MAMA – Showroom for Media And Moving Arts

Image by Alexander

A small gallery on a corner of the Witte de Withstraat with a particular taste for the raw and young. Every gallery’s curating team has their signature, but Mama’s might be the most out spoken.

They do short running exhibitions on, for instance, suburban cries for home-improvement, black views on new religions, rising stars in street art and the upcoming exhibitions will be on artoonism and landscape art. During the build-up periods in between exhibitions, the even younger team of “rookie curators” finds aspiring students to do window projects on the facade, so there is always something to see.

The entrance is free and the hostesses are all pretty, attractive art students. Mama is part of my “if I always forget to go there, maybe I should sign up as a volunteer”-action plan. Rotterdam is full of great events and festivals, you just need to take to the time to visit. Which I’m very bad at as I keep planning other things.

Working somewhere means they’ll send you reminders for the event AND you’re obliged to go there and be useful AND meet the people behind it. It’s perfect. A nice idea maybe for some of you as well? For MAMA I help with the build-up, so it’s hammers, drills and trying to keep quiet for the upstairs neighbor. Jeej.

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MAMA | Art & culture, Festivals & events | Free
Witte de Withstraat 29-31 | Center | +31102332022
Wed – Sun 13:00 – 18:00