With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
W139 cordially invites you to the opening night of W139 hosts... on Friday 8 September—kicking off seven weeks of artistic experimentation! Starting at W139 from 19:00 with drinks among the exciting projects of week one and food by Common Ground, continuing with a free afterparty […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
Bidnan3eesh – بدنا نعيش (WE WANT TO LIVE), 2022 The neon artwork with the Arabic words بدنا نعيش (We want to live) was created by visual artist Susanne Khalil Yusef. The neon design is based on the handwritten words of Hamza, an […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
With our second edition of W139 hosts… we are excited to open up the W139 exhibition space for a dynamic seven-week long programme providing 55 makers and initiatives with the opportunity to present new projects or works-in-progress. During W139 hosts… a new constellation of […]
Don’t miss the spectacular closing event of W139 hosts… on Friday 27 October. During this evening, we will celebrate the 7 weeks of artistic experimentation, and the makers, participants and visitors that we welcomed in our space. Starting at W139 from 19:00, the closing event […]
People’s Forum, Farida Sedoc’s first solo exhibition, explores the conditions for art as livelihood and as a vehicle for change. Sedoc starts from her own precarious experience as an artist to address new forms of collectivity. Amplifying past and current voices […]
W139 invites you to the grand opening of People's Forum, an exhibition by Farida Sedoc, on Friday 17 November from 19:00 to 22:00 at W139. We hope to celebrate the kick-off of the exhibition with you! We will start with an opening speech by Urmy […]
Every Friday from 12:00 to 16:00, the weekly how-to workshop programme explores alternative modes of economic self-sufficiency within the arts field and beyond, in collaboration with various Amsterdam creators and experts. Visual identity by Erik de Hart. 24 November 2023How […]
First edition of two freely accessible weekender markets, full of unexpected treasures, self-published magazines, vinyl records, clothing, art works and craft products, and wholesome homemade food and drinks by local artists, designers, and makers. Vendors: Athenaeum NieuwscentrumHosselaerTree of SabaPeople of […]
Second edition of two freely accessible weekender markets, full of unexpected treasures, self-published magazines, vinyl records, clothing, art works and craft products, and wholesome homemade food and drinks by local artists, designers, and makers. The market also featured a fundraiser […]
As part of Farida Sedoc’s People’s Forum, MUBI will host a screening of the iconic Kung-fu flick, The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, from Hong Kong—famously sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan. Martial arts movies don’t get more iconic than this kung […]
Exploring the web of relations experienced through the body and senses, Sonic Acts Biennial 2024: The Spell of the Sensuous evokes our rootedness in the larger ecology of earth beings.
Encompassing the curatorial underpinnings of the 2024 Biennial, the exhibition illuminates its themes of sensory encounters with the more-than-human, touching upon animatic beliefs, alchemic elements, and emotional cartographies. With works by Harun Morrison, Jota Mombaça, touche—touche, Annika Kappner, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Brackish Collective, Pedro Matias, and Natasha Tontey. With a […]
Which song reminds you of the collapse of our planet? Whose fantasies are we living in? Environmental Justice Questions are questions about environmental justice for discussion and debate, compiled by artist Harun Morrison. A range of people – activists, writers, artworkers, architects, chefs, […]
(e)ncounter(ing) #3 – emotionally displaced is Pedro Matias’ performative reading of dépaysement, an emotional map of disorientating ‘stories’ that speculate upon systemic oppressive structures, nature, the (more than) human body, and regeneration. Through multiple flows of personal notes, poetics and fabulation, the […]
Join us for this special exhibition tour for curators and cultural professionals, which will expand on the overarching curatorial concept behind the biennial and take a deeper look into the exhibited works. During this tour we will visit both exhibition […]
Presented as an alternative guided tour of the W139 exhibition, Sarah van Lamsweerde, alongside Leroy de Böck, a visually impaired actor, invites visitors to engage with the artworks and space through sensory rituals. Provoking contemplation, they ask: Were these objects […]
Translating the Port of Amsterdam into a resonant body, Brackish Collective's performance engages the audience through auditory, olfactory, and gustatory interventions. The piece utilises elements from the installation of the same title – a dinner table created by the collective […]
The exhibition Outside the Soup, initiated by artists Afra Eisma and Hend Samir, emphasizes the potential of art to create new worldviews through radical imagination and artistic experimentation; placing care, solidarity, and trust at the forefront. Rather than building on a conceptual framework as […]
W139 warmly invites you to the opening of the exhibition Outside the Soup, initiated by artists Afra Eisma and Hend Samir, on Friday 26 April from 19:00 to 22:00 at W139. Outside the Soup brings together a large and diverse […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
FLUSH: a sudden rush of intense emotion is a flourishing relationship between Espacio Estamos Bien and W139, growing from the toilets at W139. We envision this relationship as the mutualistic workings of microbiota, a symbiotic process allowing for different interactions […]
W139 invites you to the Experimental Pizza Club, a collective dining experience during Amsterdam Art Week. Loosely, this is how it works: each pizza-lover brings three toppings to the table: something that tingles their taste buds, something they think will […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
Do you wonder what happens behind the scenes of producing a group exhibition? How did the artist's ideas emerge from thought to canvas to beyond? Visit Each Other’s Mind invites visitors to meet the artists of Outside the Soup. During […]
Meenakshi Thirukode invites you to Citizen’s Circle, a public gathering, workshop, and collective dialogue in which Meenakshi invites participants to contemplate on ideas of citizenship and democracy. How does solidarity and allyship operate in times like these? What does it […]
During the first live activation of FLUSH, Espacio Estamos Bien invited Kiss my knoblauch to use the toilet as the stage for the first toilet-concert at W139. Expect rapid words over DIY beats and synth tunes with trumpet doodles; an […]
"The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars."— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower July 20, 2024 marks the beginning of Octavia E. Butler’s trailblazing 1993 feminist science fiction book Parable of the Sower, from the […]
Initiated by EMIRHAKIN, Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men reflects on (self-)censorship as a highly tangible experience, ████ proposing ways for maneuvering through fear. ██████ ████ █ ███, ████. In this exhibition, the strategies of oppressive regimes and their bodily implications […]
Click the links for more information about the artworks and artist bios. 1 — If I go any further, I will burnEMIRHAKIN@emirhakin 2 — SillageEMIRHAKIN@emirhakin 3 — SPIKES / They are going to die anywayEMIRHAKIN@emirhakinJonas Lerch@jonas__lerch 4 — Maryam's RepriseMohammed […]
You are invited for the opening night of Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men, a group exhibition initiated by EMIRHAKIN. During the night, there will be a performance by Andreas Tegnander & Ossip Blits, and Ottoman Hibiscus-Sherbets cocktails will be served. […]
Do you want to experience the cultural gems of De Wallen in a day? On Saturday 7 September cultural institutions in the historic city centre will open their doors for free to everyone in Amsterdam. From 11:00 till 16:00 hrs, […]
Initiating artist EMIRHAKIN is joined by Ghaith Kween Qoutainy for a conversation about the artworks and underlying themes of Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men. “…I am reading this again, and I have to think about why I went there with […]
Love, Deutschmarks and Death is a documentary by director Cem Kaya about the independent, and as of yet, unknown music of emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany. The German Federal Republic’s 1961 recruitment agreement with Turkey not […]
It is almost one year since the ongoing genocide in Palestine; it has been 75 years since it all started. In spite of it all, we want to gather; in spite of it all, we want to be together; in […]
Get ready for a special double bill performance night of theatrical storytelling with Sipan Sezgin Tekin and Basak Layic at W139, in collaboration with TuzBiber. Theatre maker and actor Sipan Sezgin Tekin will take us through an immersive theatrical experience […]
Join us in commemorating and celebrating the work of Rob Schröder, visionary documentary filmmaker and graphic designer, co-initiator of the activist design collective Wild Plakken, co-founder the Sandberg Instituut, and tutor at Sandberg Design, Shadow Channel and Resolution. Rob supported […]
EMIRHAKIN and ghenwa noire collaborate on a new performance piece in which they are dissecting the sounds of fear, loss and resistance. By activating their artworks installed in the space, the artists will sonically engage with the silence surrounding the […]
Museumnacht at W139 features a moderated talk and screenings where EMIRHAKIN invites artist Elif Satanaya Özbay to explore the evolution of Turkish horror cinema. Deeply engaged with the horror genre both in her artistic practice and as a personal obsession, […]
The year 2024 marks the beginning of Octavia E. Butler’s trailblazing 1993 science fiction book Parable of the Sower, from the Earthseed trilogy. In light of this important moment in time, artists Müge Yılmaz and Anna Hoetjes have initiated Taking […]
Join us for the opening of Taking Root Among the Stars! With colour-morphing cocktails, a feminist sci-fi book selection by San Serriffe, and a special opening ritual by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti. Through her sonic and performative work, Ibelisse will bring […]
Through the electromagnetic waves of the phone, Taylor tells me that they had heard (or read?) Karen Rose say: "The body is your spiritual antenna." It’s been a while since I’ve thought about antennas. I google them and find: “How […]
Come to Bread Buffet at FLUSH #4, eat some cucumber sarnies, and read with us as we think through and around the site of work, precarity and enjoyment. Within affective labour economies and the history of service and hospitality, we […]
Plants often live quite unnoticed around us, especially in the winter months. How can we open up more to plants? In this winter foraging workshop, cook and nature guide Rens Spanjaard will take us into the lives of plants through […]
The winter solstice marks the longest night of the year in the Northern hemisphere. This moment, when the sun seems to stand still for a moment, has marked an important transition in our planet's cycle since the earliest times. On […]
Since March 2024, Buro Stedelijk has hosted the monthly speculative fiction reading group Goddess Change, initiated by artists Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz, who are also the initiators of Taking Root Among the Stars. As an extension of the exhibition […]
How can we collectively reclaim space to slow down and imagine new just worlds together? Join us every Friday afternoon in January, when artists Müge Yilmaz and Sondi will activate the exhibition space through their works. Müge will host open […]
Artist Brittany Nelson has spent several years researching an archive of letters written between science-fiction writer James Tiptree Jr., who was really a woman named Alice Sheldon, and author Ursula K. Le Guin. Sheldon used a male pen name to […]
if you’re on time, you’re late is a three-part workshop series by Taylor Le Melle for writers of speculative fiction, science fantasy, and magical realism. During this series of three workshops we will experiment with timed automatic writing in response […]
The stars tell us stories, and with them, we can traverse time and space. Through them, we understand that the depth of the universe is infinite. Throughout human history, they have helped us explore the world, narrate mythologies, understand the […]
The Dutch call it "het privaat", the English "privy". The toilet in particular (the bathroom has a slightly broader meaning) is a space where you are mostly on your own, in full privacy. But not with a smartphone. The internet […]
“El Sufra” means the dining table in Arabic, a space where we share familiarity and comfort through flavours, smells, conversations, and the wholesome energy of gathering. To celebrate the culmination of Taking Root Among the Stars, W139 will be hosting […]
We are very excited to present Para-siting, a new programme that runs parallel to our exhibition programme. Para-siting is our response to the tremendous urgency we saw during W139 hosts… to create space for experimentation, try-outs, and work in progress. […]
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, […]
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, […]
PRODUCE, HAVE FUN, IMPROVE AND SMILE! by Sergi Casero Like hamsters on a wheel, we run in a race that has no finish line - because every now and then another goal appears on the horizon. This performance is for […]
Join us on Saturday, March 22, for an informal afternoon with the Rainbow Soulclub, where you can meet members and take part in a variety of activities. Enjoy live painting at the drawing table with Ebby, Abdi, and David, explore […]
As part of Saja Amro and Wassila Abboud’s on-going research program Remove the Dot, they’ll be screening excerpts from a recent interview with newly released political prisoner Wa’el Jaghoub with a short discussion following the screening. Wael Naim Ahmed Al-Jaghoub […]
Is looking back an act of necessity or just nostalgia in disguise? In a time oversaturated with images, references, and remakes, the impulse to return—to retrieve and to reframe—feels inevitable. But who’s hoping to find what? So what happens when […]
Join us on Saturday, April 12, to meet Rainbow Soulclub members during an informal afternoon featuring various activities, including live painting at the drawing table with Ebby, Abdi, and David, spiritual education in the tent with Mimosa, an informal group […]
A wasi in JawJaw (2008) is a short documentary film recorded during a trip to the interior of Suriname. Rainbow Soulclub members Ebby Addo and Roy Telgt (a.k.a. Totty) are given a ritual washing and treatment against addiction by Mr. […]
Join us for a drink to celebrate the end of the exhibition together with the Rainbow Soulclub members in an informal gathering followed by a sonic activation by The Social Music Club from 20:00 hrs onwards. The Social Music Club is a […]
We welcome Espacio Estamos Bien as our new Para-siting residents. They will be working on their project We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy: Mission, Vision, Fiction, a space for autobiographical archiving, […]
13:00 hrs at W139 or 14:00 hrs at the 4Siblings field. Polyculture, in opposition to monoculture, is a system of growing plants that are beneficial to each other and create a regenerative effect on the soil. We think of polyculture […]
This spring, the Sunflower Soup collective brings PPP to life—a Political Party for Potatoes and other beings. PPP transforms W139 into a site of collective practice: an open workspace where you are welcome to make and share! Compared to conventional […]
Join us on Friday 23 May from 19:00 for the opening of W139's new exhibition: PPP!This spring, the Sunflower Soup collective brings PPP to life—a Political Party for Potatoes and other beings. PPP transforms W139 into a site of collective practice: an open workspace […]
Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of […]
As part of their residency, Espacio Estamos Bien will be celebrating their three year birthday party at W139. Espacio Estamos Bien started as two, in 2022 and now they are many. Acquaintances, friends, confused, visitors, fans, etc. During their years […]
On 29 May, PotatoPress opens the doors of its editorial room to all curious, wandering, and ambitious potato journalists to contribute to the PPPotato newspaper! Come peel a potato to reveal its hidden layers, dig deep in the earth for […]
Do all potatoes have the same interests or needs? What would potatoes say in a debate? Are all potatoes created equal and privy to the same rights? This workshop explores the existence, language, and connected system of potatoes through playful […]
Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of […]
Join Kasih Graphic for a Public Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter. For this occasion, Kasih Graphic will bring their Print Bike—a mobile, modular printmaking studio equipped for silkscreen, relief, and intaglio printing. The […]
Make Playful P(r)otato Propaganda with Sunflower Soup! During this workshop, participants will engage in experimental ways of imagining politics, while creating new PPP slogans, pamphlets and monumental banners together. Using PPP’s very own Pulp-font stamps, and an amazing collection of […]
Eli Wewentxu has arrived to the swamp, from the distances of Wallmapu where he currently lives and works with the land, sowing and caring for animals. Wewentxu will close FLUSH's cycle in the W139 toilet in the best way possible: […]
How can artists and designers make their own practice more sustainable for themselves? The current political and ecological climate requires urgent action. We need to move fast, before we run out of resources. But how do we navigate this landscape […]
The 100-year celebration of Absent Academy is dedicated to the memory of those who have vanished, ceased to be visible, receded from view, faded, melted, withdrawn, departed, dissipated, dispelled, dematerialised, evaporated. Those who have been forced to disappear. Those with […]
This workshop explores how perception and touch shape the deep and layered relationship between bodies potato and soil. We’ll use the sensitive body as our main way to feel, mulch, peel, press, and (un)do. Joining in an act of collective […]
Join Kasih Graphic for a second Public Propaganda Printmaking Workshop and explore experimental ways to produce and distribute printed matter and propaganda. The workshop is centered around the Poster Signage—a sculptural sign made from a sheet of carved linoleum flooring, […]
The potato is usually seen as a trivial and ubiquitous source of food; it's just there. We don't think too much of it, which is surprising given that there are more than 4500 varieties of potatoes known worldwide and that […]
Shared throughout a day of workshops, this presentation offers insight into how the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats collectively designed and built a party office for the Political Party for the Potato in the front space of W139. In this office, gatherings and […]
In this workshop, we will dive into the history of feminist printing and protest poster-making. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own poster for change. Together, we will explore examples of feminist protest print and posters, read excerpts, […]
On the weekend of 19 and 20 July, Absent Academy celebrates their 100-year anniversary, dedicated to the memory of those who have been forcibly disappeared. Sîpan Sezgin Tekin and Agat Sharma are opening their work space during an open rehearsal, asking […]
In this workshop series we will collectively learn about polyculture and the life cycle of plants—from seed to sowing, to growth, and harvest. In May, we collectively planted a variety of PPPotato-species during a Potato Growing Workshop. On the 25th […]
On the 27th of July, the PPP will leave the spaces of W139. After two months and more then 20 workshops, this day will be turned into a small harvest festival. You are very welcome to join! Together with all […]
It’s alive, alive!!! This September, Mette Sterre will transform W139 into a haunted house. In an era where the politics of fear are constantly evolving, we find ourselves grappling with the question: Are we thriving while surviving, or merely surviving […]
