750 visitors per day can ride electric cars, viewing works from the museum’s collection
Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is creating a ‘drive-thru’ exhibition, in partnership with the city’s convention centre Rotterdam Ahoy – hundreds of visitors per day will be able to drive electric cars through the events hall where more than 40 pieces from the museum’s collection will be displayed.
In the dimly lit hall of Ahoy, illuminated by the cars driving through, a series of artworks from the museum’s collection will be on display: works by Ted Noten, Oskar Kokoschka, Bas Jan Ader, Melanie Smith, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Cyprien Gaillard, Joep van Lieshout, Wieki Somers and Jim Shaw. The show will also feature installations by Bas Princen, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Anselm Kiefer, Olaf Nicolai and Marijke van Warmerdam.
With the bricks-and-mortar museum still in ‘lockdown’, and cultural life confined to ‘home and on the screens of our various devices’, Boijmans promises a ’totally new experience’. Museum director Sjarel Ex said: ‘We look forward to this event that promises action and contemplation, excitement and amazement.’
