Shimmer

Shimmer is a Rotterdam based exhibition space that operates with an ever-changing studio-like mentality where knowledge arises through participation and experimentation. Shimmer is a momentary flash of light and an ever-changing space where practitioners, thinkers, audience, and entities are brought together in the spirit of care and companionship.

We are influenced by anthropologist and feminist theorist Deborah Bird Rose’s talk ‘Shimmer, when all you love is being trashed.’ Her learning pushes us to be humbled to pay attention and to listen. In this way, we hope the artworks and the multifaceted others gather and stretch across and over time. We hope to provide the breathing room for these entities to share space and time with us.

Alongside the exhibitions, are programs such as our events program Sunday Mornings with and the online mixtape On the Waves with... to move into both the personal and the public space.