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Kunstinstituut Melly (@kunstinstituutmelly) is a Local Events creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 41,011 followers and 3,229 published posts. Recent posts average 79 likes and 2 comments, an engagement rate of 0.19%.
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On Saturday 20 June, artists and theatre makers Andrea Celeste La Forgia and Kerem Akar invite you to Kunstinstituut Melly for a public performance marking the opening of Act III of TOOLSHED #2: The Imaginary Stage, developed within the TOOLSHED residency at Kunstinstituut Melly.
Over the past months, workshops across Rotterdam have brought a growing community of strange, tender, chaotic, and impossible puppets into being. Now, these travelling characters gather at Kunstinstituut Melly alongside their makers, puppeteers, friends, neighbours, and fellow performers for a collective rehearsal.
TOOLSHED is a residency and research initiative by Kunstinstituut Melly that explores the tools we use today to build, question, and transform cultural institutions.
โจ Saturday 20 June 2026
๐ Act III opens: 13:00
๐ Public performance: 16:00
๐ Kunstinstituut Melly
๐ Free entrance
Act III of The Imaginary Stage will be on view at Kunstinstituut Melly until 31 July 2026.
TOOLSHED: The Imaginary Stage is supported by Amarte Fonds and developed in collaboration with Dokhuis, Het Wijkpaleis, Gemaal op Zuid, SOL (Samen Ondernemend Leren), and Singing Club Rotterdam.
Artwork featured in this carousel: Max Fletcher, woodcut print on paper, 59 ร 84 cm.
Looking for something to do this Friday?
Explore our current exhibitions for free from 6 PM during Kunstavond, and join us for two free events throughout the day.
Discover our current exhibitions:
โจ Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom โ Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme
โจ There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All โ Hajra Waheed
โจ Draw Withdraw Redraw โ featuring AYO, Bani Abidi, Cinthia Marcelle, Felipe Mujica, Misheck Masamvu, Nohemi Perez, and Thierry Oussou
Looking for more? Join us for:
๐ฒ The Artist Shift XL: Potluck + TGIF, Tea Time
12:00โ4:30 PM
Bring a dish to share and join an afternoon of food and tea tasting.
๐ค A Mic of One's Own
7:00โ9:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
An open mic evening in collaboration with The Writer's Guide (to the Galaxy), inspired by the exhibition Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.
๐ฒ๐ค Free events from 12 PM
๐ Free entrance after 6 PM
๐ Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
๐ More info via the link in bio
See you on Friday!
Two Saturdays ago, artist Rayaan Ettaghdouini led Work in Progress, a Free Saturday Workshop exploring intuition and storytelling through materials. Participants worked with ink, paint, ecoline, and drawing materials, embracing unpredictability and discovering unexpected narratives along the way.
Swipe through for a glimpse of the workshop! ๐ธ
๐ Ready for the next one?
๐จ Free Saturday Workshop #2 โ Encouraging Losing
๐ Saturday 13 June 2026
๐ 1:00โ3:00 PM
๐ Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly
๐ Free entrance | No registration needed
Part of The Art of Losing workshop series by Thijmen Burgerhout, this session invites participants to create banners that celebrate failure, doubt, stopping, and choosing not to participate. Through making and collective encouragement, we explore what success can mean when the pressure to perform is set aside.
๐ More info via the link in bio
๐ธ Photos by Michelle Piergolam
๐ On view at Kunstinstituut Melly from Saturday 23 May โ Sunday 4 October 2026
Draw Withdraw Redraw, a group exhibition featuring work by AYO, Bani Abidi, Cinthia Marcelle, Felipe Mujica, Misheck Masamvu, Nohemรญ Pรฉrez, and Thierry Oussou.
To draw, drawing from, drawing with, drawn to, being drawn in, a drawโreturning to the drawing board as a space to rethink and make new plans for a desired waywardness.
Drawing to leave a mark on paper, on fabric, on the ground [โฆ] drawing to create movement [...] drawing to extract [...] drawing in the game of chance [...] drawing to neither lose nor win [...] Departing from the extended sense of drawing, Draw Withdraw Redraw foregrounds recognition, resistance, and reinvention.
To draw, withdraw, redraw situates us in a state of ongoingness, returning to the same that is not the same. Movement seeks flight without yearning to land. There is constant negotiation, chance-taking, and self-preservation, because we never left drawingโฆ because drawing is where we can always pull fromโฆTo draw, drawing from, drawing with, drawn to, being drawn in, a draw.
๐ Plan your visit via the link in bio!
Photography by Kristien Daem
Paint Away! is a workshop by Annelotte Vos that uses art as a tool for relaxing, sharing stories, laughing and visualising dreams โจ No experience is needed to take part.
The session starts with a few light-hearted warm-up exercises, because for some people creativity can still feel a little awkward.
After that, participants visualise their ideal dream life through a short guided meditation. From personal experience, Annelotte has learned that visualising regularly can lead to magical moments, like unexpectedly ending up in a place in Sardinia that she once pinned on her mood board.
After the visualisation, itโs time to get to work with paint and brushes ๐๏ธ Funnily enough, many people share similar dreams, which makes it extra special to exchange them together ๐ญ
๐ Sunday 7 June
๐ 1:00โ3:00 PM
๐ Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly
๐ โฌ10 | For all ages | Tickets available on the website
๐ More info: link in bio
โจ Artists and theatre makers Andrea Celeste La Forgia and Kerem Akar invite you to join the Puppet Choir at Kunstinstituut Melly, part of the final phase of their residency project TOOLSHED #2: The Imaginary Stage.
๐ซ No previous puppetry or performance experience is needed, and participation is free!
Over the past months, workshops across Rotterdam have brought a growing community of strange, tender, chaotic, and impossible puppets into being. Now, these travelling characters gather at Kunstinstituut Melly alongside their makers, puppeteers, friends, neighbours, and fellow performers for a collective rehearsal.
Led by Tara Reece from the Singing Club Rotterdam, the Puppet Choir temporarily transforms Melly into a shared stage for collective play, rehearsal, and imagination.
Participants are encouraged to commit to all rehearsal dates and the final gathering. If you are not able to make it to all rehearsals let us know and weโll make it work! You are also welcome to join even if you did not participate in the previous workshops or make a puppet yourself. Part of the spirit of the project is that puppets continue travelling between people and communities, and can be carried, animated, and performed by others.
Part of TOOLSHED: The Imaginary Stage.
TOOLSHED is a residency and research initiative by Kunstinstituut Melly that explores the tools we use today to build, question, and transform cultural institutions.
๐ญ Rehearsals
Wednesday, June 10
Wednesday, June 17
๐ 6โ9 pm
๐ญ Final Rehearsal
Saturday, June 20
๐ 3 pm
โจ Public Performance: the Puppet Choir
Saturday, June 20
๐ 4:30 pm
๐ Kunstinstituut Melly
๐ Free โ don't forget to sign up via the link in bio!
Photo Credits
Andrea Celeste La Forgia: image 1
Floor Besuijen: image 2
What follows the heartbreak bij creรซert ruimte voor de rommelige, pijnlijke en transformerende ervaringen die kunnen ontstaan door verlies, breuk en verandering. ๐
Ontdek Hajra Waheed bij ๐ Een tentoonstelling over luisteren, verzet, verbondenheid en de kracht van collectieve verhalen.
En voor wie na sluitingstijd nog niet naar huis wil: vanaf 20:00 gaat in WORM WunderBar de Kunstavond Afterparty los โ een nacht vol verrassende djโs, performances en een dansvloer waar de realiteit vloeibaar wordt.
Claim je ticket via de link in de bio!๐๏ธ๐
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ!
What follows the heartbreak at creates space for the messy, painful and transformative experiences that can emerge through loss, rupture and change. ๐
Discover Hajra Waheed at ๐ An exhibition exploring listening, resistance, connection, and the power of collective stories.
And for those who don't want to go home after closing time: starting at 8:00 PM, the Kunstavond Afterparty kicks off at WORM WunderBar โ a night full of surprising DJs, performances, and a dance floor where reality becomes fluid.
Claim your ticket via the link in the bio!๐๏ธ๐
A look back at the opening of Draw Withdraw Redraw at Kunstinstituut Melly, through analog and digital. Thank you again to everyone who joined us. โค๏ธ
๐Now on view: Draw Withdraw Redraw
Saturday 23 May โ Sunday 4 October 2026
Draw Withdraw Redraw is a group exhibition featuring work by AYO, Bani Abidi, Cinthia Marcelle, Felipe Mujica, Misheck Masamvu, Nohemรญ Pรฉrez, and Thierry Oussou.
๐ท Photos by Musoke Nalwoga (1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 15, 17, 20) and Cedric Veldhuis (2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19).
๐ On view at Kunstinstituut Melly from Saturday 18 April โ Sunday 6 September 2026
Guest curated by Hera Chan,
Hajra Waheed (, is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, sound, sculpture, video, and installation. Her practice explores the nature of power, the human impact of displacement and incarceration, and the transformative possibilities of liberation struggles.
There Is a Fountain Even If Pale That Flows Beneath Us All brings together newly commissioned and recent works that approach listening as an embodied, collective, and political practice. The title invokes an undercurrent that persists beneath regimes of repression, where expression defiantly circulates despite attempts to silence it.
At the center is Hum (2020), the first volume in Waheedโs trilogy of multichannel sound installations, which foregrounds political prisoners as leaders of liberation struggles and traces voice under conditions of incarceration. The singers and songwriters featured in the work have all been imprisonedโtheir work censored, with many forced into exile for mobilizing collective voice. The songs are drawn from a period, as today, marked by state violence and genocide, mass uprisings, and crackdowns. From this shared condition of silencing, the work turns to humming as both a compositional method and a language of resistance.
In parallel to Hum, the exhibition presents a series of sound studies; drawings, paintings, handbound artist books, and leporellosโmany shown for the first time. Created over the years alongside sound chamber designs for Hum, these works extend Waheedโs sonic practice across mediums, where line, mark, and landscape become shared fields of attunement.
๐ Plan your visit via the link in bio!
Photography by Kristien Daem
๐ On view at Kunstinstituut Melly from Saturday 18 April โ Sunday 27 September 2026
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme create multimedia installations that engage the politics and poetics of anti-colonial resistance while tracing struggles against dispossession and oppression in Palestine. Working together since 2007, their practice combines moving image, sound, and text to explore how histories of resistance are carried across time.
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom draws on a process of study: learning with and from former Palestinian prisoners, poets, revolutionary thinkers, and the many practices of refusal that continue to shape daily life in Palestine. Through this approach, the installation traces connections across generations, approaching resistance as an ongoing practice of study while acknowledging a broader indebtedness to those who have resisted before us.
In this new commission, Basel and Ruanne ask: what does it mean to resist in impossible conditions, to breathe where one should not breathe, and to emerge from sites of exclusion unbound? Writing, storytelling, and song emerge as life-affirming acts that sustain the capacity to continue resisting, even within conditions designed to confine the body and imagination. Through the sampling and layering of moving image and sound, the pair construct what they describe as โnew scripts,โ forming a poetics of resistance.
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom, is co-commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly in collaboration with The Bell / Brown Arts Institute, Brown University, MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, and Nottingham Contemporary.
๐ Plan your visit via the link in bio!
Photography by Kristien Daem
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Kunstinstituut Melly (@kunstinstituutmelly) is a Local Events creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Kunstinstituut Melly is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Kunstinstituut Melly runs to 15 words across 2 lines.
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Kunstinstituut Melly has 41,011 followers on Instagram (41K). Kunstinstituut Melly follows 2,359 accounts, so the audience is roughly 17 times the size of the list followed. With 3,229 posts published, Kunstinstituut Melly's archive runs well past the 2,000 mark.
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