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Join us for the opening of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 exhibition Melted for Love, a three-chapter showcase unfolding across W139, Arti et Amicitiae and Rozenstraat in Amsterdam on 6, 7 and 8 February. With free entry, a buzzing bar, and special opening performances, the gallery stays open late – turning the evening into a lively meeting place for anyone interested in sound and art at the intersection of technology and ecology.

The exhibition at W139 focuses on how ecosystems absorb the pressures of militarisation, colonial occupation, and environmental disruption. The artworks follow different types of signals – such as sound waves, vibrations, radio transmissions, and ecological changes – as they move across landscapes, through subsurface networks, and throughout the more-than-human world.

Programme
Doors: 18:00
Opening event: 19:00-22:00

The evening features a performance by Music Research Strategies (Marshall Trammell) Pedagogy of the Surveilled: Listen Like Wolves. Conceived as a set of actions for performer and percussionist together with an ‘Active Listening’ Conduction Ensemble, Listen Like Wolves mobilises collective attention as a creative and affective force.

The exhibition includes world premiering works by Diana Policarpo and Bernardo Gaeiras, speculating on future uses of the former Bugio Lighthouse through radiophonic transmissions. Alina Schmuch – a participant in ALTERLIFE, Sonic Acts’ major international research and residency programme with Rupert, Vilnius – examines manipulated water systems shaped by drought and rising sea levels. You will also find new work by Lower Levant Company together with Olga Micińska, who combine bat calls, broadcasting, and encrypted messages to reflect the ecological catastrophes wrought by colonial warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean. Adelita Husni-Bey restages Italian fascist archives, exposing damaged infrastructures and extractivist legacies in Libya. Maeve Brennan explores the depths of a salt mine to question the violent writing and preservation of Western imperial power.

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. Miss HerNia queers decadence, weaponizes shit, and stages joyful collapse. Additionally, Mette Sterre will open the evening with a very special performative opening speech.

Lolly Adams is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across 3D animation, performance, sculpture, costume, and sound. Through alter egos Miss HerNia, Show Pony, and The Hoarder, she constructs chaotic, affective worlds where shame, excess, and collapse become engines for transformation. Her practice explores class-coded materials and disgust, using humour, artifice, and base materialism to unsettle dominant ideals around beauty, taste, and control—hovering between spectacle and abjection.

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.

Photos by Elodie Vreeburg

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, while simultaneously making visible that which forms between the making of work, together, over so long: a family that started as strangers.

Rainbow Soulclub is an art and solidarity collective founded in 2005 by visual artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit. Composed of makers and thinkers coming from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds, they meet regularly at the collective studio in the drop-in centre of Stichting De Regenboog Groep, an organisation in Amsterdam dedicated to people experiencing homelessness, addiction, poverty, and the challenges that come with undocumented status.

Working from an ever-expanding and ever-changing organic model, without agendas, hierarchies and expectations, the Rainbow Soulclub puts at its centre the idea that every human being has the capacity for expression, even in complex and often self-diminishing circumstances.

This exhibition is generously supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund.

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 together the worlds present in this exhibition—from the depths of the ocean to the edges of space. After the opening at W139, the celebration continues at nachbar, where a special playlist has been curated for the exhibition at the bar area.

Taking Root Among the Stars, initiated by Müge Yilmaz and Anna Hoetjes, is an exhibition that features 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.

As a platform for exchange at the intersection of art, literature, ecology, science, and activism, this exhibition claims speculation and its feminist possibilities. Bringing together works that are platforms of exchange in and of themselves, from feminist, queer, Black diasporic, and decolonial practitioners, the exhibition holds space for processes of worldbuilding by initiating dialogue, reflection, and interaction with the audience to help us imagine a radically different future—one we look forward to, one we don’t fear.

With works by AiRich, Black Quantum Futurism, Maartje Folkeringa, Anna Hoetjes, Adriana Knouf, Brittany Nelson, Ada M. Patterson, Sondi, Müge Yilmaz and Fei Yining.

Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is an Amsterdam-based multimedia artist who works as a vocalist, composer, performer, and healer. Born in Bolivia and raised in Brazil, she weaves her sonic and performative practices inspired by her latinx roots. Her work is deeply interwoven in post-colonial justice, the paradox and beauty between grief and celebration, Andean Cosmology as a source of reclamation, resistance and resilience. Embodiment embedded in sonic fabrics while speculating myths through word oracles. She is a neo-mestiza, a spiritual activist, a femme defender, and a Moon lover.

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. Bring your own flashlight (or a charged phone).

Reserve a time slot due to limited capacity.

In Diffracted Signals Andreas and Ossip will activate their artwork Copper Coils and engage with the vast and unseen network of electromagnetic fields present all around us. The performance is a dance with the intangible, where every movement alters the fields around the coils, generating an ephemeral soundscape. Andreas and Ossip play with forces that lie beyond the audible spectrum, orchestrating the field into a resonant, immersive carpet of sound, inviting the audience into a sensory reality that exists just beyond the reach of our ordinary senses.

Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men reflects on (self-)censorship as a highly tangible experience, ████ proposing ways for maneuvering through fear. ██████ ████ █ ███, ████. With works by Andreas Tegnander & Ossip Blits, Batuhan Keskiner, Can Demren, EMIRHAKIN, ghenwa noiré, Jonas Lerch, Ksenia Yurkova, Mohammed Tatour and Zalán Szakács.

Visual identity by EMIRHAKIN and Fadi Houmani.

Images by Elodie Vreeburg