• flour, water, soil

    flour, water, soil, initiated by maria khatchadourian, takes shape through new and adapted site-specific works by Areej Ashhab, the duo Common Ground (Anna Celda and Saja Amro), Ola Hassanain, maria khatchadourian, Ai Ozaki and belit sağ. Together, the works in the exhibition attend to soil, seed, water, fermentation, and ruin as sites where care and violence are entangled—holding stories of repair, dispossession, and continuity.

    The exhibition reflects on food, land, and agricultural practice as the infrastructures through which geographies of displacement, colonial rupture, and kinship are carried and contested—fragile geographies that resist erasure through dialect, embodied knowledge, and ancestral recipes.

  • after afterlives: film screening and talk programme

    What does the ground unleash when it is denied keeping what it holds? How does soil get implicated in the carrying of catastrophe? And how does continuous excavation for artefacts reveal an obsession to erase history in order to create […]

  • kiln as kin: a day of gathering, firing, cooking

    Four Siblings President Allendelaan 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    “What flavors place, what place flavors?” Posed by Christina Sharpe in her book Ordinary Notes, this question lingers in the space between land and taste. How does place, how does land, persist even when territory fractures? What stories, histories, and […]

  • earthly suns: workshop, gathering, and performance programme

    A two-part program that centers the plant-ally Saint-John's-Wort and the queer poetics it offers. Join artists Sasa Ghanem-Chaney, Jules Davis-Dufayard, and A.E.Z Pinay for an afternoon of queer collective care. In the evening there will be a special gathering with […]

  • flour must be… — learning session 2

    Artists and researchers Anna Celda and Saja Amro (Common Ground) will activate their installation in the exhibition with a series of learning sessions. These sessions will use the flour bag as a pedagogical tool for reading, cooking, learning, and reflection. […]

  • gathering grounds: a festive market day

    flour, water, soil, unfolds through acts of gathering: conversations, reading sessions, workshops, shared meals, foraging, and collective actions that extend beyond the works themselves. These moments and gestures activate the space as a lived, living, and sustaining environment. To continue […]