Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Angelique Kidjo performs music from her new album Mother Nature, on which she fuses West African musical traditions from her childhood in Benin with American influences from genres like R&B, funk and jazz. Her songs tackle major contemporary issues such as the climate crisis and racial inequality.

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Photo: Fabrice Mabillot

Operette by Steef de Jong about soldiers at the front and what it means to be brave.

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Largest-ever exhibition of the work of Johannes Vermeer, with numerous loans from other international museums including The Geographer, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, Woman Holding a Balance and Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

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Pictured: Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662-64

Joris Roelofs is a (bass) clarinetist and interested in the political dimension of improvisation. For this concert he collaborates with choreographers Meg Stuart and Claire Vivianne Sobottkev on a performance in which music, speech and dance come together.

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Photo: Marcel Bakker

In the Solo Duets series, Kunstinstituut Melly presents two solo exhibitions simultaneously. This edition shows work by Jennifer Tee and Sijben Rosa.

The exhibition Still Shifting, Mother Field by Dutch artist Jennifer Tee includes newly commissioned ceramic sculptures, textile installations and collages. As part of the solo-exhibition Tee is also staging a performance developed with Korean improvisation choreographer and dancer Miri Lee.

Dutch artist Sijben Rosa is creating new work in collaboration with inhabitants of nursing homes and retirement homes in the Netherlands. The work will be presented at the end of 2023.

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Depicted: Zelf in een doosje, Sijben Rosa, 2020-2021

18,000 Worlds is the first major solo exhibition of visual artist Saodat Ismailova, winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize 2022.

Ismailova investigates the complex and layered culture of her home country Uzbekistan and interweaves myths, rituals and dreams with everyday life.

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Picture: still from Two Horizons, Saodat Ismailova, 2017

Opera Forward Festival presents the world premiere of the musical-theatrical collage performance Ändere die Welt!. It shows a group of people in the aftermath of a revolution. They try to build a new existence while asking themselves: how do you change the world?

With musical director, arranger and pianist Pedro Beriso, existing and new material was used to build an idiosyncratic sound world. Music by Hanns Eisler, Weill, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Schumann, Auber, Beethoven and Wagner, among others, is combined with the contemporary sounds of spoken word and electronic soundscapes. The young, promising theatre-maker Mart van Berckel brings it all together on stage.

With singers from the Opera Studio.

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My Heavenly Favourite is Ivo van Hove’s theatre adaptation of Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s prize-winning novel of the same name.

A story about a veterinarian and his obsession for a fourteen-year-old girl.

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Birds of a Kind is a play by Libanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad about a relationship against the backdrop of the decades-long Israeli-Arab conflict.

Alize Zandwijk, who previously directed various of Mouawad’s other works, brings the play in Dutch translation and with actors from the ITA ensemble.

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Adaptation of Thieves by contemporary German writer Dea Loher, directed by Jessie L’Herminez. The play follows several fragile people in a capitalist society looking for warmth and consolation.

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Laura Polence is part of vocal ensemble August 38th. For this concert they will sing compositions by three musicians who have made their mark in the international improv circuit: Sofia Jernberg, Peter Evans and Cory Smythe.

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Eline Arbo directs Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, a love story about Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Greek hero Achilles.

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For this concert, drummer Sun-Mi Hong will play a new piece inspired by scenes from her documented dreams. She has invited a versatile group of musicians into her dreamworld, including a trumpet player, an organist and a bass player.

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Photo: Dion Bierdrager

Various works by Rachmaninov and the 12 Stichi Pokajanije (Penitential Psalms) by Alfred Schnittke. In collaboration with Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam and pianist Kimball Huigens.

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Music from the Cuban island with Spanish, French, African and American influences. Conductor: Leonard Evers.

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Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten gives talented artists from around the world the opportunity to develop their art under optimal conditions during a two-year artist residency.

During the annual Open Studios, artists present their work to a wider audience.

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Pictured: Agnes Waruguru, Open Studios 2022

In June, the 76th edition of Holland Festival will take place in Amsterdam, presenting a wide range of international performances in various disciplines. This year’s Associate Artist is musician and visual artist ANOHNI.

Ammodo is production partner of Holland Festival.

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Pictured: Éxotica, Amanda Pina, 2023

Ben Wendel is a versatile musician who easily switches between different instruments and genres. From bassoon to tenor sax and from jazz to classical. Tonight is the premiere of his new composition.

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Photo: Anouk van Kalmthout

The Pit and the Pendulum is a new piece composed by Robert Zuidam. In collaboration with Slagwerk Den Haag and soprano Claron McFadden.

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Raw are the roots presents the world premiere of two dance performances by artist Felix Landerer and choreographic duo Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar.

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Pictured: dance performance The whys and wherefores are elusive, Felix Landerer, 2019

‘Dance-thriller’ adaptation of the Oscar Wilde’s famous novel Dorian, performed by the Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company.

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Everything Worthwhile is Done With Other People is the seventh iteration of the exhibition series Positions, in which artists are brought into dialogue with one another and are invited to produce new work.

This exhibition features work by Ellen Gallagher & Cleijne, Jatiwangi art Factory, NTU, Metro 54 & friends and Subversive Film.

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