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  • 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.

  • Para-siting: Cripping Warmoesstraat

    Cripping Warmoesstraat is an inquiry into crip* embodiment in Amsterdam through herbalist practices and solidarity networks. Working with the seasonality and cartography of plants, fungi, and bacteria that persist in the city, they aim to create a space where being […]

  • kiln as kin: clay oven building workshop

    Four Siblings President Allendelaan 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    tandoor, tannour, tandir, tonir—an ancient underground clay oven. Carrying different names, the tonir belongs to a family of ovens that are found across Central and South Asia and the MENA regions. The oven has always been a central gathering point. […]

  • Urban Healing Fabulation: Participatory Performance

    So, we have the herbs. We have the salves, the tinctures, the macerations and the fermentations. We have been asking questions about the witches put on trial just around the corner at the Dam square, finding out that we might […]

  • Crip Healers Reading Group

    In these sessions we will read together texts that are guiding Ilja's and Pırıltı's  research on herbalism, urbanism, witchcraft, politics of health and crip theory. Together we will try to find how these connect, forming solidarity between our bodies, plants […]

  • Tasting Warmoesstraat

    What does Warmoesstraat taste like? In one of the grittiest and most frequented streets of the touristic city of Amsterdam, many things are alive. What can thrive alongside the bodily fluids, trash, food waste and other substances can also thrive […]

  • Crippissage: A Healthy Gathering

    Ilja and Pırıltı close their Para-siting period with a mini-symposium where we gather, converse, taste and heal with inspiring figures we have been Para-siting with. Guided by the questions that emerge from within their time at W139, they will brew and […]

  • flour must be… — learning session 1

    Common Ground welcomes you to the first activation of Flour Must Be Cheap, an installation that becomes a learning space, and a work site. We begin with a question: must flour be cheap? From there, we let it unfold through […]

  • 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 […]