Exhibitions

PAST

I’ll dance as fast as I can
Live Performance by LR On Demand

Rosa Agular – Barocoria

 

Amsterdam

ELOY ARRIBAS
Antología de canciones / Anthology of Songs
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)
 
10 June 2023 – 30 June 2023
 
🥂Opening: 
Saturday, 10th of June, 17 – 21. hrs
 
Location:
The Curators Room – East
Dapperplein 45
AMSTERDAM

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YOU’RE INVITED TO:

I’ll dance as fast as I can
Live Performance by LR On Demand
@Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani

Special ‘Art Nou’ Edition
Free entrance

When: 1st of July
Where: Carrer del Concili de Trento, 313, 08020 Barcelona, SP
Doors open: 6.30PM (18:30)
Start Live Performance: 7PM (19:00)
End Live Performance: 7.30PM (19:30)
Afterwards: Vermut.

NOW

Barcelona

Nothing to Hide
Featuring work by Calli Moore, John Fou, Virginia Paradise, Adam Linn & Julia Kowalska
(Curated by Thom Oosterhof for The Curators Room)
 
18 May 2023 – 24 June 2023
 
🥂Opening: 
Thursday, 18th of May at 18h
 
Location:
The Curators Room – La Oficina
Carrer de Trafalgar, 45
BARCELONA

-> TO THE EXHIBITION

PAST

Amsterdam

SHOE
UNMOVEMENT
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)
 
7  April  –  27 May,  2023
 
🥂Opening
Friday, 7 April, 17 – 21 hrs

Live Music by: Cristel Ball

Drinks by: #craftdrinks
 
Location:
The Curators Room – Art Chapel Amsterdam
Prinses Irenestraat 19
AMSTERDAM

-> TO THE EXHIBITION

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CURRENT

Barcelona

Starshine
Gijs van Lith

(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)

16th of March 2023 – 30th of April 2023

Opening: 

Thursday, 16th of March, 18.00 – 21.00 hrs

Location:

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona

Carrer de Trafalgar, 45

BARCELONA

-> TO THE EXHIBITION

Amsterdam

The Garden

Featuring work by Thomias L. Radin, Szaweł Płóciennik, Cesc Abad & Lera Dubitskaya

(Curated by Thom Oosterhof for The Curators Room)

03 February 2023 – 25 March 2023

Opening: 

Friday, 3rd of February at 18h

Performance by Thomias L. Radin at 19h

Location:

The Curators Room – Amsterdams Chapel

Prinses Irenestraat, 19

AMSTERDAM

-> TO THE EXHIBITION

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona

Firestater

Featuring work by Miel Olise Kjærgaard, Jamie Gray Williams, Ronnie Robinson & Bobbi Essers

(Curated by Thom Oosterhof for The Curators Room)

12 January – 04 March 2023

Opening reception: 

Thursday, 12th of January , 18 – 20 hrs

Location:

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona

Carrer de Trafalgar, 45

BARCELONA

-> TO THE EXHIBITION

PAST

UVNT ART FAIR 2023 MADRID

Artists:

Adam Štech
Zac Yeates
Cesc Abad
Juan Narowé

 Location:

UVNT ART FAIR 2023
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Madrid

Calle Hortaleza  63

February 23th – 26th

https://www.urvanity-art.com

The Curators Room is proud to announce the participation at UVNT ART FAIR 2023, where we will present works byZac Yeates,  Adam Štech , Juan Narowé and Cesc Abad

Looking forward to see you there!

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THE CURATORS ROOM – AMSTERDAM CHAPEL

Inaugural exhibition

’11+11=22’
FRANS FRANCISCUS
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)

11 November 2022 – 01 January 2023

–> TO THE EXHIBITION


Location:
The Curators Room – Amsterdam Chapel
Prinses Irenestraat, 19
AMSTERDAM

The Curators Room is pleased to present 11+11= 22 by Frans Franciscus, a solo exhibition curated by Gabriel Rolt dedicated to the oeuvre of the Dutch painter whose career has been centered on reconfiguring canonical structures present throughout the history of European painting. Working in a classical tradition of portraiture and landscape, the artist continues in this legacy through figurative works that span both flatwork and ceramic sculptures. His body of work concerns biblical references which he reimagines often with an autobiographical flair.

This show helps bring into the world and inaugurate the new temporary exhibition space, The Curators Room – Amsterdam Chapel, which dialogues with The Curators Room – La Oficina, the only permanent space of the project which opened in Barcelona last April. Franciscus’ show will be held in the new temporary space from the 11th of November to the 1st of January 2023 and serves as a loose anthology of his work in the past 20 years. It suggests a curious chronology given that the artist almost entirely stopped painting 6 years ago in favor of an unexpected shift of focus from painting to clay. Only in the last year has the artist reconciled with his painting practice.

THE CURATORS ROOM – MOYA

MOYA (museum of young art) Oosterhout, adopted The Curators Room for the upcoming months. We will open with two exhibitions: ‘Most Normal’ , a solo show by Amsterdam Based artist Bas Geerts together the group exhibition ‘Wat voel je nou’ with works by Daria Birang, Juan Narowé, Lisette Ros, Javier Ruiz Perez, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Bas Geerts, Cesc Abad, Freddy Tratlehner, Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Eduardo Millan and Jose Bonell. This school-reunion -like exhibition marks a few highlights of The Curators Room ‘s presentations since our very first exhibition a year ago. We are very excited about this new cooperation. Stay tuned! Hand in hand with the exhibition, there is a program full with performance, music and food in the works.

Opening Reception:
Saturday 12 November, 15 – 17 hrs

Location:

MOYA – MUSEUM OF YOUNG ART
Wilhelminakanaal Zuid 104, 4903 RA Oosterhout, The Netherlands
https://moya.museum/


‘Wat voel je nou’

Group show
Daria Birang, Juan Narowé, Lisette Ros, Javier Ruiz Perez, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Bas Geerts, Cesc Abad, Freddy Tratlehner, Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Eduardo Millan and Jose Bonell.

–> TO THE EXHIBITION

‘Most Normal’
BAS GEERTS
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt)

–> TO THE EXHIBITION

The Curators Room – MOYA is proud to announce Most Normal, a solo exhibition by Amsterdam based artist Bas Geerts.

The question at the core of Bas Geerts‘ practice is the timeless discourse on mimesis: how to represent reality. What interests him the most is however not the actual material world, but the digital one (even if one could ask whether such a distinction can be truly made, nowadays). His works serve as a possible way of translating the digital realm, ubiquitous and contemporary filter of our life, onto a concrete and tangible surface. To do so, Geerts employs precisely what today’s technology has to offer: digital instruments. During the years, he developed a computer program able to transform technological algorithms into organic designs, shapes and forms of unpredictable format.

UPLocatio

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona

LULLABIES

Eloy Arribas
Fabrizio Cotognini
Laura Hermanides
Jan Monclus


Curated by Manuela Pereira and Gabriel Rolt


16 November 2022 – 6 January 2023

LOCATION:

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona
Carrer de Trafalgar 45
08010 Barcelona
Spain
Open:
Tue – Fri: 16 – 20 hrs
Sat: 11 – 14 hrs
Www.Thecuratorsroom.com
hola@thecuratorsroom.com

CURRENT

THE CURATORS ROOM – AMSTERDAM CHAPEL

Inaugural exhibition

’11+11=22’
FRANS FRANCISCUS
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt for The Curators Room)

11 November 2022 – 16 January 2023

–> TO THE EXHIBITION

Location:
The Curators Room – Amsterdam Chapel
Prinses Irenestraat, 19
AMSTERDAM

The Curators Room is pleased to present 11+11= 22 by Frans Franciscus, a solo exhibition curated by Gabriel Rolt dedicated to the oeuvre of the Dutch painter whose career has been centered on reconfiguring canonical structures present throughout the history of European painting. Working in a classical tradition of portraiture and landscape, the artist continues in this legacy through figurative works that span both flatwork and ceramic sculptures. His body of work concerns biblical references which he reimagines often with an autobiographical flair.

This show helps bring into the world and inaugurate the new temporary exhibition space, The Curators Room – Amsterdam Chapel, which dialogues with The Curators Room – La Oficina, the only permanent space of the project which opened in Barcelona last April. Franciscus’ show will be held in the new temporary space from the 11th of November to the 1st of January 2023 and serves as a loose anthology of his work in the past 20 years. It suggests a curious chronology given that the artist almost entirely stopped painting 6 years ago in favor of an unexpected shift of focus from painting to clay. Only in the last year has the artist reconciled with his painting practice.

THE CURATORS ROOM – MOYA

MOYA (museum of young art) Oosterhout, adopted The Curators Room for the upcoming months. We will open with two exhibitions: ‘Most Normal’ , a solo show by Amsterdam Based artist Bas Geerts together the group exhibition ‘Wat voel je nou’ with works by Daria Birang, Juan Narowé, Lisette Ros, Javier Ruiz Perez, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Bas Geerts, Cesc Abad, Freddy Tratlehner, Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Eduardo Millan and Jose Bonell. This school-reunion -like exhibition marks a few highlights of The Curators Room ‘s presentations since our very first exhibition a year ago. We are very excited about this new cooperation. Stay tuned! Hand in hand with the exhibition, there is a program full with performance, music and food in the works.

Opening Reception:
Saturday 12 November, 15 – 17 hrs

Location:

MOYA – MUSEUM OF YOUNG ART
Wilhelminakanaal Zuid 104, 4903 RA Oosterhout, The Netherlands
https://moya.museum/


‘Wat voel je nou’

Group show
Daria Birang, Juan Narowé, Lisette Ros, Javier Ruiz Perez, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Bas Geerts, Cesc Abad, Freddy Tratlehner, Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Eduardo Millan and Jose Bonell.

–> TO THE EXHIBITION

‘Most Normal’
BAS GEERTS
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt)

–> TO THE EXHIBITION

The Curators Room – MOYA is proud to announce Most Normal, a solo exhibition by Amsterdam based artist Bas Geerts.

The question at the core of Bas Geerts‘ practice is the timeless discourse on mimesis: how to represent reality. What interests him the most is however not the actual material world, but the digital one (even if one could ask whether such a distinction can be truly made, nowadays). His works serve as a possible way of translating the digital realm, ubiquitous and contemporary filter of our life, onto a concrete and tangible surface. To do so, Geerts employs precisely what today’s technology has to offer: digital instruments. During the years, he developed a computer program able to transform technological algorithms into organic designs, shapes and forms of unpredictable format.

PAST

LOOP fair 2022

Laura Hermanides – ‘Anahit’
Barcelona
15 -17 November
Room #312

LAURA HERMANIDES

ANAHIT

The Curators room is delighted to announce the participation at Loop Barcelona 2022 with the international art world’s premiere of ‘Anahit’, a new video work by Dutch filmmaker Laura Hermanides, curated by Gabriel Rolt.

Imaani, a victim of sexual violence, relives a post-traumatic episode when she enters a swimming pool, where vulnerability and fear are expressed through a delicate and magnificent body language. The water goddess of fertility, wisdom and healing, Anahit, encourages her to use dance as a tool for the reappropriation of her body. Movement takes a central role in the therapeutic process. Breathing sets the rhythm of alertness, through short but deep breaths of air traveling back, little by little, to the young woman’s memory.

The process of fighting against her own demons leads Imaani to a physical exhaustion that she will only resolve by shouting at her inner noise. The element of water, present attribute of the deity, accompanies her as the natural force of life. Reliving the event with impetuous courage she faces the predator, becoming the owner of her being, devouring it. Her calm is finally restored and she retakes her place within the group, melting her inner hostility into  power.

Hermanides manages to build an emotional bridge between the audience and the protagonist, transgressing her emotions and impacting those of the spectator. She firmly portrays her triumph facing the enemy.

Text by Manuela Pereira

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Barcelona

ZAC YEATES  
‘Just Another Day’
Extended until 5 November 2022
 
 
LOCATION:
 
The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona
Carrer de Trafalgar 45
08010 Barcelona
Spain


OPEN:
 
Tuesday – Friday: 16:00 hrs – 20:00 hrs
Saturday: 11:00 hrs – 14:00 hrs
www.Thecuratorsroom.com
hola@thecuratorsroom.com

Zac Yeates
Leg and Arm Chair
Oil pastel, acrylic and gouache on canvas,
110 x 90 cm
2022

PAST

Amsterdam

CESC ABAD
T’ESTAVA ESPERANT / I WAS WAITING FOR YOU
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt)

03 September – 30 September

>>>> TO THE EXHIBITION

Opening reception:
Saturday 03 September 17 – 21 hrs

Prinsengracht 675
1017 JT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

PAST

DING-A-DONG

Artists:

Juan Narowé, José Bonell, Vincent van de Waal, Grgur Akrap,Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Andrew Kayser, Javier Ruiz Pere, Erkut Terliksiz, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Lisette Ros, Patricia Paludanus, David KC Moir,  Nathaniel Bolarinwa, Freddy Tratlehner , Rae Klein, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eduardo Millan, Shoe, Goya

23 JUNE – 14 AUGUST

Location:

The Curators Room 
Prinsengracht 675
1017JT  AmsterdamA
The Netherlands

Open:
Thursday – Saturday: 13 – 17 hrs

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BARCELONA

NO ESTAMOS SOLOS / We are not alone 
(curated by Javier Ruiz Pérez and Gabriel Rolt)

Artists:

Juan Narowé, José Bonell, Vincent van de Waal, Frans Franciscus, Laura López Balza, Mercedes Pimiento and cymoonv

3 JUNE – 14 AUGUST

JUAN NAROWÉ, El amor imposible III , Oil on canvas, 160 x 132 cm (each) 2022

OPENING CREDITS 

 

MUSIC BY MERIDIAN BROTHERS PLAYING: https://open.spotify.com/track/0DxpffgjnVzFpyldTAskDI?si=d3ea281e43574026

 

 

TITLE: NO ESTAMOS SOLOS

 

 

01. INT. FBI OFFICE – DAY

 

AGENT SKULLY IS STANDING ACROSS THE DESK OF THE FBI CHIEF.

 

FBI CHIEF

So what about Agent Mulder,

What are his thoughts?

 

AGENT SKULLY

Agent Mulder believes we are not Alone.

 

 

The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona is proud to announce ‘NO ESTAMOS SOLOS / We are not alone’, a group show curated by Javier Ruiz Pérez and Gabriel Rolt, featuring works by: Juan Narowé, José Bonell, Vincent van de Waal, Frans Franciscus, Laura López Balza, Mercedes Pimiento and Cymoonv.

 

The exhibition will open on Friday 3rd of June from 16 to 20 hrs at The Curators Room – La Oficina Barcelona at Carrer de Trafalgar 45, Barcelona.

 

There is a certain level of irony when reading agent Skully quoting Mulder: ‘We are not alone’ while digesting the enormous gap between our perception back in the 90’s and the hyper connected reality we live nowadays in 2022. 

We are never alone.

 

 

02. EXT. STREETS OF BARCELONA CITY IN 1993 – END OF DAY

 

ALMIGHTY (V.O.)

An endless curiosity for the unknown 

in this era of tangible connection. 

We are fearless explorers in our infinite 

blue planet, the galaxies, the universe. 

We look at the stars and wonder. 

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03. INT. LIVING ROOM CONFINEMENT IN AN UNDEFINED CITYIN 2020 – NIGHT

 

ALMIGHTY (V.O.)

Digital democracy has reduced our planet’s 

scale. Every faraway corner of the globe has 

seen the footsteps of humanity. 

And everything that comes with, 

including viruses flooding the continents. 

The fulfillment of the end of privacy. 

Every single movement to be tracked, 

all encounters strictly forbidden. 

Not the extraterrestrial threat, 

but humans themselves to be completely 

isolated in order to save us. 

Physicality is the public enemy. 

Art attacks through Instagram, 

and loneliness goes extinct through the 

digital penetration of the isolated mankind.

 

 

 

CUT TO: 

 

 

04. EXT. PLAÇA CATALUNYA 2022 – DUSK 

 

ALMIGHTY (V.O.)

We humans have been unleashed. 

Freedom 3.0. 

The greater the freedom we create 

for ourselves, free of religion 

and meaning, the more we desire something 

to hold on to. There must be something 

more than this overwhelming empty freedom. 

We forgot how to maintain faith and remember we are 

not alone in our ability to think and conquer. 

We have lost our childish longing for 

extraterrestrial beings to come and show us 

our insignificance. And to bring us 

the knowledge that we are not alone.

 

 

CUT TO:

 

05. INT. THE CURATORS ROOM – LA OFICINA BARCELONA FRIDAY 3RD OF JUNE – AFTERNOON

 

Our new friends arrive. After a detour of 30 years, nobody is waiting for them anymore. 

 

 

ALMIGHTY (V.O.)

We are not alone is a time capsule 

to present to the long-forgotten newcomers.

 

EXTRATERRESTRIALS (O.S)

We come in peace.

 

 

 

// LAURA HERMANIDES & GABRIEL ROLT, MAY 2022

 

 

 

LAURA LÓPEZ BALZA, ALGÚN DÍA, LA SERENIDAD LEJOS DE LA ADVERSIDAD., Acrylics on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2021
MERCEDES PIMIENTO, Formwork, Flexible expanded polyurethane and wood, Dimensions variable, 2019
VINCENT VAN DE WAAL, Staring Out of My Boys Window, Acrylics on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, 2022
Cymoonnv, I can’t get u out of my head (still), 2022
FRANS FRANCISCUS , L’Opera Completa di William Shakespeare, vs.2,  Oil on linen, 85 x 68 cm, 2012
JOSE BONELL, Mr. Holes , From the series: The Hollow Men Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, 2022
 

Current:

AMSTERDAM

‘VISTA AEREA DE LA LIBERTAD HUMANA’
(Aerial view of the human freedom)

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ

Curated by Gabriel Rolt
08 MAY –  10 JUNE 

Opening reception: Sunday 08 May, 17 – 21 hrs

Location:
The Curators Room Oosterpark / Atelier Artplaats 
Mauritskade 55C, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherland
Open: Friday – Sunday, 13 to 17 hrs

–> CLICK HERE TO GO THE EXHIBITION

Past

BARCELONA

LIGHT IN THE FOG
NIK CHRISTENSEN
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt)

06 April – 21 May 2022

Opening reception: 06 April, 18 – 21 hrs

Location:
The Curators Room  –  La Oficina Barcelona
Carrer de Trafalgar 45, 08010 Barcelona

–> CLICK HERE TO GO THE EXHIBITION

AMSTERDAM

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Current

TODO ES DE COLOR
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt) 

5 March– 24 April 2021

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Artists:

Rae Klein, Nik Christensen, Nahaniel Bolarinwa, Andrew Kayser, Javier Ruiz, Sara Bonache, Juan Narowé, Marc Badia and Jose Bonell

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Location:

Prinsengracht 675, 1017 JT Amsterdam. The Netherlands

www.thecuratorsroom.com | hello@thecuratorsroom.com | +31(0) 625005374

Open:

Thursday – Saturday 
13 – 17 hrs or by appointment 

Past

Lucas Lenglet, untitled (squatting)_brown, 2022, Found bed, aluminium powder coated frame
1905 x 925 x 120 mm, Unique

FULL STOP
LUCAS LENGLET

26 March – 24 April 2022

Opening reception: 26 March, 16 -20 hrs

Location:
The Curators Room Oosterpark / Atelier Artplaats 
Mauritskade 55C, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Curators Room is proud to announce FULL STOP, a solo show by Lucas Lenglet in collaboration with Stigter van Doesburg and Atelier Artplaats.


PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND – SATISFACTORY

Until 6 March

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Installation views

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Location:
The Curators Room Oosterpark / Atelier Artplaats 
Mauritskade 55C, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Open:
Thursday – Saturday, 13 – 18 hrs
(And by appointment)

The Curators Room is proud to announce SATISFACTORY, a solo show by Paul du Bois-Reymond curated by Gabriel Rolt.

Paul du Bois-Reymond’s paintings are landscapes of surreal pleasure. Always departing from a digital source, being it found footage on the internet or snippets of iPhone pictures, the paintings translate bidimensional images into tridimensional environments, populated by artificial objects. Often associated with the luxury world, the depicted items are transposed from the digital to the physical through oil pastel and paint; flat images become objects again, only this time twisted, enhanced, elevated into something different. 


The representational transition of the objects from digital surface to pictorial matter seems to alter their entity: the black glazed ceramic of a simple ashtray suddenly appears oddly attractive; round and lushy pearls of piercing brightness capture the eye, floating around in an expansive world made of marble, where symbols of luxury triumph in their allure: Majestic, unreachable.


Cold objects move in a surreal landscape, distant in their perfection, yet sometimes strangely familiar. Flashes of intimacy, fragments of the artist’s personal life appear in this setting too: a corner of his house, a picture of a familiar place. And then, juxtaposed to this scenery, the fleshy pink of a lipstick becomes all of a sudden satisfying to look at, the object itself incredibly desirable: you want to touch it, own it. Expensive ordinary objects are celebrated here, their status as symbols of consumerism now glorified, in a process of sharp, almost pop arrogance that questions their blatant appeal: Why are these objects so attractive? why do we desire them? does their exclusiveness influence their beauty?


By deconstructing snippets of reality and reconstructing them onto the canvas in a neo-cubistic manner, du Bois-Reymond prompts us to re-think the relationship digital/ physical,

transforming flat images into palpable objects: enhancing their formal quality with the thickness of the oil pastel increases their allure, their creamy surface and exaggerated colors suddenly sensual, inviting. 

The ironic look at these surreal symbols of contemporary desire are framed by the artist in an intelligent manner, in an attempt to disclose hidden mechanisms of our aesthetics in the most transparent way possible: through pleasure.

Paul du Bois-Reymond (Amsterdam / Berlin) is an artist, musician and designer who lives and works in Amsterdam.

He studied at the Rietveld Academy of the arts (1992-1996) and was co-founder of the infamous DEPT, later Machine design collectives. In 2018 he co-founded the Amsterdam based band OWN.

Recent (solo) exhibitions include: het HEM, Zaandam, Shallow Then Halo, The Curators Room,  YWGWYW with The Curators Room; Droste Gallery, Germany ; Kunsthaus Betanien, Germany,  Gabriel Rolt Gallery, The Netherlands  and Unruly Gallery, The Netherlands.

-Text by Sara van Bussel

The Curators Room Oosterpark is a cooperation between Atelier Artplaats and The Curators Room located at the Mauritskade 55C in Amsterdam.

About Atelier Artplaats:

Atelier Artplaats is a young Amsterdam art platform with a focus on the stories behind artworks and their creators. Since 2021 Atelier Artplaats has a temporary exhibition space located in Amsterdam East, where the space is also offered to other creatives and initiatives. Soon the webshop will go online, where you can find quality art with context and real stories.

About The Curators Room

The Curators Room is a living, breathing ecosystem. Continuously developing and moulding into something new – each exhibition, each performance, each space, online and offline. Committed to encourage conversations, challenging and questioning the boundaries of art, visioning the art world-to-come. A constantly evolving community with many different voices. Inter-generational, cross-disciplinary. Where artists, curators, thinkers, art lovers and collectors act and grow together.

PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND, Der Nachtisch, Oil pastels and oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm, 2022
PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND, Avatar, Oil pastels and oil on canvas, 150  x 100 cm, 2021
PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND, Journal of a lost tribe, Oil pastels and oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm, 2021
PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND, Based on a true story, Oil pastels and oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm, 2022
PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND, Satisfactory, Oil pastels and oil on canvas, 200 x 320 cm (diptych), 2021

Past Exhibitions

NEEDLES IN THE HAY
(Curated by Sasha Bogojev for The Curators Room) 
12 December 2021 – 31 January 2022

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Artists:

Grgur Akrap, Zac Yeates, Anna Jung Seo, Chiaki Kadota, Donglai Meng, Joseph Noderer, Eskubi Joseba, Erkut Terliksiz, Stijn Bastianen, Harry Rothel, Adam Štech, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Yonel Watene, and Frank Jimin Hopp.

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Installation views

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Press:

Needles in the Hay at Juxtapozz

Needles in the Hay at Artplugged

Needles in the Hay at Supersonic Art

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Location:

Prinsengracht 675, 1017 JT Amsterdam. The Netherlands

www.thecuratorsroom.com | hello@thecuratorsroom.com | +31(0) 625005374

Open:

Thursday – Saturday 
13 – 17 hrs or by appointment 

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The Curators Room is proud to Announce Needles in the Hay, a group show picked by Sasha Bogojev.

One of the things we’ve become more aware of in the past two years of the global pandemic is the unforgiving power of odds. No matter how small and insignificant a certain probability might be, recent times taught us that its mere existence is predestined to make an impact on the elements connected to it. And it’s this concept of chances and the related idea of risk and hope, as well as the general sense of liability, that prompted Sasha Bogojev to put together an exhibition where numbers work to our advantage.

As much as social media, namely Instagram, might have contributed to the democratization of the art world and have provided a historically unseen platform to creatives to introduce their work, the abundance of content makes this experience increasingly harder. With the growing interference and influence of both genuine and wannabe art advisors, collectors, curators, galleries, foundations, or institutions, the haystack we’re working through is becoming exponentially more convoluted and deceiving. And while this situation can be difficult for art aficionados and collectors, it can certainly turn frustrating for the artists themselves.

Overlooked by the almighty tastemakers or generally misrepresented, they are still out there, in the shadow of the mesmerizing spotlight of art trends, making the work that deserves more attention than it might be currently getting. And with this show, Sasha Bogojev and Gabriel Rolt from Amsterdam’s The Curators Room are doing their part to make the difference, find these gems hidden in plain sight and present their works in a large two-floor, multi-room space in the historic center of Amsterdam.

With an extensive overview of numerous studio practices and the positioning of people working there, Juxtapoz magazine’s contributing editor eye-picked a selection of international artists whose works deserve their own time in the spotlight. Whether looking at the general concepts of their practice, the particularities of their process, or their ways of handling and utilizing the chosen techniques or mediums, Needles in the Hay are having an important role in the ongoing development and conversation about figurative art, and especially painting. Frequently focusing on the atmosphere suggested by chosen colors and the sense of dynamics or movement conveyed through the often fluid yet determined paint manipulation, the work is having its footing in historic timeline with references to Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, as well as outsiders art, illustration, and abstraction. Hailing from all over the world, from New Zealand, over Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, to the USA, and across Europe and the UK, the exhibition is meant to provide a focused digest of exciting practices taking place at (mostly painters’) studios at the present time.

The exhibition will be including a selection of works by Grgur Akrap, Zac Yeates, Anna Jung Seo, Chiaki Kadota, Donglai Meng, Joseph Noderer, Eskubi Joseba, Erkut Terliksiz, Stijn Bastianen, Harry Rothel, Adam Štech, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Yonel Watene, and Frank Jimin Hopp.

  • Text by Sasha Bogojev

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Adam Štech, Woman with Leek , Oil on canvas, 160 x 120 cm, 2021

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Erkut Terliksiz, Since i met you, i no longer feel normal, Acrylic on canvas,
175 x 220 cm, 2021 (diptych)
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Anna Jung Seo, Whisper from Dream, Oil on canvas, 34 x 21 x 2cm, 2020
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Frank Jimin Hopp, Eros LV One, Glazed Ceramic, 35 × 30 × 37 cm, 2021
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Grgur Akrap, False prophet, Oil and encaustic on canvas, 153 x 108 cm, 2021
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Stijn BastianenGo Away, Mixed media on canvas, 40 x 50 cm, 2021
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Yonel WateneWinnie After Vincent, Oil on denim, 70 x 60 cm, 2020

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Joseba Eskubi,Untitled, oil on paper, 40 x 30 cm, 2021

SHALLOW THEN HALO
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt) 

Until 04 December 2021

Location:

Prinsengracht 675, 1017 JT Amsterdam. The Netherlands
www.thecuratorsroom.com | Gabriel@thecuratorsroom.com | +31(0) 625005374

Instagram: @the_curators_room

Open:

Thursday – Saturday 

13 – 18 hrs or by appointment 

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Artists:         

–> Click HERE for the artist’s page

Daniëlle van Ark (NL), Adam Broomberg and Isaac Schaal (SA), Paul du Bois-Reymond (NL/DE, Daria Birang (US/NL), Giuseppe Buzzotta (IT), Jake and Dinos Chapman (UK), Nik Christensen (NL/UK), Aukje Dekker (NL). Bas Geerts (NL), Martin Kanja (KEN) , Eduardo Millan (ES), Andrea Orejarena (CO), Lisette Ros (NL), Javier Ruiz Perez (ES), Caleb Stein (UK/US), Shoe (NL) , Freddy Tratlehner (NL) and Vincent van de Waal (NL) 

*Special guests: Joseph Abraham Doneus  (Surinam, c. 1825 – after 1878) and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spain, 1764-1828)

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IMAGES

Room 1

Nik Christensen / Daniëlle van Ark / Caleb Stein / Andrea Orejarena /Goya

Room 2

Goya / Adam Broomberg /Aukje Dekker

Room 3

Goya / Eduardo Millan / Javier Ruiz / Giuseppe Buzzotta

Room 4

Lisette Ros / Goya

Room 5

Goya / Daria Birang / Jake and Dinos Chapman / Joseph Abraham Doneus

Room 6

Goya / Paul du Bois-Reymond / Freddy Tratlehner / Vincent van de Waal

Room 7

Goya / Bas Geerts / Martin Kanja / Shoe

PRESS RELEASE

“Behold, I am that which must always overcome itself.”

 Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spoke Zarathustra

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The desire to delve beneath the surface is a desire for knowledge and control. It backfires, and we end up besieged: as soon as we reach the inside, we are again confronted with another surface. Inside the grave there is no living soul; what lies buried is only the reminder of its absence.

            Obsession is a will to power that always ends up besieged, haunted by its object. It zooms in on a target that, in principle, will escape its lens. If “the dream of reason produces monsters,” as Goya wrote, this lies in the fact the suspect has always already fled the crime scene, even if the culprit is caught red-handed, in flagrante delicto.

            It takes some bravery to bring the criminal face to face with the victim—that is, to look into the mirror. At the end of obsession, we embrace the vanity of the world. If there is a world-to-come, surely it must be hell and not only heaven. Maybe perfection itself is the culprit, forever taunting us with ideas about the flaws, defects and decay of this world.

There is nothing as shallow as a surface. It repeats itself incessantly, eternally, and in this repetition all familiar forms become foreign to us. The only escape is the embrace in which I become a foreigner to myself: “Whatever I may create and however I may love it – soon I must oppose it and my love. Thus my will wills it.” 

Baby, I can see your halo.

Mari van Stokkum and Errol Boon in conversation with Gabriel Rolt

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Hola! Hallo! Halo!

As an artist, you must vow to yourself that freedom is more important than all else. Free of stigmas and dogmas you promise to your audience that you will be all that you can be.

As an artist, there is no yellow road to follow. Instead you might find yourself passing through shallow swamps, muddy waters, misty airways, salty oceans, lightless constellations or dense jungles. As an artist you must carve your own way to excellence. And sometimes all these different ways merge in Amsterdam to reach for the heavens.

These artists all carved their own way towards excellence. They came here through dense jungle, humid fog, muddy waters, shallow swamp, underground tunnels, mental mountains but they are here. And they are now.

The artist’s road to excellence may be littered with bears, zombies or lego pieces. And whilst being shoeless, penniless or shameless, you may encounter a swamp, glacier, jungle, concrete wall, glass ceiling or black hole. In fact, the roads these artists took to get here were fearlessly carved out by themselves because there was no road

Hail to these artists. And to each of their haloes.

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Niels Shoe Meulman in conversation with Gabriel Rolt

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Mari van Stokkum (1993) is a philosopher who studied in Amsterdam and now lives in Münster, writing a dissertation on phenomenology and psychoanalysis. Although based on the soul, he is currently in the process of decaying.

Errol Boon (1992) is a philosopher who writes and teaches about various fundamental issues regarding art and society. Currently, he is affiliated with the University of Arts Utrecht, and working on the notion of ‘artistic truth.’

Niels Shoe Meulman (1967) is an Amsterdam based visual artist, known for his gestural paintings which reveal vivid traces of graffiti and calligraphy. He revolutionised the art of writing when he initiated the Calligraffiti movement, claiming “a word is an image and writing is painting”.

Gabriel Rolt (1977, Barcelona, Spain) is a curator. Rolt’s special interest in the emerging art scene led him to found Galerie Gabriel Rolt, an Amsterdam based art gallery that fostered the careers of an impressive stable of local and international artists. He subsequently was creative director of HERO gallery. In 2021, Rolt initiated the curatorial platform The Curators Room.

Past

LR on demand

‘I’ll dance as fast as I can’

Live performance –

October 7th, 20:15 hrs

The curators Room – Oosterpark

Mauritskade 55 – Amsterdam – 5 euro (drinks included)

Capacity is limited.

YOU ARE INVITED !

‘I’ll dance as fast as I can’ – Live performance – October 7th, 20:15 – LR On Demand, The curators Room – Oosterpark – Mauritskade 55 – Amsterdam – 5 euro – Capacity is limited.

Date: Thursday 7th of October
Time: 20.15
€ 5

Location:
The Curators Room – Oosterpark
Mauritskade 55, Amsterdam
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This live performance is part of the exhibition
‘Shallow Then Halo’
(curated by Gabriel Rolt)

Thank you @atelierartplaats for hosting The Curators Room for the event ❤️

LR on demand
‘Ik dans zo snel als ik kan’ / ‘I’ll dance as fast as I can’ (2020/2021)
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PERFORMANCE
‘I’ll dance as fast as I can’ – LR On Demand (band) is a collaboration between Lisette Ros, Gabriel Rolt and Bas Geerts. Rolt and Geerts will be providing an improvised audio-session (ca. 30 min) of guitars and drums, which will form the sound field of Ros’ performance. The trio will be set in a triangular shape, with at least 2 meters distance from each other. Ros, the ‘front woman’, will try to dance as fast as she can in nudity on extremely slippery red liquid. There will be no internal interaction between the performers.

DURATION: approx. 30 MINUTES

MANIFESTO:

Dancing in isolation: participate or perish. ‘It’s the survival of the fittest in which everyone only pursues their self-interest.’ (Marian Donner: Zelfverwoestingsboek, 2019).

I am dancing as fast as I can to embody the utter exhaustion that stems from the paradoxical nature of the duality between self-interest and self-destruction. The dancing body can’t be restrained, it doesn’t have a fixed shape or core, instead it’s bouncing up and down, bleeding. Falling and rising. Just trying to dance.

I am a force to be reckoned with: challenging my own vulnerability, teasing with destruction and dancing as fast as I can. Reclaiming my body, my flesh, my blood and the freedom of movement, because my blood is bleeding for someone else. But it doesn’t matter: I’ll try again, I’ll fail again. I’llfail better than I did before…

*It stands. What? (The body) Yes. Say it stands. Had to up in the end and stand. Say bones. No bones but say bones. Say ground. No ground but say ground. So as to say pain. No mind and pain? Say yes that the bones may pain till no choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Or better worse remains. Say remains of mind where none to permit of pain. Pain of bones till no choice but up and stand. Somehow up. Somehow stand. Remains of mind where none for the sake of pain. Here of bones. Other examples if needs must. Of pain. Relief from. Change of.

First the bones. On back to them. Preying since first said on foresaid remains. The ground. The pain. No bones. No ground. No pain. Why up unknown. At all costs unknown. If ever down. No choice but up if ever down. Or never down. Forever kneeling. Better forever kneeling. Better worse forever kneeling. Say from now forever kneeling. So far from now forever kneeling. So far.

-Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho!, 1983.

The Curators Room 
presents:

Javier Ruiz Perez
‘WAX AND WANE’
(Curated by Gabriel Rolt)

01 July – 23 July 2021
Opening reception: Thursday 1 July, 18 – 21hrs 

Zamenhofstraat 150
building 112, studio 205
1022 AG Amsterdam.

Open: 
Friday – Sunday
13.00 – 18.00 hrs

To visit call Gabriel Rolt:
+31 6 25 00 5374
gabriel@thecuratorsroom.com
DM @the_curators_room

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Press release

Javier Ruiz Perez (La Carolina, Jaén, Spain, 1989)’ pantings are collage-like compositions consisting of visual footage collected from social media and the internet.

The depicted subjects are always living figures, a group of people or single individuals, against a background of andalusian landscapes.
The medium employed is oil paint on canvas and paper, applied quickly, wet on wet, a technique that confers a sense of urgency and immediacy to the works.
This intuitive conviction that appears to guide Perez’s making process stems from the nature of his subject matter: the obvious of the real. His paintings always manage to deliver an uncanny balance between credibility and oddity, resulting in depictions that are incomprehensible, yet plausible.
This directness is the effect of portraying banal realities of the internet or of everyday life, but twisting them delicately. Most and foremost, it’s the choice of re-installing scenes of modern life into idyllic landscapes that generates a subtle sense of confusion in the viewer, who finds him/herself unsurprised by what he sees, but taken aback by the context.

Situations that we are bound to recognize as fragments of our collective imagery, shaped by social media and contemporary culture, are here juxtaposed to peaceful lanscapes of green hills and mediterranean mountains, in a contrast of harmony and absurdity that carries sarcastic undertones.
Perez’ pantings are also reminiscent of classical oevres: ‘Vida plácida, protégenos de todo mal’ retrace the bodily position of Christ in traditional ‘deposition’ altarpieces, while ‘Vida plácida, protégenos de todo mal II’ . reminds of old master’s depictions of Jesus’ deathbed. This taste for the past allows the works to deliver an ulterior sense of familiarity in the viewer, while at the same time creating a feeling of estrangement due to the use of bold colors, strange facial expressions or the sudden insertion of modern objects.

The peculiarity of Perez’s practice lies exactly in this subtle interplay between the banality and the absurd, dreams and reality, in compositions that manage to become timeless in their extreme contemporaneity.

Javier Ruiz Perez (Jaén, 1989) graduated from the Escuela de arte 10 in Madrid and the Pasadena Art Center in Los Angeles in 2013. His works are part of important private and museum collections including Museum Voorlinden , NL and MEAM (museum of European Art Barcelona), ES.
Javier Ruiz Perez lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

– Text by Sara van Bussel

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Installation views:

Images:

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Vida plácida, protégenos de todo mal
Oil on canvas
180 x 195 cm
2021

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Vida plácida, protégenos de todo mal II
Oil on canvas
180 x 195 cm
2021

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Vida plácida, protégenos de todo mal III
Oil on canvas
190 x 220 cm
2021

JAVIER JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Untitled 2021
Oil on canvas
50 x 65 cm
2021

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Untitled
Oil on canvas
50 x 65 cm
2021

JAVIER RUIZ PEREZ
Untitled
Oil on canvas
70 x 90 cm
2021

PAST:

The Curators Room
Presents:

YOU WON’T GET WHAT YOU WANT
(curated by Gabriel Rolt)

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Works by:

Paul du Bois-Reymond
Bas Geerts
Lucas Lenglet

07 May – 22 May 2021

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Location:

Studio Bas Geerts
Frans de Wollantstraat 34
1018 SC Amsterdam

Open:
Thursday – Saturday
13.00 – 18.00 hrs

To visit call Gabriel Rolt:
+31 6 25 00 5374
gabriel@thecuratorsroom.com
DM @the_curators_room

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Paul du Bois-Reymond

The vibrant works by Paul du Bois-Raymond witness the intensity and delicacy of these oil stick paintings. By pushing the medium as deep as possible into the canvas surface, Amsterdam-based artist is fully utilizing the impact of the pigment while constructing delicate surface. The images are depicting everyday scenes but with unusual color shifts and exaggerated saturation. With candid framing and great eye for light play, these paintings tend to dissolve into wonderful abstractions when examined from up close only to assemble back into familiar image when look at them as a whole. (Sasha Bogojev)

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Paul du Bois-Reymond (Berlin, 1974) is an artist, musician and designer who lives and works in Amsterdam.
He studied at the Rietveld Academy of the arts (1992-1996) and was co-founder of the infamous DEPT, and later Machine design collectives.

Recent (solo) exhibitions include: Patrik Droste Gallery, Germany ; Kunsthaus Betanien, German, Gabriel Rolt Gallery, The Netherlands ; Unruly Gallery, The Netherlands

PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND
My Desire Will Outlast Yours
Oil pastels on linen
160 x 100 cm
2021

PAUL DU BOIS-REYMOND
All our words were important
Oil pastels on linen
160 x 100 cm
2021

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Bas Geerts

Bas Geerts (Leiden, 1971) ’ work is a, perhaps unexpected, combination of the digital and the handmade. Whilst the work look at home in the tradition of Op Art, there is an unseen logic behind the amorphous and reflective abstract forms that populate the surfaces of Geert’s paintings. Each painting begins as a digital design which randomizes the size and shape of geometric forms. He then paints the design results in layers of metal leaf, pure pigments and acrylic paint. The aesthetic effect of the work brings to mind ephemeral natural phenomena such as the rippling surface of water or patterns of condensation, that, in their complex mystery intimate a fundamental mathematical order to our universe.

Recent (solo) exhibitions include: The Collective Space, Amsterdam ; Christian Ouwens Galerie, Rotterdam ; JollyJoker, Amsterdam ; NARS, New York ; Neuer Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen ; Paradise Row Gallery, London and Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam

Bas Geerts
‘The trash you hear is just your reflection spat out the mouth of the deadbeat’
metal leaf and acrylics on linen
150 x 150 cm
2020

Bas Geerts
‘The clock hands begin to melt away replaced by the marching of your army’
metal leaf and acrylics on linen
150 x 150 cm
2020

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Lucas Lenglet

Lucas Lenglet works across the disciplines of sculpture, installation, print and photography. Initially his work showed a strong focus on the polemic created by the formalisation of violence and the architecture of safety. Now he generally defines his work as thoughts on inclusion and exclusion in the broadest sense for which he uses the vocabulary of architecture and the artefacts belonging to the creation of safety to discuss this. Lenglet’s engagement with the solutions people find to the problems of living together is presented in a formal spacial language using everyday materials and industrial production methods. He has a combined practice of studio work and large scale commissions for public space.

Lucas Lenglet (1972) was born in Leiden, the Netherlands and received his BA in Fine Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2000. He was an artist-in-residence at Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and IASPIS, Stockholm. Lenglet is a mentor within the mentoring program of Mondriaan Fonds and was a guest lecturer and -advisor at Rijksakademie, Jan van Eyck, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and LUCA School of arts, Brussels.

Recent (solo) exhibitions include: Stigter Van Doesburg gallery (2020), Kröller-Müller museum (2019), Nieuw Dakota (2018), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2016), Witte de Wit (2014), Goethe Institute Amsterdam (2012), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2008) and Palais de Tokyo (2007).

Lucas Lenglet
In the moment of adversity and hope
2020
used glass jars, glass, mirror, plywood
144 x 84 x 53 cm

Lucas Lenglet
Cut off
2018
steel, magnets
10,5 x 19,7 cm

About The Curators Room

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Gabriel Rolt (born 1977, Barcelona, Spain) is a curator, agent and art advisor. Rolt’s special interest in the emerging art scene led him to found Galerie Gabriel Rolt, an Amsterdam based art gallery that fostered the careers of an impressive stable of local and international artists. He subsequently founded and was creative director of HERO gallery.

Stepping away from the traditional gallery space, Rolt pushes the boundaries of curation, online and offline. Stay tuned for upcoming projects, artworks and art activations by the Curators Room.

Contact /// gabriel@thecuratorsroom.com