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

14/04/2026

Meet the Teenage Curators!

12 young people from Amsterdam Zuid explore together at de Appel what art can be, and what they want to say through it. Through field trips, discussions and workshops with artists, they are shaping their own stories within the city.

Over the past few months, their ideas have come together and their project is steadily progressing towards the final presentation. We’ll keep you posted!

The Teen Curators are:
Jin Li, Anhar, Faith, Tristan, Carlijn, Hannah, Jasper, Mallika, Chanti, Lucas, Jerra and Sarah. Two are missing from this photo, but are of course part of the group.

de Appel’s Teenage Curators programme aims at creating a connection between young students from Amsterdam and the art world. Since its early beginnings in 2022, the Teenage Curators programme has collaborated extensively with artists, storytellers and professionals from Amsterdam’s cultural sector to introduce participants to the practice of curating public programmes, exhibitions and artworks that showcase their experiences, questions and dreams, and provide them with a platform outside of formal art institutions.

Photo: Nikola Lamburov

07/04/2026

Join us for the exhibition opening of 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨, on Saturday 18 April! Our doors open at 16:00, with a programme starting at 17:00, consisting of artist talks by Dina Mimi and Sara Greavu & Ciara Phillips, followed by a conversation with Matt Packer and Eszter Szakács.

𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a parallel series of screenings and performances, focusing on the inherited traumas of colonial violence and control that continue to shape social, mental and physical bodies across generations.

The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; Family Connection; 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱, a project by Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips with former workshop member Anne Crilly; Naeem Mohaiemen; Eoghan Ryan; Clíodhna Timoney and Eimear Walshe.

More info: deappel.nl

18/03/2026

𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨
📌 Exhibition Opening: Saturday 18 April, 14:00–20:00

𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a series of screenings, performances, and discussions focussing on the lingering and ever-mutating traumas of colonialism that cut across the present. Departing from Ireland – widely regarded as the first historical subject of the British colonial project – the exhibition and events bring together artists who address Ireland or Irish experience alongside ongoing and historical struggles in places such as Palestine and Bangladesh. The works trace how the everyday, insidious operations of colonial rule and violence endure long after formal state independence and international agreements, embedded in bodies and memories, in intimate affections, in social dynamics and dysfunctions.

The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱, a project by Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips; Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; Family Connection; Naeem Mohaiemen; Eoghan Ryan; Clíodhna Timoney; Eimear Walshe.

Event partnerships include Filmtheater Kriterion, Eye Filmmuseum and the international workshop 𝘓𝘐𝘉𝘌𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘖𝘕𝘚: 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺, hosted by the University of Amsterdam. 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is curated by Ailbhe W. Drohan, Matt Packer, Eszter Szakács.

More information to be announced soon!

Image: Strip-searching re-enactment, Derry Film and Video Workshop (Trisha Ziff), 1984

12/03/2026

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝟬𝟴: 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗺

The eighth edition of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵, made by Matt Hinkley, features the work of American artist Barbara Bloom. To celebrate this edition, the display in de Appel Archive will feature a selection of ephemeral objects produced by Barbara Bloom, a former Amsterdam resident and long-time collaborator of de Appel, that are housed in the archive. Bloom’s enigmatic output of printed matter, which mysteriously traverses poetry, fiction, photography, design and advertising, was the subject of Matt Hinkley’s research into the de Appel Archive and is subsequently presented in print in the form of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵 08.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵 is a recurring publication from the archive of de Appel that can also be accessed while the reader is physically distant, or the archive is far away. The distance, and at the same time the fickle proximity of digital platforms, is now translated into the tangibility of archival messages.

You can visit the archival presentation during de Appel’s regular opening hours between Wednesdays and Sundays.

Fig. 1: Barbara Bloom, Ghost Writer 003 (1988)

Fig. 2: Barbara Bloom, Foreign Edition no. 1 (1982)

06/03/2026

de Appel invites you to gather for the public presentation and sharing of the (unwilling) archive of Reading Vigil for Free Palestine (RVFP), presented within the Archive in Residence, de Appel’s programme dedicated to activating often overlooked archives through artistic and collective research practices.

From October 2025 to March 2026, RVFP participated in the Archive in Residence through an ongoing collaboration with the de Appel Archive, engaging with collective archiving as a living and political practice. This process has resulted in a publicly accessible audio archive of the daily Reading Vigil, available via readingvigil.net, alongside a special collection in the de Appel Library comprising all books read during the vigil to date, beginning on 6 November 2023, available for public lending. You can read the full announcement of the project here.

On Friday 13 March de Appel will host a public programme around the residency. The event marks a moment to share this archive and to open a collective conversation on activist archiving, memory, and the role of autonomous archives within ongoing political struggle. The programme of the event will include a presentation of the RVFP archive in its physical and digital forms, and will discuss questions like: How do we archive ongoing actions of solidarity? How to archive resistance? How to resist becoming an archive? Can an archive capture the ephemera around the happening – the learning, the rage, the confrontations, the moments of solidarity? Afterwards the conversation continues with Özge Çelikaslan on bak.ma, digital activist archives, collective archiving practices, and autonomous archival infrastructures.

📌 Friday 13.03.2026, 18:30–20:30
Capacity is limited, make a reservation: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1336-archive-in-residence-reading-vigil-for-free-palestine

27/02/2026

To mark the closing of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙋𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧 Forum and exhibition, two publication launches unfold through activations that bring together a newly released publication, film, sound, and performance.

The new book LE GALION EN MODE RÉVOLUTION by Erika Roux, published by Building Fictions, centers grassroots struggle, urban transformation, and collective agency, engaging questions of gentrification, neo-colonial planning and bureaucratic infrastructures in the suburbs of Paris. Accompanied by a film screening of Aujourd’hui, on est là (2021) and a conversation between, the authors and interlocutors (Erika Roux, Hadama Traoré, Cosimo Lisi & Rudy Guedj) share insights into their movement.

Afterwards, the Amsterdam record release of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘈 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬 by Cyprus-based record label MONEDA will be accompanied by a listening performance by Emiddio Vasquez together with gervaise alexis savvias, that fabulates documentary and sonic practices around embodied labour as tools for witnessing, organising, and reimagining forms of presence and resonance.

📌 Friday, 20.03.2026, 19:00–21:30

Make a free reservation for the Closing Forum: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1333-the-broken-pitcher-closing-forum

Project logo: Studio Nikos Stephou

20/02/2026

This two-fold film programme hosted at Kriterion as part of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 shares projects that grapple with displacement, not as a closed past but as an ongoing condition. Through documentary, the filmmakers stay with struggle, collective resistance, and the spiritual life of affected communities. Across different localities — areas in Cape Town and Cairo — and in the afterlives of forced removal and erasure of life and living, the projects bear witness to places and peoples dispossessed by colonial and state power. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A in the presence of the filmmakers: José Cardoso, Adrian Van Wyk, Abdo Zin Eldin and Mahdy Abo Bahat.

In 1960s South Africa, a close-knit community from Die Vlakte was forcibly and violently uprooted to make way for the Stellenbosch University as part of the Apartheid regime’s segregation measures. José Cardoso’s 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙞𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 recounts the traumatic effect displacement had on residents by bringing to the foreground a university that is still grappling with its racist legacy. To this day, the Die Vlakte community is fighting for justice and seeking reparations with little to no tangible solutions.

𝙁𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 is a programme of experimental documentary films by Abdo Zin Eldin and Mahdy Abo Bahat, shot between 2016 and 2024 in Cairo and rural Upper Egypt. The programme contains excerpts of projects still in progress along with the duo's first work, The Goose's Excuse (2023). It is a first attempt by the duo to bring together different fragments of their work that mount a grave urgency to capture beings, time, and worlds threatened by disappearance in Egypt.

📌 Sunday, 15.03.2026, 19:00–21:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion

Info and tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1332-the-broken-pitcher-forum-film-screenings

17/02/2026

𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝟬𝟵: 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘀𝗵 𝗨𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲 / 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝟭 𝗼𝗳 𝟭

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵 is a recurring publication from the Archive of de Appel that can also be accessed while the reader is physically distant, or the archive is far away. The distance, and at the same time the fickle proximity of digital platforms is now translated into the tangibility of archivistic messages. Series 09 is made by Annosh Urbanke.

The art collective OHO explored the idea of mediality. The name of the group “OHO” comes from a combination of the words “oko” (eye) and “uho” (ear) and refers to the senses through which perception is sensed. They worked close to nature, using simple materials to create works on a small scale. On the threshold of their international success in 1971, they decided to withdraw. They were not interested in the international art discourse and instead decided on building a community. OHO Group’s collective art practice continued on an abandoned farm in Šempas, while growing a community for several more years until Marko and Marika Pogačnik decided to focus on the plot of land as a family.

Annosh decided to contact Marko and Marika Pogačnik, knowing that Šempas — whether in a different form — still exists, and that the communal practice continued as a family project. One thing led to another and Annosh travelled to Šempas to learn more about the different stages and art practices that shaped their work and life in Šempas.

If you'd like to subscribe to The Remote Archivist and get every series mailed to your house, please visit our website: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/500-the-remote-archivist

Maker: Annosh Urbanke
Archive materials and interview: Marko Pogačnik, Marika Pogačnik, OHO
Additional archive materials: Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana
Designer: Bardhi Haliti
Archivist: Nell Donkers
Printer: Drukkerij Raddraaier SSP
Publisher: de Appel

Many thanks to Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana for their (archive) materials. This research project by Annosh Urbanke is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

11/02/2026

de Appel is welcoming proposals for the upcoming summer edition of its market Kiosk. As part of de Appel’s structural thematics in the coming years, we will explore alternative small-scale economies and art economies, engaging both with specific sites, such as street markets, and with broader questions of funding and institutional autonomy.

For our upcoming edition in spring/summer 2026, de Appel is seeking artists or collectives based in the Netherlands to develop a project for our stall in the market. The project should respond to questions about street market and/or art economy, and engage with the users of the market. Since we are aware of the timeline constraints, we encourage you to think of already developed works which could be adapted to the market context. It can take shape in any form you see fit (performance, workshops, printmaking, talks, objects, play, video etc.), but please keep in mind a limited production budget.

📌 Application deadline: 9 March 00.00 (CET)

Read the full open call on our website: https://www.deappel.nl/en/news/16762-open-call-de-appel-kiosk-summer-2026

03/02/2026

As part of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮 we gather at Kriterion for an evening that brings together film, archival practice, and questions of refuge, displacement, and collective resistance in Amsterdam. Through a screening and a talk, the program traces how urban spaces become sites of survival, struggle, and re-imagination, engaging movements around housing, migration, and the making of home.

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘬𝘢𝘥𝘦 by Rosemarie Blank is a stylised documentary portrait of the Levantkade in Amsterdam and the ‘urban nomads’ that found refuge in that no-mans-land in the late 1980s which has since transformed into the gentrified KNSM Island, the city’s eastern port area.

𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘷𝘳𝘪𝘫𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧.𝘯𝘦𝘵 is a collaboration between Luna Hupperetz and Kenneth Geurts. The Vrije Archief Nieuwmarkt is an autonomous archive that documents the activism of the Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt (1967-1976) against Amsterdam’s post war city planning.

📌 Sunday 15.02.2026
19:00–21:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion

Tickets: https://www.deappel.nl/en/archive/events/1331-the-broken-pitcher-forum-filmvertoning-amp-lezing

02/02/2026

de Appel invites applications for the 2026/27 Curatorial Programme, a ten-month programme that brings together a small international group of participants to collectively study, travel, research and develop a curatorial project together in Amsterdam.

The 2026/27 edition is centred on a set of interconnected themes and practices that de Appel is engaged with: 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗰𝗼-𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 (𝗮𝗿𝘁) 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀. These themes are approached not as abstract subjects, but rather as lived social and political conditions that shape cultural work today within institutions and across wider social contexts.

At de Appel, we’ve come to understand curating as a practice that exceeds exhibition making. Alongside the development of exhibitions and public programmes, participants engage with questions of 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, exploring how curatorial practice can move from critique toward the construction of alternative forms of organisation and how that changes content.

Running for ten months, the programme brings together 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝘅 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 who work and travel collectively. Participants meet with artists, cultural practitioners and organisations, building long-term relationships. They engage in shared reading, writing, discussion and reflection. The programme culminates in a 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 developed by the group.

‣ Find the full Open Call on our website: https://www.deappel.nl/en/news/16694-open-call-de-appel-curatorial-programme-2026-27

28/01/2026

de Appel Periodical is an online publication that appears biannually; a joined effort by de Appel’s team with outside voices and contributions. It offers space for reflection and context around our programme and archive in periods between exhibitions. It brings forward what is often less visible: behind-the-scenes conversations, archival materials, interviews, outcomes of workshops or gatherings, or a footnote that becomes its own story. The Periodical was created as a way to slow down and give attention to aspects of our activities that don’t always receive space within the public programme. It is intended for everyone who is curious about what happens within and around de Appel, including neighbours, collaborators, artists, researchers, and audiences who follow us from afar.

This first Periodical, published after the closing of Mercedes Azpilicueta’s solo exhibition CaccHho CucchhA, and before the opening of the collaborative project The Broken Pitcher on 17 January, features written contributions by Sophie Soobramanien, Ilia Pellapaisiotou, Thomas Siderius and Santiago Pinyol. It is centered around the theme of Composting: the vital, under-ground, life-giving process of return and amalgamation that makes next season's harvest possible.

○ You can read the written contributions on de Appel's website: https://www.deappel.nl/en/menu/1682-harvests/14076-de-appel-periodical-1-composting-winter-2025

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