Talks & Lecture Program Reflections
During Art Rotterdam, from Friday, March 28 to Sunday, March 30, an extensive Talks and Lectures program will be launched: Reflections, filled with inspiring Artist Talks, Q&A sessions, and lectures on current topics, highlighted by artists, curators, museum directors, and other experts from the artistic field.
Reflections is part of Intersections and is free for visitors during the regular fair days.

Program Friday 28 March
11:15 - 12:15 hrs | Dutch spoken Turning Points in the Artist's Practice (hosted by: BK Informatie) Q&A with art historian Meta Knol and 3 artists: Tjebbe Beekman, Laurien Dumbar, and Diana Scherer | click here for more information |
12.30 - 13.15 hrs | English spoken Panel Discussion: Collector’s Initiatives to Support the Emerging Scene Panelists: Ronan Grossiat (ADIAF Prix Marcel Duchamp / ADIAF Emergence, Edouard Glissant Art Fund) | Benoît Doche de Laquintane (Co-Founder residence Solaris, Collection Benoît Doche de Laquintane) | Sarah Philp, Deputy Director, Delfina Foundation London Moderator: Liv Vaisberg, director Office for Art & Design, a Rotterdam based strategic office active in the fields of art and design | click here for more information |
13.30 – 14.15 hrs | English spoken Talk: THE HYBRID COUPLE, LIVING AND WORKING WITH AN AI HOLOGRAM | Annemartine van Kesteren, curator Boijmans Van Beuningen in conversation with artist Alicia Framis and her AI hologram Ailex | Courtesy: Upstream Gallery on show at Art Rotterdam, Main Section | click here for more information |
14.30 – 15.15 hrs | English spoken ‘Art in Dialogue – Creating Space: Institutional Practices and Cultural Shifts’ | Curator Fatoş Üstek and social architect Rubiah Balsem come together to explore new ways of reimagining the cultural landscape—championing curiosity, resilience, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to shape the future of the arts. Joined by international visual artist Narges Mohammadi and others, they will delve deeper into this subject | click here for more information |
15.30 - 16.15 hrs | English spoken If flowers could speak: monuments, memory, and politics of remembrance | Art historian Zippora Elders interviews artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck | click here for more information |
17.00 - 18.00 hrs | English Spoken Mondriaan Fund - Prospects | Get a Grant Event. Please register in advance: here | click here for more information |
Program Saturday 29 March
11.30 – 12.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Good mom / Bad mom - Centraal Museum Utrecht Lecture curators: Laurie Cluitmans en Heske ten Cate | click here for more information |
12.30 - 13.15 hrs | English spoken Echoes of Us | Talk: Jeanthalou Haynes and Pedro Gil Farias | Moderator: Hannan Ouhlous | click here for more information |
13.30 – 14.15 hrs | English spoken New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow | Lecture by Margriet Schavemaker director of Kunstmuseum Den Haag | Saturday, March 29, 13:30 – 14:15 | click here for more information |
14.30 - 15.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Fenix, the first art museum about migration | Lecture by Museum director Anne Kremers (hosted by: Museumtijdschrift) | click here for more information |
15.30 -16.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Constant Flux: Joost Vandebrug’s journey of artistic and personal transformation. Director Bildhalle Christiane Hoefert in conversation with Joost Vandebrug | Courtesy: Bildhalle, on view at Art Rotterdam, Main Section | click here for more information |
16.30 – 17.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Art critic and writer Lucette ter Borg in conversation with visual artist Hans van der Ham | Courtesy: gallery KANT, on show at Art Rotterdam, Solo Duo | click here for more information |
17.30 - 18.15 hrs | English spoken Artist Talk Nemanja Nikolic | How Hollywood shaped socialism | Courtesy: Galerie Dix9, on show at Art Rotterdam, Projections | click here for more information |
Program Sunday 30 March
11.30 – 12.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Our road to Santos | Talk Birgit Donker, director Nederlands Fotomuseum | click here for more information |
12.30 - 13.15 hrs | Dutch spoken FACE OFF - The confrontation between power and powerlessness. Artist Talk Bas Geerts, visual artist, music programmer and writer | Courtesy: MPV Gallery, on show at Art Rotterdam, Main Section | click here for more information |
13.30 - 14.15 hrs | English spoken Artist Talk Mercedes Azpilicueta | Material Stories: Time, Textiles, and Transformation | Courtesy: Prats Nogueras Blanchard, te zien op Art Rotterdam, New Art Section | click here for more information |
14.30 - 15.15 hrs | Dutch spoken Artist Talk Lisette Schumacher | Experience of space | Courtesy: Root Gallery, on show at Art Rotterdam, Main Section | click here for more information |
15.30 – 16.15 hrs | English spoken Artist Talk/Q&A & Book launch Elen Braga | Courtesy: MER Books & Wouters Gallery, Brussels, on show at Art Rotterdam, New Art Section | click here for more information |
16.30 – 17.15 hrs | English spoken Artist Talk Line Finderup | Gaming our reality | Courtesy: Albert Contemporary, on show at Art Rotterdam, New Art Section | click here for more information |