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Until March 31, 2024 AT Central Space
#23 TRUTH
Manifestation #23
Central Space
Free Tickets

a video installation by Miles Greenberg, open daily from 10:00 – 18:00 with a Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ticket

#23 TRUTH, Thursday evenings
Manifestation #23
Central Space
Free Tickets

open for free on Thursday evenings from 18:30 – 20:30, entrance Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam

#46 Reading Group: Goddess Change
Manifestation #46
Studio Space
Free Tickets

Reading Group with Nat Muller, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

#47 Reading Group: Goddess Change
Manifestation #47
Studio Space

Reading Group with Fiep van Bodegom, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

#48 Reading Group: Goddess Change
Manifestation #48
Studio Space

Reading Group with Adriana Knouf, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz in Buro Stedelijk's Studio Space

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Central Space

Open daily from 10:00 to 18:00 with Stedelijk Museum ticket – Museumplein 10, Amsterdam
Central Space

Open for free on Thursdays from 18:30 to 20:30 – Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam
Studio Space

Temporarily no manifestation – Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam

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Buro Stedelijk is a hybrid art space that celebrates community and encourages experiment and boundary-pushing art. As a decentralized observatory, it is attentive to community needs and promotes artistic expression.
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Manifestation

#2 Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent

with Joël Andrianomearisoa, Narges Mohammadi and Geo Wyex

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Falling, crumbling, rotting and decomposing so as to grow. What are the ethics we bring to concepts of preservation and decay? We nourish and flourish through embracing the discomfort of decay. Decay as the fruitful ground upon which we stand. The ongoing process of decay, of rebuilding and blossoming. Matter changes, time changes. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown and the experiment, and observe what grows. Death not as the end but rather as the precursor of life. Through this notion of decay, we want to reimagine and reorient the institution. Decay in this respect could provoke discomfort, but it is precisely this feeling of discomfort that we wish to encourage people to become more comfortable with.

We embrace the muck of the moment we inhabit, the temporality of the space, of this possible future. We aim to embrace the decay of the ground we sit on and acknowledge that it is here to show us the possibilities without over-focussing on joy or by under-focussing on the complexities of trauma.

Can we unsettle certain European ideas of preservation and celebrate the care that goes into dying, rotting and decomposition of certain ideas, structures and beliefs? We want to bring experimentation back into the institution, by realizing the decay and building up, for new, more inspired and unbolted futures and presents to emerge. Reparative acts require tearing down structures of exclusion and denial that have sheltered the museum project from reckoning with its own complicity in problematic projects of colonialism.

The idea of repair is an impossible one, since repair inevitably keeps the hegemonic order intact. Yet again, not everything can decay, and so ‘unsettling’ can only take place if decay is a potentiality. We explore what the potentiality of decay and rebirth could mean whilst acknowledging that some things will never decay.

Together with artists we explore what is at stake when we inhabit the present as rotting. A decaying present full of opportunities. Joël Andrianomearisoa develops the scent of decay and despair through his work. Narges Mohammadi explores decay as temporality, holding a space and vanishing. Becoming and disappearing. Geo Wyex explores what stinks beneath the surface. He makes us listen to the muck of decay. These artists, thinkers, makers and breakers help us imagine the possibilities that decay offers through their provocations.

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Vallen, afbrokkelen, rotten en vergaan om te groeien. Welke ethiek hanteren wij bij begrippen als behoud en verval? We worden gevoed en floreren door het omarmen van het ongemak van verval. Verval als de vruchtbare grond waarop we staan. Het voortdurende proces van verval, van wederopbouw en bloei. Materie verandert, tijd verandert. We omarmen het ongemak van het onbekende en het experiment, en kijken wat er groeit. De dood niet als het einde, maar als de voorbode van het leven. Door deze notie van verval willen we het instituut herdenken en heroriënteren. Verval zou in dit opzicht ongemak kunnen oproepen, maar het is juist dit gevoel van ongemak waarmee we mensen willen aanmoedigen zich comfortabeler te voelen.

We omarmen de drek van het moment waarin we leven, de tijdelijkheid van de ruimte, van deze mogelijke toekomst. We willen het verval van de grond waarop we staan omarmen en erkennen dat die er is om ons de mogelijkheden te tonen, zonder ons te veel te richten op vreugde of te weinig aandacht te besteden aan de complexiteit van het trauma.

Kunnen we bepaalde Europese ideeën over behoud op losse schroeven zetten en de zorg die gepaard gaat met het sterven, rotten en ontbinden van bepaalde ideeën, structuren en overtuigingen vieren? Wij brengen het experiment terug in het instituut, door het verval te realiseren en op te bouwen, zodat er nieuwe, meer inspirerende en ongebonden toekomsten en heden kunnen ontstaan. Herstelwerkzaamheden vereisen het afbreken van structuren van uitsluiting en ontkenning die het museumproject hebben afgeschermd van de erkenning van zijn eigen medeplichtigheid aan problematische projecten van kolonialisme.

Het idee van repareren is een onmogelijke, want reparatie houdt onvermijdelijk de heersende orde in stand. Maar nogmaals, niet alles kan vergaan, en dus kan ‘ontregeling’ alleen plaatsvinden als verval een mogelijkheid is. We onderzoeken wat het potentieel van verval en wedergeboorte zou kunnen betekenen, terwijl we erkennen dat sommige dingen nooit zullen vergaan.

Samen met kunstenaars onderzoeken we wat er op het spel staat als we het heden als rottend ervaren. Een vergaand heden vol mogelijkheden. Joël Andrianomearisoa ontwikkelt in zijn werk de geur van verval en wanhoop. Narges Mohammadi onderzoekt verval als tijdelijkheid, het innemen van ruimte en vergaan. Worden en verdwijnen. Geo Wyex onderzoekt wat er onder de oppervlakte stinkt en laat ons luisteren naar de drek van het verval. Deze kunstenaars, denkers, makers en brekers helpen ons door hun provocaties de mogelijkheden die verval biedt te verbeelden.

Suffering and happiness, they are both organic, like a flower and garbage. If the flower is on her way to become a piece of garbage, the garbage can be on her way to becoming a flower.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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May 25 – July 25
Open daily during Stedelijk Museum opening times

Exception: Closed on July 1st

Stedelijk Museum entrance
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam

#2 Decay: An Ode to the Impermanent

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Memories of becoming (2022/2023)

by Narges Mohammadi

#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.

#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

Ammodo

Collaborator

Ceder Rorije

Collaborator

Inge Meijer

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Buro Stedelijk is a place to discover Amsterdam’s dynamic and forward-thinking art scene. 

#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.

Collaborator

Frank Creton

Klof, village of spirits (2020 – ongoing)

by Kevin Osepa

#1

Manifestation

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

#1 Listening Sessions

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

Collaborator

Alina Lupu

Collaborator

Andrea Voets

Collaborator

Pauline Curnier Jardin

Collaborator

YUME YUME

Collaborator

Travis A. G. Geertruida

#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

KC

#14

Manifestation

July 24, 2023
16:00
Studio Space

#14 Exiting the Photographic Universe

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

Collaborator

Uno Fujisawa

Collaborator

Rice, Peas, Roots and Culture

#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.

location

Off-site Int’l

Collaborator

Narges Mohammadi

Collaborator

Anna-Rosa van Wees

#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

Charl Landvreugd

#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

Ksenia Perek

Collaborator

Ahmad Mallah

#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

Les Moucherons

Collaborator

Anne Lakeman

Collaborator

Hidde van Greuningen

Collaborator

Robbie Schweiger

Collaborator

Yvette Mutumba

Collaborator

Wes Mapes

Collaborator

Nat Muller

Before Distortion (2023 – ongoing)

by Don Yaw Kwaning

#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.

61 FRAGMENTS OF DECAY FOR NEW DESIRES (2023)

by Joël Andrianomearisoa

#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.

#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

Collaborator

bk owusu

Collaborator

Marly Pierre-Louis

#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

Gwen Parry

Living Mycelium Dunes (2023)

by YUME YUME

location

Central Space

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

Collaborator

Joram Kraaijveld

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

LazerGazer

Collaborator

Bubble Shooters Network

#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

Kevin Osepa

Collaborator

Hana Nina Hussein

Collaborator

Lydienne Albertoe

Collaborator

Viviane Tabach

Collaborator

Guenn Ramon Gustina

#3

Manifestation

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

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

with 1.06 Music Library and Michael Ekow & May

Collaborator

Marjet Zwaans

Collaborator

Valerie Oluwatoyin Abeji

Collaborator

Artist Collective Totomboti

Collaborator

Ranie Ribeiro

Collaborator

Bnnyhunna

location

Off-site Local

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

by Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Geert Vlieger

#35

Manifestation

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

#35 Zonder Gelijkheid, Geen Vrede

#15

Manifestation

November 4, 2023
19:00 – 02:00
Central Space

#15 Cosmism

During Museumnacht, we present a selection of films by John Akomfrah, Saodat Ismailova, and Viktor Vasylenko in the Buro Stedelijk Central Space. The program explores cosmic musical forms and the (philosophical) potential of space, science fiction, immortality and infinity.

Collaborator

Leontine Coelewij

#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

Collaborator

Alanna Archibald

#6

Manifestation

July 6, 2023
12:30 – 13:15 / 14:30 – 15:15
Central Space

#6 Live performance: Visitation, with NO Stars (2030)

Geo Wyex will perform 'Visitation, with NO Stars' twice on July 6 at the Central space. A live performance as part of his ongoing work 'Muck Studies Department Presents: Transmission from No Point of Return Bleep Blop Blop Bloop' (2021).

#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.

#30

Manifestation

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

#30 Mixtape

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

Collaborator

Simnikiwe Buhlungu

Collaborator

Phantom Wizard

Collaborator

Ernst van Deursen

Collaborator

Naema Abdi

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Collaborator

Niels Staats

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

Atelier Code Noir

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Collaborator

Nuria Bofarull

Collaborator

Simomo Bouj

Collaborator

Jelmer Wijnstroom

Collaborator

kanaal40

#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

#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

Waèl Allouche

Collaborator

Renzo Martens

Collaborator

Basir Mahmood

Collaborator

Lakisha Apostel

Collaborator

Sedrig Verwoert

Grown head to toe outfit (2023)

by YUME YUME

Collaborator

Drankerij

#31

Manifestation

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

#31 Hosting Darkness

hosted by Berber Meindertsma and Stephanie Schuitemaker

location

Online

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Collaborator

Emily Pethick

Collaborator

Vinger.nl

Same Taste

by Basir Mahmood

#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

Berber Meindertsma

#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

S*an D. Henry-Smith

Collaborator

Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Keti Koti Westerpark

Collaborator

Quinsy Gario

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

Rita Ouédraogo

Collaborator

Irina Djojoatmodjo

Collaborator

Joël Andrianomearisoa

Collaborator

Emily Shin-Jie Lee

Descent into the Fungal (2017)

by Andrey Shental

Collaborator

Azu Nwagbogu

Collaborator

Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

Marcel van den Berg

Collaborator

Michael Ekow & May

Collaborator

Simone Zeefuik

#9

Manifestation

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

#9 In conversation with Frank Creton

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

Dia di lucha pa libertat

Design process behind #5 by Lydienne Albertoe

#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

#23

Manifestation

February 22, 2024
18:30 – 20:30
Until March 29, 2024
Central Space

#23 TRUTH, Thursday evenings

open for free on Thursday evenings from 18:30 – 20:30, entrance Paulus Potterstraat 13, Amsterdam

#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

Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen

#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

Kanitha Tith

Collaborator

Andrea Amponsah

Collaborator

Shigeo Arikawa

Collaborator

Fiep van Bodegom

Collaborator

Queer Choir

Collaborator

Stephanie Schuitemaker

Collaborator

Ana Bravo Pérez

Collaborator

Fonds 21 – Henk Christophersen

Collaborator

Antje de Wit

Collaborator

Floor van Leeuwen

Collaborator

senakirfa A.

Collaborator

Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou

location

Studio Space

Paulus Potterstraat 13, 1071 CX, Amsterdam

Collaborator

Kunsttraject

Collaborator

1.06 Music Library

Collaborator

Touchy Studios

Collaborator

Mirre Yayla Séur

Hybrid Listening

an architectural intervention by Frédérique Albert-Bordenave

Collaborator

Timothy Aarons

Collaborator

Saodat Ismailova

Collaborator

Donghwan Kam

#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

Miles Greenberg

Dormancy Trail
(2023)

by Milena Anna Bouma

Collaborator

Müge Yılmaz

Collaborator

Andrey Shental

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

by Naema Abdi Ali & Anna-Rosa van Wees.

Collaborator

Sarah Schulten

Collaborator

loopey

Collaborator

Yeshua Tjie-A-Loi

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Collaborator

Anna Hoetjes

Collaborator

Setareh Noorani

Collaborator

Gilleam Trapenberg

#7

Manifestation

June 18, 2023
14:00
Off-site Local

#7 Breaking Bread

Cassave bread with Lelani Lewis

Collaborator

SEXYLAND World

Collaborator

Özgür Atlagan

Collaborator

Geo Wyex

Collaborator

Don Yaw Kwaning

#4

Manifestation

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

#4 Keti Koti Westerpark X Buro Stedelijk

with Atelier Code Noir and Frank Creton

Collaborator

Rubiah Balsem

#20

Manifestation

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

#20 Taking Root Among the Stars

In collaboration with Buro Stedelijk, Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yilmaz will create an intimate space at UNFAIR23. The booth will offer a moment of rest, pause, to go through the books and reflect on the patchwork sky.

Collaborator

Marjolijn van Heemstra

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.