De Kapsalon is going over the border!

Art Platform The Barbershop is graduating this summer. But that doesn’t mean the end of everything we build. With the upcoming ending as a student a lot is gonna change but ‘stopping’ is never in the planning.

During the graduation show at Las Palmas (16 – 21 June) De Kapsalon brings you eight months of work but the exhibition is also a start of a new project: the Mobile Kapsalon.

The Mobile Kapsalon is a slick trailer filled with characteristic rugs, lamps, pillow and chairs, so we can re-build the Kapsalon in a quick way everywhere we want. So we can have a chat with artists, hitchhikers, local creative people, work with them and learn from each other.

Last March, the Kapsalon went over the Erasmus Bridge to organize Museum Night, but this time the Kapsalon is going over the border as well! From the end of July till Mid-September we are going to Europe with a car filled with camping gear; the Mobile Kapsalon will be on the trailer hitch with artist Elke Donders in the backseat. The route is still open for suggestions – please let us know.

During the trip the economic crisis will also develop itself. Not only in the Netherlands but in the whole of Europe the governments are trying to reduce government debt by letting the innocent civilians pay. Demonstrations, manifestations and other solidarity actions are on the program as well.

Until Mid-September the Kapsalon is on the road and in the fall we’ll be back on Bloemfontein Street. Multiple plans are already there so it’s gonna be a busy winter. But we never have enough good plans so do you have a great idea? Come by before summer starts!

Keep a close look at the website: de Kapsalon is going over the border!