Codicil Screenings is a screening program that will run in the front space of the W139 until September. Every Thursday evening an artist is invited to present their work amongst other moving images of their choice. A codicil is an […]
This publication by iii presents itself as a large pack of cards that the reader is invited to explore. The cards are shuffled at random, forcing intruders to reverse engineer its sorting algorithm. Each individual copy of the book was […]
The Chestgallery is a public gallery on people's chests. The T-shirts are designed by 7 artists in an edition of 50, each one signed and numbered in a production of different sizes and colours. W139 chose these artists for their […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, W139 warmly invites you, to the greatest show on earth! This New Years Eve, from 00:00 - 06:00, W139 will transform into Circo del Gringo! A breathtaking tent made of light,a sea of arms, red and yellow.Come […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. Stampa editie nummer 5 is weer loaded met goede gasten: Met Barbara Visser en Jhim Lamoree over de film End of Fear en het Stedelijk […]
Twelve tables are set to serve you poisonous cases. They speak of sinister soup, infected ketchup, hallucinogenic fish and toxic tea, among other things. One might think that these are accounts from bygone times, however the present appears as rife […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. De achtste editie van Stampa zit tjokvol kunst: met een performance van Questions Collective, de tentoonstelling Last Meal Cafe op het snijvlak van kunst, […]
In Mikhail Maksimov’s non-linear spiritual legal thriller M.M.T.P. Obmyak film directorAndrei Tarkovsky, actor Aleksandr Maslaev and writers Andrei Platonov and Yury Mamleev appear as metaphysical politicians engaged in a dispute concerning the future of the earth and space travel. The […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. Op woensdag 27 maart vindt de negende editie van Stampa plaats in de door Axel Linderholm en Žilvinas Landzbergas tot studio omgevormde tentoonstellings-ruimte. Op het […]
The friendship between Žilvinas Landzbergas and Axel Linderholm developed over the course of the past ten years. During those years they have had many free-floating conversations which (unknowingly) became a prelude or sketch to Studio Double V. Threads of thought, remembered, […]
IFor the first time Jo Baer shows several digital and giclée prints of her paintings and studies side by side. The prints show the layering in her way of thinking and working and make the construction as well as development […]
A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Nina Glockner and Natasha Rosling, transforming W139 into a collective body, inhabited for 5 weeks by a further 14 artists, performers, cooks and writers. The sprawling physical environment and interwoven events invite you to investigate the porous […]
"I make use of three techniques, that of painting, assemblage and modification. For painting, my starting point – the inner journey – largely determines the content. The modification is more on the razor’s edge than my other work. In what […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. Het is alweer de tiende editie van Stampa in W139, ditmaal in de tentoonstelling It Happens Anyway, met wederom vele gasten en onderwerpen die Sacha […]
Brutally stolen from Suede’s same titled song from the 1996 album Coming Up, it is not so much an ode or reflection to the contents of the original title holder, nor is it deeply concerned with the background of this Britpopish […]
A duet by Franziska Schulz and Charlott Weise. Two women artists from the German East found an outlet for their fascination of the early friendship between Siggi & Gerri—visually, emotionally and cerebrally. Schulz & Weise is a soapy ode to […]
Blue murder has been cried that the era of post-truth is dawning. But just like post-humanism and the father of confused thoughts, postmodernism, the era of post-truth is nothing but an audacious and weak analysis of our time. Truth, as always, plays […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. Temidden van de tentoonstelling 'speak, memory', welke plaats vindt tijdens het 40 jarig jubileum van Temidden van de tentoonstelling speak, memory, welke plaats […]
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, […]
Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa is moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch. De kop van het nieuwe jaar gaat eraf met een nieuwe Stampa, met: Paul Rutger Bastiaan (Stealthpiano), Koos Buster (Clay God), Vincent Ludwig&Krystian Sokolowski […]
For the tenth anniversary of WhyNot, they return to W139, the place where it all began, for an old school evening of dance, performance, music and art! The evening at W139 is curated in collaboration with Julidans, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de […]
What issues are cultural workers, independent exhibition spaces, institutions, and the webs of networks around them, facing in light of the corona-crisis? Join us live via W139’s YouTube channel on Wednesday May 6th, at 8pm, for an info session and […]
After a five-month working period at W139, Amsterdam, the project culminated in a three-week exhibition centered on the idea of the market — as a space of exchange, movement, and reconfiguration. Throughout the residency, the exhibition space remained in flux. […]
A vestzak-broekzak operation is an unnecessarily complex economic system where money is being pumped around, with most of it ending up back where it came from. How is the cultural sector part of these money flows—from the vest pocket to […]
Enter into the world of As far as eye can see, a solo exhibition by Shertise Solano. Dive into the essence of all that exists with her mystical figures, off into a world that is more real than you can […]
A group art show initiated by Simon Wald-Lasowski for W139, with contributions by Kasper De Vos, Serge Onnen, Ryan Gander, Mire Lee, Aline Bouvy, Julius Heinemann, Maya Brauer & Annabelle Broos, Simon Wald-Lasowski, Bas de Wit, Thomas van Linge, Andrea […]
Presented by Sacha Bronwasser and Gover Meit. Live at W139 and as a live stream via Stampa's YouTube channel. 4 x per year: The Amsterdam talk show about art and issues in art. Stampa is curated by Bob Witman and […]
In the first week of February, 170 artists donated their work for the online auction, offering a chance to stand stronger together against the reality of defunding and the threat of shutting down W139, the iconic and historical art institution of Amsterdam! This Valentines’ Day, reveal […]
A collective world-building journey to revive our earthly interconnections. A work by Juliette Lizotte aka jujulove. Sisters.°· Let me take you to my world.•º Sisters of the Wind is the fruit of an artistic research on witches, ecofeminism, and science-fiction […]
DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue aims at supporting young contemporary art and design practitioners, especially those in the diaspora, in the development of their projects and artistic practice. The platform’s foundational focus is to facilitate navigating the Dutch art scene […]
DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our second event we aim to respond and reflect on institutional solidarity, especially as it has come into focus […]
Under Bat Hill is a group exhibition that imagines the W139 as a glorious cavern in the middle of the city. Isolated from the outside world and its dwellers, this huge space is activated through a daily program of screenings […]
Tijdens het Amsterdam Art Weekend 2021 presenteert W139 een selectie uit het archief om terug te kijken op de afgelopen vier decennia aan artistiek experiment, en de diversiteit van de benaderingen, materialen, stijlen, technologieën en esthetieken van kunstenaars in deze […]
In 2021, the participants of Architectures of Noise were working individually and collectively in art-based research processes. They involve reading sessions, walks, talks, accompanied by architectural and sculptural interventions, performances, workshops, and experiments, especially in the sense of experiri (experience), reason, and resonance in the public and private domains. During the summer […]
In collaboration with artist and researcher Sher Doruff, Arefeh Riahi researched the uncertainty of language, as well as its potential for resisting archival modes of communication. What do ‘limitation’ and ‘consolidation’ mean in relation to language? In what ways are […]
Platform BK kicks off the new cultural season with a three-day workshop on art, solidarity, and self-organisation in the Amsterdam art space W139 and surroundings on August 27, 28 and 29, 2021. Read all about the event and how you can participate below. Active […]
Verbógen Verbrijzeld onderzoekt hoe wit licht versplinterd en verbogen kan worden - hoe je met de materie kan samensmelten. In de solotentoonstelling van Philip Vermeulen maak je kennis met zijn nieuw ontwikkelde ‘hyper-sculpturen’, die wit licht ombuigen en mechanisch verbrijzelen tot […]
Verbógen Verbrijzeld (Shattered Scattered) examines how white light can be splintered and bended - how you can become one with matter. In the solo exhibition by Philip Vermeulen you will get to know his newly developed ‘hyper-sculptures’, which shatter and mechanically […]
DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our third event, we aim to shed light and inform ourselves on the application procedure for acquiring a residence […]
Our contemporary moment is saturated with the politics of polarisation and dichotomist thinking—with us- or -against us-, liberal or conservative, right or wrong, all-or-nothing. Binary thinking often happens when complex ideas and issues are overly simplified into twofold answers. When […]
The opening of That Those Beings Be Not Being will take place on Oct. 22, 2021. The opening will feature a performance by EMIRHAKIN, WHO'S GOING TO DIE IF I KILL MY SELF? Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
23, 24, 30, 31, October & 6, 7, 13, 14 November Tracing Erased Memories is a site-specific multimedia guided walk, that aims to connect Amsterdam and Cairo through their harboured memories of resistance against state violence. Throughout the walk, participants experience […]
Four Sisters is a public garden and a community project initiated by Marija Šujica, Müge Yilmaz, and The Beach i.s.m Iris Dik. In a plot of land of 45m x 45m, rented from Gemeente Amsterdam in Nieuw West, an edible labyrinth […]
WHO’S GOING TO DIE IF I KILL MY SELF? is een video, performance en sculpturale installatie geïnspireerd door EMIRHAKIN’s ervaring in, en terugkijkend op, het Turkse leger. Met zijn eigen ervaring van de dienstplicht als uitgangspunt, in relatie tot zijn queer […]
For many years, artists have been exploring their identities by fictionalizing alternative characters. Through the alter ego, or the alternative self, one can speak about things that they aren’t often able to openly express. It becomes a way to deal […]
Join us on Saturday 13 November for a fruit-full workshop led by Veronika Babayan. The workshop involves watching, listening, remembering, and using our hands together. There will be undulating, non-linear storytelling and readings by Veronika as well as cutting, cooking […]
During the course of global conflicts, visual material generated by trained and untrained video makers could potentially be the only documentation of recorded events. In contemporary times of post-truth and widespread manipulation of media narratives the related gatekeepers, caretakers and […]
Join us for an evening of film and pizza! We will be screening Hwang Kim’s Pizzas for the People (2013) and the documentary video of the making of the film. Related to the video we will organise our own special […]
W139 is pleased to invite you to the finissage of That Those Beings Be Not Being. For this last day of the exhibition we have put together a day program with a zine launch by The Wild and an extended edition of EMIRHAKIN’s WHO IS […]
The Wild is a series of pop-up bookstores and art experiences inspired by the tradition of Black fugitivity, initiated by Tracian Meikle and Marly Pierre-Louis. In a zine-making workshop on November 14, 2021, facilitated by Marly Pierre-Louis and Kimberley Cosmilla, […]
Join MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr)for a meditative gathering for a plurality of joyful Trans* and disabled futures. Together, we sen(s)d desires, wishes and intentions, and dream towards being in time differently. Online and at W139 participation is […]
