In June and July this year, de Appel Kiosk took over Dappermarkt and Albert Cuypmarkt with three projects by art collective _ao_ao_ing ensemble, publishing collective Hi, Jack! Publishing and artist Alina Lupu. The latter will return once more to Dappermarkt, due to postponement because of last June's heatwave. Value Added Text by Alina Lupu is a text-based screenprinting workshop. Borrowing the fiscal term 'value added,' the project examines how commodities gain surplus value, and how language itself can function as added value. ‣ More info
Service at Dappermarkt is a one-day event in which four artists exchange a wayward and unique artistic service in an exchange with market visitors – for money, something tangible or intangible, symbolic or material. Four services will be delivered on the street market, by artists Sixin Chen, Denitsa Ilcheva, Borys Kashapov and Berend Kemmeren. This project is a joint activity of Lesia Kulchynska’s Service, de Appel Kiosk, and Sepp Eckenhaussen’s Shared Visions. Each of the three is a long-term project aiming to manipulate the economic rules of artistic labour. ‣ More info
Kjartan Slettemark, knähund/Lapdog of the bourgeoisie, Malmö Konsthall, 1975, . In the framework of Annika Eriksson, we are not who you think we are, performance series, 2006-2009.
The opening programme of the exhibition is a one day symposium that explores class dynamics in the art world, featuring some of the original artists and contributors of Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie 20 years ago, as well as new contributing artists and discussants around issues of class. Contributors include Özgür Atlagan, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Annika Eriksson, Chris Evans, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Hassan Khan, San Keller, Alina Lupu, Suhail Malik, Peter Spillmann, Eszter Szakács, Tirdad Zolghadr and others. ‣ More info and reservations
Still from Sahara is not for Sale, a film by Jocelyne Saab (1977), screen capture by Subversive Film
An Exercise in Assembling by Subversive Film brings together fragments of militant films made across liberation struggles, anti-colonial movements, and struggles for civil and workers’ rights. Focusing on moments of public assembly, the film assemblage asks what it means to assemble today: as a form of liberation, a source of collective power, and a method for producing shared political imaginaries. Rather than looking nostalgically at histories of militant cinema, the project brings these films into conversation with the urgencies of the present. Artist and architect Iswanto Hartono will design the exhibition space into an assembly space for gathering to discuss the film assemblages’ four chapters. In collaboration with NW, Open House for Contemporary Art. ‣ More info
The documentary Final Cut uncovers the truth behind Body Art, a controversial Dutch TV programme shot in 1975, and the brainchild of cultural critic Simon Mari Pruys (1927-1980). The programme featured Thomas Lips, an intense performance at de Appel by artist Marina Abramović. But the TV programme never aired: it was censored and banned from broadcast forever. Filmmaker Joeri Pruys gives us a personal look into this divisive part of art history, and goes on a search for the lost footage. Along the way he speaks with newer generations of outspoken artists and curators, such as Basma Alsharif, Alina Lupu and de Appel’s artistic director Lara Khaldi. Final Cut will premiere on Sunday 27 September at the Netherlands Film Festival this September. It is in competition for a Gouden Kalf, the national award for best Dutch documentary. ‣ More info and tickets
de Appel Archive, which tells the story of de Appel’s past, present, and future, contains all sorts of materials that have emerged over a 50 year history of exhibiting, discussing, positing, and questioning art and culture in all its forms. To make the archive more accessible, the archivists worked on a manual to accompany your visits. Find the printed manual at the archive office, or browse the PDF. The Archive is open on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2 to 6pm. The library is accessible during regular opening hours of de Appel.
As part of the international art manifestation Works and Words organised by de Appel in 1979, the Hungarian artist Endre Tót and cohort marched through the center of Amsterdam, holding up this big banner. This unspecified, demonstration was a critical response to the totalitarian Hungarian regime in the 1970s, where protesting on the street was near impossible. Today, almost 50 years later, is still around, and on the rise. We revisit this image, asking ourselves: are we glad to demonstrate?
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CaccHhO CucchhA by Mercedes Azpilicueta, first commissioned by de Appel and co-produced with Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, opens at the 18e Biennale de Lyon on 18 September. CaccHhO CucchhA is a scenographic exhibition for children and adults that treats play as invention, disobedience, and commons making. The exhibition is currently on show at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, until 22 November. At Groninger Museum, in the context of Playing House – An art biennial with children and young people, taking place from 9 September 2026 to 27 January 2027, the artist has made new play structures and wearables inspired by Ettore Sottsass’s radical experiments with colour and patterns, created in collaboration with participating children.
