Located in the cultural heart of M4H, Keile District in Rotterdam is a vibrant cultural hub where art, innovation, and makers community come together.
Keile District x Rotterdam Art Week 2026
KEILE
DISTRICT x RAW2026
Looking for the perfect Rotterdam Art Week getaway? Spend your day exploring the Keile District, a cultural heart of Rotterdam M4H, where art, design, and innovation converge.
For Rotterdam Art Week 2026, the Keile District once again unites with an exciting program of exhibitions, performances, music, culinary experiences, and other unexpected discoveries. Walk between industrial buildings, pause for a drink or dinner, and be surprised by a variety of encounters waiting for you.
Program
Scapino Ballet Rotterdam presents an alienating world inhabited by hybrid creatures. A museum exhibition combined with a theatrical experience.
Double Helix, by artistic director Nanine Linning and designer Bart Hess, explores the physical impact of technological advancements on the human body. The project blends visual art, video, and performance with interactive elements to create a truly astonishing experience. Visitors can wander freely through four rooms of Katoenhuis during a one-hour guided tour.
Where does the body end, and the machine begin? Who or what will determine what it means to be human in the future? What happens if we start seeing the body as a machine, if we separate mind and body? And do we really want to limit ourselves to databases? Are we merely a collection of algorithms?
Performance time slots:
Wednesday – March 2519:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Thursday – March 26
19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Friday – March 27
19:30 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Saturday – March 28
15:00 | 15:30 | 16:00 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00Sunday – March 29
15:00 | 15:30 | 16:00 | 20:00 | 20:30 | 21:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9c, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Tickets required. Check here.
Media art exhibition Cosmic Cabinet features works of Katoenhuis community artists: Zalán Szakács, Studio den Haan, and Nick Mansveld. Cosmic Cabinet takes place in the upper space of Katoenhuis, a location that naturally feels like an observatory.
Rather than presenting only finished immersive installations, Cosmic Cabinet focuses on process. Immersive works often hide their own construction, but here the making itself is revealed. Materials, tests, and experiments are brought forward, offering a behind-the-scenes perspective on the practices of the artists working at Katoenhuis collaboratively or individually. The exhibition celebrates curiosity, trial and error, and the labour that usually remains unseen.
Opening times:
Wednesday – March 25
13:00-20:30Thursday – March 26
13:00-20:30Friday – March 27
13:00-20:30Saturday – March 28
10:00-20:30
Sunday – March 29
10:00-20:30
Location:
Keilestraat 9c, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Regular admission: €5 per person (on site)
Children under 12: Free
Scapino visitors: Reduced rate €2.50 per person (with a Double Helix ticket)
RAW visitors: Free (with a passe-partout)
Haute Photographie in the KeileZaal will open with the special focus ‘Wild & Earth’. This edition highlights the relationship between animals and their habitats, featuring eight leading photographers capturing the majestic beauty of wildlife, impressive landscapes, and vulnerable ecosystems. The exhibition combines aesthetic power with social relevance.
Opening times:
Wednesday – March 25
14:00 - 18:-00 Press + VIP Preview
19:00 - 23:00 Grand Opening (by invitation only)
Thursday – March 2612:00 – 19:00
Friday – March 27
12:00 – 19:00
Saturday – March 28
10:00 – 19:00
Sunday – March 29
10:00 – 17:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Tickets: €15,- normal entrance fee, €10,- for students, children free (go to the ticket shop)
For this edition of RAW, KeileContemporary moves to the basement of the building, the new night club Export, with “And Hope It Survives the Introduction Night XD”. This group exhibition features young, Netherlands-based artists exploring the theme of fleeting experiences. The works approach this theme from both personal and communal perspectives, forming a constellation of time and space relations while reflecting on the societal context in which contemporary experiences occur.
Opening times:
Friday – March 27
12:00 to 17:00
Saturday – March 28
12:00 to 17:00
Sunday – March 29
12:00 to 17:00
Location:
Keilestraat 7A, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
The exhibition Cult=us=Gallery Again! transforms resto-bar Cult=us into a gallery full of amazing art with innovative and sustainable artworks.
Opening times:
Thursday - March 26
12:00 – 00:00
Friday – March 27
12:00 – 00:00
Saturday – March 28
10:00 to 00:00
Sunday – March 2910:00 to 00:00
Location:
Keilestraat 7A, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Kunst en Complex is one of the oldest studio complexes in Rotterdam and the Netherlands.
There are 27 studios in Kunst en Complex. With a variety of emerging talent, established talent and international talent. Take this opportunity to see the artworks up close and talk to the makers.
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
11:00 – 19:00
Sunday – March 29
11:00 – 19:00
Location:
Keileweg 26, 3029 BT
Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Curated by Ine Gevers, AUTONOMOUS is neurospicy and psychedelic, pushing back against the AI-generated monoculture of the mind. Through large-scale installations, immersive videos and interactive experiences, the exhibition launches a takeover of our computer-controlled, capitalist society.
The exhibition presents neurodiverse ways of thinking not as limitations, but as essential forms of resistance and liberation, showing that a society that can think only in terms of efficiency ultimately loses its humanity, while different ways of thinking open the perspectives needed to reshape it.
Participating artists and artist collectives
HipSick, Stefan Panhans & Andrea Winkler, Oscar Peters, Warren Neidich, Ieva Valule, Levenslust Academie, melanie bonajo, Jennifer Kanary, Shertise Solano, Floris Schönfeld, Charles Stankievech, Andrea Khôra, Antoine Moulinard, Pedro Miguel Matias, Inès Sieulle, Suzanne Treister, Natasha Tontey and Emergence Delft
Opening times:
Wednesday – March 25
20:00 opening
Thursday – March 26
11:00 to 21:00
Friday – March 27
11:00 to 21:00
Saturday– March 28
11:00 to 21:00
Sunday – March 2911:00 to 21:00
Location:
Keileweg 10b, 3029 BS Rotterdam
Tickets:
Adults: Adults: €10.00, Museumjaarkaart, Rotterdampas, and WeArePublic are also free.
Brutus does not accept ICOM cardholders.
(to the ticket shop)In this participatory, contemporary ritual we explore the threshold between winter and spring, between endings and new beginnings, between living through collapse and living towards a life-sustaining future. What is this time asking of you/us?In the stillness between seasons, what are we ready to let fall away—and what is beginning to bloom in the growing light?
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
Sign up for one of the time slots:12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 14:00
15:00 – 16:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5
3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Send a mail to reserve your spot hello@therootoflife.net with your preferred time slot and transfer €12,50 to NL17TRIO0198342713 Voedseltuin Rotterdam
During Rotterdam Art Week, you’ll have the chance to discover Keilewerf up close!
On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March, you can walk through our 1,500 m² warehouse and step behind the creative doors of workshops and studios. See makers at work, get inspired by their projects, visit the exhibition, join a workshop, and purchase unique, locally made creations directly from the makers.
Participants you can visit:
Buro van Wieren, Conform Cox, Creme Fraiche, Eversom, Frans de Winter, Frans van der Horst Ontmoetingsinstallaties, Izgoed, Jacqueline Fuijkschot Fotografie, M&H Reizende Tentoonstellingen, Marianne Goudswaard, Marjoleine Molenaar, Pieter Stadler, protoproto, Rietgoed, Roozeboos, SOCOCO, Studio Selma Hamstra, Tessa Biemans, TTOTT, Verveeld & Verward, Vierkante Meter, Voedseltuin, and VILTT.
For the full program, visit the Keilewerf website.
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
11:00 to 18:00
Sunday – March 29
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a,
3029 BP Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
On Saturday, 28 March 2026, the doors of the new location at Keileweg 10A will open with Roodkapje’s Housewarming: a 12-hour program where music, visual art, performance, and food come together — exactly as only Roodkapje can do.
At the new location on Keileweg, café, stage, lab, kitchen, and exhibition spaces merge. Roodkapje returns to its essence: a low-threshold, hospitable living room where music, visual art, and food strengthen one another.
Concerts/performances by Min Taka, Camy Huot, Library Card, Loveth Besamoh, DJ Shahmaran, Guenter Råler, The Sweet Release of Death, M.U.G., Lui Surreal, Triangulation, sp3llxlocket, soма (TREVOGA), Hamburger Community, Riso Wizards and more.Exhibition on view with works by Philippa Driest, Sandim Mendes, Rizqita Naherta, NÉNÉ, Ratri Notosudirdjo and Maoyi Qiu
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
18:00 to 06:00
Location:
Keileweg 10A
3029 BS Rotterdam
Tickets:
18:00-21:00 free entrance
21:00-06:00 12,50During Rotterdam Art Week, the exhibition ItUnd’s Universe by artist Vittorio Roerade opens at the Citrusveiling Rotterdam. In this temporarily opened industrial monument, ten years of work are brought together for the first time.
More than 2,000 drawings, dozens of paintings, and bronze sculptures form a universe of parallel worlds: alienating, playful, and strangely familiar at the same time. Visitors wander through Roerade’s visual universe much as it emerged in his studio—space after space, world after world—within a site marked by history, concrete, echoes, and raw charm.
Opening times:
Wednesday – March 25
17:00 - 19:30 (opening)
Thursday – March 26
10:00–18:00
Friday – March 27
10:00–18:00
Saturday – March 28
10:00–18:00
Sunday – March 2910:00–18:00
Location:
Marconistraat 25
3029 AG Rotterdam
Tickets:
Free entrance
Food & drinks
Cult=us offers a warm and dynamic atmosphere where you can enjoy food and drinks throughout the day. Combining the culinary crafts of the shared Food Union kitchen, you can explore a variety of flavours and cuisines from lunch to dinner. During the day, Levito will serve homemade Italian sandwiches, and in the evening, snacks and dinner will be served by Cult=us. The bar will be open all day, so you can perk up with a coffee or unwind with a cocktail.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 26
12:00 – 00:00
Friday – March 27
12:00 – 00:00
Saturday – March 28
10:00 – 00:00
Sunday – March 29
10:00 – 00:00
Location:
Keilestraat 7A , 3029 BP Rotterdam
Brand-new KeileBistro on the first floor of the Keilepand, featuring products from within the building, such as sweets from Shubies, bubbles from Urban Winery, and snacks from chef Kelvin.
Opening times:
Thursday – March 26
11:00 – 21:00
Friday – March 27
11:00 – 21:00
Saturday – March 28
10:00 – 21:00
Sunday – March 29
10:00 – 17:00
Location:
Keilestraat 9F, 3029 BP Rotterdam
Enjoy the cozy coffee bar of SOCOCO Coffee at Keilewerf, a Rotterdam specialty coffee company focused on social and sustainable impact. They work directly with farmers and create opportunities for people with distance to the labor market.
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
11:00 to 18:00
Sunday – March 29
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a,
3029 BP RotterdamOpening times:
Saturday – March 28
11:00 to 18:00
Sunday – March 29
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a 3029 BP
RotterdamOn Sunday, March 29th, you can sample BRASA's Argentinian Asado. BRASA was founded by a group of Argentinian friends who found each other in the Netherlands, connected by fire, food, and their shared roots. It's more than just barbecuing: it's the ritual of coming together, taking time, and sharing moments with friends and family. With every barbecue, they bring the spirit of Argentina here. When the fire dies down, one thing remains: connection.
Opening times:
Sunday – March 29
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a,
3029 BP RotterdamOpening times:
Sunday – March 29
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a 3029 BP
RotterdamOn Saturday, March 28th, you can make and bake your own pizza at Städler Made in their artisanal wood-fired ovens. Choose your ingredients, create your pizza, and experience for yourself how delicious freshly baked pizza can be.
Opening times:
Saturday – March 28
11:00 to 18:00
Location:
Keilestraat 5a 3029 BP
Rotterdam
Special activities
17:00 - 19:30
Opening of Vittorio Roerade exhibition at Citrusveiling
19:00 – 23:00
Opening of the Haute Photographie at Keilepand
20:00
Opening of the AUTONOMOUS exhibition at Brutus
16:00 – 18:00
Book launch Fresh Eyes at Keilepand (Haute Photographie)
19:30 – 21:00
Try-out for the HipSick performance [DIS]ORDER at Brutus
19:30 – 21:00
HipSick performance [DIS]ORDER at Brutus
10:00 – 11:30
Belt Workshop by Eversom at Keilewerf
10:45 – 13:00
Mini workshop The Red Thread of Textile by Studio I Focus at Keilewerf
11:00, 14:30
Connected by innovation: PdBB x M4H (SOLD OUT)
11:00 – 12:30
Sticker workshop with Tessa Biemans at Keilewerf
12:00; 13:00; 15:00
A Collective Ritual for Endings and New Beginnings at Voedseltuin Rotterdam
12:00 – 16:00
Coffee, tea, and cake at Voedseltuin
12:30 - 16:00
Live portraits with Conform Cox at Keilewerf
13:00 – 17:00
Create your own unique Duvel glass at Keilewerf
14:00
Road Ragers – Charlotte van Otterloo at Keilewerf
18:00 - 06:00
Housewarming celebration at Roodkapje
21:00 – 02:00
Operator x Brutus RAW afterparty at Brutus
All day
10 Years of Creation – Studio Selma Hamstra. Open studio + pop-up shop with glassworks and live glass blowing at Keilewerf
10:00 – 11:30
Belt workshop by Eversom at Keilewerf
11:00 – 12:30
Sticker workshop with Tessa Biemans at Keilewerf
12:30 – 16:00
Live portraits with Conform Cox at Keilewerf
19:00 – 21:00
French fries hour with music at Kunst & Complex
10:00 – 11:30
Belt Workshop by Eversom at Keilewerf
12:30 – 16:00
Live Portraits by illustrator Conform Cox at Keilewerf
How to get here?
Getting here is easy! Take public transport (Marconiplein), park for free in the area, or, if you're feeling adventurous, hop on a Watertaxi (Stop 81). It is also only a 10-minute bike ride from the city centre.
