Because of the great enthousiasme of visitors we will organise for the second time a series of 5 guided tours along public art in Charlois.

In the Charloisdistrict in the southern part of Rotterdam more than 200 artists are  working an living. You can see that in the public space were 28 works of public art are realized. Under the guidance of  the in Charlois living and working designer Annemarie Piscaer you will walk in 2 hours along these works. You will receive a richly illustrated map with the route and information. The route begins and ends in Hommes.
Duration of walk: 2 hours.
Registration is required.
Participation is free [1].

Dates:
Sunday 26 September 13.00 hr
Friday evening 1 Oktober 19.00 hr
Thursday 7 Oktober 14.00 hr
Wednesday 20 Oktober 14.00 hr
Sunday 31 Oktober 14.00 hr

You ca subscribe by sending an email to info@hommes.nl with the date you like to join and the number of persons, you name and tel.nr.

1.Thanks to the financial support from Deelgemeente Charlois

Foto: Tetris Wall, Giuseppe Licari (2009)

We would be more than happy to welcome you for the Finissage and closing of our cultural season with program on Sunday 4 July.

3.00 hr. Start walking tour along 28 Public Art works in Oud-Charlois guided by Joke-Minke Arendz

15.00hr. Return walkers to exhibition space

15.15hr. Singer Songwriter Rikke Korswagen with lots of news songs

Food from Tineke

Hommes exhibition space is closed from 4 July to mid September We wish you all a joyful and sunny summer.    

We are happy to invite you for an Artist Talk with Clare Noonan on Sunday 13 June from 13.00 – 14.00 hr.

Clare Noonan (1982, New Zealand) is a visual artist with a practice that encompasses sculptural object, photography, installation and site-based intervention. Concerned with mapping boundaries between geographical, historical and cultural space, Noonan mimics modes and conventions of the museum to create works that hover between fiction and truth. Graduating from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2004, Noonan has exhibited in New Zealand and also in the Netherlands. Her most recent project Field Work (SOFA Gallery, 2009) was developed as Artist in Residence and winner of the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award 2009. Clare Noonan is Artist in Residence from 1 May to 1 November 2010.

In Charloisdistrict more than 200 artists are  working and you can see that!  32 works of public art are realized. Under the guidance of city guide Joke-Minke Arendz you walk in 2 hours along these works. You will receive a map with the route and information. The route begins and ends in Hommes, where we  offer you  a drink. Duration of walk: 2 hours. Registration is required. Participation is free [1].

Dates:
Saturday, May 29 [2] 14.00
Saturday, June 12 at 15:00
Friday, June 25 at 19:00
Sunday, July 4 13.00
Thursday, July 15 at 14:00

Subscribe
by email with your name, the date, your telephone number and number of people sent to info@hommes.nl

1.Thanks to the financial support from Deelgemeente Charlois
2. During the Kunstweekend Charlois

Songs van FUFU

The month of philosophy is almost ended. The exhibition The Desert of the Real invited out visitors to ask themselves questions about the unbearable realness of being, about simulacra, fake and hyper real. The inspiring lecture of Henk Oosterling give some of us an uneasy feeling. We listened with respect to the artists Ana Fernandez and Fabrizio Bianchini interviewed by Oosterling.

Now we conclude this with some day-dreaming and cooling down with  a performance of Fufu.  Her songs are about imaginary landscapes that evolve from the combination of intense piano-harmonies and samples, both being held together by a voice that is neither afraid of melodies nor modern fairy tales.

Henk Oosterling, Ana A. Fernández, Fabrizio Bianchini

Is our postmodern society locked in hyper reality? A world dominated not by reality, but by a phantasm of reality? A world in which we meet our friends on Facebook, Twitter in the street; a world in which headphones fill our heads with music and children see the world as a fantasy amusement park by playing games as  Second Life. Is this the world that the French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) called The Desert of the Real? Henk Oosterling, streetwise urban philosopher/associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, will give a mini-lecture on the concepts and theories of Jean Baudrillard. With interview of  Ana A. Fernández and Fabrizio Bianchini about their work and their vision of society in relation to Baudrillard.

While the live results of the elections are coming in on the TV screens in the background, artist hold a debate about their own political agenda. Politicians of all different varieties think that artists should bring an added value to the city they live in. If that's what they really think, then we should be able to turn it into political currency. But first of all:is it desirable to transform a club into a political body? Or is the art we produce already political enough?

Giuseppe LIcari and his assistent RIck van de Dood were interviewd by Cineac Charlois.

On Tuesday, February 16 at 19.30 hour there was a public debat about the future of the AVI at the Brielselaan. Speakers were: Maarten Struijs, Ed Goverde, Otto Trienekens, Paul Braams, Call Conductor: Patrick van der Klooster. The AVI at the south of Rotterdam, at the Brielselaan from AVR Afvalverwerking B.V. is closed by January 1, 2010.  The building of the Rotterdam architect Maarten Struijs was completed in 1993. The immediate closure, just sixteen years after the development, has called upon much commotion.  The closure of this remarkable building can give opportunities. A first debate about the future of the building.  Klick also  

3 x Mini concert Anna Schenk (violin) and Lisa ten Brug (cello) sonates for cello and violin from Pepusch (1667-1752)

South Tour  is an artist studio tour on Saturday evening 6 February to Rotterdam South as a side-kick program of Art Rotterdam art fair. From the central hall of artists' initiative B.a.d, Talingstraat 5, little vans will bring you to a number of short trips to be made to artists' studios and other places of interest, like A-locatie, Hommes, De Kas, 't Otje, the artistic Wolphaertstreet, Projectspaces W Lf_rt, Half Juni, Studio Pompstraat and Gallery182a. But you also can go directly to one of the location. In the attached file you can find the program.    

Program Performance Event 5 December 2009

20.30  Reading Performance by Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir (IS) and Maja Bekan (RS). Finding Your Own North Star: How to Claim the Life You Were Meant to Live

21.00  Music performance by Kathrin Maria Wolkowicz (DE/PL) and Gerwin Luijendijk (NL). Especially for this evening, Kathrin Maria Wolkowicz (vocals) and Gerwin Luijendijk (guitar, vocals) will play no Sinterklaas-songs.

Lots of visitors cam to listen to Duo The Baroquas during Zuid Explorer and the presentation of the work of Dagmar Atladottir 

De Barokka's :  Inge Koppert, viool / Marischa Drapacka, contrabas.    

The music of Inge en Marische suits well in the ambiance of the work of Dagmar, which is also very baroq. Her work is on the balance of art, fashion and camp. Always sparkling of bright colors, sometimes sinister slurking benauth the surface.

The Barokka's: elegant strokes from Italian, French, English and German Barok. 

On 4 July we festively concluded the second cultural season with the Finissage of the show Relations with work of Ivo van de Baar & Nicole Driessens and the delivery of the work PORSCHE IN PROGRESS. Since 5 June more than 300 visitors worked on the felt Porsche. 9000 colored pieces of felt of 3.5 x 3.5 cm were itched. A tour in a real Porsche is those that to the work has sewed.

Music from  DJ  Graaf Groef  and live performance of The Uke box. Marko van der Horst & Shelley Rickey act under the name The Uke box. They play ukulele and developed a considerably eccentric act with song, ukulele, banjo, was-tube bass, toy-piano and accordion.  

Everyone is invited to  help and create the Porsche in Progress artwork

During the 5 weeks of the exhibition of Wandschappen in Hommes a new artwork will be made by the visitors of Hommes. The name is Porsche in Progress. People who live or work in Charlois are welcome to join and help. It is not difficult, everybody can do it. It does not cost much time.

We are open in that period on Thursday and Friday from 13.00 to 17.00 and on Saturday and Sunday from 13.00 to 18.00 hr.

FNV Art Quality Mark Rotterdam

On Friday 5 June 2009, the Art Quality Mark of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) was presented to Hommes, the first to be awarded in Rotterdam. The quality mark ensures that art institutions provide better financial reimbursements to artists for exhibiting their work. One of the goals of the trade union for the arts, information and media is to improve the financial position of visual artists. The quality mark ensures that artists are paid fairly for exhibiting their work in galleries and exhibition spaces. The trade union introduced the quality mark because artists do not tend to be paid very well. Often, they are expected to exhibit their work for free, with art institutions rarely even paying compensation for hanging or installing the work.

Sunday 29 March at 16.00 hr. was  Rikke Korswagen on stage

Rikke is a young singer/songwriter. He plays guitar, banjo, harmonica and slideguitar. His music seems to be influenced by sounds from the Southern states of the USA, the blues of Son House, but is nevertheless different and from this time.

On Friday 23th of Januari at 7.00 hr. is the opening of the show of Nina Boas and Robin Kolleman.

After the official opening by Mariette Dölle, program director of TENT Nina Boas will do a performance.

Nina Boas (1980 NL) works with video, performance, installations and drawings. The work will consist of stills, drawings, a video and a live performance.The themes she uses are related to archetypical constructions, daily routines, gender and relations between people. The stories are based on her childhood and personal findings.

On monday the 19th of Januariat 15.00 hr. the new Major of Rotterdam mr. Aboutaleb, brought us a visit.

In a conversation wich lasted 15 minutes we could tell him about the develoments in Oud Charlois to a cultural hotbed, and also what we need in our opinion to finish this transformation the next years.

The Finissage of the exhibition of Arie Bouman & Jeroen Gras on Sunday 28th December with the Cello concert by Karola Seits at 15.00 hr. was really harmonic, Around 30 visitors enjoyed the Suites nr. 1 and 2 from Bach played by her.

OPENING BOUMAN AND GRAS

On Friday 28th November at 19.00 hr. Hugo Bongers, secratary of the Rotterdam Advisary Board of Art and Culture, opened the new exhibition of Bouman and Gras. Hugo Bongers told the public about how we can look at art and also he gave an analyses of the work of Bouman and Gras.

. . . . . . Dick Lockhorst

Tuesday 28 October 20.00, open from 19.30 hr
First of a serial interviews conducted by Wilma Ruis with a special guest. Dick Lockhorst is President of the Daily governing board of the municipality Charlois. Wilma Ruis works is organization - advisor and works for The Beuk. In het series interviews, supported by visuals like pictures and videos, she wants to investigate the topics of the city. The topic of this conversation is the influence of the public space on human beings. The subject is related to the work of Niens. It will give you the occasion to meet Dick Lockhorst in a different way. Spoken language is Dutch.

We cordially invite you for the opening of the new show on Friday 3 October 7.00 hr of

Jasper Niens
La Condition Humaine

3 October -  2 November 2008

door Nele Buys

We are happy to invite you for the closing of the cultural season and Start Jazz in Charlois on Saturday 5 July from 4 hr

Last year Oud-Charlois has a coming out as cultural hotspot for the public. By the opening of Hommes, BART Store, several art studio's and the start of the Zuid Explorer. We close now the cultural season with music on the street, art sale, (free) concert with Eric Vloeimans and the KRPH Harmony in the Old Church, and more surprises on 5^th July from 4.00 hr. on several locations on the Charloisse Kerksingel.

We cordially invite you for the opening of the duo exhibition of Françoise Magrangeas en Floor van Slochteren on 30 May at 7.00 hr.

In her first cultural year Hommes realised 3 exhibitions with subject : Gender. This show with work of Floor van Slochteren and Françoise Magrangeas is a spicey conclusion of this period.

The work of Floor van Slochteren (NL) is absurdist and satirical, its tone is simple, but is ghastly accurate. In the paintings of Françoise Magrangeas (FR) women are the main characters.

Sunday 27 April 17.00 - 19.00  hr

Sunday Afternoon Party met optreden DJ Blue Flamingo 78 RPM as the end of the South Explorer that day.

On the last Sunday of every month from 13.00 to 17.00 hr. dozens of creative shops, project spaces and galleries in Oud-Charlois are open to the public : South Explorer  =  Look at art, B-Art, crafts, go shopping, discover history, chill out and enjoy a stroll.Come to Rotterdam-Zuid and discover Oud-Charlois!

In the guide of South Explorer you will fined all the participating locations.  These guids are to obtain at tourist desk in the city and on several points. Hommes will send it on request.

In 2008 South Explorer will take place on 27 April, 25 May, 29 June, 28 September, 26 October, 20 November and 28 December.

Opening Fernadez & Basten

O 28 March at 19.00 duo exhibition of Ana A. Fernandez en Sabrina Basten will be opened.

Special thanks to Cato for the filmimpression www.cato-online.nl

Vrijdag 14 maart 2008 van 19.00 - 21.00 uur

Last change to enjoy the art for the stock in full extension in the exhibition space downstairs! We are very happy to invite you for the Finissage of art=arrv. Including food and drinks. The art farrived in Hommes on Saturday January 26^th. This art will now go on stock during this Finissage.

During the Finissage every buyer will receive a gift coupon of € 50 which can be exchanged with a next purchase.

The participants artists will also be there: Dagmar Atladottir (IS), Nina Boas (NL), Ivo van den Baar & Nicole Driessens (NL), Reidun Bergan (N), Laurien Dumbar (NL), Pim van Halem (NL), Nancy Hoogstad (NL), Giuseppe Licari (IT), Hans Ober (NL), Laura d 'Ors (SP), Kamiel Verschuren (NL), Sjoert Willemstein (NL).

On Saturday 26 January 2008 the Art in Stock will arrive in Hommes. Dominic Schrijer, Vice-Mayor, commissionar of Employement, Social Affairs and Urban Revitalisation, responsible for Pact op Zuid, will do the kick-off. 

You are invited to be there. We are open that day from 15.30 hr. Program starts at 16.00 hr. with a PERFORMANCE of BLISS.  At 16.15 hr. we welcome the artists and their work and we call upon Dominic Schrijer to speak.

Met dank aan Cato voor het filmen www.cato-online.nl

29 November 19.00 uur

The oficial opening of Hommes with the exhibition Sconfinamenti by mw. Micky Teenstra-Verhaar, chairman of the Rotterdam Board of Art & Culture was visited by 200 guests. Both the visitors as the work of Laura dÓrs and Giuseppe Licari were surrounded by a fog, wich connected them all.

with special thanks for the film to cato: www.cato-online.nl