Past
Public Programme
24–25.04.2025
This extensive opening programme includes a sharing of research and discussion by the participating artists and curators, a reading by Noor Abed, a listening session by Andrei Van Wyk and Dirar Kalash, a research sharing and study session with Miriyam Aouragh, Karl Moubarak and Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Femke Snelting and a talk by Mitchell Esajas.
Upcoming
Public Programme
11.05.2025, 19:15–21:45
This double bill at Filmtheater Kriterion takes place in the context of de Appel’s current exhibition and research project, Every Act of Struggle: Inclusion and Assembly. It features the films The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011) by Éric Baudelaire and Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) by Johan Grimonprez. In this film programme we ask ourselves the question: What happened to the Bravery?
Open Call:
Klachtenkoor
The Complaints Choir is back and looking for new voices to turn complaining into an art form. The Complaints Choir is a DIY, community art project in which singers and non-singers alike come together to sing about their complaints. Led by musician Azubike Onwuka, the choir will explore different perspectives and issues by complaining, composing and singing together. The Complaints Choir is serious and light-hearted, and makes room for both recognition and humour.
News
18.04.2025
Upcoming
Event
08–09.05.2025
To mark the launch of L'internationale Online's publication Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency, this programme at de Appel will include presentations from the publication as well as new contributions to the next editions, as a collective response to the drastic shifts in the public sphere as a result of the genocide in Palestine.
Upcoming
16–17.05.2025
The Vrije Ruimte Festival 2025, organised by Amsterdam Alternative, will take place in ten different locations on ten different dates throughout 2025, to celebrate the 10th aniversary of Amsterdam Alternative as well as 750 years Amsterdam. On Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May, the festival lands at de Appel for programmes on cuts and currencies.
Upcoming
Event
25.05.2025, 15:00–17:00
de Appel will host the book launch of Life with Fifi, a book for all ages written by writer and curator Kris Dittel and artist and designer Angelica Falkeling. In the presence of Fifi the dog, Kris and Angelica will read from the book and will share reflections on what it means to care for another being, to enter into their worldview when words cannot be shared, to attune to them and take on the responsibility to protect them.
Upcoming
29.05–06.06.2025
You are invited to a 8 day long public programme convened by damdam, an interconnected web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the Lumbung Practice program at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul from Indonesia. Between 29 May and 6 June 2025, at de Appel and in several other locations in and outside of Amsterdam, the collective will convene a public living space to introduce their ecosystem, and get to know each other better.
Upcoming
Exhibition
27.06–10.08.2025
Sensing Interdependence is a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Italian art collective Arts For the Commons (A4C), a collaboration between Ecuadorian artist Rosa Jijon and activist and artistic researcher Francesco Martone. The exhibition tackles the notion of interdependence between nature and humans. It is guest-curated by Aria Spinelli and Angelo Castucci.
