A drive-in exhibition in Rotterdam with works by great artists, from Kokoschka to Nauman

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Rotterdam Ahoy convention center have teamed up to create a ... drive-thru exhibition, set up in one of the center’s halls from August 1 to 23. The exhibition, titled simply Drive-thru museum, seeks to take advantage of the Dutch city’s delicate situation in a health emergency: trade fairs are suspended (thus the halls of the Rotterdam Ahoy are empty) and the museum is closed. For this reason, the two institutes have teamed up to create an exhibition of fifty works from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, to be visited without risk of infection, because there siva... with the car.

The theme of the exhibition, very appropriate for the events that hit the world in 2020, is the relationship man and the forces of nature. “The world we have created,” the presentation reads, “is under pressure, and nature is demanding more space. Despite its microscopic size, the virus has created great chaos, stranding us all and revealing our vulnerability and the limits of existence. We have returned to our most basic needs and retreated to the groups where we feel safest. Art can offer us comfort and help us put things in perspective, and it can also reveal the unpredictable and changing nature of human existence.” The exhibition, the brainchild of artist Ted Noten, includes works by artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Cyprien Gaillard, Joep van Lieshout, Wieki Somers, Jim Shaw and Ted Noten himself, plus there are installations by Bas Princen, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Anselm Kiefer, Olaf Nicolai and Marijke van Warmerdam.

The exhibition can only be visited by electric cars: visitors can therefore use their own vehicle, if it meets this specification, or rent an electric car provided by one of the exhibition’s partners, the Breeman BMW & Mini dealer. The Rotterdam exhibition is not new: a similar experience has already been launched this summer in Brescia, but the idea of displaying works from a museum’s collection is certainly original (the drive-in exhibition in Brescia, on the other hand, displayed murals and installations made especially for the occasion). For those who would like to learn more, you can visit the museum’s website.

A drive-in exhibition in Rotterdam with works by great artists, from Kokoschka to Nauman

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