Holding Time
Duo-Exhibit & Temporary Project Space
by ragnadóttir
& marijke de pous
7-28 June 2026
Rijnhavenkade 252
Rotterdam
The Exhibit
Holding Time is a duo-exhibit and temporary project space by ragnadóttir & Marijke de Pous that brings together their work in photography, drawing and sculptural performance around one shared desire: to hold and embrace time.
Sometimes a moment arises that feels so intense and connected that we want it to last. Photography seems to be a way to still time. Yet each time we look at a photo, any moment we capture continues to weave and extend itself into the present. Performance on the other hand only exists while it is happening: the performance lives in the moment — in the body, in the space, and in the experience of whomever is watching.
In Holding Time Marijke and Bryndís bring these two worlds together. By combining their work with a curated program of live performances Holding Time explores the tension between stillness and movement, between the captured and the fleeting moment, and the ways we are intimately connected with time through our body. The exhibit invites you to feel emotional presence and allow yourself to be present: here, in the moment, when past and future visit and stillness moves.
Outside opening hours Holding Time will function as a creative ‘in between’ to deepen the resonance between the works and performances.and create new site-specific & collaborative work.
All of this has been made possible by the enthusiastic support and generous contributions of many friends, family and neighbours who have supported our crowdfunding campaign. Holding Time has also received funding from the Cultuurfonds Provincie Zuid Holland and the gemeente Rotterdam. Our thanks goes out to all of you!
Programme
Free entrance The exhibit & live events are open to visitors free of charge. Keep an eye out on this page as the program takes further shape!
Visiting hours: Saturdays & Sundays from 12am - 6pm
Holding Time is open to visitors each weekend in June, and on appointment*
13 & 14th of June - 20 & 21th of June - 27 & 28th of June
Sunday June 7th: festive opening - from 4pm
With live performances, music, drinks, snacks & tunes
Saturday 20th June: guided meditation on stillness & movement between 10-11am
Join us for a guided meditation by Willem de Pous before the exhibit opens.
Read more & sign up (free).
Sunday 21 June:electronic duo set from 3-4pm
Innerfro & Igor Ambrosin will perform an electronic duo set in resonance with the space, work & theme of Holding Time.
Saturday June 27th: South Explorer: - 12am - 6pm
with live performances in the afternoon (detailed programme will follow mid June)
Sunday June 28th:Finissage - from 3pm
with live performances & drinks (detailed programme will follow mid June)
* please get in touch with Marijke de Pous via: 0649869542
The Artists
Marijke de Pous
Like a dancer expressing emotion through movement or a sculptor capturing presence with one pose perpetually still, I like to work with the body as a tool for direct expression. Amidst mountains, fields and in my studio, I dance with landscape and materials to explore our emotional relation to the earth and each other.
While working I playfully move between drawing, performative gesture, sculpture and photography. My embodied way of working and the use of natural materials such as charcoal, graphite and mud allow me to create raw and expressive images, in which content and process merge. A kind of thinking through making, which foregrounds the emotional, entangled, and conflicted nature of our human condition.
In Holding Time I will present & develop new work alongside a selection of a key works from the past four years as Seedling Sowing Seeds: in celebration of all that has flourished and all that is yet to come.
https://marijkedepous.com
@marijke_de_pous
ragnadóttir
In my work, I move through an inner landscape that never stands still. Thoughts come and go, collide, disappear, and reappear like flickering flames in a space without beginning or end. This photo series is an attempt to hold that movement for just a moment. Not to freeze it, but to meet it.
My images emerge from the feeling that thoughts can feel trapped, as if they are searching for a way out. Photography becomes a way to make that tension visible. A temporary form where something intangible briefly takes on a body.
Within Holding Time, my work reflects a shared desire: to preserve a moment that moves us. But a moment is never truly still. Even when captured, it continues to shift in memory, in feeling, and over time.
With this series, I invite you to pause. To feel your own thoughts in motion, and perhaps, just for a moment, to hold that fleetingness without trying to fix it in place.
https://ragnadottir.com/
@ragnadottir_
Holding Time performers
Erin Skye Circus
Exploring themes of human connection and intimacy, Erin’s work is strongly influenced by the body's angles and a/symmetries, a human’s relation to space, intimate atmospheres, tiny intricate sounds and the connection performers and audiences have with one another. Graduating cum laude from Codarts in 2019, with her act ‘Welcome to the void’, Erin has toured with solo acts and performed with companies such as; Boost Producties, Back Pocket, Scapino Ballet, Chateau de Versailles and most recently and up coming; Cirque Galapiat.
‘A place in-between’
For the opening of Holding Time Erin will perform her piece ‘A place in-between’: a foray into an adjacent world and body. Limbs and joints merge and transform into various configurations, lost within their own process, searching for stability. Trying to find new possibilities of movement in a pose which would usually constrain most.
Thomas Fauc
Thomas is a French dancer and maker trained at the Ballet Junior de Genève. For the past two years, he has been performing with Conny Janssen Danst while also developing freelance & independent artistic projects. Driven by a deep interest in experimentation, Thomas explores movement through honesty, sensitivity, vulnerability, and the complexity of the human body in motion. He is particularly drawn to site-specific work, investigating how performance and location can merge to create experiences that are uniquely shaped by and rooted in their environment.
Pt. 1 Motion of a Condensate
For the opening of Holding Time Thomas will share the first movement of a piece that finds its inspiration in the water cycle. Starting from a single drop of water, Thomas explored how the body experiences an unpredictable process that interrupts and deconstructs what is being formed, while being traversed by a constant motion: to drive to keep on being.
Further research led him to the Bose–Einstein condensate, where atomic wave functions lose their individual identities as the expand and merge into a single collective state when the temperature drops to ultra-low temperatures. In this motion, three dancers, like particles, find shared behaviour while continuously remaining imbalanced. The human body then becomes a point of reference, allowing the audience to relate, feel, sense and reflect on abstract movement, bearing witness to a living cycle.
Maude Courent
Maude Courdent is a contemporary dancer trained at the Ballet du Nord and the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille. She began her professional career with Elephant in the Black Box Junior Ballet, then spent two years with the Ballet Junior de Genève, performing works by internationally renowned choreographers. Since 2024, she has been dancing with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam in Rotterdam. Alongside her performing career, she holds diplomas in philosophy, dance pedagogy, and musical training. Maude is one of three dancers in Motion of a Condensate.
Margarida Silva
Margarida Silva is a Portuguese contemporary dancer trained at the Ginasiano School of Dance and at the Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower in France. During her studies, she performed with the Cannes Jeune Ballet and developed her solo work THERE, NOT THERE, presented at the Læsø Kunstfestival in 2025. Since 2024, she has danced with Conny Janssen Danst in Rotterdam and now works as a freelance performer, choreographer, and teacher, currently collaborating with Béatrice Larrivée on the project The Doors of Perception. Margarida is one of the three dancers in Motion of a Condensate.
Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat (Innerfro)
Innerfro is a Singaporean double bassist, composer, electronic artist, producer, audio mixing engineer, and educator based in Rotterdam. He leads PIN and Kinestatic: interdisciplinary collectives based in Rotterdam and Brussels that explore multiplicities between motion and stasis. Innerfro seeks to decode and reclaim ourselves as interconnected bodies moving and breathing in flux of differences. In his most recent escapade, he contemplates the differences between us and his microscopic friends over an initially-hot cup of Bengal Spice tea .
Holding Time Biotope
For Holding Time, Innerfro will set up an installation focusing on interactions with a wild-collected pond biotope that features microscopic ecology from the Rijnhaven area, and morphs as it balances and matures throughout the month. As the pond biotope goes through internal ecological variations and feedback, he will add musical feedback to and from his instruments and the biotope and further explore the resonance and interactions between the space, the artworks and the biotope.
Electronic duo set
On Sunday 21 June Innerfro & Igor Ambrosin will perform an electronic duo set.
Igor Ambrosin
is an Italian pianist, electronic musician, improviser and composer who is emerging on the new European scene of contemporary jazz. His music combines the love for improvisation with a deep exploration of rhythmic complexity, bringing an original and genre-fluid approach to composition and interplay. His main current project is the Igor Ambrosin Trio, an international band featuring him on piano alongside Jonathan Ho on double bass and live electronics and Pierre Hurty on drums. Igor lives in Amsterdam, where he works and spends his free time clumsily solving sudoku
Claire Lintelo
Claire Lintelo creates her music from a subconcious level. For years she has been combining dynamic city life with the peace and power of the sea. Surfing, memories and nature are at the core of her creativity. During her writing process Claire connects with what actually moves her. Translating these deeper feelings into a personal and authentic sound. The result: pure and soulful songs both stark and raw, light and playful.
For the opening of Holding Time Claire will focus on how her voice is carried and held by the space.
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