Re-arrangement of Priorities
With 2025 marking the 20th anniversary of the collective, Rainbow Soulclub is returning to W139, where they first exhibited in 2007, to celebrate and situate this moment in time. This exhibition brings together works that have been created over years of collaboration, while simultaneously making visible that which forms between the making of work, together, over so long: a family that started as strangers.
Rainbow Soulclub is an art and solidarity collective founded in 2005 by visual artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit. Composed of makers and thinkers coming from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds, they meet regularly at the collective studio in the drop-in centre of Stichting De Regenboog Groep, an organisation in Amsterdam dedicated to people experiencing homelessness, addiction, poverty, and the challenges that come with undocumented status.
Working from an ever-expanding and ever-changing organic model, without agendas, hierarchies and expectations, the Rainbow Soulclub puts at its centre the idea that every human being has the capacity for expression, even in complex and often self-diminishing circumstances.
Learn more about the participating artists and exhibition in the handout of Rainbow Soulclub: Re-Arrangement of Priorities.
This exhibition is generously supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, De Regenboog Groep, VriendenLoterij Fund, and Mondriaan Fund.
Picture by Maarten Nauw / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Photos by Pieter Kers and Elodie Vreeburg
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Initiated by Rainbow Soulclub
Rainbow Soulclub 2025 is Ebby Addo, Lehel Barabas, Shahram Behrozian, Hosein Danesh, Coen Conscious Energy, Jaan Evart, Sena Gnaglo, Michiel van der Hoeven, Abdi Hussein, Omid Jalayerian, Saskia Janssen, Ronald Johnson, Kapper Karim, George Korsmit, Eke Kriek, Fanny Kriek, David Kromotaroeno, Clifton Lettering, Parry Person, Ting Phangpanya, Patrick Poitier, Anthony Stefania, Ulrich Straal, Jaques Vedel du Boisbaudry, Alexis van Vliet, Mimosa Visser.
At W139, we work collectively and intersectionally on exhibitions—guided and led by the initiating artists that we invite. This exhibition has been developed by the artistic team: Tomas Adolfs, Margarita Osipian, and Claudio Ritfeld, together with André Avelãs, Dana Claasen, Levi van Gelder, Dil Ghale, Geer van der Klugt, Izzy Lee, Macarena Magaña and Annette Wolfsberger.
Visual identity: Jaan Evart
W139 is structurally supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund.
This project is additionally supported by VriendenLoterij Fonds.
A special thank you to De Regenboog Groep Amsterdam, Blaka Watra, Makom, Transformatorweg 6, Malika Amghar, Eva Bezem, Anne-Marie Bouwmeester, Rolanda van Embricqs, Annechien de Vries, Spuistraat 10 advocaten, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Orsine Walden, Ivy Kriek.
