Exhibition
24.04–24.05.2025
Adopting a methodology proposed by School of Intrusions, the artists in this exhibition have been meeting in different archives and locations in Amsterdam, going through research material and discussing various cases of institutional reactions and actions led by artist movements and anti-apartheid campaigns.
Event
08–09.05.2025
To mark the launch of L'internationale Online's publication Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency, this programme at de Appel will include presentations from the publication as well as new contributions to the next editions, as a collective response to the drastic shifts in the public sphere as a result of the genocide in Palestine.
16–17.05.2025
The Vrije Ruimte Festival 2025, organised by Amsterdam Alternative, will take place in ten different locations on ten different dates throughout 2025, to celebrate the 10th aniversary of Amsterdam Alternative as well as 750 years Amsterdam. On Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May, the festival lands at de Appel for programmes on cuts and currencies.
Exhibition
27.06–10.08.2025
Sensing Interdependence is a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Italian art collective Arts For the Commons (A4C), a collaboration between Ecuadorian artist Rosa Jijon and activist and artistic researcher Francesco Martone. The exhibition tackles the notion of interdependence between nature and humans. It is guest-curated by Aria Spinelli and Angelo Castucci.
Event
08.02–08.03.2025
Over the course of six meetings, led by Curatorial Programme participant rori of the Brussels-based cooperative Level Five, we will read parts of Paulo Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Teaching Community by bell hooks. These collective reading sessions are not meant for specialists or insiders: everyone brings their knowledge and experience to the table, working towards a shared understanding of the issues at hand.
Public Programme
24–25.04.2025
This extensive opening programme includes a sharing of research and discussion by the participating artists and curators, a reading by Noor Abed, a listening session by Andrei Van Wyk and Dirar Kalash, a research sharing and study session with Miriyam Aouragh, Karl Moubarak and Omar Jabary Salamanca, Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Femke Snelting and a talk by Mitchell Esajas.
Event
25.05.2025, 15:00–17:00
de Appel will host the book launch of Life with Fifi, a book for all ages written by writer and curator Kris Dittel and artist and designer Angelica Falkeling. In the presence of Fifi the dog, Kris and Angelica will read from the book and will share reflections on what it means to care for another being, to enter into their worldview when words cannot be shared, to attune to them and take on the responsibility to protect them.
29.05–06.06.2025
You are invited to a 8 day long public programme convened by damdam, an interconnected web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the Lumbung Practice program at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul from Indonesia. Between 29 May and 6 June 2025, at de Appel and in several other locations in and outside of Amsterdam, the collective will convene a public living space to introduce their ecosystem, and get to know each other better.
