GALLERY FOR CONCRETE ART MAASHAVEN ZUIDZIJDE 19 · ROTTERDAM
NOW POURING N°9 — SETTLEMENT 14 JUN–21 SEP 2026
MASS IS AN ARGUMENT. VOID IS ITS PROOF.
MASSVOID shows concrete as it is: cast, cured, stained, cracked. No renders, no scale models, no pictures of sculpture. The sculpture. The building is a 1957 aggregate silo that spent forty years holding sand, so it knows more about weight than we do. We hang nothing. Everything stands.
WORKS
G7 SCHEDULE OF WORKS
| REF | ARTIST | WORK | YEAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| B4 | KETTUNEN | Slump Test 41 | 2024 |
| G4 | SOKOL | Monument to a Formwork | 2023 |
| A5 | FUCHS | Aggregate Memory | 2025 |
| F5 | JÓNSDÓTTIR | Weather Report, North Face | 2024 |
| A6 | REEDIK | Load Path | 2022 |
| A7 | DEMIR | Tie Hole Choir | 2025 |
Six works, forty-one tonnes. The floor was checked twice.
CURRENT EXHIBITION · 14 JUN–21 SEP 2026
POUR N°9 SETTLEMENT
Concrete makes one promise and keeps it slowly: it gets harder, and it sinks. POUR N°9 watches settlement happen. New casts by Kettunen and Demir. Sokol's Monument, shown for the first time since Venice. And the building itself, measured weekly, sinking 0.3 mm a year into the Maas clay: listed, for once, as an artist.
OPENSFRI 13 JUN, 19:00
MIXER TRUCKARRIVES 20:15
CLOSESSUN 21 SEP, 18:00
RESULTSREAD ALOUD AT THE CLOSING
PROGRAMME
- 26 JUNTALKAgainst Render — Roos & Varga on why we show no images19:30
- 10 JULPOURLive cast: Demir fills the east stair void18:00
- 24 JULFILMPOUR/FORM (1961, 16 mm), screened on the ramp wall21:00
- 07 AUGWORKSHOPBoard-marking for beginners. Gloves provided, splinters free14:00
- 21 AUGTALKJónsdóttir reads fourteen months of weather as minutes19:30
- 12 SEPCLOSINGSettlement measured, results read aloud. Cake, gray19:00
All events free with admission. Standing room: everywhere. Chairs: concrete.
VISIT
ADDRESS
Maashaven Zuidzijde 19
3081 KA Rotterdam
Metro D or E to Maashaven, then walk toward the silos. You cannot miss it. It is the one that looks like this website.
HOURS
THU–SUN 12:00–18:00
Closed Monday to Wednesday, for curing.
ADMISSION
€6 · UNDER 24 €0 · RAIN €0
The building is unheated. Dress like it.
ACCESS
One continuous ramp, ground to roof. Step-free since 1957, by accident and then by conviction. Assistance dogs welcome; pigeons tolerated.
THE SILO
The Verhoeven silo poured its last commercial aggregate in 1997, then stood open to the rain for twenty years. Hendrike Roos found it in 2018 with a birch growing out of cell 6. Emil Varga signed the structural report in one line: “Honest to a fault, like all good concrete.” We opened in 2019. We kept the birch.
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