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OctNovDec
Starts 1 Nov
Events — Performance

Ferals and Ruderals: History through the Cracks

You are warmly invited to the launch of Ferals and Ruderals: History through the Cracks, a year-long project by Milena Bonilla, developed within If I Can’t Dance’s current field of inquiry, Body as Memory. Over the coming months, the artist will conjure a series of workshops, mappings, and speculations exploring the historical significance of the spontaneous plant life surrounding our building in the WG-terrein—a former medical site with a long and layered history, from plague house to modern hospital and finally artists’ community.

1 Nov — If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution
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