CONCEPT DEVELOPING ANNIVERSARY CE DELFT

Organisation CE Delft asked to develop and to run a concept for their 40-year anniversary. 

LANDSCAPE & LEGACY

Our landscape is passed on from generation to generation. 

We are at the beginning of a technological revolution, what will have an impact on our environment. Artist and organizer of this anniversary Sasja Hagens made a selection of activities. We will experience a surprising mix of workshops and tours in Rotterdam, matching the theme Landscape & Legacy.

We went on field research with the following questions;
How do we define a natural landscape?
Which future landscape will we experience as valuable?
How far can technology influence our emotion?

In collaboration with: 
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Het Nieuwe Instituut
TENT Rotterdam
BlueCity 010
UrbanGuides
Saar Snoek
Chantal van Heeswijk
Raph de Haas
Lucie Havel
Susanne Moolenaar
Esther Kokmeijer
Lisa Diederik

PORT OF ROTTERDAM AND ESPO BRUSSELS JOIN FORCES AT ESPO CONFERENCE | SOLO SHOW SASJA HAGENS (31 MAY - 1 JUNE 2018)

The two organizations are also collaborating with Dutch port painter Sasja Hagens for a solo show in the Onderzeebootloods (Submarine Hall in Rotterdam). Exclusively for the ESPO conference, Port of Rotterdam selected her best harbourscapes and industrial landscapes from the last few years. The artworks will be presented on a 10-meter wall. 

With strong colours and daring compositions, Sasja Hagens gives her own interpretation to the themes of harbourscapes, industrial- and future landscapes. Hagens: 'People sometimes ask me why I've spent so much time painting ports, such an obvious theme. But their size and industrial quality light the fire in me.' 

Her paintings are in collection of (a.o.) Maritime Museum Rotterdam, City Hall Rotterdam, ECT Rotterdam - Hong Kong, Arcadis and Deloitte The Netherlands.

Hagens' work is also widely exhibited, for example during a big solo exhibition at Duolun (MOMA) in Shanghai, Habitare in Helsinki, Oblast Art Museum Kemerovo (Russia) and Museu Maritim in Barcelona. Recently, her work has been on show in Hong Kong twice. 

Since 2016 Hagens is working together with ESPO in designing the coveted and prestigious ESPO Award. This series of paintings are reflecting the overall scope of the Award, i.e. how ports and cities are living and working together. The last painting will be handed out in 2023. 

EXHIBITION AT GALLERY UNTITLED

Works from my Kalypso serie are in a group show at Gallery Untitled the following two months.
Gallery Untitled is open on fridays and saturdays from 10.00 - 18.00. 
Koningsveldestraat 14, 3037 VS, Rotterdam. 

GUADELOUPE WINS ESPO AWARD

The theme of this year’s ESPO Award was ‘Art and Cultural involvement of the port’. Guadeloupe Ports Caraïbes won the 2017 Award for its project, Port’Art, which is intended to appeal to a grassroots audience and address day-to-day objects and topics. The Port’Art initiative has been built and developed in line with the situation and challenges faced by the Region and includes several aspects:

• Providing the general public with access to local port heritage
• Supporting local artistic creativity
• Sponsoring initiatives with a maritime and heritage appeal
• Supporting cultural initiatives that address the preservation of tropical biodiversity
• Raising awareness of local port culture

By giving residents the opportunity to visit historic buildings or by turning port facilities into art and cultural venues, we encourage people to come and get to know their port and gain a full sense of ownership of it in a different way. 

Viviane François-Julien, Manager of the Communication and International Relations at Guadeloupe Ports Caraïbes, cited F. Nietzsche: “No winner believes in coincidence" and continued by stating that winning this Award has been the result of a fruitful collaboration with my team and especially Axelle Bangou; backed by the renewed trust placed in our work by the successive presidents Mr Kalil and Mr Salaun.”