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

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