STILL MOVES – PZI Graduation Show

STILL MOVES.
Stills that move. Hold on a second —

Ten artists working across moving image, photography, animation, and expanded lens-based practices would like to invite you to their exhibition. From the position that knowledge is unstable, the artists observe and set their perspectives in motion. — and still, they move.
Locations
V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam
UBIK/WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 69, 3012 XA Rotterdam
Opening times
Thursday 9 July 18:00–22:00h
Official opening moment at 18:30h
Friday 10 July 12:00–18:00h
Saturday 11 July 12:00–18:00h
Sunday 12 July 12:00–16:00h

'Looking at the artistic positions presented by the artists in their first group exhibition after graduation, I notice a shared perspective on the world around us. STILL MOVES brings together works, produced in 2026, that are deeply engaged with their surroundings. The artists reconnect with often overlooked, personal, local experiences—acts of seeing and imagining that help ground us in the world once again.

Through intimate stories and close observations, they gather fragments of lived experience that reveal connections between people, places, and our surrounding. Through their individual lenses, the artists look beyond the immediate and familiar, tracing relationships and encounters that shape their understanding of the world. In doing so, they uncover stories that move them—and, surely, will move you as well.' – V2_curator Florian Weigl
Featuring
Sofie Blom - Where Daffodils Bend
Where Daffodils Bend explores two changing shores. In Zeeland, a researcher traces drowned lands where images are made from seaweed and fixed with salt until they fade again. Further down the coastline in Normandy, mysterious streams carry an old church back toward high tide, while a buried pianist longs for his bones to be washed clean by the sea.

Öncü H. Gültekin - Migrant Bodies
Focusing on first-generation, working-class Turkish migrants in Rotterdam whose memories are fading due to dementia, this experimental short documentary observes what still remains of their presence and investigates their physical and mental displacement.

Feline Hjermind - Three Brothers
In a small Dutch town, three buildings stand opposite each other: a medieval castle, a modernist apartment block and a contemporary family house. Three Brothers is an attempt to draw out the agency of these spaces, by choreographing a relationship between them. Engaging with our surroundings as more than backgrounds, the installation traces how architectural optimism often fails to sustain actual lived life.

Toto Kersten - Where Europe begins, Where Europa Ends
On the edge of Europe, Toto embarks on a voyage through Rotterdam, circling a stranded cruise ship and a wandering captain. Drifting between researcher, captain and spectator, he moves through archival echoes, media fragments and absurd encounters, caught between departure, arrival and Europe's maritime imagination.

Enrico Piffer - Register: A Lost Necklace
A found sign of a lost necklace becomes the starting point for an unresolved search. Through moving image, testimonies, and sculpted surfaces, Register: A Lost Necklace follows loss as it moves between people, landscapes, and images, asking if what has disappeared can remain materially present.

Mikhail Sapozhnikov - Nikolas Archive
This archive-based installation presents the personal photo archive of Nikolas Kolovos that was passed on to me. Alongside scanned colour positive slides, the archive includes dozens of envelopes from photographic laboratories containing printed 10×15 photographs and original film negatives. These materials reveal the physical structure of a private archive and reflect on preservation, circulation, and personal memory.

Julia Schmidt - The First Lunar Abortion
Five minutes before the first moon landing, the Apollo Guidance Computer sends out five error messages in an attempt to abort the Apollo 11 mission. In the short film, the resistance of the computer is informed by the women who wove its hardware and the fact that the term computer used to refer to predominantly women solving mathematical problems.

Lilian Wolter - MEAGAIN
Meagain originates as a short film set in a household ruled by repetition. In it, a mother spends her days peeling apples, while her daughter, Meagain, is obliged to eat them under her strict watch. Forbidden from eating the peel, Meagain spends her days covering the fruits with the wallpaper from her room.

Wenxuan Xu - Geofence, Simulawn, Stream Of A Stream, Touch Grass In Case Of Emergency
The buffer zone between chaotic nature and controlled perimeter, our human tendency to tailor nature in our surroundings according to our vision, a domesticated version of wilderness where it should be harmonious and inconspicuous, where you can touch grass in peace. It requires constant monitoring, management, and maintenance. Where you might notice the seams.

Yuan Yuan - Golden Bitterness
Moving across diverse Dutch landscapes and non-places, a displaced entity searches for belongings while past trauma surfaces. Here, images like the entity are continuously shattered and reassembled, along with the fragmented experience that trauma brings. Once again, striving within the monumental system, to reclaim a whole, natural being.