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#88 How We Made Noise – Book launch
Manifestation #88
Central Space

The three founding years of Buro Stedelijk under Rita Ouédraogo’s curatorship. Join us for the launch of 'How We Made Noise: Reimagining the Museum From Within'.

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Manifestation #82: Girl, the World is Big, for Museumnacht Amsterdam on November 1, with Ndayé Kouagou
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Manifestation #79: Reading Group: Goddess Change, by Marly Pierre-Louis, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz on November 1, 14:30 - 17:30

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#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.

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We once sang a song of old words
Mapping time into the archive of the body.

 

(voor Nederlandse tekst scroll verder)

What does it mean to return—again and again—to a sound, a word, a gesture? To linger with repetition as both ritual and resistance? In Shifting | Spirit | Time, Julianknxx transforms the echo into matter itself. This new commission, unfolding as a multi-screen film installation at Buro Stedelijk’s Central Space, emerges from the artist’s May 2024 performance with the Memoria Collective on the steps of the Stedelijk Museum. Here, repetition becomes material, a rhythmic pulse that opens up the body to deeper ways of knowing.

The refrain ‘Wai Wai Wai’ is both echo and insistence—a poetic meditation, a sonic ceremony, a call that binds memory to breath. As the voices of the choir rise and return, they carry traces of ancestral histories, of miles traversed, of stories carried forward. This work asks us not only to hear but to listen—to attune ourselves to the ways sound can hold memory across time and space.

For Julianknxx, the poem never ends on the page; it shifts into stance, into song, into way-making. His interdisciplinary practice—rooted in poetry but expanding into performance, film, music, and sculpture—grapples with themes of connection, loss, inheritance, and belonging. As Foluke Taylor asks, ‘How long do you need for your making way?’ And so, the artist invites us to sit with the rhythm, to dwell in the echo, to witness how sound reshapes space.

Washing was never for the skin but a ritual to prepare us for the day.

 

This installation offers space to reflect on the legacies we carry—those held in bodies, in breath, in song. It is a meditation on diasporic movement and the ways cultural memory survives: through repetition, through attunement, through sculpture, through collective voice. The choir becomes more than sound; it becomes metaphor—a gathering, material, a community in resonance.

Culminating in a space for reflection, Shifting | Spirit | Time underscores the importance of listening—to one another, to history, to the echoes that refuse to be silenced. The work resists the linear, the singular, and instead embraces the polyphonic, the layered.

How do you move a poem from the page into the visual space? Give it texture, sound, that emotion.

 

Julianknxx’s practice challenges us to rethink how we tell stories—how memory lingers not just in words but in gestures, rhythms, and collective acts of witnessing. Drawing on oral traditions and grounded in his Sierra Leonean heritage, his work remaps the boundaries of European and African narratives, resisting the constraints of national borders while holding space for those shaped by them.

Shifting | Spirit | Time is not just an exhibition. It is an invocation. A gathering. A listening. A way forward.

text by Buro Stedelijk’s curator Rita Ouédraogo
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Buro Stedelijk Central Space
27 February 2025 – 24 April 2025

Opening
27 Feb, 18:30 – 20:30

Open daily with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket / Dagelijks geopend met Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket (Museumplein 10), 10:00 – 18:00

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Wat betekent het om keer op keer terug te keren naar een geluid, een woord of een gebaar? Wat kan herhaling ons brengen, als ritueel, of juist als verzet? In Shifting | Spirit | Time transformeert Julianknxx echo in materie. Dit nieuwe werk, dat zich ontvouwt als een multi-screen filminstallatie in Buro Stedelijk’s Central Space, komt voort uit een performance die in mei 2024 met het Memoria Collective op de trappen van het Stedelijk Museum plaatsvond. In deze voortzetting wordt herhaling materiaal, een ritmische puls die het lichaam opent voor diepere manieren van weten.

Het refrein ‘Wai Wai Wai’ is zowel een echo als een aandrang – een poëtische meditatie, een sonische ceremonie, een oproep die geheugen aan adem bindt. Terwijl de stemmen van het koor opstijgen en terugkeren, dragen ze sporen van voorouderlijke geschiedenissen, van afgelegde kilometers, van verhalen die worden doorgegeven. Dit werk vraagt ​​ons niet alleen om te horen, maar ook om te luisteren, om onszelf af te stemmen op de manieren waarop geluid herinneringen kan vasthouden door tijd en ruimte heen.

Voor Julianknxx eindigt het gedicht nooit op de pagina; het transformeert in positie, naar een lied en baant zich een weg. Zijn interdisciplinaire praktijk, die geworteld is in poëzie maar zich ontvouwt in performance, film, muziek en sculptuur, worstelt met thema’s als connectie, verlies, erfenis en verbondenheid. Zoals Foluke Taylor vraagt: ‘Hoe lang heb je nodig om jouw weg te banen?’ En dus nodigt de kunstenaar ons uit om in het ritme plaats te nemen, stil te staan bij de echo en getuige te zijn van hoe geluid de ruimte hervormt.

Deze installatie biedt ruimte om te reflecteren op de erfenissen die we meedragen in onze lichamen, adem en stem. Het is een meditatie over diaspora beweging en de manieren waarop cultureel geheugen overleeft: door herhaling, door afstemming, door sculptuur, door collectieve stem. Het koor overstijgt daarmee het geluid en wordt metafoor: voor samenkomst, voor materiaal, een gemeenschap in resonantie.

Culminerend in een ruimte voor reflectie, onderstreept Shifting | Spirit | Time het belang van luisteren: naar elkaar, naar de geschiedenis, naar de echo’s die zich weigeren te laten onderdrukken. Het werk verzet zich tegen het lineaire, het enkelvoudige en omarmt in plaats daarvan het polyfone, het gelaagde.

Het werk van Julianknxx daagt ons uit om na te denken over hoe we verhalen vertellen: hoe herinneringen niet alleen aan woorden beklijven, maar ook in gebaren, ritmes en collectieve getuigenissen. Zijn werk put uit orale tradities en is gegrond in zijn Sierra Leonese achtergrond. Het brengt de grenzen van zowel Europese als Afrikaanse narratieven opnieuw in kaart, waarbij hij zich verzet tegen de beperkingen van nationale grenzen en tegelijkertijd erkenning biedt aan degenen die door deze grenzen gevormd zijn.

Shifting | Spirit | Time is niet alleen een tentoonstelling. Het is een aanroeping. Een bijeenkomst. Een uitnodiging tot luisteren. Een weg vooruit.

#54 Shifting / Spirit / Time

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#79

Manifestation

November 1, 2025
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#79 Reading Group: Goddess Change

A last gathering with Marly Pierre-Louis, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space.

#82

Manifestation

November 1, 2025
19:00 – 00:00
Central Space

#82 Girl, the World is Big

During Museumnacht, Ndayé Kouagou transforms Buro Stedelijk into a space of gentle destabilization and collective questioning, embracing multiple voices and bodies to create a polyphonic encounter that unfolds Black identity through stories and possibilities.

#52

Manifestation

August 28, 2025
Until October 23, 2025
Central Space

#52 To Be Determined

This summer, Dion Rosina, Thato Toeba, Razia Barsatie and Sarojini Lewis 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

Martin Toloku

#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.

Collaborator

Patricia Domínguez

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#65

Manifestation

June 1, 2025
24/7
Until July 15, 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

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

Collaborator

Yvette Mutumba

Collaborator

YUME YUME

#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

Sabrine Ingabire

KETI KOTI X ABOUT LOVE

research by Jeanine van Berkel

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#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.

Collaborator

Kunsttraject

Collaborator

Razia Barsatie

Collaborator

Naema Abdi

Collaborator

Ola Hassanain

Dormancy Trail, 2023

by Milena Anna Bouma

#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

allsiz.es

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

#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

#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

Sarah Schulten

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.

Razia Barsatie & Sarojini Lewis: Process during Manifestation #52: To Be Determined

Collaborator

1.06 Music Library

#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

Anna Arov

Collaborator

Kevin Osepa

The Invisible Double (2025)

by Jessica Mitrani

#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

Joenoes Polnaija

Collaborator

Jeanine van Berkel

Collaborator

Ngozi Onwurah

#26: Video introduction by Artist

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

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Grown head to toe outfit, 2023

by YUME YUME

#73

Manifestation

September 18, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#73 Fela sa Hamojela

Thato Toeba x Morena Leraba present 'Fela sa Hamojela' on September 18 at Buro Stedelijk's Central Space. A curated programme as part of their ongoing process during 'Manifestation #52: To Be Determined'.

Collaborator

Jessica Mitrani

Collaborator

Mercy St. J

Shifting | Spirit | Time, 2025

by Julianknxx

#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'.

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

#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

#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

Museumnacht Amsterdam

Collaborator

Jaer Vogelland

#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.

Collaborator

Q

Collaborator

Gwen Parry

Collaborator

Fonds 21 – Henk Christophersen

Collaborator

Ilga Minjon

Memories of becoming, 2022/2023

by Narges Mohammadi

Collaborator

Anna Hoetjes

#21

Manifestation

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

#21 Opening – Descent into Fungal

with an inaugural performance by Queer Choir Amsterdam

Collaborator

Sarojini Lewis

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

Collaborator

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

Collaborator

kanaal40

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

and if a tree sees it all, 2024 – 2025

by Julianknxx

Collaborator

Sedrig Verwoert

Collaborator

Oded Rimon

#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.

Collaborator

Camille Sapara Barton

#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

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

Andrés Pereira Paz

#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.

Collaborator

Bnnyhunna

#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

#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

#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.

Collaborator

Ranie Ribeiro

#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

Rice, Peas, Roots and Culture

Collaborator

Don Yaw Kwaning

Collaborator

Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Marjet Zwaans

Collaborator

Geert Vlieger

#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.

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.

#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.

Collaborator

MINA RWINA

Collaborator

Guenn Ramon Gustina

Collaborator

Ksenia Perek

Collaborator

Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

Collaborator

Black Quantum Futurism

Collaborator

Tripl

Collaborator

Phantom Wizard

Collaborator

Queer Choir

Collaborator

Hana Hussein

Collaborator

Andrea Amponsah

Collaborator

René Peña

Collaborator

loopey

Collaborator

Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

UNSEEN

Collaborator

Donghwan Kam

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

Collaborator

Miles Greenberg

Thato Toeba: Process during Manifestation #52: To Be Determined

Collaborator

Renzo Martens

#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

Collaborator

Marly Pierre-Louis

Collaborator

Emily Pethick

Collaborator

Narges Mohammadi

Collaborator

Touchy Studios

Collaborator

S*an D. Henry-Smith

Collaborator

Paulo Nazareth

Before Distortion, 2023 – ongoing

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

Collaborator

Ammodo

#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 Domínguez and by Black Quantum Futurism.

Collaborator

pIAR

Collaborator

Morena Leraba

#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

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

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.

#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

Collaborator

Robbie Schweiger

Collaborator

Martha Cooper

Collaborator

Andrea Voets

Collaborator

Nazif Lopulissa

#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

Collaborator

Özgür Atlagan

Collaborator

Hidde van Greuningen

Collaborator

Gilleam Trapenberg

#74

Manifestation

October 2, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#74 Labyrinth Within

Razia Barsatie and Sarojini Lewis present 'Labyrinth Within' on October 2 at Buro Stedelijk's Central Space. A curated programme as part of their ongoing process during 'Manifestation #52: To Be Determined'.

Collaborator

Marcel van den Berg

Living Mycelium Dunes, 2023

by YUME YUME

#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.

Collaborator

Martijn Maiwald

Collaborator

Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Drums of the Earth

Collaborator

Vinger.nl

Collaborator

Veerle Driessen

The Crack That Is Named, 2024

by Antonio Vega Macotela

#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

Nikola Lamburov

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.

Collaborator

Antje de Wit

#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

Shigeo Arikawa

Man Made Materials series, 1998

by René Peña

Materializing the Invisible

Q&A with artist, architect and spatial designer Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Rozaly

Collaborator

Rubiah Balsem

##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

Collaborator

Anna-Rosa van Wees

#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.

#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.

#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site

#7 Breaking Bread

Cassave bread with Lelani Lewis

Collaborator

Ruyzdael Publishing

Collaborator

AK Soundsystem

#31

Manifestation

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

#31 Hosting Darkness

hosted by Berber Meindertsma and Stephanie Schuitemaker

Kunsttraject X Keti Koti Westerpark

research by Jeanine van Berkel

The Slope, 2023

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Suzie van Staaveren

Collaborator

Travis A. G. Geertruida

Collaborator

Azu Nwagbogu

Collaborator

Bubble Shooters Network

#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

Duran Lantink

Collaborator

Jelmer Wijnstroom

#69

Manifestation

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

#69 The Way

A temporary spatial intervention by Stephanie Schuitemaker with Uno Fujisawa

#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

Thato Toeba

I Must Still Grow in the Dark

by Stephanie Noach

Collaborator

Adriana Knouf

Collaborator

Frédérique Gagnon

Collaborator

Nuria Bofarull

#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

#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

Stephen Tayo

Collaborator

Jelmer Teunissen

Collaborator

Dr. Edward Birzin

Collaborator

Larissa Sansour

#75

Manifestation

October 23, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#75 Parallel Realities

Dion Rosina and Phantom Wizard present 'Parallel Realities' on October 23 at Buro Stedelijk's Central Space. A curated programme as part of his ongoing process during 'Manifestation #52: To Be Determined'.

Collaborator

Floor van Leeuwen

Collaborator

Saodat Ismailova

#88

Manifestation

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

#88 How We Made Noise – Book launch

The three founding years of Buro Stedelijk under Rita Ouédraogo’s curatorship. Join us for the launch of 'How We Made Noise: Reimagining the Museum From Within'.

#18

Manifestation

November 1, 2023
Central Space

#18 Kunstenaar op zaal

#67

Manifestation

November 2, 2024
Online

#67 FLIGHT

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

location

Off-site

#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.

#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.

location

Studio Space

Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

Collaborator

Tina M. Campt

Collaborator

Sichuan Territory

Collaborator

Onomatopee

Era of TDC, 2024

by Martin Toloku

#35

Manifestation

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

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

Collaborator

Babs Gons

Collaborator

50MM.AMSTERDAM

#30

Manifestation

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

#30 Mixtape

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

#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

Collaborator

Nat Muller

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

#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

Leontine Coelewij

Nlloro (Weeping), 1991

by Belkis Ayón

#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

Joël Andrianomearisoa

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

by Geo Wyex

Darkness as Full Potential: Beyond Negation

by Rita Ouédraogo

#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.

#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

BijlmAIR

Collaborator

Ana María Gómez López

Dion Rosina: Process during Manifestation #52: To Be Determined

Collaborator

Atelier Code Noir

Collaborator

Fanta Sylla

Collaborator

Mirelle van Tulder

Collaborator

Kenneth Aidoo

Collaborator

Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

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Collaborator

Artist Collective Totomboti

Collaborator

Peter Tijhuis

Collaborator

Ernst van Deursen

Collaborator

Maxime Leleux

Collaborator

Wes Mapes

Collaborator

Simone Zeefuik

#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.

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Sacred Wounds, 2024

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

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

by Andrés Pereira Paz

Seeping Waters, 2023 – 2024

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

Collaborator

SEXYLAND World

Collaborator

Iván Martínez

Collaborator

Inge Meijer

Collaborator

Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

Collaborator

The Memoria Collective

Collaborator

LazerGazer

#17

Manifestation

July 2, 2024
Online

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

by Setareh Noorani

#78

Manifestation

September 6, 2025
14:30 - 18:00
Off-site

#78 “Life Compensation Lottery”

Join us on September 6, for Manifestation #78: "Life Compensation Lottery" by Suzie van Staaveren and Robbie Schweiger. A free zip code lottery for residents of Waterland and Amsterdam Landelijk Noord with an unusual prize: CO₂-compensation for a lifetime.

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#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.

#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.

Collaborator

Garage Noord

Collaborator

Juny Martina

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

#23

Manifestation

February 15, 2024
Until March 31, 2024
Central Space

#23 TRUTH

a video installation by Miles Greenberg

Collaborator

Reinel Bakole

Untitled (study on spirit) (2025)

by Julianknxx

A Whispering Dam, 2024

by Ola Hassanain

#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.

Collaborator

Waèl el Allouche

Collaborator

Basir Mahmood

Collaborator

Ceder Rorije

Collaborator

SistaazHood

Collaborator

Ndayé Kouagou

Collaborator

senakirfa A.

Collaborator

Anne Lakeman

Collaborator

Mirre Yayla Séur

#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

Rita Ouédraogo

Collaborator

Stephanie Noach

SYSTEMA [EXO] NATURÆ (Regnum Lapideum), 2025

by 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

Collaborator

Prof. Fred Ritchin

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

Collaborator

Simnikiwe Buhlungu

#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

Kaiden Ford

Collaborator

Lakisha Apostel

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Collaborator

Konstantin Sonnenkind

Collaborator

Charl Landvreugd

Collaborator

Frank Creton

Collaborator

bk owusu

Collaborator

Jan Hoek

Collaborator

Aukje Dekker

Collaborator

Nina666

Collaborator

Lorraine Hellwig

KETI KOTI X Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Bouba Dola

Collaborator

Ahmad Mallah

Collaborator

Satykam Mokhamsingh

Collaborator

Jeff Hoogendijk

Descent into the Fungal, 2017

by Andrey Shental

Collaborator

Quinsy Gario

61 FRAGMENTS OF DECAY FOR NEW DESIRES, 2023

by Joël Andrianomearisoa

Collaborator

W139

#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

Keti Koti Westerpark

Collaborator

Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

Kanitha Tith

Collaborator

Alanna Archibald

#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.

#53

Manifestation

May 22, 2025
18:30 – 20:30
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

Collaborator

Pauline Curnier Jardin

location

Central Space

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

Collaborator

Julianknxx

Collaborator

Viviane Tabach

#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).

Klof, village of spirits, 2020 – ongoing

by Kevin Osepa

#26: Audio introduction by Artist

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

Mina Rwina DIR, 2024

by Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Marjolijn van Heemstra

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

Joram Kraaijveld

Collaborator

Unfair

#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'.

Collaborator

Alina Lupu

#71

Manifestation

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

#71 opening – I Must Still Grow in the Dark

Collaborator

Niels Staats

Collaborator

Maxine Kopsa

Collaborator

Les Moucherons

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

Berber Meindertsma

Collaborator

Terror161 a.k.a. Json

Collaborator

Elias Wattimena

#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

#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

Wayne Modest

Collaborator

KC

#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

Manon Lutanie

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

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Collaborator

Pırıltı Onukar

Collaborator

Andrey Shental

Collaborator

Drankerij

#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

Home is Resistance, 2024

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

Collaborator

Mati Diop

Collaborator

Timothy Aarons

Collaborator

Dion Rosina

#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.

Collaborator

Christelle Oyiri

Collaborator

Setareh Noorani