Holding Time

7-28 June 2026

Duo-Exposition & Temporary Project Space

By ragnadóttir 

& Marijke de Pous

Rijnhavenkade 252  

Rotterdam

 The Exhibit 

Holding Time is a duo-exhibit and temporary project space by Bryndis Ragna (ragnadóttir) & Marijke de Pous that brings together their work in photography, drawing and sculptural performance around one shared desire: to hold and embrace time.

Photography seems to be a way to still time. Yet each time we look, any moment we’ve captured, continues to weave and extend itself into the present. In contrast, Performing Art only exists while it is happening: the performance lives in the moment — in the body, in the space, and the experience of whomever is watching. 

In Holding Time Marijke and Bryndís bring these two worlds together. Through a combination of photography, drawing and live performances Holding Time explores the tension between stillness and movement, between the captured and the fleeting, embodied moment. The exhibit invites you to feel emotional presence and allow yourself to be present. Here, in the moment, when past and future are visitors and stillness moves.

To extend the resonance in their work and the concept of Holding Time into the space Marijke & Bryndis are curating a program of live works in collaboration with dancers, performers and musicians. Between the opening and closing weekends the space will function as an creatieve ‘in between’ to deepen, develop and create (new) site-specific work in collaboration.

Programme

Opening: June 7th - from 16h
With live performances, music, drinks & DJ set

Opening times: weekends 12-18h
On Saturdays and Sundays the exhibit is open to visitors from 12-18h

South Explorer: June 27th 11-18h
with live performances & music

Finissage: June 28th
with live performances, music & drinks from 15h

Free entrance: the exhibit & live events are all open to visitors free of charge

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 troubled relations to the earth and each other. 

While working I playfully move between drawing, performative gesture, sculpture and photography. As I shift between layers and media the boundaries between body, landscape and materials start to blur: a way of being intimate with time and place.

In Holding Time I will present a combination of new work and a selection of key works from the past four years: to celebrate my deep dive back into artistic practice as Seedling Sowing Seeds.

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_