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    OctNovDec
    Starts 27 Oct
    Events

    Anniversary Breakfast Amsterdam 750

    Celebrate the official anniversary of Amsterdam with a birthday breakfast in the Oude Kerk. As the city’s oldest building, it remains the last witness to Amsterdam’s earliest beginnings, when it was still a small settlement on the Amstel. In the run-up to this anniversary, the Oude Kerk is auctioning the very first vase by artist Navid Nuur. During the birthday breakfast, a film about his vase project (NN XXX) will premiere, alongside the presentation of a publication documenting the making process of the vases.

    27 Oct — Oude Kerk
    Starts 29 Oct
    Events — Other

    Building as Destroying, Destroying as Building: Talk by Saba Innab

    Building as Destroying, Destroying as Building is constructed around two imaginaries: the imaginary of the museum as a “coloniser”, and the imaginary of the land as a source of incessant knowledge that resists its demise and appropriation. Using the vertical section of a typical Palestinian peasant house as a starting point, Innab’s talk reveals multiple layers and interpretations of know-how embedded in place, as well as the possibilities for anti-colonial resistance that this knowledge harbours.

    29 Oct — De Appel
    Starts 30 Oct
    Events — Other, Performance

    Monster Ball In collaboration with House of Løstbois

    W139 invites you to a drag performance on Thursday 30 October, starting at 19:00. Step into a night of gruesome extravagance at Temper Tantrum Bonehouse’s Monster Ball, where you’re invited to transform into your biggest fear. With drag performers from the House of Løstbois, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Lady Bag, and DJ Gigi, expect creaturely activations, creepy-crawl dancing, shadow play, and ghoulish performances.

    30 Oct — W139
    Starts 30 Oct
    Events — Painting

    Evening Programme: The Collateral Kin – Raquel van Haver

    Tijdens dit speciale avondprogramma over de solotentoonstelling The Collateral Kin van Raquel van Haver gaat moderator Ama van Dantzig, omringd door de monumentale schilderijen, in gesprek met enkele van de geportretteerden. De tentoonstelling maakt deel uit van Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future.In zes nieuwe werken brengt Van Haver een eerbetoon aan hedendaagse Amsterdamse denkers, makers en activisten die de stad mede vormgeven en in de toekomst herinnerd moeten blijven. Tijdens de avond delen zij hun verhalen, visies en dromen voor Amsterdam en gaan zij in dialoog met elkaar en het publiek. Deze ontmoetingen bieden een unieke kans om de levende inspiratie achter Van Havers werk van dichtbij te ervaren. 

    30 Oct — Amsterdam Museum at Amstel 51
    Exhibitions — Installation, Photography

    A House Is Not a Home | Rein Kooyman

    Josilda da Conceição presents Rein Kooyman’s solo exhibition “A House Is Not a Home”, with the official opening on Saturday, 18 October, from 16:00 to 19:00.“Once overlooked on the ground now transformed into spherical installations. Each stone in the collection is delicately knotted to hemp strings and individually assembled, demanding a meticulous commitment to physical and mental discipline. In this repetitive practice, done on-site at the gallery space, I experience a temporary simplification of my current human existence. Time becomes fluid: a space where past, present, and future blend seamlessly. The act of repetition releases time’s grasp, offering a momentary escape from the constraints we often impose on ourselves. To suspend the 2,000 stones used in the installation, four kilometers of threads are required. This results in a visual and tactile representation of my journey at National Parc des Écrins and the transformation of these ancient stones. Important to note is that the installation is temporary. After the presentation concludes, I will return the stones to their origins, symbolizing the cyclical nature of existence and the impermanence of our human constructs.”

    18 Oct up to 8 Nov — Josilda da Conceição
    Amsterdam Art Week 2025
    Exhibitions — Video | Film, Work on paper

    Friede auf Erden

    To mark 80 years of freedom, the Amsterdam Museum has invited artist duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen to create an exhibition of new work, taking the wartime history of Huis Willet-Holthuysen as a point of departure. For this exhibition, Breure and Van Hulzen delved into the history of the Second World War and the role this monumental canal house played during that time. They also made use of the Amsterdam Museum’s collection.

    18 Apr up to 9 Nov — Amsterdam Museum x Willet Holthuysen-House
    Exhibitions — Ceramics, Digital art, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Textile, Video | Film, Work on paper

    It smells of sweat and jasmine

    It smells of sweat and jasmine addresses labour issues in colonial, contemporary, and diasporic Indonesia through the lens of women and genderqueer artists. Through collecting the artists’ personal histories, experiences, and research, the exhibition traces the complex intersections of patriarchal violence, capitalist labour exploitation, and (neo)colonial plunder.

    13 Sep up to 15 Nov — CBK Zuidoost
    Exhibitions — Installation, Mixed Media, Other, Painting, Performance, Sculpture, Textile, Video | Film

    Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name) | Group Show

    W139 opens its mouth and swallows you whole in Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name), an exhibition initiated by Mette Sterre. Featuring works by Lolly Adams, Özgür Atlagan, Monster Chetwynd, Diane Mahín, Aimée Philips & Nina Läuger, and Mette Sterre, this immersive group show explores the limitless potential of the body—turning W139 into a possessed, grotesque, more-than-human organism. The exhibition will officially be opened on Friday 5 September between 17:00 and 22:00.

    5 Sep up to 16 Nov — W139
    Events — Other

    CaccHho CucchhA: A solo exhibition for Children and Adults by Mercedes Azpilicueta

    CaccHho CucchhA will be activated through children’s free play and a series of artist-led playshops. These sessions are facilitated by Mercedes Azpilicueta herself, Antonella Fittipaldi, Anna Klas, Lina Bravo Mora, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda and Vere van der Veen, and will explore the exhibition through storytelling, dwelling-making, weaving, sound-making, and planting. Since this is a child centered exhibition, rather than being guided or instructed, children will be accompanied, with activities adapted to their collective rhythms, needs, and desires. The playshops are open to children aged 4–12. Adults are expected to participate in the play activities.

    25 Oct up to 22 Nov — De Appel
    Events — Other

    CaccHho CucchhA Playshops

    CaccHho CucchhA will be activated through children’s free play and a series of artist-led playshops. These sessions are facilitated by Mercedes Azpilicueta herself, Antonella Fittipaldi, Anna Klas, Lina Bravo Mora, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda and Vere van der Veen, and will explore the exhibition through storytelling, dwelling-making, weaving, sound-making, and planting. Since this is a child centered exhibition, rather than being guided or instructed, children will be accompanied, with activities adapted to their collective rhythms, needs, and desires. The playshops are open to children aged 4–12. Adults are expected to participate in the play activities.

    25 Oct up to 22 Nov — De Appel
    Exhibitions — Ceramics, Painting, Sculpture

    IN THE DEPTHS OF BLUE THERE IS YELLOW

    In the exhibition In the Depths of Blue there is Yellow, Kristoffer Zeiner brings together the work of Kim Wawer and Philip Coyne. In preparation for the exhibition, both artists read Gaston Bachelard’s essay Reveries of Material Interiority, in which he argues that objects possess inner worlds — endless repositories of ideas, associations, and connections, accessible through reverie and reflection.

    17 Oct up to 22 Nov — m.simons
    Exhibitions — Other

    CaccHho CucchhA: A solo exhibition for Children and Adults | Mercedes Azpilicueta

    de Appel presents CaccHho CucchhA, a scenographic exhibition by Mercedes Azpilicueta that treats play as invention, disobedience, and commons making. Commissioned by de Appel, the project unfolds as an immersive ecosystem of modular sculptural costumes, play platforms and a large tapestry, activated through an ongoing series of workshops with children, families, and invited collaborators. CaccHho CucchhA is part of de Appel’s long-term commitment to embedded art and mutual learning, as well as hosting children and caregivers into the centre of artistic life and rethinking what behaviors, and whose tempos are supported in cultural spaces.

    13 Sep up to 23 Nov — De Appel