Shimmer, Rotterdam x Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

OtherNetwork Conversations

July 13, 2023

Conversation, Rotterdam, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Image of ‘Sequins, Cycle 3 with Felix Gonzales Torres’, Shimmer, 2023

Rotterdam | Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau

Join us for the first episode of OtherNetwork Conversations, where we visit Shimmer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Shimmer is an exhibition space run with a studio-like mentality by artist Jason Hendrik Hansma and curator Eloise Sweetman, who invite Ruth Buchanan, director of Artspace Aotearoa in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland as their guest. Together we discuss the different approaches to founding a new art space versus inheriting one with a longstanding history, and the responsibilities a curator has to both artists and audiences.

Production and Hosting

Federico Martelli, Colin Keays

Sound Design, Editing and Production

Jack Bardwell

Graphic Identity

F451

Research Team

Samantha Modisenyane, Abraham Tettey, Camilo Quiroga, Camila Alegría, Matheus dos Reis

Project support

This Conversations series is generously supported by Between Bridges.

SHIMMER

On the edge of Rotterdam’s port, Shimmer is a curatorial studio that operates with an ever-changing studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. Alongside expanded and durational exhibitions are the events program Sunday Mornings and the mixtapes On the Waves, as a means to move through personal and public space. Shimmer is co-initiated by Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma.

Artspace Aoteaora

Artspace Aotearoa is a non-profit contemporary art gallery located in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Founded in 1987 by artists and arts workers, it centres the ways in which art contributes to our reimagining of the world. We work within a specific city context, and spiral out into national and international conversations that promote practices that present emancipatory world views. We prioritise an intergenerational kaupapa, and seek to present established, emerging and under-recognised positions.