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Opening hours:
Wednesday - Sunday
between 2-8pm

Adults: €6
Students: €3
Neighbors: €3
Ages 0 – 18: free
We accept ICOM and Museumkaart. The Museumkaart is available at the reception desk.

Accessibility info
You can find de Appel at Tolstraat 160, next to Cinetol in broedplaats Tempel, and a 5 minute walk from tram stop Van Woustraat. de Appel’s bookshop, archive, reception and foyer are located on the ground floor, and accessible for weelchairs. de Appel exhibition space is located on the first flloor. There is a manually operated chair lift available. For further questions about accessibility, please contact info@deappel.nl.

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Today, October 24

Archive open 
Archive in Residence: Salon O

Archive open 
Archive in Residence: Salon O

16.10–21.11.2024
Exhibition
06.10–10.11.2024
In Our People are Our Mountains (quoting from Amílcar Cabral’s words on the Guinea-Bissau's liberation movement), artists and collectives in Palestine and elsewhere who work on questions around land from different perspectives, collaborate with majelis (assembly) Jakarta by sending instructions remotely.
Event
24.10.2024, 17:00–19:00
de Appel launches the new Archive in Residence program. In the program, we invite other archives to find shelter for a short period of time. Salon O – an art space in Leiden from 1979-1981 that showed performances, installations, photography, film and video – kicks off the residency.
Upcoming

Archive open

Archive open

Event
03.10.2024–26.03.2025
Public Programme
23.10–06.11.2024
We will host three workshops for children and their parents around three poems from the recently published children’s poetry book titled Palestinian Cities by Dalia Taha. Through vivid and lyrical verses and children’s imaginative illustrations, Taha brings to life Palestinian cities.
Public Programme
25.10.2024, 19:30–20:30
This lecture performance by Noor Abuarafeh invites the audience on a personal and political journey through the West Bank's fragmented landscape. The narrator recounts their return home after a prolonged absence, facing the stark reality of a land under occupation. Guided by intimate hikes through the West Bank, they weave together encounters with fellow hikers.
Public Programme
02.11.2024, 19:00–00:30
de Appel is open during Museumnacht Amsterdam for a nocturnal program with the Complaints Choir, Gudskul, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Junhao Xiang and Loma Doom (Femke Dekker).
Public Programme
02.11.2024, 19:30–21:00
Blue Gaze at the Future is a series of audiovisual performances by Mohamed Abdelkarim combining text, radio drama, and visuals. It questions the theater stage as a landscape that can reorder fractured reality, proposing a different world.
Public Programme
08.11.2024, 19:30–21:00
This performance by Isshaq Albarbary invites the audience to reflect on the labor of assembling meaning in a world that renders people and objects disposable. This live performance reimagines a disjointed UNRWA trash cart, familiar yet overlooked in Palestinian refugee camps.
Event
09–10.11.2024
Collaboration Station is a 3-day event which will attempt to create a deeper understanding of the role of collaboration and collective work of artists and organisations on artistic and societal levels in the Netherlands. Platform BK, in collaboration with various artists and organisations, wants to address three topics: collectives (collective work), financial realms of collectives (financial work) and unionising (existing work).
Public Programme
10.11.2024, 10:00–22:00
Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Placemaking is the cooperative study program of de Appel at the Roaming Academy, Dutch Art Institute (DAI). This 12-hour broadcasted event transmits the residues of a journey of collective study.
Online
Online Presentation
Why Germany is an international, online lecture series addressing the crackdown on free speech in Germany and beyond. These weekly lectures are co-hosted by a network of institutions that grows over time. By means of a rolling program, it creates a space for creative, informed and considered expression.
Event
On the 24th of June, Ann Demeester will moderate an evening about about innovation in the arts and the need for continuity. Since five years de Appel again has a remarkable home: Broedplaats Lely, a brutalistic building in a diffuse part of town, where the accelerated effects of the gentrification of the surrounding are clearly visible. As an institution de Appel is part of this ongoing temporality. Now that the precarity this enhances seems to become more extensive, it is time to start the conversation.
Online Presentation
Between sunrise and sunset on 30 November 2020, de Appel devotes space and time to remembering ULAY (born Frank Uwe Laysiepen on 30 November 1943 in Solingen, Germany), an artist and much more, who shaped our institution profoundly and who passed away on March 2nd this year.
To celebrate the publication: Audre Lorde – Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984–1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020), de Appel organised a close reading group starting late September 2020, in order to collectively read and give voice to Lorde’s work as assembled in this book.