de Appel

de Appel makes space and time for artists and allies to pose vital questions.

Founded in 1975 in Amsterdam, this evolving arts centre has a unique threefold structure combining an Archive; a Curatorial Programme; and Education Initiatives that arise from deep community engagement. Our public programming involves people of different backgrounds and perspectives in an atmosphere of hospitality, cooperation and experiment

16/06/2026

𝗧𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗜𝘁-𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱
📌 Friday 26 June, 17:30–21:00

Over the past few months, a group of young people from Amsterdam-Zuid have been working on 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘐𝘵-𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 as part of de Appel Teenage Curators programme: an art project in the form of a public poster campaign for the city.

What happens when teenagers use public space to work through their ideas, ask questions and make their perspectives visible? Drawing on their own experiences, the participants explored topics such as fashion, identity, sustainability, community and equality. They asked questions about the impact of fast fashion, the meaning of style and self-expression, access to opportunities and the role of public meeting places in the city.

For the campaign, the group collaborated with social justice print shop NOT S**T PRINT and artists Kenneth Aidoo and Yamuna Forzani. Drawing on their diverse artistic practices, they guided the young curators in translating conversations, observations and social questions into a series of public posters. The result is a campaign that makes young people’s perspectives visible in Amsterdam’s public spaces.

On Friday 26 June, 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘐𝘵-𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 will be launched during a public presentation at de Appel. During the evening, the Teenage Curators will share more about their research, the creative process and the development of the campaign. They will also present a small publication featuring photographs, sketches, texts and other material from the project.

The Teenage Curators 2025–26 are: Anhar, Carlijn, Chanti, Faith, Hannah, Jasper, Jerra, Jin Li, Lucas, Mallika, Sarah & Tristan.

More info and full programme: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1356-teenage-curators-keep-it-posted

12/06/2026

The symposium presents the output of the IMAGINART research project on 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦: 𝘈𝘳𝘵, 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2020-2026), while expanding its scope through a focus on Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the current conjuncture in order to tackle core political urgencies affecting the role cultural institutions play in society.

IMAGINART has investigated a variety of creative counter-institutions in Palestine, Italy, Hungary, Indonesia, Germany, South Africa and the Kurdish diaspora. These are artist-run, mostly grassroots spaces and projects that set up socio-institutional experiments based on principles of collaboration, horizontality and resource sharing. These projects mobilise artistic practices to reconfigure organisational forms and reimagine self-organised, collective life according to ideas of social justice and freedom.

Participants: Mohamed Abusal, Jessica de Abreu, Reza Afisina, Amal Alhaag, Barnita Bagchi, Sruti Bala, Selçuk Balamir, Marco Baravalle, María do Mar Castro Varela, Luke Cohlen, Jamila Ghaddar, Lani Hanna, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Aline Hernández, Lara Khaldi, Jeroen de Kloet, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Hilda Moucharrafieh, Nawal Mustafa, Emily Pethick, Josien Pieterse, Omar Salamanca and Mikki Stelder.

IMAGINART members: Chiara De Cesari, Andrea Elera Coello, Nuraini Juliastuti, Yazan Khalili, Abdulkerim Pusat, Eszter Szakács, Aria Spinelli, Jasmijn Stam, and Carine Zaayman.

📌 Tuesday 16.06.2026, 10:00–18:30 at Cinetol and online

Reservations to join the symposium at Cinetol are full; you can join the programme online, see the full programme & online registration link: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1350-where-are-we-now-where-to-next-reimagining-cultural-institutions

08/06/2026

This day-long gathering brings together guests whose practices engage with sound, piracy, anti-colonial solidarity, archiving, and critical fabulation. It is convened by yasmine eid-sabbagh and Layal Ftouni in conjunction with the opening of the project 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 – 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩 by yasmine eid-sabbagh and organised by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution.

The programme is divided in two parts. The study session in the morning is guided by Rayya Badran and Alia Mossallam, and builds on their research and work with radio and sound archives, tracing presences and erasures that speak to histories of anti-colonial, working class, and solidarity movements and struggles.

The afternoon programme starts with a conversation between yasmine eid-sabbagh and Layal Ftouni and continues with three invited guests: Rayya Badran, Alia Mossallam, and DJ Lynnée Denise. The conversations address the role of sound and pirate radios in forging anti-colonial solidaries, focusing on Palestine and other transnational struggles.

📌 Sunday 21.06.2026, 11:00–18:00
at GROND (Bajesdorp)

More info & tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1353-rhythms-of-anti-colonial-struggles-radio-archives-and-the-transmission-of-solidarities

03/06/2026

The closing programme of 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 includes informal artist talks by participating artists Ciarán O’ Dochartaigh and Clíodhna Timoney, and a performance by Family Connection.

In the performance 'riba blòki ta trese rekuerdo / on blocks recalling memories', Family Connection reminisces on futures that may come for the Caribbean islands that share continued Dutch colonisation and occupation. In the spirit of the Rudy Plaate song 'Mi Ke Sa', the collective proposes pasts yet to take place with poetry, music and archival images. The performance invites the audience to rethink linear time, absences and agency.

📌 Friday 12 June 2026, 18:00–21:00

More info, full programme and tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1349-state-of-us-performance-by-family-connection-amp-closing-programme

02/06/2026

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘱, a reading by Eimear Walshe, will be performed at Cinetol with live soundtrack by Seamas Hyland and Sárán Ó Maolagáin. The piece, originally commissioned by Mirror Lamp Press, is a tender and reverent account of the homo-erotics of an Irish music session. In the tradition of Irish musical bawdry, this story portrays a man’s ecstatic reconnection with his culture, and in turn with himself. Eimear Walshe’s performance is presented as part of the exhibition project 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴, co-curated with EVA International.

📌 Wednesday 10 June 2026, 19:00
at Cinetol

Tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1348-performance-the-piper-s-grip-by-eimear-walshe

📷 Research image for Eimear Walshe, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘱. Image courtesy of The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA)

28/05/2026

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.

For the de Appel Kiosk, Alina Lupu 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.

📌 Visit the Kiosk on 4, 11, 18 & 25 June 2026, between 10:00–17:00 at Dappermarkt

For more info about this project and de Appel Kiosk, see here: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1344-de-appel-kiosk-value-added-text

27/05/2026

𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨 is a Harvest Festival consisting of a public programme and exhibition hosted by damdam – a collective of collectives brought together by de Appel Curatorial Programme, Sandberg Instituut temporary master Lumbung Practice and Gudskul, Jakarta – which seeks to cultivate methods of collective organisation in times of crisis. The festival is formulated around three central questions: How to organise? How to distribute labour and resources? How to share what we produce?

The three day public programme at OT301 (12–14 June) is the first act, addressing these questions through practice. We are building the structure of our house through the often invisible infrastructures that support it, approaching the home not only as a fixed site but as something constructed relationally and continuously through practices of hosting. People themselves are the infrastructure of this house: shared time becomes a resource, care, attention, and mutual support become the materials through which continuity is sustained. Our host OT301 reflects these questions, with its history of squatting, legalisation and its current form as a collectively run cultural space.

The exhibition at de Appel (3 July – 14 August) is the second act, where we invite you into the house, turning to the physical and material structures inside. Acknowledging the limits of an exhibition, we focus on objects and their potential for resource re-distribution through transvestment (transferring resources from one value system to another). The objects are commissioned by the different collectives within damdam, who shared instructions to collaboratively build a house that reflects current needs in sustaining collective practice. With these objects, we build a house that can transvest resources into each collective’s local context, using a framework that balances production budget and fees with their needs.

For the full programme, keep an eye on 𝗼𝘁𝟯𝟬𝟭.𝗻𝗹 and 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗹.𝗻𝗹!

22/05/2026

This screening event presents the Dutch premiere of Naeem Mohaiemen’s 𝘼 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 (2025), commissioned by EVA International and Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and Zahir Raihan’s iconic documentary 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚 (1971), which is also the portal into Mohaiemen’s film. There will be an introduction and a conversation after the screening by Naeem Mohaiemen and Eszter Szakács. This screening is part of the exhibition project 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴, co-curated with EVA International, and is co-presented with the Eye Filmmuseum and the international workshop LIBERATIONS: Questions for Art and Theory (1 – 2 June 2026).

📌 Tuesday 02.06.2026 , 19:15
at Eye Filmmuseum

More info and tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1347-film-screening-a-missing-can-of-film-2025-amp-stop-genocide-1971

13/05/2026

Help us by filling in an online survey that takes approximately 5 minutes of your time, and in return either visit our current exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 for free, or get a free warm drink at the bar (by showing the confirmation of your participation to the exhibition host).

de Appel is open between Wednesdays and Sundays, 14:00–20:00.

🖌 Fill in the survey here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN5jtEHmNynMGWT2itdjKfn7mmcFbjjnx4fP3W5woPa2gZmg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=107634871681718304181

11/05/2026

Help us by filling in an online survey that takes approximately 5 minutes of your time, and in return either visit our current exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 for free, or get a free drink at the bar on weekend days (by showing the confirmation of your participation to the exhibition host).

de Appel is open between Wednesdays and Sundays, 14:00–20:00.

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