Uncontained Art is a Rotterdam-based art platform, build inside/around a shipping container.

The container is loaded with cultural goods, ideas and stories and aims to connect artists and creative thinkers from diverse port cities.

It departs from it’s hometown, the harbor of Rotterdam and visits other ports, while following internationally established commercial routes. It is envisioned as a facilitator, a stage and a meeting place for artists and creative organizations. The aim is to connect with the urban cultures that lie beyond the waterfront, and to present their overlapping narratives.

A special focous is given to stories of arriving and departing, personal journeys and migration.
Migration is almost synonymous with the culture of port cities, as harbours have always been the first places to receive people and their ideas from faraway places. The Container can be seen as a migrant itself as it will travel and transport experiences gathered in
different places.