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#53 I Must Still Grow in the Dark
Manifestation #53
Central Space

A group show in Buro Stedelijk's Central Space with works by Belkis Ayón, Ana María Gómez López, Jessica Mitrani, Paulo Nazareth, Andrés Pereira Paz, René Peña and Antonio Vega Macotela, curated by Stephanie Noach and Rita Ouédraogo

#65 Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject
Manifestation #65
Off-site

Come and read the words by Babs Gons designed by Jeanine van Berkel on the windows of Kunsttraject in the Staatsliedenbuurt

#72 KETI KOTI X ABOUT LOVE
Manifestation #72
Studio Space

Every year on the 1st of July we commemorate slavery and celebrate the abolition of slavery: Keti Koti. Since we believe that Keti Koti should be a national holiday, we are closed on the 1st of July. Each year we ask a graphic designer to create a work for Buro Stedelijk's windows facing the Paulus Potterstraat. This year Jeanine van Berkel created the work ABOUT LOVE.

#69 The Way
Manifestation #69
Central Space
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A temporary spatial intervention by Stephanie Schuitemaker with Uno Fujisawa

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Manifestation #53: I Must Still Grow in the Dark, 22/05/2025 – 17/07/2025
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Manifestation #65: Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject, opening on 01/06/2025, 24/7 on show at 6 addresses in Staatsliedenbuurt, Amsterdam
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Manifestation #72: KETI KOTI X ABOUT LOVE, opening on 01/06/2025, visible 24/7 on the windows of Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space from Paulus Potterstraat

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Darkness as Full Potential: Beyond Negation

by Rita Ouédraogo

I thought I knew the depths of you,
Your joys
Your fears
Your victory
Your pain

(Ruth Ige, “I thought I knew the depths of you (Blackness)”)

When we established Buro Stedelijk, I envisioned a space that would exist both within and beyond the institutional framework of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam—a dynamic laboratory where experimental practices could thrive through dialogue, collaboration, and a deep commitment to listening. Now, as we present Manifestation #53: I Must Still Grow in the Dark, it seems fitting to reflect on how this project emerges from and extends the curatorial approach cultivated here.

Buro Stedelijk has become recognized for its unique position within Amsterdam’s cultural landscape—neither fully bound by institutional conventions nor completely detached from them. This liminal position has allowed us to create a program that prioritizes process and relationship over spectacle, and collaborative knowledge-building over singular authorship. Drawing from my background in anthropology, I’ve approached curation as a form of attentive listening, where exhibitions emerge through genuine exchange rather than predetermined frameworks.

This commitment to collaborative practice finds resonance in Manifestation #53: I Must Still Grow in the Dark, for which we collaborate with scholar-curator Stephanie Noach to bring her research on darkness into conversation with the questions that have animated Buro Stedelijk since its inception. What happens when we invite perspectives from outside to illuminate—or perhaps more appropriately, to “darken”—our own institutional practices? How might the metaphor of darkness help us understand the potentials that lie in institutional spaces not fully visible or legible within conventional museum structures?

To speak of darkness in this exhibition is also to speak of Blackness—not as metaphor, but as lived reality. Here, we confront the paradox that Black people are often tasked with building worlds they cannot move through freely. Yet within this contradiction lies tremendous creative potential. The artists and world-builders gathered in this manifestation offer a kind of metaphysical reprieve—spaces where darkness becomes not deficit but abundance, not absence but presence, not void but possibility.

Spatial designer Frédérique Albert-Bordenave’s contribution is central to this project. Her work doesn’t merely create a backdrop for art but establishes a (Black) quotidian—an architecture that functions as the incessant, inescapable stage from which we perform ourselves. In Buro Stedelijk’s Central Space, she offers not only a visual language but a spatial ethic that contends directly with the unkept promises of liberation. By emphasizing the in-between—those liminal spaces where rigid categories dissolve—her design creates room for collectivity to emerge organically.

Stephanie’s exploration of darkness as generative rather than privative aligns beautifully with my own curatorial interest in creating spaces where multiple ways of knowing and being can coexist without hierarchical ordering. Our collaboration itself embodies this exhibition’s central premise: that in the spaces between established positions—in the darkness that lies between clearly defined roles of “host curator” and “guest curator”—possibilities for institutional practice can emerge.

This manifestation thus represents not just a theoretical meditation on darkness, but a lived practice of what institutional spaces might become when we embrace opacity, potential, and the generative discomfort of collaborative uncertainty. Through this collaboration, we show the value of building bridges between diverse research trajectories and curatorial approaches, creating a space where visitors are invited to grow alongside us in the productive darkness of open-ended inquiry. You are in it with us by building it, together, in collaboration—imagining community through doing, through creating spaces where we can be, grow and rest.

Disrupting the Binary: Darkness as a Space of Possibility

We cried tears together
We laughed
We sang
And danced through circumstances
My dear friend
.

(Ruth Ige, “I thought I knew the depths of you (Blackness)”)

The manifestation critically interrogates the dichotomous thinking that has historically cast darkness as inferior or threatening. Instead of perpetuating an oppositional framework, it presents darkness as possessing unique qualities that resist simplification.

Darkness resists control and capture. In a world increasingly characterized by surveillance, hyper-visibility, and constant exposure, darkness offers an essential counterpoint. It is a space where opacity can function as a form of protection, particularly for marginalized communities. This idea finds resonance in the works of theorists such Édouard Glissant and Fred Moten who argue that the right to opacity¹—an individual’s right to remain undefined or unreadable—is essential to resisting systems of domination.

As Fred Moten states in the Undercommons: “The undercommons is not a realm where we rebel and we create critique; it is not a place where we take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. The undercommons is a space and time which is always here. Our goal – and the “we” is always the right mode of address here – is not to end the troubles but to end the world that created those particular troubles as the ones that must be opposed”² As such, beyond resistance, darkness enables the creation of alternative imaginaries. It offers a space for that which escapes the grasp of dominant systems—an unseen yet potent realm of possibilities. By stepping away from the illuminating gaze, one can foster visions unencumbered by external dictates. The manifestation embodies this idea through artworks that embrace obscurity, concealment, and shadow as tools of speculative world-building.

Darkness serves as a catalyst for freedom. It is a space where structures of power are momentarily suspended, where new forms of expression can emerge. From hidden histories to underground networks, darkness has historically played a vital role in fostering resistance and subversion. The show captures this dynamic through artworks that engage with indigenous traditions, political struggles, and ecological concerns, highlighting how darkness operates as a site of both protection and transformation.

¹ The concept of opacity is further explored in Stephanie Noach’s essay, which appears elsewhere in this brochure.
² Jack Halberstam, ‘The Wild Beyond: With and for the Undercommons,’ in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (Minor Compositions, 2013), 9.
A Sensory and Conceptual Engagement with Darkness

I thought you were like a mountain
still,
You are a mountain
But one day I saw you change into a bird
You flew above the clouds and hovered
And I saw you spread your wings
What is this?!
So amazing!
And as I turned to speak
You become an ocean
Dark
Brilliant
Carrying the unknown

(Ruth Ige, “I thought I knew the depths of you (Blackness)”)

Manifestation #53: I Must Still Grow in the Dark is not merely an intellectual exercise; it also immerses visitors in an aesthetic experience designed to evoke the qualities of darkness. Minimal lighting is deliberately used to foster an environment where perception shifts, challenging visitors to navigate the space in new ways. Rather than being entirely engulfed in darkness, spatial designer Frédérique Albert-Bordenave punctuated the space with small luminous fragments—isolated pockets of light that highlight certain artworks while allowing shadow and obscurity to dominate.

This interplay of light and darkness encourages a mode of engagement. Instead of passively observing works in well-lit spaces, visitors must actively attune themselves to subtleties, allowing their senses to adjust. This altered perceptual state fosters an awareness of darkness as an experience rather than a mere condition of absence.

Darkness Beyond Negation: Toward a New Vision

And I watched as you turned into a multitude of things
You became everything of the earth
And everything of the heavens
And everything not known to us
And everything of light
And everything of power
And everything of spirit
And everything of wonder.

(Ruth Ige, “I thought I knew the depths of you (Blackness)”)

Crucially, we do not advocate for simply replacing the privileging of light with an uncritical embrace of darkness. Such an approach would merely invert, rather than dismantle, the binary it seeks to challenge. Instead, we invite visitors to expand their imaginative capacities, considering darkness as a space of complexity and multiplicity rather than as an oppositional force.

This perspective aligns with Glissant’s notion of opacity as a mode of resistance. Rather than demanding full transparency or illumination, he argues for the right to remain unknowable by many, even by oneself, with the goal of remaining dynamic and agile, suggesting that true freedom lies in the ability to evade definitive categorization. Similarly, Moten’s work emphasizes the radical potential of the unseen and the unheard—those elements that escape capture and control.

By embracing these ideas, we ultimately redefine darkness as a site of possibility rather than deficiency. It moves beyond traditional narratives that associate it with fear or ignorance, presenting it instead as a dynamic and generative force. In doing so, it challenges visitors to reconsider their assumptions and open themselves to new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.

Darkness has evolved from concept to practice—no longer a mere backdrop or absence, but an active participant in our collective world-building. Blackness, inseparable from darkness, yet too often overdetermined by negative signifiers, reveals itself here as a source of profound generative potential. As you move through this exhibition, we invite you not to seek illumination but to dwell in the productive uncertainty of not knowing, of being in the dark together. In this carefully crafted space between institutional structure and experimental practice, between curatorial voices, between artists and visitors, we discover that sitting with discomfort means refusing to be alone. Through this collaborative making—this shared inhabitation of darkness—we find not just a new way of seeing but a new way of being. Together, in this restorative stillness, we rest and we grow.

Glissant, Édouard. “Poetics of Relation.” Translated by Betsy Wing, University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. “The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study.” Minor Compositions, 2013.
Ige, Ruth. ‘I thought I knew the depths of you (blackness)’. Contemporary& (11-09-2024)
Darkness as Full Potential: Beyond Negation

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#65

Manifestation

June 1, 2025
24/7
Until July 2, 2025
Off-site

#65 Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject

Come and read the words by Babs Gons designed by Jeanine van Berkel on the windows of Kunsttraject in the Staatsliedenbuurt

#72

Manifestation

June 1, 2025
24/7
Until July 1, 2025
Studio Space

#72 KETI KOTI X ABOUT LOVE

Every year on the 1st of July we commemorate slavery and celebrate the abolition of slavery: Keti Koti. Since we believe that Keti Koti should be a national holiday, we are closed on the 1st of July. Each year we ask a graphic designer to create a work for Buro Stedelijk's windows facing the Paulus Potterstraat. This year Jeanine van Berkel created the work ABOUT LOVE.

#53

Manifestation

May 22, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Until July 17, 2025
Central Space

#53 I Must Still Grow in the Dark

A group show in Buro Stedelijk's Central Space with works by Belkis Ayón, Ana María Gómez López, Jessica Mitrani, Paulo Nazareth, Andrés Pereira Paz, René Peña and Antonio Vega Macotela, curated by Stephanie Noach and Rita Ouédraogo

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Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

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Ceder Rorije

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Lakisha Apostel

Era of TDC, 2024

by Martin Toloku

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Joël Andrianomearisoa

#47

Manifestation

May 25, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#47 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading Group with Fiep van Bodegom, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

#5

Manifestation

June 30, 2023
Until July 2, 2023
Studio Space

#5 KETI KOTI X Dia di Lucha pa Libertat

Every year on the 1st of July we commemorate slavery and celebrate the abolition of slavery: Keti Koti. Since we believe that Keti Koti should be a national holiday, we are closed on the 1st of July. We asked Lydiënne Albertoe to design a graphic work for this particular occasion. The work is placed on the door of our Central Space and the windows of the Studio Space.

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Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

#15

Manifestation

November 4, 2023
19:00 – 02:00
Central Space

#15 Cosmism

During Museumnacht, we present a selection of films by John Akomfrah, Saodat Ismailova, and Viktor Vasylenko in Buro Stedelijk's Central Space. The program explores cosmic musical forms and the (philosophical) potential of space, science fiction, immortality and infinity.

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Ammodo

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Larissa Sansour

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Robbie Schweiger

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Martin Toloku

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Chandler Smith – HXSSY

Kevin Osepa: Process during Manifestation #8 To Be Determined

This summer, Marcel van den Berg, Kevin Osepa and Mirre Yayla Séur relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

#66

Manifestation

April 14, 2025
Online

#66 All Eyes, All Ears: Listening Lessons

A reflection on Buro Stedelijk's Listening Sessions in April 2023 by Jelmer Wijnstroom

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Artist Collective Totomboti

#57

Manifestation

August 22, 2024
17:00
Off-site

#57 New Suns – in conversation with Gilleam Trapenberg

After more than two months, Gilleam Trapenberg’s manifestation: ‘New Suns’ on the windows of Kunsttraject for Keti Koti Westerpark, is coming to an end. On Thursday 22 August at 17:00, we host a conversation with the artist at the Buurtwerkplaats, Cliffordstraat 36 in Amsterdam. Afterwards, you can walk the route through the neighbourhood and have a drink.

Grown head to toe outfit, 2023

by YUME YUME

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Drankerij

Before Distortion, 2023 – ongoing

by Don Yaw Kwaning / material experiments with plant-based raw materials and semi-finished products

#71

Manifestation

May 22, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Central Space

#71 opening – I Must Still Grow in the Dark

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Stephanie Noach

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Phantom Wizard

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Fonds 21 – Henk Christophersen

From listening to reflecting: thoughts on the Manifestation #1 Listening Sessions

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Collaborator

Babs Gons

Collaborator

Patricia Domínguez

Collaborator

Rita Ouédraogo

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Andrea Voets

#16

Manifestation

November 30, 2023
Until January 25, 2024
Central Space

#16 Descent into Fungal

The third group show in the Central Space with Milena Anna Bouma, Don Yaw Kwaning, Andrey Shental and YUME YUME

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Gilleam Trapenberg

#63

Manifestation

January 18, 2025
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#63 Reading Group Goddess Change

Reading Group with Camille Sapara Barton, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space.

Collaborator

Ola Hassanain

#77

Manifestation

December 19, 2024
24/7
Until January 17, 2025
Studio Space

#77 Repainting Subway Art

See the homage by graffiti artist Tripl/Furious to the book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, on the windows of Buro Stedelijk’s Studio Space facing the Paulus Potterstraat.

Shifting | Spirit | Time, 2025

by Julianknxx

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SEXYLAND World

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Frédérique Gagnon

Collaborator

Kevin Osepa

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Pırıltı Onukar

Home is Resistance, 2024

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

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Simone Zeefuik

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Niels Staats

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Joram Kraaijveld

Living Mycelium Dunes, 2023

by YUME YUME

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Travis A. G. Geertruida

#21

Manifestation

November 30, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#21 Opening – Descent into Fungal

with an inaugural performance by Queer Choir Amsterdam

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Naema Abdi

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Central Space

Daily via Museumplein 10, 10:00 - 18:00 / Evening manifestations via Paulus Potterstraat 13, 18:30 - 20:30

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Marcel van den Berg

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Donghwan Kam

#3

Manifestation

May 25, 2023
21:00 – 1:00
Until March 25, 2023
Off-site

#3 Afterparty – Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent at kanaal40

with 1.06 Music Library and Michael Ekow & May

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Marly Pierre-Louis

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Black Quantum Futurism

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kanaal40

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senakirfa A.

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Iván Martínez

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Martha Cooper

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Jessica Mitrani

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Seeping Waters, 2023 – 2024

by Ola Hassanain

#54

Manifestation

February 27, 2025
10:00 - 18:00
Until April 24, 2025
Central Space

#54 Shifting | Spirit | Time

An ambitious new multi-screen film installation by acclaimed poet, artist, and filmmaker Julianknxx. Known for his extensive research and commitment to (re)visiting places and people for collaboration, this latest work builds on the artist’s performance 'Chorus is Flight' presented in May 2024 on the steps of the Stedelijk Museum with the Memoria Collective, conducted by Elique Curiel, in collaboration with Metro54.

Nlloro (Weeping), 1991

by Belkis Ayón

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LazerGazer

Marcel van den Berg: Process during Manifestation #8 To Be Determined

This summer, Marcel van den Berg, Kevin Osepa and Mirre Yayla Séur relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

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Pauline Curnier Jardin

#32

Manifestation

January 18, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#32 Film screening by Kevin Osepa

Join us to watch LA ÚLTIMA ASCENSIÓN and Watamula

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Mati Diop

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

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Antje de Wit

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Sedrig Verwoert

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

Collaborator

Timothy Aarons

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Quinsy Gario

#4

Manifestation

June 4, 2023
12:00 - 18:00
Until July 2, 2023
Off-site

#4 Keti Koti Westerpark

with Atelier Code Noir and Frank Creton

#10

Manifestation

August 3, 2023
14:00 – 16:00
Studio Space

#10 Beauty Basics for Queer People

Trans-inclusive makeup workshop by Timothy Paul. Join Caribbean Queer Salon for this live make-up tutorial.

Collaborator

Nuria Bofarull

Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

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Viviane Tabach

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Drums of the Earth

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Adriana Knouf

#31

Manifestation

January 11, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#31 Hosting Darkness

hosted by Berber Meindertsma and Stephanie Schuitemaker

#61

Manifestation

October 26, 2024
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#61 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading Group with Anna Arov, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space.

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Martijn Maiwald

#2

Manifestation

May 25, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#2 Opening – Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent

with an inaugural performance by Sedrig Verwoert, Alanna Archibald, Phantom Wizard and Ranie Riberio

Collaborator

Christelle Oyiri

Muck Studies Department Presents: Transmission from No Point of Return Bleep Blop Bloop, 2021

by Geo Wyex

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Frank Creton

Dormancy Trail, 2023

by Milena Anna Bouma

#58

Manifestation

November 2, 2024
19:00 – 0:00
Central Space

#58 The Black Film Critic Syllabus

A curated film evening during Museumnacht by writer and thinker Fanta Sylla, the founder of 'The Black Film Critic Syllabus'.

#20

Manifestation

November 16, 2023
Until November 19, 2023
Off-site

#20 Taking Root Among the Stars

In collaboration with Buro Stedelijk, Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yilmaz will create an intimate space at UNFAIR23. The booth will offer a moment of rest, pause, to go through the books and reflect on the patchwork sky.

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Anna Hoetjes

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Alina Lupu

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W139

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Andrey Shental

The Invisible Double (2025)

by Jessica Mitrani

Descent into the Fungal, 2017

by Andrey Shental

Collaborator

Terror161 a.k.a. Json

Collaborator

Andrés Pereira Paz

#26: Audio introduction by Artist

Manifestation #26: Script 1: Whispers (Tell The Waters What The Clay Kept Secret II), by Ola Hassanain

#29

Manifestation

December 28, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#29 Mixtape

Experience Manifestation #16: Descent into Fungal with sound by bk owusu

#43

Manifestation

November 28, 2024
Until January 23, 2025
Central Space

#43 (Where and for Whom?) Listening to the Absences

The fifth group show in Buro Stedelijk's Central Space with Simomo Bouj, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT] and Martin Toloku

SYSTEMA [EXO] NATURÆ (Regnum Lapideum), 2025

by Ana María Gómez López

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Anna Arov

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Bnnyhunna

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Konstantin Sonnenkind

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MINA RWINA

#55

Manifestation

September 15, 2024
24/7
Until October 31, 2024
Studio Space

#55 In Motion, Tracing the Familiar

See the work of Stephen Tayo, BijlmAIR's artist in residence, on the windows of Buro Stedelijk’s Studio Space facing the Paulus Potterstraat. While inhabiting different places and spaces such as Paris, New York, Lagos and Amsterdam, Tayo continues his research into the essence of a city and the quest for the familiar.

#58

Manifestation

December 19, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Studio Space

#56 Repainting Subway Art

A book launch of 'Repainting Subway Art' by Tripl a.k.a. Furious, with a talk by Martha Cooper, Terror161 a.k.a. Json, moderated by Dr. Edward Birzin

Collaborator

Q

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1.06 Music Library

#30

Manifestation

January 4, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#30 Mixtape

Experience Manifestation #16: Descent into Fungal with sound by LazerGazer

#18

Manifestation

November 1, 2023
Central Space

#18 Kunstenaar op zaal

Collaborator

The Memoria Collective

Collaborator

Simomo Bouj

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#44

Manifestation

November 28, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#44 Opening – (Where and for Whom?) Listening to the Absences

The fifth group show in Buro Stedelijk's Central Space with Simomo Bouj, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Martin Toloku, with a live performance by Simomo Bouj.

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Maxine Kopsa

Darkness as Full Potential: Beyond Negation

by Rita Ouédraogo

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Rubiah Balsem

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Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

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Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

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Stephen Tayo

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Museumnacht

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Andrea Amponsah

#59

Manifestation

June 1, 2024
24/7
Until September 22, 2024
Off-site

#59 Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject

Come see the series New Suns by Gilleam Trapenberg on the windows of Kunsttraject in the Staatsliedenbuurt.

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YUME YUME

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Alanna Archibald

#25

Manifestation

February 15, 2024
18:30 – 20:30
Central Space

#25 Opening – TRUTH

with a musical performance by Bnnyhunna and tunes by 1.06 Music Library

#76

Manifestation

January 9, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#76 Cosmic Entanglements

Join us for a film evening linked to 'Goddess Change', the monthly speculative fiction reading group initiated by artists Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz, with works by Larissa Sansour, Patricia Dominguez and by Black Quantum Futurism.

Memories of becoming, 2022/2023

by Narges Mohammadi

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Hana Nina Hussein

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Ruyzdael Publishing

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Emily Pethick

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BijlmAIR

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Shigeo Arikawa

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Julianknxx

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Nat Muller

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Dr. Edward Birzin

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Guenn Ramon Gustina

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Berber Meindertsma

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Özgür Atlagan

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Basir Mahmood

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Ernst van Deursen

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Sarah Schulten

Collaborator

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

#62

Manifestation

November 30, 2024
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#62 Reading Group Goddess Change

Reading Group with Pırıltı Onukar, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space.

The Crack That Is Named, 2024

by Antonio Vega Macotela

#26: Video introduction by Artist

Manifestation #26: Script 1: Whispers (Tell The Waters What The Clay Kept Secret II), by Ola Hassanain

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pIAR

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Waèl Allouche

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Queer Choir

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Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

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Ahmad Mallah

Sacred Wounds, 2024

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

#34

Manifestation

November 14, 2023
7:00 – 19:00
Until January 14, 2024
Studio Space

#34 What Can’t It Do?

See the work by Waèl Allouche in our Studio Space. He asked an early version of the current ChatGPT: “What is it a flag can’t do?” This question unexpectedly got answered in a very political way.

#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site

#7 Breaking Bread

Cassave bread with Lelani Lewis

Collaborator

Miles Greenberg

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Mirelle van Tulder

#2

Manifestation

May 25, 2023
Until July 25, 2023
Central Space

#2 Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent

with Joël Andrianomearisoa, Narges Mohammadi and Geo Wyex

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Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

#1

Manifestation

April 14, 2023
11:00 – 17:00
Until April 15, 2023
Off-site

#1 Listening Sessions

An engaging and thought-provoking two-day manifestation on April 14 and 15, 2023.

Aprender a rezar guarani e kaiowa para o mundo não acabar (Learning to Pray in Guarani and Kaiowá So the World Does Not End) (2013)

by Paulo Nazareth

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Vinger.nl

Collaborator

Ana María Gómez López

#36

Manifestation

May 23, 2024
19:30 – 21:30
Central Space

#36 Opening – Script 1: Whispers (Tell the Waters What the Clay Kept Secret II)

with opening words by the artist and and a reflection by Quinsy Gario on Ola Hassanain's solo Manifestation #26

and if a tree sees it all, 2024 – 2025

by Julianknxx

#28

Manifestation

December 21, 2023
18:30 - 19:30
Central Space

#28 tremor (thunder)

On December 21 at the Central space, S*an D. Henry-Smith performs live as part of Manifestation #16: Descent into Fungal.

61 FRAGMENTS OF DECAY FOR NEW DESIRES, 2023

by Joël Andrianomearisoa

Collaborator

Narges Mohammadi

#37

Manifestation

June 2, 2024
Until July 2, 2024
Off-site

#37 Keti Koti Westerpark

For the second edition of Keti Koti Westerpark, we welcome you in the installation by Kevin Osepa at 'het Meterhuisje' in Westerpark, Amsterdam.

Collaborator

Kunsttraject

Collaborator

Nazif Lopulissa

Collaborator

Kaiden Ford

KETI KOTI X ROOTS TO FRUITS

Read and see more about the design process behind Manifestation #50: ROOTS TO FRUITS X KETI KOTI by Mirelle van Tulder

Collaborator

Oded Rimon

Collaborator

Duran Lantink

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

Collaborator

Jelmer Wijnstroom

#46

Manifestation

April 20, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#46 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading Group with Nat Muller, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

Collaborator

S*an D. Henry-Smith

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

#8

Manifestation

August 14, 2023
Until October 15, 2023
Central Space

#8 To Be Determined

This summer, Marcel van den Berg, Kevin Osepa and Mirre Yayla Séur relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

Collaborator

Inge Meijer

Collaborator

Floor van Leeuwen

Collaborator

Jan Hoek

#40

Manifestation

September 19, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#40 NEO NEO DADA – Act I, II and III

Lorraine Hellwig performs 'NEO NEO DADA – Act I, II and III' on September 19 at Buro Stedelijk's Central space. A multi-media performance as part of her ongoing process during 'Manifestation #39: To Be Determined'.

Collaborator

Rice, Peas, Roots and Culture

Collaborator

Lorraine Hellwig

Collaborator

Bubble Shooters Network

Respect for the forest

Fragments of conversations in Saamaka tongo Recordings: January - March 2023 in Pikin Slee (SR) Marjet Zwaans, Edje Doekoe, at Buro Stedelijk Amsterdam (NL) Transcribed and translated with Vinije Haabo

#35

Manifestation

November 15, 2023
19:00 – 21:30
Off-site

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

Collaborator

Leontine Coelewij

#64

Manifestation

February 6, 2025
Online

#64 Ton yeke, ton yelele!

Sembe sa lobi sembe sa buuse! (some will love, some will hate!) – With visual essay 'Ton yeke, ton yelele!', Totomboti looks back and forward within their ongoing research 'Kanda Hanka/Liederen Verankeren'.

Collaborator

Anne Lakeman

The Slope, 2023

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Kanitha Tith

Man Made Materials series, 1998

by René Peña

#17

Manifestation

July 2, 2024
Online

#17 Rehearsing institutional de-scripting: A machine for manifestations

by Setareh Noorani

Collaborator

Kenneth Aidoo

##60

Manifestation

September 28, 2024
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#60 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading Group with Ilga Minjon, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

Collaborator

Emily Shin-Jie Lee

Mirre Yayla Séur: Process during Manifestation #8 To Be Determined

This summer, Marcel van den Berg, Kevin Osepa and Mirre Yayla Séur relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

Collaborator

Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Yvette Mutumba

#45

Manifestation

March 23, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#45 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading group with Marly Pierre-Louis, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

Collaborator

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Collaborator

Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

Manon Lutanie

#33

Manifestation

January 25, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#33 Are You Still Resonating?

Finnisage of Manifestation #16: Descent into Fungal – An evening with Inge Meijer and chamber choir Les Moucherons led by Antje de Wit

#41

Manifestation

October 3, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#41 Strange Soil

Nazif Lopulissa presents 'Strange Soil' on October 3 at Buro Stedelijk's Central Space. A curated programme as part of his ongoing process during 'Manifestation #39: To Be Determined'.

#13

Manifestation

July 17, 2023
Central Space

#13 A Conversation about Decay

A conversation in Buro Stedelijk's first group show 'Manifestation #2 Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent' with curator Rita Ouédraogo, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Narges Mohammadi and Geo Wyex about Decay..

Collaborator

50MM.

#22

Manifestation

December 7, 2023
18:30 - 19:30
Central Space

#22

Ranie Ribeiro performs on harp on December 7 at the Central Space. A live performance as part of Manifestation #16: Descent into Fungal.

#68

Manifestation

July 18, 2024
Central Space

#68 Reflections on Script 1: Whispers (Tell the Waters What the Clay Kept Secret II)

Reflections on Ola Hassanain’s solo Manifestation #26: Script 1: Whispers (Tell the Waters What the Clay Kept Secret II), with Ola Hassanain, Quinsy Gario, and Rita Ouédraogo.

#14

Manifestation

July 24, 2023
16:00 - 17:00
Central Space

#14 Exiting the Photographic Universe

Prof. Fred Ritchin discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on photography in the digital age.

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Collaborator

Charl Landvreugd

#27

Manifestation

December 14, 2023
18:30 - 19:30
Central Space

#27 Circle Dance the Fungal

Join Özgür Atlagan, Donghwan Kam, and Kanitha Tith in making a collective Super 8 mm film around YUME YUME's Living Mycelium Dunes.

Collaborator

Mirre Yayla Séur

#50

Manifestation

June 2, 2024
24/7
Until July 2, 2024
Studio Space

#50: KETI KOTI X ROOTS TO FRUITS

Every year on the 1st of July, we commemorate slavery and celebrate the abolition of slavery: Keti Koti. In the month prior to this day, we show new work by artist and graphic designer Mirelle van Tulder on the windows of Buro Stedelijk’s Studio Space facing the Paulus Potterstraat.

#17

Manifestation

September 14, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#12 Rehearsing (the Care for) Decay

Mirre Yayla Séur performs 'Rehearsing (the Care for) Decay' on September 14 at our Central space. A live performance as part of her ongoing process during Manifestation #8: To Be Determined.

Collaborator

Fanta Sylla

Collaborator

bk owusu

Collaborator

Don Yaw Kwaning

#42

Manifestation

October 17, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#42 Tell It Like It Is

Join us for the finissage of 'Manifestation #39: To Be Determined', where we will say goodbye to not just three artists but also one immense mural by Kenneth Aidoo.

Collaborator

Gwen Parry

Collaborator

Setareh Noorani

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

Untitled (study on spirit) (2025)

by Julianknxx

#39

Manifestation

August 15, 2024
Until October 17, 2024
Central Space

#39 To Be Determined

This summer, Kenneth Aidoo, Lorraine Hellwig and Nazif Lopulissa relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

Collaborator

Wes Mapes

#23

Manifestation

February 15, 2024
Until March 31, 2024
Central Space

#23 TRUTH

a video installation by Miles Greenberg, open daily from 10:00 – 18:00 with a Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket

#48

Manifestation

June 22, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#48 Reading Group: Goddess Change

Reading Group with Adriana Knouf, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

#26

Manifestation

May 23, 2024
Until July 18, 2024
Central Space

#26 Script 1: Whispers (Tell The Waters What The Clay Kept Secret II)

Artist and architect Ola Hassanain intertwines family history with the materiality and temporality of water and clay. For this manifestation, Hassanain shares her ongoing visual research into the spatial implications of catastrophes. In this provocation the artist zooms in on an intimate ‘site of catastrophe’: her grandmother’s house.

Collaborator

Les Moucherons

Mina Rwina DIR, 2024

by Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

Collaborator

Ranie Ribeiro

Collaborator

Joenoes Polnaija

Collaborator

Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Azu Nwagbogu

Collaborator

Anna-Rosa van Wees

#67

Manifestation

November 2, 2024
Online

#67 FLIGHT

An accompanying essay to 'Manifestation #58: The Black Film Critic Syllabus', by Fanta Sylla

EGO FVLCIO COLLVMNAS EIVS (I Fortify Your Columns), 2020 – 2025

by Andrés Pereira Paz

Collaborator

Keti Koti Westerpark

Collaborator

KC

Collaborator

Peter Tijhuis

Collaborator

Unfair

Collaborator

Jeanine van Berkel

Kenneth Aidoo: Process during Manifestation #39 To Be Determined

This summer, Kenneth Aidoo, Lorraine Hellwig and Nazif Lopulissa relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

A Whispering Dam, 2024

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

René Peña

Collaborator

Atelier Code Noir

Nazif Lopulissa: Process during Manifestation #39: To Be Determined

This summer, Kenneth Aidoo, Lorraine Hellwig and Nazif Lopulissa relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

Collaborator

Tripl

#49

Manifestation

December 5, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Studio Space

#49 SISTAAZ OF THE CASTLE

Join us for a screening of the film 'Sistaaz of the Castle', hosted by Duran Lantink and Jan Hoek.

#9

Manifestation

June 30, 2023
17:00 – 18:00
Off-site

#9 In conversation with Frank Creton

Join us Friday for a Q&A with artist Frank Creton at Meterhuisje

Collaborator

Geert Vlieger

Collaborator

SistaazHood

#11

Manifestation

September 28, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#11 Mal Ora

Join us for an evening co-curated by Kevin Osepa with performances by Travis A. G. Geertruida, Lakisha Apostel, Guenn Ramon Gustina and Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi.

Collaborator

Touchy Studios

#69

Manifestation

June 12, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#69 The Way

A temporary spatial intervention by Stephanie Schuitemaker with Uno Fujisawa

#19

Manifestation

October 12, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#19 Raw Heat, Black Sweat

Join us for a co-curated evening by Marcel van den Berg, a block party at the Central Space celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop Culture with KC, Loopey, Farida Sedoc, Jeff Croese and Shigeo Arikawa.

#6

Manifestation

July 6, 2023
12:30 – 13:15 / 14:30 – 15:15
Central Space

#6 Live performance: Visitation, with NO Stars (2030)

Geo Wyex performs 'Visitation, with NO Stars' twice on July 6 at Buro Stedelijk's Central space. A live performance as part of his ongoing work 'Muck Studies Department Presents: Transmission from No Point of Return Bleep Blop Blop Bloop' (2021).

Collaborator

Paulo Nazareth

Collaborator

Ngozi Onwurah

Collaborator

Ilga Minjon

Lorraine Hellwig: Process during Manifestation #39 To Be Determined

This summer, Kenneth Aidoo, Lorraine Hellwig and Nazif Lopulissa relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and generously invite us into their creative process. Together we explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of ‘exhibiting’, interaction and museological practices.

#51

Manifestation

May 2, 2024
19:30 – 21:30
Central Space

#51 Chorus in Flight

Metro54 and Buro Stedelijk are proud to present Julianknxx' one-night immersive performance, developed in collaboration with The Memoria Collective choir from Amsterdam and Rotterdam conducted by Elique Curiel.

Collaborator

Renzo Martens

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

Collaborator

Camille Sapara Barton

Collaborator

loopey

#70

Manifestation

February 27, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#70 Opening – Shifting | Spirit | Time

with opening words by Buro Stedelijk's curator Rita Ouédraogo and by artist Julianknxx, and a live performance by Elique Curiel

Collaborator

Marjet Zwaans

Klof, village of spirits, 2020 – ongoing

by Kevin Osepa