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When: Saturday Dec 6th and Sunday December 7th from 14-17hr

Where: at Jakoozi - Oudezijds Voorburgwal 106 (in the red light)

Price: suggested price €75, sliding scale 50 -100 (it's also a benefit for Jakoozi)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION - Navigating the Gutter

As viewers of cinema and readers of comics, we use our imagination to fill in the gaps between frames, shots and scenes: this gap is called the gutter. In between the 2D and the 3D things get even more complicated - how do we spill out of the image and into an actual world (a world which has its own desires..)?

In this workshop, we’ll explore how the notion of the gutter can be useful for dancing and performance-making, and find ways to navigate the unruly space this opens up. Navigation is a complex task - how do we sense our location, and simultaneously orientate towards where we want to go, while still being open to not-knowing?

Focusing on dance/movement (day 1) and extending into an intermodal space of drawing, scoring and text work ( day 2), I will offer tools for reorganising perception, attention and craft. This workshop is for artists and practitioners working with movement and embodied performance interested in deepening and expanding their material choices.

Sign up here

Instagram post here

About the Jakoozi Workshop Series

For those who aren’t familiar with us yet, Jakoozi is a gathering of Amsterdam-based choreographers who act as a fluid support structure. Our collectively organised studio is a host for movement practices and (embodied) experimentation in imagining together, for example: Impro Drag, Gaza Monologues, Care Gatherings for student protestors, Mourning Rituals, Ear2Ear, parties, dinners, Jacuzzi Monday (weekly practices), Nightshades (performance hang-outs) and various collaborations with our Amsterdam communities.

Inspired by the spirit of our legendary Monday sessions, these weekend workshops are intensive deep-dives into specific movement and performance practices. It’s a chance to immerse yourself fully in artistic research.

This series is also a crucial initiative to fund our studio's future. If our Monday sessions have ever moved you, joining a workshop is also the best way to ensure Jakoozi's doors stay open and we can continue to give back to the dance scene in Amsterdam.

We're offering each workshop weekend for a donation on a sliding scale between €50-€100 (suggested donation: €75). The lower end of the scale is intended to make the workshop accessible to those with lower income and/or less financial security. If you have the means to contribute at the higher end, this helps us keep the space open.

Got questions? We'd love to hear from you! :) Write to us here or at production.atjakoozi@proton.me

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ENTER ENTER is happy to temporarily hand over the space to DUE PASSI for their Book Sales!

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ENTER ENTER is happy to temporarily hand over the space to DUE PASSI for their Book Sales!

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Open:

Friday 21 November – Sunday 7 December 2025

12.00–18.00 h

ALL BOOKS € 2,–

Opening:

Friday 21 November

18.00 h

Talks:

Saturday 29 November

18.00 h

Batia Suter, visual artist, interviewed by Jordi de Vetten.

Erik van den Bergh, author and editor of De Volkskrant.

Hans Aarsman, author and former photographer.

For her work Batia Suter uses primarily images sourced from secondhand books and magazines, like encyclopedias, art and science books, often collected at flee markets.

Erik van den Berg is fascinated by diaries. For over 11 years, he has been searching for fragments from historical diaries for the “Day in, Day Out” section in De Volkskrant.

Hans Aarsman explains how he, like a detective, collects data using the internet and books. He detects like Sherlock Holmes and gradually uncovers the truth behind a photo.

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A Space for Books - Nieuwe Herengracht 11 Amsterdam

Bertien van Manen, Archive 1970-2021

Opening soon: 'Bertien van Manen, Archive 1970-2021'
Since the 1970s, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes, produced during extended trips to Europe, America, China and the former Soviet Union. Van Manen has established herself as a unique voice in documentary photography, her visual language imbued with empathy and respect for the everyday lives of her subjects. The exhibition at ENTER ENTER will include all of her books, alongside unique material from her archive, brought together by Hans Gremmen. The exhibition runs from 30 October to 28 November, and is open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-5 pm. This exhibition is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

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E N T E R . E N T E R | A Space for Books - Nieuwe Herengracht 11 Amsterdam

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A Space for Books - Nieuwe Herengracht 11 Amsterdam Opening soon: 'Bertien van Manen, Archive 1970-2021' Since the 1970s, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes, produced during extended trips to Europe, America, China and the former Soviet Union.

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Choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON is a multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg. W139 will flip into a campy/draggy Hair Salon where members of the public, the Client, undergo a fabulous —or fabulously wrong—  performative hair transformation by wearing a sculptural hairstyle while the rest of the public watches the performance. Each hair-do (and hair-don’t!) begins with a wearable piece chosen together with the Client, which is mounted as a crown onto their head. The Hairstylist, a failed drag character, will sing songs, read out texts and perform an uncanny hair-seance while attaching the hair-do or hair-don’t onto The Client’s head. Once crowned, the Client is invited to parade their sculpture through the streets into the rest of their day, turning the city into a moving exhibition or a form of drag protest.

Be aware that there is no cutting involved, but a reviving of look and spirit is guaranteed.

21, 23 NOV & 17, 19 DEC

W139

Warmoesstraat 139, 1012 JB Amsterdam

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SNAPSHOTS: Daddy Party آن نافه مراد که میخواستم ز بخت  درچین زلف آن بت مشکین کلاله بود by Chupan Atashi 

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SNAPSHOTS: Daddy Party آن نافه مراد که میخواستم ز بخت  درچین زلف آن بت مشکین کلاله بود by Chupan Atashi 

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October 2nd – November 29th, 2025

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October 2nd - November 29th, 2025

Daddy Party آن نافه مراد که میخواستم ز بخت درچین زلف آن بت مشکین کلاله بود is a new body of work by Chupan Atashi orbiting themes of pain, care, embodied experience and sexuality within the artist's ongoing excavation of memory. "How can pain potentially be a tool of transformation and overcoming trauma?," the artist wonders. "The wound must be touched for healing to happen."

Across sculpture, photography, video, painting, performance and writing, each work in Daddy Party channels a state of transition. Some parts are inevitably decaying, surrendered to time and its agents: bananas and limes compost, potatoes sprout-their roots hanging midair-as part of an organic study developed over two years in the studio. Transformation is rarely neat or linear. It stumbles. It waits. In the absence of the artist, decay and growth entwine in their own unruly continuum-a stretch of suspension that reveals itself to be anything but stillness.

Eyes are blinking, bubbles are popping in the air, a new animal appears. A ritual begins. Amidst colonial collapse-when empire and patriarchy are left to rot, stripped of potency through gestures of sly humour and glittering camp-Daddy emerges. As guide and lover, he takes his beloved on a journey. Let's vacation with Daddy: follow lines of desire and decompose with pleasure.

Scoop scoop scoop - the chain swings a pulsing rhythm in the artist's performance New Animals. A series of drawings on paper echo its vibrancy. In the repetitive certainty of pain a threshold can be crossed leading to a state of trance. Here, a space opens up for renegotiation, altering the consciousness in which healing might unfold.

Grief nests deep within this body of work, where the artist tends to wounds with vulnerability. These wounds have been held. You can still see the stitches, carefully placed one by one, but they are beginning to loosen. Life is bursting through the seams. Hands have kneaded, caressed, cut-carving words and leaving messages.سوراخ ,ااف ,هوا, Alef. The repeated presence of the first letter of the alphabet marks a new beginning, where the mythical Simurgh rises from the ashes.

"...I feel a dizzying pressure under my skin. I want to make a hole in everything and penetrate it deep. I want to reach the heart of the earth."
- Forough Farrokhzad to Ebrahim Golestan

Like Farrokhzad, Atashi seeks to pierce and go below the surface-to descend into depth and allow the depth to enter. In the reconfiguration of self and memory, where past and present rub against one another, a new, provocative self-portrait emerges. TheTehran's Self Portraits from 2008-2010 resurface in this exhibition, reimagined as Horizon of Ass where the back becomes front, and instead of the face--it's the anus that speaks: digesting, resisting, addressing from a diasporic position. The juxtaposition of anus and pinhole disrupts regimes of visibility. The body enacts and defines its own exposure.

As the world keeps ticking, Atashi builds their own clock-rhythms of alternate timelines unfold both sonically and visually in the animationEndless Loop. Animals long familiar in the artist's work return in this atemporal clock, including birds, elephants and two deer who become one. This time, they are with many. They stretch out, multiply themselves, play with one another-as messengers from the infinite subconscious, the dream realm. Visitors are invited to experience Daddy Party in their own time and rhythm: to linger, to wait, to come up close, to zoom in and out, to repeat and to return.

Daddy Party unfolds from within the contradiction of being a collaborative solo exhibition-in the spirit of Metro54's SNAPSHOTS series, which critically engages with the solo exhibition format. The project includes performances, a polyvocal zine, a public program and the production of a new film. Daddy Party by Chupan Atashi is curated by Radna Rumping and created in collaboration with Saman Mahdavi, YuJing Liu, Amirhossein Sadeghzadeh, Tewa Barnosa, Chaarbeat, Avoidstreet, Maxe Crandall and the team of Metro54.

*"That fragrant pod of desire I sought from fortune, found concealed within my beloved's balmy curl"
(Hafez, Ghazal 214)

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Metro54 is a space for global sonic, cultural and artistic practices, gathering(s), (un)learning, histories, grassroots community work, spatial politics and transformative justice.

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A Closer Reading, Writing with the Senses. Facilitated by Radna Rumping ~20 Nov 19:00

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A Closer Reading, Writing with the Senses. Facilitated by Radna Rumping ~20 Nov 19:00

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A Closer Reading with Radna Rumping — Metro54

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Dear friends,

We have a series of exciting events and workshops coming up that we wanted to share with you, plus a sneak peek of two events that we haven’t yet announced!

You can find more info and sign up at the links below.

Sunday 26 October  Couch talk _ slow write – Transdisciplinary workshop with Antonella Fittipaldi and Lili Huston-Herterich at Dijktheater

Antonella Fittipaldi and Lili Huston-Herterich invite you to participate in a day-long transdisciplinary workshop where we explore the movement between disassembling and reassembling a couch, as a metaphor for collectively engaging with de-composing and re-assembling knowledge. Departing from the shared interest Antonella and Lili have in finding lineages of information, the workshop will be a space to practice slow writing while tracing what we know and who we learned it from.

Couch talk_slow write will be a day of play with materials, writing, and sound. By crafting some sort of vision for the near future, the workshop is a pool that offers movement tasks, prompts to witness as a care gesture, and practice to engage together in actions.

Let the couch become a subject of narratives, dreams and visions. Let your presence be moved between the roles of witness and writer. We will work with textile, voice, collage, stitching, writing, drawing, and other mediums to co-create.

*Are you planning to throw away a couch? We are looking for one to use in the workshop. Let us know and we can pick it up from you before the workshop.

More info & Sign up here

Sunday 2 November  The Gossib Club ~ Collective Quilting Workshop with Sanne Freijdag & Anya Minervina at Lapland

Join us for a collective quilting workshop exploring care, motherhood, and The Gossip – the historic circle of women who gathered around birthing mothers to offer care, wisdom, and support. What forms of community and care sustain us as mothers, as parents, as friends, as grandparents, as neighbours – and how can we reclaim the knowledge and practices around community and care for mothers and children that have been lost to time?

In this workshop, you will learn to assemble a patchwork panel, while holding space for conversation, reflection, and gentle making. In later workshops the panels will be assembled into one collective quilt, which will be donated to keep a mother and her baby warm in her lying-in period.

We will be guided by artist and birth educator, Sanne Freijdag, and artist and doula, Anya Minervina. While stitching, we will explore what roles we play in community care to create support for mothers and carers today. What does it mean to care? What kind of care do we long for? What knowledge, stories, and practices have been lost through time?

More info & Sign up here

Save the date: Tuesday 4 November in the evening  Sol Marinucci presents Illaturas at Hartwig Proxy

We are very excited to welcome Sol Marinucci who is visiting from Argentina to present Illaturas, an itinerant project exploring the symbolic role of miniatures in Andean traditions. Illaturas is an invitation to explore inner territories — the universe of desires, dreams and intuitions — and to recover the sense of the small, of rituality, and of the creative force that has moved through miniatures since pre-Inca times.

Sol will give a talk followed by an open embroidery table.

More info soon - The event will be free with RSVP.

Save the date: Sunday 23 November  Repair with me at Hartwig Proxy

A drop-in repair session where you can get help from our group of repairers to repair your clothes.

More info soon!

+ We now have a website where you can see documentation of all our past events and updates about our upcoming activities ⭐️

Textile Initiative

textileinitiative.com

We hope to see you soon!

All our best,

Bronwen & Dasha

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Textile Initiative

textileinitiative.com

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Textile Initiative is an event series organised by Bronwen Jones and Dasha Golova in Amsterdam, NL.

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Dear Jakoozi Community,

We hope that you're doing well. First of all, yes! Our name changed due to copyright reasons with the bathtubs corporation. We are now Jakoozi!

We're are excited to announce the Jakoozi Workshop Series – Fall 2025! This season, we invite movers, performers, and the simply curious to immerse themselves in practice through our first-ever weekend workshop series.

For those who aren’t familiar with us yet: Jakoozi is our Amsterdam based artist-run, movement and dance space in the heart of the Red Light District. It’s a space both for individual practice as well as a variety of community gatherings.

Inspired by the spirit of our legendary Monday sessions, these weekend workshops are intensive deep-dives into specific movement and performance practices. It’s a chance to immerse yourself fully in artistic research.

This series is also a crucial initiative to fund our studio’s future. If our Monday sessions have ever moved you, joining a workshop is also the best way to ensure Jakoozi’s doors stay open and we can continue to give back to dance scene in Amsterdam.

We’re offering each workshop weekend for a donation based between €50-€100. The lower end of the scale is intended to make the workshop accessible to those with lower income and/or less financial security. If you have the means to contribute at the higher end, this helps us keep the space open.

To register please find here the registration link.

There's limited availability so please make sure to register on time.

Got questions? We’d love to hear from you! :)

Write to us at production.atjakoozi@proton.me

#1 “Tracing the Other” by Raoni/Muzho Saleh

Date: October 25 & 26

Time 14:00-17:00

#2 “De.sy.re. (Decentralized Systems of Relations)” by Elisa Zuppini

Date: November 15 & 16

Time: 14:00 - 17:00

#3 December TBA

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The main venue for the Rotterdam edition of DSFW 2025 is the Nieuwe Instituut, which hosts several events and workshops, like:

Fabrix presents: The Future of Fashion and Textiles

The future is green, inclusive, democratic, digital and resilient. This also applies to the fashion and textile sector. But how can this be put this into practice?

Linen Beyond Fashion Show #1 An Ode to Flax

In 2024, local cooperative Buijtenland van Rhoon, nature-inclusive farmers Van de Bilt Zaden & Vlas and textile expert Maaike Gottschal of Textielfabrique came together for the Linen Beyond Fashion project. The goal: to reuse flax in the textile supply chain.

Linen Beyond Fashion Exhibition

Maaike Gottschal’s samples and linen work is on display at the Linen Beyond Fashion exhibition, from 8 to 12 October at the Nieuwe Instituut. Final designs by Florian Regtien, the talents of House of Denim/Jeanschool, and Petra Laaper will be added to the exhibition after the unveiling on 10 October.

Date: 8 October 2025 - 12 October 2025 | Location: Deck | Language: Dutch

Making and Dyeing Sustainable Lingerie with Fungal Pigments

Date and time: 11 October 2025 13:00 - 17:00

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Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week zet zich in voor duurzame mode en draagt bij aan een circulaire mode-economie. Nieuwe Instituut is de hoofdlocatie van de Rotterdamse editie van DSFW 2025, en biedt ruimte aan meerdere events en workshops.

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solo exhibition in the gallery space ground floor PHŒBUS•Rotterdam
opening 7 september - till 19 oktober 2025
+ Text 'Enviesado' from Tálisson Melo, written for this exhibition.

Célio Braga (1963) is a multidisciplinary artist whose/career has been marked by his ability to redefine and expand conventional categories such as photography, painting, drawing, textiles and sculpture, making reference to a broad spectrum of visual language and traditions of making.

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PHOEBUS Rotterdam (25 januari 1990) is een galerie voor hedendaagse beeldende kunst.

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17 Sep 14:00-16:00  Invitation: Publishing Otherwise at Rietveld Graphic Design

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17 Sep 14:00-16:00  Invitation: Publishing Otherwise at Rietveld Graphic Design

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Dear friends, colleagues, students, makers, readers, and fellow publishers,

You are warmly invited to spend an afternoon with us as we gather around the possibilities of publishing otherwise, publishing as a gesture of care, of resistance, of keeping ideas in motion even when they don’t fit the mainstream.

Together with Maya Moumne, Clara Balaguer, and Rose Nordin, we’ll drift through questions of how small initiatives find their readers, how we sustain fragile practices, how we navigate censorship, and how voices from the margins carry their own power.

It will be informal, conversational, and open-ended, a chance to listen, exchange, and imagine what publishing can mean when it moves with tenderness, urgency, and invention.

Bring a book, a thought, a story, or simply your curiosity.

Hope to see you on Wednesday!

Warmly, Rasha Dakkak

initiating on behalf of Rietveld Graphic Design

*Poster design by Esmee Desjardin, Rietveld Graphic Design alumna.

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Sample Sale at BYBORRE (Invite from Ea Polman)

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Sample Sale at BYBORRE (Invite from Ea Polman)

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On Tuesday, July 8, we’re hosting a one-time-only Sample Sale at BYBORRE.

We’re opening up our archive and offering unique fabrics by the meter, leftover textiles, and yarns — all from previous collections. Carefully designed and perfect for new experiments. This is really a last chance: we’ve transitioned fully to on-demand production, so once it’s gone, it’s gone for good.

🗓 Date: Tuesday July 8
🕒 Time: 15:00–20:00
📍 Location: BYBORRE Studio, Naritaweg 70, Amsterdam

Anyone who loves textiles, materials, making and experimenting is more than welcome.

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A Slowdown: Conversations on a Sustainable Practice 

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will take place on Friday 20 June 14:00-16:30, 13:30 walk-in at W139.

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A Slowdown: Conversations on a Sustainable Practice with Urgent Ecologies

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How can artists and designers make their own practice more sustainable for themselves? The current political and ecological climate requires urgent action. We need to move fast, before we run out of resources. But how do we navigate this landscape without burning ourselves down first? Let’s slow down for a moment, get personal, get engaged together, and move from there.

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Everyone who would like to experience SNDO today can sign up for our May and June workshops and study with us! Each workshop is 4 days long, from Monday to Thursday, 10:00 – 16:30 hrs. The workshops take place at the Academy of Theatre and Dance and other studio spaces in Amsterdam. The SNDO Open School is for different levels of experience in choreography and performance.

The Open School features workshops by Jija Sohn, IPOP (facilitated by Szymon Adamczak & alex blum), Aleksandra Imfeld, Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla, Raoni/Muzho Saleh, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla & Litchi Ly Friedrich, Katinka Marac, and Parisa Madani.

There are limited spots available for each workshop.

All info about the workshops and tickets is at this link: https://www.atd.ahk.nl/en/dance-programmes/sndo-choreography/50-years-sndo/sndo-open-school/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIdseUQMbgH/

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During this 4 day workshop Jija proposes to spend time as a group, going through various experiences that deal with listening to the collective shifts and needs, respecting and contemplating the environment from which to draw inspiration and establish artistic exchange, making in situ spontaneous performances, finding calmness and rest as productive modes and other propositions primarily based on practicing receiving & giving as creative forces.

This workshop is inspired by the long collaboration with Andrea Zavala Folache. It started in SNDO many years ago, by coincidence we were paired up in a class and were given an assignment. From there, we started to meet in the studio without a word, and like that, we developed a performance and a practice called LINKING. that deals with a generative physical and wording movement. More recently, we have collaborated in the research and creation of Lands of Concert, a living practice and a performance that invites radical intimacy. as a mode of spending time together and dare to playfully distort hierarchies and power dynamics through friendship, work and love.

Queer Practices of Feedback, Embodied Consent, and Refusal
Facilitators: alex blum and Szymon Adamczak
12-15 May
10:00 - 16:30 hrs

Feedback is essential in artistic education. It is a form of communication that facilitates mutual learning, frames critique, and generates valuable insights. At best, feedback is a gift that opens space and creates depth. Simultaneously, feedback is a power situation. In this hands-on workshop, Szymon Adamczak and alex blum will offer practices of feedback and queer togetherness inspired by the model of communal queer feedback developed by In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP).

IPOP's vision of pedagogy is based on an anti-identitarian approach to queerness (you don't need to identify as queer to participate!), which in itself is perceived as an abundant landscape of responses, politics, identities, and definitions. In our work, we are concerned with a non-normative approach to both art making and the ideologies behind feedback. By understanding pedagogy as accompaniment, we will guide y'all through mapping practices to uncover your own feedback needs and ways of (re)presenting and (un)curating your practice to invite others in.

Our idea is that everyone will learn how to design feed-in and feed-back strategies to support their future work. We will tap into IPOP's performative and communal practices, including body voting, nervous system regulation, and queer performance methodologies, like maximalism, glitching, and abstraction.

We will always listen to the feedback of the body when determining our politics. We will talk about strategies of how to more-than-survive in art institutions and practice embodied consent and refusal. When practicing art in and around institutions, we are forced to grapple with our complicity with the state and its violence. What does it mean to sense this complicity with feeling? How do we consent to complicity and then refuse compliance? What are the roles of opacity, secrets, gossip, embodied consent, and refusal in queer artistic practices?

The workshop is an invitation. Bring clothes for moving, notebooks, water, and an object that grounds you in your practice.

workshop requirements
Experience with dance is not required, but it is preferred that you have your own creative practice (in any discipline) and are interested in sharing it with others. You are more than welcome to bring a practice, or a sample of what you are working on, but it is not obligatory.

Movement research method: "The Dots"
19-22 May
10:00 - 16:30 hrs

Aleksandra has developed "The Dots," a unique movement research method that she has shared across Belgium, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Latvia, Croatia, and Germany. This practice is designed to disrupt habitual patterns in improvisation and offer fresh ways of experiencing the body.

It is a method that aims to work as a tool to both acknowledge and avoid the usual organization, rhythm, habits and sequence in our improvisation, and thus resets the body in an unexpected way. The body will be used as a space and "the dot" as "the author" inside that empty space. We will be working on exploring simple ideas of changing the focus from our body parts as the once that start the movement, to practicing a very precise "point" placed anywhere within our body which initiates the movement. Many exercises are used in a way to give/gain trust to making any kind of choice as the exact right time/moment. Not judging anything as a wrong choice, but rather observing the decisions that have been made by now and composing and deciding further in relation to what has just happened.We will observe past decisions and respond by composing and shaping the next actions in real time. This process heightens awareness of the rapid feedback loop between the body's decisions and its physical responses-an ongoing dialogue that informs further impulses and movement exploration.

Throughout the day, we will engage in two key moments: Solo and performance of the Day
This moment is dedicated to individual exploration, applying The Dots method in a personal movement practice. Through peer exchange, participants will influence and be influenced by each other's movement, refining their awareness in real time. The focus will be on:

Initiating movement from precise internal dots rather than habitual body parts.

Observing the immediate feedback loop between movement decisions and bodily response.

Composing and reshaping movement based on what has just happened.

workshop requirements
For this workshop, some experience with dance and improvisation is recommended.

Disobedient Bodies and Fugitive Aesthetics is a laboratory exploring the borders between Art, Social Justice and Somatics. We will explore and play through the lenses of somatic abolitionism, speculative fiction, queer feminist Latin American public performances and pleasure activism. We will experience different relationships to time and space as a way to imagine alternative ways of relating with the world, being in the world and reproducing the world. Based on non-western concepts like trans-corporeality (note 1) and traveling worlds (note 2) we will practice decentering our human gaze, give agency to more-than-human bodies and practice our capacity for merging or existing in two or more realities at the same time.

The sessions will be playgrounds where our capacity for radical imagination and speculative fiction is expanded, transforming mundane or daily practices into absurd, sacred, protest or mythical landscapes, where objects/elements can acquire human or extraordinary faculties and give us renewed narratives of how we perceive and exist in the world. An invitation to re-storying and re-worlding while decentering the human extractivist and individualist oriented gaze.

How can artistic practice regain sovereignty, exceed and problematize institutional logics, how can we problematize ourselves, acknowledge our implicit complicity, how do we force hegemonic powers (university, governments, nuclear family, institutions) to consider us a problem, a danger? (Harney and Moten 2013, 30)

This Laboratory will be practical-theoretical. We will do movement research sessions everyday, share readings of texts, watch videos, listen to podcasts, we will engage with diverse choreographic and performative practices and there will be an embodied outdoor session.

workshop requirements
No prior dance or performance experience is needed.

Read more about Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla here

Buy tickets for this workshop here

1"Transcorporeality pertains to fluidity between material and theoretical bodies, challenging dualities and dichotomies. Transcorporeality assumes inter- and intra-connections, intra-actions, entanglements and transits between human and other-than-human bodies." A Radical More-Than-Human Intersectionality in Ecologically Compromised Times: Toward an Attunement to Nonhumans and Indigenous Knowledges by Sanita Fejzic. Chapter 28 2"This vision of traveling involves epistemic shifts to other worlds of sense rather than tourism and colonialism, which lead to consumption, exoticization, and oppression." In-Between. Latina Feminist phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self by Mariana Ortega. Pag 90.
tracing the other's dance
2-5 June
10:00 - 16:30 hrs

As the title suggests this movement research workshop deals with the questions of "how to dance beyond the self?" or "how to attune our dancing bodies to the dance of an imagined other?" We will research these questions through the dance practice of "tracing the other''. Through this practice we will be exploring the relationship between "the self" and "an imaginary other", playing with how this continuously changing relationship finds its expression through the dance that comes about. By "tracing the other's dance" we're cheekily engaged with opening our awareness beyond the self confined by identity. Also, "tracing the other's dance" is a trickster dance that excites a "becoming with" (in the words of Donna Harraway) the dance of the imagined other. This practice is inspired by the following literature, which emphasises the curious mutability of our spirited bodies: "How Forests Think" by Eduardo Kohn, "Ideas on How to Postpone the End of the World" by Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak and "The Falling Sky: Word of a Yanomami Shaman" by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Bruce Albert.

workshop requirements
For this workshop it's required to have some background in embodied imaginative exercises and a deep curiosity to dance and movement as a medium for playing with the edges.

Cultural Appropriation in Dance - Exploration & Reflection
2-5 June
10:00 - 16:30 hrs

This workshop, co-led by Amelia Uzategui Bonilla and Litchi Ly Friedrich, explores the complex and often controversial topic of cultural appropriation in dance. Together, we will unpack key definitions of appropriation, its historical roots, and its impact on dance and other artistic fields. Through case studies from lived experiences, research and dance artistic practices, we will explore cultural ownership, authenticity, and representation in contemporary performance.

Combining practical movement explorations with theoretical discussions, Amelia and Litchi create an engaging environment where participants reflect on how artists navigate cultural material with care and sensitivity. This workshop offers an opportunity for participants to understand how appropriation is relevant to their own artistic practice while fostering critical dialogue.

Using references from relevant literature, digital media and pop-culture, participants will move, discuss, and collaborate in small groups. There will be opportunities for improvisation, peer feedback, and creative proposals that allow for a playful yet reflective engagement with cultural heritage and identity in dance.

This workshop invites everyone to bring their own experiences and ideas into the conversation. Be ready to write, move, and engage in an exchange of perspectives!

Please bring comfortable clothing for movement and materials for note-taking.

workshop requirements
While this workshop is designed for participants with an active artistic practice, anyone interested in its topics and eager to explore them through the lens of dance is warmly welcome to join.

How To Chill 101
workshop with Parisa
23-26 June
10:00-16:30 hrs

"The earlier we start with deprogramming from White Supremacy and Capitalism with methods of rest and community care, the better!"

With a mix of theory and practice, we will, for example, learn simple massage techniques and experiment with 'doing nothing' together.

This workshop is dedicated to lifelong unraveling, a love practice and healing journey that relates to resting and resisting.

This workshop will be in English and in silence.

We will read and discuss academic texts (about white supremacy, burn-out culture, colonialism, intersectionality) for one day.

If you miss Monday, you cannot attend Tuesday, but you can join Wednesday and Thursday. Monday prepares you for the week, so it is recommended to join from the beginning.

No particular expertise or knowledge is needed to attend this workshop, and you can leave whenever you want.

Emotional topics such as fears, overwhelmedness, and self-esteem are welcome to be shared here. Please bring comfortable indoor clothing, weatherproof outside clothes and shoes, pillows and cozy blankets, tarot cards, family photos, dream journals, notebooks, pens, and anything else that gives you a sense of safety and well-being.

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During this 4 day workshop Jija proposes to spend time as a group, going through various experiences that deal with listening to the collective shifts and needs, respecting and contemplating the environment from which to draw inspiration and establish artistic exchange, making in situ spontaneous performances, finding calmness and rest as productive modes and other propositions primarily based on practicing receiving & giving as creative forces.

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Simnikiwe Buhlungu: hygrosummons (iter.02) - Exhibitions - Kunstinstituut Melly

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Simnikiwe Buhlungu’s exhibition hygrosummons (iter.02) transforms the building of Kunstinstituut Melly into a porous, responsive site. Comprising installation, sculpture, drawing, and sound, Simnikiwe’s new commission unfolds as a sensing hygrometer that conspires with the conditions of the building—summoning water to reveal the ways knowledge, history, and ecology circulate and pool. Puddles are not treated as a minor detail but as a site of accumulation. As Simnikiwe puts it, “The show expands our day-to-day understanding of how water circulates through humidity, moisture, and puddles, by encouraging us to look again at their complexity, and what they might tell us about how knowledge is produced and accessed.”

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We would like to invite you to our upcoming exhibition - The Cow & her Girls on Ærø, Denmark.

"A few alumni from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, alongside other international female artists, are gathering for a unique group exhibition in a former cow barn on the small, idyllic island of Ærø. Through a gentle link of fine arts and crafts(wo)manship, the artists explore personal matters by pouring ungraspable thoughts into physical structures - installations, sculptures & paintings. Join us for an intimate experience that bridges art and nature, tradition and experimentation, female narratives and rural landscapes."

Opening: 1st July 2025
Location: Voderup 41, 5970 Ærøskøbing, Denmark
Duration: 01-31 July
Participating artists: Candice Binjacar, Jessie Green, Lucia Dürr, Jale Sezgin and Anna Leoni Klas

Ps: Our hand-printed Exhibition posters are for sale! Screen-print & letterpress. Limited edition of 73 prints - 35€ each.

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Magdalena Abakanowicz in Textile Museum, Tilburg

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Magdalena Abakanowicz in Textile Museum, Tilburg

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De pionier van de installatiekunst Magdalena Abakanowicz en haar bijzondere oeuvre verdienen een groots podium. Stap in een indrukwekkend universum van monumentale textiele sculpturen die de grenzen tussen kunst en natuur laten vervagen.

Drieluik - Groots, groter, grootst

Het complete verhaal over het werk, leven en nalatenschap van Abakanowicz wordt dit voorjaar verteld op drie locaties in Brabant: Het TextielMuseum, Het Noordbrabants Museum en het provinciehuis Noord-Brabant. ' Everything is made of fiber' is onderdeel van dit drieluik met de titel 'Groots, groter, grootst - Magdalena Abakanowicz' . Op de overkoepelende website www.grootsinbrabant.nl vind je meer informatie over deze unieke samenwerking en gezamenlijke activiteiten. D eze pagina wordt de komende weken verder aangevuld.

Plan je bezoek Boek een combiticket*

* Heb je een Museumkaart, VriendenLoterij VIP-kaart, ICOM-pas of andere (kortings)kaart? Dan hoef je geen combiticket aan te schaffen.

Over de tentoonstelling

Misschien doet haar naam niet gelijk een belletje rinkelen, maar de Poolse Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930 - 2017) is een van de grootste kunstenaars van de vorige eeuw. Ze verwierf wereldwijd faam met haar sculpturen, sneed onderwerpen aan die tot op de dag van vandaag actueel zijn en liet een indrukwekkend oeuvre na dat nog altijd vele kunstenaars inspireert.

Abakanowicz was geboeid door de textuur van textiel en de structuur van natuurlijke vezels. Deze fascinatie gebruikte ze als basis voor haar weefsels, maar ook om het menselijk lichaam te verbeelden. Ze reisde de hele wereld over om haar exposities zelf in te richten. De sculpturen plaatste ze midden in de ruimte om zo een 'omgeving' te creëren, een eigen wereld. Met dit ruimtelijke concept was ze een van de voorlopers van de installatiekunst

"Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind."

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Abakan Garment, (1975), Abakan Black garment VI, (1976), Rope, (1972-1976), Magdalena Abakanowicz, foto: Josefina Eikenaar

Magdalena Abakanowicz by Marek Holzman, copyright estate Marek Holzman, the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation

Abakan Brown IV, (1969), Magdalena Abakanowicz, foto: Josefina Eikenaar

Backs, (1976-1989), Magdalena Abakanowicz, foto: Josefina Eikenaar

Maakproces

Abakanowicz liet het traditionele wandkleed ver achter zich en plaatste haar sculpturale vormen juist midden in de ruimte. Haar werken waren zo vernieuwend dat er geen beschrijving voor was. Ze zijn daarom vernoemd naar de maker; Abakans .

De studio, de werkplaats en het woonhuis van Abakanowicz in Warschau zijn na haar dood in 2017 in oorspronkelijke staat gebleven. We gingen hier langs en spraken haar voormalige medewerkers, die nog altijd deze plekken onderhouden en een collectie van haar werken beheren. In de expo zie je een film -die grotendeels in Warschau is opgenomen- waa rin zij vertellen over de werkwijze van Abakanowicz .

Foto: Artur Starewicz/East News Wystawa Magdaleny Abakanowicz, Pawilon Polski, 39 Miedzynarodowa Wystawa Sztuki w Wenecji (la Biennale di Venezia), 1980. N/z: "Plecy" (Backs) z cyklu Alteracje - konopie, zywica / burlap, resin, w glebi Magdalena Abakanowicz Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska

Groots in Brabant

Het Noordbrabants Museum toont het werk van Abakanowicz in relatie tot de wereldgeschiedenis én vandaag . Haar werk staat naast dat van moderne kunstenaars zoals Anish Kapoor , Kimsooja , Marlene Dumas en Kader Attia . Speciaal voor de tentoonstelling maakt choreograaf Nicole Beutler een dansperformance en gaat er een nieuwe film van Kristina Benjocki en Stijn Verhoeff in première.

In het provinciehuis Noord-Brabant in 's-Hertogenbosch is een spectaculair werk van Abakanowicz te zien: Bois le Duc (1970-1971). Dit monumentale kunstwerk bestaat uit 19 geweven banen, elk ruim 7 meter hoog en 22 meter breed. Het werd speciaal gemaakt voor de zaal, ontworpen door architect Maaskant. Hoewel de ruimte normaal niet openbaar is, zullen er tijdens deze tentoonstelling speciale programma's zijn, zoals rondleidingen, films en een internationaal symposium. Een unieke kans om dit indrukwekkende werk van dichtbij te beleven!

Foto: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Bois le Duc, (1970-1971), Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant © The Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, Warsaw. Photo Rob Lipsius

Met dank aan

Het gezamenlijke programma van tentoonstellingen en activiteiten wordt genereus gesteund door Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ambassade van de Republiek Polen, Arriva, ASML x Brabant C, Blockbusterfonds, CANPACK, Central Museum of Textiles Lodz , Cultuurfonds/Barbas-van der Klauw Fonds, Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, Gemeente Tilburg, Mondriaan Fonds, Provincie Noord-Brabant, The Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, VriendenLoterij.

Het TextielMuseum heeft voor deze tentoonstelling samengewerkt met gastcurator Marta Kowalewska, voorzitter van de adviesraad van The Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation en expert op het gebied van Abakanowicz' oeuvre

Tentoonstelling 'Magdalena Abakanowicz - Everything is made of fiber' is georganiseerd in samenwerking met de Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.

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Magdalena Abakanowicz, groots uitgelicht in Brabant door Het TextielMuseum, Het Noordbrabants Museum en het Provinciehuis Noord-Brabant

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Tickets for this year’s Rijksakademie Open Studios are now available online. The event kicks off during Amsterdam Art Week, and runs from 22 to 25 May. Artists in residence will share what has…

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horseshoe to heart / togethers in motion

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horseshoe to heart / togethers in motion

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Voice as Landscape is proud to present its new spring gathering: horseshoe to heart / togethers in motion. A program driven by dialogue and correspondence. Dialogue as in: a generative undoing of self through incorporation of another — an other — un-othered through relation. Like the smelting of metals. These dialogues have been made material, catalysed in correspondence. Correspondence as the catalyst, irreversibly humane.

We have invited twelve artists to generate offerings born from long held correspondence, translated in space for new audiences, or newly formed correspondences joining distinct practices and their attendant perspectives. A program composed of two days, one in our theatre, and one traversing the gardened publics surrounding and including If I Can’t Dance, our host for the second day.

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Voice as Landscape D1E - Stichting Perdu

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Voice as Landscape D1E - Stichting Perdu

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Perdu is a specialised poetry bookshop, cultural stage, and publishing house based in Amsterdam since 1984.

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Free entry
NUL ZES, Gasfabriek 3A, Eindhoven
17-18 | 24-25 mei
Saturday & Sunday | 14.00-19.00

Should we separate the art from the artist, is that even possible? What does a name, your background, and your experiences have to do with your work? Nothing. Everything. We believe that art speaks for itself, which is why we organise the Anonymous group exhibition as part of our yearly programme.

Artists

Anonymous
Roos van Geffen
Nati Hoki
Anne Kolbe
Gleb Maiboroda
Antrianna Moutoula

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Banner design by Qiao Chu Guo Free entry NUL ZES, Gasfabriek 3A, Eindhoven 17-18 | 24-25 mei Saturday & Sunday | 14.00-19.00 Should we separate the art from the artist, is that even possible?

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simulacrum magazine open call: visual content "libido"

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simulacrum magazine open call: visual content "libido"

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Simulacrum is a quarterly thematic magazine for arts and culture, originally initiated by students from the University of Amsterdam, that serves as an accessible and high-quality publication platform for students and experts in the field. We publish a combination of academic and artistic research, creative writing, and visual art. Our issues are distributed in (museum) bookstores across the Netherlands and Europe.

Simulacrum is eager to connect with emerging artists and work together on publishing their work in print. This year we have introduced a special colour section in the middle of our otherwise duotone magazine, dedicated to showcasing visual art.

We are currently running an open call for visual submissions for our upcoming issue on the theme of "LIBIDO" and would love to offer Rietveld students the opportunity to have their work published. We think it would be a valuable chance for students to take part in the process of publication and have their work exposed to a broad audience.

Would you be so kind as to share this open call with the students of your department?

You can find the details of the open call here: https://www.simulacrum.nl/callforartlibido/

The open call ends on the 13th of May.

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A quarterly thematic magazine that reflects on arts and culture

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‘a condition of the aftermath - to blend, to see, to shape’

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‘a condition of the aftermath - to blend, to see, to shape’

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We hereby invite you to the opening of ‘a condition of the aftermath - to blend, to see, to shape’ on the 15th of May

(18-22PM) at Vrij Paleis, Paleisstraat 107, 1012 ZL Amsterdam!

What happens when four graduates meet almost a year after the end of the beginning ? through "to blend, to see, to shape " dariya trubina, Sophie Dandanell, Marie Willfort and Luis Webers decided to collectively revisit and re-contextualise their graduation pieces. From materials used, themes explored and texts written, the exhibition is a moment of looking and listening closely. Reconvening at Vrij Paleis, the four will explore how to blend, to see, to shape the resonance of their work(s).

The exhibition will be open

thursday 15: 18-22 (opening perfomance 19)

friday 16: 12-17

saturday 17: 12-17

sunday 18: 12-17 (closing programme runs till 18)

With much excitement,

We hope to see you there

Sophie, dariya, Marie and Luis

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Nerdy Arts – Student Presentations & Drinks at VU (13 May)

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Nerdy Arts – Student Presentations & Drinks at VU (13 May)

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13 May 2025, 14:00–17:00 (walk-in from 13:30)

Location: VU University, Eventspot at NU Building

(the building with the green and pink lampions, at the top of the tall escalator)

De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam

Language: English

Entry: Free, including drinks

Accessibility: The location is elevator-accessible. Please reach out if you have specific accessibility needs.

RSVP (optional, for headcount & drinks): joris.landman@rietveldacademie.nl

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Join us on 13 May for the closing event of Nerdy Arts, an interdisciplinary collaboration between students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University). This afternoon brings together presentations, experiments, and insights from across the boundaries of art, science, and technology.

Program Highlights:

Keynote by Kim Baraka (Assistant Professor in AI, VU): Perspectives at the intersection between robotics and the performing arts

Informal presentations by students from GRA and VU

Discussion, mingling, and drinks

Students present research and speculative concepts exploring themes such as: impact of smells on memory, depression and neuroimaging, location and movement based audio and performance, and mapping the Dutch colonial empire, to interactive soft-robotics with liquids and gasses, societal issues and news permeation, femme perspectives on artificial intelligence, and computationally supported metaphor analysis.

This is a chance to engage with student-driven research in progress and explore how creative thinking can meet innovation, social reflection, and critical inquiry.

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Participating GRA Students

Rachel Brennesholtz

Polina Ertel

Jelle IJntema

Siyoung Jun

Participating VU Students

5 students (names to be announced).

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About Nerdy Arts

From 22 April to 13 May, students from the Nerdy Arts program at GRA work at VU Amsterdam, alongside VU students from the Network Institute Academy Projects. Together, they explore intersections of artistic and scientific research.

Presentations and small exhibitions are on view throughout the NU Building, including:

The street-side corner space

Eventspot (top of the escalator at NU building)

All presentations are free and open to students, staff, and curious visitors.

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Organized by:

Jojo (Joris) Landman (Nerdy Arts, Experimental Interdepartmental New Technology Program, GRA)

Ivano Malavolta & Mauricio Verano Merino (Network Institute, VU)

In collaboration with:

Art Science Gallery

With many thanks to everyone at GRA and VU who helped make this possible!

More info: https://rietveldacademie.nl/en/page/33308/nerdy-arts

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Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song

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Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song

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Four artistic proposals by Teresa Borasino, AZ OOR, Serena Lee, and Kristiina Koskentola. At Casco Art Institute, 22 March–25 May, 2025

Under prevailing paradigms of thought, knowing is framed within the boundaries of the written and the rational—a kind of thinking that works by sorting, categorizing, and separating, cutting knowledge off from the body, sensation, and pulse of lived experience. A search for other ways to know, alongside embracing forms of not-knowing, is what guides Casco Art Institute’s Spring program Sensing the Ways.

Sensing the Ways is an invitation to consider knowledge not as a decontextualized abstraction but rather as an assemblage of embodied practices rooted in deep connections with more-than-human worlds, spirit, and land. Flowing through touch, story, movement, and song as methods of aesthetic inquiry and artistic experimentation, the four artistic proposals that make Sensing the Ways transcend mere rationalizations; rather, they enact knowledge, asking what possibilities emerge when it is held in relation rather than possession.

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Spring program - Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song - Casco Art Institute

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Under prevailing paradigms of thought, knowing is framed within the boundaries of the written and the rational—a kind of thinking that works by sorting,

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The Gerrit Rietveld Academie Fashion Show is the annual presentation of the Fashion Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

instagram.com/rietveld.fashion

Campaign by Graphic Design graduates Idun Wahlgren, Anne Julie Andersen and Kadri-Ann Kivisild

Rietveld Academie Fashion Show 2025 is made possible by Keep an Eye Foundation, Meester Koetsier Foundation and Stichting van Stigt-ing

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Did you work for an employer in 2024 and did you pay taxes (loonheffing)?

Then you might be eligible for tax return!

TAX REPORT MEETING

When:  Wednesday 2 April

Time:  11.30

Where: Room 306 Rietveld building

What to bring:

-   Laptop

-   DIGID

- Annual overview of your job(s) (jaaroverzicht -sent by your employer in January or February)

By: Mirjam Mazurel, student counselor

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Group exhibition with artists from the Large Glass Department

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Group exhibition with artists from the Large Glass Department

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Dear all,

It's a HaHa funny kind of day.

We are happy to invite you on to our exhibition opening, It's not a joke, it's for real. On the 1st of April 2025, at 17:30.

Location: PAKT Foundation, Zeeburgerpad 53, 1019 AD, Amsterdam.

It's not a joke, it's for real.

Is a group exhibition with artists from the Large Glass Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

We're dead serious, but will you be fooled?

All the best, the beautiful,

Astrid Sanny Hemmingsen

Jack van Leeuwen

Jagoda Lis

Nynne Pors

Serafina Schutz

Taylor Whigham

Bryan Zyan

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Dorothy Waxman International Textile Prize

Deadline, July 30th 2025

Are you a student recently graduated or currently studying in a program in textiles, fashion, interior, or lifestyle textiles?

This prestigious award honors emerging talent in textiles and fashion, recognizing exceptional creativity and a strong commitment to sustainable innovation.

Eligibility:

Students currently enrolled in an educational institution and

Graduates from the classes of 2024 or 2025

More info via this link: https://www.textilemonth.nyc/textile-prize-2025?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-95VfNoB46P_GkM0QiIxDGcXv8cO0gPFJWb7zf2kXTMhNgUc4vMEU6p0hIwVhZJ8Bnc8k3CvLr8gt920Dvw-roEw3-SX3es1cVR1Z31DMnLhLWQkSU&_hsmi=350222600&utm_content=350222600&utm_source=hs_email

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The Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize — New York Textile Month

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The Dorothy Waxman International Textile Design Prize is awarded to a current or recently graduated student in Textiles or Fashion who exhibits sustainable thinking and innovative creativity in textiles. The prize is part of the TALKING TEXTILES initiative that promotes textile education and creativ

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Film screening Patterns Against Workers by Olena Newkryta Friday 28th FebruaryWalk-in 20:00Screening starts at 20:30+ Q&A with Olena afterwards

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Film screening Patterns Against Workers by Olena Newkryta Friday 28th FebruaryWalk-in 20:00Screening starts at 20:30+ Q&A with Olena afterwards

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From looms to a digital code. From factories to computer chips. From gestures to automated machines. Patterns Against Workers delves deep into the fabrics of technological infrastructures that determine contemporary conditions of labour. Tirelessly swiping and scrolling through archival documents, images and patterns, the short film interweaves the economic, political, and engineering forces, which manifest in the operating systems of our glowing screens. There, behind its surface, the repetitive patterns of weave codes, datasets, and orchestrated gestures, echo methods of capitalistic extraction that not only penetrate algorithmic networks but also deserted landscapes and sleepless bodies.

Olena Newkryta is a visual artist based in Vienna. Through films, installations and textile pieces, Olena explores the interrelations between forms of marginalized labour, technological infrastructures and strategies of exploitation in contemporary capitalism.

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Talk: Fashion From and For All: making fashion fairer Tanveer AhmedWednesday 26th FebruaryWalk-in at 20:00Presentation starts at 20:30

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Talk: Fashion From and For All: making fashion fairer Tanveer AhmedWednesday 26th FebruaryWalk-in at 20:00Presentation starts at 20:30

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How could fashion be re-invented as an artistic practice based on equality and a fairer system that encourages all humans to flourish? In this talk, Tanveer Ahmed will explore how making fashion a space in which all humans flourish regardless of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, class or sexual orientation, requires a process of making colonial logic visible and learning from those who have challenged societal oppression. How could fashion move away from capitalist modernization?
One approach to create future radical and novel conceptual fashions involves drawing on global socialist visions and theories and past political and socialist experimentation. Addressing inequality is not new, but applying histories of alternative egalitarian non-hierarchical community principles in fashion is. Taking inspiration from the Paris Commune which briefly in 1871 proposed luxury as a shared human right, the concept of communal luxury re-envisions artistic practice as a joy that everyone takes part in, a collective endeavor that forms part of daily life. This approach was applied to a community fashion workshop Unstitched London which explored an inclusive and decolonial fashion design system in which the community led a participatory aesthetic experience to create new fashion concepts.

Tanveer Ahmed is a practice-led fashion design researcher and anti-racist educator exploring ways to expose and re-think how dominant Eurocentric racial hierarchies are used as part of the fashion design process. She is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Race at Central Saint Martins working across the fashion programme to support decolonial fashion perspectives.

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'We hereby invite you to the opening of ‘No Need to Confess’ on the 6th of March (6 PM) at PAKT Foundation, Zeeburgerpad 53, Amsterdam.

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'We hereby invite you to the opening of ‘No Need to Confess’ on the 6th of March (6 PM) at PAKT Foundation, Zeeburgerpad 53, Amsterdam.

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From the 6th until the 12th of March we, Aimée Phillips and Nina Linde Läuger will be organising an exhibition in PAKT Foundation in Amsterdam. The exhibition goes by the name ‘No Need to Confess’ and will be situated around the topic of abortion. In a multidisciplinary manner we aim to interweave different perspectives (historical, intimate and socio-political) on abortion and confession. In doing so, we hope to offer a platform for practices that expose the taboo surrounding abortion. We do this by combining (self)fabricated archival material from different eras that have normalized and lived out misogynistic (political, religious as well as social) structures and rework them. We invite the visitors to enter the layered narratives and complex relationships between image and imagination, listen to the lived experiences of people with wombs and how abortion is surrounded by repressive language and censorship. For ‘No Need to Confess’ we are collaborating with artists Annette Rodriquez, Bel McLaughnin and Clara Saito. They will present their performative works during the opening on the 6th of March.'

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On Thursday December 19th De Ateliers will organize an Online Open Day for all who are interested in applying to De Ateliers. There will be a short presentation about the programme and the application form, and you can ask any question you might have.

Date & time: Thursday December 19, 3.30-5pm CET
Location: Zoom.com

Please reserve your spot for the online Open Day by registering before Tuesday December 17, 12pm. You will receive a link to the online meeting via email on Wednesday December 18.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9JRlkqE89hjFgx7efh3f4NVOOKENkU7ZU4ZPeK03Y2ylIiw/viewform

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TXT Alumni: Marie Willfort presenting work during residency

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TXT Alumni: Marie Willfort presenting work during residency

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Fluid Boundaries: Rising Tides, Changing Rivers

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Fluid Boundaries: Rising Tides, Changing Rivers

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Climate Imaginaries at Sea: artistic research residency project with Müge Yilmaz and LOOM, tasting with Brackish

28 November, 17:00-19:00

Theory Stairs, Fedler building,

Full program: https://research.rietveldsandberg.nl/en/events/fluid+boundaries+rising+tides+changing+rivers/

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Fluid Boundaries: Rising Tides, Changing Rivers

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On November 28, Müge Yılmaz will give her end of residency lecture and launch the first edition of the booklet series ‘Future Guide for the Salty Forager’. Besides, you can experience a performative salt-resistant bite by the Brackish Col

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Call for applications: Urgent Ecologies is looking for Rietveld/Sandberg projects

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Call for applications: Urgent Ecologies is looking for Rietveld/Sandberg projects

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Urgent Ecologies wants to encourage sustainable projects and conscious use of resources within the academy. Therefore, we hereby launch a pilot of the Urgent Ecologies Green Fund. We aim to provide financial support to students who wish to produce their projects in a different way and are seeking alternatives for materials or production methods. We will cover the additional cost difference between the original, non-sustainable material and the sustainable alternative. All students from Rietveld and Sandberg can apply for a donation from the fund for projects that are connected to their education.

DEADLINE: 3 November (more info on the intranet).

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The Thesis is the Beginning: Reflections from Recent Graduates

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The Thesis is the Beginning: Reflections from Recent Graduates

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The Thesis is the Beginning: Reflections from Recent Graduates

TUESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2024 at 17.30

Rietveld & Sandberg Library

For Rietveld & Sandberg students alike, the writing and publication of the thesis is a major undertaking of the last year of study (for some, already the summer before). Where does one begin? How does one end? What books did you read and where did you find them? And how does this all relate to the graduation work?

This Tuesday, 22 October at 1730, the Rietveld & Sandberg Library welcome Rietveld alumni Xiomara Virdó and Adriane Bastiaens and Sandberg alumni SasaHara Ghanem-Chaney and Naomi Hettiarachchige Hubèrt to present from their theses, and help us engage these questions and more in an informal conversation about their preparations, experiments, and the how they reflect on their completed works now.

Poster designed by Orhan Can Evyapan.

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Calati Juncu Ca Passa La China by Rebecca Cuschera

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Calati Juncu Ca Passa La China by Rebecca Cuschera

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Opening 25 Oct. 18:00-22:00

Neverneverland @Amsterdam

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Repetition is a Form of Change
Sophie Rowley
19 September – 20 October 2024

Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to present Repetition is a Form of Change, the first major solo show of German-New Zealand artist Sophie Rowley (MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins, London). Building on the idea of repetition as a forward movement by Søren Kierkegaard, the artist configures repetition as a form of change. Rowley uncovers and explores materials through methods of deconstruction, connection, and layering. These gestures and repetitive motions become metaphysical inquiries into the nature of creation. How do internal perceptions manifest in tangible form? What happens through the process of repetition?

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The LOEWE FOUNDATION seeks to recognize uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision and will to innovate set new standards for the future of craft.

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“Hope is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence of tremendous suffering and destruction is all around us. The hope we focus on is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act. It is not a sunny everything-is-getting-better narrative but a counter to the everything-is-getting-worse narrative. It embraces complexities and uncertainties with openings. As Bulgarian writer Maria Popova remarked, “Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naivete.”

– Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

At the moment of writing we are entangled in a constellation of crises; war, climate, globalization, hypercapitalism, human-right crises etc. Some crises are currently more apparent than others, but all are equally relevant due to their interconnectedness with us and the systems of power that thrive on these crises. In the face of these afflictions, some people are burying their heads in the sand, others resign themselves to nihilism and/or misanthropy, some are actively fighting for change, and some are questioning that fight to maintain their stake in the status quo. For us to collectively tackle those and to be able to move into a sustainable future we need to be able to visualize the unknown and take action.

Seeds for the future

With the upcoming exhibition RE:FWD: (formerly No Time To Despair) we, co-curators Caithlin Courtney Chong, Thierno Deme and Mees Elias van Zanten, will attempt to plant seeds for a hopeful future. Having this goal in mind, we would like artists to actively invite the audience to grieve their pasts, adapt their present and envision possible futures.

The exhibition RE:FWD: will take place at two different venues:

Kunstlinie (Almere) for approx. six months;

NDSM FUSE (Amsterdam) for approx. six weeks.

Participate!

All artists who are currently under 35, residing in the Netherlands and whose practice aligns with topics such as collectivism, interconnectedness, societal change, (redefinition of) hope, the imagination of otherwise realities/possible futures (e.g. ´Egalitarian Utopias´) and grief, are highly encouraged to take part in our open call with either existing, adapted or new work.

Interested?

What we need from you:

A brief description (max. 250 words) of the work you want to create for/participate with in the open call. In this description there should be:

Connection between your work and the theme of the exhibition;

Medium of choice and materials you want to work with;

Visual description of the work you want to make (size, etc.).

Your artist resume (in PDF-format);

If you want to participate with existing work, we would like to receive a full description and visual representation of the work (in JPG/JPEG-format with a maximum of three pictures);

If you want to participate with an adaptation of existing work or a new work, we will need a rough estimation of the material costs (max. €500);

If you want to participate with audiovisual work we would like you to provide us with a Youtube- or Vimeo-link (including the password).

*Artists can participate with a maximum of three works;

*Physical artworks should be located within the Netherlands due to transportation;

*Students are encouraged to take part, but should be aware that the majority (at least 75%) of the picked artists will be working artists.

Deadline

Deadline for submissions: October 3rd 2024

Picked artists will hear back from us by October 15th 2024.

Picked artists will be compensated according to the guidelines of https://www.kunstenaarshonorarium.bknl.nl/

How to participate

The exhibition in Kunstlinie will open in February 2025, so it’s important that your work is ready for display by mid-January.

You can send your work in here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoYzqg18dvkmwdN0c301KhyAIE2biTEHPSrYW7AUf-vIRZ-A/viewform

For more info we would like you to send an e-mail to: replyforward2025@gmail.com

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Handmade garments and textiles related books/publications

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Programma symposium vrijdag 13 september
- Theater aan het Spui - Spui 187 Den Haag -
11:00 - 12:00 - Inloop

12:00 - 13:00 - Opening met José Tojo en Makida Daniels e.a.

13:00 - 14:00 - Keynote Dr Joy deGruy (1)

14:00 - 14:45 - Lunchpauze (Surinaamse catering)

14:45 - 16:45 - Keynote Dr Joy deGruy (2)

16:45 - 17:00 - Performance Sarah-Lee

17:00 - 18:00 - Keynote Dr Joy deGruy

18:30 - 19:00 - Einde en signeersessie

Workshops

Het symposium op vrijdag 13 september wordt gevolgd door een workshop voor deelnemers en voor professionals. De workshops vinden op zaterdag 14 en zondag 15 september plaats in Theater aan het Spui en een op maandag 16 september in Amsterdam bij The Black Archives (Bijlmerplein 140). Voor studenten is er geen workshop. Bij jouw aanmelding geef je aan op welke dag je de workshop wilt volgen (kies de groep met jouw voorkeursdatum).

Deelnamebedrag

Deelnemers betalen voor het symposium en de workshop € 70

Professionals betalen voor het symposium en de workshop € 100

Studenten betalen voor het symposium € 30

De bedragen is inclusief een lunch tijdens het symposium en tijdens de workshop.

Over Dr. Joy DeGruy

Joy DeGruy is één van de sleutelfiguren in het onderzoek naar slavernij en multigenerationele trauma. DeGruy werkt vanuit de aanname dat tot slaaf gemaakte mensen de meest extreme vormen van fysiek, emotioneel, psychologisch en spiritueel geweld ondergingen, wat trauma op zowel individueel als collectief niveau veroorzaakte, dat van generatie op generatie overging. Daarbij stelt ze dat het voortdurende racisme, de discriminatie en de onderdrukking van lichamen van kleur ernstige emotionele en psychologische gevolgen heeft. DeGruy richt zich met name op de vraag hoe deze repeated traumas vandaag de dag hun uitwerking hebben op de mentale gezondheid, het welzijn en de identiteit van nazaten van tot slaaf gemaakte mensen. Hierin kijkt ze onder meer naar thema's als een gebrek aan zelfrespect, een laag gevoel van eigenwaarde, geïnternaliseerd racisme, (huiselijk) geweld en gefragmenteerde gezinsstructuren.

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Symposium Ankaa Heling - Dr. Joy DeGruy - Twee daagse training

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Het project Ankaa- heling van multigenerationele trauma richt zich op het aanpakken van de blijvende gevolgen van het posttraumatische slavernijsyndroom (PTSS). De kennis uit het Symposium gecombineer...

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Artist Talk: Unravel

Met LJ Roberts

15 sep 2024

Amanda Pinatih spreekt met kunstenaar LJ Roberts wiens werk vanaf 14 september te zien is in de tentoonstelling Unravel – The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art.

Prijs

Museumticket + €3 Public Program-toeslag

Locatie

Auditorium

Tijd

15 sep, 14.00 tot 15.30

Taal

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The work (tapestries) of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (Poland, Zakopane, 1978) is a visual sensation that invites deeper reflection. Mirga-Tas fights the dominant negative and stereotypical image of its Roma people, created for centuries almost exclusively by non-Roma.

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: This is not the end of the road

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ solo exhibition is a first of its kind. At the centre is the series Re-enchanting the World she made for the Venice Biennale. But there will also be works by her that have not been shown before and made especially for this exhibition.

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Flax, baby, Flax! Liza Prins, Marie-Ilse Bourlanges

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Flax, baby, Flax! Liza Prins, Marie-Ilse Bourlanges

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The Park Studio residency Flax, baby! Flax! [preludes]involves the development of a durational performance in which artists Liza Prins and Marie Ilse Bourlanges work flax into linen fibres in the Orangerie of the Amstelpark. Together with composer Bergur Anderson, dancers, and singers, Flax, baby! Flax! focuses on historical work-songs and the creation of a contemporary repertoire. In four “Open Rehearsals’’ they collectively practiced work and songs, inviting the audience into this process.

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https://huismarseille.nl/en/exhibitions/shadow-self/

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This fall Huis Marseille presents the exhibition Shadow Self – Portal to a Parallel World, with work by Shuang Li (1990), Charmaine Poh (1990), Heesoo Kwon (1990), Xiaopeng Yuan (1987), and Diane Severin Nguyen (1990). ‘Where does an image begin and where does it end?’ A question – and a responsibility – for contemporary artists […]

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Myths of Mothers and Other Monsters

Go and see the window-gallery show of Hannah Kindler and Milena Naef.

Till Thursday 5 September on view in The Eight Cubic Meters in the centre of Amsterdam.

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Eight Cubic Meters by Hannah Kindler and Milena Naef - Finissage 5 September

The Eight Cubic Meters exhibition 'Myths of Mothers and Other Monsters' showcases explorations around motherhood by artists Hannah Kindler and Milena Naef. Although care work and motherhood are the foundation of every society, they are surrounded by persistent stereotypes, norms, and taboos.