We're proud to share that Gamze Öztürk (DAI, 2024) has been selected to be part of the Hamburger Community 25–26 residency at Roodkapje in Rotterdam. Gamze will be joining the program alongside Dalal Mitwally, Goretti Pombo, Lon Luna, and Oji Nauli. "A group of artists in transit — tourists, musicians, and tram-riding witches — come together in a fleeting world of constant movement." The resident's first public moments together — collaborative Happenings with Collective Wasteland (of which current DAI student Erik Peters is a member), are taking place at Het Nieuwe Instituut and Roodkapje on 3rd & 24th July 2025.
In 2019, Roodkapje introduced its artist-in-residency programs dubbed the Hamburger Community of Art & Live. Since then 26 artists have been developing and showing their work, both in solo exhibitions and in collaboration with mentors such as Mette Sterre, Nora Turato, Alexandra Philips and the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.
In 2023, the former two artist residencies Hamburger Community of Art & Live merged into one program Hamburger Community – Test Site. Alongside artist and researchers Katinka de Jonge and Simon Kentgens, Roodkapje learned more about collective artistic exchange and experimented with different forms of meeting, exchanging, plotting and colluding. Collectivity and interdisciplinary collaboration remain at the core of the Hamburger Community in 2024 and 2025, where residents take the Happening as their main focus.
More details here.
WASTELAND x HAMBURGER COMMUNITY
What’s Happening?!
We don't collect garbage. We collect power, survival, and the shit society wants to forget.
Thursday 24 July
Happening by the Hamburger Community: Dalal Mitwally, Gamze Öztürk, Goretti Pombo, Lon Luna and oji nauli
*on a location yet to be disclosed...
This year, Collective Wasteland holds a mentorship position for the Hamburger Community. Together they take a deep dive into the themes of the festival. Expect to be surprised, immersed and challenged. Stay tuned for more details..
collective.wasteland (Katya Borisova, Yannik Güldner, Leon Lapa Pereira, Erik Peters and Anne Vera Veen) is an interdisciplinary art collective dedicated to artistic research and collaborative experiments that address the complexities of waste ecologies.
About Gamze Öztürk