Come to the sequel on Thursday, November 6th Duotones: A Series of Artists Talking, a program of artist talks by A Tale of A Tub, Studio Art Office, and TENT Rotterdam. The series is an attempt to connect different generations of Rotterdam artists. For this fourth edition we will once again be at A Tale of a Tub and we have Ilke Gers en Dagmar Baumann invited. Both practices explore, through movement and gesture, how our bodies relate to space, rhythm, and structure. Both works invite us to slow down and refocus on the patterns around us. The conversation between the artists will be moderated by Kathrin Wolkowicz.
Three artist duos from different generations have met at Duotones in recent months. The conversation between Ilke, Dagmar, and Kathrin is the final Duotones edition of 2025. The artists present their work informally, while a third artist/creator moderates the conversation. Typically, we get to know each other's work as a final product, presented to the public as a thoroughly considered result. Therefore, in addition to connecting the diverse communities of the Rotterdam art scene, such as long-standing residents and newcomers recently settled in the city, the goal is also to participate in the work process during its development, for example, by holding preliminary conversations in public.
Drinks and snacks will be provided and the hope is that the series will become a social meeting place for many of us.
Ilke Gers, photo by Stef Renard
Ilke Gers is a visual artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand, living in Rotterdam. She creates situation-specific installations and works with text, drawings and publications to explore the relationship between body, movement and language. Through open processes dependent on spatial conditions, physical interaction and time, her work intervenes in the normative mechanisms of communication and circulation to destabilise the assumed neutral and fixed nature of the built environment, linguistic forms and codes of behaviour.
Dagmar Baumann
Dagmar Baumann Baumann originally trained as a public space designer in Aachen, Germany. She painted sets for her own performances. From Berlin, she came to Maastricht to attend the Jan van Eyck Academy. Here, she became, as she puts it, "a 'real' painter." Baumann has lived in Rotterdam since 1989. After having considered becoming a chef for a long time, the discovery that she could combine performance with painting in installations kept her in art. Since 2015 she has been part of 004 Collective with Kathrin Wolkowicz and Heyer Thurnheer. She recently ended her 18-year career at WdKA to focus on her own practice.
Kathrin Wolkowicz constructs temporal or spatial situations that invite us to rethink our relationships with objects and bodies; how we live, spend our time and share space with others. A substantial part of her artistic practice consists of collective work, previously as founder of Sils Projects and programmer for Suburban Video Lounge, currently as part of 004-collective and the publishing collective Borgerstraat. In 2021, Wolkowicz self-published the book Re-Relating in art practice, followed by the joint publication To share the experience of inclusivity in showing art – 10 years Borgerstraat Open Studios in the summer of 2025.
Practical information
Date: Thursday, November 6
Time: 18:30pm-20:30pm
Language: English/Dutch
Location: Tale of a Tub, Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam
Free access