Current
Presentation
15–29.07.2026
For Hi, Jack! Publishing’s project at Dappermarkt, they focus on gleaning; collecting what is left behind or overlooked, as both a method and a lens on contemporary economies, where reuse, precarity, and informal circulation increasingly shape everyday life.
Upcoming
Presentation
18–30.07.2026
_ao_ao_ing ensemble, a performance collective based between Shanghai and Amsterdam, transplants a real Shanghai market stall onto Albert Cuypmarkt. They will run Linzi's Party Supplies: feather fans, paper lanterns, glittery tinsel, plastic dice, party props in fluorescent pink and electric blue — disposable and cheap goods of festivity and celebration.
Open call:
Service at Dappermarkt
We invite artists to join a one-day event, where they can present their artistic practice in the form of wayward, unique, and unreplicable service in exchange for money, something tangible or intangible, symbolic or material, straight on the market.
News
26.06.2026
Past
Event
09.07.2026, 14:00–19:30
You are warmly invited to four days of listening, gathering, collective unlearning, and fundraising at de Appel (9 July) and Lola Lieven (10–12 July), in solidarity with communities across West Asia resisting genocide, settler colonialism, war, and mass violence.
Upcoming
Public Programme
12.08.2026, 14:00–18:00
Taking place in the exhibition space, this workshop approaches the objects in the exhibition as situated expressions of different temporal realities. Participants explore how different localities operate within distinct rhythms of time, shaped by urgency, stability, labour conditions, political contexts, and local calendars.
Current
Presentation
04.06–03.09.2026
Value Added Text by Alina Lupu is a text-based screenprinting workshop operating inside the Dappermarkt throughout June 2026 as both a printing press and a micro-economy. Borrowing the fiscal term “value added,” the project examines how commodities gain surplus value, and how language itself can function as added value
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
de Appel Archive welcomes
Helen Grogan as artist-researcher
From April 2026 to September 2027, as part of her broader project as Visiting Fellow at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam), Helen Grogan will engage with the practices and sensibilities of the archive. She will build on discussions and research she did in 2023, through focused research on the De Dans Voorbij (1980) exhibition archive.
News
01.07.2026
Emergency Plan for the Visual
Arts and Creative Industries
The contemporary visual arts and creative industries sector (BKCI) in Amsterdam is under severe pressure. Whilst we recognise that BKCI institutions are integral to the city and are highly regarded internationally, they are facing increasingly difficult conditions.
News
24.06.2026
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
