Dive into the Post65 era with a surprising walk along art and architecture from 1965–1990. Art guide Anne-Marie Ros leads you along bold buildings, colorful art and forgotten city stories.

Join on Saturday, June 21st for the launch of the new route map Kunstroute Rotterdam, from metrostation Beurs to City Hall.

BKOR and SIR, in collaboration with Bureau for Monuments and Cultural History (City of Rotterdam), have developed a tour with the theme of art and architecture in the so-called Post65 era, the period between 1965 and 1990. This period was a time of unprecedented construction activities in Rotterdam. Reflecting towers, giant brutalist office buildings, as well as residential experiments like the Cube Houses arose in the city centre. In the field of art, a critical counter-movement arose. Some artists translated the businesslike visual language of architecture into a ‘groovy’ type of abstract art, pop art with humour and more colour.

About the route

Under the guidance of art guide Anne-Marie Ros, this route will introduce you to shortcuts and small alleyways through the city centre, past 20 artworks and 19 buildings, most of them dating back to the Post65 era. Starting at the Maritime Museum designed by Wim Quist, the route shows artworks such as The River (1984) by Lon Pennock and the Maas sculpture (1982) by Auke de Vries, and buildings such as Blakeburg (1977) by Jan Hoogstad, the Cube Houses (1984) by Piet Blom and train and metrostation Blaak (1993) by Harry Reijnders (Bureau Bouwmeester NS).

The tour is in Dutch.

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