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#59 Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject
Manifestation #59
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Come see the series New Suns by Gilleam Trapenberg on the windows of Kunsttraject in the Staatsliedenbuurt.

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Manifestation #26: Script 1: Whispers (Tell The Waters What The Clay Kept Secret II), by Ola Hassanain – Museumplein 10, Amsterdam
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Manifestation #50: Keti Koti x Roots to Fruits by Mirelle van Tulder – on the windows at Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam
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Monthly 'Reading Group Goddess Change' hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz – Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam
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Manifestation #59: Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject by Gilleam Trapenberg – on 19 windows in Staatsliedenbuurt, Amsterdam
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Manifestation #37: Keti Koti Westerpark by Kevin Osepa – Meterhuisje, Pazzanistraat 6, Amsterdam

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#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.

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Rust is a signifier of decay, of neglect.

Allow to rust

allow to decay

allow to wither

allow to change

allow to leak

allow to be unstable

allow to

For now the work is to do, rather than to understand. To move, rather than to capture. To question, rather than answer. To be uncertain, rather than correct.

The different movements acted out on/with the objects and the bacteria bring up questions of gestationality, mothering, and care. It’s about the destructiveness of unconditional love, the impossibility of unconditional love. How do we care for the messy, the un-contained, and the ugly?

Something that changes all the time, something that is in decay, something that might leave, something that is not yours to own? How to care for these installations, the slippery, the dirty? Calling on gestational labour, the intricate relationship between vitalism and work, biopolitics, mothering and its imagination in a different kinder world. A world where the ugly becomes beauty and livelihood in decay.
What are the structures of ownership and hyachries within care-relationships and what are the antagonists of care and mothering? Do we claim something ours in order to love or care for it? What are the colonial implications that shape ownership and care?

In the work, there is an attempt at moving the captured by intervening with my body or my collaborator, that is, the iron bacteria that I have been meticulous providing conditions for their growth and decay.

I’m trying to expose the workings of these questions, not answer them directly. This is slowly shaping into a performance piece where the actions/movements/moments in the studio are becoming the work by daily repetition.

text by artist

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Roest is een teken van vergaan, van verwaarlozing.

Laten roesten

laten aftakelen

laten verdwijnen

toestaan te veranderen

laten lekken

instabiel zijn

toelaten

Voor nu is het werk eerder doen dan begrijpen. Bewegen eerder dan vastleggen. Vragen stellen eerder dan antwoorden. Onzeker zijn eerder dan correct.

De verschillende bewegingen die worden uitgevoerd op/met de objecten en de bacteriën roepen vragen op over drachtigheid, moederschap en zorg. Het gaat over de destructiviteit van onvoorwaardelijke liefde, de onmogelijkheid van onvoorwaardelijke liefde. Hoe zorgen we voor het rommelige, het ongerepte en het lelijke?

Iets dat voortdurend verandert, iets dat in verval is, iets dat weg zou kunnen gaan, iets dat niet van jou is? Hoe zorg je voor deze installaties, het glibberige, het vieze? Een beroep doen op drachtarbeid, de ingewikkelde relatie tussen vitalisme en werk, biopolitiek, moederschap en de verbeelding daarvan in een andere, vriendelijkere wereld. Een wereld waarin het lelijke overgaat in schoonheid en levensonderhoud in verval.
Wat zijn de structuren van eigendom en hyachrie binnen zorgrelaties en wat zijn de antagonisten van zorg en moederen? Eisen we iets op om ervan te houden of ervoor te zorgen? Welke koloniale implicaties geven vorm aan eigendom en zorg?

In het werk is er een poging om het vastgelegde te bewegen door in te grijpen met mijn lichaam of mijn medewerker, dat wil zeggen, de ijzeren bacteriën die ik zorgvuldig heb voorzien van de condities voor hun groei en verval.

In het werk zit een poging om het vastgelegde te bewegen door in te grijpen met mijn lichaam of mijn medewerker, dat wil zeggen, de ijzeren bacteriën die ik zorgvuldig heb voorzien van condities voor hun groei en verval.

Ik probeer de wisselwerking tussen deze vragen bloot te leggen, niet om er direct antwoord op te geven. Dit vormt zich langzaam tot een performance waarin de handelingen/bewegingen/momenten in de studio het werk worden door dagelijkse herhaling.

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Free entrance with ticket / Gratis toegang met ticket
September 14, 18:30 – 20:30
Location: Central Space
Entrance: Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam

In the process Mirre Yayla Séur was guided by Ksenia Perek.

18:30 – doors open
18:45 – 19:15 – part 1
break
19:30 – 20:00 – part 2
20:30 – end

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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

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Joram Kraaijveld

A Whispering Dam (2024)

by Ola Hassanain

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Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

The Slope (2023)

by Ola Hassanain

#18

Manifestation

November 1, 2023
Central Space

#18 Kunstenaar op zaal

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Gilleam Trapenberg

#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

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LazerGazer

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Kunsttraject

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Renzo Martens

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Hana Nina Hussein

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Travis A. G. Geertruida

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Emily Shin-Jie Lee

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Antje de Wit

#30

Manifestation

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

#30 Mixtape

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

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Hidde van Greuningen

#4

Manifestation

June 4, 2023
16:00
Until July 2, 2023
Off-site Local

#4 Keti Koti Westerpark X Buro Stedelijk

with Atelier Code Noir and Frank Creton

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Timothy Aarons

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Ranie Ribeiro

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Ceder Rorije

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kanaal40

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Geo Wyex

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Anna Hoetjes

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Floor van Leeuwen

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Miles Greenberg

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Donghwan Kam

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The Memoria Collective

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Grown head to toe outfit (2023)

by YUME YUME

#37

Manifestation

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

#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.

#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.

Collaborator

Frank Creton

location

Central Space

Museumplein 10, 10:00 - 18:00 / Paulus Potterstraat 13, Thursdays 18:30 - 20:30

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SEXYLAND World

Descent into the Fungal (2017)

by Andrey Shental

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KC

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Azu Nwagbogu

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1.06 Music Library

#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

Andrey Shental

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Fonds 21 – Henk Christophersen

#36

Manifestation

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

#36 Opening – #26: 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

#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

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Bnnyhunna

#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.

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Alina Lupu

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Adriana Knouf

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Andrea Amponsah

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Ammodo

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Mirre Yayla Séur

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senakirfa A.

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Keti Koti Westerpark

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Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

#20

Manifestation

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

#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.

Collaborator

Yvette Mutumba

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Guenn Ramon Gustina

Collaborator

Simnikiwe Buhlungu

#5

Manifestation

June 30, 2023
Until July 2, 2023
Studio Space

#5 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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#21

Manifestation

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

#21 Opening – Manifestation #16 Descent into Fungal

with an inaugural performance by Queer Choir Amsterdam

#3

Manifestation

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

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

with 1.06 Music Library and Michael Ekow & May

#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site Local

#7 Breaking Bread

Cassave bread with Lelani Lewis

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Collaborator

Wes Mapes

Collaborator

Ola Hassanain

#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

Collaborator

S*an D. Henry-Smith

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Emily Pethick

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Saodat Ismailova

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Stephen Tayo

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Lakisha Apostel

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Vinger.nl

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YUME YUME

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Anna-Rosa van Wees

#35

Manifestation

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

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

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Q

location

Off-site Int’l

Seeping Waters (2023 – 2024)

by Ola Hassanain

Memories of becoming (2022/2023)

by Narges Mohammadi

61 FRAGMENTS OF DECAY FOR NEW DESIRES (2023)

by Joël Andrianomearisoa

Collaborator

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

Collaborator

Robbie Schweiger

#26

Manifestation

May 30, 2024
18:30 - 20:30
Until July 18, 2024
Central Space

#26: Script 1: Whispers (Tell the Water What The Clay Kept Secret II), Thursday evenings

a solo manifestation by Ola Hassanain, open for free on Thursday evenings from 18:30 – 20:30

Collaborator

Marly Pierre-Louis

#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

#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

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

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

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Collaborator

Anne Lakeman

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Kevin Osepa

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Rita Ouédraogo

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Leontine Coelewij

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Lydienne Albertoe

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Viviane Tabach

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Joël Andrianomearisoa

#9

Manifestation

June 30, 2023
17:00 – 18:00
Off-site Local

#9 In conversation with Frank Creton

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

Collaborator

Milena Anna Bouma

Dormancy Trail
(2023)

by Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

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Ksenia Perek

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

by Geo Wyex

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Quinsy Gario

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Gwen Parry

#59

Manifestation

June 1, 2024
24/7
Until August 31, 2024
Off-site Local

#59 Keti Koti Westerpark x Kunsttraject

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

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

Collaborator

Sedrig Verwoert

Collaborator

Queer Choir

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

Collaborator

Waèl Allouche

#31

Manifestation

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

#31 Hosting Darkness

hosted by Berber Meindertsma and Stephanie Schuitemaker

Collaborator

Artist Collective Totomboti

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Bubble Shooters Network

#26: Video introduction by Artist

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

#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

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Off-site Local

Collaborator

Andrea Voets

#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.

Collaborator

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Collaborator

Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

Collaborator

Marcel van den Berg

#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

Kanitha Tith

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

#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.

Collaborator

Shigeo Arikawa

Collaborator

Atelier Code Noir

Collaborator

Marjet Zwaans

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

Collaborator

Inge Meijer

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

Collaborator

Naema Abdi

#26

Manifestation

May 23, 2024
Until July 18, 2024
Central Space

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

Join us on May 23, for the opening of Ola Hassanain's first solo manifestation at Buro Stedelijk's Central Space.

Collaborator

Sarah Schulten

#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

Collaborator

Rubiah Balsem

Collaborator

Rice, Peas, Roots and Culture

#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

Niels Staats

Collaborator

Setareh Noorani

Collaborator

Pauline Curnier Jardin

#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

location

Online

Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

#14

Manifestation

July 24, 2023
16:00
Studio Space

#14 Exiting the Photographic Universe

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

Collaborator

Narges Mohammadi

Collaborator

Touchy Studios

Collaborator

Les Moucherons

location

Studio Space

Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

Collaborator

Ahmad Mallah

Collaborator

Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Özgür Atlagan

#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

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

Don Yaw Kwaning

Collaborator

Nat Muller

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Nuria Bofarull

Collaborator

Ernst van Deursen

#1

Manifestation

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

#1 Listening Sessions

Buro Stedelijk’s manifestation #1 Listening Sessions, is an engaging and thought-provoking two-day event on April 14 and 15.

Collaborator

loopey

#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.

Collaborator

Julianknxx

#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

Oded Rimon

Collaborator

Drankerij

#17

Manifestation

July 2, 2024
Online

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

by Setareh Noorani

#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 will perform 'Visitation, with NO Stars' twice on July 6 at the 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).

#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

#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

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

#29

Manifestation

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

#29 Mixtape

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

Collaborator

Jelmer Wijnstroom

Before Distortion (2023 – ongoing)

by Don Yaw Kwaning

#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

Phantom Wizard

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.

Collaborator

Mirelle van Tulder

Collaborator

Charl Landvreugd

Collaborator

Berber Meindertsma

Living Mycelium Dunes (2023)

by YUME YUME

#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 the Buro Stedelijk Central Space. The program explores cosmic musical forms and the (philosophical) potential of space, science fiction, immortality and infinity.

Klof, village of spirits (2020 – ongoing)

by Kevin Osepa

Collaborator

Basir Mahmood

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.

Collaborator

Simone Zeefuik

Collaborator

bk owusu

#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.

Collaborator

Geert Vlieger

#26: Audio introduction by Artist

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