Kunstinstituut Melly

Kunstinstituut Melly
The centre in Rotterdam
Kunstinstituut Melly is located in Northern and Central Europe
Kunstinstituut Melly
Location within Northern and Central Europe
Former name
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
Established1990[1]
Location50 Witte de Withstraat, 3012 BR
Rotterdam the Netherlands
TypeContemporary art gallery
DirectorSofía Hernández Chong Cuy[2]
CuratorJessy Koeiman, Rosa De Graff
Websitewww.wdw.nl Edit this at Wikidata

Kunstinstituut Melly[3][4][5] is a contemporary art gallery located in a former school building on Witte de Withstraat, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1990 and originally named after the street it was located on. It presents curated exhibitions, symposiums, live events, educational programs, and has a separate art literature publishing arm.

In 2017, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, as it was known, announced it would change its name in order to distance itself from its de facto namesake, the Dutch naval admiral Witte de With, and recognise the negative impacts of colonialism. Its new name, Kunstinstituut Melly, was announced in 2020,[6][7] and references a sculpture by Canadian artist Ken Lum displayed on the exterior wall of the building entitled Melly Shum Hates Her Job (1989).

  1. ^ Lorente, J. Pedro (2011). The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 7. ISBN 9781409405863.
  2. ^ "Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy". Archived from the original on 2018-01-08. Retrieved 2018-01-08.
  3. ^ "Kunstinstelling Witte de With in Rotterdam heet voortaan Melly". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  4. ^ "New name, new identity: An interview with Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, the director of Kunstinstituut Melly". Art Index Rotterdam. 2021-01-27. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  5. ^ "Who Is Melly Shum? On FKA Witte de With's Name Change". Ocula. 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  6. ^ "Verslag van de directeur en de raad van toezicht 30 september 2020". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Noem ons voortaan Kunstinstituut Melly". Kunstinstituut Melly. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.