Past Events
Thursday 13 June
For The Last Safe Abortion, Carmen Winant assembled 2,500 photographic prints to form a collective portrait of the ordinary, daily tasks required to provide abortion health care. Drawn from the archives of university special collections and clinics (and supplemented by photographs made by the artist), these images depict staff, physicians, and volunteers taken over a fifty-year period before the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
In this event, Winant extends this project by bringing together a group of clinicians, patients, and activists from the MYAbortion Network to discuss how photography is central to understanding the medical, political, and social realities of abortion care.
Friday 14 June
Join us to celebrate the expansive work of Petra Blaisse and her renowned studio Inside Outside and mark the launch of their new retrospective Art Applied, a kaleidoscopic view of their work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over the course of more than three decades. Petra Blaisse and Inside Outside partners Jana Crepon and Aura Luz Melis will be in conversation with architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout. This event is part of the Rotterdam Architecture Month programme.
Tuesday 25 June
Celebrate the launch of Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly — a new book, compiled by editor-in chief Sam Ashby — that brings together the cult periodical’s elusive texts and proposes a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style.
Wednesday 26 June
Join us to celebrate the launch of Shirley Irons's new book Composition. This two-volume publication brings together an overview of the artist’s paintings to date, alongside multifaceted reflections on art, artmaking, and landscape through a selection of her short essays and stories.
Wednesday 3 July
Petra Blaisse and editors Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen will be in conversation with architect Kersten Geers to celebrate the launch of Art Applied, a kaleidoscopic view of Petra Blaisse and acclaimed studio Inside Outside’s work across interior, landscape, and exhibition design. The conversation will be moderated by CIVA's artistic director Nikolaus Hirsch.
Wednesday 24 January – Friday 16 March
Justine Kurland’s This Train presents images from road trips taken with her young son across the United States between 2005 and 2011. Revisiting these images, Kurland upends the conventional family album to tell a story of queer motherhood and deconstructs the familiar mythology of the American railroad as a pioneering symbol of modernity. To coincide with the release of This Train in March, photographs from the book will be exhibited at Higher Pictures.