Participating Artists Press Agency
Friday 29th of March 2024 – page 2
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 -
Even more Dutch it is to bring your own lunch in a plastic bag. Probably current buns. Eat it in the street while resting on your ‘rollater’ a four wheel…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam -
Stadhuisplein
Mirrorballs and stage lighting in front of the City Hall.
The streets as a stage, the architecture as a the backdrop? But a backdrop for what?
Maurice Bogaert, April…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
A commercial for a new ferry line on the back of a bus. The so called Stads ferry will connect commuter cities like Krimpen and Vlaardingen with Rotterdam.
Nowadays lots…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
Two workers, one is working and the other one is on the phone. It looks like he is having a break by the way he puts his legs on the…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
Three Rotterdam men (who’s parents or grandparents were born in Marocco) discuss personal matters in an Italian ice cream parlour. Behind them a wall poster with a streetview from Italy…
Nies Medema –
Rotterdam Lab
With Mahendra a Indian ‘housewife’ (for me a heroïc title) organizes travels to India, Nepal and Thailand. Besides that she trades Indian fashion and jewelry.…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Inside out or Real/Unreal talks about the constant building activity in Rotterdam The fact in the second world war (1940-1945) the centre/ heart was bombed. Rotterdam is still trying and…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
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
Hoogstraat
Not that is shows, but apparently this is one of the oldest streets of the city. And for now, Sponge Bob seems to be the only one who is…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
The Unintentional Undefined Urban Space is well protected by Heras. A known company in fencing now running a total concept in surveillance. Entrance control/cameras/detection/service.
Lino Hellings 12th of April 2010…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
No, this is not the other side of the car! It is a different car.
On the rear window hangs a prayer chain (tasbih). This Islamic symbol helps Muslims recite…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
I want to be another city. Manhattan Hotel in front of Rotterdam Central Station…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
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
It is prohibited to deal in used cars in this street, 
Article so-and-so of Rotterdam’s local regulations. This sign made me think of a lecture I once took in art…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
In the Old West of Rotterdam ninety percent of the inhabitants are originally from all different parts of the world. African ladies having great fun sitting on a low rail…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Rotterdam used to be the biggest harbourcity in the world. It has been a transit city and a city in transit for decades. Hotel New York and Hotel Manhatten makes…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
A couple musing on their balcony on one of the first warm days after a very long and cold winter.
Lino Hellings 12th of April Rotterdam Crooswijk.…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
These protest posters “I like living here!’ against the reconstruction of Crooswijk were handed out by the Socialist Part more than four years ago. The red tomato logo of…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Great choice from fish all over the world. Some wild some cultivated.
Lino Hellings 10th of April Rotterdam…
Lino Hellings –
Rotterdam Lab
Whenever the city planning of Rotterdam reveals some kind of classic harmony (a side street with a charming see-through on a church entrance), the city decides to guide this pitoresque…
Robin van 't Haar –
Rotterdam Lab
Why not selling your merchandise from the trunk of a car? But that is not what is happening here. These Turkish delights are sitting in a strange way in the…
Erika Blikman –
Rotterdam Lab
On the photo we see the outside of a snackbar. A typical Dutch fastfood place. It might take a connoisseur of Dutch snacks, but if one looks closely, one might…
Maurice Bogaert –
Rotterdam Lab
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