Upcoming
Exhibition
10–17.06.2023
De Appel is delighted to host the 2023 Artistic Research graduation show, held by the rMA students from the University of Amsterdam. The twelve participants employ methods of artistic research, embodied in various forms. Their current research orbits around art and performance – digesting, juggling, weaving, covering, and uncovering material narratives.
Past
04.05.2023, 18:00–19:30
De Appel is thrilled to host and welcome Vera Mey and Philippe Pirotte for the presentation of the research-based exhibition Spectres of Bandung which looks at the artistic imagination spurred by the spirit of self-determination that reverberated in the lead-up to the 1955 Bandung Conference and lingers long after.
Past
Exhibition
03–25.03.2023
The exhibition “Als je me echt zou kennen…” ("If you really knew me...") is one of the many facets of the 2023 Teenage Curators-programme. Ayman, Beyda, Donovan, Hajar, Oumaima, Menna, Safae and Yahya developed an exhibition out of the desire to create space for stories, childhood memories and questions that are not yet heard sufficiently in the Netherlands.
Cilia Erens
1946 – 2023
Onze held van geluid
We zijn intens bedroefd Cilia te moeten missen. Ze heeft meerdere bijzondere projecten in de Appel tot stand gebracht. We zijn fier en blijven stil achter.
News
22.02.2023
Past
Exhibition
17.12.2022–28.02.2023
In Togetherness, Pope.L thematizes different expressions of oppression and exclusion that persevere in Dutch society today; from nationalism, xenophobia and racism to colonialism, imperialism and sexism. The framework of the video installation is a TV game show with quiz elements, in which individual contestants of different cultural backgrounds, ages, and professions compete against each other for the coveted grand price.
Past
Event
18.02.2023, 16:00–20:00
Solidarity has grown to be one of the most frequently used rallying cries in the arts. Why is solidarity such a powerful and appealing ideal? During Shaping Solidarity in the Arts we will explore historical and theoretical dimensions of solidarity in the arts and connect them to practitioners’ perspectives.
These are the participants of the Curatorial Programme 2023
Marina Christodoulidou, Billy Fowo, Meghana Karnik, Jean-Michel Mabruki Mussa and Eugene Hannah Park.
News
14.02.2023
Past
Event
15.02.2023, 17:00–20:00
The Keynote 2023, with ruangrupa artist collective members Reza Afisina and Iswanto Hartono and curator and writer Tirdad Zolghadr, will center around working with the practice of lumbung in curatorial and artistic work.
TWO OPEN CALLS
Curatorial Programme 2023 Mentors
News
11.01.2023
In Memoriam Willem de Ridder (1939-2022)
Inspirer Willem de Ridder has begun its last journey. De Ridder was of great significance for de Appel, where he initiated several projects from 1981. He will me missed tremendously.
News
10.01.2023
Looking back & looking forward to 2023
At the conclusion of 2022, we look back at another exceptional year full of exhibitions, events, lectures, research and collaborations. The team of de Appel would like to thank all visitors, artists and allies. We look forward at welcoming you again in 2023. See you next year!
News
23.12.2022
Sofia Patat new managing director of de Appel
The Supervisory Board of de Appel is proud to announce that Sofia Patat (Venice, 1982) will take on the position of managing director of de Appel, starting in January 2023.
News
08.12.2022
Past
Event
02–03.12.2022
Drawing Faces (in Terror Times) is organized with de Appel and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and shaped through a year-long research by Edwin Nasr, de Appel’s 2021-2022 Curatorial Programme Fellow. The two-day programme takes as its starting point The Neighbour (2005), a painting by South African, Amsterdam-based artist Marlene Dumas. Drawing Faces (in Terror Times) implicates Dumas’ portrait in order to think through the problem-space of identification, as well as representation writ large, among carceral, racial, and postcolonial lines.
Past
Exhibition
13.10–11.12.2022
From 13 October the exhibition Domestic Optimism from the visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh (1974, Dublin) can be seen at de Appel. In de Livingroom sculptures, printed matter, video and textile come together as informal environ, creating the comfort from which to pick at the threads of the patriarchal tales of modernist architecture – by means of its own narrative.
Past
Exhibition
28.10–06.11.2022
In the fourth and final episode of super feelings we dive into the currents of the human body and its image. You are warmly invited to join us for the opening of Sanctuary Sites by Liverpool and Amsterdam-based artist Kate Cooper.
Past
Exhibition
14–23.10.2022
Autumn arrives and episode 3 of super feelings breaks on the shoreline of de Appel’s Aula. We welcome the artist Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi with into the earth below, the blue blur of bones. Nguyen-Chi presents a new installation environment encompassing her film Into The Violet Belly (2022), recently presented at the 12th Berlin Biennale.
Past
Exhibition
30.09–09.10.2022
For episode 2 of super feelings we welcome the artist Paola Siri Renard. what will you be then Oneiroi? – glamour consists of a series of sculptural mutants, washed up gently on the sandy floor and hanging in the Aula’s airspace. The ‘Oneiroi’ of the episode’s title refers to the winged daemones (spirits) of Greek mythology.
Past
Exhibition
16–25.09.2022
In episode 1 of super feelings we welcome the artist Jota Mombaça with sinking could be. In an episode that is both a performance and its residue, Mombaça bathes de Appel’s space in blue light and lays a provisional landscape of sand dunes on the Aula floor.
Past
Event
05.11.2022, 19:00–02:00
Coming up: Museumnacht 2022 at de Appel! Click here for our full programme and information about the pendelbus in Nieuw-West.
Past
Event
19.10.2022, 19:00–21:00
The last intervention in the series On the poverty of lived experience sheds light on the experimental practice of filmmaker Serge Garcia, hosting the first screening of his short films Grand Central Hotel (2021) and Cycle One (2021) in the Netherlands. The screening will be accompanied by an introduction and a Q&A with the filmmaker, and takes place at Lab 111.
Lara Khaldi new artistic director of de Appel
The Supervisory Board of de Appel is proud to announce that Lara Khaldi will take on the position of director of de Appel, starting January 2023.
News
26.09.2022
Past
Event
28.09.2022, 19:00–21:00
With the lecture performance Sleep /wi/th a/n ey/e o/pe/n and/ you/ will/ see /your/self, Betina Abi Habib stages
rectifications of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “The sleeper in the valley” (French: “Le dormeur du val”). With this work, Abi Habib continues to explore the dynamic relationship between language and affect, translation and interpretation, memory, and the malleability of experience, through the life of a poem and the way it grew on and with her.
Past
Exhibition
15.06–30.09.2022
From June 15th the work of photographer Stephan Keppel will be on view in de Livingroom. Keppel photographs the urban-fabric of cities he meanders through. With his camera he focusses his gaze on the details that are usually overlooked by our daily gaze. He looks for pattern(s) by means of the small stiches in our metropolitan reality, or even better, there where the configuration of the urban fabric slips or has been stretched and manipulated by use. Upon these outings into the cityscapes, he frames and captures the many different smaller rhythms and patterns present in our daily urban life.
Maaike Lauwaert to depart de Appel
Managing director Maaike Lauwaert will depart de Appel, where she has been working since 2016.
News
28.07.2022
Past
Exhibition
02.07–28.08.2022
From July 3rd the Peruvian artist Andrea Canepa (Lima, 1980) has taken on the Aula space of de Appel as the site for her continued fascination and investigation into the organization of the physical and social structures of our everyday lives. By juxtaposing the architectural narratives of this monumental interior with human movement, the possible social realities of its past and present open up opportunities to reinterpret the space and its many meanings
Past
Event
24.06.2022, 19:00–22:00
On the 24th of June, Ann Demeester will moderate an evening about about innovation in the arts and the need for continuity. Since five years de Appel again has a remarkable home: Broedplaats Lely, a brutalistic building in a diffuse part of town, where the accelerated effects of the gentrification of the surrounding are clearly visible. As an institution de Appel is part of this ongoing temporality. Now that the precarity this enhances seems to become more extensive, it is time to start the conversation.
Past
Exhibition
11–25.06.2022
Where do you feel at home? Stories of Belonging is an exhibition and public programme developed by de Appel and the students of the Comenius Lyceum. Now it will travel to the Van Deysselbuurt! From the 11th to the 24th of June everyone can visit the exhibition and the public programme in Theater van Deyssel, a dependence of Theater Frascati at the Lodewijk van Deysselstraat.
Past
Exhibition
07.04–29.05.2022
As part of the long-term collaboration between de Appel and artist Mariana Lanari, the exhibition Catching Up in the Archive will present Lanari's ongoing research into archival infrastructures and the mediation between physical and digital libraries.
Past
13.04.2022, 19:30–21:00
Click here to watch the recording of 'Under the spell of Leonora Carrington'. In the run-up to the Venice Biennale, Amsterdam Art in collaboration with de Appel organised an evening about Leonora Carrington, that took place on the 13th of April. Who was Leonora Carrington? Why are more and more art lovers becoming fascinated by her work?
Past
Exhibition
09.02–27.03.2022
‘Stories of Belonging’ creates space for the often invisible stories of our neighbours in Amsterdam West, stories that explore when we feel at home somewhere.‘Stories of Belonging’ will take shape as an exhibition with work by several artists and students at de Appel and a series of meetings about stories that deserve to be told.
The new publication 'Drafting futures, remembering a building' by Rosa te Velde explores, connects and recalls the many lives of one building in Amsterdam Nieuw-West over the span of more than sixty years. Plans for the future are constantly made and unmade – what will this place become? How does this building help to understand the ideologies behind city planning, segregation and gentrification?
Monika Szewczyk concludes her tenure as director of de Appel
Monika Szewczyk took office on May 1st 2019 and will leave de Appel at the end of this month, after three exceptional and intensive years.
News
19.04.2022
Statement Ukraine
In light of the war in the Ukraine, de Appel wishes to reaffirm its position against all forms of military aggression and violence. We stand by all people in Ukraine that are suffering from the current events in their country.
News
02.03.2022
Past
Livestream
17–20.01.2022
de Appel's 2022 Keynote on January 17th will be presented by poet, writer and translator Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, in which she will consider passage as a visionary interval. This event will be livestreamed on our website.
New Barbizon is a celebrated collective of five painters: Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi, Olga Kundina, Maria Pomiansky, Anna Lukashevsky, Natalia Zourabova… Visit the new website dedicated to work that the five artists produced while in Amsterdam...
