Where are you I miss you
Leopold Emmen
Curated by Glenn Kessler.
You are cordially invited to the festive opening of the exhibition by Leopold Emmen.
A collaboration between filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen.
Opening
Saturday August 8, 2026
3 – 5 pm
Gallery address
NL=US Gallery
Mauritsweg 55B, 3012 JX, Rotterdam
This exhibition runs until September 6, 2026
Exhibition statement
NL=US is pleased to present Where Are You I Miss You, a new site-specific installation by Leopold Emmen, developed for the gallery’s two interconnected rooms on the bel étage of a nineteenth-century townhouse on the Mauritsweg.
Taking the architecture of the gallery as its point of departure, Leopold Emmen transform the space into the imagined home of a young woman and a young man. Through a two-channel film installation, a sequence of short scenes unfolds across the front and back rooms, offering fragmentary glimpses into their daily lives. Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the work dwells on moments of proximity and distance, presence and absence, suggesting the emotional contours of a shared domestic space.
Using projections alongside furniture, plants, textiles, domestic objects, tableware, accumulated clutter, and construction materials—including glass, plasterboard, and MDF—the artists reconfigure the gallery as the rooms of a house it may once have been. The installation occupies a space between domestic interior, artist’s studio, and film set, where existing architecture and cinematic fiction become inseparable.
A house that has long functioned as a gallery and presentation space temporarily returns to its possible former life. Visitors move through an environment that unfolds like a novella, where moving images, sound, and material elements evoke the memory of two young lives. Continuing Leopold Emmen’s ongoing exploration of film, installation, and constructed environments, Where Are You I Miss You considers how architecture can hold fiction, memory, and the quiet narratives embedded in everyday space.
