1] Alejandro Cesarco, Untitled (Double), 2018. Framed archival inkjet print, 34 × 42 cm. [2] Rossella Biscotti, Tetrastigma, research photograph, Bogor Botanical Garden, Bogor (Indonesia), 2019.

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Rossella Biscotti
new work
Alejandro Cesarco
a solo exhibition

May 21, 2019

[1] Cecilia Vicuña, Ángel de la menstruación [Menstruation Angel], 1973. Oil on canvas, 57.1 × 48.2 cm. Photo: England & Co Gallery, London, collection Catherine Petitgas. [2] Mariana Castillo Deball, Para qué me diste las manos llenas de color, todo lo que toque se llenará de sol, 2018. Pigment on plaster, site specific dimensions. Courtesy of the artist. [3] Melike Kara, I hear the tongues, 2019. Oil sticks and acrylic on canvas, 200 x 280 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Peres Projects.

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Cecilia Vicuña
Melike Kara
Mariana Castillo Deball

January 22, 2019

Firelei Báez, roots when they are young and most tender, 2018. Site-specific installation; two paintings, four–six hand-painted papier-mâché sculptures, 40 x 30 foot hand-painted blue tarp, chicken wire, and foliage. The Rennie Collection. Image courtesy of the artist, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, and James Cohan, New York. Photo: John Lusis.

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2019 winter exhibitions

January 18, 2019

Firelei Báez, May 19, 2017, 6:05 p.m. (an idiom playing out its history), 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Part of the winter exhibitions opening at Witte de With on Sunday, January 27.

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“Exile”

September 5, 2018

Ana María Millán, clip from Wanderlust, 2017. Courtesy the artist.

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Autumn 2018 exhibition program

May 2, 2018

Federico Herrero working on-site at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, April 25, 2018.

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Exhibition program 2018

December 1, 2017

Installation view Bik Van der Pol, WERE IT AS IF, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2016. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.

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New titles from Witte de With Publishers

September 19, 2017

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. Photo: Zach Hyman.

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New director: Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy

August 31, 2017

Goshka Macuga, Burnt Guernica, 2015, in the exhibition Öğüt & Macuga Episode 1 at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.

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Ahmet Öğüt and Goshka Macuga
The Show is Over  (Öğüt & Macuga: Episode 2)
Rana Hamadeh
The Ten Murders of Josephine

June 7, 2017

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Öğüt & Macuga
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Cinema Olanda: Platform

January 24, 2017

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Winter 2017 exhibitions

December 1, 2016

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New releases from Witte de With Publishers

August 30, 2016

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, c. 1910. Cloud chamber photograph, glass plate negative. © the estate of CTR Wilson. Photo: Sandy Wood.

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Fall 2016 exhibitions

May 10, 2016

A draft floorplan for the exhibition Contemporary Arab Representations—Beirut/Lebanon, 2002. Source: Witte de With archive

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Bik Van der Pol
WERE IT AS IF
Marwa Arsanios
What representations?
Ahmed Bouanani
I want to possess in this world that which brings joy to the eyes…

January 28, 2016

Charlemagne Palestine, divinitusssanimalusssacréusssorganusss, at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, 2014. Photo: Dan Mohr.

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Charlemagne Palestine
GesammttkkunnsttMeshuggahhLaandtttt
Michael Portnoy
Relational Stalinism – The Musical
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff
Foreword

January 19, 2016

Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn. Image courtesy Michael Portnoy.

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Michael Portnoy
Relational Stalinism – The Musical

December 10, 2015

Photo: Clem and Adri Bacri-Normier, wingsforscience.com/ESO.

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Latest from Witte de With Publishers

September 3, 2015

Douglas Coupland, CMYK Colour Registration Heads, 2015. Courtesy the artist.

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Douglas Coupland
Bit Rot
Art In The Age Of...Asymmetrical Warfare

May 8, 2015

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NO HUMANS INVOLVED

January 27, 2015

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Party Like It’s 1990!

September 29, 2014

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New releases from Witte de With publishers

September 1, 2014

Hans van Dijk in his apartment in Beijing. Photograph courtesy of Zhang Hai’er.

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Dai Hanzhi: 5000 Artists

May 14, 2014

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The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else

April 30, 2014

Ken Lum, Melly Shum hates her Job, 1990.

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Hiring a Curator/Producer

January 15, 2014

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The Crime Was Almost Perfect

September 5, 2013

Gareth Long, A More Precise Distance Between the Reader and the Ultimate Visions, 2013.

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Fall 2013 program

May 1, 2013

The World Turned Inside Out. Courtesy of APFEL.

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Summer 2013 Program

January 10, 2013

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Paola Pivi and Heman Chong

August 16, 2012

Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda, The Infinite Library, 2007–ongoing.

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Surplus Authors

June 25, 2012

Qiu Zhijie, Map of Utopia, 2012. Courtesy of the artist.

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Prompts & Triggers: Qiu Zhijie

April 27, 2012

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The Humans, Prompts & Triggers, Everyone for Themselves

February 2, 2012

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Three new titles from Witte de With Publishers

January 15, 2012

WikiLeak - Kaupthing Claims, 2011
Rules Series
Gouache Wall Painting
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist & Esther Schipper, Berlin.*

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SHORT BIG DRAMA – Angela Bulloch

September 14, 2011

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Announces new director

August 26, 2011

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Melanchotopia

June 28, 2011

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Melanchotopia

May 12, 2011

Tomas Saraceno, “Endless Big,” 2006.
C-print, 180 x 120 cm.
Courtesy of the artist & Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen.

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The End of Money and To Tell The Truth

January 13, 2011

Ane Hjort Guttu, “Static Dynamic Tension Force Form Counterform,” 2009.
C-print, 50 x 70 x 8 cm.
Courtesy of the artist.

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MAKING IS THINKING

October 23, 2010

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Act X, Rotterdam Dialogues: Morality

September 27, 2010

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Cosima von Bonin

August 25, 2010

Between You and I – Intervention 3
“Polder Cup” by Maider López
Courtesy of the artist, SKOR & Witte de With

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‘Between You and I’ upcoming interventions

July 5, 2010

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Book launch with film screenings – Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists

June 11, 2010

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two upcoming exhibitions in the Morality program

May 7, 2010

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Two upcoming exhibitions in the Morality program

February 12, 2010

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MORALITY

January 22, 2010

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20 years

November 16, 2009

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new publication by Sarah Morris

September 29, 2009

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Morality

September 7, 2009

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PUBLICATIONS

May 13, 2009

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Billy Apple®

April 2, 2009

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Rotterdam Dialogues: the Artists

February 16, 2009

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Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators

November 7, 2008

Ian Wallace
“Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993) IV”, 1993 – 1995
chromogenic print and acrylic on canvas, 152.5 x 122.5 x 3.0 cm
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery
Photo: Robert Keziere

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Ian Wallace: A Literature of Images

September 1, 2008

[Left] William Hunt, I Forgot Myself, While Looking At You (2008), performance still. [Right] Sung Hwan Kim, In the Room 3 (2006), documentation, dimensions variable, photo: Mieke van de Voort.

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2 exhibitions, cornerstones lectures and symposium

May 30, 2008

Saâdane Afif, Blue Time (Sunburst), detail, 2004
Courtesy: Galerie Michel Rein, Paris / Annette Kelm
Big Print #6 (Jungle Leaves -cotton twill 1947 design Dorothy Draper,
courtesy Schumacher &Co), 2007
Courtesy: Johann Koenig, Berlin

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Saâdane Afif and Annette Kelm

January 14, 2008

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Program 2008: Individuality

December 20, 2007

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Liam Gillick

August 29, 2007

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BODYPOLITICX

May 10, 2007

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Witte de With is proud to announce Margaret Salmon and Tris Vonna-Michell

March 3, 2007

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JESPER JUST & CHLOE PIENE

January 23, 2007

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ROTTERDAM DIALOGUES

November 20, 2006

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BRIAN JUNGEN

June 19, 2006

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TUE GREENFORT and UNRAVELING ROTTERDAM

May 5, 2006

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NEW SEASON, NEW DIRECTOR, NEW PROGRAM

April 26, 2005

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Jordan Crandall Book Launch at Printed Matter

December 22, 2004

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Who if not we…?, episode 4: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

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