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OPEN WORKSPACE #2 Jeroen Wismans
De Kapsalon presents, from May 31 2010 the second open workspace. This time with artist Jeroen Wismans.
De Kapsalon met Wismans at a programm of Kunstenaars&Co (a corporation wich helps artists) called “from idea to succes”. Wismans showed his light sculptures made of recycled materials.
Wismans found the Kapsalon, based in the Afrikaanderwijk in Rotterdam South, to [...]
Illustrators strike back
De Kapsalon transformed into a warzone. An illustrator warzone to be precise. A duel between Illustrators Ron Schuijt and Thijs Lansbergen, wich turned into the presentation of a bizarre fairytale. The story contained 8 illustrations wich react to one another.
The story starts with a work of Thijs: “battle of the strongest”. In the 2nd by [...]
Illustrator vs. Illustrator
Illustrator vs. Illustrator is a exposition of two young artists: Ron Schuijt and Thijs Lansbergen. Both intrigued by creating an alternative reality. There works are both visial and narrative, it was only a matter of time before there forces where mixed together. But after all there is not really a collaboration between the boys. Every [...]
Museumnight 2010
The Kapsalon took over the Centre of Visual Arts this year during the ‘Museumnight’ festival. That sounds like haircut-treatments, whirling hair, hair-straightener-fights and locks of hair under your shoes but that’s exactly not what to expect. Throw yourself on the clothing-gearswap, battling illustrators, elevatortheater and performances with experimental music concerts.
The Kapsalon: a hysterical marathon [...]
Now Show it!
For four weeks Koert Jobse took over De Kapsalon with his Open Workspace. After an introduction and a firm presentation of his recent work, a whole circus of sugarcoated fitness equipment, car-inter-VJ sets and groups of elderly people exploded in the old barbershop. This was extended to a trip to the StukaFest (A festival held [...]
Open Workspace #1 Koert Jobse
Open Workspace # 1: Koert Jobse
At the first of February of 2010, Koert Jobse, a young artist based in the South of Rotterdam, took over the De Kapsalon and kickstarted the first Open Workspace. Jobse filled the space with his work and personality for a whole month and changed it constantly. This meant that [...]
There is no Planet B
There is no Planet B
Besides a handful of conspiracy theorists, who hold that climate change is ‘left-wing propaganda’, nobody seriously doubts the fact that our world is steadily marching towards an ecological catastrophe. It is evident that only a drastic reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions can stop this proces. However, after the publication of dozens of [...]
Elke Donders
Elke Donders
Elke Donders is a student at the illustration department at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Donders bases her illustrations simply on what she finds interesting in her direct surroundings: from with weird slippers to wild patterns; from buildings to self-portraits. Through these everyday themes she has managed to create her own distinctive style, and [...]
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