Slash Gallery is an exhibition space for fast changing presentations, small scale performance events, workshops and artists-in-residence.
Slash Gallery is an exhibition space for people who make, think, and share. The ideal Slash scenario is: ‘here is the idea, here is the material: what shall we do with it?’ We invite all artists to to fully use the space they find at Slash, physically, socially, or metaphorically.
Slash Gallery also favours dedicated workers and open communicators, not divas. We especially encourage collective projects!
“In Slash, we work with artists because of who they are, their thoughts, the way they work, etc. In short it’s about what happens amongst people.” – Charlien Adriaenssens
Facilities
There are two main hanging walls. Specific lighting wishes and sound (up to 90 db maximum) can be arranged in advance. There is a toilet (see above). The space has an active alarm. Each resident or working artist will receive a key and instructions about the alarm from WORM Production.
You can hire out Slash Gallery or pitch to be part of WORM’s regular events programme. There is a fixed hiring cost. Send your mail to Henrietta Muller. For questions regarding production and venue specs / floor plans, please mail Dan Fogarty: dan [at] worm [dot] org
During the coming four years (2025 to 2028) we will work with the three basic tenets of our new iteration: Ultimate Playground. These are: Culture of Play; Pleasure Activism; Fertile Ground
The key for Slash is the UP statement: “New perspectives lead to a fertile working environment that, in turn, leads to new perspectives!”
You can find a full statement about Ultimate Playground here. We ask you to bear in mind the following statements.
During 2025 we will listen and learn from audiences and makers. There will be a focus on deepening, broadening and increasing our involvement with them.
In the summer of 2016, the former garage at Boomgaardsstraat 69 became WORM’s “not-so-very-white cube”, or “performance space *slash* gallery”. Hence the name. And it remains a street-level, easy-access space.
During its first decade Slash Gallery quickly developed from an alternative gallery space hosting mainly wall-hung art, installations and performance nights to becoming a centre for fast-moving creative conversations, hybrid artforms and maker experiments. Most of this creative impetus has come from the city’s margins, via overlooked topics or alternative art practitioners, and those offering new and diverse perspectives, often from outside Rotterdam.
Consequently, the programme is fast-moving and incredibly varied in content and tools, approach, and discipline.
The gallery has always encouraged its public to be “involved from the start of the process, and to not only show up for the ‘show’”. We think how everyone experiences the whole event story is much more important.
A history of the first decade of Slash is currently being written and will be found on this site!