LIFE’s programme included:
Bernd Krauß & Petter Dahlström Persson. Eigen Weg, 9 May—13 June 2020
Ghislain Amar, Promise, 20 June—1 August 2020
Tracy Hanna and Kari Robertson, with thanks to Simone Pinyol!, Young Feelings, 12 September—10 October 2020
Vlada Predelina and Jake Caleb, Homeware for Hibernation, 22—24 October 2020
Marloes de Vries, LOOSE WORKS, 31 October—28 November 2020
Lili Huston-Herterich & Ash Kilmartin, WATER SAUS, 12 December 2020; with Silvia Arenas, Christine Ayo, Katrein Breukers, Bernd Krauß & Bobby Sayers
Víctor Santamarina, Equivocal morning, 15 May—12 June 202§
Annastate Collective, Infinitesimal, 19 June 2021
Sophie Bates, launch of Outfit Days, 14-—16 October 2021
Maike Hemmers, Grounding Things, 6—27 November 2021
Matt HInkley, Small and light enough to be worn or carried, 6—18 December 2021
BURNER: Collette Rayner, Sophie Lee, Josephine Baan, 29 January 2021—12 February 2022
Katrein Breukers and Liza Wolters, Ornamenting the Home, 19 February—5 March 2022
Angela Brennan, Mel Deerson, Bonnie Cummings, and Briony Galligan, Incorporeal Lounge, —22 March 2022
Closing: Launch of Idoine with Julia Burtin Zortea; and Vlada Predelina’s Pelmeni, A Conversation Cookbook;, with pointers by Zoë Hollander, 22 March 2022
Kate Price, Spring-up! Robustly Tender Notes, 29 April 2023, at de Spoortuin, Essenburgsingel
In 2020, LIFE was supported by CBK Rotterdam to pay fees to exhibiting artists. In 2021, LIFE received support from Gemeente Rotterdam; and Stichting Droom en Daad for exhibitors' fees and even some running costs. The use of the space was made possible through the generosity of Wilfried Lentz. When Wilfried decided to close his gallery to concentrate on other projects, Ash did the same. It was good timing.
The website - www.ashopcalled.life - is no longer online, partly because the project is fairly definitively over, and partly because after 2023 I no longer wished to give money to the site provider, nor wanted to rebuild the whole thing. But you can find it on the Internet Archive.
