After Library Fridays - Een experimentele bibliotheek in Rotterdam

Come by on Friday 20 November between 18:00 and 20:00 for the After Library. Discover the library, borrow books and clothing, and get to know the work of the initiators.

About the After Library

the After Library (2025–), a small, experimental library of clothing and books. The library brings together collective reading with speculative design and the way clothing is worn and lived. The After Library was initiated by Thulile Gamedze and is continued here in collaboration with Tlotliso Skefu. The garments from the library are designed and made in response to texts chosen by friends. Subsequently, combinations of garments and books are lent out for short periods to a small but growing circle of friends and collaborators — and their friends and collaborators, and so on. The goal of the After Library is for the materials to be worn and read, and for these lending processes to be recorded as social histories of wearing: as embodied and dialogical reading experiences, but also as stylish moments.

The After Library is part of TOOLSHED, a residency and research program of Kunstinstituut Melly that investigates which tools we use today to shape, challenge, and transform cultural institutions.