Shimmer is looking for volunteers.
Kindly email us by Wednesday 7 July shimmering.assistant@gmail.com, citing shimmer volunteer in the subject line.
We'd love to meet you!
Host description
Four hours on Saturday and for the occasional event, performance, or workshop on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays.
We are looking for curious and enthusiastic people based in or around Rotterdam to host Shimmer on Saturdays from 2 pm-6 pm. During this time, we ask that the volunteer: host the exhibition: opening up Shimmer, chatting with visitors, and making sure the artwork and space are in working order. We are looking for people to start hosting in July.
While you are at Shimmer, you are welcome to:
Tasks that you may expect to perform as a Host:
The working language of Shimmer is both English and Dutch.
We encourage you to write to us and look forward to meeting you. We’d love to get to know you and find out how Shimmer can support you. Regardless of experience, we appreciate kind-heartedness, attention to detail and a willingness to learn.
About Shimmer
Shimmer is a curatorial studio that experiments publicly with ‘thinking-in-progress.’ In other words, we create an intimate space that operates with a studio-like attitude where knowledge happens through participation and experimentation. Shimmer takes its name from ‘Shimmer, When All You Love Is Being Trashed’, a lecture given by anthropologist and feminist theorist Deborah Bird Rose in 2014. Her talk champions sincerity and community in a world of greed and denigration. With this mindset, Shimmer seeks to make experimental exhibitions and foster relations with artists, audience. In this way, we hope our activities gather and stretch across and overtime while providing breathing room for artists, audiences, and artworks that work with us.
With warmth,
Team Shimmer.
Our program in 2024-2025 is supported by the Gemeente Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund, We're also supported by our community who often come together and support us in a variety of generous ways
Our program in 2024-2025 is supported by the Gemeente Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund, We're also supported by our community who often come together and support us in a variety of generous ways