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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Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

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

Tom McGlynn and Vicente Fita Botet both report on Instagram about their visual discoveries in the city, respectively New York and Rotterdam. These discoveries lead to paintings that they make in their studio, Tom in an abstract and Vincente in a figurative way, both extremely virtuoso. Nieuw Charlois introduced the artists to each other and asked them to put together an exhibition based on conversations about each other’s work.

“For years, I’ve been building an archive of photographs of objects I find by chance, abandoned on the street. Each object tells a personal story that captures my attention. In consumerism, the act of buying is often more satisfying than using the acquired object. The object-cause of desire, a term coined in Lacanian psychoanalysis, refers to that elusive element that motivates our desire, but is never fully attainable.
Chance is a determining factor in my work, as. In the “Object trouvé” with which Dadaists and Surrealists challenged ideas about the true nature of art in the last century. I make paintings by closely copying photographs to obtain a faithful image. In this way, my work is closely related to photorealism, which recovered the value of everyday images. For me painting photographs of objects is a means of producing readymades by hand.”

Vincente Fita Botet

“The application of schema to things, or abstraction aforethought, is something that humans just naturally do. This compositional reflex is intuitively applied every day, in moving through the world, and involves all the senses. Poetic meter, painting and musical composition, and dance choreography are all derivations of this same impulse; arrangements often prompted by very specific daily encounters. These encounters are translated non- figuratively in my process, yet they inevitably influence how I envision my paintings and drawings in their particular color combinations and proportional relations. My vision as an artist is shaped by the structure of everyday life.”

Tom McGlynn

De tentoonstelling opent zaterdag 7 juni van 18.00 – 20.00u en loopt tot en met zaterdag 28 juni 2025.
Rond 18.30u zal er een officiële opening plaatsvinden onder leiding van Léontine Meijer – van Mensch, directeur van Museum Rotterdam

Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois

HIGH LIGHTS 2021 – 2024 “The shape of color”

After almost four years, Nieuw Charlois has moved from Wolphaertsbocht 81 to Huismanstraat 30, a kilometre further in Oud Charlois, in the former school building of the technical school. The new space was officially opened on March 30 and attracted many extra visitors due to the overlap with South Explorer and with Art Rotterdam in Ahoy as neighbors.

The new space is almost three times as big as the old one, which gives us the possibility to make bigger presentations than before. HIGH LIGHT 2021 – 2024 is the first result of that with the subtitle “The shape of color”.

From the 33 presentations and projects that took place in the period 2021 – 2024, we have selected and brought together nine, which contain two elements that all artists concern themselves with in their work: colour as the carrier of form, with monochromy as a common point of recognition.

“The shape of color” shows two or three works by nine artists each, recently created, in which the balance between the colors of the works will determine the placement in the space. An additional distinctive visual element is the way in which the artists apply a pronounced material processing. They are all craftsmen and specialists in their field, which largely determines the identity of the work.
“The shape of color“ is compiled with work by Kira Fröse, Floor Merjenburgh, Kirsten Spuijbroek, Laurien Dumbar, Arianne van der Gaag, Anne Kolbe, Driessens & van den Baar, Ruud Goedhart, and Jelmer Noordeman.

We would like to invite you to the opening of “The shape of color” on Saturday 3 May from 18:00 to 20:00. The opening will be performed by Anne-Marie Ros, the very well-known Rotterdam art and city guide of Art Encounters & Tours, art lover, art collector and fan of Nieuw Charlois from the very beginning.

Warm regards, team Nieuw charlois