Main Festival Exhibition at GOUDasfalt in Gouda [30.05 – 21.06]
Main festival exhibition
← ProgrammeThroughout the entire festival period (May 30 to June 21), the central exhibition could be seen in Gouda at GOUDasfalt, the extensive bottom-up creative hub on the Hollandse IJssel, directly opposite the city’s historic center.
GOUDasfalt is situated at the former industrial site of a massive asphalt factory, transformed by local citizens into a cultural and communal space. The initiative has experimented for over 10 years with processes of ecological and social regeneration of this previously heavily polluted urban space.
The exhibition brought together local and international eco-regenerative art and design projects around the four main themes of the festival:
Swamp Imaginaries, The Underground, Arboreal and Under Water.
Participating artists, designers, and initiatives
Participating artists, designers, and initiatives included: Eva-Maria Lopez (DE), Christine Hvidt (DK),Nicole Spit (NL), Anne Zarske (DE), Sensing Peat (Jeanna Kolesova, Juliane Tübke, Kallia Kefala, Kim Bode, Marina Naprushkina, Philipp Modersohn, Suza Husse, Turakella Editha Gyindo), Urban Reef (NL), Dnipro River Integrated Vision (Oksana Hrabchak, Svitlana Usychenko, Fulco Treffers, Lilet Breddels) (UA), Minji Kim (KR), Letizia Artioli (IT), Pawel Pokutycki (NL), Green Office & Ecosenda KABK (NL).
The exhibition was open Wednesday till Sunday, from 11 to 19 hrs.
Admission to the exhibition was free.
About the participants
Christine Hvidt, Subterranean (2026)
About the artist
Dnipro Integrated Vision (2024 – on going)
Project website
Eva Maria Lopez, we resist. / I Never Promised You a Green Garden (2024 / 26)
Artist website
Sensing Peat (2022 – ongoing)
Project website
Urban Reef (2021 – ongoing)
Project website
Minji Kim, Acoustioc Territories (2024 – ongoing)
Artist website
Nicole Spit, Digital Tree Monument (2022 / 2026)
Project website
Anne Zarske, Bodies of Water (2026)
Artist website
Location
During the weekends a small ferry will be in operation, operated by volunteers from 12.00 till 18.00. The ferry leaves from the stop Nieuwe Veerstal (see map below).
GOUDasfalt
www.goudasfalt.nl
Gouderaksedijk 34
Gouda
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