News - de Appel Amsterdam

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

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

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

Radio Broadcast COOP ‘The Salt of the Earth’, Episode 2

Fragments and reflections from The Salt of the Earth, de Appel’s COOP study group at Dutch Art Institute, are shared through Radio Alhara. The second episode ‘key to be buried’ invites you on a multi-layered stroll across cities, through a speculative story, and into a museum collection.

News
10.03.2026

Archive in Residence:
Reading Vigil for
Free Palestine

For this edition of Archive in Residence, de Appel has invited Reading Vigil for Free Palestine (RVFP), to embark on a journey of collective archiving and reflecting. This has resulted in an (unwilling) archive of audio recordings and the full collection of books read so far.

News
10.02.2026