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 […]
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Academy is dedicated to the memory of those who have vanished, ceased to be visible, receded from view, faded, melted, withdrawn, departed, dissipated, dispelled, dematerialised, evaporated.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 […]
The workshop-filled day shows how the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats collectively designed and built a party office for the PPP by making armor to protect yourself, floating ink printing, book-binding, and writing mythical stories. Our impulse in taking on this project was […]
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 […]
W139 opens its mouth and swallows you whole in Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name), an exhibition initiated by Mette Sterre. Featuring works by Lolly Adams, Özgür Atlagan, Monster Chetwynd, Diane Mahín, Aimée Philips & […]
Join us for the opening of Temper Tantrum Bonehouse: Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name! During the opening, Miss HerNia’s will bring to life her visceral performance Tasty—a volatile piece of grotesque excess full of sweat, slime, waste. […]
Against the forces of capital and the housing crisis, squatting is one of our best remaining tactics of resistance. It is also an inherently creative act, transforming buildings, public space, and potentially the whole city. Spooktember opens with the launch […]
From 13 September, we welcome our new Para-siting residents Spookstad, who are organizing Spooktember—four weekends that explore the art and politics of radical publishing: art, books, workshops, performances, film screenings and more! “To create is to resist”, the more so when […]
We invite you to a scary storytelling night, presented in collaboration with Mezrab, and hosted by Sahand Sahebdivani. Come listen as a group of storytellers bring the Temper Tantrum Bonehouse to life—sending shivers down your spine and perhaps even awakening […]
The student encampments of 2024 marked a first global wave of mass mobilizations in support of Palestine and against Western complicity. On the basis of the Spookstad-published book about the student uprising in Amsterdam, we explore how art, writing and […]
“To create is to resist”, the more so when we do it together. On the last day of Spooktember, come in to make your own buttons or screenprint your clothes, while we’re joined by other autonomous and anarchist book and […]
Monster Mash is a three-day workshop series where Mette Sterre, Lady Bag, and Ainhoa Hernández Escudero join forces to create a tour de force full of fun. Together, they invite you to explore your inner monster and give place and […]
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and […]
In this roundtable conversation with Dr. Bert Derkx and Mette Sterre, you are invited to reflect on and dissect the Temper Tantrum Bonehouse experience. Together with the audience, we’ll explore what it means to return to the body and step […]
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and […]
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and […]
A Nightmare on Warmoes Street is a triple bill performance night with artists Mette Sterre, Diane Mahín and G at W139. Presented inside the immersive group exhibition Temper Tantrum Bonehouse, these three solo performances explore the beyond-human body and its […]
Step into a night of gruesome extravagance at Temper Tantrum Bonehouse’s Monster Ball, where you’re invited to transform into your biggest fear. Hosted by Mette Sterre, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, and Taka Taka, with drag performers from the House of Løstbois: […]
Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and […]
DNK Amsterdam, the ever-adventurous concert series and artist collective for experimental music, sound based art, and performance marks 20 years of activity with concerts and a retrospective publication created during W139's Para-siting over the month of November. A new generation […]
The Social Music Club is an initiative by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters. In just a few words: it is a musical improvisation session without dogmas, where the emphasis lies on meeting, and getting to know each other, while also […]
Faced with the tedium of patients who, time and again, return to receive a treatment that remains perpetual; with the side effects endured by some people living with HIV in Latin America due to low-cost medication, the privileges and restrictions […]
Mette Sterre will host an exclusive guided tour through Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name), the exhibition she initiated at W139. Temper Tantrum Bonehouse explores the limitless potential of the body—turning W139 into a possessed, […]
In the context of the Para-siting project DNK is DONE… DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two solo sets of cutting edge electronic music by two of the Netherland’s finest performer-composers.ProgrammeDanya Pilchen — Feedback systemsRubén Patiño — Repetitive synthetic […]
Join us for the finissage of Temper Tantrum Bonehouse, a ritual of goodbye with a performative guided tour through the exhibition by Mette Sterre. This is the very last opportunity to still physically visit the Bonehouse, one final time before it slips […]
In the context of the Para-siting project DNK is DONE… DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two solo sets of cutting edge electronic music by two of the Netherland’s finest performer-composers. ProgrammeAnne La Berge — Flute and electronicsGert-Jan Prins […]
phANTASMAL HAIRSALON is a multidisciplinary art exhibition and performance choreographed by Raoni Muzho Saleh in co-creation with Karin Iturralde Nurnberg. W139 will transform into a campy, draggy hair salon where members of the public—the Clients—undergo a fabulous (or fabulously wrong) […]
In the context of the DNK is DONE… residency DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two sets of cutting edge and quite classical experimental music by a quartet of young musicians based in The Hague and an ensemble of […]
DNK Amsterdam invites you to a participatory performance on Beursplein. The Social Music Club plays To Cast A Net… by Koen Nutters: a group piece for sine tones in the public space. To Cast A Net… is a piece that […]
Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139. A two-week exhibition, including over eighty artworks, happenings, a plethora of archival materials and an extended auction event. We can’t wait […]
Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139. You are invited to join us in celebrating this milestone with the grand opening of Dead Darlings XX — In It Together! […]
Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139. Come celebrate an auction event like no other! Two rounds of bidding, with food, drinks, performances, and plenty of surprises. Stay […]
