During Rotterdam Architecture Month, artist Emma van Noort investigates the museum house of the Kiefhoek in her own unique way.

This residential area of ​​J.J.P. Oud is the undisputed highlight of modernism in social housing in Rotterdam. In the late 1920s, Oud built these hypermodern terraced houses with identical facades and interiors, uniform to exude a sense of community.

What can we learn from 100-year-old progressive ideas about public housing in Zuid? What has changed in our housing needs? Or has much remained the same? The Kiefhoek by J.J.P. Old houses these questions. In the summer, Emma van Noort will make work about and for Oud’s museum house. Through conversations with experts and local residents, Emma van Noort wants to investigate the ‘original home’ in order to use her work as an artist to make sculptural interventions in the museum home. During the Rotterdam Architecture Month, the exhibition takes shape and is inspired by stories she collects about all kinds of facets of ‘living’ in order to arrive at surprising work on this social theme.

Practical info

• Every Wednesday and Saturday in June, the museum house is open to follow Emma van Noort’s research and to ask her questions about the house, the neighborhood and her work.

Dates

• Saturday 3rd of June
• Wednesday 7th of June
• Saturday 10th of June
• Wednesday 14th of June
• Saturday 17th of June
• Wednesday 21st of June
• Saturday 24th of June
• Wednesday 28th of June

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