So much to see during Rotterdam Art Week
Have you missed visiting places and SEEING beautiful things during the lockdown? If so, Rotterdam is definitely the place to be next weekend. The city will be filled with exhibitions, pop-up shows, and art and design fairs during Rotterdam Art Week...
Center of Rotterdam Art Week will be Art Rotterdam and design fair OBJECT, which will be held from the 1st until the 4th of July at the iconic Van Nelle Factory and the HAKA-building respectively. If there was ever a time when artists and designers were eager to connect with the public it has to be now, after months of being in lockdown. At Art Rotterdam, over 100 galleries will present work by up-and-coming artists but also more established ones. At the Van Nelle Factory visitors can see the art, meet the artists, and of course buy the art.
Design fair OBJECT will be focusing a lot on new design talent, giving recently graduated designers one of the first opportunities to show their work to the public. More than 100 designers will be showing furniture designs, lighting, textiles, jewelry, fashion, and architectural installations. If you see something you like, you can buy it on the spot. A special partnership with Catawiki allows you to also bid on prototypes or special editions of pieces of design in all price ranges.
One of the works on display at OBJECT has a special connection to NanaWoody&John, because of the material it is made of. Design studio Object Density from Eindhoven used deadstock optical lenses provided by a local optician to make a beautiful light piece named Lens Luminaire. An optical lens bends the light beams that fall through it and because no lens is ever the same the result is captivating. The Lens Luminaire shows the beauty of a lens that you can’t see at first sight.