Art Night x Emoves

Art Night is back! A museum night where we give the keys to the museum to a creative party from the city for just one evening. On June 21 that will be Emoves. And it's a double celebration, because we also celebrate the opening of the exhibition Eindhoven: a HipHop story. In this experimental exhibition, 4 guest curators (Virgil 'Skychief' Dey, Stephan Cornelio Velema, Grndmxr CazOne and MC Melodee) show the values ​​behind HipHop in the form of a labyrinth. How has this scene shaped the city over the years?

In the museum café you will find the DJs from Jams & Gems from the breakdance collective The Ruggeds all evening, with a line-up full of gems such as FORTBEIGE, shinshan salazar, Lucylove, Connect the Odds, LYMA and Wing Mok. But be sure to visit the museum and discover spoken word performances by Onuitgesproken (with Joshua Snijders, Machete, Jasja Renne, Noemi Hofstede and Mennis) or the performances by YENGI & Benito and Ricardo Leverock (D.A.M.N.). Check out all the dance battles and jam sessions from House meet House, 040Grounds, Poppin' Eindhoven in unexpected places in the museum. We are showing the collaboration with graffiti artist BOMB in a special place: you can see him at work not inside the museum, but on the outside. But of course there is still plenty to see in the museum; several Eindhoven filmmakers (Stephan Cornelio Velema, Jody Geijsendorpher and Salman Dirir) will show their films. In the Studio, untold stories are told in a panel discussion by Eindhoven makers about the city's HipHop history. They discuss why it is so important to capture these stories.

‘HipHop culture could be about turntable skills, graffiti art, breaking or rapping; but it’s always about the people making it happen.’ 

Eindhoven: a HipHop story

'HipHop culture could be about turntable skills, graffiti art, breaking or rapping; but it's always about the people making it happen.' This was once on a flyer for an illegal HipHop party in Eindhoven. It symbolizes the entrepreneurial spirit of this subculture that came from the United States in the early 1980s. The raw, industrial character of Eindhoven proved to be a fertile breeding ground for this scene. Forty years later, HipHop has entered mainstream culture. The experimental exhibition Eindhoven: a HipHop story shows the influence of this subculture on the identity of the city, told from the community and the audience itself.