de Appel

Visit 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 this weekend! de Appel is open Wednesdays – Sundays, 14:00–20:00. 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a parallel series of screenings and performances, focusing on the inherited traumas of colonial violence and control that continue to shape social, mental and physical bodies across generations. Thematically departing from Ireland – widely regarded as the first historical subject of the British colonial enterprise – state of us brings together artists who address Ireland or the Irish experience, alongside ongoing and historical struggles in places such as Palestine, Bangladesh and Curaçao. The research-based artworks trace how the everyday and insidious effects of colonialism and its legacies recur in aspects of memory, sexual relations, social behaviours and health dysfunctions, among other examples. The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Family Connection, Sara Greavu & Ciara Phillips with Derry Film and Video Workshop archive and former workshop member Anne Crilly, Naeem Mohaiemen, Eoghan Ryan, Clíodhna Timoney and Eimear Walshe. Photos: Sophia Jiaqi Xu

Derry Film and Video Workshop’s (DFVW) film 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 documents the intensive use of strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland in the early 1980s. Including interviews with ex-prisoners, legal experts, activists, psychologists and the family members of prisoners inside at the time, the film was used as a campaigning tool and toured widely in Ireland and beyond. The issue of strip-searching exposed a fracture within the nascent women’s movement in Ireland, between those who wanted to address this form of state violence against women, and those who feared the political alignment with Irish republicanism that support of the campaign might suggest. Directed by Anne Crilly, it was the first film made by the newly founded collective. Derry Film and Video Workshop (1984–1990) was a women-led film collective in Derry, in the north of Ireland. In the late 2010s, collecting, preserving, and re-centring the remarkable history and archive of the Derry Film and Video workshop (DFVW) was taken up by curators-artists Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips, resulting in the exhibition project 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱. An iteration of this project is currently on view at the exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 at de Appel, made in collaboration with EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, which features a chapter foregrounding the campaign against the strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland, including rushes made for the DFVW’ film 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. After the screening follows a conversation with Anne Crilly and Sara Greavu. 📌 Sunday 17.05.2026, 19:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion Ticket link in our Linktree!

Eoghan Ryan’s two films depart from specific moments and movements in the history of Ireland: the mutations of contemporary right-wing nationalism (𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘪𝘨𝘴) and the post-Brexit moment of the early 2020s (𝘈 𝘚𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦). His films often deploy found and borrowed footage, fast-paced editing, and elements of puppetry, horror or propaganda, as a critical gateway into the ways in which conflict is shaped by popular media and remote spectatorship. 𝘈 𝘚𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 premiered in 2021 at the Open Studios of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam during Ryan’s residency, and it has been shown various times ever since. The Kriterion screening is the Dutch premier of 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘪𝘨𝘴, Ryan’s latest film, which was commissioned in 2025 for the 41st EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. The screening event and the conversation afterwards with Eoghan Ryan is part of the exhibition project 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴, a collaboration between de Appel and EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. 📌 Sunday 31.05.2026, 19:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion Ticket link in our Linktree!

Help us by filling in an online survey that takes approximately 5 minutes of your time, and in return either visit our current exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 for free, or get a free warm drink at the bar (by showing the confirmation of your participation to the exhibition host). de Appel is open between Wednesdays and Sundays, 14:00–20:00. 🖌 Fill in the survey following the link in our Linktree!

Artists Aylin Kuryel, Deniz Buga and Fırat Yücel present a two-part programme exploring the translation of political struggle into film, featuring the Editing Resistance workshop in the afternoon, and an evening screening of two short documentaries: 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 (2026) and 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 (2025), followed by a discussion with the artists. In this three-hour roundtable workshop, we'll first examine clips from films on political struggle and discuss the practice of assembling and editing. In the second half, participants are welcome to share their own footage or personal and collective archives related to political struggles, along with current project ideas for group discussion and collaborative feedback. In the evening, we will screen two short documentaries followed by a discussion with Aylin Kuryel, Deniz Buga and Fırat Yücel. It is possible to sign up for only this part of the programme, without taking part in the workshop. 📌 Saturday 23.05.2026 14:00–17:00: Editing Resistance Workshop 18:30–20:30: Film Screenings More info and registration link in our Linktree! Photo: Mateo Vega

In this conversation, Teesa Bahana (Director of 32° East, a not-for-profit space for contemporary art in Uganda) and Ola Hassanain (artist and architect) will explore our time of ecological collapse, political fragmentation, and growing inequality, in which culture is not a luxury – it is a necessity. Yet around the world, artists and cultural spaces are under threat: defunded, censored, co-opted, or erased entirely. In this moment of planetary crisis, the arts provide a language of relation, a tool for radical imagination, and a practice of care that transcends borders. Culture shapes how we live, how we move through the world, and how we relate to the land and to each other. As civic and artistic freedoms shrink under the weight of nationalism, austerity, and extractive systems, we must ask not only how to defend cultural space – but how to expand it. What forms of solidarity, policy, and institutional rethinking are needed to sustain artistic communities across geographies? What does it mean to cultivate a planetary consciousness rooted in justice and imagination? This conversation is part of the Prince Claus Fund’s Exchanges, the Fund’s platform for creative cross-pollination: connecting its international network with Amsterdam’s cultural landscape while building long-lasting relationships across the city’s diverse artistic scenes. Exchanges is made possible through the generous support from the City of Amsterdam. 📌 Thursday 21.05.2026, 18:30–20:30 Find the reservation link in our Linktree! Image: Prince Claus Building Beyond Fellow Ìfẹ́olúwa Ọ̀ṣúnkọ̀yà

Derry Film and Video Workshop’s (DFVW) film 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 documents the intensive use of strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland in the early 1980s. Including interviews with ex-prisoners, legal experts, activists, psychologists and the family members of prisoners inside at the time, the film was used as a campaigning tool and toured widely in Ireland and beyond. The issue of strip-searching exposed a fracture within the nascent women’s movement in Ireland, between those who wanted to address this form of state violence against women, and those who feared the political alignment with Irish republicanism that support of the campaign might suggest. Directed by Anne Crilly, it was the first film made by the newly founded collective. Derry Film and Video Workshop (1984–1990) was a women-led film collective in Derry, in the north of Ireland. In the late 2010s, collecting, preserving, and re-centring the remarkable history and archive of the Derry Film and Video workshop (DFVW) was taken up by curators-artists Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips, resulting in the exhibition project 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱. An iteration of this project is currently on view at the exhibition 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 at de Appel, made in collaboration with EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, which features a chapter foregrounding the campaign against the strip-searching of women political prisoners in the north of Ireland, including rushes made for the DFVW’ film 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. After the screening follows a conversation with Anne Crilly and Sara Greavu. 📌 Sunday 17.05.2026, 19:00 at Filmtheater Kriterion Ticket link in our Linktree!

Join us for 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 / 𝘈𝘵 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, a workshop centered on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘴𝘦, Etel Adnan’s poetic response to war and imperial violence. Through collective close reading and a series of writing prompts, we will explore the relation between the end of the world and the necessity of ending this world–between apocalypse and abolition. Taking cues from Adnan’s work, the session reflects on how poetry might function as a means of reckoning with the unthinkable and the unbearable. One guiding hypothesis is that the apocalypse is not a singular event, but a structure: ongoing and unevenly distributed. 📌 Thursday 14.05.2026, 14:00–17:00 Capacity for this workshop is limited, make a reservation via the link in our Linktree! Drawing: Apocalypse Arabe 1, 1980s, Pencil and ink on paper, Etel Adnan

De hedendaagse beeldende kunst- en creatieve industrie (BKCI) in Amsterdam staat onder grote druk. Hoewel BKCI-instellingen internationaal hoog aangeschreven staan en onmisbaar zijn voor de stad, worden de omstandigheden steeds moeilijker. Uit recent onderzoek in opdracht van de Gemeente Amsterdam en MOKER blijken er achter de schermen grote financiële problemen en onzekerheden te spelen. In het Noodplan Beeldende Kunst en Creatieve Industrie roepen wij namens MOKER op tot structurele extra investeringen van € 4,4 miljoen per jaar en beleidsaanpassingen door de Gemeente Amsterdam, de Amsterdamse Kunstraad en het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst. Dit is noodzakelijk om de sector te verstevigen, een stevige positie te geven binnen het stedelijk kunstbestel en perspectief te bieden op ontwikkeling en groei. 🔗 Voor meer informatie en om het noodplan te bekijken, ga naar de link in bio. ____ The contemporary visual arts and creative industries (BKCI) in Amsterdam are under severe pressure. Although BKCI institutions are highly regarded internationally and indispensable to the city, conditions are becoming increasingly difficult. Recent research commissioned by the Municipality of Amsterdam and MOKER reveals that there are significant financial problems and uncertainties behind the scenes. In the Visual Arts and Creative Industries Emergency Plan, we call, on behalf of MOKER, for structural additional investment of €4.4 million per year and policy adjustments by the Municipality of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Arts Council and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. This is necessary to strengthen the sector, secure its position within the local arts ecosystem, and offer prospects for development and growth. 🔗 For more information and to view the emergency plan, please visit the link in the bio.

Learning Palestine is a group of artists, academics, intellectuals and community members, who aim to disseminate knowledge on the history of the ongoing struggle for justice, liberation, and freedom of Palestine and the Palestinian People. One of their methods is the (re-)publishing of texts that ought to be read, circulated and acted upon urgently. These texts are printed as small pamphlets and spread through cultural institutions, book shops and other parties. So far, Learning Palestine has (re-)published contemporary voices such as Rana Issa, Noura Alkhalili and Layal Ftouni, as well as classical texts by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. The pamphlets are printed at Lumbung Press. To spread the word and localise the knowledge about Palestine in the Dutch context, we are organising English to Dutch translation sessions at Casco Art Institute and de Appel. During these evening sessions, we will study and discuss one or more texts, eat together and collectively work on a translation. Next session: Wednesday 20 May, 17:30–21:30 de Appel, Tolstraat 160, 1074 VM Amsterdam If you’d like to attend and contribute, please send an email to Luke (luke[at]casco.art) and Jan-Pieter (janpieter[at]deappel.nl) shortly introducing yourself.

Thanks for coming to last weekend's opening of 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨! The exhibition is open this week from Wednesday–Sunday, 14:00–20:00. 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 is a project that comprises an exhibition at de Appel and a parallel series of screenings and performances, focusing on the inherited traumas of colonial violence and control that continue to shape social, mental and physical bodies across generations. The project is a collaboration between EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art and de Appel. It features a new commission by Dina Mimi and presentations by artists and projects commissioned by EVA International between 2021 and 2025, including Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh; Family Connection; 𝘞𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 – 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱, a project by Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips with former workshop member Anne Crilly; Naeem Mohaiemen; Eoghan Ryan; Clíodhna Timoney and Eimear Walshe. More info: deappel.nl! Photos: Sophia Jiaqi Xu

On May 1st (International Workers’ Day) there will be a People’s Spring Fundraiser at LOLA Lieven in Amsterdam, 11am - 8pm. The fundraiser will raise money for people on the ground in Lebanon, Iran, Palestine Sudan and Cuba. The day is centred around agriculture and resistance, creating a space to come together and learn from struggles that are ongoing, material, and deeply connected. There will be a mix of activities throughout the day: a bookbinding workshop, herbal distillation, a short film programme, a grieving workshop, and a conversation on 'reading propaganda art', to name only a few. Plus: food, music, and an art and craft market! Come by and support your and our local small bussinesses, and stand in solidarity with those facing and resisting genocidal forces. If as a small business you would like to sell your crafts and products in our market with a solidarity percentage for fundraising, please send an email to resistancemarkt[a]proton[dot]me with information about your products.