The Dutch Culture Centre's fifth exhibition Nether Land, is opening on the 19th of June with a roundtable discussion with artists and curators, a press preview and a cocktail reception.
The press will be welcomed from 2.30pm onwards in the DCC theatre. Audience is welcomed from 3pm onwards for the roundtable discussion and 4pm for the opening reception.

Nether Land will be opened outdoors in front of the 800Show building, by Mrs. Monique Knapen, coordinator of the DCC. Also Nicolaus Schafhausen will give a short introduction on the With de Witt Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Monika Szewczyk will explain about Nether Land and the participating artists.
After the speeches there will be a dance performance choreographed by nunu kong of brand nu Dance, with the dancers Liu Yanan, Zhou Yun, Yang Jing, Liu Ran accompanied by two famous jazz players Feng Yu Cheng and JQ Whitcomb will perform live. This performance is a part of the installation Star-Crossed by Jeniffer Tee. The performance will also take place every Saturday and Sunday at 3pm.

Nether Land is an act of Morality* realized specifically for the “world stage” of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

Nether Land highlights diverse international artistic practices that engage with the paradoxes of cross-cultural perception and fantasies of foreign and alternative production, including the production of life. Each of the exhibited works projects a different relationship with a far away land – China, Africa, Europe and the Middle East – or estranges the here and now, making it impossible for a cumulative portrait of a country or culture to emerge. Throughout, the immense impact of such viewing – from a distance and across borders – on the aesthetic and political values that underpin contemporary artistic practice in a global arena comes into sharper relief.

Participating artists: Allan Sekula (US), Erik van Lieshout (NL/DE), Jacques de Koning (NL), Jennifer Tee (NL), Ken Lum (CAN), Lidwien van de Ven (NL/DE), MadeIn (PRC), Meschac Gaba (BEN/NL), Sarah Morris (US), Zheng Guogu (PRC).

Curators: Nicolaus Schafhausen and Monika Szewczyk, assisted by Amira Gad.
Detailed programme and further information is also available on www.wdw.nl

Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art is funded by the City of Rotterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Culture.
This exhibition is generously supported by the City of Rotterdam ,Mondriaan Foundation and the Dutch Culture Centre / Netherlands China Arts Foundation. With thanks to the Fonds BKVB. 

* Morality is the leitmotif for a year-long series of exhibitions, events and discursive programmes that engages with the contemporary challenges posed by an intense sharing and shifting of values (spiritual, cultural and economic). This leitmotif guides the programme of the Witte de With, Center for Contemporary from the Fall of 2009 to the Fall of 2010.

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