Date: Friday June 19
Time: 19:00 – 20:30 (doors open 18:30)
Location: Theater Hall of Donner Bookstore, Coolsingel 129
Language: Dutch
Free entrance
Register via the website van Donner is mandatory
The artwork has stood on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam since 2025. A Minute of Shelter by Narges Mohammadi, a memorial for victims and survivors of femicide. The work was commissioned by the Municipality of Rotterdam following the tragic murder in 2018 of sixteen-year-old Rotterdam schoolgirl Hümeyra.
Earlier this year, SIR and BKOR organized Z-Files #33: A Minute of Shelter, with thinkers and writers on the role of art in making the vulnerable position of women visible. In the publication A Minute of Shelter A number of their lectures have now been brought together: the commissioned essays by political philosopher and researcher Catherine Koekoek and Vienna Professor of Visual Arts Elke Krasny, supplemented by a foreword by Sandra Smets and an interview with Narges Mohammadi.
During the presentation, Catherine Koekoek reads from her essay. An island in time: on feminist space and resistance and she enters into a conversation with Mohammadi. The first copy is presented to the initiators of the Rotterdam Year of the Woman 2025: Anouk van Mil and Marjan Beijering.
The publication is available for €9,95 at Donner, vanGennep, NAi Booksellers, TENT, Stroom (The Hague), Savannah Bay (Utrecht), and Limestone Books (Maastricht).
About the publication
Kim Bouvy, Sannetje van Haarst (ed), with contributions by Kim Bouvy, Catherine Koekoek, Elke Krasny, Sandra Smets
Text editing: Marjolein Geraedts
Translation: Marie Louise Schoondergang
Photography: Jannes Linders, Lizzy Zaanen
Design: 75B
Printing: Segers Printing
Publisher: CBK Rotterdam, June 2026
Price: €9,95 (available for €7,50 during the book presentation)
ISBN: 978-90-9042343-2
