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Right in the center of Rotterdam, a new artist-driven, multidisciplinary and community-led initiative, Poreus Rotterdam, is taking shape. We welcome artists from all disciplines, alongside cultural workers, activists, and social and environmental practitioners of all ages and backgrounds with a critical and engaged vision. If you need a workspace for your practice and have the interest and desire to actively and collectively help shape and manage a new initiative, Poreus could be a place for you.
Located at Mauritsstraat 36 (the former home of the Piet Zwart Institute), Poreus offers:
Bringing together a diverse community of artists and creatives under one roof and providing this supportive infrastructure, Poreus aims to become a vibrant glocal and situated initiative. A space for extra-disciplinary experimentation, artistic creation, and translocal exchange of distinct knowledges and experiences.
After securing the building from the Municipality of Rotterdam on a 25-year lease, SKAR (Stichting Kunst Accomodatie Rotterdam) invited artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson to conceive a new initiative for the location. Drawing upon their collaborative, critical, and socially engaged art practice, the duo established the foundational vision for this emerging, community-led initiative, which would be further developed together with its members, and gave it its name.
The initiative collectively manages a communal kitchen, a shared garden and a project space for gatherings, public events, and exhibitions and gatherings, to be programmed by the members and by others.
The 16 workspaces are to be rented out to individuals, collectives and individuals or multiple collectives sharing one space. They will be allocated in phases, starting in October 2026.
Want to learn more about the SKAR-rates: Here you can read more.