The 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 2:30 pm onwards. Audience on invitation is welcomed from 4 pm onwards.

From 14.30 hrs. a roundtable discussion with selected artists and moderated by curators of Nether Land will take place. This additional programme will take place in the Jing'An room of the Dutch Culture Centre. During the discussion, art lovers and art-world public can hear about the exhibition Nether Land. Places are limited so please rsvp to tickets@2010dcc.com.

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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