Read online: de Appel
Periodical #2: Making Room
de Appel Periodical is a biannual online publication by de Appel’s team and invited contributors. It offers reflection and context around our programme and archive in the periods between exhibitions, bringing forward conversations, archival materials, interviews and outcomes of workshops or gatherings that are not always publicly visible.
News
21.08.2026
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
Upcoming
Exhibition
12.09–21.11.2026
Over a period of nearly five years, Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie interrogated how class structures shape the production, presentation, and reception of contemporary art. 20 years on, we return to these questions and ask why class continues to be so easily overlooked in the production and presentation of art.
Upcoming
Exhibition
12.12.2026–12.02.2027
An Exercise in Assembling by Subversive Film brings together fragments of militant films made across liberation struggles, anti-colonial movements, and struggles for civil and workers’ rights.
Final Cut premieres at Netherlands Film Festival
The documentary Final Cut uncovers the truth behind Body Art, a controversial Dutch TV programme shot in 1975. The programme featured Thomas Lips, an intense performance at de Appel by artist Marina Abramović.
News
28.08.2026
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
Now available: Gladness
Demonstration tote bag
Support de Appel and get the tote bag for €15,- at our Bookshop during regular opening hours.
News
19.08.2026
