light switch

On Monday 24 January, the light art exhibition will open light switch launched on Coolhaven Island in Rotterdam. Light Switch is an initiative of the artist community IJzerblok with the aim of illuminating the dark winter nights and giving the residents of Coolhaven a sparkling heart. The works of art are on display until Tuesday, February 1, 2022.

With more than seventy young artists and Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) students, IJzerblok is a creative breeding ground in Coolhaven. During the day light switch work by the following IJzerblok artists can be seen: Lore Pilzecker, Jip van der Hek, Magdalena Petrova, Iloy Drisdale, Welmoed Bosch, Ovidiu Spaniol, Roxette Capriles, Nuno Orlando, Natasha Rijkhoff, Linda Stretton, Ratri Notosudirdjo, Floor van Meeuwen, Werner van der Zwan, Julia Gat, Kasia Dembinski, Davids Danoss and Sachia Pereira Stolle.

Locations
The light artworks can be seen every evening from 18 p.m. in the window frames of the following streets: 00e IJzerstraat, Coolhavenstraat, Coloniastraat, Willem Buytewechtstraat, Coolhaven and Heiman Dullaertplein. Works are also exhibited at Culture Hub, Portuguese to Go, Wijkcollectie, Fok, Flowers & Sours, Kapsalon Jorika and the IJzerblok Studios. The work of ten WdKA students is displayed in the window frames on the upper floors of the IJzerblok Studios.

artistic activities in the city
Light Switch is made possible thanks to WdKA, the Municipality of Rotterdam and the CBK Rotterdam scheme artistic activities in the city. With this arrangement, CBK Rotterdam stimulates and anchors the role of the visual arts in the city. Caró van der Pluijm, City Activities Coordinator: 'light switch is in that respect an exemplary example of a successful Activities City project in which various artists work together for the neighborhood in these dark (lockdown) days. All in all, this initiative is not only very sympathetic, it shows how much the visual artists use their imagination for literal lighting in the local.'