Radio Broadcast:
COOP 'The Salt of the Earth'
Episode 1
The Salt of the Earth, de Appel’s COOP study group at Dutch Art Institute, collectively explores land and water as formative resources of culture, knowledge, and resistance in a time of ongoing extraction and dispossession. Fragments and reflections from the study group are shared through Radio Alhara
News
20.01.2026
Past
Event
22.01.2026, 14:00–17:00
This seminar emerges from the publication Monument Zero, initiated by visual artist Katayoon Barzegar and writer/curator Niloufar Nematollahi. It revives the disfigured history of International Women’s Day 1979 in Iran, during which the first protests erupted not only against the mandatory hijab but also against the newly established state.
Upcoming
Event
31.01–30.05.2026
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.
Upcoming
Exhibition
28.01–01.03.2026
The Archive opens during February to launch this year's new The Remote Archivist with an archive exhibition in the library of de Appel. The exhibition derives from an audio reel from the Works and Words archive, an international art manifestation organised from 20-30 September 1979 by de Appel: a recording of a lecture that Annosh Urbanke was able to attribute to Marko PogaÄŤnik.
Current
Event
05.11.2025–05.02.2026
de Appel is happy to invite you to a second series of Archive Hours: three archiving workshops facilitated by Mariana Lanari, Nell Donkers and invited guest speakers: Melisa Cenik, Janou Munnik, Ami Clarke and Lozana Rossenova. In these stand-alone workshops we share archiving methods with fellow artists, researchers and archivists working within cultural institutions, community spaces, social movements, artist archives and research archives.
Current
Exhibition
17.01–20.03.2026
The collaborative project The Broken Pitcher by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou and Peter Eramian traces the effects of financialisation and austerity by looking at the banking system and the potentials for changing the script of interacting with it. At de Appel the project takes a multi-fold formation: a one-to-one scale model of a bank room that functions both as an exhibition space and a film set.
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
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
