Current
Public Programme
11.10–22.11.2025
CaccHho CucchhA will be activated through children’s free play and a series of artist-led playshops. These sessions are facilitated by Mercedes Azpilicueta herself, Antonella Fittipaldi, Anna Klas, Lina Bravo Mora, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda and Vere van der Veen.
Past
Event
29.10.2025, 17:30–19:00
This talk by Saba Innab is constructed around two imaginaries: the imaginary of the museum as a “coloniser”, and the imaginary of the land as a source of incessant knowledge that resists its demise and appropriation. Using the vertical section of a typical Palestinian peasant house as a starting point, The talk reveals multiple layers and interpretations of know-how embedded in place, as well as the possibilities for anti-colonial resistance that this knowledge harbours.
Upcoming
Event
01.11.2025, 19:00–00:00
During Museumnacht, CaccHho CucchhA by Mercedes Azpilicueta transforms into a lively game night. Inspired by the ways children play, move, and imagine new stories together, the exhibition becomes the stage for a series of short activities lasting 10–20 minutes.
Upcoming
Public Programme
02–16.11.2025
Join artist Mercedes Azpilicueta for a tour through the exhibition CaccHho CucchhA on Sunday 2 and 16 November. This scenographic exhibition treats play as invention, disobedience, and commons making. Commissioned by de Appel, the project unfolds as an immersive ecosystem of modular sculptural costumes, play platforms and a large tapestry, activated through an ongoing series of workshops with children, families, and invited collaborators.
Upcoming
Event
02.11.2025, 19:00–21:00
Join us at Filmtheater Kriterion for a screening of the documentary To Kill a War Machine (2025), directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York, co-founders of Rainbow Collective. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories across the UK.
Upcoming
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.
Upcoming
Event
12.12.2025, 18:00–20:30
You are warmly invited to the book launch of Correspondences: de Appel 1975-2025. Initiated by Martha Jager, co-edited with Hannah Cheney and designed by Bardhi Haliti and Zuzana Kostelanská, this publication brings together fifty years of correspondence from the Archive of de Appel and draws up a relational and affective history of the institution.
Upcoming
Exhibition
20.12.2025–20.03.2026
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.
de Appel is looking for an
Archiving & Communications Intern!
To support the team, de Appel is looking for an Archiving & Communications Intern for 24 – 32 hours per week, for a period of approximately 5 months.
News
28.10.2025
Play and Disobedience
Conversation between Mercedes
Azpilicueta and Lara Khaldi
Artist Mercedes Azpilicueta and Lara Khaldi, artistic director of de Appel, discuss the works and themes of the exhibition CaccHho CucchhA, in a conversation that grows over the exhibition span.
News
09.09.2025
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
de Appel welcomes interim
Artistic Director Eszter Szakács
Curator Eszter Szakács will be covering for Artistic Director Lara Khaldi on her maternity leave for the months to come.
News
08.10.2025
The Supervisory Board of de Appel
extends Director Lara Khaldi’s contract
for three more years
The Supervisory Board of de Appel is pleased to announce the extension of Artistic Director Lara Khaldi’s contract for an additional three years, affirming its confidence in her collective work with the team and the institution’s continued relevance as a vital site for critical, translocal, and context driven artistic practice.
News
10.09.2025
