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#80 The Belly of Momo
Manifestation #80
Central Space
Free Tickets

Come in to Buro Stedelijk's Central Space transformed by Kevin Osepa, shared with sound artist Rozaly and multidisciplinary artist Lakisha Apostel among many others.

#85 How We Made Noise – Afterparty
Manifestation #85
Off-site
Free Tickets

Come celebrate the publication 'How We Made Noise' at Sichuan Territory and Garage Noord with music and live performance.

#88 How We Made Noise – Book Launch
Manifestation #88
Central Space
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Manifestation #80: the Belly of Momo, opening on November 20, with Kevin Osepa and many others
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Manifestation #88: How We Made Noise – book launch, on November 27, 18:30 - 20:30
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Manifestation #85: How We Made Noise – afterparty, on November 27, 21:30 - 01:00

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#80 The Belly of Momo

Come in to Buro Stedelijk's Central Space transformed by Kevin Osepa, shared with sound artist Rozaly and multidisciplinary artist Lakisha Apostel among many others.

‘Si bo stima bo wowonan, no bin wak’
(scroll verder voor Papiamentu en Nederlands)

The puppet king dies every year and every year, he rises again. In Curaçao’s Karnaval, King Momo, a corpulent figure of collective catharsis, embodies a cyclical truth: temporary structures recur, endings contain future beginnings. Death is not terminus but a transition, and ancestors remain active participants. Past and present interpenetrate; the spirit persists, breathing new form into next year’s incarnation. But here we linger less in Karnaval’s streets but within its interior pulse, in the belly itself.

For Kevin Osepa, the Belly of Momo is not only subject but rather strategy. It grants temporary freedom across multiple time-spaces, a porous philosophy of practice that mirrors Buro Stedelijk itself. Both are interiors of becoming: places for showing up together, experimentation, and holding chaos as sacred. The belly holds contradictions without demanding resolutions: mourning and joy coexist, and carries the resonance of ancestors and their vibrations. Here, the many collaborations that make meaning are held, layered, and woven into being. It is a space where opposing forces need not resolve but can dwell together: where scale collapses, intimate archives transform into explosive color and deep darkness, where whispered histories flare into noisy bodies.

The power of the stomach as a muscular site of opacity. Eating soup together becomes methodology. Communication beyond words, communion without explanation. Within the belly, we are fed; we gather around warmth. This is communication as it exists outside Western logics of literal speech: sensory knowing, embodied encounter, wisdom passed between and among bodies in shared spaces and elastic time. Maternal knowledge challenges myths of solitary artistic genius, insisting instead on art as relational practice, as care work, as wake work, as wisdom passed between bodies in shared space and time.

The many collaborations are crucial with the work of sound artist Rozaly and multidisciplinary artist Lakisha Apostel among many others. While this work bears Osepa’s name, it is also his mother’s: her image, her presence, her thought and touch, her practice is woven throughout.

Allow yourself to be entangled. Surrender certainty. Enter the belly.

The project space of Buro Stedelijk itself has acted as belly: a living hollow, generative, sheltering spirits between manifestations. Between this show’s first conception and its physical installment, numerous collaborators have occupied and transformed this space. From small gestures to large interventions, from archives to immediacy of now. Some things remain to be determined; this open-endedness is the method. The belly is precisely where form stays fluid, where the unresolved can breathe. 

The Belly of Momo becomes ritual space where you don’t merely observe but become entangled in Karnaval’s coded visual and affective language. You are asked to slip, to surrender certainty. This is what temporary structures offer: permission not to know, to dwell in complexity, and to trust that meaning emerges through feeling and proximity rather than didactic explanation. The belly holds what ‘formal institutions’ cannot: the space between clarity and opacity, the threshold where transformation begins.

Inside the belly, sensory saturation creates conditions for collective experience: sounds, vibrations, sacred and cursed layered together. You are invited to inhabit it all–joy, mourning, renewal, and the political reclamation of space. Experience what happens when we linger between categories, between endings and beginnings, between what was and what might be. This is an invitation to enter a space where contradictions are not problems to be solved but conditions to be inhabited.

Here, practice becomes political reclamation: asserting Caribbean epistemologies within institutional space, insisting on embodied, non-literal forms of knowing long marginalized yet deeply woven into the Netherlands’ reality. The belly makes room for what has been kept outside.

It is not disappearance but transition. The closing chant: ‘Ayo Momo’ becomes a technology of continuity. A call that insists even erased spirits rise again, endings contain beginnings.

We gather here to make noise together, to cry together, to eat soup together. Not to let go, but to remember how we gathered in the threshold, how we occupied this experimental place and dared to imagine, time and time again, as a collective body.

‘Ayo Momo’

text by Rita Ouédraogo
Teksto na Papiamentu

‘Si bo stima bo wowonan, no bin wak’

Komo símbolo di liberashon kolektivo, e figura kòrpulento di Rei Momo di karnaval kurasoleño ta personifiká konosementu síkliko: strukturanan temporal ta regresá, kada final ta presedé un komienso nobo. Morto ta un transishon; antepasadonan ta partisipante aktivo. Pasado i presente ta krusa otro.

Kevin Osepa ta konsiderá stoma di Momo tantu un tema komo un strategiá. Un filosofía poroso ku ta reflehá e esensia propio di Buro Stedelijk. Ambos ta interiornan den formashon: lugá di enkuentro, pa eksperimentashon, unda por apresiá kaos. E stoma por karga i warda forsanan kontradiktorio sin nesesidat di resolushon: duele i alegria ta eksistí konhuntamente i ambos ta karga e resonansia di nos antepasadonan.

E poder di stoma komo un sitio muskular ku no ta transparente. Kome sòpi huntu ta kombertí den un método: un forma di komunikashon ku ta superá palabra, un ekspreshon komun(al) sin nesesidat di hustifikashon. Ta trata di un konosementu sensual, un enkuentro físiko, sabiduria transmití entre kurpanan den un espasio kompartí. Konosementu maternal ta reta e mito di e genio solitario i ta boga pa un práktika di arte relativo i kuido.

Kolaborashon ta krusial: artista músiko Rozaly, artista multidisiplinario Lakisha Apostel i diferente otro kontribuidó ta forma parti di e obra aki. Ounke e ta karga nòmber di Kevin, presensia di su mama (su imágen, su pensamentunan, su toke i su práktika) ta integrá den tur kos.

Den e tempu ku a transkurí entre konseptualisashon i instalashon di e ekshibishon aki, numeroso kolaboradó a transformá e espasio. Den stoma tur kontenido ta permanesé líkido i tur loke no prosesá por hala rosea. Bo ta keda invitá pa pèrde bo ekilibrio, deshasí di impulso pa siguridat, enbolbé bo mes den komplehidat. Barika ta kontené loke institutonan formal falta: e drèmpel kaminda transformashon ta kuminsá.

‘Ayo Momo’

translation by Glenpherd and Zion Piggott
Nederlandse tekst

‘Si bo stima bo wowonan, no bin wak’

Als symbool van collectieve ontlading, belichaamt de corpulente figuur van King Momo in het Curaçaose Karnaval cyclische wijsheid: tijdelijke structuren keren terug, elk einde bevat een nieuw begin. Dood is transitie; voorouders zijn actieve deelnemers. Verleden en heden lopen in elkaar over.

Voor Kevin Osepa is de Buik van Momo zowel onderwerp als strategie. Een poreuze filosofie die een spiegel vormt van Buro Stedelijk zelf. Beide zijn interieurs in wording: plekken om samen te komen, om te experimenteren, waar chaos gekoesterd mag worden. De (onder)buik kan tegengestelde krachten dragen zonder oplossingen te behoeven: rouw en vreugde bestaan naast elkaar en dragen beiden de resonantie van onze voorouders.

De kracht van de maag als een gespierde, ondoorzichtige plek. Samen soep eten wordt een methode: een vorm van communicatie die woorden overstijgt, een uiting van gemeenschap die geen verantwoording behoeft. Dit is zintuiglijk weten, een belichaamde ontmoeting, wijsheid die tussen lichamen wordt doorgegeven in een gedeelde ruimte. Moederlijke kennis daagt de mythe van het solitaire genie uit, en dringt aan op kunst als relationele praktijk, als een vorm van zorg.
Samenwerkingen zijn cruciaal: geluidskunstenaar Rozaly, multidisciplinair kunstenaar Lakisha Apostel en vele anderen maken deel uit van dit werk. Hoewel het Osepa’s naam draagt, is de aanwezigheid van zijn moeder – haar beeld, haar denken, haar aanraking en haar praktijk – in alles vervlochten.

In de tijd tussen de conceptualisering en de installatie van deze tentoonstelling hebben talloze collaborators deze ruimte getransformeerd. De buik is waar vorm vloeibaar blijft, waar het onverwerkte ademt. Je wordt uitgenodigd om uit balans te raken, de drang naar zekerheid los te laten, je in complexiteit te wikkelen. De buik bevat wat bij ‘formele instituten’ ontbreekt: de drempel waar transformatie begint.

Binnenin maakt zintuiglijke verzadiging ruimte voor collectieve ervaringen. Leef het allemaal: vreugde, rouw, vernieuwing, politieke herovering. Verwijl tussen categorieën, tussen het einde en het begin. Praktijk wordt politiek: het uitdragen van Caribische epistemologieën in een institutionele ruimte, het aandringen op belichaamde vormen van kennis die lang gemarginaliseerd zijn, maar diep verweven met de Nederlandse realiteit.
De slotroep ‘Ayo Momo’ wordt een technologie van continuïteit, een leus die aandringt dat zelfs uitgewiste geesten opnieuw verrijzen.

We komen samen om lawaai te maken, om samen te huilen, om samen soep te eten. Om te herinneren hoe we deze drempel bezetten en keer op keer durfden te verbeelden, als een collectief lichaam.

‘Ayo Momo’

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Opening Manifestation #80: The Belly of Momo
Free entrance with ticket / Gratis toegang met ticket
November 20, 18:30 – 20:30
Location: Central Space
Entrance: Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam

Manifestation #80: The Belly of Momo
November 20, 2025 – January 8, 2026
Open daily with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket / Dagelijks geopend met Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket (Museumplein 10), 10:00 – 18:00

This manifestation is the last of Buro Stedelijk’s co-founding curator Rita Ouédraogo term.
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21:30 - 01:00
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November 27, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
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#88 How We Made Noise – Book Launch

Join us for the launch of 'How We Made Noise: Reimagining the Museum From Within'.

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November 20, 2025
18:30 - 20:30
Until January 8, 2026
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Until October 17, 2024
Central Space

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Manifestation

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#79

Manifestation

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Until October 15, 2023
Central Space

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#81

Manifestation

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

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Manifestation

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Central Space

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Manifestation

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Manifestation

April 20, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#46 Reading Group Goddess Change

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#47

Manifestation

May 25, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
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December 6, 2025
14:00 - 17:00
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Manifestation

January 18, 2025
14:30 – 17:30
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#63 Reading Group Goddess Change

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#17

Manifestation

September 14, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
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#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.

#29

Manifestation

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

#29 Mixtape

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##60

Manifestation

September 28, 2024
14:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#60 Reading Group Goddess Change

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Collaborator

Ksenia Perek

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Prof. Fred Ritchin

#54

Manifestation

February 27, 2025
10:00 - 18:00
Until April 24, 2025
Central Space

#54 Shifting / Spirit / Time

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KETI KOTI X ABOUT LOVE

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Valentino Angela

Kunsttraject X Keti Koti Westerpark

research by Jeanine van Berkel

#59

Manifestation

June 1, 2024
24/7
Until September 22, 2024
Off-site

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#77

Manifestation

December 19, 2024
24/7
Until January 17, 2025
Studio Space

#77 Repainting Subway Art

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#67

Manifestation

November 2, 2024
Online

#67 FLIGHT

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

#74

Manifestation

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

#74 Labyrinth Within

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Mercy St. J

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Thato Toeba

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Jan Hoek

#51

Manifestation

May 2, 2024
19:30 – 21:30
Central Space

#51 Chorus in Flight

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Kevin Osepa

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

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Taïs Zimmerman

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Narges Mohammadi

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Juny Martina

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Renzo Martens

Mirre Yayla Séur: Process during Manifestation #8 To Be Determined

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Wes Mapes

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Studio Space

Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

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Jeanine van Berkel

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Duran Lantink

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Manifestation

July 18, 2024
Central Space

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Manifestation

October 12, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

#19 Raw Heat, Black Sweat

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Jaer Vogelland

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#48

Manifestation

June 22, 2024
15:30 – 17:30
Studio Space

#48 Reading Group Goddess Change

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The Slope, 2023

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#2

Manifestation

May 25, 2023
18:30 - 20:30
Central Space

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Collaborator

Niels Staats

#27

Manifestation

December 14, 2023
18:30 - 19:30
Central Space

#27 Circle Dance the Fungal

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Collaborator

Alanna Archibald

#35

Manifestation

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

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

#44

Manifestation

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

#44 Opening – (Where and for Whom?) Listening to the Absences

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BijlmAIR

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Marjet Zwaans

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#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site

#7 Breaking Bread

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#30

Manifestation

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

#30 Mixtape

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Collaborator

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#34

Manifestation

November 14, 2023
7:00 – 19:00
Until January 14, 2024
Studio Space

#34 What Can’t It Do?

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#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.

#31

Manifestation

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

#31 Hosting Darkness

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by Julianknxx

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LazerGazer

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Drums of the Earth

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Oded Rimon

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Stephanie Noach

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Veerle Driessen

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Andrés Pereira Paz

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Andrea Voets

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#20

Manifestation

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

#20 Taking Root Among the Stars

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#26: Video introduction by Artist

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

Collaborator

Bubble Shooters Network

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Jelmer Wijnstroom

Collaborator

Patricia Domínguez

Collaborator

Naema Abdi

#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

Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Tripl

#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

Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

Collaborator

Frédérique Gagnon

The Invisible Double (2025)

by Jessica Mitrani

Collaborator

Larissa Sansour

#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

Nina666

Collaborator

Sarah Schulten

Collaborator

Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

Collaborator

Suzette Martina

Collaborator

senakirfa A.

Collaborator

Dr. Edward Birzin

Collaborator

Black Quantum Futurism

Shifting | Spirit | Time, 2025

by Julianknxx

KETI KOTI X Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Andrea Amponsah

Collaborator

MINA RWINA

#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

Andrey Shental

#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

Bouba Dola

Collaborator

Morena Leraba

Seeping Waters, 2023 – 2024

by Ola Hassanain

Collaborator

Elias Wattimena

A Whispering Dam, 2024

by Ola Hassanain

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Central Space

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

Collaborator

Ammodo

Collaborator

Mirre Yayla Séur

Collaborator

Kanitha Tith

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

S*an D. Henry-Smith

Collaborator

Shigeo Arikawa

Collaborator

Anne Lakeman

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

Collaborator

Nikola Lamburov

Collaborator

Mati Diop

#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.

Collaborator

AK Soundsystem

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.

#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

Collaborator

Martin Toloku

Collaborator

Guenn Ramon Gustina

#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

Geert Vlieger

Materializing the Invisible

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

Collaborator

All Sizes

#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

#69

Manifestation

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

#69 The Way

A temporary spatial intervention by Stephanie Schuitemaker with Uno Fujisawa

Collaborator

Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Sedrig Verwoert

Collaborator

The Memoria Collective

Collaborator

Ola Hassanain

#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

#71

Manifestation

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

#71 opening – I Must Still Grow in the Dark

Collaborator

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

Collaborator

Vinger.nl

Dormancy Trail, 2023

by Milena Anna Bouma

#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.

#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.

Living Mycelium Dunes, 2023

by YUME YUME

Collaborator

Kenneth Aidoo

Collaborator

SistaazHood

Collaborator

Lorraine Hellwig

Era of TDC, 2024

by Martin Toloku

Collaborator

KC

#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.

#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.

#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

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

Collaborator

Berber Meindertsma

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Collaborator

Ilga Minjon

Collaborator

Rubiah Balsem

Man Made Materials series, 1998

by René Peña

Collaborator

Gilleam Trapenberg

Collaborator

Reinel Bakole

Collaborator

Ana María Gómez López

#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).

#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

#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

#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.

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Home is Resistance, 2024

by Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

#26: Audio introduction by Artist

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

Collaborator

Adriana Knouf

SYSTEMA [EXO] NATURÆ (Regnum Lapideum), 2025

by Ana María Gómez López

Collaborator

Dion Rosina

Collaborator

UNSEEN

#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

#23

Manifestation

February 15, 2024
Until March 31, 2024
Central Space

#23 TRUTH

a video installation by Miles Greenberg

#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

Simone Zeefuik

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

Collaborator

Charl Landvreugd

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

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Before Distortion, 2023 – ongoing

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

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

Marly Pierre-Louis

Collaborator

Don Yaw Kwaning

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

by Andrés Pereira Paz

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Collaborator

1.06 Music Library

#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.

#80 The Belly of Momo

Teksto na Papiamentu

Collaborator

Marjolijn van Heemstra

Collaborator

Iván Martínez

Collaborator

Jessica Mitrani

Collaborator

Alina Lupu

Collaborator

kanaal40

Collaborator

Paulo Nazareth

Collaborator

Terror161 a.k.a. Json

#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

Yvette Mutumba

Collaborator

Joël Andrianomearisoa

Collaborator

Ceder Rorije

#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.

#17

Manifestation

July 2, 2024
Online

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

by Setareh Noorani

Collaborator

Ndayé Kouagou

#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

Fanta Sylla

#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

SEXYLAND World

Collaborator

Sabrine Ingabire

The Crack That Is Named, 2024

by Antonio Vega Macotela

Collaborator

Frank Creton

#80 The Belly of Momo

Nederlandse tekst

Collaborator

BULGAR

Collaborator

Ruyzdael Publishing

#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

#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

Babs Gons

Collaborator

Atelier Code Noir

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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

Pırıltı Onukar

Collaborator

Simnikiwe Buhlungu

#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

Peter Tijhuis

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

#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

I Must Still Grow in the Dark

by Stephanie Noach

Collaborator

Hidde van Greuningen

Collaborator

Martha Cooper

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

Museumnacht Amsterdam

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

Collaborator

Drankerij

Collaborator

Camille Sapara Barton

#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

Phantom Wizard

Collaborator

Queer Choir

Collaborator

Anna-Rosa van Wees

Collaborator

Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi [aka crazinisT artisT]

Collaborator

Marcel van den Berg

Collaborator

Anna Hoetjes

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

Collaborator

Razia Barsatie

Collaborator

Maxine Kopsa

Collaborator

Emily Shin-Jie Lee

Collaborator

Leontine Coelewij

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

Kunsttraject

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

Collaborator

Floor van Leeuwen

Collaborator

Martijn Maiwald

Collaborator

Stephen Tayo

Collaborator

Robbie Schweiger

Collaborator

Nat Muller

Collaborator

Satykam Mokhamsingh

Collaborator

Christelle Oyiri

#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.

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

NØËL.

Mina Rwina DIR, 2024

by Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Kaiden Ford

Nlloro (Weeping), 1991

by Belkis Ayón

Collaborator

Manon Lutanie

#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

#18

Manifestation

November 1, 2023
Central Space

#18 Kunstenaar op zaal

Collaborator

Özgür Atlagan

Collaborator

Joram Kraaijveld

#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'.

#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

Sichuan Territory

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

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

by Geo Wyex

Collaborator

René Boer

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.