ATTENTION: NIEUW CHARLOIS HAS MOVED !!!
New address: Huismanstraat 30, 3082HK Rotterdam

From the beginning of January 2025 we have been working hard on our new space in the C3 Studio's building at Huismanstraat 30 (of course also in Rotterdam Oud Charlois)
The building will be temporarily rented (3-5 years) from the municipality by SKAR (Foundation Art Accommodation Rotterdam) and will be used by over 100 artists in collaboration with NAC (New Studios Rotterdam). There are studios, music studios, presentation spaces and meeting places. And in the middle of all this, Nieuw Charlois has a 125 m2 space to present new projects and exhibitions.

We are proudly preparing for the grand opening of the solo exhibition with new work by Ruud Goedhart: “First-Part Fashion-Painting Fact-Checking Program”.
“…..If you don’t know what to wear because all fashion harms humanity and nature, then paint your clothes…”. Ruud Goedhart, painter of real sustainable fashion, has been doing this for years.
The exhibition “First-Part Fashion-Painting Fact-Checking Program” presents his collection of wearables for all kinds of functionalities. The classic shirt collection for office workers, the protective trousers for street workers or the everyday football shirts, they all catch your attention from the genius of the painter, which is hidden in the simplicity and precision.
Goedhart explores the interplay between abstraction and figuration and pushes the boundaries of painting and object. With the individual works he can compose painting installations around a special subject or concept.

Exhibition opening: March 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
That same evening there will be an After party in C3 Studios and also a closing of South Explorer with food & drinks, performances and DJs.
If you are unable to attend the opening weekend, we look forward to seeing you in the weeks that follow.
Open: March 28 – April 19, 2025, Thursday to Saturday from 10am – 5pm

This opening coincides with the South Explorer weekend, of which we are part:
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March, from 12:00 – 18:00
www.southexplorer.nl

In short, there's plenty to see this weekend with Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam Art Week and the opening of Nieuw Charlois in C3!!

Warm regards Ruud, Ivo and Nicole

“Halte Charlois" is an ongoing socio-cultural fashion project by fashion designer Nada van Dalen from, for and by the Charlois district of Rotterdam. The goal of Halte Charlois is essentially simple: to capture Charlois as it is now, to capture it before it disappears unrecognizably in the wake of the nations. Through Halte Charlois, Nada van Dalen wants to connect and strengthen Charlois residents with each other. A project with value for the district, the surrounding area and the people of Charlois. Capturing and recording a Charloisse identity across all generations. An identity that merges Charlois residents with its streets, parks, shops and houses; that connects the birds of paradise with the loitering youth. Point by step, Halte Charlois wants to achieve the following goals: - Capture the Charlois district in all its imperfections in a number of clothing collections - Introduce fashion and clothing manufacturing to the district in an accessible manner. – Providing a platform and stage for (aspiring) fashion designers from the city of Rotterdam, and specifically Rotterdam South – Promoting fashion culture in South Rotterdam in a general sense.

In the Preview of the fashion week, the designers will design a shirt about Charlois in their own style, which is for sale in the exhibition.
Daarnaast zijn de videos en onderzoeken te zien voor de aankomende editie die plaats zal vinden in mei 2025.

Workshop: together with the Halte Charlois team, design a garment about Charlois that will be made for the Charlois fashion week.
December 7 and 13 from 12:00 to 15:00

Sample sale of the participating designers December 21 and 22 at Nieuw Charlois, Nadadan (and the neighbors) at Katendrechtse Lagedijk 489a

To participate in the workshop, register on the website:
https://haltecharlois.nl/workshops/

“Halte Charlois is een doorlopend sociaal-cultureel modeproject van modeontwerper Nada van Dalen van, voor en door de Rotterdamse wijk Charlois. Charlois vangen zoals het nu is, voordat het onherkenbaar verdwijnt. Dwars door alle generaties heen een Charloisse identiteit vangen en vastleggen. Een identiteit die de Charloissenaar versmelt met zijn straten, parkjes, winkels en huizen; die de paradijsvogels verbindt met de hangjeugd. En hiermee de modecultuur in Rotterdam Zuid bevorderen.

Warm regards Nada, Ivo, Nicole and many others

The myth of the blue sunflower reveals the power of nature to seduce us into the dream of adapting it to our own fantasies. Blue sunflowers do not exist – they are biologically impossible. Yet blatantly photoshopped images on websites like eBay and AliExpress bring the seeds of this fictional flower to life.
In the installation Sunflower Blue, Anne Kolbe combines performance and installation by using both soft and hard sculptures, textiles with hand-drawn floral motifs, and her own body as a medium that transforms poses and actions into still lifes.
Part of the installation is Planet by Plants, a speculative plant pulp magazine that explores plants through the lens of lifestyle. Planet by Plants imagines new ecologies between humans and plants and is for sale during the exhibition.

Opening: Saturday October 26 from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Opening talk: Tiiu Meiner, curator / writer
Open: 26 oktober t/m 23november 2024

warm regards Anne, Ivo and Nicole

The opening of “EREB” will take place on August 31, 2024, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM. You are cordially invited to attend the first event of the new cultural season in Nieuw Charlois.
The exhibition is open until September 28, Thursday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

EREB
(Europe, its tears, deeds and dreams)

EREB is an installation created during an intensive two-month work period in project space Nieuw Charlois. The artists Machteld van Joolingen and Arianne van der Gaag have each worked towards this joint end result from their own perspective. Machteld wonders what the meaning of Europe is: is it the old continent, a faded glory, or can it reinvent itself? For Arianne, the myth of Europe is not only the washed-up princess, but also the present.
Machteld van Joolingen uses news images. She builds large compositions on location, in which the eye continues to wander and slowly realizes what it is looking at. Machteld created new work during a residency at the Cool Clay Collective.
Arianne van der Gaag's objects consist of organic shapes, which are created by working from the inside out and from detail to a whole. During the making, Arianne is captivated by the transformation of material into image. We would like to invite you to a special opening in Nieuw Charlois.

Warm regards Machteld, Arianne, Ivo and Nicole

We would like to invite you to a special opening in Nieuw Charlois. Our space has been transferred to Kunstpodium-T Tilburg for once. Every year they organize the Apprentice and Master Program, in which groups of young artists from various academies in a radius of 100 km around Tilburg (including Belgium) work together with experienced artists for six months. This program leads to eight exhibitions at various locations in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The exhibition “As we drift in the simmering pot things boil under the lid” by the five artists opens in Nieuw Charlois: Man Pan Lau, Emilia Martin, Maika Garnica, Kamila Wolszczak and Baoyang Zhao. The project revolves around the story of the soup stone.

I am walking home:
we move, we make, flavours in our mouth.
Lines of my hands build new paths. I am walking home under a very specific moonlight.
It’s like the hospital light (silence) (all the happenings in the long white hall).
I am walking home, breathing, falling, breathing.
Each bowl is a carrier, the night is still quiet
(the sound of a gentle whistling) each stone – their own
all our hands meet, all our hands make (flavours in our mouth)
Whenever my heart was hollowed out,
I filled it (with stones)
I am walking home (the night is still quiet)
After a while my body became a very specific moonlight which is overshining everythingIt tastes yellow.

Warm regards Man Pau, Emilia, Maika, Kamila, Baoyang, Ivo and Nicole

We are proud to announce the exhibition “Tsunami of images” by the artist Nour-Eddine Jarram from March 16 to April 21, 2024.

The contact with Nour-Eddine started over a year ago when we started talking with a group of artists about a theme related to our work: people on the run. Now that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, among others, and the problems around housing for people in Europe confront us every day through the media with all the misery, Nour-Eddine's work is more relevant than ever.

…” In his watercolors, Nour-Eddine Jarram is intensively concerned with the subject of 'people on the run'. He tries to find a different form for each group of people. He always decides differently about the use of color, the dark and the light and the monumentality of the composition. Monumentality does not necessarily say anything about the size of the work. A large monument can scream at you, while a small but monumental composition can irresistibly draw your attention to take a closer look. On the one hand, Nour-Eddine abstracts the figures in his work into an idea, on the other hand, he does not want to destroy the individuality of the figures....” (from an article by Albertus Pieters. )

“Tsunami of images” is a solo exhibition with recent works by Nour-Eddine, accompanied by one thematically related work by a number of guest artists from the group with which this project started. These are works of Robin Kolleman, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Celine van den Boorn, Kamiel Verschuren, Olphaert den Otter and Driessens & van den Baar. During the exhibition period, the works will be displayed alternately in the stock space.

The opening will take place on Saturday, March 16, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM and will be performed by Abdelkader Benali.As a writer and presenter, he explores themes such as double cultural identity and migration. People's search for a place for a new life, whether or not after their flight from war zones, is part of this. Some of his best-known books are Wedding by the Sea, The Long-awaited or Messages from a besieged city (daily weblog from Beirut) .

Kind regards, Nour-Eddine, Ivo and Nicole