This weekend, de Appel will brave the night with a playful Game Night during Museumnacht, with game activities offered by artists Joy Mariama Smith, Rana Kelleci, laura fernández antolín, MengHan Wu & Maren Weertman, Emilija Filipenkovaitė and Moe Satt. On Sunday, Mercedes Azpilicueta will give a tour through her exhibition CaccHho CucchhA. On the same day, we will screen the documentary To Kill a War Machine (2025) about the direct-action group Palestine Action at Filmtheater Kriterion, followed by a conversation with local activists from Fok Fokker and Geef Tegengas. On several dates in November, CaccHho CucchhA will be activated through a series of artist-led playshops by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Lina Bravo Mora, Antonella Fittipaldi, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda and Antonella Fittipaldi. In December you are invited to the book launch of : de Appel 1975-2025, initiated by Martha Jager and co-edited with Hannah Cheney. The publication brings together fifty years of correspondence from the Archive of de Appel and draws up a relational and affective history of the institution.

We hope to see you soon!

de Appel team

During Museumnacht, the exhibition CaccHho CucchhA by Mercedes Azpilicueta transforms into a lively game night. Inspired by the ways children play, move, and imagine new stories together, the exhibition becomes the stage for a series of short activities lasting 10–20 minutes. Throughout the evening, artists Joy Mariama Smith, Rana Kelleci, laura fernández antolín, MengHan Wu & Maren Weertman, Emilija Filipenkovaitė and Moe Satt invite you to join sensory experiments, movement games, interactive play, and other playful surprises. Light, interactive, and open for everyone – step in at any moment! ‣ More info and schedule

Join us at Filmtheater Kriterion for a screening of the documentary To Kill a War Machine (2025), directed by Hannan Majid and Richard York, co-founders of Rainbow Collective. Through real-time bodycam and phone footage, frontline activists take audiences along on their audacious raids to tear down arms factories across the UK. Since 2020, the direct-action group Palestine Action has documented its operations to dismantle companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

After the screening there will be a conversation with the activists from organisations Fok Fokker and Geef Tegengas, moderated by Ayesha . This screening is organised together with Kate Cooper and Filmtheater Kriterion. ‣ More info and tickets

Join artist Mercedes Azpilicueta for a tour through the exhibition CaccHho CucchhA on Sunday 2 and 16 November! CaccHho CucchhA is a scenographic exhibition that treats play as invention, disobedience, and commons making. Commissioned by de Appel, the project unfolds as an immersive ecosystem of modular sculptural costumes, play platforms and a large tapestry, activated through an ongoing series of workshops with children, families, and invited collaborators. ‣ Make a reservation

The exhibition CaccHho CucchhA by Mercedes Azpilicueta will be activated through children’s free play and a series of artist-led playshops. These sessions are facilitated by Mercedes Azpilicueta herself, Antonella Fittipaldi, Anna Klas, Lina Bravo Mora, Raoni Muzho Saleh, Gļeb(s) Maiboroda and Vere van der Veen, and will explore the exhibition through storytelling, , weaving, sound-making, and planting. Since this is a child centered exhibition, rather than being guided or instructed, children will be accompanied, with activities adapted to their collective rhythms, needs, and desires. The playshops are open to children aged 4–12. Adults are expected to participate in the play activities. There will be a Dutch translator present for the playshops in English.

You are warmly invited to the book launch of : de Appel 1975-2025. The publication is initiated by Martha Jager, co-edited with Hannah Cheney and designed by Bardhi Haliti and Zuzana Kostelanská. It brings together fifty years of correspondence from the Archive of de Appel and draws up a relational and affective history of the institution. The publication traces the activities of de Appel through letters, telegrams, airmail, postcards, faxes, and emails, sent to and by de Appel. The book features materials by more than a hundred different authors. Context is provided by written guest contributions by Alice Butler, Alison Burstein, Annet Dekker, Susan Gibb and Brian Fuata and Nell Donkers. ‣ More info

📌 Apply before 1 December!

To support the team, de Appel is looking for an Archiving & Communications Intern for 24 – 32 hours per week, for a period of approximately 5 months. The intern will archive and publish the audio and video documentation of de Appel’s activities of the last 2 years: making the public programmes, talks and conversations publicly accessible and archiving printed matter and physical remnants of the exhibitions and programmes of the last 2 years. ‣ More info and how to apply

Opening on 17 January, 2026, as part of de Appel’s research and engagement with questions on land, housing and co-ownership, we are thrilled to collaborate with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina and Peter Eramian on their collaborative project The Broken Pitcher, which traces the effects of and austerity by looking at the banking system and the potentials for changing the script of interacting with it. Starting in 2020, gatherings and workshops have been at the core of its making, in order to rehearse structures and formats of working together, scripting, and researching the context of foreclosures in relation to debt and coloniality, to counter the isolation and desperation they produce. At de Appel the project takes a multi-fold formation: a one-to-one scale model of a bank room that functions both as an exhibition space and a film set; a feature-length film (The Broken Pitcher, 2022) that reconstructs a bank meeting of a family negotiating their imminent home foreclosure; artistic annotations of the project’s research and afterlives and a publishing assemblage. More details are coming soon. ‣ Full announcement

The Maker Behind the Maker Award is an initiative of Kunstinstituut Melly in collaboration with the Mondriaan Fund. It recognizes a person or group working in the Netherlands who, through their impeccable craftsmanship and collaborative support, has helped a visual artist realize their work to its fullest potential. We are happy to announce that our archivist Nell Donkers is among this year's nominees. From Melly’s website: “Since 2002, Nell Donkers has curated the archive of de Appel in Amsterdam, safeguarding its memory and connecting artists, researchers, and audiences. She has modernized the archive digitally and initiated publications such as The Remote Archivist, fostering exploration of archiving, bookmaking, and storytelling.” ‣ More info