Experience Adrián Villar Rojas's Transformative Exhibition 'Poems for Earthlings' at Oude Kerk

Adrián Villar Rojas's 'Poems for Earthlings' transformed the Oude Kerk into an immersive environment, inviting visitors to experience his site-specific installations that blend the future, past, and alternative present. The exhibition explored themes of impermanence and fleeting artistic traces.

Adrián Villar Rojas: Poems for Earthlings was an exhibition presented at the Oude Kerk that invited visitors to engage with site-specific installations designed to provoke reflection on the future, the past, and alternative presents. Villar Rojas is known for creating immersive environments that encourage exploration, using diverse artistic disciplines and media. His approach is profoundly site-specific, involving deep immersion in the social, cultural, and institutional context of each location, working collaboratively with project assistants. These installations are deliberately temporary and ephemeral, contrasting with the art world's emphasis on permanence and trade. Through his work, Villar Rojas highlights his own temporality and that which is destined to disappear, questioning what can and should be preserved. Born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1980, Villar Rojas is recognized for his large-scale, location-bound sculptural installations. His previous notable exhibitions include representing Argentina at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and participating in Documenta 13 in 2012. His art often conveys a sense of crumbling humanity and a vanished futuristic culture, combining the imposing scale of public sculpture with a fragile instability that reminds viewers of the impermanence of even the grandest structures.

Visitors were invited to book tickets for the exhibition, with a link provided to the official ticketing portal for securing admission.