PrintRoom joins the Not For Profit Art Party at Rotterdam Art Week 2020
Off the Wall: The Almonde Papers
Opening: Thursday 6 February, 18:00 – 22:00
Almondestraat 161, 3032 CD, Rotterdam
PrintRoom activates her archive, feeding the past into a new project. Taking a 2013 presentation as a starting point, Off the Wall: The Almonde Papers aims to maintain a dialogue through new works by five artists: Ruth van Beek, Czar Kristoff, Cengiz Mengüç, Johann Kauth, Nicole Martens.
For Off the Wall the participating artists – all of whom collaborated with PrintRoom before in the past 10 years – designed new wallpaper based on the wallpaper found in the former social housing units of the Almondestraat where the exhibition takes place. These new designs are riso-printed at PrintRoom and installed in one apartment of Pension Almonde.
The wallpaper is also part of a publication that will be launched on the opening night.
The starting point for Off The Wall is a 2013 presentation by Michalis Pichler, Louis Lüthi and G.J. de Rook that revolved around Ulises Carrión’s bookwork Sonnet(s), in which G.J. de Rook presented Tell Me What Sort of Wallpaper Your Room Has and I Will Tell You Who You Are (1973).
The NFPAP is an independent body, where non-profit presentation institutions from the Netherlands work together to exchange artists, knowledge and informal networks. Including among us: SIGN, Nieuwe Vide, Expoplu, WORM Rotterdam, Stichting VHDG, Tetem, EXTRAPOOL, MURALS Inc.
Pension Almonde is a project of Stad in de Maak – City in the Making in the former social housing units of Almondestraat. The street functions temporarily as a home for city nomads, social and cultural projects, up to the demolition.
Thursday February 6, 18:00-22:00h (Opening)
Friday February 7, 12:00h-18:00h
Saturday February 8, 12:00h-18:00h
Sunday February 9, 14:00h-18:00