A promising series of four residencies and exhibitions.

With Estafette, KEVN is taking a new step as an exhibition space for artists with roots in graffiti and street art. In 2025, eight artists will get the chance to develop and present new work. The programme revolves around collaboration, experimentation and knowledge sharing. 

Two of the three exhibition rooms of KEVN will be dedicated to the Estafette program. During a two-week residency period, an artist duo will transform these two rooms into an open studios. As a visitor you can enter their ‘studio’ and see how they work. They create, discuss, visit inspiring places and work together towards an exhibition, which is then on view for nine weeks.

During the year, the following duos pass the baton to each other:

Thomas & Jurgen, Yann L’Outsider, Rutger de Vries &  Johannes Langkamp, Leyli Rashidi Rauf & Dalal Mitwally, Martinus Papilaja & Sergio Gómez.

For each artist duo we host an exhibition opening, where we invite the artists and reflect on their collaboration. Near the end of each exhibition, during our pass the baton event, we will look back on what has been created and the whole process behind it. During this event the baton will be passed on from the current artist duo to the new one. The new makers will be interviewed on what’s to come in their residency period.

Each residency will be captured in a publication, made by Chemistry Publishing. These publications will be presented during the Pass the Baton event at the end of each residency.