BURO STEDELIJK is an autonomous project space within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. We move with an agility to what is in motion: working between artistic developments in the city and the museum, and opening up new forms of exchange between them.

Our programmes begin with what is taking shape across Amsterdam’s diverse artistic communities. They make space for practices important to its diasporic publics, and for ways of seeing and being that don’t always appear within dominant frameworks. It shifts between extending and questioning the museum.

Buro is a small office for thinking together and making our connections visible. 

OUR FOUNDATION
Buro Stedelijk is shaped by a rotating curatorial model, with a new curator appointed every three years. It's team independently manages its own space and budget, operating in consultation with an advisory board. 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. Now in its second phase since 1 March 2026, Buro Stedelijk is guided by curator Jo-Lene Ong and project manager Anouk van Amsterdam with a renewed focus on working more deliberately between the city and the museum.

Buro Stedelijk is supported by Ammodo and Fonds 21.