Director of the Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam

Gimmicky art gallery in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Kunstinstituut Melly

The eye in Rotterdam
Location inside Northern and Cardinal Europe
Former name	Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Established	1990[i]
Location	fifty Witte de Withstraat, 3012 BR Rotterdam kingdom of the netherlands
Type	Contemporary fine art gallery
Director	Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy[two]
Curator	Samuel Saelemakers Natasha Hoare
Website	www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Kunstinstituut Melly ^{[iii] [4] [5]} is a gimmicky art gallery located in a erstwhile schoolhouse building on Witte de Withstraat, in Rotterdam, holland. The center was founded in 1990. Information technology presents curated exhibitions, symposiums, live events, educational programs, and has a separate art literature publishing arm.

On seven September 2017, the Centre announced it would change its name over a number of years to separate information technology from the Dutch naval amanuensis, Witte de With and to recognise the negative impacts of colonialism. From 27 June 2020 onwards, the Middle entered a period of "namelessness", removing all branding, forming renaming committees and engaging online surveys and roundtables to decide on a new name to come up into upshot on 27 Jan 2021.^[6] The new proper name Kunstinstituut Melly, was appear in October 2020,^{[7] [8]} in reference to an art piece displayed on an exterior wall of the building called Melly Shum Hates Her Job.

History [edit]

The project formerly known as the Witte de With Middle for Gimmicky Art was established in 1990 as a center for contemporary art with the mission of curating and exhibiting international fine art exhibitions. Information technology is based in a old school building, sharing information technology with the TENT gallery.^[9] Information technology presents curated exhibitions, symposiums, alive events, educational programs, and has a divide art literature publishing arm.^[ten]

Witte de With celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015.^[11] Chris Dercon was the showtime director of Witte de With from 1990 to 1996.^[12] He was followed by Bartomeu Marí (1996–2001), Catherine David (2002–2004), Hans Maarten van den Brink (2004–2006) and Nicolaus Schafhausen (2006–2011). Defne Ayas was appointed director in 2012, and was succeeded by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy in 2018.^{[2] [12]}

Name change [edit]

On 17 September 2017, the centre announced it would exist changing its championship because it was named after Witte de With, a Dutch naval officer who had worked for both the Dutch E Republic of india Company and the Dutch West India Company and therefore was associated with colonialism.^{[13] [fourteen]} So director Defne Ayas commented "We were named after our location in 1990, the street in which we are situated is named after. Naming art institutions after locations in a bid to affirm neutrality was a trend in those days".^[13] The problem with the name was highlighted by critic Egbert Alejandro Martina during preparatory meetings for the exhibition Cinema Olanda: Platform, which ran alongside the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale. An open letter of the alphabet from Martina and others so stated that "Witte de With has 'failed' to come to terms with its ain internal contradictions, and has however to reckon with the historical figure it symbolically embodies".^{[xiii] [xv]}

In response, the center titled its next exhibition Witte de With; What's in a proper name?.^[13] The ongoing debate became a national controversy.^[16] By January 2020, questions were being asked in the mainstream media well-nigh why the center had not changed its name.^[17] In June 2020, as part of the George Floyd protests in the Netherlands, activists vandalized symbols of colonialism in Rotterdam. These included the Piet Hein statue in Delfshaven, the Pim Fortuyn memorial and the Witte de With Center, where they left handprints in crimson paint.^[18] In response, the center immediately took down its name board from the building and manager Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy announced that there would be a consultation catamenia and then a new name would exist announced on January 27 2021.^[19] The centre produced a timeline to tape the procedure.^{[6] [20]}

Selected exhibitions [edit]

In 2009 a yr-long plan at Witte de With was structured as a serial of group shows, presentations, performances, screenings and debates ^[21] including participations by Dineo Seshee Bopape, D.O.R., Simon Denny, Yngve Holen, Mark Leckey, Patrizio di Massimo, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, and Jeremy Shaw.^[22]

Douglas Coupland held an exhibition called Bit Rot at the middle in 2016.^[23]

In 2019, the middle hosted a solo evidence past Firelei Báez almost the Haitian Revolution.^[24]

References [edit]

1. ^ Lorente, J. Pedro (2011). The Museums of Gimmicky Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN9781409405863.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy". Archived from the original on 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2018-01-08 .
3. ^ "Kunstinstelling Witte de With in Rotterdam heet voortaan Melly". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 Oct 2020.
4. ^ "New name, new identity: An interview with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, the managing director of Kunstinstituut Melly". Fine art Index Rotterdam. 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-01-27 .
5. ^ "Who Is Melly Shum? On FKA Witte de With's Name Alter". Ocula. 2020-x-27. Retrieved 2021-01-27 .
6. ^ ^{a b} "Timeline". WdW Name Change. nineteen June 2020. Archived from the original on v September 2020. Retrieved 31 Baronial 2020.
7. ^ "Verslag van de directeur en de raad van toezicht 30 september 2020". Retrieved two October 2020.
8. ^ "Noem ons voortaan Kunstinstituut Melly". Kunstinstituut Melly . Retrieved two October 2020.
9. ^ "Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Fine art". Rotterdam: Rotterdam Tourist Information. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved ii September 2020.
10. ^ "Formerly known as Witte de With Heart for Contemporary Fine art". Due east-flux. Archived from the original on 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
11. ^ "In Light Of 25 Years". Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2016-08-nineteen .
12. ^ ^{a b} "About usa". Archived from the original on 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2018-11-16 .
13. ^ ^{a b c d} "Witte de With art museum decolonizes name". Archived from the original on 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
14. ^ "About". WdW Name Change. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
15. ^ "Open letter of the alphabet to Witte de With". Archived from the original on 2020-07-05. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
16. ^ "De aangekondigde dood van Witte de With [Death of Witte de With announced]". Archived from the original on 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
17. ^ "The protracted renaming of Witte de With and the capability of doing better". Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
18. ^ "ANTI-RACISM GRAFFITI ON ROTTERDAM STATUES, Fine art Middle". Archived from the original on 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
19. ^ "ROTTERDAM MUSEUM DROPS Name LINKED TO 17TH CENTURY NAVAL OFFICER". Archived from the original on 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
20. ^ "Who Is Melly Shum? On FKA Witte de With's Proper name Modify". ocula.com. 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-25 .
21. ^ "Morality". Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-eleven-xvi .
22. ^ "Act IX". Archived from the original on 2018-xi-05. Retrieved 2018-11-16 .
23. ^ "Douglas Coupland, Raimundas Malašauskas and "Art in the Age of… Asymmetrical Warfare?" at Witte de With, Rotterdam". Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .
24. ^ "Firelei Báez at Witte de With Middle for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam". Fine art News. seven February 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2020-09-02 .

External links [edit]

• Official website

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