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Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny

Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny

07 September 2024 - 09 February 2025
Oude Kerk

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.

oudekerk.nl

Positions #8: Art is a Verb

Positions #8: Art is a Verb

07 December 2024 - 27 April 2025
Van Abbemuseum

Art is a Verb focuses on how art is connected to various other aspects of life, being and doing.

Different solo exhibitions – by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Svetlana Romanova & Chelsea Tuggle, Cristina Flores Pescorán, al-yene, Badan Kajian Pertanahan (BKP) – reflect on themes such as care, political engagement and wellbeing.

vanabbemuseum.nl

Pictured: The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter 1, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson with La Casa Invisible, 2023

Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot – SONGOFSONGS

Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot – SONGOFSONGS

16 October 2024 - 02 May 2025
Various theatres

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.

bvds.nl

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

18 June 2024 - 16 February 2025
Bonnefantenmuseum

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).

bonnefanten.nl

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

Jabu Arnell: Turn off the Lights: Disco Ball #13 A Kind of Black

Jabu Arnell: Turn off the Lights: Disco Ball #13 A Kind of Black

20 September 2024 - 27 April 2025
Kunstinstituut Melly

Solo exhibition by Jabu Arnell as part of exhibition series First Double 1 & 2.

Arnell creates an installation around the disco ball, a symbol functioning as a gateway to themes like vulnerability, beauty, cringe and glamour.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: ‘Untitled’ Portrait of [Disco] [Ball] #13, Jabu Arnell, 2024

IN SITU #1: Nora Turato

IN SITU #1: Nora Turato

14 September 2024 - 31 August 2025
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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.

stedelijk.nl

Magali Reus – Parallel Bones

Magali Reus – Parallel Bones

02 November 2024 - 09 March 2025
KM21
In 2025, KM21 presents an exhibition by Dutch artist Magali Reus in the form of an installation with both existing and new work.

Reus, who is known for her sculptures of distorted or enlarged everyday objects, will enter into a dialogue with the Hague designer T.A.C. Colenbrander (1841-1930), a number of whose carpets and other objects will be on display. Reus will thus create and associative space in which the symbiosis of the two makers is highlighted.

KM21.nl

Pictured: What Grows (Red Roses) (detail), Magali Reus, 2022

Luana Vitra: The beads of my rosary are artillery bullets

Luana Vitra: The beads of my rosary are artillery bullets

20 September 2024 - 27 April 2025
Kunstinstituut Melly

Solo exhibition by Luana Vitra as part of exhibition series First Double 1 & 2.

For her solo presentation at Kunstinstituut Melly, Vitra reflects on the relationship between manual work, prayer, politics and spirituality.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: The Beads of My Rosary are Artillery Bullets, Luana Vitra, 2024

Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny

Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny

07 September 2024 - 09 February 2025
Oude Kerk

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.

oudekerk.nl

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

18 June 2024 - 16 February 2025
Bonnefantenmuseum

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).

bonnefanten.nl

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

Magali Reus – Parallel Bones

Magali Reus – Parallel Bones

02 November 2024 - 09 March 2025
KM21
In 2025, KM21 presents an exhibition by Dutch artist Magali Reus in the form of an installation with both existing and new work.

Reus, who is known for her sculptures of distorted or enlarged everyday objects, will enter into a dialogue with the Hague designer T.A.C. Colenbrander (1841-1930), a number of whose carpets and other objects will be on display. Reus will thus create and associative space in which the symbiosis of the two makers is highlighted.

KM21.nl

Pictured: What Grows (Red Roses) (detail), Magali Reus, 2022

Positions #8: Art is a Verb

Positions #8: Art is a Verb

07 December 2024 - 27 April 2025
Van Abbemuseum

Art is a Verb focuses on how art is connected to various other aspects of life, being and doing.

Different solo exhibitions – by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Svetlana Romanova & Chelsea Tuggle, Cristina Flores Pescorán, al-yene, Badan Kajian Pertanahan (BKP) – reflect on themes such as care, political engagement and wellbeing.

vanabbemuseum.nl

Pictured: The Rehabilitation of La Casa Invisible – Chapter 1, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson with La Casa Invisible, 2023

Jabu Arnell: Turn off the Lights: Disco Ball #13 A Kind of Black

Jabu Arnell: Turn off the Lights: Disco Ball #13 A Kind of Black

20 September 2024 - 27 April 2025
Kunstinstituut Melly

Solo exhibition by Jabu Arnell as part of exhibition series First Double 1 & 2.

Arnell creates an installation around the disco ball, a symbol functioning as a gateway to themes like vulnerability, beauty, cringe and glamour.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: ‘Untitled’ Portrait of [Disco] [Ball] #13, Jabu Arnell, 2024

Luana Vitra: The beads of my rosary are artillery bullets

Luana Vitra: The beads of my rosary are artillery bullets

20 September 2024 - 27 April 2025
Kunstinstituut Melly

Solo exhibition by Luana Vitra as part of exhibition series First Double 1 & 2.

For her solo presentation at Kunstinstituut Melly, Vitra reflects on the relationship between manual work, prayer, politics and spirituality.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: The Beads of My Rosary are Artillery Bullets, Luana Vitra, 2024

Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot – SONGOFSONGS

Boogaerdt/Van der Schoot – SONGOFSONGS

16 October 2024 - 02 May 2025
Various theatres

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.

bvds.nl

IN SITU #1: Nora Turato

IN SITU #1: Nora Turato

14 September 2024 - 31 August 2025
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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.

stedelijk.nl

Soon

Concertgebouworkest: Contemporary compositions

Concertgebouworkest: Contemporary compositions

06 - 08 March 2025
Het Concertgebouw

Amsterdam celebrates its 750-year existence. This occasion is marked with three different concerts on 6, 7 and 8 March which will showcase the city’s musical diversity.

The concerts include arias in Papiament sung by Tania Kross, the world premiere of a new composition by Calliope Tsoupaki and the world premiere of an a cappella work by Jeff Hamburg.

concertgebouworkest.nl

Pictured: conductor Bas Wiegers

Elena Rykova: World premiere

Elena Rykova: World premiere

04 April 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

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

Alida Dors: (Sur)Render

Alida Dors: (Sur)Render

19 February - 12 April 2025
Various theatres

Alida Dors is choreographer, theatre director and artistic director of Theater Rotterdam. Her new production (Sur)Render is a new interdisciplinary performance combining dance, video, poetry, spoken word and live music about humanity’s disturbed relation to nature and to each other.

theaterrotterdam.nl

 

Alice Ripoll – Zona Franca

Alice Ripoll – Zona Franca

24 March 2025
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

Choreographer Alice Ripoll and company Cia Suave create the ultimate play space, a zona franca, in which various types of dance and music from contemporary Brazilian youth culture propel each other forward.

ita.nl

Naomi Velissariou – Hardkoor

Naomi Velissariou – Hardkoor

24 February - 04 April 2025
Various theatres

HARDKOOR is a ‘stand-up tragedy concert’ and a ‘stream of self-consciousness’ to techno, triphop and choir music.

theaterutrecht.nl

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice that resonates

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice that resonates

16 May 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

Opera Forward Festival

Opera Forward Festival

14 - 30 March 2025
Nationale Opera & Ballet

Opera Forward Festival is an annual festival which dives into the future of opera by giving a platform to new work and the next generation of artists.

This edition investigates the illusion of continued progress towards a perfectly happy world, which seemed unstoppable only a few decades ago.

operaballet.nl

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice of spirituality

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice of spirituality

09 April 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

NDT: Figures in Extinction

NDT: Figures in Extinction

07 February - 06 July 2025
Various theatres

NDT and Complicité present the final part of the triptych Figures in Extinction by Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney: a new full-length work about the age of extinction.

ndt.nl

Concertgebouworkest: Contemporary compositions

Concertgebouworkest: Contemporary compositions

06 - 08 March 2025
Het Concertgebouw

Amsterdam celebrates its 750-year existence. This occasion is marked with three different concerts on 6, 7 and 8 March which will showcase the city’s musical diversity.

The concerts include arias in Papiament sung by Tania Kross, the world premiere of a new composition by Calliope Tsoupaki and the world premiere of an a cappella work by Jeff Hamburg.

concertgebouworkest.nl

Pictured: conductor Bas Wiegers

Alice Ripoll – Zona Franca

Alice Ripoll – Zona Franca

24 March 2025
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

Choreographer Alice Ripoll and company Cia Suave create the ultimate play space, a zona franca, in which various types of dance and music from contemporary Brazilian youth culture propel each other forward.

ita.nl

Opera Forward Festival

Opera Forward Festival

14 - 30 March 2025
Nationale Opera & Ballet

Opera Forward Festival is an annual festival which dives into the future of opera by giving a platform to new work and the next generation of artists.

This edition investigates the illusion of continued progress towards a perfectly happy world, which seemed unstoppable only a few decades ago.

operaballet.nl

Elena Rykova: World premiere

Elena Rykova: World premiere

04 April 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

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

Naomi Velissariou – Hardkoor

Naomi Velissariou – Hardkoor

24 February - 04 April 2025
Various theatres

HARDKOOR is a ‘stand-up tragedy concert’ and a ‘stream of self-consciousness’ to techno, triphop and choir music.

theaterutrecht.nl

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice of spirituality

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice of spirituality

09 April 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

Alida Dors: (Sur)Render

Alida Dors: (Sur)Render

19 February - 12 April 2025
Various theatres

Alida Dors is choreographer, theatre director and artistic director of Theater Rotterdam. Her new production (Sur)Render is a new interdisciplinary performance combining dance, video, poetry, spoken word and live music about humanity’s disturbed relation to nature and to each other.

theaterrotterdam.nl

 

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice that resonates

Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra – The voice that resonates

16 May 2025
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

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.

muziekgebouw.nl

NDT: Figures in Extinction

NDT: Figures in Extinction

07 February - 06 July 2025
Various theatres

NDT and Complicité present the final part of the triptych Figures in Extinction by Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney: a new full-length work about the age of extinction.

ndt.nl