Participating Artists Press Agency
Saturday 20th of April 2024 – page 4
PAPA Lab Rotterdam took place from the 5 th till the 24th of April 2010. Director Lino Hellings. Participating artists are: Nies Medema, Erika Blikman, Jan Konings, Maurice Bogaert, Robin van ‘t Haar and Martijn Nieuwenhuis.
Sunday 11th of April 2010
Rotterdam -
Retired man behind a fence looking at the city under construction. It can be a day job. Full time witnessing transformation. When I am 65 I will move back to…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Herring we eat raw here in the Netherlands.In the back you see an image of the church tower, covering up for the real church tower to be renovated.  …
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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A bike, four people and a tree. That fascinates me. You see it dancing through the small space. Forbidden to go there and yet nobody looks up. Everybody is minding…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Bike placed in forbidden area creates question around who or what should occupy space in Rotterdam.
Which item has more power: the warning post or the bike?
Maureen Kamphuis, the…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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An improvised ‘terrace’ in front of the canteen of the construction workers at the train station.
The only thing missing is some flowers on the table.
Nice that the plastic…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
This sign, on the front door of a school, says ‘We're working on a school without accidents'. Of course you are. Another example of our say-nothing-sign-obsessed-society. …
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Even at an intimate place as a public garden the place itself is being advertised on a billboard. ‘Frederikshof, a green oasis in Crooswijk!’ The image on the billboard…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
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A submerged shopping cart in the middle of a shopping centre. What does that tell you? I once heard that a shopping cart costs around 600 euros. I don’t know…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
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This sack of garbage is enjoying the sun on the canal in the centre of Rotterdam. It’s got its mind made up: ‘I will not go down!’…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Not in the pocket, but in the bike-basket! Pimping your bike with your personal style, not only hot but also very convenient.
Location: Rotterdam Hoogstraat
Photo taken by Erika Blikman…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Melancholy around Japies Snackbar expressed in newspaper on street
Who has taken Japies place? And, does anyone care?
Maureen Kamphuis 9th of April Rotterdam…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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More and more benches in the city and the railway stations have these ridges that make it impossible or at least very uncomfortable to sleep on.
The ones on this…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Temporary measures in a city in transit. For a long time ‘demolish and build’ was the solution to all social probems in (poor) neighbourhoods. Not any more. The financial crises…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
This says: ‘All our articles are visibly and non-visibly marked for theft.’ But all you see is a empty shops without any articles at all.…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
The guys that work on the road or on constructions sites drink coffee and have lunch in this little van. The clearly angered somebody that loves to spray paint.…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Around this area most people are shopping. But these men choose to sit, to focus on other actions like making a call, texting and reading the newspaper. While their girlfriend…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Everywhere in Europe there are ‘car-free’ shopping streets with the same chain of shops. H and M for clothng, Footlocker for sportshoes, Dixons for your electronic gears.
Lino Hellings 9…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Maybe 20 meters away form the other bench (see the post: No littering, no skating, no hanging around, no sleeping part I)
Did they forget to place the anti-sleeping-thingies, we…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
These birds are very common in Dutch canals. They have the peculiar habit to build nests from everything drifting around in the water. Not only branches but food and plastics…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Great choice from fish all over the world. Some wild some cultivated.
Lino Hellings 10th of April Rotterdam…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
No hanging aroundAt the storeThe PoliceEvery where in the city there are signs telling you what you should (but mostly shouldn’t) do. Some of them are placed by the local…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Statues are popular places to sit on. These Roteb’ guys found the statue ‘Resurrected Rotterdam’ a perfect spot to have a break. The statue visualizes a woman with a child…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
It is hard to tell in which country this picture is taken. This is the shopping street in the Old (Wild) West, where over 90 nationalities share daily life. Only…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
This man is tired. After having a light supper at the church for the homeless, he crashes on the first bench he lays eyes on. He yells something in a…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis –
Rotterdam Lab