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#54 Shifting | Spirit | Time
Manifestation #54
Central Space

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.

#66 All Eyes, All Ears: Listening Lessons
Manifestation #66
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A reflection on Buro Stedelijk's Listening Sessions in April 2023 by Jelmer Wijnstroom

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Manifestation #54: Shifting | Spirit | Time, by Julianknxx opening on 27/02/2025

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#67 FLIGHT

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

This program of short films assembles three generations of Black and women visual artists, Ngozi Onwurah, Christelle Oyiri, Mati Diop, and Manon Lutanie, respectively born in the sixties, eighties and nineties. The selection seeks to register a certain recent history of art and cinema, as well as an evolution of Black female representation behind the camera and on-screen through the years. Though formally distinctive, I like to believe that these films dialogue with one another through recurrent themes, motifs, and silhouettes: childhood, death, Black girlhood. The heavy presence of music, whether in the score or as an integral part of the subject, cements their fellowship. Music is the cardinal theme around which I wished to articulate this program. I have always been inspired by the relationship between sound and the visual arts, and the way Black artists have made the two art forms dialogue with one another.

Flight of the Swan, 1992 © Ngozi Onwurah

The selection begins with Flight of the Swan, released in the year of my birth: 1992. Directed by the British-Nigerian filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah, Flight of the Swan tells the story of a young Nigerian girl who travels to England eager to dance in the white-dominated arena of ballet. The world (her fellow mainly white dance peers) sees her desire as an affront and thus opposes her through mockery and exclusion. Onwurah, who is mixed-race and the child of a Nigerian immigrant, explores the theme of liminality, through a young protagonist who is asked to choose between her Nigerian roots, and with that a certain essentialism, or a betrayal of the self by forcing herself into a white, foreign world that does not want her. Music, such as the polyrhythmic African drumming beat that starts off the film and is contrasted with the familiar orchestration of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, conveys the protagonist’s identity oscillations. Here art becomes a space in which the director solves, by way of remixing and juxtapositioning, the unjust assignations young Black, immigrant, and mixed-race girls must experience in a social world that is often too limited to integrate and honor their multitudes, paradoxes and contradictions.

HYPERFATE, 2022 © Christelle Oyiri

Opposing the simplification of true crime narratives about the death of rappers, HYPERFATE centers around the melancholic stream of consciousness and metaphysical musings of the author, the French-Ivoirian-Caribbean filmmaker, video artist, and producer Christelle Oyiri (aka Crystallmess). Again, the silhouette of a little Black girl appears, in this case the director herself. Her voice narrates a disillusion: that of a young Black French woman, music writer, and rap lover, who is confronted by the tragic fate and often death of mainly Black American rappers – from Tupac to Pop Smoke and Migos’s Takeoff. After the cacophony of Onwurah’s short, we are welcomed by an ambient score into what is essentially a funeral procession in the form of an art video. The director films herself in a car that goes through urban American neighborhoods. She mingles her own stories, both personal ones and those of the men in her family, with those of the artists she grew up to admire. Here music serves as a cosmic standpoint from where to explore philosophical musings on fate and its intersection with race. HYPERFATE is a station where the spectator stops for a first-person, intimate, experimental narrative.

Oumy Bruni Garrel in 'Naked Blue', 2022 © Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie

Finally, the protagonists of French filmmakers Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie’s Naked Blue and The Flight of the Swan can be seen as long-distanced sisters, separated by both space and time, but both united by the swells of classical music. Oumy, a real-life ballet dancer, though, exists in a strange blue world, seemingly somewhere in outer space. Then the infrastructure of a studio somewhere in France is revealed. She owns the space and commands the camera. Wearing a uniform marked with a white skeleton, she faces her own reflection in a tall mirror with a youthful arrogance. The directors track her various states of minds through an ever-morphing choreography. The variations of the orchestral score, composed by Devonté Hynes and performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, that accompanies her movements and her trance, take the film into fantasy and often into near-horror realms of imagery. Both actress and subject of study, Oumy Bruni-Garrel inhabits the filmic space in a way that is rarely seen in French cinema and video art. Many times, her appearance and reflections are distorted by the shift in lighting or a mirror effect. Over the blue backdrop, with the lighting turning Oumy into a black silhouette, erasing her distinctive traits, the main character is charged with a menacing aura.

Naked Blue closes a triad of films that sought to capture and register rare characterizations of Black girlhood and its many emotional states: melancholy, playfulness, sadness, anger, hope and elation.

When I entered the world of cinema, going from the observant, “passive” position of Black spectatorship to the responsive practice of film criticism in my early twenties, I was obsessed with the desire to expand my own and my readers’ inherited notions of what cinema is and could be. When it came to images of diasporic Blackness the parameters of mainstream cinema were too restrictive; reality was much more abundant than what the screen was projecting back to us. Cinema could not be, just this. Inspired by the prose of the late Black American cultural writer, theorist and poet, bell hooks, my own writing followed her call to look beyond the mainstream and look particularly to the margins. Independent and avant-garde filmmaking, of course, but also marginalized or less-prestigious audio-visual forms: short films, music videos, vines, memes, video art.

My self-imposed mission was also to move from representational discourse on Blackness, from the consideration of the white gaze as the shaping force of Black representation to…something else. Something to be invented with the knowledge of the past and the rich present of film. When I created The Black Film Critic Syllabus in 2016, an open-access database compiling Black film history and theory references, the objective was to mimic and inspire, in its perpetual updating, a search for expansion. Each reader and future writer was invited to find their personal, idiosyncratic path in the world of cinema and film criticism, to find their own way to write about film. To write from the standpoint and textual references of those authors that they find most appealing, interesting, sensual and exciting.

There is not one way to write about film, just as there is not one definition of what a film is. In many ways, this selection of short films, a combination of video art and narrative films, reflects my own coming of age as a film critic and viewer. It shows how I have been drawn to expansive, chameleonic (Black) artists who transgress categories and genres.

#67 FLIGHT

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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

Quinsy Gario

Collaborator

Robbie Schweiger

Collaborator

Rita Ouédraogo

Collaborator

Mirelle van Tulder

#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

location

Off-site

Grown head to toe outfit (2023)

by YUME YUME

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

#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'.

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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

Ammodo

Collaborator

Narges Mohammadi

Collaborator

Jelmer Wijnstroom

#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

Ernst van Deursen

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

MINA RWINA

#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

Queer Choir

Collaborator

Geert Vlieger

Collaborator

Kevin Osepa

Collaborator

Phantom Wizard

#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.

#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

Anne Lakeman

Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

#18

Manifestation

November 1, 2023
Central Space

#18 Kunstenaar op zaal

Collaborator

Frédérique Gagnon

Collaborator

Drums of the Earth

location

Central Space

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

Collaborator

Yvette Mutumba

Collaborator

loopey

Collaborator

Simnikiwe Buhlungu

Collaborator

Naema Abdi

#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.

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.

Seeping Waters (2023 – 2024)

by Ola Hassanain

#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site

#7 Breaking Bread

Cassave bread with Lelani Lewis

Collaborator

Kunsttraject

#31

Manifestation

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

#31 Hosting Darkness

hosted by Berber Meindertsma and Stephanie Schuitemaker

Sacred Wounds (2024)

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

Collaborator

Fonds 21 – Henk Christophersen

Shifting | Spirit | Time (2025)

by Julianknxx

Collaborator

Nat Muller

Collaborator

René Peña

#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

Collaborator

Lydienne Albertoe

#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

Collaborator

Q

Era of TDC (2024)

by Martin Toloku

Collaborator

Inge Meijer

Collaborator

Rubiah Balsem

Collaborator

Maxine Kopsa

Collaborator

Rice, Peas, Roots and Culture

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Collaborator

Kenneth Aidoo

Collaborator

Shigeo Arikawa

Collaborator

Simone Zeefuik

Collaborator

Museumnacht

Collaborator

Peter Tijhuis

Collaborator

Pırıltı Onukar

Collaborator

Frank Creton

#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.

#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.

#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

location

Studio Space

Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

Collaborator

The Memoria Collective

Collaborator

SistaazHood

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

Collaborator

Sedrig Verwoert

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

Collaborator

Unfair

Collaborator

Berber Meindertsma

Collaborator

Marly Pierre-Louis

Collaborator

Bnnyhunna

Collaborator

Azu Nwagbogu

#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.

#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

Ahmad Mallah

Collaborator

Mati Diop

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

Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Drankerij

Collaborator

Fanta Sylla

Collaborator

W139

location

Online

Collaborator

Miles Greenberg

Collaborator

S*an D. Henry-Smith

#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

Geo Wyex

and if a tree sees it all (2024 – 2025)

by Julianknxx

#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.

#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

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

Collaborator

Jan Hoek

#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.

#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

Andrea Amponsah

Collaborator

Chandler Smith – HXSSY

Collaborator

Niels Staats

Collaborator

Stephen Tayo

#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.

Collaborator

Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

Collaborator

Artist Collective Totomboti

61 FRAGMENTS OF DECAY FOR NEW DESIRES (2023)

by Joël Andrianomearisoa

Home is Resistance (2024)

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

A Whispering Dam (2024)

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Nina666

#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

Mirre Yayla Séur

Collaborator

LazerGazer

Collaborator

SEXYLAND World

Collaborator

Adriana Knouf

Collaborator

Anna-Rosa van Wees

Collaborator

Larissa Sansour

Collaborator

Simomo Bouj

#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

#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

Memories of becoming (2022/2023)

by Narges Mohammadi

#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

Collaborator

Oded Rimon

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Collaborator

Gwen Parry

Dormancy Trail
(2023)

by Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

senakirfa A.

Collaborator

Basir Mahmood

Before Distortion (2023 – ongoing)

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

#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

Patricia Domínguez

Collaborator

Black Quantum Futurism

Collaborator

Anna Hoetjes

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Atelier Code Noir

Collaborator

Guenn Ramon Gustina

Collaborator

Julianknxx

Collaborator

Terror161 a.k.a. Json

Collaborator

Hana Nina Hussein

Collaborator

Antje de Wit

Collaborator

Lakisha Apostel

#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

BijlmAIR

#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.

#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.

Mina Rwina DIR (2024)

by Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

KC

Collaborator

Ranie Ribeiro

Collaborator

Lorraine Hellwig

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

Touchy Studios

Collaborator

Timothy Aarons

#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

Özgür Atlagan

Collaborator

Sarah Schulten

Collaborator

Nazif Lopulissa

Collaborator

Martin Toloku

Collaborator

Alina Lupu

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

Collaborator

Don Yaw Kwaning

#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

#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).

#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

Christelle Oyiri

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

Andrey Shental

Collaborator

YUME YUME

Collaborator

Pauline Curnier Jardin

##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

bk owusu

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.

Collaborator

Charl Landvreugd

Collaborator

Gilleam Trapenberg

#17

Manifestation

July 2, 2024
Online

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

by Setareh Noorani

#30

Manifestation

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

#30 Mixtape

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

Descent into the Fungal (2017)

by Andrey Shental

Collaborator

pIAR

Collaborator

Duran Lantink

Collaborator

Tripl

Collaborator

UNSEEN

Collaborator

Ruyzdael Publishing

Living Mycelium Dunes (2023)

by YUME YUME

#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.

#70

Manifestation

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

#70 opening – #54 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

Martha Cooper

Collaborator

Nuria Bofarull

Collaborator

kanaal40

Collaborator

Saodat Ismailova

#35

Manifestation

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

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

#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

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

#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

Milena Anna Bouma

#26: Video introduction by Artist

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

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

Kanitha Tith

#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.

#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

Joël Andrianomearisoa

#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

Joram Kraaijveld

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

Collaborator

Viviane Tabach

Collaborator

Ceder Rorije

Collaborator

Donghwan Kam

Collaborator

Ksenia Perek

#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

Marjolijn van Heemstra

#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'.

#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

Wes Mapes

#44

Manifestation

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

#44 Opening – #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 and Martin Toloku, with a live performance by Simomo Bouj.

Collaborator

Stéphanie Noach

Collaborator

Les Moucherons

#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

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

by Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Hidde van Greuningen

#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.

The Slope (2023)

by Ola Hassanain

#26: Audio introduction by Artist

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

Untitled (study on spirit) (2025)

by Julianknxx

Collaborator

1.06 Music Library

Collaborator

Camille Sapara Barton

Collaborator

Setareh Noorani

#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.

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

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Collaborator

Martijn Maiwald

Collaborator

Vinger.nl

Collaborator

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

Collaborator

Emily Pethick

Collaborator

Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

#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

#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

Ngozi Onwurah

Collaborator

Andrés Pereira Paz

Collaborator

Anna Arov

#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

#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

Waèl Allouche

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

Klof, village of spirits (2020 – ongoing)

by Kevin Osepa

#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

Kaiden Ford

Collaborator

Dr. Edward Birzin

#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

Collaborator

Ilga Minjon

#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

#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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Collaborator

Floor van Leeuwen

Collaborator

Marjet Zwaans

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Marcel van den Berg

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Alanna Archibald

#67

Manifestation

November 2, 2024
Online

#67 FLIGHT

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

Collaborator

Bubble Shooters Network

#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

Collaborator

Manon Lutanie

Collaborator

Leontine Coelewij

Collaborator

Andrea Voets

Collaborator

Renzo Martens

Collaborator

Joenoes Polnaija

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Emily Shin-Jie Lee

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#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

Travis A. G. Geertruida

Collaborator

Paulo Nazareth

#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.