Upcoming
Event
14.05.2026, 14:00–17:00
Join us for At the End of Our World / At Our End of The World, a workshop centered on The Arab Apocalypse, Etel Adnan’s poetic response to war and imperial violence.
Upcoming
Public Programme
17.05.2026, 19:00–20:45
Derry Film and Video Workshop’s (DFVW) film Stop Strip Searching documents the intensive use of strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland in the early 1980s. Including interviews with ex-prisoners, legal experts, activists, psychologists and the family members of prisoners inside at the time, the film was used as a campaigning tool and toured widely in Ireland and beyond.
Current
Event
11.03–20.05.2026
To spread the word and localise the knowledge about Palestine in the Dutch context, we are organising two English to Dutch translation sessions for texts previously published by Learning Palestine, at Casco Art Institute (Wednesday 11 March in Utrecht) and de Appel (Wednesday 18 March in Amsterdam).
Upcoming
21.05.2026, 18:30–20:30
In this conversation, Teesa Bahana (Director of 32° East, a not-for-profit space for contemporary art in Uganda) and Ola Hassanain (artist and architect) will explore our time of ecological collapse, political fragmentation, and growing inequality, in which culture is not a luxury – it is a necessity.
Upcoming
Event
23.05.2026, 14:00–20:30
In this three-hour roundtable workshop, we'll examine clips from films on political struggle and discuss the practice of assembling and editing. In the evening, we will screen two short documentaries: Class Outside (2026) and happiness (2025), followed by a discussion with the artists Aylin Kuryel, Deniz Buga and Fırat Yücel.
Upcoming
Public Programme
31.05.2026, 19:00–21:00
Eoghan Ryan’s two films depart from specific moments and movements in the history of Ireland: the mutations of contemporary right-wing nationalism (Carceral Jigs) and the post-Brexit moment of the early 2020s (A Sod State).
Open Call: Mural de Nieuwe Meent
de Appel is pleased to announce a new collaborative project with Framer Framed, If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and the housing cooperative de Nieuwe Meent (dNM). As part of this collaboration, we are launching an open call for a mural that will inhabit the building’s north facade.
News
02.04.2026
Current
Presentation
05.03–03.05.2026
The eighth edition of The Remote Archivist, made by Matt Hinkley, features the work of American artist Barbara Bloom. To celebrate this edition, the display in de Appel Archive will feature a selection of ephemeral objects produced by Barbara Bloom, a former Amsterdam resident and long-time collaborator of de Appel, that are housed in the archive.
Current
Event
31.01–27.06.2026
The sessions will trace the evolution of Tatreez from early village customs to its role as a medium of political expression among Palestinian women who advanced community leadership initiatives during the Intifada. The workshop will also address current practices, digital preservation, and the symbolism of Tatreez as an embodiment of love and resilience, carrying forward Palestinian women’s matriarchal insistence on memory.
Out now:
A is for Art and Appel
A colouring workbook
A colouring workbook with 28 contributions by artists de Appel recently worked with, as well as de Appel's team. The book contains colouring sheets, pictures from their artworks, little activities and games.
News
01.10.2025
Book Bloc Brigade's
book-shields at de Appel
Next to the stairs to the exhibition space you will find a display of shields by Book Bloc Brigade, which was formed in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the violent police repression of students at university encampments across the Netherlands.
News
18.07.2025
Current
18.04–12.06.2026
state of us is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a series of screenings, performances, and discussions focussing on the lingering and ever-mutating traumas of colonialism that cut across the present, in collaboration with EVA International.
