Are you a Rotterdam visual artist and do you have a specific question about (a component of) your professional practice? With our Mentorship program, Art Office offers you the opportunity to take time for specific challenges that you encounter. How? By discussing this with a colleague. The mentoring program opens the door to conversations with colleagues outside the immediate circle, can yield new knowledge and perspectives and lead to mutual inspiration.

Mentorship Jochem Rotteveel and Tim Mastik

Why this initiative?

The Rotterdam art community has a lot of knowledge, experience and expertise. Art Office believes it is important to stimulate mutual cooperation and knowledge sharing within the city, because they are crucial for growth and development. With the Mentorship program we want to build a mentor network, with which we bring artists with different experiences and expertise into contact with each other.

Art Office stimulates this exchange by connecting artists and making an amount available for the mentor's hours. We expect that this will not only contribute to the development of individual professional practices, but will also strengthen the position of visual artists and the Rotterdam network.

For who?

The mentorship is intended for Rotterdam visual artists who:
– are registered with Art Office;
– have login credentials to artoffice.info;
– have an updated artist page.

Mentorship Kamiel Verschuren & Jake Kelly

How does it work?

– Applications will be processed in order of receipt. Within the pilot, which will run until the end of 2024, we offer thirty courses. Due to its success, we will continue this in 2025.
– Four contact hours with a mentor are available per process, during which a specific question within professional practice is addressed. Mentors receive a compensation of €200 excluding VAT for four hours of guidance.
– The available hours are arranged by mutual agreement between the participants as desired, with a maximum duration of six months.
– We aim to have a match within three weeks. We will inform you about this by email. You can then contact your mentor yourself to make an appointment.

Interested?

Are you interested in a mentoring program? Then send an email to mentorship@cbkrotterdam.nl with your question and motivation (max. 5 sentences). Don't forget to include your name, email, telephone number, link to your artist page on artoffice.info and your own website. Choose two people from the list of mentors below. If you have a preference for another mentor who is not on the list, please let us know and we will see if we can approach that person. Please note: this artist must have an artist page on artoffice.info.

Mentorship Ruth Horstmanhoff and Wapke Feenstra

mentors

Alexandra Phillips
sculpture – diaspora – conceptual – abstract
Alexandra Roozen
to draw
Amy Pickles
tech topics – collaborative projects – radio practice
Anna Maria Luczak (LAW FILM)
social - installation
Antye Guenther
ceramics – science & technology – performance – conceptual – digital technology
Aqueene Wilson
artistic research – decolonization – diaspora – photography – social
Bert Frings
painting – drawing
Charlotte Schleiffert
painting – drawing
Constance Saraiva
artistic research – social
Diana Al Halabi
artistic research – audiovisual – autobiographical – decolonization – figurative – gender – installation – international – body – painting – writing – video
Dirk van Lieshout
residency – public space – Experimental – community – artistic research
Edwin van der Heide
sound – installation – interactive – light – public space
Efrat Zehavi
diversity – installation – community – sculpture – figurative
Elian Somers
archives – artistic research – photography – video – installation
Ellemic Shoemaker
painting – sculpting
Eric Roux (LAW FILM)
video – artistic research – documentary – writing – film
Esther Kokmeijer
conceptual – documentary – crossover – ecology – science & technology
Eveline Visser
installation – painting
Fatima Barznge
painting – drawing – collage
Florian Braakman
photography – installation – printing (2d) – publication – video – audiovisual
Gabi Dao
science & technology – video – textile – sculpture – residency – objects – nature – media – LGBT – ceramics – installation – gender – film – experimental – ecology – digital – diaspora – decolonization – community – autobiographical – audiovisual – artistic research – archives
Gerco de Ruijter
conceptual – film – photography – abstract
Raffia Lic
artistic research – community – body – performance – installation
Isabelle Suly
conceptual – publication – artistic research – performance – language
Jeanne van Heeswijk
community network
Jochem Rottevel
mural – education – cross-over – communication – abstract
Kamiel Verschuren
public space – artistic research – conceptual – community – international
Leonor Faber Jonker
collage – photography – writing
Linhuei Chen
painting – diaspora – installation – objects – social
Liza Wolters
photography – installation – language – objects – video
Lucilla Novoa
artistic research – decolonization – performance – autobiographical – collaboration
Maurice Meewisse
installation – environment
Robert Glas
cinematography – photography – scientific literature and fiction to investigate technologies nation-states deploy to enforce the law
Said Kinos
painting – abstract – collage – design – graffiti
Silvia B
human – sculpture
Stacii Samidin
documentary – film – photography
Tess martin
audiovisual – experimental – film – installation – crossover
Wapke Feenstra
conceptual – decolonization – diy – ecology – economics
Yin Yin Wong
artistic research – autobiographical – diaspora – film – sculpture – drawing

Feedback

After the process, we would like to hear how you experienced the mentorship. You can email a concise summary to: mentorship@cbkrotterdam.nl.