Garage Rotterdam

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us last Friday to celebrate the opening of 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 ❤️‍🔥

Here’s a glimpse of the opening, featuring works by Effi & Amir, , , , , , , and . We loved seeing everyone interact with Wurm’s One Minute Sculpture 🖍️

Congrats to curator , winner of the 2026 Garage Rotterdam Prize for Young Curators, and thanks to and for the tunes.

The exhibition is on view until 19 July 2026. Visit us every Wednesday–Sunday from 12.30 to 5.30 PM.

Events:
Saturday 13 June 2026 – Brandstof: Make It Fit - A Life Script, performance by Tingyi Jiang

Friday 3 July 2026 – Natafelen: dining among art

More info about the exhibition & its events through the link in our bio. 🔗

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Opening tomorrow❕𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, curated by ⚒️

With:
Effi & Amir








Programme:
19:00 Doors open
19:45 Welcome + introduction by curator Marijn Bril
20:15 Tunes by &
23:30 End

We hope to see you there! 🌀

The exhibition will be on view from 23 May until 19 July 2026.

📸 Eva & Franco Mattes, The Bots (Turkish market), 2020, Screenshot from video, featuring Irina Cocimarov, courtesy: the artists & Apalazzo Gallery.

Up next at Garage Rotterdam → 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, curated by Marijn Bril, winner of the 2026 Garage Rotterdam Prize for Young Curators.

Join us for the festive exhibition opening on Friday 22 May 2026 - 7 PM. Free entry!

Participating artists: Effi & Amir, Tingyi Jiang, Eva & Franco Mattes, Lana Mesić, Yoko Ono, José Quintanar, Coralie Vogelaar, and Erwin Wurm.

To proceed, please follow the instructions carefully.

Instructions are everywhere. From fitness routines and makeup tutorials to algorithms, official procedures, and implicit codes of conduct, they shape how we move through everyday life. At first glance, they appear as neutral tools — simply as ways to get things done. They help us operate a device, follow a workout, or complete a form correctly. At the same time, instructions translate complex realities into manageable steps, defining what counts as logical, desirable, or successful. As such, they encode cultural norms, institutional priorities, and power dynamics.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗼: 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 approaches instructions both as a method and as a subject of critical inquiry. Through performative strategies, illustrations, and video installations, the artists examine how instructions shape behaviour, identities, and perception. They dissect manuals, rewrite tutorials, and develop new instructions that — echoing the spirit of Fluxus — range from poetic to absurd.

What happens when an instruction is decontextualised, parodied, or deliberately distorted? The artists in this exhibition render visible the assumptions embedded in these systems, shifting instructions from fixed directives into sites of negotiation.

Effi & Amir

📸 Eva & Franco Mattes, The Bots, 2020, installation view Frankfurter Kunstverein 2023, photo: Melania Dalle Grave, DSL Studio, courtesy: the artists & Apalazzo Gallery.

𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬
Friday 3 April and Saturday 4 April, we are open from 12:30 to 17:30.
We will be closed on Sunday 5 April, because of Easter.

𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝(𝐬) 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 is on show until 10 May.

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Our third DJ for the afterparty tonight is 🪩

We open our doors at 20:00, so come early 🤍 Free entrance

Timetable
20:30 .__
21:30
23:00-end

Sandor Dayala is a multidisciplinary artist from The Hague who’s doing it all, from releasing music that’s making waves in the charts to years of experience behind the decks. He is also one of the founders of PLAZA, a label focused on releasing local experimental music.

He has performed at renowned festivals like Dekmantel and Lowlands, while also frequently playing sets at Garage Noord and Laak. Internationally, he has played at venues like Lost London and various spots in Paris, marking his presence in the electronic music scene.

With a beautifully diverse sound, every set is unique, yet always rooted in one core emotion: love. This is also the foundation of LOVE, his new club concept focused on creating mellow, warm, and intimate energy on the dancefloor.

Friday the 27th it is time for our annual Art Rotterdam afterparty 🪩⛓️

Our curator Yannik Güldner brought together three prolific DJ’s to celebrate Rotterdam’s biggest art event with us

𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒖𝒔
Torus is the alias of multidisciplinary artist Joeri Woudstra. In club contexts, Torus pushes dance music to its limits. While his recorded output often leans toward melancholic and ambient textures, his DJ sets take a maximalist, high-impact approach, deconstructing familiar scenes and reassembling them into new social and emotional spaces. Technical precision and careful control provide a framework for intuitive, deeply personal explorations of sound.

𝑰𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒏
Inken creates hybrid currents of fractured sound through mashups and live sample-improvisation. Playing with fragility and unpredictability, she stretches the edges of a dj format through jittering stream-like sample soup, reassembling disassociative fragments into grounding form. Inken is an artist based in Berlin.

We open our doors at 20:00, and will go on until 01:00. Entrance is free. See you tomorrow 🤍

In her work, Natalia reimagines the fairy tale as a moral landscape, a space where myth becomes a mirror for truth. Her story tells of a mountain that swallows the owner of a gold mine, a figure whose greed poisons both the earth and its people. Within this allegory, the artist examines the anatomy of fear: how it seeps into human behaviour, how violence becomes ordinary when left unchecked.
Like all fables, Natalia’s tale carries its quiet warning. It is a reflection on power, responsibility, and the fragile balance between progress and destruction. As the saying goes, “A fairy tale is a lie, there’s a hint in it, a lesson for good fellows.”
Through the language of story, Natalia invites us to look beyond, to see in the mountain’s hunger not punishment, but the earth’s own act of sovereignty.

Curator Yannik Guldner asked the participating artists of his exhibition The Ground Is Shifting to reflect on instability, change, and the end(s) of the world.
Read part of Natalia Papaeva’s answers in the slides.

Slide 1: don’t dance, don’t talk. Picture by
Slide 3: What Will This Circle Bring This Time? Picture by
Slide 5: don’t dance, don’t talk. Picture by