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“THE GREAT SWEATER SHOW”

Nieuw Charlois presents: “The Great Sweater Show”

The last 100 world-famous 'Sweaters by Loes Veenstra' can be seen and purchased one more time in Rotterdam. The Fashion Show and subsequent sales will take place on Saturday, November 5, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Studio Pompstraat 44, Rotterdam. You can RESERVE a seat for free: send an email with the number of people to: welcome@nieuwcharlois.nl

Exhibition and sale: November 9 to 26 at Nieuw Charlois, Wolphaertsbocht 81, Rotterdam.

Now that energy prices are skyrocketing and everyone is worried about the cold in their homes this coming winter, it is high time to focus on a warm solution: “The Great Sweater Show”. Loes' Sweaters have traveled all over the world since 2012; from São Paulo to Tokyo, where Queen Maxima also bought two sweaters.

How it all started:

Loes Veenstra, born in 1933 and died in 2017, lived in Charlois, in the 2ndth Carnissestraat in Rotterdam South. In 2012, Museum Rotterdam was looking for stories from people from the neighborhood and came across Loes Veenstra, who had been knitting all day. “When I knit I don't smoke so much” was her motto. In her house, artists Nicole Driessens and Ivo van den Baar went looking for the sweaters she had knitted since 1955. More than six hundred sweaters were found. A book was published “The collected knitting of Loes Veenstra”, designed by Christien Meindertsma with photos of all the sweaters, made by Roel van Tour and Mathijs Labadie. The flash mob “Sweaters from Loes”, filmed by Roel van Tour, with more than 500 residents from the neighborhood wearing the sweaters, went viral with more than 150,000 likes. The video can still be viewed via  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pul1Ja8gWBg

 

 

In 2012, Museum Rotterdam asked artists Nicole Driessens and Ivo van den Baar of WANDSCHAPPEN from Charlois to develop a project around Loes Veenstra's collection of sweaters. Loes didn't just save sweaters, she saved everything, turning her house into an endless pile of stuff. WANDSCHAPPEN further developed the project with designer Christien Meindertsma and filmmaker Roel van Tour on behalf of the Kunstimplantaat Foundation.

This was followed by an auction and exhibition at DROOG Design in Amsterdam and in the KUNSTHAL Rotterdam. There was an exhibition at the NAI during OBJECT Rotterdam, visited by Jean Paul Gaultier. The project won the Dutch Design Award during the Dutch Design Week in the Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven. An international Social Design Exhibition followed in Tokyo at 21_21 Design in the Issey Miyake museum and finally part of the collection was on display at the São Paolo Design Biennale. With the proceeds from the sale of sweaters, Loes was able to furnish her new house.

Now, after ten years, Nicole Driessens and Ivo van den Baar will conclude the project in Nieuw Charlois, the platform for Art and Design in Oud Charlois. The last opportunity for enthusiasts to buy one of the last 100 sweaters and 100 books during the fashion show on Saturday, November 5 from 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM and sales exhibition from November 9 to 26.

warm regards,
Ivo and Nicole

“From green to blue to gray to black” Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa

Presentation: sun. October 30, 2022 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

This afternoon Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa presents her video film “Subnautica” (HD 7 min.) and the puclication “From Green to Blue to Gray to Black“.

Original collages can be seen in the room, which served as inspiration for the book.
The programm:
3 p.m. coffee and tea
3.30 pm video screening of Subnautica and book presentation From green to Blue to Gray to Black
4:00 PM discussion with Patrícia (artist), Elias Dörig (graphic designer) and Constança Saraiva
5:00 pm closing
We would love to meet you on Sunday in Nieuw Charlois!
warm regards,
Patrícia, Ivo and Nicole
 

 

“Find – engine” with the artists Marie Claire Gellings, Float and Jeroen Arians

Opening: Sat. September 17, 2022 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Rotterdam is alive and produces waste and material that appears and disappears on the streets.

Marie Claire Gellings, Float and Jeroen Arians see this material as elements of images that do not yet exist. At that moment the artists start a process of collecting, making choices, transforming, composing and finally presenting, as between September 17 and October 22 in Nieuw Charlois.

So much for the similarity in the work of the three artists and the original reason why they were brought together in this exhibition. Their personal work distinguishes itself in three forms: Marie Claire Gelling makes image collages, Float kinetic, spatial objects and Jeroen Arians photographic still lifes. They are carefully composed images, the application of which leads to the discovery of completely new worlds.

Marie Claire Gellings uses found visual elements to create collages as spatial representations. Sometimes the images remain recognizable and new versions of our daily (everyday) image reality arise, sometimes they disappear completely and are only a reason.

The kinetic images of Float reveal very slowly and with a certain smile the world of the inventor of images that demand attention, because they show with a certain sense of romance the presence of stories in the materials.

Jeroen Arians' photos are still lifes in the extreme. The enchanting light changes the composition from waste to stars on a stage.

We would like to invite you to attend the opening of this exhibition on Saturday, September 17.

Ruud Goedhart: Shop around

Opening: Sat. June 4, 2022 at 5:00 PM with a short word from Jeroen Jongeleen and Dinant Christe

Stuff, everyday things that do not immediately scream for attention, but are seemingly carelessly present, these are the subjects of Ruud Goedhart. He paints them, as it were, and then lets them 'shine' or places them back in their original place. At the same time he tests painting on abstraction and figuration and on the boundaries of painting and object. Ruud prefers to work with tempera, decor and wall paint, charcoal and pencil on unprepared linen and he only uses color if it is functional and it fits within the concept. The works are created in series of the same subject after which he isolates, merges or combines them. incorporated into a 'painting installation', such as now in the exhibition in Nieuw Charlois: 'Shop Around'

Come by and be amazed by this explosion of paintings. Everything is for sale!

Maarten Bel: Embroidery in the evenings

Opening weekend: Sat. 9 and sun. April 10, 2022 (during South Explorer).

opening hours: April 9 to May 7 2022 from Wed. to Sat. from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Artist Maarten Bel alienates his audience by addressing heavy themes in a humorous way, for which he often draws inspiration from everyday events. In his world, the Smurfs are melting due to climate change, picking up trash is becoming a more fanatical game than Monopoly, and few things are as sexy as a man who embroiders.

In Nieuw Charlois the artist shows his ever-growing collection of embroideries under the title: EMBROIDERY IN THE EVENING HOURS

Here, image and text are connected by embroidery stitches in life wisdom that is as brilliant as it is trivial, which is therefore already iconic before the last stitch is made.

A must even for non-embroidery-loving audiences!

For those who can handle a sample of death metal, it is advisable to come and take a look during a workshop by Maarten on Saturday April 9 between 12 noon and 3 p.m. Ten participants will expand their minds with a needle and thread during a live performance by the band “Graf”.

Residency for the People

Opening:
Friday, March 25, 2022 from 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Then open from March 26 to April 3 on Wed to Sat from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Residency for the People (Lucas Maassen and Jip Geven) is a place where non-professional artists can do something they really want. In Rotterdam, Dorian Kingma and Myrthe Krepel from SMELT organized the “Very Open Call” for everyone and Viktoriya Gotseva the “Mama's Call” for single mothers.

In the exhibition in Nieuw Charlois you will find the work of Rotterdam residents Runa, Elis and Teo. In addition, the work of the Koffiekopsalon, a collaboration between Residency for the People and Atelier NL (Lonny van Ryswyck and Nadine Sterk) is exhibited.

Residency for the People (RftP) investigates what happens when you open up a free space to people who do not have a creative profession. The residency offers everyone the opportunity, time and support to realize a dream or undertake something new. This does not have to be art or design-related, but the starting point is that the residents actively realize their own plan. RftP does not grant wishes, but encourages people to do something they really want. Dorian Kingma and Myrthe Krepel together form social design studio SMELT. They create experiences and interactive installations that encourage people to engage in (self-)examination, meaning-making and reflection on social challenges. The collaboration between Residency for the People and SMELT was supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Atelier NL is always looking to connect people with each other and their environment. For the KoffieKopSalon pilot project, Lonny and Nadine invited all neighbors to the Bergmann Church to make their own coffee cups from local clay.

Nieuw Charlois is a platform for experiment and is therefore proud to present “The Very Open Call”. We hope to welcome you with us.

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