P1 is a collective of curators, artists, and makers who connect shared urgencies within the artistic framework of research and intervention, engaging various communities in the ever-evolving production process.

Our curatorial practice is characterized by the fact that we do not just question or theorize, but act. Truly implemented strategies that respond to the trials of the present time: commercialization, privatization, property laws, imposed norms, and retreating governments.

By acting, we meet the limits of political and social frameworks, making these limits visible in the conviction to change or expand them. Acting is also a radical solution to get around the web of rules, laws and property claims. The exchanges that take place serve as questions that disrupt the prevailing consensus about the creator, or the context.

Art becomes part of an ongoing process of exploring our shared experience and does not end after a project ends.

Within the context of urban (re)development, we are active in various countries and, in the Netherlands, in Charlois – Rotterdam (since 2021) and Presikhaaf – Arnhem (2010–2020, Locatie Spatie / Motel Spatie), working together with (other) local residents. Here, we explore the relationship between modernist architectural heritage and the people who inhabit it.

P1 in de Sportschool: research intervention exhibition

As we build this new nest at De Sportschool in Oud-Charlois, we remain dedicated to our mission, P1 is a curator collective of friends and family, redefining politics of space while connecting cultural and artistic urgencies with the three pillars: Intervention, Research, Exhibition.