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‼️OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 👀 💌 During Museum Night, we invite a small group of participants to write a collective letter to an ex. An anonymous letter written together. We will compose it from the stories we project onto strangers, our assumptions and shared narratives. A LETTER TO MY EX is an intimate, and experimental participative performance in dialogue with the exhibition #beyondsurrealism at @boijmans . The performance is hosted by spoken word artist @romyebauer No special skills are required to take part, only curiosity, and a willingness to engage with the space, the people around you, and your own emotional responses. Places are limited. Register via the link in bio to reserve your spot and receive your pass. We will keep you informed by email. Location: Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Date & Time: 7 March 2026, 20:30–21:30 Made possible thanks to the contributions of @cbkrotterdam , @cultuurfonds , @boijmans

@romyebauer is back between light and night, giving a special tour during Museum Night at Depot Boijmans, Rotterdam 🧚🏻‍♂️ Reserve you free pass to participate in the tour via the #linkinbio. Spots are limited! Museum Night 7 March 2026 20:30 - 21:00 Depot Boijmans The music in this video is from @rada_vogel ’s piece in the expo Beyond Surrealism at @boijmans .

I’m back ❤️ #mentalhealthmatters #selfcare

@buisness.biz Hillenlaan 49D 3073 JE Rotterdam Sunday 13/07 11AM - 3PM

I asked for permission instead of just doing my thing 😩 . . . . #romybauer #neverask #frustrations #artisttalks #conceptualartists #soboring😒 #artworldtoday #crukjes #missedopportunities

Join us during ✨BE NICE✨ a vibrant participative gathering at BUISNESS, an artist-run space in Rijnhaven Rotterdam. This event brings together community, food, performance, art, research, dialogue and above all ✨emotions✨. BE NICE invites FLINTA artists to reflect on our everlasting heritage of repressed feelings: being nice to avoid conflict, smiling for the sake of pleasing. Together, we explore how our behaviours—even when ‘deconstructed’—are still shaped by traditional gender roles, and how we internalize expectations of niceness when we feel frustrated or angry. Why do we soften our voices and lower our tone when our emotional landscape is burning? Alongside the joy of coming together, this group exhibition creates space for shared experiences, misunderstandings, and emotions. We welcome honesty, anger, mistakes, bad taste and the unapologetic display of feelings. We hope to open conversations about how we adapt our behaviour to please others, and how we might break free from these patterns—and if we want to break free at all. Save the date: Sunday 13 July, whether you're joining the conversation or simply curious. 💌 Please reserve your spot for the brunch and workshop: [email protected] (limited seats & food). We look forward to seeing you @BUISNESS , Hillelaan 49D, 3072 JE Rotterdam. Open to the public – Free entry @manonmalan @l_i_s_a_m_e_i_j_e_r @___eat_your_feelings___ @romyebauer @marievanhaaster @___iamair___ @buisness.biz Event made possible with the support of @cbkrotterdam and & V2_Lab 🪷

I got ghosted by the love of my life... #narcissist #narcissiticabuserecovery #selftherapy❤️ #spokenword #healing #forreal #journalentry

We're getting there #healingasart #aesthetic #cringe #healing #capitalism #spiritualityaesthetic

My journal entry on Motel Mozaique's Healing as Art event on 19 April 2025 🌵 the full text is in bio if you have nothing else to do

So, last Saturday I went to @motelmozaique for this event — Healing as Art. Thank you to my friend @hamaremar for the birthday gift. Super thoughtful 🥰 The idea was about sleeping together, not like that, but collective sleeping, and performances, all focused on healing and meditation. Which is actually quite my thing these days. But something didn’t really sit right with me, you know? Maybe you need some experience with healing to really feel it. The whole thing, honestly, it felt a bit like a youth hostel. Dirty sheets, drunk people landing in from parties... For €50, I expected something more sacred. That’s even more than a night in an 8-bed hostel room here in Rotterdam. And this had twelve bunk beds! But okay, it was also an art installation, with purple neon lights, some parachute cloth as a tent, sheets hanging with dried flowers, and those loud office wind blowers making all that fabric wave. That part, that was actually kind of cool, kind of magical, but not like the website photos at all. In the pictures, everything was white and peaceful and clean. This was more like... underground rave meets yoga retreat. We arrived around ten in the evening, and outside, there were already people sleeping on the street. That gave me a strange feeling. I’m going to this special event to “heal,” but two meters away, people are really just trying to survive the night. Is it me or are there a lot more people on the street these days in Rotterdam? It didn’t feel okay. I couldn’t give my spot away because we had paper wristbands. You cannot remove them without tearing them and there was a guard watching the entrance the whole night. But still, I felt like I missed the chance to help someone. I mean deep down, if I really wanted, I could have done something, right? And just feeling like a privileged hypocrite will not change anything for them. Western guilt is privilege. The guard welcomed us and brought us into De Doelen, that big building with all the concert rooms. The setting took place in the entrance hall, near the escalators... Read full text in bio 🫀🌵 #rotterdam #healingaesthetic #artreview #journalentry #hypocrisy

Somatic work is where I come back to the body. Before language, before logic, just sensation. The truth lives in the breath, in the ache, In the quite places we forget to feel. #breathwork #breathe #inhaling #anxietyrelief #anxiety