Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

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Photo: Paul van Riel

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

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Still from Upload van Michel van der Aa.

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Photo: De Ateliers Offspring-exhibition 2015, Gert Jan van Rooij

The Van Abbemuseum presents the internationally oriented exhibitionseries Positions, which is currently programmed for five years. Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to develop new work. Positions exhibits a diverse range of new artistic practices and gives direct insight into the themes that artists feel are urgent. Participating artists include Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Bouchra Khalili, Anna Boghiguian and Nástio Mosquito. Ammodo supports Positions because it focuses on the voice of the artist. Positions thereby offers an alternative to the larger thematic and research focused exhibitions and retrospective solo exhibitions that the museum also presents.

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Anna Boghiguian, Salt Traders, 2015, photo: Peter Cox

The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten focuses on developing talent through a two-year residency programme. Artists from around the world have the opportunity to work in optimal conditions to deepen and broaden their artistic practice. During their stay at the Rijksakademie the resident artists are supported by advisors on artistic, technical and theoretical levels. In addition to permanent advisors the Rijksakademie also uses the Guest Advisors Circle. This additional body is set up to focus attention on current developments in the arts and to address the interests and concerns of the individual artists. Ammodo supports the Guest Advisors Circle and by so doing contributes to the development of contemporary visual artists.

Nickel van Duijvenboden and Gwenneth Boelens experimenting with the wet collodiumproces, 2015, photo: Roy Taylor

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Every year P/////AKT presents an exhibition series consisting of six conceptually connected solo exhibitions by emerging artists. The series offers talented young artists the opportunity to develop new work, gain experience in setting up a solo exhibition and the chance to attract a relevant audience. Participating artists include Kasper Bosmans, Raphael Langmair, Tim Hollander and Michiel Hilbrink. Ammodo has supported the exhibition programme of P/////AKT since 2015 because it contributes to the artistic development of the participating artists and contributes to the visibility of their work.

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Daniel vom Keller, tentoonstellingsoverzicht Rear View, 2014, photo: Charlott Markus

Photo: Weg met Eddy Bellegueule by Eline Arbo, Sanne Spijkers

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Image: Gülsün Karamustafa, Promised Paintings (Angels 2) (detail), Collection Van Abbemuseum

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Rossella Biscotti, Live Feed, 2019. Photo: Kristien Daem

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Still from Wong Pings Fables 2 (2019), Wong Ping

The exhibition Stedelijk Contemporary runs since January 2016 and consists of new and existing work from young international artists. The exhibition addresses current social and artistic issues and in particular the growing influence of digital information technologies is being explored. Participating artists include Avery Singer, Magali Reus, Jordan Wolfson and Loretta Fahrenholz. Ammodo supports Stedelijk Contemporary in order to promote innovative and experimental art and to actively stimulate the development of a new generation of artists.

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Jordan Wolfson, Female Figure, 2014, photo: Jonathan Smith

Since 2015 Foam presents a four-year exhibition series Next Level during the Unseen Photo Fair. Foam has chosen Next Level as a way of offering promising talented artists the opportunity to develop new work and increase their public recognition. The museum annually offers one artist the opportunity to organise his/her first major solo exhibition. Selection is conditional upon the artist having already proved him/herself and showing that he/she is innovative in the use of the medium of photography. The first two artists who have been invited to take part in the series are Anne De Vries (The Hague, 1977) and Melanie Bonajo (Heerlen, 1978). They have been asked to create new work for the exhibition. Ammodo supports Next Level because the series contributes to the creation of new work, the development of the participating artists and the display of their work to an international audience.

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Anne de Vries, Steps of Recursion, Tuned XXL, 2012, photo: Anne de Vries

NBprojects realises projects of the choreographer and curator Nicole Beutler. For the performances 6: THE SQUARE and 7: TRYPTICHON Beutler was inspired by the geometric principles of the Bauhaus: circular, square and triangular shapes form a substantive theme. 6: THE SQUARE (2016) is concerned with the square and in 7: TRYPTICHON (2017) Beutler moves on to the triangle/the trinity. Beutler’s work explores the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk as a conception of art in which different disciplines such as architecture, design and theater are intertwined. Ammodo supports 6: THE SQUARE and 7: TRYPTICHON to contribute to the development of Nicole Beutler who, with these performances, is taking the plunge as a choreographer into the world of larger halls and theatres.

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THE SQUARE, NBprojects, 2016, photo: Anja Beutler

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Photo: Installation by Ajla R. Steinvag in Positions #6, Peter Cox

Click here to read our interview from 2021 with Rosemary Joshua, artistic leader of Opera Studio.

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Photo: Ritratto by Willem Jeth, Ruth Walz

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Componer Michel van der Aa (1970) is a pionieer in the field of contemporary music and new technology. His work emphasises the theatrical and visual aspects of music and converges music, theatre, opera and multimedia installations. Ammodo supports three of his new project, to be realised between 2019 and 2022:  the VR installation Eight (2019), the film opera Upload (2021) and the music-theatre production The Book of Water (2022).

In 2022, Upload won an International Opera Award for best digital opera.

In 2023, Ammodo released the documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa. Watch it now at ammododocs.org.

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Michel van der Aa, Eight (2019)

In 2013 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen launched a series of solo exhibitions: Sensory Spaces. For each exhibition an artist is invited to develop new site specific work and to use the properties of the space in a surprising way. The selected artists are used make site specific works and are working in various disciplines including film, installations, performance art, photography, sculpture, painting and drawing. Participating artists include Oscar Tuazon, Sabine Hornig, Sara VanDerBeek and Mike Nelson. Ammodo supports Sensory Spaces because the series offers participating artists the opportunity to develop new work.

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Olaf Nicolai, Sensory Spaces 10, photo: Studio Wilschut

Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art presents Para |Fictions: a series of five consecutive solo presentations of works by internationally emerging artists who have not previously held a solo presentation in the Netherlands. They are asked to create new work that depicts an interaction between visual art and literature. The exhibition series will show in sequence work by Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Oscar Santillan, Lucy Skaer, Mark Geffriaud, Laure Prouvost, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Rayyane Tabet and Dineo Seshee Bopape. Ammodo supports the exhibition series Para | Fictions because it contributes to the development of talented artists and offers them a platform to create and exhibit new work.

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Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, tentoonstellingsoverzicht, 2017, photo: Aad Hoogendoorn.

Die Fremden by NTGent, directed by Johan Simons, is a multidisciplinary music theatre production which was developed in cooperation with the ensemble Asko | Schönberg. Die Fremden is a co-production with the Ruhrtriennale and the Rotterdam Schouwburg and will première in Marl in September 2016. It is based on the novel The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus, the recently published novel The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (written in response to Camus’ book) and Submission in which Michel Houellebecq pictures a radical change in the political and cultural climate in the France of 2022. The cast includes Pierre Bokma and Elsie de Brauw. The visual artist Aernout Mik is creating new work for this production. Ammodo supports Die Fremden in order to contribute to the development of high quality international music theatre.

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Die Fremden, 2016, NTGent