W139 warmly invites you to ampersands, celebrating our 40-year anniversary with works and performances by:

After Howl, André Avelãs, Koen Bartijn, Marcel van den Berg, Kees Boevé, Caetano Carvalho, Chun-Han Chiang, Aquil Copier, Isabel da Costa, DNK Amsterdam, Jacob Dwyer, Sara Pape García, Sue van Geijn, Sandra Gnjatovic, Esther de Graaf, Laura Grimm, Bert Jacobs + Dave Fransz, Annika Kappner, Judith Kisner, Taisiya Krugovukh + Vasiliy Bogatov, Simon Wald-Lasowski, Axel Linderholm, Pendar Nabipour, Dorine van Meel, Margarita Osipian, Ninna Bohn Pedersen, Eric Peter, Oscar Peters, Michael Petri, Karl Philips, Nans Quétel, Evelina Rajca, Sam Samiee, Helena Sanders, Franziska Schulz + Charlott Weise, Fraser Stewart, Andreas Tscholl, Philip Vermeulen, Dan Walwin.

Initiated by W139, Nadia Benchagra, Marcel van den Berg, Esther de Graaf & Lih-Lan Wong.

For our 40th anniversary, we invited over forty artists/initiators and team members to participate in Ampersands. Together, they have formed the beating heart of W139 for the past 6 years. Since 2014, this ever-growing group, through its individual practices and ambitions, has sharpened and shaped the artistic course of W139.

Ampersands is therefore both a celebration and manifestation of the spirit of W139; an expression of gratitude for all the energy that has been generated for over 40 years. We want to pass this energy on to future generations.

In the upcoming weeks Ampersands will show the strength of unpredictability and bringing together a variety of practices, which are at the core of W139. This is a dynamic presentation and lively public program, which will unfold during the coming seven weeks in concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, (self) publishing, archive work and spontaneous interventions.

Photography by Ernst van Deursen.