Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) is an annual festival for new contemporary opera productions. The festival presents opera as a relevant and forward-thinking artform to a wide audience.

Click here to read our interview from 2018 with Pierre Audi, former director of the Dutch National Opera.

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Pictured: Animal Farm by Alexander Raskatov at Opera Forward Festival 2023.

Ammodo supports the creation of the new production The Balancing Act by choreographer Ann Van den Broek, in which she explores the relationship between the interests of the individual versus the community.

The performance is set to premiere in October 2023.

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In 2023, De Ateliers opens Woonhuis, a new experimental exhibition space for both current participants and alumni to present their work.

De Ateliers will also commission site-specific works and there will be readings, screenings and events.

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Pictured: work by Sam Marshall Lockyer at Offspring 2022. Foto: Gert Jan van Rooij

SPRING Performing Arts Festival in Utrecht presents contemporary international performances at the crossroads of dance and theatre. Every year, the festival also produces new work by young and more established creators from over the globe.

Ammodo supports the production of new performances for editions 2024-2026.

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Pictured: Narcosexuals, Dries Verhoeven, SPRING 2022

Angela (A Strange Loop) is an interdisciplinary theatre project by Susanne Kennedy about the human relation to illness and death.

The piece combines high tech, philosophy, pop culture and literature as it follows a woman named Angela from birth until death and beyond.

Pictured: Three Sisters, Susanne Kennedy, 2020

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.

Ammodo supports the Rijksakademie Open Studios, an annual exhibition where artists present their art to a wider audience. This much-anticipated event gives art professionals and art lovers alike a unique overview of the leading talents in contemporary art.

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Pictured: Hend Samir, Open Studios 2022 (photo: Sander van Wettum)

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.

Ammodo supports the artists’ supervision by external advisors. By attracting advisors and guest advisors from various disciplines the Rijksakademie offers a wide range of input to their artists in residence.

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Pictured: Takanori Suzuki, Open Studios 2022 (photo: Sander van Wettum)

Every other year in the summer, The Dutch National Opera & Ballet organizes the Choreographic Academy: a period of three weeks in which young talented choreographers collaborate with the dancers of the Junior Company.

The Choreographic Academy aims to be a place for research and experiment. A final result in the form of a finished choreography is not a requirement, but it happens regularly.

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Pictured: New Moves, 2022 (Photo: Khayla Fitzpatrick)

Ammodo supports the creation of three new productions by choreographer Arno Schuitemaker: Remembering the Future (2023), The Day Before (2024) and Correspondences (2025).

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Pictured: O S C A R, Arno Schuitemaker, 2021 (Photo: Bart Grietens)

Festival d’Avignon is an annual theatre festival for new French and international productions. In editions 2023 and 2024, Ammodo supports the creation of two new (co-)productions per year.

In 2023, these are Welfare by Julie Deliquet and Antigone in the Amazon by Milo Rau. In 2024, they will be Mothers – A Song For The Wartime by Marta Górnicka and second production (to be determined).

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Centraal Museum organises the first museological solo exhibition of the French artist Pauline Curnier Jardin in The Netherlands. The museum invited her to produce new work. Her new installation, called Adoration, will be presented alongside four existing works in a solo exhibition of the same name.

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Pictured: Adoration, Pauline Curnier Jardin, 2022

Brideshead Revisited is a theatre production written by Florian Myjer and directed by Ward Weemhoff. It is based on Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel of the same name, in which a middleclass man tries to assimilate to the upper class.

The play investigates identity as it relates to class. Is it possible to climb the social ladder? Does class affect the way you experience sexuality?

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Pictured: Brideshead Revisited, De Warme Winkel, 2023

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.

Ammodo supports the expansion of the Rijksakademie’s public talks programme. By organising talks and debates, the Rijksakademie creates a platform for reflection about contemporary art.

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Pictured: Mamali Shafahi & Ali Eslami, Open Studios 2022 (photo: Sander van Wettum)

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.

Ammodo supports raising the residents’ personal work budget as well as the financing of costlier and more complex projects through a budget application system.

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Pictured: Wouter van der Laan, Open Studios 2022 (photo: Sander van Wettum)

The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet is a talent development programme for young dancers. Since its establishment in 2013, it has garnered a reputation for fostering promising new talents.

Every season, the Junior Company tours the nation with its own programme of repertoire choreographies as well as new creations. Many former participants have gone on to be selected for the Dutch National Ballet.

From season 2023/2024 onwards, the Junior Company expands its activities with the production of a new performance at Studio Broekman. Sedrig Verwoert is the first choreographer to be selected for this commission piece.

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Afgebeeld: In the Future, Hans van Manen, Shooting Stars tour 2022 (Photo: Altin Kaftira)

De Ateliers annually invites twenty talented artists for a two-year residence in which to develop their artistic practice under the best possible circumstances.

In 2020, De Ateliers launched a new Production Fund with support from Ammodo, which artists in residence may use to finance their practice. The fund promotes artistic experiment and gives the artists freedom to develop new ideas.

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Pictured: work by Tash Keddy at Offspring 2022. Foto: Gert Jan van Rooij

My Oma is a group exhibition around the symbolic figure of the grandmother and investigates themes such as mobility, affection and conflict.

The exhibition combines existing works and new commissions by various artists with connections to the Global South and marks the end of the six year directorship of curator Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy.

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Pictured: Kenyalang Circus, Marcos Kueh, 2022

Since 2015, the Eye Art & Film Prize is awarded annually to an artist working on the border between art and film. The winner receives a monetary prize to create new work and will be part of an exhibition at Eye.

Previous winners were Hito Steyerl (2015), Ben Rivers (2016), Wang Bing (2017), Francis Alÿs (2018), Meriem Bennani (2019), Kahlil Joseph (2020), Karrabing Film Collective (2021) and Saodat Ismailova (2022).

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Pictured: Bibi Seshanbe, Saodat Ismailova (winnaar Eye Art & Film Prize 2022), installation at Documenta 15, 2022

Freaky Friday Face/Off is a new theatre production written by Florian Myjer and directed by Ward Weemhoff.

The play investigates the politically sensitive subject of representation. Can a man play a woman? Can a white person play a black person? Can a heterosexual person play a queer person?

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Pictured: Een oprechte ode aan de Ironie, De Warme Winkel, 2022

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.

Ammodo supports the alumni network of the artist residency. By keeping former artists in residence involved with public programmes and by providing technical facilities and studio space, the Rijksakademie creates a valuable and lasting community of artists.

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Pictured: Saemundur Thor Helgason, Open Studios 2022 (photo: Sander van Wettum)

Het Achtste Leven (Voor Brilka) is a large-scale theatre production directed by Daria Bukvić, based on Nino Haratischwili’s novel of the same name, a monumental family epic spanning six generations.

The story takes place in twentieth-century Georgia, against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. Live music – from folk to pop – plays an important role in the play.

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