Framer Framed

Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past

Join us in creating a monumental tapestry measuring 35 meters long and 3 meters high

Framer Framed Noord: Om de tafel

Join us for lunch with neighbourhood chefs Habiba and Farideh and help shape the programme for Framer Framed Noord

Performance: iTi Ritual Studies with Yonela Makoba

Enjoy a performance based in the Xhosa ritual iTi by South African artist Yonela Makoba

Presentation: Menaut Waktu. Merekam Jejak. (Threading Time. Archiving Traces.)

Presentation by artist Jay Afrisando as part of the Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed’s residency programme

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Wicked Card Assignments

In this workshop led by Secret Arts Teacher Saskia van Heugten, participants create artistic cards featuring various stimulating constraints

Exhibition: Secret Arts Teachers

A group presentation in which the classroom enters the exhibition space

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Oracle Reading

During the workshop, participants create their own oracle card and take part in an oracle reading led by Secret Arts Teacher Sveva de Valk

Gathering: Intersectional Archive

Join for the second gathering of The Intersectional Archive, which researches the need for an archive as a place where fragmented histories and stories come together

Secret Arts Teachers: Masterclass Programme

Join for a masterclass by artist-teacher Henry Ward and workshops by three Secret Arts Teachers

Molentuin Harvest Festival with 4Siblings at Framer Framed Noord

Framer Framed Noord celebrates the end of its first season in the Molentuin, together with 4Siblings and the gardening group

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Master Forgers

In this workshop led by Secret Arts Teacher Tessa Smal, participants take on the role of master forgers and recreate a work of art in their own style

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Valuable Failure

This workshop by Secret Arts Teacher Naomi Jansen focuses on the value of failure, shame and shortcomings

Decaramelism: On Sugar and Community

Join for a conversation exploring the community-based artistic practice by Arie Syarifuddin and his long-term research into sugar production in Jatiwangi

Around The Table: a communal lunch with neighbourhood cooks at Framer Framed Noord

Enjoy a lunch prepared by neighbourhood cooks Habiba and Farideh and help shape the programme for Framer Framed Noord

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Rap and Rhythm

In this workshop led by Secret Arts Teacher Jan Tensen, participants delve into the world of rap, hip-hop, rhyme and rhythm

Secret Arts Teachers Workshop: Sweet Memories

In this workshop led by Secret Arts Teacher Stephanie Koning, participants recreate a memory using marshmallows, focussed on trial and error

BredaPhoto: Slidefest

Join for an evening of artist presentations focussed on the SWANA region, organised by BredaPhoto

Open House: Framer Framed Noord

Open house at Framer Framed Noord, Framer Framed’s project space for art and culture in Amsterdam-Noord

Exhibition: Wild Waters

Curated by Àngels Miralda, the exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power

Workshop: Monstrous Waters

Two-day workshop combining auto-fiction, cut-up techniques, symbolism and world-building, as part of the finissage of Wild Waters

Guided Tour: Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity

Guided tour by curator Àngels Miralda of the exhibition Wild Waters

Artist Talk: Hydropolitics of Occupation

As part of the finissage of Wild Waters, Framer Framed organises an artist talk with Jumana Emil Abboud and Areej Ashhab on the significance of water in the Palestinian landscape

Sprouts Film Festival: Aquatic Short Stories

Film screenings and conversations explore our relationship with water, aquatic histories and speculative fiction

Presentation: Moving Love

The project aims to widen the focus of queer stories, which often centre on fear and precarity, by sharing accounts of hope and love

Around the table: a communal lunch with artist Anita Kluge at Framer Framed Noord

Enjoy a lunch prepared by artist Anita Kluge and help shape the programme for Framer Framed Noord

Creative workshop for children

Framer Framed is organising a creative workshop for children aged 8 and over, led by artist and educator Naomi Rosheuvel

Conference: Queer & Trans Social Justice: Art, Community & Survival

This one-day conference examines how art, creativity and community can advance social justice for queer and transgender people

Opening: Moving Love (Rescheduled)

Join the presentation of Moving Love, a film project for and by queer refugees

Workshop series: Moving Love Think Tank Sessions

As part of the presentation Moving Love, this workshop series invites participants into conversation to explore the multiple perspectives that shape and are shaped by the asylum system

Summer Garden Party: opening of the ‘Molentuin’ community garden

The communal garden in front of the former Werkplaats Molenwijk premises is opening with a festive dinner with local residents

Family Embodiment Practice: Book Kin, Home Arrival

Social artist Sun Chang hosts a ritual homecoming for 'Family Embodiment Practice', a queer-migrant art pedagogy shaped through six years of community research

Artist Lunch with Anas Chao in Framer Framed Noord

Enjoy a lunch prepared by artist Anas Chao and help shape the programme for Framer Framed Noord

A Closer Reading of the Floating Gardens with Radna Rumping

The culmination of the 2026 Framer Framed x UvA Political Science fellowship with a special programme by 2026 fellow Radna Rumping

Artist Residency: Lucía Madriz at Framer Framed Noord

Working with grains and seeds, artist Lucía Madriz assembles an installation at Framer Framed Noord

Guided tour: Wild Waters: Dams and Deltas After Modernity

Guided Tour by curator Àngels Miralda of the exhibition Wild Waters

Performance: Fractally in Medias Res by A Capetonian Quintet

In the spirit of Keti Koti, this musical performance reclaims colonial Dutch music as an act of resistance

The Empathy Bar: Music, Stories and Poetry

An evening filled with music, stories and poetry from national and international ‘empathy warriors’ and activists

Community event: Alle Kleuren Oost

Come and help shape Pride Oost 2026: the neighbourhood party with a touch of pink, celebrating the rich diversity of Amsterdam East

Book Presentation: Open Archief 4.0 – A History that Never Arrived

Final publication launch of the Open Archief residency project with researcher Wassila Abboud and decolonial feminist theorist Françoise Vergès

Living with the Delta: Myth, Memory and Water Knowledge

A programme that delves into the lives of waterside communities from different geographical perspectives

Opening: Wild Waters. Dams and Deltas After Modernity

Opening of the exhibition Wild Waters, featuring a performance by sound collective GalalaLive

Artist Picnic with Lucía Madriz

Meet artist Lucía Madriz, join us for a meal and view her new installation at Framer Framed Noord

Book Launch and Workshop: Radical Quilting by Dyke March Amsterdam

This evening dives into fiber art outside of heteronormativity and at different intersections

Open Ateliers Noord Weekend at Framer Framed Noord

During the Open Ateliers Noord weekend, Framer Framed Noord is offering its space to local artists who do not have their own studio so that they can exhibit their work

Book Fair: Notes to Other Futures

Book Fair, book launch and party to celebrate the anniversary publication of Framer Framed

Book Launch: Notes to Other Futures

Book Fair, book launch and party to celebrate the anniversary publication of Framer Framed

Workshop: Breath & Breeze – by HumDrumPress

Collaborative workshop during the Framer Framed Book Fair.

Presentation: Where Amsterdam and art meet

In this project, artists and local residents from Amsterdam East are engaging in dialogue about their neighbourhood

Finissage: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities

The finissage wraps up the exhibition by bringing different geographies of nuclear colonialism and resistance in conversation

Exhibition: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities

Curated by Fabienne Rachmadiev, the exhibition traces the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism and resistance, presented in collaboration with Sonic Acts

Melting Dutch Pot with Anas Chao in Framer Framed Noord

Join for a collective lunch at Framer Framed Noord, prepared by artist Anas Chao with ingredients brought by local residents and participants

Book Presentation: Dreaming of Dreams

This publication by Maurice Bogaert is a book about dreaming as a political act

Book Presentation and Workshop: They asked me to design a house, I asked them to design a home

The programme explores the experience of domestic spaces through presentation and participatory workshops

Workshop: Ancestral Disassimilation, Somatic Abolitionism and Desire of Belonging to a Hegemonic Culture

Workshop by artists Anne Jesuina and Thais di Marco on ancestral anti-colonial knowledge and cosmologies

Listening Session: T1/2 (Half-Life) - met Kamila Narysheva

Listening session with artist Kamila Narysheva around the sound installation T1/2 (Half-Life)

Book Presentation: Slamming Doors: Falling Out and Fighting Back in a Housing Crisis

New publication edited by Winnie Herbstein and Mason Leaver-Yap that reflects on housing justice, community organising and feminist labour

Workshop Post-Tyranny Tech & Digital Independence

The session led by Post-X Society demonstrates ways of working independently from 'Big Tech' software

Launch: Errant Journal #9 Companions

Errant Journal #9 explores the radical potential of companionship

Workshop: Robusta and the Vacuum Landscape

Coffee tasting experience stimulating reflection on colonial histories, land and resistance.

Presentation: Open Archief 4.0 with mo Futures and Wassila Abboud

Final event Open Archief 2025-2026, a collaborative project that explores the potentials of making archival material accessible

DATAGOV: Governance by Data Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic Democracy

A programme investigating the impact and social costs of regulatory data infrastructures

Call and Response: Archive and Counterarchive

Panel discussion on archival research which explores the impact of Dutch colonialism on disabled/difabel people in Indonesia together.

Guided Tour & Performance: Between Fires

A guided tour of Between Fires, an exhibition tracing the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism and resistance

Book Launch: This Queer Arab Family

An evening focussed on a book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations

Roundtable: Nuclear Histories and Protest Movements

A discursive evening on the role of art and culture in anti-nuclear resistance and solidarity movements

Opening: Framer Framed Noord

Opening of Framer Framed's new project space for art and culture in the north of Amsterdam.

Film Programme: Gendered Lives in the Aftermath of Toxicity

A film programme and public lecture addressing the intergenerational impact and slow violence of nuclear colonialism from a gender-focused perspective

Screening at Het Documentaire Paviljoen: AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB

Screening of AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB, a film investigating the layered and unsettling histories surrounding the Salton Sea in Southern California

Artist Talk: Roger Peet – Dig Up The Sun

Conversation with artist Roger Peet about his work Dig Up The Sun (2022), which traces the passage of uranium from DR Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine through the infrastructure of the Manhattan Project

Opening Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities

Opening of the exhibition Between Fires, featuring a performance by buulbuul

Re:Use Clinic - Altaring Archives

An altar-making workshop led by Chimira Obiefule and a creative writing workshop led by Savannah Wolin.

Opening Exhibition: Remembering Otherwise - OBA De Hallen

Opening of Remembering Otherwise by belit sağ in OBA De Hallen, with an introduction by district mayor Fenna Ulichki, musical performances, readings and a panel talk with the artist

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 5 - Synthetic Ancestors, Becoming-With Symbiotic Kin

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Finissage: Srefidensi – Suriname Vrij!

Finissage of the exhibition Srefidensi – Suriname Vrij! Symbols of 50 Years of Surinamese Independence

Exhibition: Srefidensi – Suriname Vrij! Symbols of 50 Years of Surinamese Independence

Curated by Vincent van Velsen, the exhibition brings together two projects by Sara Blokland & Jaya Pelupessy and Xavier Robles de Medina that focus on prominent symbols of Surinamese Independence

Exhibition: Shapeshifters

A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge

Book Fair: VIVA VIVA Art

An art book fair by Rijksakademie where visitors can find unique printed matter and support the international artist community of Amsterdam

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 4 - Re-Stor(y)ing Transformation, Braiding the Hybrid Bio-Landscape

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Workshop: Moulding the Mask, Finding the Face

A two-day mask making workshop exploring memory, heritage and creative ritual through the tactile process of papier-mâché and clay

Guided Tour: Shapeshifters, On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation

Guided tour of the exhibition Shapeshifters, examining how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood

Screening: Stories from Tomorrow – Sinophone Imaginations of Resilient Futures

A screening of Sinophone video artworks by Li Yi-Fan, aaajiao, Fei Yining, He Zike and Chen Yin-Ju

Workshop: Weaving stories #3: the being of relation

Workshop exploring practices of relationality and how to move with a world in movement

Workshop: Moving Labels – Shifting Narratives

A series of workshops by Barbara Neves Alves with Clare Butcher and Pedro Manuel about re-interpreting museum labels

Performance: Ask Me for Those Unborn Promises that May Seem Unlikely to Happen in the Natural

A hybrid live event, part essayistic lecture, part immersive audiovisual performance, exploring the speculative violence of images generated by artificial intelligence

Book Launch: MAKAN #3: Synthetic Agencies

The book launch of MAKAN's third issue invites readers to rethink (and unthink) dominant assumptions, polarities and discontents surrounding the notion of agency

Re:Use Clinic - The Question of Culture

A conversation on the legacies of the MENA and Iranian Left within archive collections and heritage institutions.

Exhibition: Remembering Otherwise

Solo exhibition by artist belit sağ in collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova on a pivotal 1978 labour dispute led by migrant women workers from Turkey

Finissage: Remembering Otherwise

Finissage of the exhibition Remembering Otherwise, diving into the story of three migrant women workers from Turkey

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 3 – Repair Speculative Kin

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Echoes and Traces: Experimental Cartographies of Love, Loss, and Memory

Film screening by Asian Movie Night and QYZQARAS Film Festival.

Symposium: Cultural Imagination and the Legacy of Colonialism

This event features creative and scholarly work that engages with the legacies of colonialism and push for social and cultural change

Guided Tour in Turkish: Remembering Otherwise

Guided Tour in Turkish by artist belit sağ through the exhibition Remembering Otherwise

Screening: Eye on Art – Remembering Otherwise

A special film screening and Q&A at Eye Filmmuseum with artist belit sağ for her Framer Framed exhibition, Remembering Otherwise.

Transcorporeality in Toxic Times

A session exploring the relationality and porosity of human and non-human bodies and how these are affected by toxicity

Counter-Institutional Data Practices

A full day programme on liberatory data practices from decolonising and democratising perspectives

The Work of Contextualising - by belit sağ

A conversation focusing on the contextualisation of belit sağ’s research, which led to the creation of the solo exhibition Remembering Otherwise

Book Presentation: Unruly Kinships, edited by Kris Dittel and Aneta Rostkowska

Book presentation exploring alternative perspectives on interpersonal relationships in contemporary society, focusing on collectivity and moving away from the boundaries of blood relations and the nuclear family

Pain Perdu workshop with Studio CoPain

Pain Perdu workshop and breakfast to close the exhibition 'Bread Art in the Molenwijk'

Exhibition: Bread Art in the Molenwijk

This exhibition, taking place in Werkplaats Molenwijk, examines cultural and social practices surrounding bread, dough and baking

Checkpoint Time: Architectures of Control and Resistance

A workshop and seminar that critically examines spatial instruments of Israeli domination in Palestine – as well as the possibilities for resistance embedded within them

Symposium: From Echoes to Slogans

A day-long symposium of talks and performances within Prince Claus Fund's CAREC programme

Symposium: Shapeshifters

Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation

Beyond the Archival: Visual Memories of First-Generation Female Migrants from Turkey in the Netherlands

The panel discussion addresses the context of life and work in the Netherlands in relation to the first-generation migrant women workers from Turkey

Opening: Shapeshifters

Group exhibition that examines how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood

Workshop: Creative Resistance - part of Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam 2025

A writing workshop hosted as part of Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam 2025

Workshop: Palestinian Tatreez - part of Palestinian Film Festival Amsterdam 2025

A workshop on tatreez, a traditional type of embroidery which forms an important element of Palestinian cultural heritage as part of PFFA 2025

Bread as Gathering: Building a Bread Sculpture with Studio CoPain

Bake and assemble a sculpture made of bread for the exhibition 'Bread Art in the Molenwijk'

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 2 - Water Bodies

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Symposium: Dealing with the Real Stuff

Symposium on the combination of activist art and education to conclude the multi-year project Dealing with the Real Stuff

Opening: Remembering Otherwise

Opening of the solo exhibition artist belit sağ, conceived in close collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova.

Kijkje in de Keuken in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Free food and exhibition in the company of other local residents in the Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord

Exhibition: Lawan!

An exhibition that brings attention to the legacies of post-colonial imperialist expansion in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua

Moving Memories: Countering Historical Silences, Narrating Archives of the Indonesian Left

Public launch of Watch65’s archival website to decolonise Indonesian historiography and reclaim the nation’s narration

Against the State's Single History: A Conversation with Indonesian Exiles

Panel with Indonesian exiles in the Netherlands expanding on the interpretations of what happened in 1965/1966

Roundtable: Decolonizing the Gaze – The Colonial Heritage of Italian and International Fashion Design

A project and panel discussion examining how fashion has historically contributed to the visual construction of colonial ideologies

Cross-border Solidarity: The Case of Komitee Indonesië

Documentary screening and panel discussion contemplating the work and legacy of Komitee Indonesië

Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 1 - Becoming Wind(s)

A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together

Opening: Lawan!

Exhibition opening of a pop-up show bringing attention to the colonial legacies in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua.

How to Sustain a Movement: Launch of Alchemy of Commons

Website launch of Alchemy of Commons, a project by Yin Aiwen, exploring the intersection of art and commons through the lens of digitally assisted governance

Launch: Errant Journal #8, Against Visibility (or, the Right to Opacity)

Errant Journal #8 questions the ways in which hegemonic culture prioritises the ideal of visibility

Workshop Tablecloth Embroidery during 24 Hours North in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Embroidery workshop on the theme of 'food cultures of the world' with Molenwijk door Elkaar & Rachel Walker-Konno

THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Performance installation that explores themes of transformation, in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis

Finissage: THE TAIL

Finissage of the performance installation THE TAIL with talks by Tessa de Boer from MAISON the FAUX and Alma Noor (aka DJ YoungWoman), followed by karaoke with Eastern Playgrounds

Finding Our Legs: A WERQ Workout for THE TAIL

Update: unfortunately, this event has been cancelled due to the warm weather. A workout in solidarity with the mermaid's transformation, followed by a conversation on reclaiming sport as a trans and/or queer athlete.

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #2

Workshop session for queer people who are interested in archiving their personal stories and experiences

The Other Voice in the Fairy Tale

This workshop explores what it means to inhabit the marginal voices in fairy tales, such as The Little Mermaid

The Ghana Queer Underground

A presentation, talk and screening examining what it means to reclaim one’s existence as a queer individual in Ghana

Spoken Word: Queer Tales of Transformation

An evening of spoken word performances and an open mic, inspired by MAISON the FAUX’s installation THE TAIL

Cutting Through: A Queer Collage Workshop

A collage workshop inspired by the themes of installation THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Media, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Queer Cultural Sector

A talk about the role of media in breaking through structures of abuse within the cultural sector

Launch: LIMBO Booklet

The launch of the second LIMBO booklet with an afternoon of art, food, music, rhythm dance and celebration

Dancehall Divas Then and Now: Framing the Caribbean Feminist Narrative

This event explores the gendered dynamics of Dancehall culture through performance, discussion, and visual material

Workshop in Werkplaats Molenwijk: Living Bread (عيش)

Workshop exploring the sensory and political elements of bread through folklore, bread sculpting and sharing stories

Performances: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Live performances in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis.

Introduction and Q&A with MAISON the FAUX

Before the final performance of THE TAIL, creators Tessa de Boer and Joris Suk from MAISON the FAUX give an introduction to the work and its development

Queer & Price: Queering the Fair Practice Code

Conference that examines the significance of equitable compensation within queer and transgender communities

Exhibition: Broodnodig

An exhibition of the creative process of young people from the Molenwijk neighbourhood as part of the education project, Zelf Gemaakt!

Caring through kneading: workshop in Bakery Solinger

Workshop: a baking and sharing session at Bakkerij Solinger at NDSM-werf as part of the Bread art in the Molenwijk program

Kijkje in de Keuken in Werkplaats Molenwijk – Bread

Free food and exhibition in the company of other local residents in the Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord

Mapping Workshop: Subjective Cartography of the Dutch border

Workshop exploring the global visibility of the Netherlands, plus how and for whom its borders are constructed.

Ecological Repairs: Coca Plant, Conflict and Creation

Workshop about creating handmade paper using coca leaves, while reflecting on the complex and often contradictory meaning of the coca plant

Colonial Violence Then and Now: From Vught to Gaza

Critical scholars examine the deep connections between Europe's colonial past and contemporary forms of violence and exclusion.

Workshop: Malen met Brood Verhalen

A workshop on how bread and grains carry stories and memories in Workshop Molenwijk

Exhibition: Planetary Poetics Graduation Show

Planetary Poetics considers how to imagine alternative visions for this planet beyond extraction and extermination

weaving stories #2: Co-creating conditions of possibilities at the end of the world as we know

Participatory programme exploring practices of relationality and how to move with a world in movement.

Finissage: Past Disquiet

On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May, Framer Framed concludes the exhibition Past Disquiet with a full weekend programme

Exhibition: Past Disquiet

Curated by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, this documentary and archival exhibition uncovers a largely forgotten history of politically engaged artists and initiatives

Symposium: Slow AI – Practices of Thinking, Sensing, and Refusing

Day-long symposium reimagining artificial intelligence through artistic practice and the lenses of ethics, relationality, and refusal.

Solidarity Poster Printing - by Leaky Press

Poster printing workshop at KIOSK Rotterdam, inspired by Past Disquiet

Film screening: Past Disquiet at Het Documentaire Paviljoen

On 11 May at Het Documentaire Paviljoen, curator Rasha Salti presents two films to accompany the exhibition Past Disquiet

Welcoming Ritual: Flour Drawings with Anita Kluge

Workshop centred around cultural rituals and creative traditions involving bread in the Molenwijk

Printmaking workshop: Past Disquiet

Screen printing and colouring workshops led by changing artists and initiatives, as part of the exhibition Past Disquiet

Guided Tour: Past Disquiet

Guided tour of the exhibition, highlighting the connection between cultural practice and political action

A Cutting Room Floor: Practices & Methods of Disclosing Militant Cinema

Conversation which aims to discuss strategic practices of anti-colonial audiovisual collections.

Work Session on Art and Activism: Where Are We Heading?

A public brainstorming and day of action for renewed solidarity, set against the backdrop of the exhibition Past Disquiet

Socialist Cosmopolitanism and Its Afterlife – from On Kino Archives

Film screening and conversation with artists and filmmakers Qin Dao and Bo Wang

Screening: What the Olive Branch Has Seen

Screening and discussion of a film selection revolving around transnational solidarity.

Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial

An exhibition of the CICC in London focused on the colonial and industrial crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company.

Exhibition: Monument Zero

Artist Katayoon Barzegar draws on scarce archival materials from the 1979 International Women’s Day protests in Iran to build a bridge between past and present feminist struggles

Book Launch: Armed by Design

Book launch celebrating the graphic and intellectual legacy of Cuba’s Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL).

CICC School London – Indigo Resistances: Sonic and Textile Testimonies

Artists Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic (Messengers of the Sun) explore the colonial legacies of the indigo trade

The Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action, Solidarity, Art and the Archive

Screening and talk diving into the history of RaRa, an anonymous collective that fought racism and the legacies of the Netherlands’ colonial past

Black Family Archives: Theorising on Death, Mourning and Discomfort

The programme aims to examine questions of Black Death, grief and mourning through methodologies that use familial narratives and oral histories as empirical materials

Workshop: All Access Archive

Workshop exploring the possibilities of an open-source archive platform, initiated by graphic designers Minhu Jun and Özgür Deniz Koldaş

Kijkje in de Keuken in Werkplaats Molenwijk – Iftar

Free food (iftar) and exhibition in the company of other local residents in the Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord

Screening: DESERT PHOSfate

Screening and conversation about phosphate mining and their impact on the Sahrawi community

Reconstruction and Spatial Justice in Palestine

Seminar interrogating the role of architecture in reproducing cycles of destruction and domination in Palestine

Bakunin’s Barricade: Answered

A conversation with Ahmet Öğüt on museum collections, art, and its use for activism

Book Talk: Inheritance – A Speculative Ethnography of Evidence

Book presentation in collaboration with The Research Center for Material Culture on the bodily inheritance of colonial frameworks and the tools to resist them.

The Acknowledgment of Loss, Listening to the Amazon Forest

Talk and screening of short films exploring the (im)possibilites of cultural translation and ancestral knowledge in the Amazon.

Book Launch: Monument Zero

Publication launch on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Workshop: 100 Butterflies for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Girls, and Non-Binary People

Textile workshop on embroidery and crafts as a means of feminist resistance in the context of International Women's Day

From Archives to Exhibition Scenography: Notes on Past Disquiet

The event focuses on the history and design Past Disquiet, which has been travelling the world since its first edition in 2015

Opening: Past Disquiet

Opening of the exhibition Past Disquiet with an introduction by curator Rasha Salti and a performance by protest song choir Verzet per Couplet

Stay Strong Photo Stories #6

Photo project for Ukrainian newcomers in Amsterdam, led by Karine Zenja Verluis in collaboration with Framer Framed

Weaving Towards Post-Extractive Cultures

Participatory event reflecting on post-extractive cultures, practices of care, solidarity, and decolonisation.

Finissage Weekender – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

On Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 January 2025, Framer Framed concludes the exhibition The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories with a weekend of talks, performances, music and celebrations.

Exhibition: The Anarchist Citizenship – People Made of Stories

Exhibition on how storytelling and visual culture (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora

Guided Tour – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Framer Framed invites you to join a guided tour of the exhibition The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Baati as Archive: Somali Textile Culture, History, and Ecology

With artist and educator Kinsi Abdulleh and writer and community organizer Philsan Osman

Gathering: Shaax iyo Sheeko

A relaxed tea gathering in a pop-up café format for the Somali community in the Netherlands.

Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Screening of Retazos Móviles, a documentary about resistance, migration and collective memories through the Arpilleras textile tradition

Book Launch: System of Systems, Managing Displacement Series

Presentation of a new publication series exploring the intricate web of migration management within and beyond Europe's borders.

Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Molenwijk Textile Memories

Practical workshop series on female textile heritage in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Panel Discussion: Desire and Vision – Art, Philanthropy, and Decolonial Futures

Panel discussion examining the colonial history of European philanthropic support for arts and culture in the Global South

Bricks and Mortar

Discursive programme exploring how political movements navigate conflict.

Exhibition: Metamorphosis Manifesting

The Open Atelier community invites you to explore the various stages and experiences that shape each artist's unique creative journey

Artist Talk: Lupin, fougère, genêt - by Susanne Kriemann

Presentation on artistic research on the effects of uranium mining.

Inward Outward - Revisiting Witnessing & the Archive: A Conversation with Tina Campt & Mohanad Yaqubi

Event by Inward Outward on the themes of conflict, coloniality and image and sound archives, organised by KITLV, RCMC and Sound & Vision

Autumn Field Trip to IDFA: The Brink of Dreams

Trip with Werkplaats Molenwijk to The Brink of Dreams, a documentary about women who form a street theatre group in Egypt

Workshop: Oh Sh!t, You Again? | Methodologies of Migration by Ishani Chatterjee

Workshop exploring challenges and struggles faced by non-EU practitioners in the cultural sector.

Film Screening and Conversation: An Afternoon with Qin Dao (On Kino)

Screening of rare films followed by a conversation about how a community space for screenings can encourage critical reflection on socio-political issues.

Performance: 0UT SPOK3N B$Cht%% by Thais Di Marco

A work-in-progress presentation by artist Thais Di Marco, recipient of the Amsterdam Fund for the Art’s 3Package Deal programme

Art is Resistance! Make Your Own Protest Banner

Join artist Freya Wysocki for their workshop Art is Resistance! Make Your Own Protest Banner

Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lullabies

Listening session with artist Lucia Kagramanyan, curated by League of Tenders as part of Vleeshal’s International Nomadic Program

Launch: Errant Journal #7, Embodying Resistance

Errant Journal #7 aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below

Museum Night Amsterdam 2024

A programme at Foam, co-curated by Framer Framed.

Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo

A coffee tasting workshop and the book launch of Cocuyo, by artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán of Proyecto Cocuyo at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Opening The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Opening of the exhibition which examines how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora

Curatorial Talk: Elham Puriya Mehr on Coffeehouses as Emancipatory Learning Atmospheres

Curatorial talk with research resident Elham Puriya Mehr, who presents her research into coffeehouses as emancipatory learning atmospheres

Launch of LOOK: An Interactive Investigation Into Eye Contact

Presentation of an interactive audio installation and podcast on eye contact by Prosper de Roos at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Exhibition: Moving Rurality by Peng Zhang

Presentation of the installation by Peng Zhang outside of Framer Framed for Public Art Amsterdam

Wish Talisman Workshop

A ceramics workshop especially for women in the Molenwijk neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord

Opening: Vrij Atelier

Weekly drop-in workshop for and by the Molenwijk

Book launch: Visible – Art As Policies for Care. Socially Engaged Art

Publication exploring the transformative potential of socially engaged art practices

Pulping Power and Making Ghosts: Workshop and artist talk by Rajyashri Goody

Artist talk and workshop by Rajyashri Goody in the context of the Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area of the University of Amsterdam

Finissage: Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis

Symposium with artists, theorists, researchers and activists on our contemporary crisis of knowledge

Exhibition: Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis

Exhibition about the commodification of knowledge and ignorance, curated by Mi You and David Garcia

STREAM ART DAY with UKRAiNATV

All-day event focused on streaming practices, hybrid and tactical media, stream art and expanded TV

Symposium: Het Gedeeld Domein

Symposium on the place of art in the city's scarce shared space, organised by Public Art Amsterdam and Stadscuratorium Amsterdam

Mapping Peatland Justice: Embedding Time and Traces

Workshop led by the collective RE-PEAT open to artists, environmentalists, and activists for ELIA Creative Skills Week 2024

Award Ceremony Young Artsupport Amsterdam

Award ceremony from Young Artsupport Amsterdam Foundation

Book Presentation: Archival Textures – (Re)claiming

Using archival traces to show how queer and feminist communities in the Netherlands have (re)claimed symbols, words and stories as a means of empowerment

24 Hours Oost: Exhibition tours 'Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis'

Guided tours as part of 24 Hours Oost's programme celebrating Amsterdam's 750th anniversary

Presentation: Documenting the Ecological Crisis Through Stories of Seaweed and Coastal Culture

Presentation in collaboration with the research project Seaweed Et cetera, about seaweed farming off the coasts of Indonesia

Rise & Shine: Midzomer Mokum in the Molenwijk

Workshops for young people during Midzomer Mokum at Werkplaats Molenwijk and Satirius

Exhibition: Sensible Past in Surabaya – Of Distances and the Fabrication of the Frame

Group exhibition in Surabaya, Indonesia with Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed artists-in-residence

Exhibition: Breaking Waves

The exhibition Breaking Waves by artist Clara Jo on epidemiological and maritime movement

Queer Open Stage: Act 11

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Reading Walvistraan in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Afternoon reading session of the publication by artist Golrokh Nafisi and writer Ahmadali Kadivar.

Pride Photo: A Love Letter to Queer Resilience

An evening programme highlighting some of the incredible visual stories in this year’s Pride Photo exhibition.

Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Refuge and Textile Memories

Practical workshop series on female textile heritage

Open Call: Archiving the Present workshop series

A workshop series by Archival Consciousness focused on translating physical collections into digital archives

Book Launch: Walvistraan

Official book launch of Walvistraan: A Love Story in a Time of Extinction and Isolation by Golrokh Nafisi and Ahmadali Kadivar, written during their 2023 residency in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Ancestral Damages: Demanding Climate Reparations

Workshop with climate justice activist and researcher Marcela Varconte.

Decolonial Summer School: Celebrating 15 Years of the Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School

Events hosted by leading experts in the field of decolonial thinking at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven)

Synthetic Vision/Images of Power: Truth, Evidence, Labour & Knowledge in the Age of AI

Two-day conference about AI and imaging

Opening: Really? Art & Knowledge in Time of Crisis

Opening of the exhibition about the commodification of knowledge and ignorance, curated by Mi You and David Garcia

Presentation: The Art of Young Children

Presentation of work made by children from Amsterdam East, organised with Stichting Toeval Gezocht

Open Studio: Weaving a Pluriversity

A series of gatherings on the human connection to our environments, organised by the Pluriversity Weavers

Weaving a Pluriversity: Conversation between Mamo Arwawiku and Rolando Vázquez Melken

Final gathering by the Pluriversity Weavers on the human connection to our environments

Book launch: Connecting the Dots by Amsterdam Dyke March

Presentation of Connecting the Dots, a publication by Amsterdam Dyke March on queer theory

Children's Atelier: Through the Lens of Nature

A children's atelier inspired by nature within the context of the exhibition, The One-Straw Revolution.

Artist Tour & Workshop: Breaking Waves

Artist tour end workshop by artist Clara Jo as part of her exhibition Breaking Waves during Amsterdam Art Week

Molenwijk bloeit

The Molenwijk door elkaar group organises dinners for the neighbourhood to celebrate spring

Opening: Breaking Waves

Opening of the exhibition Breaking Waves by artist Clara Jo during Amsterdam Art Week

Queer Open Stage: Act 10

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Creative Publication Launch: to M•Others #2

Launch of publication 'to M•Others #2' with initiator Sun Chang during Queer Open Stage

In conversation with Jodi Dean, Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra about student protests and Gaza

Two events organised by Critical Conversation Collective, together with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Framer Framed

Exhibition: The One-Straw Revolution

An exhibition curated by iLiana Fokianaki exploring permaculture as a methodology for exhibition-making

Finissage: The One-Straw Revolution

Finissage of the exhibition, The One-Straw Revolution, curated by iLiana Fokianaki

Queer environmental embodiment: UÝRA - The Rising Forest

Screening, talk and sound performance on queer rights and environmental resistance

Workshop: Maintaining the Root

Three workshops and a performance on heritage by artist Sarah Ndele as part of the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Insitute

Book Launch: Archipelagic Affects

Netherlands launch of the publication Archipelagic Affects, co-published by Framer Framed and the Jan van Eyck Academie

Launch: bean zine

Launch of bean zine, a publication dedicated to the bean, organised by social agrocultural project the land

Counter-extractivism: Poetics of remedy and transmission

A closing event for cultural practitioner Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi’s seminar on politics and extractivism at the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Institute

A Blow to the Snake Here: A conversation around Indigenous and Palestinian struggles

A dialogue on art, resistance and solidarity as part of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's residency at the Academy of Theatre and Dance

Queer Open Stage: Act 9

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Workshop: Art of Freedom

A series of workshops for women from migrant and refugee communities interested in (re)creating their own narratives of gender and identity

Finissage: Homies

Finissage for the exhibition and clothing shop selling a fashion line produced by members of the art collective We Sell Reality.

Exhibition: Homies

Exhibition and clothing shop selling a fashion line produced by members of the art collective We Sell Reality

Open Studio: Weaving a Pluriversity

A series of gatherings on the human connection to our environments, organised by the Pluriversity Weavers

From Rites to Rights: Imagining Ecologies of Tomorrow

Discussions and a performance on future ecologies, in collaboration with the CAREC programme of the Prince Claus Fund.

Queer Open Stage: Act 8

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Symposium: Stressing Solidarity - Witnessing Palestine through Art and Architecture

A symposium on Palestinian art and cultural heritage initiated by the Teach-in Series workgroup of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis

Performance: Moddertong

A performance by artist Sebastién Hendrickx about the climate crisis

Planetary Poetics: Ancestral Assemblage

A gathering by artist Ismal Muntaha and Planetary Poetics

Exhibition: Stories of Wounds and Wonder

Presentation of the artistic research & experimental children's book by researcher, writer and pedagogue Nuraini Juliastuti

Queer Open Stage: Act 7

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #1

Workshop session for queer people who are interested into archiving their personal stories and experiences

Book Launch: Archipelagic Affects

Taiwanese launch of the publication Archipelagic Affects, co-published by Framer Framed and the Jan van Eyck Academie

Launch of new issue of Kunstlicht magazine

Magazine launch for Kunstlicht Vol. 44, No.4 featuring discussion with contributors and guest editors

Guided Tour: Stories of Wounds and Wonder

Guided tour with the author of Stories of Wounds and Wonder, Nuraini Juliastuti

Book Launch: Stories of Wounds and Wonder

Reading of the play and publication Stories of Wounds and Wonder by artist Nuraini Juliastuti

Book launch: CICC — War Crimes are Climate Crimes

Call to action and book launch for the new publication Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

Opening: The One-Straw Revolution

Opening of the exhibition, The One-Straw Revolution, curated by iLiana Fokianaki

Queer Open Stage: Act 6

Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

Finissage: Performing Colonial Toxicity

Finissage programme for the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity including a book launch of Samia Henni's newest publication.

Exhibition tour by architectural historian Samia Henni

Exhibition: Performing Colonial Toxicity

An exhibition by researcher and architectural historian Samia Henni, in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

Exhibition: Amidst the Sand Wall

An exhibition by Moroccan artist 739 offering further context to the current state of the Western Sahara

Exhibition: Shared Waters

Presentation of young people in Amsterdam and Cape Town searching for their roots, for mutual cultural connections past and present.

Screening: And still, it remains

Film screening in within the context of the exhibition, Performing Colonial Toxicity.

Exhibition: Shakallaka

A Werkplaats Molenwijk exhibition about fantasy, magic and making new memories.

Strong Girls Meet @ Framer Framed

Creatieve workshop series voor meiden en jonge vrouwen.

Soup in the Molenwijk

The Molenwijk door elkaar group organises a program with soup, stories and recipes to share with the neighbourhood.

Auction for Palestine

A collaborative fundraiser with residents from the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in solidarity with Palestine

Workshop: Collectively imagining co/living situations

Workshop engaging with shared living situations, addressing the current housing crisis and its implications

Symposium: Now You See Me

Black Women’s Defying Worlds During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Indentured Servitude

Low-Budget Projects: How much does it cost —?

Full-day event of Low-Budget Projects exploring how to employ financial tools for crisis resolution beyond mere credit distribution.

Performance Lecture by Samia Henni

In the context of her exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity' now on show at Framer Framed

We Sell Reality Memorial #1: Sudan – When Clouds Are Moving

Memorial organised by art collective We Sell Reality within the context of Amsterdam Museum's Refresh #2: War & Conflict.

Presentation: Walvistraan

By Werkplaats Molenwijk artist in residence Golrokh Nafisi

Arts Collaboratory Assembly: Imagining (our) future horizon(s)

A trans-local culture of collaboration for social change in the field of expanded artistic practice

Queer Open Stage: Act 5

A monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness

MAKAN Journal - Manufacturing Narratives, Manufacturing Consent

A presentation by MAKAN Journal

Symposium: What and When Was Caribbean Modernism?

Visual and literary temporalities of Caribbean Modernism across languages and diasporas

Rematriation Rehearsals: On a Mesoamerican Skull Displayed in Leiden

A conversation on 3D printing in the context of stolen or looted artefacts from indigenous communities

Masterclass by Puma Camillê: The intersection of voguing and capoeira

Performance and workshop by Puma Camillê that combines voguing and capoeira, organised as part of the Willem de Kooning Academy's course 'Things and Stuff'

The New Social: Hybrid Strategies for Cultural Spaces - at Dutch Design Week 2023

Part of the exhibition Innovatie Labs #1: The Living Archive in Klokgebouw, Eindhoven

Performing Colonial Toxicity Tour: The Testimony Translation Project

Guided tour reflecting on the testimony translations

Queer Open Stage: Act 4

A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

Symposium: Revisiting the Past, Shaping the Future - learning from Salvador Allende

Lessons from Chile's Former President Allende and International Solidarity Movements

Book launch: 'Let's Become Fungal!' by Valiz and Author Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Innovative practices from Latin America and the Caribbean in line with the behavior of the mycelium

Opening: Performing Colonial Toxicity

An exhibition by researcher Samia Henni on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara

Werkplaats Molenwijk: A 5-Year Celebration!

A festive program including a parade, a book launch, a walking tour, workshops and more!

Artist Takeover: 'Archipelagic Affects' by Yornel J. Martínez Elías

A program around the Framer Framed and Jan van Eyck Academie resident at Limestone Bookstore

Queer Open Stage: Act 3

A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

Finissage: Tanah Merdeka

The last day of the exhibition, with a guided tour in Bahasa Indonesia, a performance by Samboleap Tol, and a painting & woodcut printmaking workshop with Taring Padi members

Exhibition: Tanah Merdeka

An exhibition with the Indonesian art & activist collective, Taring Padi, reflecting on the concept of land as the object and site of decolonial struggles.

Rebel Dances: Borders in Tranc-it

A performance initiated by Papaya Kuir, directed by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla and hosted by Framer Framed

Launch: Errant Journal #5, Learning from Ancestors

Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed

Exhibition: Hybrid Garden

By the Open Atelier

Queer Open Stage: Act 2

A new monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness

A Harvest for All: Notes on Biodiversity and Medicine

A conversation between Milena Bonilla & Taita Hernando Chindoy

Workshop: Linocut Printmaking – Tanah Merdeka

Co-creating a lino print poster with Sophia Pekowsky & Ilya Genov to reflect on transnational solidarity and land struggles

Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars

An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.

Exhibition: Koppig

Exhibition from the students of Kolom Praktijkcollege Noord for the project Zelf gemaakt!

Queer Open Stage: Act 1

A new monthly series to celebrate art, diversity, and community, to coincide with Queer Amsterdam

Summer Parade Molenwijk

Buurtparade om het einde van het schooljaar en het begin van de zomer te vieren!

Exhibition: Anonim

Final presentation of Theo Frids Marulitua Hutabarat's Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence project.

NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2023: PRO$PERITY NOW!

A unique gathering of creative practitioners from diverse backgrounds, which showcases old and new projects and products in the form of a trade fair.

Roundtable: Decolonizing the Gaze - Textile Cultural Heritage vs Colonialism?

Roundtable discussion on what different fabrics and their history tell about interculture, colonialism and cultural appropriations.

Youth Leadership & Resilience

Final presentation of the youth project in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for Societal Resilience), ASKV, Giving Back Projects, Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid Amsterdam, Dreamers NL.

Education project: Shared Waters

Exchange project with the Camissa Museum (Cape Town, SA)

Screening: Land Rifts – Extraction and Sedimentation

Film screenings and discussion about ecosystems and coloniality, in collaboration with ASCA.

Roundtable Conversation: Tanah Merdeka

Roundtable conversation with researchers and curators from different art museums and institutions within the context of Taring Padi's exhibition, Tanah Merdeka.

Opening: Tanah Merdeka

Opening of the exhibition Tanah Merdeka with works by the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi and collaborators.

Open Studio: Overhauled Stories

Open studio project by artist Sung Hwan Kim, hosted by Framer Framed and in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Finissage: Charging Myths - 'In words nourished'

A storytelling event within the context of the exhibition, Charging Myths.

Exhibition: Charging Myths

An exhibition by transnational collective On-Trade-Off exploring how technological innovation is dependent on natural resources.

In Extractive Terrains

An afternoon of film screenings and discussions exploring imperialist, colonial and capitalist histories of extraction in Central Asia and Ukraine.

Performance: Electrify Everything

Performance with artists Pom Bouvier b., Marjolijn Dijkman and Jean Katambayi Mukendi reflecting on the structuring power of electricity and its relation to resources and exploitation.

Towards Decentralised Art Infrastructures

A public discussion to explore blockchain technology for building decentralised art infrastructures.

Training: Future Drawing – A world without war and climate crisis

Educational program as part of the Netherlands Pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale, featuring the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes - Extinction Wars

Launch & Performance: “What are the words you do not have yet?”

Live performance and launch of a multifaceted publication project that brings together performative, sonic and tactile experiences.

M•Others' Day in Molenwijk

M•Others' Day celebration in Werkplaats Molenwijk with games, music, food and discussions about parenthood and caretaking.

Launch & Workshop: Low-Budget Projects

Publication launch for Low-Budget Projects, discussing the politics and precariousness of freelance life for artists and cultural workers in the Netherlands.

Book Presentation: The Curatorial Condition

An evening with scholar and theoretician Beatrice von Bismarck marking her recent publication The Curatorial Condition.

We do not yet know what malls can do

Public program and video installation reflecting on contemplation on the urban and virtual infrastructures of late capitalism.

Finissage: Scattered - Hidden Narratives Through Archives

An exhibition featuring visual artists from Turkey who settled in the Netherlands and their presence in the Dutch Art Ecosystem

Exhibition: Scattered - Hidden Narratives through Archives

An exhibition featuring visual artists from Turkey who settled in the Netherlands and their presence in the Dutch Art Ecosystem

Evidentiary Hearings: CICC - Extinction Wars at the Gwangju Biennale

Public Hearings of the CICC: Extinction Wars for the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion.

Launch Event: NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2023

Open call for the Non Native Native Fair, PRO$PERITY NOW!

More-Than-Human Encounters

Performative evening on the different dimensions of global extraction with artists Femke Herregraven, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Georges Senga.

Kunstschooldagen 2023

Two-day programme where groups of 8th-graders and facilitators visit different cultural institutions.

Spring Festival and Parade

Spring Festival and Parade in Werkplaats Molenwijk, organised together with the Molenwijk door elkaar group and Pretvormer.

Symposium: Inward Outward

Symposium with lecture/conversations and workshops on the theme of Witnessing/Care & The Archive

Symposium: In-Between Media - Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era

A two-day symposium on hybrid media tactics and togetherness in the field of art and activism.

Exhibition: Debaltsevo, Where Are You?

An exhibition by Karine Zenja Versluis about her quest to discover her roots and the process of creating her new publication.

Opening: Scattered - Hidden Narratives Through Archives

An exhibition featuring visual artists from Turkey who settled in the Netherlands and their presence in the Dutch Art Ecosystem

Opening: Charging Myths by On-Trade-Off

Opening of the exhibition, Charging Myths, by transnational artist collective On-Trade-Off.

Book Launch: Debaltsevo, Where Are You?

by Karine Zenja Versluis book launch and exhibition opening

Performance: Ausangate, a gaseous cosmology

A performance, a ceremony, a conversation with an earth-being, an ofrenda.

Bread, Freedom, Bisexuality, and Social Justice

Presentation and performance about identity and social justice for Moroccan bisexual individuals

Finissage: To those who have no time to play

Live performance of 'Antigone Update' and discussion

Exhibition: To those who have no time to play

A Solo Exhibition by Gluklya

Exhibition: While Awaiting an Unknown Future

With work by Karen G. & Ribal El Khatib — made during their stay in an asylum seekers' centre (asielzoekerscentrum)

Launch: CHAINS Podcast

Launch event by MacGuffin magazine, hosted at Framer Framed

Exhibition: A rising flower makes a garden

By Werkplaats Molenwijk artist in residence Ratu R. Saraswati (Saras)

Exhibition: CICC Seoul - The Law on Trial

A new iteration of the project Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) at the Oil Tank Culture Park in Seoul, South Korea.

Between The Lines: Men's Edition

A poetry workshop on social change and the role of men

Exhibition: Mobile Scenarios for the Metamorphic Beings

Drifting Curriculum research presentation supported by Arts Council Korea and Dutch Culture

Symposium: This is Our Audience - Other Ways of Reporting

A symposium on qualitative methods of audience reach and evaluation

Transoceanic Memories: Disaster Haggyo presentation

An afternoon of transdisciplinary dialogues on disasters in the Anthropocene supported by Arts Council Korea

Presentation: Letter to a Silk Road

With Marjolijn Boterenbrood, Malika Umarova & Fabienne Rachmadiev, moderated by Sandra Rottenberg

Global Queer Rights Perspective: the Jamaican Edition

Film screening of 'The Abominable Crime' and conversation

Launch: Errant Journal #4, States of Statelessness

Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed

East&: Timorplein + Javaplein

Mix of music, spoken word and comedy in Amsterdam Oost

Book Launch: 'Amanda'

With Olga Micińska & Samantha McCulloch

Opening: While Awaiting an Unknown Future

With Milena Mulders, Hanneke Verbeek, Ribal El Khatib, Karen G, Mina Etemad, Babeth Fonchie & screening of 'Tussenlanding'

Forms of Kinship: Daddy Residency

Online artist talk & workshop on alternative kinship

Homemade Seeds

The third and final SALWA Gathering at Framer Framed

New Ways of Reading III - Publishing Experiments for All

Publishers and visitors reflect on the perspective of the readers and writers that emerged during the sessions

Film screening: Indisch Zwijgen

Film screening, exhibition & spoken word workshop

New Ways of Reading II - Imagining Accessibility

We explore both the methods and desires of writers on how to bring their work closer to their audiences

Talanoa Forum: Swimming Against The Tide

An artist-led gathering by Yuki Kihara, co-hosted by LIMBO & Framer Framed in collaboration with National Museum of World Cultures

Opening: To those who have no time to play

Exhibition Opening with artist Gluklya and a performance by Matras Platform

Opening: Gatekeepers

Festive unveiling of Monika Dahlberg's sculptures by Alderman Meliani at Framer Framed

Symposium: (un)Common Grounds - Reflecting on documenta fifteen

A two-day hybrid symposium co-organised by Framer Framed, Akademie van Kunsten & Van Abbemuseum

Jouw verhaal, jouw woorden

Spoken word workshop by Zaire Krieger at Workshop Molenwijk

New Ways of Reading I - Between Experiment and Accessibility

A three-part events series, where we aim to re-imagine critical reading, writing, and publishing

Book Launch: Stay Strong Photo Stories

Photos and stories of love, loneliness, hope and connection made during the lockdown

Public discussion: What is a good world?

Internationalisation in a post-Covid society

Uitmarkt 2022

Workshop: Major Movements

In de context van kunstactivisme, onderzoeken we in de workshop hoe je verandering in de samenleving teweeg kan brengen door middel van creativiteit.

Exhibition: The Silence of Tired Tongues

Contemporary Art & Brazil

Exhibition: KAZAL – Narrating Haitian Memories

With Kolektif 2 Dimansyon & Tessa Mars

Book Presentation: Entangled Species, Conversations on Contemporary Art in the Caribbean

By writer and curator Sasha Dees

Queer Poetry Night x LIMBO

In collaboration with Unwanted Words & Queer Currents

Book Presentation: 'Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene' & 'Be Water, My Friend'

A joyous sharing on writing, reading and book making at documenta 15, Kassel

Memory Past a Surpassing Disaster

Movie screening of 'Amreeka' followed by a panel discussion

Workshop 2: Beauty Basics for all genders

By Makeup Artist Timothy Paul

Finissage: Thinking with the Hand

Festive closing of Anan Striker's exhibition in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Exhibition: Thinking with the Hand

By Werkplaats Molenwijk artist in residence Anan Striker

Finissage: Reflections by the Open Atelier

A joyful final day of the exhibition at Framer Framed

Exhibition: Reflections

by i-psy Open Atelier

Summer Academy & Booklaunch: Connecting Otherwise

By Hackers & Designers

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 7: Practices Against Extractivism

Together with Aline Baiana, Taipixi Guajajara, Ana Eugênia and Milena Bonilla

Book Launch: Gham/Tristezza/Sorrow

A publication by Golrokh Nafisi and Giulia Crispiani

Meetup: Where is Every Body?

By Hackers & Designers

Panel: Neoliberalism and the Art/ist

With Priya Swamy & Teresea Borasino, moderated by Chihiro Geuzebroek

Songs of Freedom: A Memorial for Haacaaluu Hundeessaa

Commemoration of the assassination of singer and activist Haacaaluu Hundeessaa

Opening: Reflections by Open Atelier

14th Annual Exhibition of i-psy Open Atelier Amsterdam

Liquid dependencies

A life simulation and a generative social experiment by Yin Aiwen

EAST& Oranje-Vrijstaatplein

Pleinfestival voor kinderen en ouderen

Kunstschooldagen 2022

Two-day programme where groups of 8th-graders and facilitators visit different cultural institutions.

Home is a story you carry on your back

Folktales from Nigeria, Eritrea, Niger, Iran and Saudi Arabia

Verdict Presentation: CICC vs. The Dutch State

Presentation of the verdict in the CICC vs. the Dutch State case

Conference: Refugee Youth, Public Space and Artistic Practice

A research project by Utrecht University in collaboration with Framer Framed and BOOST

Workshop: Beauty Basics for all genders

By Makeup Artist Timothy Paul

Photography Workshop: How to photograph a memory

By KAZAL photographers Georges Rouzier & Reginald Louissaint Jr. members of Kolektif 2 Dimansyon

Opening: KAZAL - Narrating Haitian Memories

With Georges H. Rouzier, Reginald Louissaint Jr., Tessa Mars & Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

Revealing of tapestry: De Molenwijk door elkaar

With Stichting BMP and Werkplaats Molenwijk community in OBA Molenwijk

Book Launch: International Friendship

Artist talk with CHE Onejoon, Inga Lāce and Sohl Lee at Framer Framed

Parade Molenwijk

Music parade for all ages in the Molenwijk

Amsterdam Art Week at Framer Framed

Exhibition 'The Silence of Tired Tongues', Oost Tour, Book launch: 'International Friendship' and more!

Presentation: LIMBO - queer exilic narratives

The final presentation of 'LIMBO: Engaged scholarship and queer exilic narratives'

Book Launch: professional amateur

The research project 'depend on me' presents a new publication at Framer Framed

Symposium: The State of Patronage

Hybrid panel discussion on the culture of giving within the Dutch art sector after ten years of budget cuts

East&: Bredeweg Festival

Mix of music, spoken word and street theatre in Amsterdam Oost

Finissage: Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet

The last day of the presentation at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Presentation: Ik zie, ik zie, wat jij niet ziet

Final presentation of Muziekstraat at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Opening: The Silence of Tired Tongues

With Julia Arbex, Aline Baiana, Arthur Chaves, Vitória Cribb, Benedito Ferreira, Estêvão Parreiras, Luana Vitra & Raphael Fonseca

Launch: Errant Journal #3, DISCOMFORT

Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed

Atelier KITLV: Declaring Distance

Ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive with Atelier KITLV

Symposium: Decolonial Futures

The final program of the cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa

Project: Do It Together - DIT

DIT is a kitchen / a tent / a learning playground / a workshop...................

Workshop: Knitted Together

Protest and Dialogue During the Dutch Housing Crisis

Dance Workshop: Free Movement and Rhythm

Dance experience led by Feadan McCall

Symposium: Digital Flux - Towards a common imagination

by Framer Framed and Non Native Native

Hybrid Event: The Hmm ON A Lighter Internet

Conceived by The Hmm and Framer Framed

LIMBO: Engaged scholarship and queer exilic narratives

A creative workshop series for queer, refugee and migrant community

Language Café: The Language of Oppression and Resistance

A discussion forum for language, semantics, and translation

Decolonial Futures Workshop Series: The Womb Republic - How to Rebirth

A cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa

Cooking Class: Culinary BOOST #2

With Amsterdam BOOST & Donghwan Kam

Journal Launch: Soapbox - issue 3.0 'Impasse'

By students of Cultural Analysis (UvA)

Moved by Touch

A social massage studio

Ode aan de Twijfel

Art manifestation & exhibition

To Serve You

Performance and discussion by La Cocina

Workshop: The Tender Ears, Crescent Moon and the Horn

Gyoza-making workshop with Asli Hatipoglu and dinner

Sudanese Pop-up Restaurant

A dinner event hosted by We Sell Reality

Cooking Class: Culinary BOOST #1

With Amsterdam BOOST & Donghwan Kam

Workshop: Wayang Kardus - Struggle and Solidarity with Taring Padi

A two-day workshop by Taring Padi with food, conversations, jamming sessions and the production of cardboard puppets

Decolonial Futures Winter School: Creating Space for a Hundred Flowers to Bloom

A cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa

Exhibition: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

A project by Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal

A Seat for the Sea

An artistic research project challenging current systems of ecological destruction

Book launch: Compendium Rights of Nature

Launch event: Dutch edition of the publication Rights of Nature - Case studies from six continents

Finissage: GEEF

A festive closing of GEEF by Bert Scholten's at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Exhibition: GEEF

Werkplaats Molenwijk exhibition by Bert Scholten

Children's Atelier: The World of Nature

An educational program in which young children explore their relationship with nature

Lecture: The Colonisation of the Future by David van Reybrouck at Framer Framed

On the colonisation of the future, and living on the brink of the climate catastrophe

Midwinter Mokum 2021/2022

Kom de vakantie vieren bij Framer Framed!

Home is a story you carry on your back

Folktales from Niger, Nigeria, Iran & St. Eustatius

Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

First term of the Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022

Exhibition: Powerplay – Deals All Over

A colourful installation by collective We Sell Reality

Symposium: (Post) Anthropocene Museologies

Hybride symposium over museale praktijken in het Antropoceen

Werkplaats Molenwijk Balcony Concerts - by Bert Scholte

Mini concerts by Bert Scholten

Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Aditi Jaganathan

First term of the Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022 with selected Artist Talks

We Sell Reality: Sudan

A get-together in solidarity with the protests in Sudan

Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Sara Blokland

First term of Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022

Museum Night 2021

Performances by Art Harder, Cat Smits, DJ Mr. Winter & more

Atelier KITLV: Kreyol Warung

le thinnai kreyol presents an evening of creole commensality and conviviality

Public Hearings: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

Comrades past, present and future vs. the Dutch State, Unilever, ING and Airbus

Exhibition: At Home in Molenwijk

A Retrospective on 'Home in the Molenwijk' at Werkplaats Molenwijk

When the roots start moving

Book presentation + Lecture performance by CHTO DELAT

ELANCE Treasure Hunt

Framer Framed is onderdeel van de speurtocht route organiseert voor jonge vrouwen van ELANCE.

Workshop: Hey, jij daar aan de andere kant van de stad!

Art workshops in Amsterdam Noord during the Autumn break

Workshop: Me, Myself & Nature

Speciale workshop voor jonge vrouwen in het context van The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (2021).

Magazine Launch: Kunstlicht - The Worldliness of Oil

The Worldliness of Oil: Recognition and Relations

Finissage: Thuis in de Molenwijk

A festive conclusion of the exhibition at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Amsterdam Assembly: Letting Go of Having to Speak All the Time

A gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners

Opening: Powerplay – Deals All Over

With We Sell Reality and DJ Crazy

Storytelling gathering: Frigiti Tori

Reflective storytelling workshop with elderly Surinamese in the Netherlands

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 6: Ecologies of Vulnerability and Resistance

Discussion with Edna Bonhomme and J.T. Roane, moderated by Jeff Diamanti

Opening: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes

By Josien Pieterse, Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, commissioned by Framer Framed

Public Space Installation: QUEER

by United Painting

Participatory performance: Tete-a-Tete

Led by the Amsterdam-based DAY Collective

Drawing Sessions: Taking Stock

Finissage of the exhibition 'Taking Stock'

Exhibition: Taking Stock

by Mariam Elnozahy, Wouter Osterholt, Elke Uitentuis

Exhibition: Proud Aliens

A colourful exhibition by Framer Framed's Open Atelier

Finissage: Proud Aliens

Music, food, drinks and henna to celebrate the last day of the group show by Open Atelier

Concert: Lady Shaynah

A live performance as part of the Grachtenfestival

Outro Weekend: A Joyful Black Manifesto II

Finissage of 'A Funeral for Street Culture'

Project: A Funeral for Street Culture

A group project by Metro54 and Rita Ouédraogo hosted by Framer Framed

Workshop: Hanging Out in the Bookshop

Zine-making workshop and late-night bookshop gathering by Flip Driest, Cengiz Mengüç and Setareh Noorani

Exhibition: Keti Koti Junior

A show commemorating the end of the Dutch trans-Atlantic slave trade

Opening: Proud Aliens & QUEER

Exhibition opening of Framer Framed's Open Atelier and a new public installation by United Painting: QUEER

Female voices: Arte, Substantivo Feminino

On artistic activism against Brazil's anti-abortion law

Summer Activities: Midzomer Mokum 2021

An overview of free workshops for children taking place this summer

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 5: On Slow Violence and the Anti-Spectacle

Film screening and discussion with Connie Zheng and Irene de Craen

Motormond presents: Un-Grasping Street Culture

A lecture exploring the non-hierarchal design element of the current group show

Pillars of Autumn present: The Gods Must Be Crazy

Join us for a gathering of sound systems at Framer Framed

Creative workshop: When in doubt, take a walk

An online exercise connecting the urban experiences of Hong Kong to Amsterdam by walking

Online Film Screenings: Now water can flow or it can crash, my friend

Selected films from Mainland China, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong

Home is a story you carry on your back

ASKV PAO Storytelling Evening: Folk tales of where we’re from

Opening: Amsterdam Roots Festival

Kick off of the festival with a multidisciplinary program on “vulnerability’

Online Discussion: "Ultra" Kinship

A video essay screening and discussion on polymaternalism and alternative kinship

Guided tour in the Molenwijk

Tour at Werkplaats Molenwijk led by Sietske Roorda on public art

Online Roundtable: Live Together Otherwise

On mutual help and collegiality in times of crisis

Keti Koti Junior

Children's commemoration of the history of slavery - Amsterdam East

Launch: Errant Journal #2, Slow Violence

Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed

Opening: Taking Stock

Exhibition Opening with artist Elke Uitentuis

Language for Loneliness

Art education: New words and images for loneliness

At Home in Molenwijk

The photography project for newcomers in the Molenwijk

About the footprints, what we hide in the pockets and other shadows of hope

Chto Delat Online Film Premiere

Exhibition: Shaping Feelings

An online presentation of Framer Framed in collaboration with Amsterdam Museum

Online Roundtable: Resistant Bodies

A public program shedding light on women’s stories in the sites of resistance

Future Today

Workshops for young women in Molenwijk

Atelier KITLV: Zouk is Medicine

On creole manifestations of cultural as a means of resistance with Ari Gautier, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Jocelyne Beroard & Bonaventure Ndikung

Spring Holiday at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Children activities in Amsterdam North

Online Roundtable: Curating Against Oblivion

A public program exploring curating as a form of resistance and remembrance

Stay Strong Photo Stories

Online photo project for youth

Launch: Now water can flow or it can crash, my friend

A public program exploring art, archive and activism in East Asia and beyond

Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene 4: Musical Hangout

Online workshops for collaborative publication design

Female Voices: Blood, Witches and the Red Lightning Strikes

Online Panel: Artistic Activism Against Polands’s Anti-abortion Law

Symposium: Empowering Voices in the Art World

Online symposium over diversiteit en inclusiviteit in de kunstwereld en in het bijzonder kunstinstellingen

Hackers & Designers Meetup 1: Algorithmic Consensus

Online talk and workshop focused on digital consensus-building

Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene 3: Doodle Lecture

Online workshops for collaborative publication design

Book Presentation: Being Imposed Upon

An online conversation with Gia Abrassart, Anne Wetsi Mpoma, led by Bambi Ceuppens

Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene 1 & 2: Hybrid eXperience

Online workshops for collaborative publication design

Art Education: Through the Lens of Nature

A children's atelier inspired by nature

Atelier KITLV: Kucini, kallu, kakkus - Creolising India Across the Oceans

Kucini, kallu, kakkus: Creolising India Across the Oceans

Decolonial Futures 2020-2021: Second Term

Online seminar as part of the second term of Decolonial Futures

Up/Root Democracy 4: A Seat for Nature - Reading Room

Online Reading Room: Reflecting on the forgotten rights of the non-human

Up/Root Democracy 3: A Seat for Nature

Online Panel: Reflecting on the forgotten rights of the non-human

Exhibition: From what will we reassemble ourselves

A group exhibition conceived by Anna Dasović and curated by Natasha Marie Llorens

Himmelsbach's Library of Ideas

Artistic reflections of Himmelsbach at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Midwinter children's activities in Amsterdam North

Children's activities during the Christmas holidays in Amsterdam Noord

Midwinter children's activities in Amsterdam East

Children's activities during the Christmas holidays in Amsterdam Oost

Female Voices: Gacha Abortion Pills!

Artistic Activism Against South Korea’s Anti-abortion Law

Book launch: Revolusi

A conversation with David Van Reybrouck, Wim Manuhutu, Sadiah Boonstra, Goenawan Mohamad and Amanda Pinatih

Online Film Program: Damir Avdagić

Online Film Program with Curator Natasha Marie Llorens

Online Film Program: Dania Reymond

Online Film Program with Curator Natasha Marie Llorens

Make a Wish

A Group Exhibition with i-psy Open Atelier Artists

Book Launch: Forces of Art - Perspectives from a Changing World

A joint project by the Prince Claus Fund, Hivos, and the European Cultural Foundation

Up/Root Democracy 2: Algorithms on Trial

Online Panel: Can an algorithm be held culpable in a court of Law?

Online Film Program: Selma Selman

Online Film Program with Curator Natasha Marie Llorens

Up/Root Democracy 1: Resisting Data Extraction

Online Reading Room + Workshop

Exhibition: Temporary Monument - Srebrenica is Dutch history

By Bosnian Girl

Finissage: Temporary Monument – Srebrenica is Dutch History

A tour along 25 portrait photos on the Oranje-Vrijstaatkade led by Chris Keulemans

Decolonial Futures 2020-2021: First Term

Open Call for participants for the Decolonial Futures Cultural Exchange Programme 2020-2022

Pop-up exhibition: It's just a joke?

Pop-up exhibition and artist talk by Pan Asian Collective on anti-Asian racism in Dutch society

Exhibition: Ecognosis

Animation projection in Werkplaats Molenwijk by BetweenTwoHands

Characters in Real Life

Premier, Artist Talk and Movie Screening with TuncTop

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 4: Climate Interventions

Online panel on creating an altered world with Jessika Khazrik, Tega Brain and Claudius Schulze, moderated by Marija Cetinić

Performance: Tar for Mortar - by Comfort Ball

A Performative Food Workshop with Comfort Ball

Meme-ify: An Attempt to Dance Through Pain with Humour

Online Action Research Workshop

Launch: Errant Journal #1, When Are We?

Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed

Opening: From what will we reassemble ourselves & Temporary Monument

Double Exhibition Opening with Anna Dasović and Natasha Marie Llorens

#HoeGaatHetEchtMetJe

Presentatie postercampagne van #HoeGaatHetEchtMetJe

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 3: Climate Feelings

Online panel on the climate crisis with Ada M. Patterson, Aline Baiana, Clementine Edwards and Tal Beery, moderated by Binna Choi

Exhibition: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens

Contemporary indonesian perspectives by nine Indonesian artists

To Pluto and Back

Two-channel video installation by Aram Lee

Finissage: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens

Featuring a performative lecture investigating the etymology of plant species by artists Amy Pekal and Marit Mihklepp

Artist Talk: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens

With the participation of: Zico Albaquni, Arahmaiani, Lifepatch members Agung ‘Geger’ Firmanto and Agus 'Timbil' Tri Budiarto, along with the curator Sadiah Boonstra.

Midzomer Mokum 2020

Queer Youth, Remember Kirvan Fortuin

A panel on LGBTQI+ art, culture and education

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 2: Visibility Politics & Climate Justice

Online panel on intersectional climate justice with Chihiro Geuzebroek, Asuka Kähler and Raki Ap, moderated by Amanda Boetzkes

Workshop: Imagining Futures and Narrative Baskets

The final session of our 'Basket Case' reading room to gather resources for reconnecting in the pandemic.

Online Panel: Prevention is Better than Hate II

Anti-Asian Racism Roundtables

Online Panel: Prevention is Better than Hate

Anti-Asian Racism Roundtables

Reading Room: Basket Case 2 - Cooking and Care

A reversed reading room with a collective “basket” to gather resources for reconnecting in the pandemic.

In Memoriam: Kirvan Fortuin

Memorial Celebration to commemorate the life of Kirvan Fortuin

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 1: Climate Transformations

Online panel on the climate crisis with Carola Rackete, Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal, moderator Jeff Diamanti

Reading Room: Basket Case 1 - Reconnecting in the Pandemic

A reversed reading room with a collective 'basket' to gather resources for reconnecting in the pandemic.

A conversation on: The Power of Doing Nothing

Online panel with Flavia Dzodan, Quinsy Gario, and Joy Mariama Smith

Ten Premises For A Pandemic

Online Panel with Ian Alan Paul

Reading Room: Plastic Hypersea

Reading Room on Contemporary Art and Ecological Awareness

Reading Room: Plastic Hypersea

Reading Room on Contemporary Art and Ecological Awareness

Re-visiting Botanical Gardens

Nieuwe perspectieven op het netwerk van Nederlandse botanische tuinen

Book Launch: 'From Amulet to Artefact' at Werkplaats Molenwijk

'From Amulet to Artefact’ at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission

Panel discussion and publication launch on datasets and artistic ways of interfacing them

YAA-award Ceremony 2020

Prijsuitreiking aan vijf Amsterdamse kunstenaars

Children's Atelier: Atelier of Light

In Atelier of Light children between the age of 3 and 12 can experiment with the natural phenomena of light 

The HMM at Framer Framed

Netwerkbijeenkomst voor enthousiastelingen van internet cultuur

Framer Framed invites New Radicalism

Presentatie van nieuwe talenten op het gebied van digitale kunst en cultuur uit het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en diaspora

Opening: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens

Contemporary Indonesian Perspectives

Exhibition: Elsewheres Within Here

Curator: Jo-Lene Ong

Finissage: Elsewheres Within Here

The first exhibition Framer Framed presented in its new location 'Elsewheres Within Here' (2019) closes with a finissage.

Reading Room: The Rights of Future Generations

Reading together: 'Rethinking representation: The challenge of non-humans' by Mihnea Tanasescu & 'Enfranchising the future: Climate justice and the representation of future generations' by Inigo Gonzalez-Ricoy and Felipe Rey

Artists Talk: Elsewheres Within Here

With the participation of featured artists Mehraneh Atashi, Milena Bonilla, Sissel Marie Tonn, and Remco Torenbosch, along with curator Jo-Lene Ong

Workshop: ‘Tropical, Objects, Turns’

by Aram Lee

Taal voor eenzaamheid

Educational program with more than 100 students from four high schools in Amsterdam

Reading Room: On Hydrofeminism

Reading together: 'Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water' (2012) by Astrida Neimanis

Memoria Plantae: Perspectives on the Dutch Botanical Network

A conversation with Sadiah Boonstra, Andreas Weber en Jennifer Tosch in the lead-up to our upcoming exhibition

Exhibition: Molenwijk Originals

Sci-Fi and Poster Series by artist TuncTop

Performance: Manifesto Against Nostalgia

Outdoor Performance by Giulia Crispiani, Golrokh Nafisi and Ahmadali Kadivar

Conversation with Audrey Tang: Digital Minister of Taiwan

About digital democracy, radical transparency and online citizen participation

Museum Night Amsterdam 2019

With performances by Istanbul Queer Art Collective, Shailesh Bahoran, Sytem, Dayna Martinez Morales and guided tour with the curator Jo-Lene Ong.

Intentions and Attentions of Tension in the Tenses – Performance by Natahsa Papadopoulou

Guided tours and a performance by Natasha Papadopoulou

Opening: Elsewheres Within Here

In presence of artists and curator Jo-Lene Ong.

Expositie: Van Amulet tot Artefact

An artistic research to the practice of daily rituals in the Molenwijk, Amsterdam

Uitmarkt 2019

Amsterdam's Annual Cultural Festival

Summer workshops at Werkplaats Molenwijk

On August 1 and 15 with artists Gijsje Heemskerk and Benjamin Li.

Queer Currents Opening

with Evert van Straaten & Dennis Elzinga

PiCMAT in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Weaving paintings of old plastic bags with DAY collective.

Expert meeting & Exhibition reading, Westfries Museum

An event about museum presentation policies in relation to historically charged topics.

Exhibition: HERE/NOW - Current Visions from Colombia

Twenty artists presenting contemporary art and photojournalism created in the context of Colombia.

Finissage HERE/NOW: Poisoned and Punctum

The final event departing from the exhibition HERE/NOW: Current Visions from Colombia with a performance and a talk by Milena Bonilla and Ana María Gómez López.

Framer Framed anniversary and goodbye party

Come celebrate our anniversary ánd the last month of Framer Framed at the Tolhuistuin with us!

HERE/NOW talk + film screening: Indigenous Knowledge and Activism in Colombia

With guest speakers Tatiana Roa and Mariëlle Videler, and a screening of documentary 'Abel' (2015). Part of a series of events on indigenous activism and land rights, departing from exhibition HERE/NOW.

HERE/NOW artist talk: La Decanatura, 'From the Mule to the Plane'

HERE/NOW artist duo La Decanatura will talk about their exhibited work, as well as their newest film project 'From the Mule to the Plane'.

HERE/NOW talk: Mídia NINJA on indigenous activism and land rights

Part of a series of events on indigenous activism and land rights, departing from the exhibition HERE/NOW: Current Visions from Colombia.

Public art in the Molenwijk - A neighborhood survey by Reinwardt Academy students

Presentation of Reinwardt Academy students into the ideas and opinions of local residents about art in public space.

Expositie: It Never Rains in Streetview (Werkplaats Molenwijk)

Presentatie van derdejaars Breitner Academie studenten.

Opening: It Never Rains in Streetview

Eindexamenexpositie van de Breitner Academie in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Queer Series: SILENCE=DEATH

Reflections on artistic efforts in relation to the HIV/Aids crisis

Pop-up expositie: Ruilkunst (Breitner Academie)

Als onderdeel van de eindexamenexpositie It Never Rains in Streetview, van de Breitner Academie.

Printing session: Oscar Muñoz’ 'Narcisos'

In the context of exhibition HERE/NOW.

Exhibition: The City is Ours (Werkplaats Molenwijk)

With installations, photography, and videos made by young women in Amsterdam and Tunis, reflecting their visions on what our cities should look like

Kunstlicht Launch Event: Nuclear Aesthetics

Kunstlicht Journal launches their latest issue in a programme filled with art, talks & drinks.

Digital Histories in Africa: Ancient binary code, earth and the future

An event in the Vertical Atlas series, in collaboration with Framer Framed.

Finissage: HERE/NOW at Beautiful Distress House

The exhibition at Beautiful Distress House is on view until 3 April, at Framer Framed until 30 June.

Educatie: Kunstschooldag 2019 bij Framer Framed

Lecture: Mieke Bal - Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo

Lecture at Beautiful Distress House, in the framework of exhibition HERE/NOW.

Educational series: Broadcasting from Babylon

On intersectional feminist, queer, and anti-colonial embodied, listening and sounding practices.

'What it feels like to be colored' - Partner event by Dipsaus & Uitgeverij Chaos

Een bijeenkomst van Dipsaus en Uitgeverij Chaos

Symposium: HERE/NOW Current Visions from Colombia

At Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, in the context of exhibition HERE/NOW at Framer Framed and Beautiful Distress House

Project and exhibition: The City is Ours

An exchange project for young women in Amsterdam and Tunis.

Citizenship & Cultural Production #6: Perspectives on Public Space with Cas Bool & Adeola Enigbokan

A neighborhood walk and lecture about the use of public space in the Molenwijk, Amsterdam North

Citizenship & Cultural Production #5: Creative Coding and Workshop Plotting Data

How can we reimagine the performativity of the dataset?

Finale Diasporic Self: Black Love Letters & Manifestos

An event celebrating the final day of Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca.

Exhibition: 50 Years' Molenwijk

The exhibition portrays ’50 Years of Molenwijk’ through a combination of existing material and new work by Florian Braakman

Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante

Diasporic Self: Informal gatherings with Anne Krul

Citizenship and Cultural Production #4: Disobedient Art

Workshop with Fossil Free Culture NL, part of Broadcasting from Babylon.

The City is Ours #2: Fotografie & burgerschap

Uitwisselingsproject tussen Amsterdam en Tunis.

Diasporic Self: Lexicon of Black Poetics

This event offers space for (performative) readings that peel away, show, uncover the layers and complexities of black poetics of the everyday.

Citizenship & Cultural Production #3, Workshop Business as Art

With hacker Melanie Rieback, part of public programme Broadcasting from Babylon.

The City is Ours #1: Dit is ook mijn wijk!

Eerste workshop in de The City is Ours reeks.

Diasporic Self: Caring as Lingua Franca - Fiction & Myths of Black Womxnhood

An evening programme i.c.w. Dipsaus podcast.

Citizenship & Cultural Production #2: In-between

With Yara Said and Shailoh Phillips.

Citizenship & Cultural Production #1, Co-creation and the Commons

The first session as part of public programme Broadcasting from Babylon

Opening: Exhibition Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante.

Workshop: Bystander intervention

Over ingrijpen bij straatintimidatie, georganiseerd door Hollaback!. Locatie: Werkplaats Molenwijk.

Black Queerness & Diasporic Lives

An event on everyday intergenerational black queer social life, love and communities to look into the embodied experience of Black Queer people in Europe.

Opening exhibition: 50 Years' Molenwijk

At Framer Framed's new project space, Werkplaats Molenwijk.

Diasporic Self II: Dancing as lingua franca (a gathering in progress)

An event in light of Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018, with Hannah Catherine Jones, Ogutu Muraya, Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante.

Exhibition: UnAuthorised Medium

A group show curated by Annie Jael Kwan

Exhibitions Werkplaats Molenwijk: Marie Hudelot, Suat Ögüt and Şengül Köker

Current exhibitions and programme

Finissage weekend UnAuthorised Medium: Intense Visitations

Performances and presentations in the closing weekend of exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Workshop Kunstobject maken

In Werkplaats Molenwijk

Visual consultation Florian Braakman at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Local residents are invited to contribute their own photos to an exhibition about 50 years of Molenwijk neighborhood

Museumnacht Amsterdam 2018

An interactive programme filled with performances by Poetry Circle Nowhere, dance by Don't Hit Mama, body art, tours and more! Centred around exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Opening: project space Werkplaats Molenwijk

On 30 September Framer Framed heads deeper into ‘the North’, with the opening of a new, second project space: Werkplaats Molenwijk (Workspace Molenwijk)!

Finissage: Monuments to the Unsung - Public Art Amsterdam

The artwork ‘The First Turk Immigrant or the Nameless Heroes of the Revolution’ from Suat Ögüt 'migrates' to project spaceWerkplaats Molenwijk.

Exhibition: Monuments to the Unsung - Public Art Amsterdam

Part of the collaborative art manifestation Pay Attention Please! in the public space of Amsterdam

Unseen Amsterdam 2018

Framer Framed is part of the City Programme and the Open Gallery Night (22 September), with exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Symposium: UnAuthorised Medium - Return and Repatriation

Symposium as part of the opening weekend for exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Opening: exhibition UnAuthorised Medium

With curator Annie Jael Kwan and participating artists Noel Ed De Leon, Sau Bin Yap, Erika Tan, and Sung Tieu.

Guided Tour: Art on the Northern IJ-river bank in Amsterdam

In the context of Public Art Amsterdam and Framer Framed's outdoor exhibition 'Monuments to the Unsung'.

Exhibition: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji

Finissage: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

With Sammy Baloji, Georges Senga Assani and Heleen Debeuckelaere.

Book launch: When we speak about colonisation

On the occasion of the recent publication by Faassen and Verdijk, and in the context of the running show 'A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes' by Sammy Baloji

Guided Tour: The disappearing of art in Amsterdam-Noord, by Chris Keulemans and Massih Hutak

Part of Public Art Amsterdam and Framer Framed's outdoor exhibition 'Monuments to the Unsung'.

Curator tour: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

A tour by Vincent van Velsen.

Symposium: Teacher as conceptual artist

Organised by the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Amsterdam University of the Arts) on 26 May and 2 & 3 June.

Exhibition: Pressing Matters

Featuring 24 Indonesian artists brought together by artist Kevin van Braak

Finissage: Pressing Matters & Workshop 'Also-Class'

With artists reinaart vanhoe and Shraddha Borawake on the topic 'also-space', and a guided tour by artist Kevin van Braak.

Pedagogies of Violence, Pedagogies of Care

Part of 'Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education - A Week with Angela Davis'. Hosted by Amal Alhaag & Maria Guggenbichler.

Pressing Matters: Exhibition tour & artist talk with Ignasius Dicky Takndare

Joined in conversation by artist Kevin van Braak & moderator Nancy Jouwe.

Printing sessions: Pentagonal Icositetrahedron

During the course of the exhibition there will be several printing sessions where new prints are produced and added to the exhibition.

Opening: Pressing Matters

In presence of artists Kevin van Braak and Ipeh Nur

Finissage: Some Things Hidden

A conversation between artist Lynn Hershman Leeson & curator Nina Folkersma, and a guided tour by artist Charlott Markus.

Exhibition: Some Things Hidden

In collaboration with Castrum Peregrini, curated by Nina Folkersma and Charlott Markus

Some Things Hidden: Tour by artist Charlott Markus

A guided tour through the exhibition 'Some Things Hidden', by artist & co-curator Charlott Markus.

Exhibition: Chomma, with work by Jody Brand

Unseen exhibition in the public hallways of the Tolhuistuin, with work by South African photographer Jody Brand

Some Things Hidden: Film screening 'Herengracht 401'

Documentary on the controversial history of Castrum Peregrini, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Janina Pigaht, Frans Damman (Castrum Peregrini) and Josien Pieterse.

Some Things Hidden: Tour by curator Nina Folkersma

Curator Nina Folkersma gives a guided tour of the exhibition 'Some Things Hidden'!

Performance: Alexis Blake - Anthology of Anger

Performance in the context of exhibition 'Some Things Hidden'.

Undercurrents: Art/Production/Mobility/...

A program by Hotel Maria Kapel in collaboration with Framer Framed.

Paranoia Phenomenon: Transparency and censorship in the social media age

An in-depth conversation on the use and abuse of social media in the public realm

Exhibition: House of Wisdom

Curated by Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplangı)

Finissage: Collectively (Re)shaping the Archive

Finissage of exhibition House of Wisdom, in collaboration with Casco and 7 Hills Foundation.

Young Collector's Circle at Framer Framed: Engaged Art

Why is it interesting for a collector to immerse himself in engaged art?

Collective Çukurcuma invites... Day 2: Curator tour + House of Wisdom artist talks

An extensive program tying into the House of Wisdom exhibition theme.

Collective Çukurcuma invites... Day 1: Curator tour

A public program tying into the House of Wisdom exhibition theme.

Seminar: Tracing migration through textiles

Hosted at Framer Framed, curated by Christel Vesters as part of the long-term project Touch/Trace.

Paranoia Phenomenon: Open (Your) Data

Talk and workshop by Erdem Dilbaz, founder of Nerdworking.

Art as Resistance #2: Taking the oil out of the arts

BP or Not BP and Fossil Free Culture NL wil introduce participants to the impact of political artistic interventions.

Humans of the Institution: Censorship & Strategy working group

A programme as part of Amsterdam Art Weekend.

Exhibition opening: House of Wisdom

With an opening performance by Istanbul Queer Art Collective.

Exhibition: It Won't Be Long Now, Comrades!

Curated by Inga Lāce en Katia Krupennikova

Finissage and book launch: The Missing

Finissage of the exhibition 'It Won't Be Long Now, Comrades!' and the book launch of School of Missing Studies.

Love, comedy, and communism in Lubitsch's Ninotchka, and the work of Alexandra Kollontai

A lecture by Aaron Schuster in the context of exhibition 'It Won't Be Long Now, Comrades!'.

Museumnight Amsterdam 2017

Featuring the pop-up museum I’m So Angry, I Made a Sign

¡No pasarán!

Lecture 'Sporen van de Spaanse burgeroorlog in Amsterdam Noord'.

Pedagogies of the Opaque (I): Black Schools: Learning for and by Black Futures

The first gathering in a series of public research events for, with and about ex-centric cultural, communal and collective practices and thinking.

Triptych event: A Rap on Race Revisited (part II & III) – Read My World

Part of the Read My World festival.

Black art with Quinsy Gario - Read My World

A series of talks and performances as part of the Read My World festival.

Triptych event: A Rap on Race Revisited (part I) - Read My World

Part of the Read My World festival.

Queer Series: Istanbul Queer Art Collective

The fifth edition of the Queer Series, a program of public events focusing on queer elements of artworks, art colletives and art archives.

Yvette Mutumba – Public talk about visibility of contemporary art from African perspectives

In collaboration with the Mondriaan Fonds, Framer Framed hosts a lecture by Yvette Mutumba.

Hallway exhibition: Heritage

With work by photographer Marie Hudelot

Exhibition: HOME

With work by Marjan Teeuwen, Ezz Al Zanoon and Rawan Mahady, curated by Meta Knol

Live conversation HOME #4: The politics of autonomous art

A panel discussion in the context of the exhibition 'HOME' about the supposed neutrality of autonomous art

Live conversation HOME #3: The political construction of HOME

An event in the context of the exhibition 'Home' on the construction of home in a context of violence and destruction.

Live conversation HOME #2: The Nakba, Heritage and Cultural Memory

Event in the context of the exhibition 'HOME'.

Live conversation HOME #1: Imaginations of HOME

An event in the context of exhibition HOME.

Symposium: Declassified - How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?

On the (historical) construction of gender and sexuality within the ethnographic collecting practices of museums.

Exhibition: In the future everything will be as certain as it used to be

Exhibition in collaboration with AAMU - Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art, in light of their closure

Symposium: In the future everything remains uncertain

A discussion on art collection policy in the Netherlands.

Open lecture series: Influence of colonialism on artistic expressions in former Dutch colonies

March/April 2017.

Lecture: Ellen de Vries - Nola Hatterman and art in Surinam

Lecture by researcher and publicist Ellen de Vries, about the work of Nola Hatterman in Amsterdam and Suriname.

Lecture: Iwan Sewandono - The outframed framed in: modern Indonesian Painters

Lecture by anthropologist Iwan Sewandono, on modern Indonesian painters in the Dutch Indies, in the 1930s and after.

Lecture: Paul Faber - Modern Surinamese Art, 1945-1980

Lecture (in Dutch) on modern Surinamese art, by art historian & publicist Paul Faber.

Performance: Report from Prison

Performance 'Report from Prison', initiated by Russian artist Gluklya.

Lecture: Gábor Pusztai on the work of László Székely

Lecture on the work by artist László Székely, who lived and worked in the former Dutch Indies.

Lecture: Remco Raben - The modern art & literature of the Indies/Indonesia

In this lecture, Remco Raben will discuss the cultural discourses in Indonesia in the 1940s and 1950s.

Lecture: Meme Wars - Internet culture and the ‘alt-right’

Mapping the emergence of a large white supremacist subculture by Florian Cramer

Exhibition: As If - The Media Artist as Trickster

On politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms. Curated by Annet Dekker and David Garcia i.c.w. Ian Alan Paul

Exhibition: In One's Breath - Nothing Stands Still

Framer Framed is part of international art fair Art Rotterdam (2017) with work by Tuan Mami

Symposium: Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive

Public debate on the relationship between digital archiving practices and activism.

Exhibition: Re(as)sisting Narratives in South Africa

Exploring lingering legacies of colonialism between South Africa and the Netherlands through engaging with contemporary artists from both countries

Exhibition: Re(as)sisting Narratives

Exploring lingering legacies of colonialism between South Africa and the Netherlands through engaging with contemporary artists from both countries

Exhibition: What We Have Overlooked

A collection presentation of Museum Arnhem, curated by Mirjam Westen

Side exhibition: Elyor Nematov

A view onto the daily lives of women in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan

Unseen: tours Re(as)sisting Narratives, door Judith Westerveld

Unseen Photography Photo Fair & Festival tours by artist Judith Westerveld.

Exhibition: Voices Outside the Echo Chamber

Questioning Myths, Facts and Framings of Migration, curated by Katayoun Arian

Exhibition: Society by Akona Kenqu

With work by Akona Kenqu, on the skate culture in Johannesburg, South Africa

Project overview: PATTERNS & Impossible Dialogues (2016)

Overview of the project and program surrounding PATTERNS / Impossible Dialogues. Perspectives from within & about Central and Eastern Europe in the social sciences, arts and history.

Exhibition: herman de vries / basic values

Exhibition with works by artist herman de vries; a celebration of the cultural and biological diversity of Indonesia. Curated by Roel Arkesteijn

Exhibition: Iran’s Women’s Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi

An exhibition on the emergence of the women’s movement in Iran, at the beginning of the 20th century. Curated by Azadeh Fatehrad

Framer Framed at Art Rotterdam 2016

As part of the Intersections area, a stage for young talent in contemporary art.

Exhibition: El Órgano Oriental

Een presentatie met werk van Antonio Jose Guzman en een live interactief programma, onder de titel Water No Get Enemy, samengesteld door Amal Alhaag

Exhibition: Koempels

50 years since the closing of the mines in the South of The Netherlands, we present the lingering traces of this fossil fuel era on contemporary art. Curator: Lene ter Haar

Exhibition: Common Ground

Featuring work by Charl Landvreugd and Antonio Jose Guzman

Exhibition: Ancestral Blues - Return to the State of L3

A research on a hybrid Transatlantic culture curated by Vincent van Velsen

Exhibition: Simuda Nyuma - Forward Ever Backward Never

A contemporary interpretation of missing documents in an Ugandan archive of Ham Mukasa. Curated by Robinah Nansubug and Andrea Stultiens

Exhibition: Embodied Spaces

An exhibition curated by Christine Eyene on the body, gender and identity.

Side-expo: 'Venus' masks by Shertise Solano & Ronald de Graaff

By Shertise Solano & Ronald de Graaff. In addition to the 'Embodied Spaces' exhibition.

Perspectives

Public encounters in the context of the exhibition Embodied Spaces.

Filthy Mouth - Dirty Politics

Experimental conference on the relationship between vulgar language, radical feminism.

Pop-up Shop: MINEshop, MINEcollection during Amsterdam Fashion Week

Unique MINEcollection and fashion event.

Exhibition: Crisis of History #3 - Beyond History

Curated by Robert Kluiver and Elham Puriyamehr

Educational project: Irbid Exchange

An education exchange project between Irbid (Jordan), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Reflection committee, an experiment with inclusive curating

About the creation of the public programme Crisis of History.

Program surrounding the Crisis of History #3 exhibition

During the exhibition Crisis of History #3 - Beyond History there will be a special event on every Tuesday night with film screenings, lectures and guided tours.

Exhibition: Look across the water!

A photographic exchange project between youngsters from Amsterdam Noord and Brooklyn, NY.

Voice-over Noord

Performances and bustour through Amsterdam Noord.

Voice-over Noord - Part Two

Bustour with performances and lectures about the North of Amsterdam.

Program surrounding the exhibition Crisis of History #2

Every Tuesday there is a public program related to the exhibition of films, performances, artist talks and debate.

Exhibition: The End Of This Story (And the Beginning of All Others)

Curated by Katayoun Arian

Exhibition: Crisis of History #2 - Fight History

Curated by Robert Kluijver

Exhibition: artBRUUT

artBRUUT’s mission is to show the work of talented homeless people within the established art scene of Amsterdam

Exhibition: Costume Bureau

A collection presentation of Museum Het Domein, curated by Roel Arkesteijn

Exhibition: Maydan - Hundred Portraits

100 Faces of the Ukrainian revolution by Emeric Lhuisset

Exhibition: Crisis of History #1 - Welcome to the End of History

Curated by Robert Kluijver

Symposium: Art and Political Conflict

On the relationship between art and political conflict and how it has been reshaped by digital media and the internet.

Program surrounding the exhibition Crisis of History #1

Film, theatre, literature, music, debate, guided tours and art criticism.

Tours through the exhibition Crisis of History #1

By Soheila Najand, director InterArt.

First graffiti festival in Kabul, Afghanistan

Exhibition: Speaking from the Heart - The Polemic Sensibility from Iran

Curated by Shaheen Merali

Programme 'Speaking from the Heart'

Every Tuesday evening during the duration of the exhibition an extensive program with artists, activists, scientists and social organizations will be organized.

Symposium: Contested History

A symposium on the (re)presentation of Dutch-Indonesian colonial history in museums.

The View of Self - Blak on Blak

Blak on Blak - reading Australian blak art, myth and reality in perceptions of contemporary indigenous practice.

Framer Framed: Trinh T. Minh-ha

Lecture on the western vision of non-western art.

Framer Framed: The Estranged Gaze

Conversation and exhibition inspired by artist, Nam June Paik.

Exhibition: Drawing Stories

An online presentation of Framer Framed in collaboration with Amsterdam Museum

Symposium: Art as Resistance #1

One day symposium on art as resistance, focusing on diversity, involving communities and the local relevance of a place.

Impossible Dialogues - Contested memories, conflicting presences

Presentation of a long-term interdisciplinary research project is conceived by curators Katia Krupennikova, Inga Lāce and Margaret Tali.

Collecting without Borders

Ethnographic, historical and art museums in dialogue on collecting and presenting global art.

Imagining and capturing resistance

A discussion on creating and archiving images of resistance, at Atria.

Lecture: Caroline Drieënhuizen - Musea in the Dutch East Indies

To what extent are museums reflective instrumental in the creation of colonial narratives, histories and national identities?

Workshop: Solidariteit vandaag in onze neokoloniale tijd

Hoe kun je solidair zijn met de strijd van anderen vanuit een witte neokoloniale context?

Museumnacht Amsterdam 2016

Framer Framed programme during Museumnacht 2016.

24H Noord: exhibition tours Re(as)sisting Narratives

Exhibition visit and tours by artist Judith Westerveld during the 24H Noord event.

Queer Series: Wu Tsang’s WILDNESS

Screening of the documentary WILDNESS (2012) by Wu Tsang.

Lecture and conversation with Ena Jansen, Karin Amatmoekrim

Lecture by Ena Jansen about her book 'Bijna Familie', followed by a conversation with writer Karin Amatmoekrim.

Traveling Feet: a conversation on contemporary art and migration

A program with Marres, House for Contemporary Culture.

Panel discussion: Van Gogh on Demand – On Making and Faking in China

A discussion on fake art, the meaning of authenticity, and the role of China in artistic copyright infringement.

Performance: by Kirvan Fortuin - A Festival of Project Spaces

Event as part of A Festival of Project Spaces; a performance by choreographer and dancer Kirvan Fortuin

Filthy Mouth, Dirty Politics #2

An 'anti-conference conference', experimenting with transgressive speech acts, filthy, vulgar language, radical feminism and digital (non) spaces.

VENUS: the anti-hero hero

An interactive programme that explores the historically violent imageries surrounding Venus.

Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind

Artist talk around the exposition Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?

Self-Made

A public panel discussion on self-representation of women from former Yugoslavia.

PRIVATE

On the intersection of technology, privacy and body politics.

Opening Framer Framed at Tolhuistuin

Opening exhibition Crisis of History.

Panel discussion: Iraqi Stories

Framer Framed organizes in cooperation with Cineblend and Dancing on the Edge an evening with artists from Iraq.

De-toothing Africa - An evening with an intimate reading of a family archive

A cinematic installation that is fueled by film abstracts, family archives, readings, music, performance and soundscapes.

Oral History and the audiovisual archive

Oral history as a complementary to the archive of written historical sources.

Presentation from Syrious Mission

On a Dutch organisation in Jordan, that connects Syrian refugees with the local community.

Museumnacht: Atelier Revolutionair

Programme with lectures, interventions, music and performances.

Face to Face, a shared story

An educational exchange program between Cape Town and Amsterdam

Border thinking? Unsettling concepts of border regimes and the Migratory Control System

Event in the context of the exhibition Voices Outside the Echo Chamber on the European Migratory Control System.

Documentary: Image Acts

A film by Aylin Kuryel on the connection between visual culture and nationalism in Turkey.

Event: Farewell to the hermetic monoculture

Lecture by curator Mirjam Westen on the rol of art institutions in a rapidly changing global context.

Narratives on Iran

An evening in collaboration with Cineblend and Dancing on the Edge.

Book launch: Sadik Kwaish Alfraji

Edited by curator and critic Nat Muller.

Table Ronde: Oral History in the Jewish Historical Museum

On the role of personal stories in the museum.

Burning Museum: Addressing the headquarters

Cut, paste, snip, plak, sak, pap, plat, bek!

We Are Public tour

Guided tour through the exhibition 'basic values' by curator Roel Arkesteijn.

Gerilja Talks: Nancy Jouwe x Black Women in the Dutch Arts Scene

On the valuable contributions that Black women have made to the Dutch arts scene.

Advice Dutch Culture Council: Framer Framed in BIS subsidy plan

The Dutch Culture Council advises the Dutch Minister to grant Framer Framed a place in the BIS 2017-2020 subsidy.

Queer Series: Somos Libres!? Queer Amsterdam in the ‘80s

Screenings of the film by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas and Daniel Brun on gay Amsterdam in the 1980's.

Feminist Memory: Digging the Black Archives

On the representation and presence of black women in institutional and unconventional archives

Book launch: Changing Perspectives & UNFIXED

Two upcoming publications give an impression of the current debate on globalisation and diversity in contemporary art.

David Bade Draws Heerlen: Amsterdam Edition

Artist David Bade visits Framer Framed with his mobile workspace.

Notes On Excavating And Writing The Past

Storytelling-event on the occasion of the exhibition ‘The End of This Story (And The Beginning of All Others)’

In Dialogue I: Deciphering and Reclaiming Histories

Artist talk with collaborating artists Papa Shabani and Xenson Znja.

Participation Theater from Iran

A performance by Alireza Keymanesh.

Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind II. On Decolonial Aesthetics and European Blackness

Lecture and round table discussion in the context of the exhibition Who is more sci-fi than us?

In Dialogue II: Questioning the explorer

With a historical re-enactment by performing artist Xenson Znja.

The View of the Artist

A panel discussion between artists and museum curators.

Documentary: 'From My Syrian Room'

Directed by Hazem Alhamwi.

Exploring the fringes of Europe

Film screenings by Maarten de Kroon and Pavel Braila.

Artist Talk with Tammam Azzam en Shadi al Zaqzouq

Panel discussion with participating artists in the exhibition Crisis of History #2.

Renaissance #1- The Dutch Spring

A lively program with music, debate and visual arts.

Museumnight Amsterdam 2015

Documentary, spoken word, Music and guided tours.

New World Academy: Book launch graphic novel 'Louie Jalandoni, Revolutionary'

Book launch on the Philippine revolutionair Louie Jalandoni.

24h Noord at Framer Framed

Guided tours by participating artist Keetje Mans.

Lecture: Gerard Lemos - Outsiders in Contemporary Art

In the context of the exhibition artBRUUT, Framer Framed presents a lecture on the contribution of outsiders to contemporary art.

Art and Political Conflict

Tactical Media - the intersection of art, media, political activism and technological experimentation.

Hacking History

A brainstorming about the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia and its representation in public space.

BE.BOP 2014 - Spiritual Revolutions & 'The Scramble for Africa'

Curated by Alanna Lockward.

Collecting without boundaries. Creating a future-proof museum

A discussion on collection exchange, mobility and museum collaboration.

Cultural Diplomacy and Creative Activism

Event about Creative Activism by DutchCulture.

North Reacts!

Framer Framed nodigt inwoners van Noord uit om de nieuwe expozaal en de tentoonstelling Crisis of History te komen bezichtigen

Framer Framed Expertmeeting

Following the solo exhibition of Shilpa Gupta and the exhibition Vlisco: Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design Framer Framed organizes in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem an expert meeting.

hard//hoofd festival & Framer Framed

Encounter with Roel Arkesteijn curator of the Costume Bureau exhibition.

Akona Kenqu - photography series Society now for sale

The photography series Society by Akona Kenqu (ZA) has been exhibited at Framer Framed from March-May 2016.

Renaissance #2 - WithSyria

A multidisciplairy program with music, debate and visual arts. The program is an initiative of Framer Framed in collaboration with Rajae El Mouhandiz.

World premiere documentary 'Calais: Welcome to the jungle' + nagesprek

Thursday May 5th 2016, 20:00 - 22:00, at the FabCity Campus

Film screening: Remapping Europe: Migrant perspectives & superdiversity

Screening short films as part of the Doc Next Media Collection, that show perspectives from young migrants in Europe.

Lecture: Contested sites, contaminated landscapes and Eastern-European 'bloodlands'

Lecture by Roma Sendyka (Associate Professor, Krakow), on memorial sites.

Talkshow De Dissident/Mag Het Licht Aan festival

Talkshow in de context of the exhibition 'Embodied Spaces' with Amal Alhaag, Molemo Moiloa, Evan Ifekoya, Arsham Parsi and CB Berghouwer.

Lecture: Curating Body Narratives by Christine Eyene

Masterclass by Christine Eyene on her research and curatorial practice dealing with the body in contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora.

Lecture: On the (re)construction of cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq

Lecture by Nour Munawar, in the context of exhibition As If.

Symposium: Shared Heritage - Theory and Practice

A symposium on the traces of Dutch colonial history in the Netherlands and the former Dutch colonies overseas.

Presence of an Absence

An investigation into the relationship between objects, experiences and identity.

Symposium: Suspended Histories

On the colonial past of the Van Loon family, and ways in which that past is presented and represented in Museum Van Loon.

Conversation with photographer and researcher Marjolein van Pagee

Research on the so-called ‘Politionele Acties’ of the Netherlands in Indonesia; the Dutch military interventions during the Indonesian National Revolution.

Dutch & Indonesian perspectives on 1945-1949

Event with Histori Bersama foundation / Marjolein van Pagee in collaboration Koneksi-Connectie on Dutch & Indonesian historical perspectives.

Feminist art practice today: pushing the boundaries

Dialogue on what feminist art practice means today; with Iris Kensmil, Chandra Frank, Elizabeth Kleinveld and Milo van der Maaden.

Performance: My Tongue Softens On The Other Name

Interactive performance reflecting on the exhibition Re(as)sisting Narratives, through taking inspiration from a poem by Gabeba Baderoon.

Framer Framed and Prince Claus Fund present two tours

Guided tours at the Institute of Social History and the Prince Claus Fund Gallery.

What Did You Expect to See?

Discussion on the exhibitions SuriNedWerk & Paramaribo Perspectives.

Cultural Heritage and Shared Knowledge

A panel discussion on the concept and use of cultural heritage.

The artist as anthropologist

Debate about the boundaries between art and science

Lecture: Sara Blokland - Srefidensi and the reproduction of a family history

Lecture by Sara Blokland, about her art and the the project SrefidensiFoto, photo archives and the role of memory and identity in her work.

Lecture: The work of artist Patricia Kaersenhout and artist Charl Landvreugd

Artists Patricia Kaersenhout & Charl Landvreugd will each present a lecture on their artistic practice.

Lecture: Rose Mary Allen - Oral history as autobiography

Lecture by Dr. Rose Mary Allen, on oral history in the context of Curacao.

Symposium: 'The Society of Post-Control'

Extended conversation on the emergence, consequences, and activist responses to the Society of Post-Control.

Re(as)sisting Narratives in context

A conversation in the context of exhibition 'Re(as)sisting Narratives' with curator Chandra Frank, participating artist Judith Westerveld, and moderator Jennifer Tosch.

Symposium: Multiscript typography

Event with Khatt Foundation presenting the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib.

Tori with Jay Pather

Tori evening with Jay Pather.

Straatpraatj(i)es: Onthoud jy nog

An intervention by Burning Museum in the Transvaalquarter, Amsterdam.

The Story Might Not Be Complete

A discussion on erasure and the archive.

Questioning representations of migration in artistic practice

A dialogue with Angela Anderson and Katayoun Arian.

International Women's Day at Framer Framed

Opening exhibition Society and lecture by Chandra Frank.

Diasporic self: sound as lingua franca

The closing event to the exhibition 'Ancestral Blues'.

Indigenous Art Now!

Forum and launch for Artlink Indigenous.

The Knights Move presents: Jasmijn Visser

Event with The Knights Move and Jasmijn Visser on the geopolitical side of human organisation.

Queerly There? Queer Art in Czech and Slovak Context

Lecture by Zuzana Štefková on explicit voicing out of the issues of sexuality and gender non-normativity in Czech and Slovak context.

Mining, Memories and the Body: An evening with a.o. Melanie Bonajo

Addressing the politics and poetics of changing industries, such as mining.

Lectures: contemporary art in Iran

With Hamid Severi and Farzan Sojoodi.

The Colonial Gaze

On the historical preconceptions that determine our view of art.

The Exotic View

About the role of cultural memory organizations in a multi cultural society

The Archive: unveiling the present

An evening about the notion of the archive in political issues

World Art and the Imperial Imagination

A workshop on the interface of contemporary art, postcolonial theory and cultural museology.

Screening: The Turtles' Song: a Moroccan revolution

Film screening in cooperation with Cinema Arabe.

Industrial Transitions: on the NSDM Shipyard and the former Dutch mining regions

Discussion on the transitions of post-industrial area's.

Kunstlicht presents: ‘Cultural Policies: Agendas of Impact’

Presentation of a new Kunstlicht issue, 'Cultural Policies: Agendas of Impact'.

New Democracy: Digital Commons

Can we revitalise democracy by designing and developing community owned digital and online spaces?

Opening: Some Things Hidden at Castrum Peregrini

A two part exhibition opening at Castrum Peregrini in November 2017 and at Framer Framed in January 2018.

Film screening 'Jalan'

A film about informal street economy in Jogjakarta, by artist Su Tomesen. Presented in the context of exhibition 'Pressing Matters'.

Plak Attack: A Paper Monument in Public Space

Join us for a guerrilla art paste workshop with artists Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries and Kevin van Braak.

Partner event: Read My World - Talkshow What Comes from Afar

Literary festival Read My World takes place across Tolhuistuin, including several events at Framer Framed.

Partner event: Read My World - HüzünProject

Literary festival Read My World takes place across Tolhuistuin, including several events at Framer Framed.

Exhibition: Teacher as conceptual artist

In collaboration with Jorge Lucero

Finissage: Monuments to the Unsung

Framer Framed sets in motion one of the works of art: the mobile 'The First Turk Immigrant or the Nameless Heroes of the Revolution' by artist Suat Ögüt 'migrates' from its current location on the IJ-river bank deeper into North, to Molenwijk.

Impossible Dialogues

Curated by Katia Krupennikova, Margaret Tali and Inga Lace.

Closing day exhibition Crisis of History #2 - Fight History

Framer Framed at Tolhuistuin, 16.00 till 18.00.

The Guided View

On museum presentations, the construction of a national identity and the Dutch historical canon.

The View of the East

On the position of islamic art in Dutch art institutions.

The Slanted View

On the practice of art criticism and the criteria of evaluation used by Dutch art institutions.

Framer Framed stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people

Football match Molenwijk

An alternative football match organised by artist in residence Anan Striker

Estrangement

On the tension between Europe and what was once constructed as the 'Orient'

Parade Molenwijk

Music parade for all ages in the Molenwijk