On the final Thursday evening of the exhibition 1300 Degrees of Translucence, Studio The Future hosts a conversation with creative practitioners and experts in artist residencies, exploring what it takes to make residency programmes truly fair, sustainable, and reciprocal.
The installation 1300 Degrees of Translucence, on view at the Re-Centre, reflects on the creative residency format through the lens of the Creative Residency Arita (CRA) – a residency programme that pairs Dutch makers with local porcelain producers in Arita, Japan. Since 2024, the CRA has been led by Studio The Future.
Guests
Guest speakers are Aya Tokushima @dedao_wen (ceramicist from Arita, Japan/Rotterdam), Akihiro Boujoh @akihiroboujohstudio (artist from Hasami, Japan/Utrecht), Geertje Jacobs @ekwc_oisterwijk (director of EKWC, the international artist-in-residence and research centre for ceramics), and Octave Rimbert-Rivière @octaverimbertriviere (former CRA resident).
Free admission, just register via website Nieuwe Instituut / link in our bio.
Now on display at the Re-Centre: 1300 Degrees of Translucence
How can we transform craft-based residencies, moving them away from exploitative practices and towards fair, sustainable, and mutually beneficial models? The installation 1300 Degrees of Translucence reflects on the creative residency format through the lens of the Creative Residency Arita (CRA) – a residency programme that pairs Dutch makers with local porcelain producers in Arita, Japan.
The installation asks what genuine exchange in residency programmes looks like — and who truly contributes and benefits. It features work by six Saga-based kilns – traditional porcelain workshops – alongside the works of former CRA-residents Octave Rimbert-Rivière and Mirthe Klück. The title refers to the temperature at which porcelain becomes translucent: a transformation that mirrors the conditions needed for something entirely new to emerge.
1300 Degrees of Translucence was developed in collaboration with Saga Prefecture and Studio The Future.
🗓️ 5 March 2026 - 8 May 2026
📍Re-Centre at Nieuwe Instituut
Images: Petra van der Ree
#1300DegreesOfTranslucence #CreativeResidencyArita #Expo2025 #ActivatingCommonGround @creativeresidency.arita@studio_the_future #FujimakiSeitou #藤巻製陶株式会社 #RisoKiln #理想窯 @zuihogama #瑞峰窯 #BunzanSeitou #文山製陶 @Koransha #香蘭社 #KinshoDo #金照堂 @octaverimbertriviere@mirthekluck@nlexpo2025@stimuleringsfonds@mondriaanfonds
11月21日〜23日の3日間『第21回 秋の有田陶磁器まつり「うちやま百貨店」』に出展しています。
2025年 第2期クリエイターとして有田に来ているJonathan Vervoort(ジョナサン・ヴェルフォールト) とOctave Rimbert-Rivière(オクターヴ・ランベール=リヴィエール) の作品をお楽しみいただけます。また、CRAディレクターであるStudio The Future Japan によるZINEも販売しています。
@jjjjjjjjjjpadrino@octaverimbertriviere
会場では、彼らの制作背景を記録した映像の公開も行います。
アーティストも在廊し、コーディネーターが通訳もしますので、ぜひお気軽にお越しください。
【展示期間】
日時:2025年11月21日(金)〜23日(日)
会場:佐賀県有田町内山地区 佐賀県西松浦郡有田町大樽2丁目2−11
(土間スペースにて)
入場:無料
We will be exhibiting at the 21st Autumn Arita Porcelain Festival “Uchiyama Department Store” from November 21 to 23.
You can enjoy works by Jonathan Vervoort and Octave Rimbert-Rivière, who are currently in Arita as 2025 Second-Term Creators. We will also be selling a ZINE produced by Studio The Future Japan, the CRA director.
At the venue, we will screen video footage documenting their creative processes.
The artists will be present, and a coordinator will be available to provide interpretation, so please feel free to drop by.
Exhibition Details
Dates: Friday, November 21 – Sunday, November 23, 2025
Venue: Uchiyama District, Arita Town, Saga Prefecture
2-2-11 Ōtaru, Arita Town, Nishimatsuura-gun, Saga Prefecture
(at the Doma Space)
Admission: Free
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【うちやま百貨店🍁第21回 秋の有田陶磁器まつり】
日時:2025年11月20日(木)〜24日(月・祝)
会場:佐賀県有田町内山地区
主催:特定非営利活動法人アリタカラ
運営:うちやま百貨店実行委員会
後援:有田町、(一社)有田観光協会、有田商工会議所
@uchiyama_hyakkaten
#山辰製型所
#文山窯 @bunzan_offical
#藤巻製陶所 @fujimaki_porcelain
#有田窯業技術センター
@mondriaanfonds@stimuleringsfonds
#criarita #arita #ceramics #craft #residencyprogram #design #art #japan #クリエイティブレジデンシー有田
#有田町 #佐賀県
@studio_the_future@_yukitamai@arita_english@mg_niizeki@xiv_studio_14
Magazine Collaboration:
WORKSIGHT @worksightjp
WORKSIGHT is a media platform that explores key themes and keywords that can serve as guiding principles for envisioning the future of society—such as the circular economy, copyright, Web3, and locality. @kokuyo_official
In its latest issue, in collaboration with Studio The Future and the Nieuwe Instituut, the magazine features a special issue themed “Ideas from Asian Vernacular.”
Japanese intellectual historians, cultural anthropologists, folklorists, foragers, photographers, and web designers gathered at a lodge atop a mountain in Tochigi Prefecture, where they discussed different forms of “gathering and “dialogue [Yoriai 寄合]” rooted in Japanese folk traditions and history—distinct from the Western values that have shaped modernity.
Participants from the Netherlands included Vincent Schipper of Studio The Future and Saeda Nourhussen @seadanourhussen , editor-in-chief of One World. @oneworldnl
Members
Tsutomu Maeda
Misa Hirano Nomoto
Saki Kudo
Akihiro Hatanaka @akirevolution
Vincent Schipper @studio_the_future
Seada Nourhussen @seadanourhussen
Akira Kuroki @qrqi
Yota Shiraishi @yotashiraishi
Hiroki Yamamoto @hiroki_yamamoto
Katsunobu Yoshida @yoshida.katsunobu
Yasuhide Kuge @kugeyasuhide
Shotaro Yamashita @shtrym
Kei Wakabayashi @blkswn.01
Sho Kobayashi @kobayashitutu
Supported by @omaruyama_hotel
Photographs by Hironori Kim
Cover photograph by Yasuhide Kuge @kugeyasuhide
As part of the Dutch Pavilion’s cultural programme at Expo 2025 Osaka, this project is one of six collaborations with different Japanese magazines. Each collaboration encourages critical discussions on key cultural topics, reaching beyond the programme’s physical space.
Curated by: @studio_the_future@qrqi@nieuweinstituut@nlexpo2025 #activatingcommonground
#commonground
#expo2025
Magazine Collaboration:
NEUTRAL COLORS @neutral_colors_magazine
In collaboration with Studio The Future and the Nieuwe Instituut, the latest issue of NEUTRAL COLORS, themed “Stay,” features a contribution by a graphic designer / environmental activist Minami Hirayama, who spent ten days in Amsterdam conducting interviews with six individuals involved in publishing under the theme “Cultural Representation.”
The issue also includes an interview with Mirelle van Tulder, founder of the independent publishing platform Roots to Fruits.
NEUTRAL COLORS is an independent publisher, a magazine, and also the name of its own print and binding studio. By managing every step—from printing and binding to distribution—it aims to establish an economically sustainable, experimental model for mid-scale publishing.
As part of the Dutch Pavilion’s cultural programme at Expo 2025 Osaka, this project is one of six collaborations with different Japanese magazines. Each collaboration encourages critical discussions on key cultural topics, reaching beyond the programme’s physical space.
@minami_hirayama@mirellevantulder@rootstofruits.info@tj0ki@joshua_chillzone@limestone_books_maas@kristyansarkis@___growing___pains___@thepoliticsofdesign@werker.collective@chillzone.books
Curated by: @studio_the_future@qrqi@nieuweinstituut@nlexpo2025 #ActivatingCommonGround
#CommonGround
#Expo2025
Magazine Collaboration:
STUDY @studymagazine2014
In collaboration with Studio The Future and the Nieuwe Instituut, Japanese magazine STUDY teamed up with Amsterdam-based photographer Pieter Numan for a fashion shoot around Zeitgeist—a brand inspired by Japanese secondhand clothing culture, reinterpreted within Amsterdam’s local context.
Founded by editor Hiroaki Nagahati in 2014, STUDY is an independent fashion magazine that unravels pop culture—including music and film—through the lens of fashion. The magazine also incorporates a sociological perspective, exploring the cultural background behind individual styles through in-depth interviews.
As part of the Dutch Pavilion’s cultural programme at Expo 2025 Osaka, this project is one of six collaborations with different Japanese magazines. Each collaboration encourages critical discussions on key cultural topics, reaching beyond the programme’s physical space.
Photo: @pieter_numan
Styling: @pilarmadimin
Hair: @janfuite
Make-up: @carlossaidel
Models: @terror_teru@s.aatan@nathanpassage1@abiebeauty@fatmagulkok@bazelik_ya@vein.agency@aplmodelmanagement
Curated by: @studio_the_future@qrqi@nieuweinstituut@nlexpo2025 #activatingcommonground
#commonground
#expo2025
Last stacks of books coming in for the opening this Friday 📘📕📙📗 See you at the opening!
📚 Grand Opening: Chillzone Bookstore 🗓 Friday 18 July | 🕓 16:00–21:00 📍 Van Diemenstraat 410, Amsterdam
Chillzone Bookstore opening: We’re opening our doors! Chillzone Bookstore is a new space for books, images, sound, and conversation — a meeting place where collectivity, (self-)publishing, and alternative narratives come together. We focus on publications from Southeast Asia, marginal voices, DIY publishing, and independent makers. From zines to artist books, from critical theory to visual experiments.
✨ For the opening, we’re also proud to present an exhibition by artist Nadie Borggreve
Installation: love in a mist, devil in the bush:
With love in a mist, devil in the bush, Borggreve draws on the haunting duality inherent in flowers — delicate yet tangled, alluring yet withdrawn. Known by both romantic and ominous names, they become symbols of concealment: of what is kept close, protected, or hidden from view. This installation marks a shift in her approach. Where her previous works often remained on the wall, here the viewer is invited to physically step inside her world.
Nadie Borggreve (b. 1991, Amsterdam) is an artist based in Amsterdam. She is known for her intricate wall-based works that combine tufted textiles with oil pastel drawing, and how she transforms natural elements into dreamlike worlds that explore our spiritual connection to nature.
Come have drinks! 💫
ZINE LAUNCH !
On Tuesday July 1st — Keti Koti, we invite you to Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum for the launch of a new publication featuring new works by 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐨: ⠀
a visual and historical intervention titled: ⠀
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“𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝” ⠀
(𝐀 𝐧𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐝𝐢 𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐢 𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐮) ⠀
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📖 The publication brings together a new series of painted Black resistance figures and a critical reflection on the visual legacy of Delft Blue — exploring how beauty, memory, and colonial silence have been entangled for centuries. ⠀
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Aidoo’s work centers on African diasporic identity and the politics of historical erasure. ⠀
Trained in both Fine Art and Film, his practice examines how images shape what — and who — is remembered. ⠀
This new series extends that focus: ⠀
by using the ornamental blue of Delftware to portray Black historical figures often excluded from dominant visual traditions, ⠀
he reclaims a space of national symbolism and reframes it as a site of presence, dignity, and resistance. ⠀
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The evening opens with a short introduction by Vincent Schipper from Chillzone / Studio The Future, followed by the launch and space for reflection and conversation. ⠀
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📍 Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum, Spui 14–16, Amsterdam ⠀
📅 Tuesday , July 1st (Keti Koti) ⠀
🕔 17:00 – 19:00
Intimate Confessions + corecore brings you a book fair and music programme at Chillzone – a new project space and bookshop at Het Veem. With printed matter by seven local publishers and collectives: zines and sound collective 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱, publishing platform 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘; trans-disciplinary and hybrid studio 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴; the technology, art and design cooperative 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 & 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀; Catherine Hu’s publishing imprint 𝗛𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀; Cleo TSW’s publishing house 𝗢𝗳𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲; and 𝗥𝘆𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀, the new imprint of the collective and book fair bring your own book. During this Sunday afternoon, hourly DJ sets are provided by 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗹, 𝗝𝘂𝗷𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗲, 𝗕𝗮𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗶 & 𝗴𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝗹𝗼 and 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲. The day closes with live performances by 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗺 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗼, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗼 and 𝗺𝘆 𝗦𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮.
Food will be served by Sumin Lee @s.m.l.xl.xxl between 1 and 4pm. First come, first served!
📌 Sunday 13 July, noon to 7.30pm
Chillzone @ Werkgebouw Het Veem
Van Diemenstraat 410, Amsterdam
Free entrance