BURO STEDELIJK is an independently curated and managed project space inside the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Since 1 March 2026, we have been growing into our second chapter, steered by Curator Jo-Lene Ong and Project Manager Anouk van Amsterdam.

In this new phase, Buro’s renewed focus is to act as a small office for thinking together and making our connections visible: connecting communities, bridging generations, and bringing the freshest ideas emerging around us into the space. Our programmes begin with what is already taking shape across Amsterdam's diverse community. We aim to make space for practices important to the city's diasporic publics, and for ways of seeing and being that don’t always appear within dominant frameworks. Working between artistic developments in the city and the museum, Buro Stedelijk opens up new forms of exchange between them.

From its inception to the present, Buro Stedelijk is generously supported by Ammodo and Fonds 21.

OUR FOUNDATION

Buro Stedelijk is shaped by a rotating curatorial model, with a new curator appointed every three years. Established in 2022 by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam following conversations with the Rijksakademie and De Ateliers, Buro's initial direction was set by founding curators Azu Nwagbogu and Rita Ouédraogo. From 2023, Rita Ouédraogo steered Buro Stedelijk through its formative years, developing it into a vital space connecting artistic experimentation with the city and its communities. Under her direction, Buro realized over 80 manifestations with more than 250 collaborators, laying a rich foundation of shared authorship that continues to guide our work today.