What happens when the daylight fades and Rotterdam lights up? Who moves through the streets, which places stay awake, which stories unfold while most of us sleep? In the exhibition Getekend: Rotterdam! Nachtwerk, city sketch artists Tessa Biemans, Peyman Fazeli and Steef Offerhaus each offer their own perspective on this theme. Commissioned by Stadsarchief Rotterdam and CBK Rotterdam, the city sketch artists set out over the past months to capture the theme ‘night in motion’.
The drawings brought together in Getekend: Rotterdam! Nachtwerk offer fragmentary glimpses into the many faces of Rotterdam's night. Together they form a snapshot of a city that is constantly in motion, even in the dark.
The work of Tessa Biemans (1988) breathes atmosphere. The many chalk drawings she makes as a city sketch artist together form a mosaic of Rott