Located in the cultural heart of M4H, Keile District in Rotterdam is a vibrant cultural hub where art, innovation, and makers community come together.
Keile District x Rotterdam Art Week 2025
KEILE
DISTRICT x RAW2025
Looking for the perfect Rotterdam Art Week getaway? Spend your afternoon exploring the Keile District, a cultural heart of Rotterdam M4H, where art, design, and innovation converge.
For Rotterdam Art Week 2025, the Keile District once again unites with an exciting program of exhibitions, culinary experiences, and unexpected discoveries. Visitors can experience contemporary art, engage with makers, and explore the creative energy of the area.
March 26–30
Program
This year's edition of the TEC ART festival argues that even during society’s race to the bottom, there is always hope to be found. With a selection of international media artists, the exhibition "The Bright Side of Dystopia" is a dramatic attempt to look beyond the utter madness of reality and share a message of hope: perhaps after total collapse, we can finally see a bright future again!
Participating artists: Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert, Sophia Bulgakova, Yuri Yefanov, Rustan Söderling, María Pérez - Lozao Humanes, Isabel Waller, Ramseier Köppel (cenc) & Workshop 4.0, Hicham Berrada, Lennert & Sander, Eunju Park, Dagmar Schürrer, Isabel Waller. Curation by Sanneke Huisman.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 27
11:00 – 21:00
Friday – March 28
11:00 – 21:00
Saturday – March 29
11:00 – 21:00
Sunday – March 30
11:00 – 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9c, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Beyond visual: aperture as earth is a presentation of works by artists/researchers who practice photography beyond the shutter of a camera or the eye of the photographer. By inviting natural encounters, such as with soil and bacteria, into the making of images. Rather than foregrounding the aesthetics of photography, they present photographic practice as a living ecosystem.
Keilecontemporary, in collaboration with The Sustainable Darkroom, presents works by British artist and researcher Hannah Fletcher (a founding member of The Sustainable Darkroom), Antwerp-based artist and researcher Steffie de Gaetano, The Hague-based artist and researcher Risk Hazekamp and Tilburg-based artist and researcher Michaela Davidova who joins in the additional role of co-curator.
The artists work together with living organisms and minerals of earth(s), emphasising the active role of matter within the photographic practice. Together they share the importance of remaining in the process. In doing so, they come closer to understanding the relationships between materials, histories, meanings and possibilities of more-than-visual photography.Opening times:
Friday – March 28
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday – March 29
11:00 – 19:00
Sunday – March 30
12:00 – 19:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9F, 3039 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Haute Photographie is a five-day event, with an impressive selection of over 50 (inter)national photographers, entirely dedicated to a captivating group exhibition that highlights photography from the past (vintage), the present (contemporary) and the future (emerging talents). This year Haute Photographie focuses on the 'independent photographer', the photographer without a gallery.
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
12:00 – 19:00
Saturday – March 29
10:00 – 19:00
Sunday – March 30
10:00 – 17:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Tickets: €15,- normal entrance fee, €10,- for students, children free (go to the ticket shop)
The cultural expressions made by man is man. What we eat, see or hear are the thoughts, ideas and wishes of people. All the cultural together, that is us. Man is culture. The exhibition Cult=us=Gallery Again! transforms resto-bar Cult=us into a gallery full of amazing art.
The participating artists: Don Satijn, Inge Aanstoot, Nolan Smeets, Aswin Van As, Ghislain Amar and Sethi Gueye, represent a wide palette, but together as a whole will create a beautiful melody that moves through Cult=us. The exhibition gives an overview of the diversity that exists and shows it side by side, not necessarily in one exhibition but in all exhibitions of Cult=us through the year together. The horizon that is covered in this way is enormous. The freedom that is created in this way is impressive. The walls of Cult=us, but also the floors and air, is gladly given it to our freethinkers, because context is content.
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
10:00 to 03:00
Saturday– March 29
10:00 to 03:00
Sunday – March 30
10–00 to 00:00
Location:
Keilestraat 7A, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Kunst en Complex is one of the oldest studio complexes in Rotterdam and the Netherlands.
There are 27 studios in Kunst en Complex. With a variety of emerging talent, established talent and international talent. Take this opportunity to see the artworks up close and talk to the makers.
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday – March 29
12:00 – 18:00
Sunday – March 30
12:00 – 18:00
Location:
Keileweg 26, 3029 BT Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Art as an ideological filleting knife. That is the ideal of Kendell Geers, compiler of 'EVERYTHING IS TRUE - NOTHING IS PERMITTED'
A protest and celebration in one. It is a defiant celebration of the power of art to subvert our expectations, to inspire, to heal, to provoke, to confuse, to disrupt and to challenge. At the same time, it is an uncompromising protest against the glitz and glamour of an art market that reduces the value of art to mere financing.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 27
12:00 to 18:00
Friday – March 28
12:00 to 21:00
Saturday– March 29
12:00 to 02:00
Sunday – March 30
12:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keileweg 10b, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Tickets:
Adults: €10.00, Children up to 12 free, Museum card, Rotterdam pass and WeArePublic also free.
(to the ticket shop)HARDROMANCE Gallery in the STEUR Building shows the solo exhibition INTROSPECTIVE by Marco de Waal during Rotterdam Art Week.
The first solo exhibition.
This exhibition feels like opening a diary.
Each work is a page, written in light and shadow, in shapes and lines.
It tells stories of introspection, of vulnerability and strength, of darkness and beauty. It is a celebration of what photography means to me: a tool to connect, to feel and to understand. When people see my work, I want them to feel the emotion.
In addition to the solo exhibition INTROSPECTIVE by Marco de Waal at HARDROMANCE Gallery, the STEUR Building features work by various makers. This former industrial building in the M4H area houses artists and designers at the intersection of art, design and technology.Visitors can wander through the building along a marked route, encountering installations, objects and visual experiments along the way. Johannes Langkamp and Lola Giuffré, among others, show work in their spaces.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 27
16:00 to 20:00
Friday – March 28
13:00 to 20:00
Saturday– March 29
12:00 to 20:00
Sunday – March 30
12:00 to 17:00
Location:
STEUR Building, Galileistraat 15
3029 AL Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
In the main cube, De Huidenclub will show Discipline and Play , an exhibition co-curated by Pyeori Jung and Paloma Bouhana, bringing together a group of designers, artists and performers to explore the combined forces of discipline and play through the lens of puppetry.
In the small cube, TAMI by Maren Bang will question the place of institutions for artists. A pop-up restaurant run by food collective Super Supper will transform the triangular space for 2 nights (Friday and Saturday). Saturday night is the Unofficial Official Art Rotterdam closing party with local DJs. Some of the artists' studios will be open during Rotterdam Art Week.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 27
10:00 to 17:00
Friday – March 28
10:00 to 17:00
Saturday– March 29
10:00 to 02:00
Sunday – March 30
10:00 to 17:00
Location:
Pelgrimstraat 5c / Huidenclub plein
3029 BH Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Food & drinks
CULT=US is the new hotspot in the Rotterdam M4H area, where you can enjoy delicious food and drinks in a hospitable, energetic, and positive environment. In the monumental warehouse Keilepand, they serve delicious lunch, drinks, and dinner between the art from Thursday to Sunday.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 27
16:00 – 00:00 (kitchen until 22:00)
Friday – March 28
12:00 - 03:00 (kitchen until 22:00)
Saturday – March 29
12:00 - 03:00 (kitchen until 22:00)
Sunday – March 30
12:00 - 20:00
Location:
Keilestraat 7A , 3029 BP Rotterdam
Keilebar offers delicious homemade sweets, tasty local coffee and circular sparkling wine, beer or kombucha from the Keilepand.
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
12:00 – 19:00
Saturday – March 29
10:00 – 19:00
Sunday – March 30
10:00 – 17:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9F, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Pop-up restaurant Hidden Gem made a fresh start in Keilepand this March. The restaurant is led by master chef Kelvin Lin. The new location offers an extensive chef's table experience, where guests can taste progressive Asian Cuisine with local products from 18.00h.
Reservations only! Reservations through app: 0031617889088
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
18:00 – 22:30
Saturday – March 29
18:00 – 23:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Pop-up café at Katoenhuis serves refreshments with a terrace overlooking the Tidal Park.
Opening times:
Friday – March 28
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday – March 29
12:00 – 18:00
Sunday – March 30
12:00 – 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9c, 3029BP Rotterdam
Special activities
16:00
Opening Cult=us=Gallery Again!
Location:
Keilestraat 9f, 3039 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
18:00 – 20:00
Screening & Drinks at KeileContemporary (Keilepand)
Location:
Keilestraat 9F, 3039 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
19:00 – 22:00
Performance Night at Brutus
Location:
Keileweg 10-b, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
12:00 – 16:00
Celebrate spring at Voedseltuin with warm drinks and soup.
Location:
Keilestraat 5, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
18:30 – 21:00
Buy or Burn auction event
Location:
(online)
Tickets:
Free entrance
19:00 – 20:30
Drink & chat at Katoenhuis
20:30 – 21:45
pub talks: Doomsday, not as bad as Monday at Katoenhuis
21:45 – 23:00
Dj & drinks at Katoenhuis
Location:
Keilestraat 9c, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
21:00 – 02:00Operator x Brutus RAW Afterparty at Brutus
Location:
Keileweg 10-b, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
22:00 – 02:00
Official Unofficial Art Rotterdam Party at Huidenclub
Location:
Pelgrimsstraat 5c, 3029BH Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
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18:00
French fries hour with music at Kunst & Complex
Location:
Keileweg 26, 3029 BT Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
How to get here?
Getting here is easy! Take public transport (Marconiplein), park for free in the area, or, if you're feeling adventurous, hop on a Watertaxi (Stop 81). It is also only a 10-minute bike ride from the city centre.
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