Opening Times
Shimmer is open Sundays, 13h-18h
(or by appointment)
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Current
Commuter by Katie Watchorn.
February 2025· Shimmer
Forthcoming
Coalescence: Happenstance by Paul O'Neill, opening Sunday 1 December 2025
More information to be announced
Every Flower Seems To Burn By Itself
6 December 2024 · Les Bains Douches, Alençon | centre d’art contemporain
Curated by Eloise Sweetman
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Past Exhibitions
. The Salon by NADA and The Community with works by Joy Episalla, Jason Hendrik Hansma, & Elif Satanaya Özbay, 17–20 October 2024 · Paris
. SYSTEMA with Lee Kit, Palais Carli · Marseille, 30, 31 August & 1 September 2024
. Always Thinking Like A Scrim: an exhibition in two parts with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang and Tenant of Culture(part 2), 16 June - 11 August 2024
. Always Thinking Like A Scrim: an exhibition in two parts with Matt Hinkley, Liz Magor, and Hana Miletić (part 1), 3 March - 26 May 2024
. Sequins, cycle 4 with Bik Van der Pol, December 17 2023 – February 18 2024
. Sequins, cycle 3 with Heman Chong & Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September 2 – December 3, 2023
. Fuga curated by Sharmyn Cruz Rivera with Eduardo F. Rosario, Geo Wyex, Hatis Noit, JJJJJerome Ellis, Lucky Dragons, Nite Bjuti, Rami George & J. Midden with Xina Xurner and Toxe.
. Sequins, cycle 2 with Bea McMahon & Maaike Schoorel, June 18 – August 20, 2023
. Sequins, cycle 1 with Becket MWN, Mo Laudi, & Kirstin Arndt, March 18 – June 4, 2023
. It looks Like Love (Don’t stop now)
. A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 6: Lee Kit, 10 December 2022 - 14 January 2023
. A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 5: Melvin Moti, Charlotte Posenenske & Jo-ey Tang, 12 November - 10 December 2022
. Listening Session with Jo-ey Tang, 26 November, 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 4: Lee Kit and Jo-ey Tang, 5 October - 10 December 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 3:Ayo and Melvin Moti, 9 September - 12 November 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 2: Lee Kit, 2 July - 8 August 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 1: Alexandra Philips, 3 June - 8 August 2022
. More More More Than Than Than Lovers Lovers Lovers More More More Than Than Than Friends Friends Friends by Jo-ey Tang
with contributions by Arin Rungjang, Bas Hendrikx, Bea Mcmahon, Florence Bonnefous, Francisco Salas, Francois Piron, Heman Chong, Jill H. Casid, Joshua Leon, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Laurent Sanguinetti, Mariana Cánepa Luna, Marina Otero Verzier, Matt Hinkley, Max Andrews, Max Thomas Sanderson, Maya Tounta with Aris Mochloulis, Moosje Moti Goosen, Nina Vaisman, and Willem de Rooij.
. World as Lover, World as Self, with Dora Economou and Ellen Gallagher
. In Need Of A Memory Bank, Geo Wyeth
. A Field Without Boundaries, Harm van den Dorpel
. City Pollen, Magali Reus
. My Memory's Sky with Gwenneth Boelens, Shanta Rao, and Jason Hendrik Hansma as part of Salon de Normandy organized by The Community
. Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower, Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer with Zarouhie Abdalian, Gwenneth Boelens, Dean Bowen, stanley brouwn, Liu Chao-tze, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Grigely, Gordon Hall, Ian Kiaer, Elena Narbutaite, Kate Newby, Ma Qiusha, Shanta Rao, Reinier Vrancken, and Katie West
. 2020 Solidarity fundraiser supported by Between Bridges
. To See The Lights with Kornkrit Jianpinidnan
. LW/LW with Louwrien Wijers, Lawrence Weiner, and friends (Nico Dockx & Rirkrit Tiravanija)
. Our Time Together is Uncertain with Malin Arnell and more
. POST-SOLAR with Bernd Krauß
. Perfume Concepts with Perfume Area (Laurel Schwulst and Sydney Shen)
. Waves with Lisa Tan
. EVER–with Ruth Buchanan, Damon Zucconi, and Perfume Area
Shimmer in the Press
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Contemporary Art Daily
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, ArtViewer
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Emergent Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Mousse Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 1 with Matt Hinkley, Hana Miletic, Liz Magor, 2024 Emergent Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 1 with Matt Hinkley, Hana Miletic, Liz Magor,2024, ArtViewer
Are.na Annual 2024
Met Wikimedian Stella van Ginkel naar het werk van Heman Chong en Félix González-Torres in Shimmer, 2023, Mister Motley
Sequins Cycle 3 with Heman Chong, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Sharmyn Cruz Rivera at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
Sequins Cycle 2 with Bea McMahon and Maaike Schoorel at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
Sequins Cycle 1 with Kirstin Arndt, Mo Laudi and Becket MWN at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
A Door Ajar, Singing with Melvin Moti, Charlotte Posenenske, Jo-ey Tang at Shimmer, 2022, ArtViewer
Ayo and Melvin Moti at Shimmer, 2022, ArtViewer
More More More Than Than Than Lovers Lovers Lovers More More More Than Than Than Friends Friends Friends at Shimmer, 2022 ArtViewer
Exhibitions review: We Hold you Close and Monumental Two exhibitions speak to a greater collective spirit: through installations and video displays, 2022, artshub
Thinking in public – A portrait of Shimmer, 2021, Metropolis M
Shimmer in Salon de Normandy, 2020, Purple Magazine
Shimmer in Salon de Normandy, 2020, i-d Magazine
“intimacy has always been up for debate”, 2020, Finnish Institute
Artists in isolation, 2020, New York Times
Gwenneth Boelens at Treignac Projet, 2020, ArtViewer
Magali Reus at Shimmer, 2020, ArtViewer
World as Lover, World as Self: City Pollen at Shimmer, 2020, Metropolis M
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020, Metropolis M
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020-1, ArtViewer
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020-2, ArtViewer
Sequinned, to see the lights at Shimmer, 2019, ArtViewer
Being Public, 2018, Rotterdam Art Writing
Malin Arnell at Shimmer, 2018, ArtViewer
Art spaces in the south of Rotterdam, 2018, Metropolis M
Louwrien Wijers & Lawrence Weiner at Shimmer, 2018, ArtViewer
Bernd Krauß at Shimmer, 2018, Artviewer
Damon Zucconi, Ruth Buchanan, & Perfume Area, 2018, ArtViewer
Sunday Mornings with...
. Sunday Morning with Bronwen Jones & Da(r)sha Golova
. Sunday Morning with Meghan Clarke
. Sunday Mornings with Ceola Tunstall-Behrens
. Sunday Morning with kilo Translations
. A conversation with | Bik Van der Pol, Mariana Françozo and Merijn de Waal
. Sunday Morning with Bik Van der Pol
. Sunday Morning with Melvin Moti
. Sunday Morning with the Absent Body
. Sunday Morning with Logan February
. Sunday Morning with the Sandberg Critical Studies Department
Reading group
1. Intimacy, grief, not knowing and art
The World Disintegrates Around Me
Co-organized with Cookies
PART 2: Bergur Anderson and Isabelle Sully,
PART 1: Bettina Korintenberg, Nico Dockx, Aude Christel Mgba, Fiontan Moran, Raqs Media Collective, Nick Axel, Bart Van de Heide, Laurel Schwulst, Alessandro Bava, Nick Korody, Yehwan Song, Ruth Buchanan, Liesbeth Bik, Lara Almarcegui
Shimmer Press
. Shimmer, a manual of undoing, published by Shimmer Press.
. Shimmer Special Newsletter #1: We are the rain on the open windows edited by Flora Valeska Woudstra
. Curatorial Feelings, Eloise Sweetman edited by Jo-ey Tang
. Conversations with the Hearing (1994/2020), Joseph Grigely
. Shimmer Shirts
. A Centre Cannot Hold, Jason Hendrik Hansma
. Saint Society, by Louwrien Wijers
. Iridescence & The Rising Wave
Opening Times
Shimmer is open Sundays, 13h-18h
(or by appointment)
✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Current
Commuter by Katie Watchorn.
February 2025· Shimmer
Forthcoming
Coalescence: Happenstance by Paul O'Neill, opening Sunday 1 December 2025
More information to be announced
Every Flower Seems To Burn By Itself
6 December 2024 · Les Bains Douches, Alençon | centre d’art contemporain
Curated by Eloise Sweetman
---
Past Exhibitions
. The Salon by NADA and The Community with works by Joy Episalla, Jason Hendrik Hansma, & Elif Satanaya Özbay, 17–20 October 2024 · Paris
. SYSTEMA with Lee Kit, Palais Carli · Marseille, 30, 31 August & 1 September 2024
. Always Thinking Like A Scrim: an exhibition in two parts with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang and Tenant of Culture(part 2), 16 June - 11 August 2024
. Always Thinking Like A Scrim: an exhibition in two parts with Matt Hinkley, Liz Magor, and Hana Miletić (part 1), 3 March - 26 May 2024
. Sequins, cycle 4 with Bik Van der Pol, December 17 2023 – February 18 2024
. Sequins, cycle 3 with Heman Chong & Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September 2 – December 3, 2023
. Fuga curated by Sharmyn Cruz Rivera with Eduardo F. Rosario, Geo Wyex, Hatis Noit, JJJJJerome Ellis, Lucky Dragons, Nite Bjuti, Rami George & J. Midden with Xina Xurner and Toxe.
. Sequins, cycle 2 with Bea McMahon & Maaike Schoorel, June 18 – August 20, 2023
. Sequins, cycle 1 with Becket MWN, Mo Laudi, & Kirstin Arndt, March 18 – June 4, 2023
. It looks Like Love (Don’t stop now)
. A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 6: Lee Kit, 10 December 2022 - 14 January 2023
. A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 5: Melvin Moti, Charlotte Posenenske & Jo-ey Tang, 12 November - 10 December 2022
. Listening Session with Jo-ey Tang, 26 November, 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 4: Lee Kit and Jo-ey Tang, 5 October - 10 December 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 3:Ayo and Melvin Moti, 9 September - 12 November 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 2: Lee Kit, 2 July - 8 August 2022
.A Door Ajar, Singing Entrance 1: Alexandra Philips, 3 June - 8 August 2022
. More More More Than Than Than Lovers Lovers Lovers More More More Than Than Than Friends Friends Friends by Jo-ey Tang
with contributions by Arin Rungjang, Bas Hendrikx, Bea Mcmahon, Florence Bonnefous, Francisco Salas, Francois Piron, Heman Chong, Jill H. Casid, Joshua Leon, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Laurent Sanguinetti, Mariana Cánepa Luna, Marina Otero Verzier, Matt Hinkley, Max Andrews, Max Thomas Sanderson, Maya Tounta with Aris Mochloulis, Moosje Moti Goosen, Nina Vaisman, and Willem de Rooij.
. World as Lover, World as Self, with Dora Economou and Ellen Gallagher
. In Need Of A Memory Bank, Geo Wyeth
. A Field Without Boundaries, Harm van den Dorpel
. City Pollen, Magali Reus
. My Memory's Sky with Gwenneth Boelens, Shanta Rao, and Jason Hendrik Hansma as part of Salon de Normandy organized by The Community
. Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower, Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer with Zarouhie Abdalian, Gwenneth Boelens, Dean Bowen, stanley brouwn, Liu Chao-tze, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Grigely, Gordon Hall, Ian Kiaer, Elena Narbutaite, Kate Newby, Ma Qiusha, Shanta Rao, Reinier Vrancken, and Katie West
. 2020 Solidarity fundraiser supported by Between Bridges
. To See The Lights with Kornkrit Jianpinidnan
. LW/LW with Louwrien Wijers, Lawrence Weiner, and friends (Nico Dockx & Rirkrit Tiravanija)
. Our Time Together is Uncertain with Malin Arnell and more
. POST-SOLAR with Bernd Krauß
. Perfume Concepts with Perfume Area (Laurel Schwulst and Sydney Shen)
. Waves with Lisa Tan
. EVER–with Ruth Buchanan, Damon Zucconi, and Perfume Area
Shimmer in the Press
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Contemporary Art Daily
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, ArtViewer
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Emergent Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 2 with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Cihad Caner, Daniel Giles, Lotus L. Kang, Hana Miletić, and Tenant of Culture (part 2), 2024, Mousse Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 1 with Matt Hinkley, Hana Miletic, Liz Magor, 2024 Emergent Magazine
Always Thinking Like A Scrim part 1 with Matt Hinkley, Hana Miletic, Liz Magor,2024, ArtViewer
Are.na Annual 2024
Met Wikimedian Stella van Ginkel naar het werk van Heman Chong en Félix González-Torres in Shimmer, 2023, Mister Motley
Sequins Cycle 3 with Heman Chong, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Sharmyn Cruz Rivera at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
Sequins Cycle 2 with Bea McMahon and Maaike Schoorel at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
Sequins Cycle 1 with Kirstin Arndt, Mo Laudi and Becket MWN at Shimmer, 2023, ArtViewer
A Door Ajar, Singing with Melvin Moti, Charlotte Posenenske, Jo-ey Tang at Shimmer, 2022, ArtViewer
Ayo and Melvin Moti at Shimmer, 2022, ArtViewer
More More More Than Than Than Lovers Lovers Lovers More More More Than Than Than Friends Friends Friends at Shimmer, 2022 ArtViewer
Exhibitions review: We Hold you Close and Monumental Two exhibitions speak to a greater collective spirit: through installations and video displays, 2022, artshub
Thinking in public – A portrait of Shimmer, 2021, Metropolis M
Shimmer in Salon de Normandy, 2020, Purple Magazine
Shimmer in Salon de Normandy, 2020, i-d Magazine
“intimacy has always been up for debate”, 2020, Finnish Institute
Artists in isolation, 2020, New York Times
Gwenneth Boelens at Treignac Projet, 2020, ArtViewer
Magali Reus at Shimmer, 2020, ArtViewer
World as Lover, World as Self: City Pollen at Shimmer, 2020, Metropolis M
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020, Metropolis M
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020-1, ArtViewer
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, 2020-2, ArtViewer
Sequinned, to see the lights at Shimmer, 2019, ArtViewer
Being Public, 2018, Rotterdam Art Writing
Malin Arnell at Shimmer, 2018, ArtViewer
Art spaces in the south of Rotterdam, 2018, Metropolis M
Louwrien Wijers & Lawrence Weiner at Shimmer, 2018, ArtViewer
Bernd Krauß at Shimmer, 2018, Artviewer
Damon Zucconi, Ruth Buchanan, & Perfume Area, 2018, ArtViewer
Sunday Mornings with...
. Sunday Morning with Bronwen Jones & Da(r)sha Golova
. Sunday Morning with Meghan Clarke
. Sunday Mornings with Ceola Tunstall-Behrens
. Sunday Morning with kilo Translations
. A conversation with | Bik Van der Pol, Mariana Françozo and Merijn de Waal
. Sunday Morning with Bik Van der Pol
. Sunday Morning with Melvin Moti
. Sunday Morning with the Absent Body
. Sunday Morning with Logan February
. Sunday Morning with the Sandberg Critical Studies Department
Reading group
1. Intimacy, grief, not knowing and art
The World Disintegrates Around Me
Co-organized with Cookies
PART 2: Bergur Anderson and Isabelle Sully,
PART 1: Bettina Korintenberg, Nico Dockx, Aude Christel Mgba, Fiontan Moran, Raqs Media Collective, Nick Axel, Bart Van de Heide, Laurel Schwulst, Alessandro Bava, Nick Korody, Yehwan Song, Ruth Buchanan, Liesbeth Bik, Lara Almarcegui
Shimmer Press
. Shimmer, a manual of undoing, published by Shimmer Press.
. Shimmer Special Newsletter #1: We are the rain on the open windows edited by Flora Valeska Woudstra
. Curatorial Feelings, Eloise Sweetman edited by Jo-ey Tang
. Conversations with the Hearing (1994/2020), Joseph Grigely
. Shimmer Shirts
. A Centre Cannot Hold, Jason Hendrik Hansma
. Saint Society, by Louwrien Wijers
. Iridescence & The Rising Wave