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The Plait is a 2020 steel sculpture by sculptor Kalliopi Lemos, known for her large-scale public installations. The upright plait of dark brown hair has a length of 6,5 meters. The Plait is part of her recent sculpture series Tools of Endearment and is about the role of femininity in modern society. The cutting of the hair braid alludes to a gesture of disobedience, a radically personal gesture against (patriarchal) coercion. But also cutting off old ideas, from change, as an act of liberation and coming of age. In 2020 The Plait purchased by the Droom en Daad foundation and donated to the municipality of Rotterdam. The work was added to the sculpture terrace on Westersingel and unveiled on March 8, 2021.
A picture showing the iconic Hotel New York, Port of Rotterdam's headquarters, Montevideo, New Orleans and De Rotterdam buildings in the Kop van Zuid area.
Een fietser rijdt over de Schiedamsedijk met op de kade naast haar een gele en grijze havenkraan. Tussen de kranen door zijn woontorens en de witte Erasmusbrug zichtbaar in de verte. De zon schijnt fel, het licht is helder en de lucht strakblauw.
Jongens die een achterwaartse salto in het water maken op een warme zomerse dag met op de achtergrond het Fenix museum op Katendrecht in Rotterdam.
Fenix is het nieuwe kunstmuseum over migratie in Rotterdam, geopend in mei 2025. In Fenix vind je verhalen over liefde en afscheid, over thuiskomen en je thuis voelen, over het navigeren van identiteit of het zoeken naar geluk. Verhalen van toen en nu. Van hier en daar.
Fenix is het nieuwe kunstmuseum over migratie in Rotterdam, geopend in mei 2025. In Fenix vind je verhalen over liefde en afscheid, over thuiskomen en je thuis voelen, over het navigeren van identiteit of het zoeken naar geluk. Verhalen van toen en nu. Van hier en daar.
On 20 June 2021, World Refugee Day, Mayor Aboutaleb unveiled a new work of art by British artist Gavin Turk at the head of the Wilhelminapier. The artwork is a more than 3,5 meters high open door of green and red painted bronze. The door has a door handle and keyhole, also cast in bronze. L'Âge d'Or, as the work of art is called, is given to the municipality of Rotterdam on a long-term loan. L'Âge d'Or symbolizes hopes, dreams and opportunities as a door that is always open. A door without a building, but as a symbolic transition between two imaginary worlds, an old and a new one. L'Âge d'Or is the sixth in a unique series of eight works of art, in which all doors have a different colour, shape and handle.
A picture taking during summer of Depot, with a view of Het Nieuwe Instituut and the CoolTower in the background. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is the world’s first publicly accessible art storage facility. The depot is located next to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Museumpark in Rotterdam. Visitors can see the result of 174 years of collecting. More than 152,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates. Next to the objects, all the activities that go into preserving and managing a collection are on open view in the building.
In 2008 Sculpture International Rotterdam asked Atelier Van Lieshout to develop a work of art for the heart of the city. The eight meter high sculpture Cascade is the result. The statue is made of polyester; the material that can almost be seen as a signature of Atelier Van Lieshout. Eighteen oil barrels stacked on top of each other, which seem to fall from the sky like a waterfall, together form a monumental column. A viscous mass drips from the life-size vessels, in which the figures of twenty human figures can be discerned.
Art installation with two enormous feet at Binnenrotte, near the library and the Markthall. Titled 'Everybody's dead but us
Hoogvliet: Artwork of Dick Elffers.
Delfshaven: Slavery monument - Clave, Alex da Silva
Maassilo Subway.
Couple walks along the river Maas.
Street art piece by Joren Roukes at the Zomerhof quarter.