Date: Friday 19 June
Time: 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm (doors open at 6.30 pm)
Venue: Theatre hall at Donner Bookshop, Coolsingel 129 (accessible via a lift on request)
Language: Dutch
Free admission
Due to limited capacity, registration via the Donner website is mandatory
With Narges Mohammadi, Catherine Koekoek, Anouk van Mil and Marjan Beijering
Since 2025, Narges Mohammadi’s artwork A Minute of Shelter has stood on Coolsingel in Rotterdam, serving as a memorial to the victims and survivors of femicide. The work was commissioned by the City of Rotterdam in response to the tragic murder in 2018 of Hümeyra, a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Rotterdam.
Earlier this year, SIR and BKOR organised Z-Files #33: A Minute of Shelter, bringing together thinkers and writers to discuss the role of art in highlighting the vulnerable position of women. The publication A Minute of Shelter now brings together a number of their contributions: commissioned essays by political philosopher and researcher Catherine Koekoek and the Viennese professor of visual arts Elke Krasny, supplemented by a foreword by Sandra Smets and an interview with Narges Mohammadi.
During the presentation, Catherine Koekoek will read from her essay An Island in Time: On Feminist Space and Resistance and engage in a conversation with Mohammadi. The first copy will be presented to the initiators of Rotterdam’s Year of the Woman 2025: Anouk van Mil and Marjan Beijering.
During the evening, the publication will be available for €7.50, and thereafter 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 (eds), 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 Drukkerij
Publisher: CBK Rotterdam, June 2026
Price: €9.95 (available for €7.50 during the book presentation)
ISBN: 978-90-9042343-2
Publicatiedatum: 28/05/2026
