Save the date: Exhibition opening on Saturday, 27 September.27 September–16 November 2025 Casco Art Institute: Working for the CommonsLange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht Scroll down for public program ⬇ From Casco's website: To land again, to find ground—not only beneath our feet, but within. Where do we truly live? After leaving, drifting, or being pulled away—how do we return? Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons is pleased to announce its 2025 Autumn artistic program, Rerooting in the Polder, an exhibition by Frisian artist and long-term Casco collaborator Wapke Feenstra.

Aarden in de Polder at Casco Art Institute, UtrechtWith Aarden in de Polder (Rerooting in the Polder) Wapke’s long-standing engagement turns toward the Dutch landscape, offering particular attention to the distinctive form of the polders: flat, low-lying tracts of land (re)claimed from the sea, lakes, or rivers, made agriculturally productive and protected by dikes, and maintained through an intricate network of canals, pumping stations, and drainage systems. Wapke has spent several decades investigating the ecologies of land - its physical, mental, and social dimensions - by tapping into local knowledges and engaging with people and the everyday.

Join us on November 24th, the final day of the Soils exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, for a special event dedicated to Watching Cow and Landscape (Kijken naar Koe en Landschap). This project explores questions that are not only relevant to farmers, but concern us all, such as solutions for sustainability. We welcome both experts and enthusiasts to look at the soils with us. How can the museum, and especially the art of seeing and watching, help us answer the important questions?

OIL online launch Thursday 7th November 6-7pm GMT This publication has developed from ‘Oil as far as the eye can see – Energy regimes in the everyday’ a tour curated and guided by Rachel Grant that took place across Aberdeen, as part of Myvillages’ Summer Camp titled ‘Who Has the Energy’, commissioned, produced and held at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, July 2023. Join us for a presentation and discussion with OIL publication author and editor Rachel Grant (Fertile ground, Aberdeen), Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire), Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and Scott Herrett (Just Transition Organiser for Friends of the Earth Scotland and member of Friends of St.

The Brabant chapter of the Cow and Landscape is part of the SOILS exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, until 24 November 2024. What place can Dutch rural and more-than-human life be given within contemporary art amid growing demands for agricultural transition? We believe that good coexistence between humans and the more-than-human requires us to recognize how the economy is rooted in local cultures and (natural) environments. The work introduces the conceptual framework rural sociologist Inez Dekker and visual artist Wapke Feenstra developed together for this project as they journey through the Netherlands from autumn 2020 to spring 2024.

RURAL SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS WRITER IN RESIDENCE ROTTERDAM 2023 We are happy to announce a new activity of learning and reflection in our school - writers in residence. It is made in collaboration with Goethe Instituut Rotterdam. Kevser Güler - a Turkish curator - from 8 till 19 November will be a writer in residence for Rural School of Economics (RSoE), in our base - Rotterdam. She will meet our network and write about our birthday party.

Looking back to the future we want – together celebrating and reflecting on 20 years of Myvillages 17 November 2023 in Rotterdam 11:00 - 16:00 Rural Rotterdam Trip 16:00 - 18:00 Gathering at TENT to connect and reconnect 18:00 - 20:00 DeUrbanising the Museum, panel and discussion at TENT 20:30 - 23:00 Party with good food and DJ Reza Afisina in Boerenzij Dear colleagues, friends, supporters and comrades of Myvillages

27 May – 20 August 2023Rural School of Economics takes part in show and program NATURECULTURES Chapter 2: THE GLASS CITY at the Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology - Radius, Delft (NL).For THE GLASS CITY, Rural School of Economics offers a temporary working space for the understanding of the rural beyond the binary with the urban. Instead, the rural is invoked as a place, a mindset, a memory, an amalgam of trans-local territories.

Bazo wrote an autobiographical story about the Hamar people and Gele made drawings of his pastoral childhood memories. Lumbung Press at documenta fifteen was happy to print the unique material! And voilà! A publication about Hamar through their own perspective! The Hamar currency is cattle and all land is free to be used by anyone. The book is also a complicated story of a conflict between strict customs and demands for change.

DEUTSCHER TEXT: bitte scrollen ***************************************** Rural Undercurrents in and around KasselMeet and Greet, an Economic Summit, Lumbung Kios Market and Drawing Sessions 10 and 11 September 2022 Part of Meydan#3 Weekend at Lumbung Documenta fifteenOrganised by Rural School of Economics and partners Who holds land-based knowledge in a city and where does it become visible? Who are the women who run lasting economies? How can we share without talking?

July: Rural School of Economics in Kassel and elsewhere Our three spaces at Lumbung documenta in Kassel are in good use: the Drawing and Harvesting Room at Hafenstraße, the Rural Undercurrent Vending Machines at Hübner, and our mobile Plein-Air Kit. Drawing and trading are the two constants that weave together rural undercurrents and localrealities, and individual stories with collective histories. We keep harvesting and redistributing across the various ecosistems we are connected with.

Tuesdays 21 June from 13.00 – 16.00 CET Noting at the New Rural Agenda Summit, a planetary conference by Lumbung member Jatiwangi art Factory. We bring banners - and one states the Rural School of Economics motto: How we see the rural is how want to relate to it. Wednesday 22 June from 14.00 – 15.00 CET Instagram live stream Reflecting on five years of collaborative Re-drawing the Economy in order to "

If you are in Kassel this summer we cordially invite you to join the drawing sessions both within and outside of documenta venues, and some will be online. We have equipped a Composting Knowledge Drawing Room on the 3rd floor at Hafenstraße 76, and we have a mobile Plein Air Drawing Kit to set up sessions anywhere, for example at ruruHaus, at Lumbung Kios or in the Fulda Aue. Here is what's planned so far in June:

Friday 17 June from 14.30 -16.00 CET Local Undercurrent Automaten, Lumbung Kiosk at Hübner Areal Sketching Trade Systems and Book Presentation Describing and speculating on formats for trade systems that exist all around us, and alongside the mainstream retail logic: from donations to swaps, Happy Hours to for free. The idea of interdependent economies in the arts will be introduced by Kuba Szreder, author of The ABC of the projectariat: living and working in a precarious art world”, published by Manchester University Press and The Whitworth.

Mini-MAJELISRural School of EconomicsDrawing towards Cultural Resilienceand Future-Past EconomiesWednesday 25th May 2022from 12.00 - 20.00 CETat ruruHaus and in Kassel or join us on Zoom Plans for the day: 12.00Welcome by Myvillages and ruruHaus. (all English)Introducing the Rural School of Economics, local partners and learning together in and around Kassel. With Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra from Myvillages. Introducing the programme for the day & moderator Amira El Ah.

Plein Air Come over to Kassel / komm auch nach Nordstadtpark Kassel -Samstag, 14.5. und Sonntag, 15.5.Zeichenaktion mit Myvillages, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, und Theresa Marx, Wapke Feenstra, Gerrit Retterath, Nicola Anna Dubiel und viele anderen… 12–17:30 Uhr. Beim Zeichnen unter freiem Himmel wird die Natur des Nordstadtparks genauer in den Blick genommen. Die Ergebnisse des Workshops werden Teil des Documenta-Programms. Das Angebot wird der Auftakt eines Zeichen-Sommers. Plein Air in Nordstadtpark KasselDrawing with Myvillages, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, and Theresa Marx, Wapke Feenstra, Gerrit Retterath, Nicola Anna Dubiel and many others…12–5.