In 2004, the European Union saw the accession of ten new member states. Oponthoud, Delay is about this expansion of European boundaries, it presents work by eight artists who are poised in the transitional area: they reveal a mysterious force field on the borders of the old and new Europe.

n 2004, the European Union saw the accession of ten new member states. Oponthoud, Delay is about this expansion of European boundaries, it presents work by eight artists who are poised in the transitional area: they reveal a mysterious force field on the borders of the old and new Europe. Images of mobility and urban architecture are used to set the social dynamic in Western countries and the former East Bloc alongside one another. These images are sometimes documentary in nature, sometimes a poetic transformation of reality, and primarily a combination of both. With work by Maja Bajevi, Stella van Voorst van Beest and Freek Drent, Pavel Braila, Roderick Hietbrink, Juul Hondius, Carla Klein, Predrag Pajdic and Anri Sala. In this publication, Wilma Sütö (curator of the Rotterdam City Collection) discusses the selected works. There are also texts by Lex ter Braak (Director of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) about architecture and urban design as an ideological medium and by Michaël Zeeman (author and freelance journalist for Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant) on his research around the periphery of Europe.