Esther Kläs and Tim Roerig

Esther Kläs discusses her exhibition, As of Now (5 July—15 September), with curator Tim Roerig in this new video.

“Freedom for me is to put something in the world that can stand on its own—to accept its existence. If I am afraid as the one who makes the work that you won’t understand it, then it will come with a lot of explanation. I trust that you will see what you see and understand it in your own terms.”

The title of Esther Kläs’ fourth exhibition with the gallery —As of Now— hints at a similar kind of duality, or threshold. Things that are fixed, but which could also shift. A phrase that, on the one hand, means the here and now, but on the other, change and possibility. The idea that, henceforth, things can be different. Today and tomorrow, encapsulated in three brief words.

Tim Roerig (b. 1991, The Hague, The Netherlands) is a Senior Curator at Z33 and the Artistic Coordinator of Art on the Meuse, a series of public art commissions by Z33 and Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland. He co-founded celador, a collective space for writing, reading, and speaking in Brussels. Tim has curated several group exhibitions at Z33, including Leaps of Faith (2024), River of Rebirth (2023), and In the Eye of the Storm (2021). He has also (co-)curated solo exhibitions by Kamrooz Aram & Iman Issa (2021), Mae-Ling Lokko (2021), PJVK (2021), and Sam Lewitt (2020). Currently, Tim is working on a solo exhibition by Lucy McKenzie and public art commissions by Germaine Kruip, Laure Prouvost, Adrien Tirtiaux, and Adrián Villar Rojas.