Event – W139

Warmoes Biënnale: tattooshop x verlangen

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

tattooshop x verlangen

The second editorial office of mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is setting up shop for a day at ORDER tattoo shop: a place where people sit for long periods of time or wait for their turn. This is a good moment to discuss what gives life meaning in a post-capitalist system. We collect definitions of meaning, investigate whether people consider themselves meaningful, and where the desire for meaning comes from. We collect stories, thoughts, wishes, the feeling of meaning in Warmoesstraat, tips and tricks for meaning, classified ads, and historical context about the welfare economy.

Mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is a collective that creates dynamic installations with a crossover between workshops, public space installations, and happenings through interactions with others. Their projects share a common focus on engaging with the environment and fostering exchanges with a diverse audience, generating new imaginaries around the contexts the projects take place in.

Warmoes Biënnale: pakketpunt x hechten

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

pakketpunt x hechten

The first editorial office for the three publications of Wie we welzijn is located at parcel point Giftshop Effeness. Here, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will discuss materialistic satisfaction in relation to Warmoesstraat as a centuries-old center for trade. While you wait for your parcel, there is just enough time for self-reflection, an existential crisis, or a mental breakdown. What did I order again?

In addition to collecting the contents of packages, we ask questions such as: do you have what you want? Where does this desire for more come from? How do we position ourselves in a world that revolves around accumulating wealth and possessions? How do your possessions possess you? We collect reviews, stories, (un)realistic classified ads for (more) stuff, the best object you can own.

Warmoes Biënnale: wasserette x zoektocht

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

wasserette x zoektocht

On April 4, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will arrive at Laundromat Happy Inn, where the third editorial office will be located. Here, they will be discussing community. How do people relate to each other? What does it mean to belong to a community? And how do you find one? What is a community, anyway? Do you ever run errands for your neighbor, or do you secretly not know who she is? Can we read the future of community in the Warmoesstraat in the clean laundry? What has your dirty laundry been through? We collect utopias, reviews about neighbors, advertisements from entrepreneurs promoting their contribution to the community, and classified ads for social contacts.

Warmoes Biënnale: Wie we welzijn

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Where does this issue stand in Amsterdam’s city center? What factors influence it? Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: parcel point x attachment, tattoo shop x desire, and laundromat x search. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

In the editorial office and in the publications, we will explore how we can look at our surroundings differently while waiting. The Warmoesstraat and its surroundings are a playground for imagining new ways of being and other uses for space beyond the functional. The editorial offices and publications are places where we look at things differently, question our surroundings, search for something that is not there, and create our own imaginings.

About the Warmoes Biënnale

For two months, artists, entrepreneurs, cultural institutions, and residents join forces to reveal the pulse of this neighbourhood. With art ranging from intimate to monumental—often in surprising locations—alongside events and genuine local hospitality, the festival offers a new perspective on this contested, yet deeply loved part of the city.

For more information, visit the website of the Warmoes Biënnale.

Melted for Love — Locating Lost Voices

Join us for an evening that moves between research, sonic fiction, and the act of listening as resistance. The programme begins with an artist talk with Emiddio Vasquez of Lower Levant Company, and Diana Policarpo, who will introduce the research behind Bugio Radio Station, focusing on echolocation and other techniques for tracing non-human sound. Together, they discuss how listening can reveal the impact of militarisation and colonial infrastructure on surrounding ecosystems.

The night continues with Every Day Things Disappear by Urok Shirhan, a live performance unfolding as a sonic fiction from the occupied land of ‘ABC’, where words, colours, feelings – and eventually futures – are systematically erased. Told through a fragmented first-person narrator, the work slips between satire and sorrow, tracing the quiet violence of censorship. Blending spoken word with archival murmurs and encrypted song fragments, it conjures a world where remembering becomes a subversive act. Every Day Things Disappear is both lament and code, auto-myth and resistance ritual. It asks how we listen when speech dissolves and what songs take shape in silence.

This programme is part of the Biennial exhibition Melted for Love at W139, where Lower Levant Company’s and Diana Policarpo’s works are on display.

Programme
Wednesday 25 February
18:00-20:00

Auction Dead Darlings XX

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 for the whole thing — or drop in whenever you like!

All sales are anonymous — artists’ names are revealed only after each work is sold! Our 20th edition celebrates community, creativity, and collaboration.

Programme
Doors — 12:00
Auction (part 1) — 16:00–18:00
Dinner break — 18:00-19:00
Auction (part 2) — 19:00–21:00

You are welcome to come and view the works from 12:00-16:00, and the auction will start at 16:00 hrs.
You can get a head start on checking out the artworks through the online catalogue on the Dead Darlings website

Free entrance
Register for a paddle: € 2
If you have bought a catalogue, you will receive a paddle for free, but we recommend you sign up ahead of time to make the process smoother. And don’t forget to bring the catalogue with you!

Freshly cooked food will be available throughout the evening by Aslı Hatipoğlu, with a dinner break from 18:00-19:00. Expect fresh rice paper rolls, black bao buns, and pumpkin coconut soup.

84 Participating artists in alphabetical order: Ad de Jong, Adriana Joëlle Jochems, Ahmad Mallah, Andrea Imwiehe, André van Bergen, Anika Schwarzlose & Elena Khurtova, Anna Hoetjes, Annaleen Louwes, Anne Wölk, Anni Ruffin, Antoinette Nausikaä, Anuschka Blommers / Niels Schumm, Aurélien Lepetit, Barbara Rink, Charlott Markus, Coralie Vogelaar, Danielle Vorthuys, Dasha Afanaseva, Delta van Melle, Diana Al-Halabi, Emmanuelle Wilhelm, Erik Alkema, Eva Schippers, Floor Meijers, George Korsmit, Gijs Assmann, Giorgos Gripeos, Hanna Mattes, Ine Lamers, Jacopo Calonaci, James Beckett, Jan Timmers, Janneke Raaphorst, Jean-Philippe Paumier, Jessie Yingying Gong, Joep Neefjes/LPI, Johannes Schwartz, Joseph Miceli, Kai Reichert, Kandido Filgueiras, Klara Hobza, Kristine Hymøller, Leyla Sünnenwold, Lieve Hakkers, Lina Ozerkina, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Lo Yuen Ming, Lotte Reimann, Lotte van Geijn, Manshee Zheng, Marek van de Watering, Mariana Oliveira, Marianne Vierø, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Marlies Neugebauer, Masaki Komoto, Maud van der Werf, Max van Meeuwen, Mayra Sérgio, Miklos Gaál, Noam Holdengreber, Pantelis Makkas, Paulien Barbas, Peter de Boer, Popel Coumou, Rebecca Sakoun & Florian Göttke, Rob van der Nol, Roman Tkachenko, Ruth van Beek, Semâ Bekirović & Xu XueQin, Seán O’Riordan, Simon Marsiglia, Sofija Li Virta, Soji Shimizu, Sophie Schreurs, Stéphanie Baechler, Susan Kooi, Susanna Brenner, T Y Gutter, Tania Theodorou, Thomas Monses, Vita Buivid and Anna Buyvid, Yann Vissers, Yiannis Vellis.

Dead Darlings began in 2005 as a subversive, anonymous art auction in Amsterdam. It has since grown into an international platform with a mission to explore the often fraught, always complex relationship between the price and the value of an artwork, focusing on dead darlings—works an artist has created but never brought to light. Inspired by “kill your darlings,” they ask: what becomes of these ambivalent works.

Aslı Hatipoğlu (TH/TR) is an interdisciplinary artist whose social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics are changing our relationship to food. From working with micro-scale bacteria and yeasts responsible for fermentation to insects such as the domesticated silkworm, Asli critically investigates ways of relating to our environment and ourselves. Currently she has been working with the shifting narrative of an artist and a tour-guide, merging fiction and reality with story-telling in performative acts as a way to critically question today’s systems of production as a marketable tourist destination.

Photos by Kyle Tryhorn

Opening 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. You are invited to join us in celebrating this milestone with the grand opening of Dead Darlings XX — In It Together!

Dead Darlings XX — In It Together is a two-week exhibition, including over eighty artworks, happenings, a plethora of archival materials and an extended auction event. We can’t wait to share with you what has been twenty years of fun, surprises, commitment, creativity and hard work.

Join us for drinks, a special cocktail, and a relaxed preview of the works. Come explore 80+ artworks and archival treasures from two decades of Dead Darlings. Sign up for the auction, buy your catalogue, check out our amazing new merch, and rub shoulders with Darlings!

Programme
Opening Dead Darlings XX — In It Together
— Friday 28 November 2025

The Auction
— Saturday 13 December 2025

Photos by Gergely László Ofner

Para-siting: phANTASMAL HAIRSALON

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) performative hair transformation by wearing a sculptural hairstyle while the rest of the public watches the performance.

Book an appointment, get crowned with a sculptural hairdo by the Hairstylist—a shady yet passionate character—and then strut it outside. Wearing our avant-garde, fabulous hair-do (or hair-don’t), you turn the streets into a campy moving exhibition and a cheeky drag protest against a sterilized world. phANTASMAL HAIRSALON aims to bring back, albeit momentarily, the old days when uncanny, colorful figures would prance the streets proudly. Be aware that there is no cutting involved—but a revival of look and spirit is guaranteed.

phANTASMAL HAIRSALON openingsdagen
— Friday 21 November 18:00-21:00 opening of phANTASMAL HAIRSALON
— Sunday 23 November 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Taka Taka
— Wednesday 17 December 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Clara Saito
— Friday 19 December 14:00-17:00 HAIRSALON open, with Raoni and Clara Saito

Raoni/Muzho Saleh is a Hazara/Dutch artist using performance, installation and the sound of mourning and moaning to twist and reshape narratives of (cultural) becoming. His work’s focus is to play with the personal, social and political edges. Imbuing his love for art, with body, spirit and politics through movement, voice and textile, he creates temporary immersions into Otherworldly feeling, relations and thought.

Karin Iturralde Nurnberg is an artist working with storytelling in multidisciplinary and sculptural installations. She is born and raised in Ecuador and lives and works in Amsterdam. In her practice she embraces improvisation and the power of spontaneous performative and sculptural interventions, to re-arrange the world around her and shift weighted positions.

Ash Above, Show Below — Finissage

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 into memory and lingers only in weary minds. This finissage is both a farewell and a transformation: a memorial where the end becomes a new beginning, where the Bonehouse, like the Ouroboros, sheds its skin to become something else.

Expect murmurs of melancholy, reflections spoken aloud, and resuscitation after the Dutch elections. But mostly: expect a final activation of the Bonehouse—a last gesture by Mette Sterre, bringing the Bonehouse to life once more before it self-dissolves and goes up in smoke forever.

Doors — 17:00
Performative guided tour — 17:30
Drinks — 18:30

Tickets available at the door.
Admission fee: €5

Mette Sterre is a visual artist who investigates the limits and transformative potential of the body. Her work resists categorization, fusing performance, sculpture, body masks, and digital technology into immersive, otherworldly environments that explore the threshold between the organic and the artificial. By entering her work we are cast into the materialisation of her mind processes: a sensorial and embodied experience.

Photo by Pieter Kers

FLUSH #8: Frontera Amarilla

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 in access, the logic of the pharmaceutical market, or the difficulties of migrating with HIV—Los Amarillos (a self-organized artistic collective from Colombia) propose and construct images that embody the demand, the desire, and the sacredness of bodies living with the virus.

The relationship with it becomes language and affective resistance—intimate yet collective, poetic proclamations that invite us to think of HIV not as an illness, but as a political symptom.

It’s about diagnosing utopias, to keep dreaming of a moving revolution. This room does not heal: it burns.

Colectivo Los Amarillos has carried out exhibitions, research, performances, and creative writing laboratories during the autumn of this year in several European cities as part of Frontera Amarilla, and now arrives in Amsterdam to open a space for denunciation, memory, and the celebration of dissident bodies.

Programme
Opening FLUSH #8: FRONTERA AMARILLA (at W139)
— Saturday 8 November, 19:00-22:00

Workshop with Colective Los Amarillos
— Monday 10 November, 18:30-20:30

Artist talk with Colective Los Amarillos (at Rietveld Academie)
— Thursday 13 November, 17:00-19:00

Production: Espacio Estamos Bien
Graphic design: Dun Lee
Text: Lou Vives

With the support of Monstrous Futurities, Romany Dear, and Kyle Tryhorn.

FLUSH is a flourishing collaboration between Espacio Estamos Bien and W139, located in the toilets of W139. FLUSH operates as a flexible form of organizing and creating, enabling various types of collaboration. FLUSH aims to foster inter-local relationships, viewing Amsterdam as a hub for facilitating diverse interactions and building connections that bridge distances. Joyful, friendly and decentralized connections extend beyond the Amsterdam art scene.