Groupshow “IfParadiseIsHalfAsNice”

Opening: 20 February 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Open: 20 Februari – 1 March, thur – sun. 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

For 15 editions already IPIHAN organizes a five-week work period at abandoned industrial sites in Europe. A group of artists lives and works on-site on site-specific installations, always using the building and its surroundings as their starting point.
During the last weekend of those five weeks, IPIHAN traditionally opens its doors to the public: not only to view the works, but also to experience what life was like there for five weeks.

If Paradise is Half as Nice presents an overview of 15 IPIHAN editions in Nieuw Charlois, including:
An IPIHAN-style bar and merchandise shop
A photo archive of all 15 editions
The documentary of edition #15, made by Tine Mazgon
Documentaries from past years
The multiples from the crowdfunding boxes
All IPIHAN T-shirts, postcards, and other IPIHAN merchandise
And many of the IPIHAN multiples from past years are available for purchase separately!

IPIHAN's funding comes largely from its loyal crowdfunders!
Every year, they receive a reward in the form of multiples created by participating artists. This year, the crowdfunders of edition #15 are no exception.
In addition, many multiples from past editions are now available for purchase in Nieuw Charlois.
So grab this opportunity to support IPIHAN and still acquire a work by your favorite IPIHAN artist.

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Participating artists:

Esther Kokmeijer
Pim Palsgraaf
Regina Kelaita
Guus Vreeburg
Anne Roos van Veen
Willem Besselink
Judy van Luyk
Maurice Bogaert
Marusa Stibelj
Lieve van den Bijgaart

Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

group show "Thinking in Textile"

Thinking in Textile is an exhibition proposing that textiles carry forms of intelligence revealed through touch and sensation, making intangible worlds tangible through material encounter. It brings together eight artists who work with fibre and cloth as sites where memory, identity, meaning and resistance take form. The works converge on a shared idea: textile is a medium for thinking through life, as our inner worlds and the fibres we touch are always entangled.

Jenny Konrad presents a weighted quilt filled with glass beads and memory foam, inviting touch and physical sensation to communicate the experience of autistic shutdown. Fenna van Breda uses her handmade loom to frame the motions of cleaning, revealing the back of her weavings to show that the movements shaping our lives have no single direction or fixed reading, and that one small motion, as in life, shifts the whole, making sensorial memory a process she thinks through by doing.Sarah Roseman translates childhood memory into a hand-tufted carpet where recollection is encountered as texture and scale, while Iza van den Baar sculpts cloth into bread-like textile forms to probe how nostalgia and belonging are materially constructed.
Yoana Buzova uses embroidery to document forms of productivity that often go unrecognized, shaping inherited cloth into a stitched fort and an audio-visual piece that reflect the labor, time and skill built in private, domestic routines. Maga Berr stages an installation where Underground Railway quilt motifs carry the coded memory of collective liberation, while an embroidered letter invokes the contested origins of a popular wax-print textile company, drawing a parallel between distant textile histories shaped by inequality. Dakota Havard quilts into discarded cardboard, positioning overlooked materials as sites of resistance to disposability. Johana Molina Yokolina explores transformation and death rituals through a soft textile skeleton, proposing death as a moment of material transformation, rather than a finalised conclusion.

Across the works, textile communicates by being practiced and repurposed, as meaning forms through touch, rather than words or explanations.

The exhibition opens on Saterday January 17th from 18.00-20.00 hrs and runs until February 14th
Around 6:30PM the curator of the show, Tiiu Meiner, will guide a tour with the artists along their work!

Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

Jelmer Noordeman's work explores the tension between duality and balance. Contrasts between accumulation and abstraction, movement and stillness, recur repeatedly. His fascination stems from an understanding of perception, where the paradox of the desire to see the whole often leads to blurring and dissonance. The relationship between time, space, and movement is a key starting point, as is the interplay between object, space, and viewer. Rhythms and natural patterns provide his work with an underlying structure.

In SEGMENTS, Jelmer Noordeman presents a new series of paintings created in 2025. Jelmer is also creating a mural in Nieuw Charlois specifically for this exhibition.

The exhibition will be opened by Siebe Thissen. He is an art historian, writer, and researcher and was head of the BKOR (Visual Arts & Public Space) of CBK Rotterdam for 20 years. In that capacity, he was first introduced to Jelmer Noordeman's murals in the city. He compiled his knowledge of Rotterdam's city and public art in the 2007 book "Mooi van ver" (Murals in Rotterdam).

We hope to welcome you to the final exhibition of 2025 in Nieuw Charlois, SEGMENTS by Jelmer Noordeman.

Opening: Saturday, November 29, 2025, 18.00 – 20.00 hours. Food and drinks will be served.
Open: November 29 - December 20, 2025, Thursday - Saturday, 10.00 – 17.00 hours

Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

On Grid

Just as every life is shaped by encounters, discoveries, talents, and decisions, ULRIXA has reached the point where, after two years of experimentation, she can fully develop her work and thus give a platform to the art world for the visibility and significance of all the themes that fascinate her.

Nieuw Charlois has invited ULRIXA to present this important phase in her career in an exhibition, where the physical space of Nieuw Charlois has partly determined the choices for works and the presentation method. In the lead-up to the opening on October 25, 2025, months of intensive work have been dedicated to this extensive new collection, which seamlessly connects with the three previous exhibitions at Kunstpodium-T Tilburg and Willem II 's-Hertogenbosch.

ULRIXA’s ongoing exploration of her personal history and role in art connects her travels, family, and home to more universal issues such as migration, gender, feminism, and the environment. This is elaborated through recurring materials and techniques such as photography, AI, textiles, film, and ceramics, resulting in images that question and reinforce each other without sacrificing autonomy. This is precisely what happens during the process that the six artists affiliated with ULRIXA undergo together from the start of each new project, such as "On grid." Eva van Ooijen, Karma Hamed, Nicole Driessens, Sixin Zeng, Ivo van den Baar and Wout Peeters have been working together as ULRIXA for two years now.

Photos: Margot vd Pas

The opening of "On Grid" will take place on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 18:00 to 20:00h and will be performed by Jochem Rotteveel, artist who was headmaster at Kunstpodium-T Tilburg from 2023 to 2024.

The exhibition can be visited from October 25 to November 16, 2025, Thursday to Saturday, from 10:00 to 17:00h and by appointment.

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Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

Nieuw Charlois will be participating in Charlois Fashion Week. This week, the work of a young designer will be showcased: Iza van den Baar.

“Makes Sense" is all about stimulating sensory impulses in the viewer and demonstrating that it is possible to combine two diverse passions. These stimulations are expressed in both food and fashion. The two appeal to different senses, creating an unexpected, aesthetic, multi-sensory experience.
Following the “Makes sense” collection, Iza van den Baar designed an outfit for Charlois Fashion Week inspired by Rotterdam cuisine.

Opening: thursday 2 otober 2025, 18.00 – 20. 00 hrs
– taste the inspiration during the opening –
Open: 2 t/m 11 october 2025, from thursday to saturday 10.00 – 17.00 uur

Iza van den Baar's work is also part of: Charlois Fashion Week Show: October 4, 2025, 19:00 h
Location: Karel de Stoute Park, Oud Charlois

You can find the program of Charlois fashion Week at: https://haltecharlois.nl/
CFW is organised by Halte Charlois/Nada van Dalen

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During a two months residency as the Summer Guest in Nieuw Charlois Silva Bingaz (photographer from Istanbul) has developed a new series of photographs made in Rotterdam, with people from the neighborhood.

"Vartuhi – Invisible Side of Rose Lady" is a fictional story rooted in Silva Bingaz's sense of absence, her inability to witness the occasional trips her daughter Vartuhi made to the Netherlands with her father. Almost ten years after her divorce from her Dutch husband, with whom she had lived for many years in Istanbul, Bingaz returns to the Netherlands, not as a member of a family, but as a photographer. Initially, she fantasizes about creating a poetic narrative by revisiting the places where her daughter once walked with her father. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a global sense of alienation and loneliness.

We have invited Prins de Vos (winner World press Photo, Europe Singles 2025) to talk with Silva about their work. In their work photographer Prins de Vos (Amsterdam) shows how crucial relationships are within communities where support and care are often lacking. By linking personal stories to broader themes such as solidarity, care, and identity, De Vos emphasizes that the right to exist is not merely an individual matter, but is deeply rooted in connection with others.
The two photographers span two generations in which photography as a mirror of the daily search for identity, connection and the right to exist still plays a very important role.

We are proud to invite you for the opening and be part of the conversation between Silva Bingaz and Prins de Vos about their work, on September the 6th, from 18.00 – 20.00 hours.
Food and drinks will be served.
The exhibition runs from September 6 to September 27, 2025, and is open Thursday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

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Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois