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.
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Visual identity by EMIRHAKIN and Fadi Houmani.
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 to develop. The microbiome organisms (EEB and its co-operators) form communities within the host organism (W139), which provides space for the microbiota to inhabit and contribute in a big way despite its small format.
Located in the toilets of W139, FLUSH works as a flexible form of organizing and making, allowing for other types of collaboration. FLUSH aims to generate inter-local relationships, understanding Amsterdam as a base where different interactions can be facilitated, creating links that allow us to shorten distances. Connections that are joyful, friendly and decentralized, looking beyond the Amsterdam art scene.
Pega!, the inaugural exhibition of FLUSH, opens May 30th at 19:00. It’s the largest show ever hosted in a toilet, serving as a platform for experimental publication, which Pega! achieves using stickers. Created in collaboration with the anarchist and independent print shop Not Shit Print in Amsterdam, Pega! invites artists, activists, designers, and creatives worldwide to contribute their designs for the stickers that will be all over the bathroom.
We look forward to welcoming you in the toilets. Let’s flush together!
Visual identity by Miguel Cruz. Photography by Justine Ellul.
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 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.
At 20:00, Rah Naqvi will perform their piece Soft Touch Men. During the Dutch premiere of this performance, Rah sets a stage similar to a men’s hair salon. In a vulnerable exchange, the artist deconstructs a masculinity that feels otherly. The artist sings a retribution ritual of song (in collaboration with musician Antigoni Seferli), while accepting touch, finding solace in this exchange, and exploring transness through the hands of their barber friend, who touches them the same, a man, or not.
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. Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
Verbógen Verbrijzeld onderzoekt hoe wit licht versplinterd en verbogen kan worden – hoe je met de materie kan samensmelten.
In de solotentoonstelling van Philip Vermeulen maak je kennis met zijn nieuw ontwikkelde ‘hyper-sculpturen’, die wit licht ombuigen en mechanisch verbrijzelen tot duizenden stukjes kleur. Het kleurengeraas, het indringende geluid en de wind van de snel draaiende machines geven je een intens fysieke ervaring. De werken gaan in een meta-compositie met elkaar in dialoog, waardoor je ondergedompeld zal worden in de dynamiek tussen mens en machine.
Philip Vermeulen, gevestigd in Den Haag, maakt als kunstenaar grootschalige installaties. In zijn werk manipuleert hij primaire natuurkundige verschijnselen als licht, geluid en beweging. Zijn installaties vormen een onophoudelijk onderzoek naar de veranderingen van psychologische zijnstoestanden. Vermeulen creëert wat hij ‘hypersculpturen’ noemt: kinetische sculpturen die met zo’n hoge snelheid bewegen dat de fysieke eigenschappen van de materialen waaruit ze bestaan in de perceptie van de toeschouwer lijken te veranderen.
Zijn werk is vertoond bij onder andere musea (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Rijksmuseum Twenthe), kunstruimtes (W139, Arti et Amicitae), clubs (Berghain Berlijn), media festivals (Novas Frequências Rio de Janeiro, Ars Electronica Linz, TodaysArt, CTM Berlijn) en in de open lucht (Into the Great Wide Open). In 2020 werd Vermeulen genomineerd voor de Volkskrant Beeldende kunst prijs en later in het jaar werd zijn installatie More Moiré² genomineerd voor een Gouden Kalf in de categorie Best Interactive 2020.
Deze tentoonstelling wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door Stroom Den Haag, Mondriaan Fonds, Gemeente Amsterdam, Kickstart Cultuur Fonds en PIP Den Haag.
Foto’s door Jeroen de Smalen.
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 performative activation by Brackish Collective.
At 22:00, the Biennial opening will move to the nearby kanaal40 for a celebratory club night with Jessica Nightlife, Millie Rose Dobree, Money Lang, and Ingrate.
More information and tickets here.
Photography by Pieter Kers.
Join us on January 27th from 19:00 for the opening of Dead Skin Cash, the upcoming exhibition by Salim Bayri and Ghita Skali at W139. Get money for your dead skin.
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
The opening of That Those Beings Be Not Being will take place on Oct. 22, 2021. The opening will feature a performance by EMIRHAKIN, WHO’S GOING TO DIE IF I KILL MY SELF?
Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.
How are we shaped by language? Are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape them? In this solo exhibition, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji explores the complexities inherent in these questions. Encompassed in the animations, large scale drawings, and murals that make up this exhibition, are the questions of what makes a language.
On Friday 30 September we celebrate the launch of Sonic Acts Biennial 2022 – warmly inviting you to the opening of our exhibition one sun after another at W139, Amsterdam.
In conversation with the works exhibited, the evening includes interventions by researchers, artists and performers, each responding in turn to the porous and cumulative ways toxicity traverses across micro and macro experience.
The evening questions how encounters with extraction, leakage and pollution might be rendered palpable — an interactive open lab by artist Cesar Majorana and tasting sessions by designer Leanne Wijnsma employing sensory experiences to illuminate environmental issues so often designated as invisible. The evening includes a collaborative performance by Loma Doom and G, directly responding to, and interweaving, the myriad of sonic elements present in the exhibition space.
Photography by Pieter Kers.
On Nov. 18, the well-attended opening of Turning Towards Fluidity took place. Joana Cavaco accompanied the opening as MC through the evening, to the musical accompaniment of snufkin. Queer Choir Amsterdam opened the evening. After a special warm-up by Kexin Hao, three games – specially designed by Gabriel Fontana – were played under the encouragement of 350 cheering spectators.
Photography by Zazie Stevens.
