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Ketelbinkie 2008 for Mothership!

Photographer Ed Dewaerheijt

On the 3rd of March, Mothership was competing with Railz Miniworld and Rotterdam Port Experience for the Ketelbinkieprijs. The prize is meant for an entrepreneur or an organization from Rotterdam, who has profiled itself in an original way during the last year, and put the Rotterdam character on the map.
The prize was presented by mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, to a proud Mothership. It's agreed upon that Mothership bridges the gap between the art world and business world, making sure that both artist and client are content with the outcome of each project.
www.ketelbinkie.nl

Eighth Museumnight of Rotterdam: “The Urban Lightguide” of Rnul (Rob Donkers and Aart Muis)

On Saturday the 7th of March, more than 40 museums and galleries will open their doors between 20.00 and 02.00. The start of this eighth Museumnight will literally be put in the limelight by the for us now well known mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb. For this ocassion, the artists initiative Rnul Interactive (www.rnul.nl) specially designed a spectacular musical piece of art with the spectator as main character. This piece of art will open the Museumnight at 19.45 in front of the Schielandhuis.
For more information www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl

LoadingReadyRun – Las Palmas Rotterdam: Geert Mul en Maurer United Architects (MUA)

Geert Mul (www.geertmul.nl) and the duo Marc and Nicole Maurer of MUA (www.maurerunited.com) designed an installation for the cultural organizations (Nederlands Fotomuseum , LP2 and Beeldfabriek) in the Las Palmas building. This piece of art at the Kop van Zuid has been commissioned by the Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam. The design is a installation of monitors and mirrors in the porters lodge in front of the building. Via sensors the installation reacts to the passers-by. Via an upload point, passers-by can add their own pictures to the installation, after which they are “lifted” and strengthened by doubling and categorizing. The official opening is on the 19th of March, but it's ready to use for the public. We all invite you to test “LoadingReadyRun” by uploading your pictures.

Your World Rotterdam 2009 listens to the dreams of the young people: Dstruct (Thijs Kelder)

Photographer Ivar Teunissen

Rotterdam has been declared the first youth capitol of Europe. Your World, the brand name of the project, aims its activities at the youth aged between 12 and 18 years. During the two-day event Create Your World on the 24th and 25th of January, 300 young people had the opportunity to take part in a program where they could pitch, talk about and develop their dreams.
The theme of the decoration, designed by Thijs Kelder of Dstruct (www.dstruct.nl), was “Helden” (Heroes). Heroes like Mohammed Ali, Ghandi and Johan Cruijf were seen on badges, big panels and pillows. The most eye-catching thing was the “Heldengalerij” (Hall of heroes), to which during the event the portraits of the participants were added. By photographing, editing and printing on the spot the portraits decorated the “Your Space”.
This project was realized is order of Container. more

Mothership in Iceland on Valentinesday: “Ä—g heiti Jeroen Everaert, gá»›tt kvöld”.

Mothership was invited by the CIA.IS (Center for Icelandic Art) in cooperation with the Nordic Culture House in Reykjavik, to speak about the impressive light project “De Brandgrens”. The international conference was not about the excess of women in Iceland, but about light and the city, art and light, feeling and space; with the focus on the importance of qualitative lighting in a city environment. Besides Mothership, several light designers, architects and theoretics from all over Europe were invited, to shed their light on the subject.
www.cia.is

TijdVerKijker-Multi Functional Accomodation (MFA) Malberg-Maastricht: Geert Mul

A progressive project for which Geert Mul took the beautiful rural countryside and the special light of the Maastricht area Malberg as points of departure. With this art work, Geert Mul (www.geertmul.nl) wants to make the relation between the scenery and the built environment transparent. In order to visualize this relation, the installation literally takes a birds-eye view. The work shows the relation between 'time' and 'seasons' and has an interactive character to make individual exploration possible and to share this with others. The opening is on the 20th of March.

Replica statues for real Feyenoord supporters: Hans van Bentem

For the 100th anniversary of Feyenoord, the Rotterdam based artist Hans van Bentem (www.hansvanbentem.nl) made a unique bronze statue by commission of the supportersclub of Feyenoord. The supporters were given the opportunity to order one of these limited edition statues. The bronze statues have a diameter of 19 cm and are circa 31 cm tall. The bronze statue is painted by hand and covered with gold leaf. There are still 3 of these unique statues left. Will you be one of the lucky few to own one of these? more

Festive opening of Graffitibriljant Kralingen-Crooswijk: Transister (Hanneke van Leeuwen en Nelleke Boerkoel)

The Kralingen-Crooswijk underpass has been redone and in pink. The ceiling and the bus stop are painted bright pink, the pillars have been decorated with different designs and the two slanting walls have been decorated with beautiful portraits of 'the youth of today' and 'the youth of then'. For the the portraits, Transister visited the neighborhood. Wednesday 25th of March, between 16.00 and 16.30 the pink underpass will be opened by alderman Lucas Bolsius (initiator of the Graffitibriljants) and Lucas de Boer. Transister, the portrayed people and everyone else who made this project possible, will also be there. more

We have fresh trainee: Joost van S.

We pulled 2nd years student Joost van Santen of the shelves of the Faculty of Leisure Management of the Willem de Kooning. This fresh young fellow will strengthen our team until the beginning of April. Welcome!

Our New Years drink at Zaal de Unie was a real succes!

No speeches, just dancing feet. An informal reception that included dancing, music, a good conversation and the opportunity to wish each other all the best for 2009. See the really nice pictures on our website!!
See you again next year!!