de Appel Kiosk: announcement upcoming projects

de Appel has been preoccupied with questions around (art) economy, hoping to shift the discourse from a purely financial perspective to a more cultural and critical one. Central to this inquiry is the challenge of a re-distribution of resources – from a capitalist, market-driven model to one rooted in equality and commonist principles. Rather than accepting economic structures as fixed, along with artists de Appel seeks to explore how artistic practice can reimagine and intervene in systems of exchange. One such initiative is the de Appel Kiosk: a platform where artists and collectives develop and sell merchandise as a means of interrogating and experimenting with alternative economies. The Kiosk serves not only as a site of commerce but also as a space for reflecting on the dynamics of exchange, value, and reciprocity within street market economies. It is also a way to reach out to an audience which might not necessarily come to de Appel in an environment which is not explicitly art-related, but is nevertheless as culturally rich and generative (if not more).

The Kiosk will return to Dappermarkt and Albert Cuypmarkt in July this year. Three proposals have been selected from an open call: Buurtijs by Honey Jones-Hughes & Antonio de la Hera, Social Bank by Saemundur Thor Helgason and de aardAppel by Özgür Atlagan & Ulufer Çelik. We extend our gratitude to all the artists who submitted proposals, it was a difficult pool to choose from.

Buurtijs questions ‘local’ and ‘ethical’ food production and consumption via the making and selling of ice cream. Amongst many questions the project provokes: “how can ethical, sustainable food be accessible?”.The artists create a solidarity payment structure where people are invited to pay according to their own hourly wage and where a discussion about what is fairpay takes place continuously.

Social Bank imagines through this small practical experiment a future of socially responsible banks and how those may enrich people’s livelihoods, by giving out interest-free, trust-based loans to passersby. As a functional small scale proposition, the work has a discursive impact asking what purpose banks serve in our societies? Can banks be operated without profit? What implications can non-profit banks have on people’s livelihoods?

de aardAppel is a dual-function stall: one half serves as a micro-publishing house, the other as a potato-salad-kiosk, where eating and publishing would merge into each other. The project explores the history, politics, and poetics of potato in the Netherlands and beyond, with a focus on ‘aard’ (land and soil). At the end of the Kiosk period, recipes, anecdotes and stories will be compiled into a mimeographed zine.

The projects will take place between 6–30 July 2025. Exact dates will be announced shortly before on de Appel’s Instagram.

In the lead-up to the next iterations of de Appel Kiosk, Milena Bonilla Galeano reflects on the two initiatives that took over the market stand last year: the project DOOS ¡No hacemos moneda falsa! by art cooperative Espacio Estamos Bien, and Wàel El Alouche’s Metti. Read it here!