Chapter 1: Unfolding Universes
Wed, Jan 21
|Amsterdam
What conditions make flow possible in a world built for speed and productivity? Join artist Rosa Vrij's first edition of her series Unfolding Universes – a series of talks and performance games surrounding her interdisciplinary works around one continuous research project.
Time & Location
Jan 21, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Amsterdam, Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam, Netherlands
About the event
Unfolding Universes is a new bi-monthly series in which Rosa Vrij shares fragments of her evolving artistic research. Each edition reveals part of a long-term “universe” that unfolds through drawing, performance, and world-building.
For Edition #1, Rosa invites the audience into her project Flow state. Through drawing experiments, journal fragments, and daily rituals, she examines how creative flow emerges, and how it is affected by neuro-normative expectations, pressure, and speed. The evening offers a quiet space to reflect on creativity as a nurturing process rather than a productive demand.
About Unfolding Universes
Across six evenings in 2026, Rosa Vrij shares different stages of her long-term research projects. Each “universe” develops over multiple years, generating drawings, performances, structures, and game-like instructions that explore how we sense, imagine, and organise the world.
Participants will get the opportunity to not only peek into Rosa’s research but dive together in a creative universe where…
