Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

A concert presenting two new compositions by Reza Namavar and Maxim Shalygin , both inspired by Bruckner.

Shalygin’s new piece Bleeding was supported by Ammodo.

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In the concert series Reflex, BIMHUIS invites makers to reflect on the world and its society with a new composition.

Italian saxophonist Nicolò Ricci composes a piece for chambre orchestra and his own jazz quartet.

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The 2024 edition of the European nomadic biennial Manifesta is held in Barcelona.

In close dialogue with local communities, Manifesta investigates the possibilities for social change through contemporary art and culture.

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Three contemporary choreographies make up this programme by NDT 1. The dancers revisit Jiří Kylián’s Vanishing Twin (2008) and Clowns by Hofesh Shechter (2016), and in addition they present a new work by choreographer Christos Papadopoulos, who favours minimalist and precise movements. The new work of Papadopoulos is supported by Ammodo.

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Solo exhibition of Polish artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, who is part of the Roma people and makes art around the Roma experience.

The presentation includes one of the most important and largest works in the oeuvre of Mirga-Tas: Re-enchanting the World (2022).

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Pictured: fragment from Re-enchanting the World, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, 2022

Theatre maker and ITA director Eline Arbo creates an intense music-theatre experience based on the Norwegian song cycle Haugtussa (1899), which recounts the tale of a woman with supernatural gifts who finds no place in her community and decides to seek refuge in nature.

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Eye Filmmuseum presents Albert Serra – Liberté, the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. This exhibition transforms the exhibition space into an immersive stage where theatre, cinema, and art converge. 

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The 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. This year’s curator of the exhibition is Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil.

Eight internationally renowned artists will develop a performance piece for the Biennale: Ahmed Umar, Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Güneş Terkol, Isaac Chong Wai, Joshua Serafin, Lydia Ourahmane and Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo).

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IN SITU is a new exhibition series in the mezzanine of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam which commissions experimental works by a new generation of artists.

Nora Turato inaugurates the series with a video and sound installation that examines how we use language and how language influences our identity and ways of communicating.

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The contemporary ensemble Stargaze and American band Dirty Projectors perform a song cycle reflecting on the cyclical nature of life and death, and connecting Mahler to The Beach Boys.

This is a production of Muziekgebouw Productiehuis, which is supported by Ammodo.

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Artists Kenneth Aidoo, Lorraine Hellwig and Nazif Lopulissa relocate their studios to Buro Stedelijk and invite the audience into their creative process. Together they explore artistic interventions that challenge modes of exhibiting, interaction and museological practices.

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In the group exhibition Soils, international artists, designers, farmers and activists explore a renewed connection between humans and the soil they live on.

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Iranian visual artist Navid Nuur presents When Doubt Turns into Destiny, a solo exhibition in which he combines his own research into the neighbourhood to the notion of impermanence.

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Amandante, the first opera by Dutch-Ukrainian composer Maxim Shalygin, is a chamber opera inspired by the ancient Symposium, Plato’s dialogue exploring lust, love, and desire.

This is a production of Muziekgebouw Productiehuis, which is supported by Ammodo.

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In the concert series Reflex, BIMHUIS invites makers to reflect on the world and its society with a new composition.

For Reflex, Polish-born keyboardist Marta Warelis formed a group with well-known improvising musicians from various cities including Amsterdam and Chicago. The new work, for synthesizer, clarinet, trumpet and vocals, is inspired by Lebanese artist and poet Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931).

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After his successful Geschiedenis van geweld, theatre director Abdel Daoudi takes the next step in his investigation of humanity’s complex relationship to violence with the new play Branden.

Branden (Incendies) is a 2003 drama by Lebanese-Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad about a family torn apart by civil war.

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The voice of spirituality is the second part of the trilogy The great voice of Umm Kulthum, in which the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra brings an homage to singer umm Kulthum, also known as the Star of the East and the Voice of Egypt.

This is a production of Muziekgebouw Productiehuis, which is supported by Ammodo.

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The voice of the revolution is the first part of the trilogy The great voice of Umm Kulthum, in which the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra brings an homage to singer umm Kulthum, also known as the Star of the East and the Voice of Egypt.

This is a production of Muziekgebouw Productiehuis, which is supported by Ammodo.

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Renowned thinkers discuss the great questions of our time. This edition of the Nexus conference focuses on the need for a vision of the future in confused and confusing times.

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Jongensuren is a theatrical homage to Dutch writer Andreas Burnier (1931-2002) whose novels and stories about identity and sexuality made her a queer icon. Koen Verheijden wrote a new play based on several of Burnier’s novels.

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SONGOFSONGS by Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot (BVDS) is a musical video installation and the second part of their diptych New Body Project. In a painterly video-diorama, four mime performers bring an homage to evolution. BVDS takes inspiration from the Biblical Song of Songs and translates this ancient text into a colourful vision of the future.

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World premiere of Techno Etudes IV, a work by Japanese composer Karen Tanaka made for pianist Ralph van Raat. Presented alongside two works by Borodin and Tchaikovsky.

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Florentina Holzinger’s opera performance Sancta combines Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna with elements of the Catholic liturgy to create a radically new vision of the Holy Mass. The result is a performance which brings together individual spirituality and faith, sexuality and pain, and shame and liberation.

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At the concert Minimalism at its most powerful, eight trumpeters from The Monochrome Project perform various new compositions. Among them is the world premiere of a new Ammodo-funded work by Elena Rykova, which focuses on the spatial quality of sound.

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Pictured: You Exist. And I Am an Illusion (drawing by Elena Rykova, 2016)

The voice that resonates is the third part of the trilogy The great voice of Umm Kulthum, in which the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra brings an homage to singer umm Kulthum, also known as the Star of the East and the Voice of Egypt.

This is a production of Muziekgebouw Productiehuis, which is supported by Ammodo.

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