15–16 November 2025, 12:00–18:00 / Casco HQ
The Farmers’ Market is a two-day celebration held as the finissage of Rerooting in the Polder (Aarden in de Polder) with Wapke Feenstra and her extended ecosystem. The autumn exhibition reflects on the Dutch polder landscape—once an emblematic symbol of progress and water management, yet today confronting pressing social and ecological challenges.
Over the weekend, the lively market brings together partners from the Rerooting in the Polder project. Conceived as a space where “art and culture” and “agriculture” meet, the Farmers’ Market invites reflection on what this convergence can offer toward cultivating alternative economies of collectivity and renewed practices of land sustenance.
At the center of the program is Polder Trade, a table hosted by Rural School of Economics (RSoE), where peer-to-peer learning and exchange take shape. Visitors are also invited to meet artists, farmers, craftspeople—listening to their stories and engaging in conversations and reflections on collaborative ways of working, caring for shared resources, and rerooting.
On Saturday, you meet Charles Esche, former Casco board member and Director of Van Abbemuseum, where he recently led the collective exhibition project Soils; Ioana Lupascu from the Seasonal Neighbors collective, who makes bors-based cocktails for the day; Aria Spinelli with her daughter Nila, who prepare bread and harvested olive oil from their farm in Italy; and Gele Hailu, a Hamar artist exploring questions around cattle and who collaborates closely with Wapke on our ongoing projects.
On Sunday, we welcome Meta Knol, who runs the Lakenvelder Boerderij Boterhuispolder with her partner Fernand de Willigen; Asia Komarova from Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills, who brings local vegetables and fruits from Leidsche Rijn; Inez Dekker, a rural sociologist working at Wageningen University; and members of the Casco team.
Wapke’s collaborator Hans Engberts leads a special workshop on Sunday afternoon making baskets from willow twigs, as presented in the exhibition room A Polder Landscape.
You are also welcome to join Drawing the Land, an en plein air session sketching the centuries-old platanus tree at the center of Casco’s courtyard and Wapke’s animation upstairs, inspired by the “dig where you stand” approach. Furthermore, you can play with the harvested sounds from our Sonic Diary tour, streamed live on Radio Robida. Additional contributions during the weekend come from Julia and Sophia van der Putten from the Zeelanding festival.
Food is also available, as we offer local products from Boer Peter in Haarzuilens and Wei en Water in Boterhuispolder.
Expanding the market, the International Village Shop is open, featuring merchandise and publications from the ecosystem of RSoE, including contributions from the Zburazh Art Coop collective and Gele Hailu, both part of the exhibition. Alongside, the Casco Kiosk presents artist crafts from our translocal lumbung and Arts Collaboratory networks, and beyond.
And, of course, this is the final opportunity to visit the exhibition upstairs.
Join us as we celebrate this special closing together—we look forward to sharing it with you!
