New Member Supervisory Board Brutus Space

Founded by artist Joep van Lieshout in 2008, the Artist Driven Playground Brutus is host to massive, challenging performances, and group and solo exhibitions. With a mission to offer artists time, space and freedom to experiment at a massive scale. Next to 6000m2 of exhibition spaces and a sculpture garden, Brutus offers a residency and a grant. Brutus consists of 2 foundations: Brutus Space and Brutus Base. Brutus Base presents all projects and activities related to the work of Atelier Van Lieshout. Brutus Space does all projects and activities related to other artists.

Brutus comes to life in the Rotterdam port area

Brutus is a cross between a maze and a time machine, a bomb shelter and a launch pad, a laboratory and an industrial ruin, a cabinet of curiosities and a think tank. Featuring a grand total of 6,000 square metres of exhibition space, it is also one of the largest contemporary art institutions in the Netherlands. A global revolution of the imagination is being prepared in the former port warehouses in the M4H area in west Rotterdam.

Artists will lead this revolution. At Brutus they are given complete freedom to create their dreams and visions – no matter how strange or even insane. Brutus enables exhibits other museums don’t because they’re too big, too unwieldy, too noisy, too daring or too difficult. At Brutus there are minimal restrictions to ensure maximum, unimpeded creativity. This results in outsized installations, theatre performances, film screenings and exuberant parties.

The themes explored at Brutus touch everyone’s lives – from climate change to migration, from social security to power perversion. Visitors are invited to wander through the complex, participate and voice opinions. Here, the distinctions between art connoisseur and layman, self-taught artist and established artist, forklift driver and professor are erased. The motto ‘everyone is an insider’ applies.

Brutus was founded in 2008 by artist Joep van Lieshout and was then called AVL Mundo. In 2023, the organization split into two independent foundations:

and
. Brutus Space is dedicated to other artists’ projects and activities. Brutus Base presents all the projects and activities related to the work of Atelier Van Lieshout.

Brutus Organisatie Stichting, facilitating Space and Base
KVK: 92284744
VAT: NL865976582B01
Stichting Brutus Space
KvK: 90376196
VAT: NL865294744B01
Stichting Brutus Base
KvK: 92284922
VAT: NL865976740B01

Organisation

Sanne ten Brink

Director

Heleen Kosse

Program and planning

Guus Voorham

Production

Henny Schoonewelle

Communication

Anna Sinke

Communication

Alec Kakisina

Community

Geke Schalkwijk

Facility

Roos Janssen

Production ass.

Alexander Ramselaar

Finance

Brutus Prize

The art world is dominated by cuddliness and white museum galleries. The Brutus Prize was established to encourage the production of unconventional art by quirky artists. The prize, made available by Joep van Lieshout, consists of a cash prize of €4,000 and a sculpture, sometimes in combination with a solo exhibition in Brutus Space. The prize will be awarded during the finissage of Wild Summer of Art. Previous winners were Jeroen Jongeleen (NL, 1966), Axel (NL, 1949) and Helena van de Kraan (CZ, 1940-2020), Priscilla Fernandes (PT, 1981), Wapke Feenstra (NL, 1959) and most recently Ossip (NL, 1952).

The prize puts (relatively) unknown makers in the spotlight who are difficult to place within the regular museum practice, and that bears fruit. Jeroen Jongeleen, whose exhibition Running in Circles was named the best exhibition of 2021, is a good example of an unknown mid-career artist whose career was boosted got by the award. Almost all of the work shown at Brutus Space was acquired by Museum Voorlinden and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Jongeleen subsequently received exhibitions at Upstream Gallery and Harlan Levy Gallery.

Brutus Lab

Brutus Lab is an artist-run space where young talents can live, work and exhibit.
Part of Brutus Space, located in architect Jan van Teeffelen's former villa at Keileweg 14, Rotterdam, the workspace accommodates up to four or five artists, for a period of 6 to 12 months in a vibrant and exciting incubator for creative freedom.

With a mission to offer artists time, space and freedom to experiment at a massive scale, Brutus Lab provides chances to produce without restrictions, and during the past residencies bodies of works that are still relevant today were created.

Former users of the Brutus Lab include Neo Matloga (ZA, 1993), Carlijn Kingma (NL, 1991), Joseph Thabang Palframan (GB), Riley Harmon (US, 1987), Kasey Short (US), Jasper Griepink (NL, 1988), Wessel Verrijt (NL, 1992), Shimon Kamada (JA, 1997), Jason Page (US, 1990) and Yuxuan Cui (CH, 1994). Current users are Marcos Kueh (ID, 1995), Jemima de Jonge (NL, 2001), Alexandra Philips (US, 1988), Matias Salgado (AR,1998) and Ouassila Arras (FR, 1993).

In collaboration with Nouveau Grand Tour and Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation.

Working at Brutus

WANTED: Fatsia Polycarpa “Green Fingers” to maintain our Brutus Garden. Are you interested? Then email your motivation with curriculum vitae to
.
For the upcoming exhibitions, Brutus is looking for enthusiastic volunteers. Under guidance of the floor manager you help with public guidance, ticket sales and information provision. Brutus is open from Thursday to Sunday.

We have room for an independent intern, preferably at HBO or WO level. At Art Institution Brutus there is a lot to learn as an intern. What your internship will look like also depends on what you want (or need) to learn. During your internship, you will come in contact with various facets of an art institution such as communication, programming and production.

Rent a space

Brutus lends itself to complete your (business) event with a raw edge. The former port warehouse of 600m2, asks you to think out of the box and is not meant for 'the weak'. Our complex has both indoor and outdoor spaces that will excite your company with changing exhibitions. We would love to think with you to make your corporate party, birthday or event unforgettable at our Brutus Playground.

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