Drawn: Rotterdam!

Drawn: Rotterdam!

In the exhibition Drawn: Rotterdam! Night Work, city artists Tessa Biemans, Peyman Fazeli and Steef Offerhaus each present their own perspective on this theme. Commissioned by Rotterdam City Archives and CBK Rotterdam, over the past few months the city artists ventured out to capture the theme ‘night in motion’.

Night

The drawings brought together in Drawn: Rotterdam! Night Work offer fragmented glimpses into the many different aspects of Rotterdam by night. Together they make up a snapshot in time of a city that never stops moving, not even when it is dark.

Rotterdam city artists

Even before the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, but especially during the post-war reconstruction period, artists were already capturing changes in the city. Until the end of the 1980s, Rotterdam City Archives annually commissioned artists to make such drawings. Since 2018, this tradition has been reinstated in collaboration with CBK Rotterdam, and city artists have once again been adding to the collection of the Rotterdam City Archives. This year, the city artists were selected by a jury consisting of artist Pris Roos, Cindy Stegeman and Ove Lucas (CBK Rotterdam), Erika Hokke and Anna de Bruyn (Rotterdam City Archives), Thys Boer (N8W8 Rotterdam), and David Snels (Kunsthal Rotterdam curator). After the exhibition, the drawings by the city artists will be added to the collection of the Rotterdam City Archives and become part of its Rotterdam Collection.