In 2025 it will be 20 years since the foundation of Inspector Casino´s Detective Show with the (in)famous Inspector Casino.
It all started at the cellars of Radio Rietveld in the, at that time, new building of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy. Hans Kuiper started with online radio and was lucky to be around its developments in the age of digitalisation.
The original Inspector Casino Logo, designed by Babak Andishmand (2005).
Inspector Casino
Inspector Casino became a character in a series of radio plays, a hilarious connotation of the (predictable) detective stories all around (inter)national media. Inspector Casino fastly became a hype in the local Amsterdam art scene. What started as a ridiculisation of the almost traditional narrative soon splattered into associative sound sculptures with undiscernable story lines. The Inspector Casino soundscape was born.
In the meantime, Radio Rietveld was selected by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to be part of the 2006-2007 ´Just-in-Time´-exhibition, the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was suddenly broadcasted via the airwaves over the whole city of Amsterdam. It would be not the last time. In 2008 the Show was listenable in the ´Kik´- art residence in Drenthe (NL) with a broadcasting reception reach of around 15 km.
Berlin
In 2009 the art radio program was broadcasted out of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the show was transformed in a talk show on art and with artist guests talking on their work and projects, the participants often taking sound samples, and was listenable almost all over the city. It was one of the few shows solely on contemporary art in Berlin at that time, which made the show quickly famous in the art scene.
Initiator Hans Kuiper was also active at that time for other local TV and radio projects, like Pi Radio & B-Mix, as radio host and editor. He also started a talk show with German writer Tilo Koehler which ran till 2012.
Amsterdam FM
After returning to Amsterdam, The Inspector Casino programs on art were broadcasted at Amsterdam FM in 2012, the show contained soundscapes, live performances and interviews with local and international artists.
Radio Neverno
In 2015 initiator Hans Kuiper was asked for setting up another radio project in the art scene with Moritz Ebinger by curators of the ´Tomorrow Never Knows´ Exhibition in Arti et Amicitiae, the biggest art association in Amsterdam with exhibition halls in the center, Radio Neverno was born and the Inspector Casino´s Detective Show was back in the limelights.
After the exhibition and a renewed participation in the Museumnacht 2015, Ebinger left the radio focusing on his other art projects. Kuiper kept on posting and interviewing artists, galerists and other players in the art scene, often looking for cross overs. Interviews appeared with art dealers, reportages on art and politics and opinion pieces were published, also with new contributors.
Since then Radio Neverno is a Podcast Radio station with occasionally Inspector Casino´s Detective Show in its program list, but in 2025-2026, it plans to go live again and The Inspector Casino´s Detective Show will be in the limelight again, producing live shows and podcasts on a regular basis.
Stay informed for these new series of art shows and updates on the streaming days!
Some shows will be streamed live via the known streaming channels (Radioneverno.nl, Youtube.com, Twitch.tv & Instagram.).
