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. It develops from an earlier exhibition at Punt WG (2025), where Alina Lupu printed statements such as ‘No war but class war’ and ‘Poverty is not the fault of the poor.’ There, protest language confronted the art institution; at the market, the work shifts to a site where class, labour, and survival are negotiated daily.

For the de Appel Kiosk, rather than bringing fixed slogans, she will generate phrases through conversations with stallholders and visitors, learning from the history and dynamics of the marketplace. Clothing and textiles sold by vendors will become the printing surface. The resulting texts will draw from the market’s own vocabulary: rent, pricing, scarcity, bargaining, care, inflation, work, and mutual dependence.

Printed items will be sold at a slightly increased price, making visible how language can alter circulation and cost. The act of printing becomes a negotiation: who benefits from the added surplus, who authors it, and who carries the risk?

The production budget will circulate transparently through the market via collaboration fees, purchases, and exchanges. A visible ledger will track these flows, exposing infrastructures of art funding while redirecting resources into the market economy and facilitating moments of mutual learning.

○ Thursday 4 June, 10:00–17:00

○ Thursday 11 June, 10:00–17:00

○ Thursday 18 June, 10:00–17:00

○ Thursday 25 June, 10:00–17:00

We see urban markets as vibrant places where diverse cultures gather, becoming hubs for social interaction, community building, and cultural exchange. The street market is often based on small family or cooperative stalls and the forming of social solidarity between the stall owners. Part of the de Appel Kiosk’s endeavor is to reflect on practices of exchange and barter in market economies. de Appel wishes to engage in places other than art institutions to meet people through and with artistic practices without the overt distinction between art and society. The idea of the Kiosk was inspired by our friends in the lumbung and by other initiatives from artists to sustain their collectives and participate in a wider scope of economies.