Upcoming
Online Presentation
14.05.2024, 18:00–19:00
Why Germany is an international, online lecture series addressing the crackdown on free speech in Germany and beyond. These weekly lectures are co-hosted by a network of institutions that grows over time. By means of a rolling program, it creates a space for creative, informed and considered expression.
Upcoming
Event
05.05.2024, 16:00–18:30
De Appel is happy to join and contribute to the different mirroring solidarity events at de Uitkijk, De Sloot/De Sering and Theater Bellevue upon Mirror Soup Kitchen’s invitation. The program includes the screenings of The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring' curated by Seda Yıldırım, Werkplaats Typografie (2004, NL, 14 min), a talk by Mirror Soup Kitchen and a Palestinian Dabke dance workshop with a dance score from the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance, in Ramallah.
Open Call: de Appel Curatorial Programme Summer School
Launched on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of de Appel's Curatorial Programme, the Summer School brings together curators, artists, activists and educators with a focus on land, ownership and collectivisation as themes and practices.
News
01.05.2024
Upcoming
Public Programme
18.05.2024, 11:00–20:00
The symposium is on occasion of the exhibition Edgelanders: Amsterdam on Trial / Part III: The Witnesses. Through the multi-part project, artists Ehsan Fardjadniya and Raul Balai are building material for a people’s tribunal against the city of Amsterdam in relation to the right to housing for undocumented people.
Upcoming
Live activation
03–10.05.2024
Join artists Ehsan Fardjadniya and Raul Balai for a guided tour through their exhibition 'Edgelanders: Amsterdam on Trial / Part III: The Witnesses', where they will share about the works on display at de Appel and the overarching project.
Upcoming
07.05.2024, 19:00–20:30
Van Abbemuseum and de Appel are thrilled to invite and host artist Tony Chakar, who will be in residence in The Netherlands upon invitation by Van Abbemuseum in May 2024, for a lecture performance in de Appel. A story about an old house in Beirut, and its secrets.
This issue of The Remote Archivist is made by Mika Hayashi Ebbesen. They first encountered the archive during the exhibition Catching Up in the Archive in 2022. Their work as an editor in print publishing, and their commitment to the historiographic process of knowledge production, led them to return this year to delve further into the material traces of de Appel’s role in giving a platform to performance as an artistic genre.
Conversation between Ka-Tjun Hau and David Smeulders
De Appel is pleased to announce that Ka-Tjun Hau took on the role of Curator of Embedded Art (formerly titled Curator of Education) as of March 1 of this year. Ka-Tjun took over the position from David Smeulders, who has taken on this role since 2017 and has shaped it with commitment. To mark this change in de Appel’s team between David’s leaving and Ka-Tjun’s arrival, they sat down together to discuss the role of education within the arts and specifically at de Appel.
News
12.04.2024
Past
Event
17.04.2024, 12:00–13:00
Wednesday, April 17 marks the launch of the second edition of West Side Tori's, the newspaper for and by Westsiders, created by 7/8 pupils of OBS De Toekomst in Amsterdam Nieuw-West in collaboration with Jaleesa Clows and David Smeulders.
