Opening Framer Framed Noord: a new space for art and culture in
It’s official! This Saturday, 14 March 2026, Framer Framed opens the doors of Framer Framed Noord.
With this new location, we continue our long-running activities in – the renovated building at Zuideinde will become the new home of Werkplaats Molenwijk, where over the past seven years we have organised artist residencies and developed various creative projects and educational programmes together with local residents.
During the afternoon, visitors can take part in workshops for all ages and enjoy freshly baked bread. After the workshops, the opening celebration begins at 18:00 with the official opening by district councillor Esther Lagendijk.
Everyone is welcome – admission is free!
View the complete opening programme here and register via the button below.
Notes to Other Futures: Fifteen Years of Framer Framed
Notes to Other Futures explores fifteen years of developing alternative practices at Framer Framed – engaged in radical pedagogy, community organising and collaborative . This anthology offers snapshots of the organisation’s history. Reflecting a commitment to work towards possible futures: ones imagined collectively, embedded in solidarity and open to transformation.
The book is now available for pre-order. More news about the book launch will be announced soon!
On show at Framer Framed
OPEN UNTIL 17 MAY
Colonial power and international resistance to nuclear
The exhibition Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities explores the entanglement of colonial power structures with nuclear energy and nuclear testing, as well as the global forms of resistance that have emerged in response. Between Fires is curated by Fabienne Rachmadiev and is presented in collaboration with Sonic Acts.
Curator Fabienne Rachmadiev on the exhibition Between Fires
Between Fires brings together new and existing poetic and audiovisual works in a layered reflection on nuclear colonialism across continents and generations. In the exhibition guide, curator Fabienne Rachmadiev analyses how this form of colonialism manifests globally and how its impact continues to resonate in diverse historical and contemporary contexts.
Open Call: Transitional Justice with Artists grant and fellowship
Framer Framed, together with AFIELD and Arts of the Working Class, launches the Transitional Justice with Artists Grant, distributing six grants of €10.000 and awarding a six-month fellowship to practicing artists, cultural practitioners or key members of initiatives addressing legacies of injustice and violence.
The Transitional Justice with Artists (TJA) programme supports Europe-based practitioners and the communities they serve who have endured severe human rights violations. It honours the lived experience of those who are victims or survivors, recognising the complexity of their roles and upholding their dignity, while pursuing and redress for the harms suffered, whether through historical legacies or persisting violations.
Framer Framed is participating in the JUST ART project
JUST ART is a six year project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen, bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities across the Kingdom of the Netherlands to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice. Framer Framed is a partner of the two strands Just Practices: Centring Climate and Multispecies Justice in the Visual and Performing Arts and Just Production: Soil Ecologies and Goods.
Pennie Key and Radna Rumping selected as 2026 fellows
Framer Framed is pleased to introduce artists Pennie Key and Radna Rumping as 2026 fellows in a collaborative fellowship programme with the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). During their fellowship, the artists focus their research on how bodies and practices persist within systems designed to control. Both take public space as their point of departure and situate their work in the city of Amsterdam, each engaging with a different environment.
The education programme at Framer Framed introduces children and young people to local artists and international themes, with (un)learning as its guiding principle. Learning is understood as a collaborative, critical and ongoing process, in which unlearning assumptions and ideas plays a central role. Both within and outside formal education, Framer Framed creates space for collaboration, radical pedagogy and the sharing of experiences.
In the first term of this school year, Framer Framed’s culture coaches worked with the students of Montessori Oostpoort. Illustrator Rossel Chaslie and visual artist Elke Uitentuis guided the students on an exploratory and creative journey focused on mapping – charting their own living environment. Together with the students, they examined different scales of their surroundings. What does the school mean to you? What does your route to school look like? Which places in the neighbourhood are important, and how do you relate to the city as a whole?
Together with Buurtkamer Zuideinde 369 and Muziekschool Amsterdam Noord, the renovated building at Zuideinde 369 (Z369 – Social and Cultural Centre) will be opened with a celebratory programme of workshops, bread-making and performances.
This Queer Arab Family is edited by journalist and writer Elias Jahshan. Ten queer writers from the Arab world and diaspora share stories about family, care and the resilience of queer Arab communities.
Guided tour with Fabienne Rachmadiev and performance by buulbuul
The exhibition Between Fires explores nuclear technologies, colonial legacies, land, memory and resistance. The tour is followed by a performance by buulbuul on regions of Kazakhstan.
Presentation and panel with Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed resident Jay Afriando
Artist Jay Afriando gives a presentation on the impact of Dutch colonialism on people with disabilities in Indonesia, alongside ongoing archival research.
DATAGOV Lab, a project initiated by the University of Amsterdam (UvA), invites you to take part in a conversation on how data-driven regulation is reshaping democracy, rights and inequality worldwide.
In our webshop, we sell our publications and catalogues from past exhibitions and projects.
Emptying the Shelves
Emptying the Shelves traces how Dutch ethnographic museums – including the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors – have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century.
Drawing on a trove of archival exhibition photographs and contemporary essays by Mirelle van Tulder, Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clémentine Deliss and Mirjam Shatanawi, it maps the shift from densely packed cabinets to minimalist white cubes, asking what these reveal about colonial legacies, restitution and repair.
Slamming Doors: Falling Out and Fighting Back in a Housing Crisis (2025) brings together writers, academics and community organisers against the backdrop of an ongoing housing crisis. Acting as a ‘user’s manual’, the book mobilises text and images, archives and conversations to unpack the work of DIY learning, grassroots organising, and how to record, disseminate and learn from collective struggles.
The book is edited by Winnie Herbstein and Mason Leaver-Yap and includes contributions by Lola Olufemi, Hannah Proctor, Dean Spade, Kirsten Lloyd and Cathy McCormack.
14 February – 29 March Tuesday until Sunday: 12:00 – 20:00
31 March – 17 May Tuesday until Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00 Free entry
Framer Framed is located in the purification hall of the former and is within walking distance from Muiderpoort train station and the Oostpoort tram stop.
Framer Framed Noord Z369 – Sociaal and Cultural Centre Zuideinde 369 1035 PE Amsterdam
ACCESSIBILITY
All Framer Framed programs are free to attend. Donations are always welcome. Our space is wheelchair accessible. Visit our accessibility page to learn more about what to expect.
