Tag: Exhibition

Octavia E. Butler’s trailblazing 1993 science fiction book Parable of the Sower, from the Earthseed trilogy, begins on July 20, 2024. In light of this important date, W139 has invited artists Müge Yilmaz and Anna Hoetjes to initiate an exhibition that emerges from the legacy of Butler’s work.

The exhibition will feature the work of artists and writers who use science fiction not only as a theme in their work, but also as a tool to propose different social realities, alternative futures, and communal relations to nature. The exhibition centers an interdisciplinary exploration of feminist, decolonial, speculative worldbuilding, using it as a tool to critique the society we live in and write ourselves into the future(s) we want to see.

The exhibition was preceded by Gathering Earthseed, a full-day gathering about feminist science-fiction and the legacy of Octavia E. Butler on July 20th, with a panel conversation, workshops, a ritual and a collective dinner.

Picture: The Adventures of Umay Ixa Kayakızı (2022) by Müge Yilmaz presented at UNFAIR23 in collaboration with Buro Stedelijk.

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 are explored, subverted, ██████ and reappropriated through a careful spatial choreography. How does political coercion permeate the personal, infiltrate bodily boundaries, and ███████████? 

EMIRHAKIN has invited a group of artists to reconfigure the symbols and strategies associated with fear and oppression—holding space to reflect on the erasure of choice, identity, agency, ████ and life within heavily politicized structures. ████ █████ ███ ████. Taking shape through video works, archival footage, performances, ████, sound and light installations, and paintings, the exhibition navigates the manufacturing of (cultural) identity, ████ ██████, nationalism, the impact of censorship, and life under authoritarian regimes.

Informed by ███ personal experiences as a ████ ████ in ████, EMIRHAKIN’s practice ██████ and visualizes the personal, emotional, and physical consequences of (self-)censorship while simultaneously paving a pathway for vulnerability and resilience. In a recurring part of the programme, EMIRHAKIN reflects on the █████ and ████ of ███ life under suppression—delving deeper into the ideological construct of masculinity that profoundly influenced his ██████ and █████.

Witnessing the rise of the right-wing and its effect on the freedom of expression, Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men invites you to traverse the complexities of contemporary political realities, in the shadows of systems of ██████, manipulation, commodification, and racialization. The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive context programme of performances, movie screenings, ████ █████ and a night of storytelling.

Participating artists: Andreas Tegnander & Ossip Blits, Batuhan Keskiner, Can Demren, EMIRHAKIN, ghenwa noiré, Jonas Lerch, Ksenia Yurkova, Mohammed Tatour and Zalán Szakács. 

Context programme with: Başak Layiç, Elif Satanaya Özbay, Ghaith Kween Qoutainy and Sipan Sezgin Tekin.

Visual identity by EMIRHAKIN and Fadi Houmani.

This exhibition is generously supported by: Gieskes-Strijbis Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL, Stadt Wien, Amarte Fund, Goethe Instituut and Oedipus Brewing.

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 the underpinning for the exhibition, the role of mutual and reciprocal relationships within the artistic ecosystem takes center stage.

Outside the Soup brings together a large and diverse international group of artists who create narrative-based, highly visual works steeped in imagination. The exhibition will be activated through an extensive context- and community program of workshops and guided tours.

With work by Soad Abdelrasoul, Kenneth Aidoo, Dagmar Bosma, Afra Eisma, Esraa Elfeky, Tessa Mars, Marzia Migliora, Hiroki Miura, Rah Naqvi, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Hend Samir, Afrah Shafiq, Meenakshi Thirukode, Marnix van Uum and Debbie Young.

Visual identity by Sheona Turnbull.

This exhibition is generously supported by: Gieskes-Strijbis Fund, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds21, Iona Foundation, Nieuwe Instituut and Oedipus Brewing.

Our partners: CBK Zuidoost, IMC Weekendschool, Future Institute of Art, Stagehuis Schilderswijk and Kunstinstituut Melly for this exhibition.

Outside the Soup is closed on July 20th for Gathering Earthseed.

W139 hosts… marks the start of an energetic and dynamic month at W139. We invite you to experience this special programme from March 1 to April 8, which will include pop-up stores, workshops, meet-ups, but also gatherings, rehearsals, exhibitions, experiments, film screenings, work presentations and much more.

The programme is composed of a careful selection of the many diverse submissions in response to our recent open call. Artists, designers, curators, mediators, collectives, and local initiatives were invited to propose projects and ideas they consider urgent and relevant.

The huge amount of responses to our open call made us decide that we needed to realize as many as possible within the time we can offer. The immense interest in this call has confirmed the urgent need for more production and presentation spaces in Amsterdam. W139 hosts… hopes to contribute to the community by sharing our unique space in the heart of Amsterdam.

Programme:

1 March
Ottokaji Iroke – With bye 
www.ottokaji.com

1 March
Guda Koster & Frans van Tartwijk – Holy rocks and Cosmo disco 
www.gudakoster.nl & www.fransvantartwijk.nl

2 – 3 March
Lama Aloul, Nathan Felix and Raphael Jacobs – How to build a sandcastle
www.raphaeljacobs.com  & www.instagram.com/nathan.feliot/

2 – 4 March
Elodie Vreeburg & Anna Tamm – Altars of Daily Life
www.elodievreeburg.com

2 – 5 March
Jana van Meerveld – Uncivilisation
www.janavanmeerveld.nl

4 – 6 March
VeryBadMoviesCollective – Pilot 

5 March
Omid Kheirabadi – Performance Research & Revolution
Performances 13h & 16h
www.omidkheirabadi.com/artist-portfolio

5 – 6 March
Zonder Punt Collectief – Free Floating
www.zonderpunt.com

6 March| TBC
Lijuan Klassen, Alec Mateo & Hala Namer – Performance

6 March | Private project
Balázs Varju-Tóth – Graduation Film

5 – 6 March
Zonder Punt Collectief – Free Floating
www.zonderpunt.com

6 March
Lijuan Klassen, Alec Mateo & Hala Namer – Performance

7 – 9 March

Sunrise tours – Project Mayhem
https://www.instagram.com/thesunrisetours/

Polina Fenko – Combat Breathing Laboratory
https://www.instagram.com/polya__v__ogne/

Laura A Dima – Future Affair
https://lauraadima.com/

Agata Zwierzynska – THE MUTOSCOPE & 20 OTHER BOOKS 
https://agata.home.xs4all.nl/

Alex Fischer – Hunter Trophies Works
http://www.alexfischer.net

10 March

Lauren Fong – Fog or Glitter II: Over the Sunset
http://vimeo.com/laurenfong

Catalina Reyes – Screening: “From The Verge Looking Inwards”

Henriette von Muenchhausen en Ai Hashimoto – Close Encounter

Gisela Domschke – Auroras, an art space in a modernist house in São Paulo
http://auroras.art.br

One Minutes x Sandberg – Premiere: The One Minutes Series Snack or Food Pill
http://theoneminutes.org/

11 March
The Shared Learning Collective (Piet Zwart Education in Arts Master)
– How do we study together? – Collective Learning + Listening

10 – 13 March
Shareware Collective – Shareware Studio
https://www.ollestjerne.com/shareware

11 – 13 March
Lena Karson, Maisa Imamović, Roman Tkachenko, Natália Blahová, Ekaterina Volkova, Olga Permiakova and Iskra Vukšić – Time is an unrenewable resource — and you know how we are with those
https://www.timeis.capital

12 March
Anto López Espinosa – There are still flowers that will endlessly grow
spoken-word fully lip-synced drag performance
https://www.instagram.com/somos_anto/

12 – 13 March
Lily Lanfermeijer > 2×5?
http://lilylanfermeijer.com/

14 – 16 March
Christina Stavrou – Intangible Array

14 – 16 March
Ganesh Nepalcor – Metamorphosis

14 – 17 March
Geer van der Klugt – tekeningen
Bart Stuart – sculpturen

14 – 17 March
Cor van der Meyden – EXCAVATED PICTURES⁠

14 – 21 March
Delfin Lev – Pentimento

15 – 16 March
André Avelãs – 2 looping turntables with test records & 2 frequency sweep generators, for C45 tape

17 March
Fredie Beckmans – worstclub a gogo

Linda Molenaar – Jumping Birds and More⁠

17 – 18 March
Second Thoughts – Tasha Arlova, Eva Mahhov, Maja Chiara Faber – 

Jara van Teeffelen & Clara Gradel

18 March
Aimilia Efthymion – Nights are dark but dreams are alright⁠
performance 16 – 18h⁠

Embodied Knowledge Bureau

19 March
Dots and Sounds – Robat & Andrew Macrae – Live

19 – 20 March
Belle Phromchanya – I was here the whole time (80+) ⁠

20 March
chit-chat collective – Najiba Yasmin & sanj

20 – 21 March
Reading My Panties Zine Launch

21 March
Diana Al Halibi – On Scales of Violence: How to Measure a Dictator? (Screening)

Fa ma. – porous passing with bare feet (Performance)

Bradley Charles Hamlin – Antechamber

18 – 27 March
Noa Bar Orian

23 – 25 March
Tamara Kuselman – Installation

24 March
Mie Rygh Reianes – Territitorial Anxiety (Performance)

Stichting MARC (Privé event)

24 – 25 March
Bronwen Jones – Clothing Correspondence

25 March
Gweni Llwyd & Ifigeneia Ilia-Georgiadou – One Day Home (workshop)

25 – 27 March
Jochem van den Wijngaard, Alban Karsten, Kitty Maria & Irene de Boer (Group Show)

26 March
Noam Youngrak Son & Sonic Acts – The Story-Telling Eel-Orgy: Writing as an Aquatic Intercourse (workshop)

Hefla حفلة shop

26 – 27 March
Four Sisters Collective – Guerrilla Seed Bombing (Workshop)

27 March
Sojourna Jon-Paul – Drawing Performance

04/04
Paula Chang – How to disagree
@paula_chang_

04/04 – 06-04
Joakim Derlow – Vivl (south)
@joakimderlow

04/04 – 06/04
Radio Aahaa / Sandberg Fine Arts Department – THE RESIDENCE BROADCAST
@radioaahaa @sandbergfinearts radioaahaa.sandberg.nl

04/04 – 08/04
Romy Yedidia – Beauty Molds Transitioning (BMT)
@romyyedidia

05/04
Bodies of Land
Rens Spanjaard, Sieta van Horck

05/04 – 06/04
Youngeun Sohn – Home for the Onlookers
@sohnyoungeun

05/04 – 08/04
Aafke Bennema – Off the grid
@aafkebennema

06/04 – 08/04
Tobias Groot – First, They Gave Me Bones
@tobiasgroot.jpg

08/04
Ellipsis – The Imaginative World of Objects
@ellipsis.nl

08/04
Fundraiser Koeienrusthuis de Leemweg
https://koeienrusthuis.nl

08/04
Manuela Viezzer – Promise Me version 2.0.0
@manuela.viezzer

W139, along with two other venues, Zone2Source and Het HEM, is hosting the Sonic Acts Biennial exhibition one sun after another between Sept. 30 and Oct. 23, 2022. Departing from the long-running Sonic Acts research on pollution, the exhibition focuses on the inextricable links between pollution and time. Pollution is a process that usually manifests itself long after it has begun and often in indirect ways.

one sun after another touches on deep, real and geological time, embraces nonlinearity, fluctuation and porosity, and makes room for leaks. The image of the sun – as a sign of hope, glowing without burning, imbued with warmth – feeds the imagination and brings forth life.

Contemplating multiple incarnations of time, one sun after another listens to an immersive aerial choir of bees, follows a microbe embedded within lithium traveling from a Chilean mine to a digital device, and plunges into deep time through lead-encased nuclear coconuts from the Bikini Atoll. Artistic research traces the lineages of exhaust produced by oil and other extractive economies, while in other places it speculates over Greenland’s mineral deposits, now made accessible by melting ice. In the Canadian Arctic, visual narratives on monumental ice walls come and go with tidal movements, soundtracked by a cacophony of environmental field recordings. Against the din, visitors are welcome to a joyful meditation about presence, sensing and bending time, before drifting downstream, where the exhibition stretches time even further. Diving under, performative and installative artworks explore toxic cycles of water and stretch inner time with hybrid instruments and sub-aquatic amplification.

Taking place throughout October 2022, the Sonic Acts Biennial takes place across various locations, interweaving exhibition openings, performances and lectures. These are accompanied by in/outdoor sound installations, artist presentations, workshops, excursions and other activities.

Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 is generously supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds 21, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Fonds voor Podiumkunsten, Paradiso, W139, Het HEM, Likeminds, OT301, Zone2Source, and Singelkerk. Co-supported by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program.

Photography by Elodie Vreeburg en George Knegtel.

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 makers and collectives moves into the exhibition space every week—creating a fluid and constantly changing environment. Every Friday we will organize a diverse programme of performances, screenings, live radio broadcasts, karaokes, happenings or other experiments from 17:00 to 19:00.

Through an open call, artists, designers, curators, mediators, collectives, local initiatives, and communities were invited to propose projects and ideas that they consider urgent and relevant. After receiving over 400 proposals for our open call, we were reminded of the incredible lack of space in Amsterdam to present works-in-progress, to gather together informally, and to engage in artistic experimentation. 

Selected by our artistic team, the participants reflect the extent, range and variety of the artistic community in Amsterdam and The Netherlands, showcasing new works, works-in-progress, experiments, durational pieces, installations, performances, screenings, sound works, workshops, gatherings, rehearsals, informal work presentations, radio shows, and much more. 

During W139 hosts… we open our doors to give space in the city center for the artistic community and to serve as a platform to meet and exchange ideas. This initiative aims to support, enhance, and contribute to the artistic ecosystem. W139 hosts… responds to the current political climate in the Netherlands within the cultural sector, where the lack of local and national cultural funding and support has created an ecosystem of scarcity and competition. With this initiative, and in the face of cultural funding cuts, we want to embrace abundance, openness, sharing, and trust. 

Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.

Generously supported by Gieskes Strijbis Fonds, Gemeente Amsterdam, Mondriaan Fonds, and Oedipus Brewing.

Voluntarily or involuntarily we humans shed our dead skin. In this exhibition, Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri take this fact as their starting point to zoom in on the ambiguities within our relationship to dead skin—the tensions between its acceptance and rejection (some keep it, some scrub it away), its proximity and our neglect, our indifference and its unstoppable production, our obsession and care but disgust once it leaves the body.

Offering €20 per gram, dead skin collection networks emerged through gossip, online advertisements, business cards, and stickers distributed around the city repeating the slogan “get money for your dead skin”. A naive attempt to create a new kind of currency while simultaneously diverting and redistributing public money to people who took the bait out of curiosity, necessity, or entertainment. Within this context, an intimate and immediate material such as skin becomes a possible commodity. How dirty can money be?  

What happens when a value is set on something we expel from our bodies? When there is the possibility of getting a reward for something that is usually discarded, dilemmas arise between economic interests, integrity, ethics, labour, and exploitation—echoing the metaphor of “selling your own skin”. Despite this enticing offer, some people had no interest in this exchange, provoking the question “who can afford not to sell their own skin?”. 

The exhibition is composed of all new works. A Dead Skin Cash information welcome desk gives way to large printed textiles that appear as aerial views of landscapes but which in fact are made of dead skin samples from contributors. Inside empty construction and spa buckets are recorded voices and sounds from the conversations of disgust and amusement with strangers, confusion from nail salons, and a dermatologist’s opinions. Upstairs, a ‘classical’ exhibition room displays collages made with found images and collected material. Further in, the video Semiotics of the Hammam—a direct response to Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen— shows a character trapped in a dry hammam presenting, with irritation, hygiene tools that gradually start to feel like weapons.

Handout (pdf)

Photography by Pieter Kers.

Visual identity by Oriol Cabarrocas.

Supported by Gemeente Amsterdam, Mondriaan Fonds and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.