Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Nexus Conference

Nexus Conference
AMMODO ✕ Nexus Instituut
2025 - 2027

The Nexus Institute creates space for critical thinking by organising conferences, lectures and masterclasses and publishing essays. At the annual Nexus Conference, prominent contemporary thinkers discuss topics around democracy, science, art and civilisation.

Important intellectuals who have joined these debates include Nobel Prize Laureates Amartya Sen, Wole Soyinka and Mario Vargas Llosa, philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Avishai Margalit, and authors Marilynne Robinson and J.M. Coetzee.

nexus-instituut.nl

Pictured: László F. Földényi at the Nexus Conference 2024

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ Berlin Biennale
2025 - 2025

The Berlin Biennale is a large-scale international biennial art exhibition in Berlin. The thirteenth edition, curated by Zasha Colah, will take place from 14 June to 14 September 2025.

The focus is on social and political injustice. With artists from various regions, the Berlin Biennale aims to explore the power of artistic imagination in times of oppression.

berlinbiennale.de

Pictured: While other kids played with Legos, Mila Panic, 2024

String instruments

String instruments
AMMODO ✕ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2025 - 2029

Quality musical instruments are indispensable for the internationally celebrated sound of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

By contributing to the purchase of string instruments, Ammodo helps the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to keep performing at the highest level.

concertgebouworkest.nl

Pictured: Label in a double bass built by Vincenzo Corain in 1848 which was purchased by the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2021.

Magali Reus

Magali Reus
AMMODO ✕ KM21
2025

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

Art Directions: Installations and performances

Art Directions: Installations and performances
AMMODO ✕ IFFR
2025 - 2027

Next to a large film programme, International Film Festival Rotterdam annually presents various works which explore the boundaries of cinema. Its Art Directions section includes (film) installations, immersive media, artists’ moving image, expositions, music and performances.

Ammodo contributes to installations and performances within the Art Directions section which have never been shown in Europe before.

iffr.com

Pictured: DUCK (installation), Rachel Maclean, IFFR 2024

Navid Nuur

Navid Nuur
AMMODO ✕ Oude kerk
2024

Twice annually, Oude Kerk Amsterdam invites an artist to create a site-specific work relating to the building’s architecture and history.

In 2024, 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

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ Michel van der Aa
2024 - 2026

Ammodo contributes to two new operas by composer Michel van der Aa.

In 2023, Ammodo Docs released the short documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa.

vanderaa.net

Pictured: Upload, Michel van der Aa, 2020

World premieres

World premieres
AMMODO ✕ Kunstenfestivaldesarts
2025 - 2027

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is an annual festival in Brussels for contemporary theater, dance, and performance, where many new productions are presented. The festival offers ample space for experimentation through new formats and artistic forms, as well as projects at unusual locations.

Each year, Ammodo supports several world premieres by international makers.

kfda.be

Pictured: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, KFDA 2024

Production partnership

Production partnership
AMMODO ✕ Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
2026 - 2028

As production partner, Ammodo annually supports several theatre productions at ITA. These include large ITA ensemble productions by artistic director Eline Arbo as well as international co-productions by guest directors.

ita.nl

Pictured: Penthesilea, Eline Arbo, 2024

International co-productions

International co-productions
AMMODO ✕ Julidans
2025 - 2027

Julidans is an international contemporary dance festival taking place in ITA every July. The festival presents dance performances by established and upcoming filmmakers.

Since 2017, it also co-produces new works by mid-career choreographers with the aim of contributing to the evolution of dance and strengthening international collaboration.

In 2025, Oona Doherty and the choreographic duo David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen (Out Innerspace) will create new work.

julidans.nl

Reflex

Reflex
AMMODO ✕ BIMHUIS
2025 - 2027

With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Part of this initiative is Reflex, a programme in which BIMHUIS acts as a (co-)producer of large-scale (inter)national productions. Musicians and creators are invited to reflect on global and societal developments through their work. This has resulted in new musical pieces by trumpeter Alistair Payne, guitarist Reinier Baas, singer Sanem Kalfa and others.

bimhuis.nl

Pictured: Nicolò Ricci (Reflex 2024)

Alida Dors – (Sur)render

Alida Dors – (Sur)render
AMMODO ✕ Theater Rotterdam
2024 - 2025

Alida Dors is choreographer, theater director and artistic director of Theater Rotterdam. Her new production (Sur)render is an interdisciplinary performance combining dance, video, poetry, spoken word and live music about humanity’s disturbed relation to nature and to each other. (Sur)render premiers at Theater Rotterdam in 2025 and will tour throughout the Netherlands.

theaterrotterdam.nl

Sancta

Sancta
AMMODO ✕ Florentina Holzinger
2024

Sancta is a large-scale international co-production and the first major opera directed by Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger.

The opera, based on Paul Hindemith’s one-act Sancta Susanna (1922), investigates the relationship between music and the sacred. It draws inspiration from religious practices and will take the form of a service dedicated to themes such as salvation, purification and martyrdom in the 21st century.

neonlobster.org

Call and Response

Call and Response
AMMODO ✕ Kunstinstituut Melly
2024 - 2027

With the new exhibition series Call and Response, Kunstinstituut Melly will present two double solo exhibitions annually from 2024 onwards. In this format, two internationally renowned artists each develop new work that is on display simultaneously, while responding to a changing world.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: Bewaard, Sijben Rosa, 2023

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ De Warme Winkel
2025 - 2028

Ammodo supports three large-scale productions by the theater company De Warme Winkel in the period 2025-2028.

The performance Gundhi (working title) in the season 2025-2026 explores the paradox of war in the name of peace. R2D2_or_not_2B2 (working title) in the season 2026-2027 focuses on the rapid rise of AI. The third performance is still to be determined, but will take place in the season 2027-2028.

dewarmewinkel.nl

Pictured: Brideshead Revisited, De Warme Winkel, 2024

New Frontiers

New Frontiers
AMMODO ✕ Frascati
2025 - 2027

Frascati places great emphasis on the development of talented makers who explore the boundaries of theatre, and is considered an important hub in the international circuit.

Ammodo supports the New Frontiers programme, where three international co-productions are supported annually as well as three productions from international makers based in the Netherlands.

frascatitheater.nl

Pictured: Capítulo I: A noiva e o boa noite cinderela, Cadela Força, 2024

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ NDT
2025 - 2027

Each year, Nederlands Dans Theater invites internationally renowned choreographers to create new work with NDT’s dancers. In the past, this has included artists such as Tao Ye, Marne and Imre van Opstal, Christos Papadopoulos, Simon McBurney, and Crystal Pite.

By collaborating with guest choreographers, NDT positions itself as a creative production house. Dancers are involved in the creation process, productions become more varied in dance language and themes, and there is more room for experimentation and innovation.

In the coming seasons, choreographers such as Marcos Morau, Jiří Kylián, and Botis Seva will create new pieces.

ndt.nl

Pictured: Ties Unseen, Christos Papadopoulos, 2024

Composition assignment

Composition assignment
AMMODO ✕ BIMHUIS
2025 - 2027

With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Each year, BIMHUIS commissions a composition from an internationally renowned composer – in the past, this has included Kaja Draksler (2023) and Martin Fondse (2022).

bimhuis.nl

Pictured: Kaja Draksler and band (BIMHUIS composition assignment 2023)

Performance Programme

Performance Programme
AMMODO ✕ Biennale Arte
2024

The 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes place from 20 April until 24 November 2024. This year’s curator of the exhibition is Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil.

Ammodo supports the performance programme that forms part of the main exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. 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).

labiennale.org

Three times left is right

Three times left is right
AMMODO ✕ Julian Hetzel
2025

Three times left is right is a theater production by interdisciplinary artist Julian Hetzel about living together in times of radical political ideologies.

With this performance Julian Hetzel continues a long-running investigation into emotions – in this case, hate as a driving force for right-wing radicalism, and love as a survival strategy in times of war.

The play will premiere in 2025 at the Wiener Festwochen and will subsequently be shown in Leipzig and Utrecht (SPRING festival).

julian-hetzel.com

Computational Pathology Group – winner

Computational Pathology Group – winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2024

The Computational Pathology Group (Radboud University / Radboudumc) is developing software models based on artificial intelligence (AI) that can help pathologists diagnose tumours. The group was one of the first in the world to demonstrate that AI can match and even exceed the performance of human experts in specific diagnostic tasks.

The team is currently working on the world’s first virtual pathologist, ANTONI. This AI model is not only capable of making accurate diagnoses for conditions such as breast, prostate, and kidney cancer, but can also reveal the reasoning behind the diagnoses. This can help medical professionals make reliable diagnoses more efficiently and make the most appropriate treatment decisions for their patients faster.

ammodo-science-award.org

Nexus Conference

Nexus Conference
AMMODO ✕ Nexus Instituut
2025 - 2027

The Nexus Institute creates space for critical thinking by organising conferences, lectures and masterclasses and publishing essays. At the annual Nexus Conference, prominent contemporary thinkers discuss topics around democracy, science, art and civilisation.

Important intellectuals who have joined these debates include Nobel Prize Laureates Amartya Sen, Wole Soyinka and Mario Vargas Llosa, philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Avishai Margalit, and authors Marilynne Robinson and J.M. Coetzee.

nexus-instituut.nl

Pictured: László F. Földényi at the Nexus Conference 2024

World premieres

World premieres
AMMODO ✕ Kunstenfestivaldesarts
2025 - 2027

The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is an annual festival in Brussels for contemporary theater, dance, and performance, where many new productions are presented. The festival offers ample space for experimentation through new formats and artistic forms, as well as projects at unusual locations.

Each year, Ammodo supports several world premieres by international makers.

kfda.be

Pictured: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, KFDA 2024

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ De Warme Winkel
2025 - 2028

Ammodo supports three large-scale productions by the theater company De Warme Winkel in the period 2025-2028.

The performance Gundhi (working title) in the season 2025-2026 explores the paradox of war in the name of peace. R2D2_or_not_2B2 (working title) in the season 2026-2027 focuses on the rapid rise of AI. The third performance is still to be determined, but will take place in the season 2027-2028.

dewarmewinkel.nl

Pictured: Brideshead Revisited, De Warme Winkel, 2024

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ Berlin Biennale
2025 - 2025

The Berlin Biennale is a large-scale international biennial art exhibition in Berlin. The thirteenth edition, curated by Zasha Colah, will take place from 14 June to 14 September 2025.

The focus is on social and political injustice. With artists from various regions, the Berlin Biennale aims to explore the power of artistic imagination in times of oppression.

berlinbiennale.de

Pictured: While other kids played with Legos, Mila Panic, 2024

Production partnership

Production partnership
AMMODO ✕ Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
2026 - 2028

As production partner, Ammodo annually supports several theatre productions at ITA. These include large ITA ensemble productions by artistic director Eline Arbo as well as international co-productions by guest directors.

ita.nl

Pictured: Penthesilea, Eline Arbo, 2024

New Frontiers

New Frontiers
AMMODO ✕ Frascati
2025 - 2027

Frascati places great emphasis on the development of talented makers who explore the boundaries of theatre, and is considered an important hub in the international circuit.

Ammodo supports the New Frontiers programme, where three international co-productions are supported annually as well as three productions from international makers based in the Netherlands.

frascatitheater.nl

Pictured: Capítulo I: A noiva e o boa noite cinderela, Cadela Força, 2024

String instruments

String instruments
AMMODO ✕ Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
2025 - 2029

Quality musical instruments are indispensable for the internationally celebrated sound of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

By contributing to the purchase of string instruments, Ammodo helps the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to keep performing at the highest level.

concertgebouworkest.nl

Pictured: Label in a double bass built by Vincenzo Corain in 1848 which was purchased by the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2021.

International co-productions

International co-productions
AMMODO ✕ Julidans
2025 - 2027

Julidans is an international contemporary dance festival taking place in ITA every July. The festival presents dance performances by established and upcoming filmmakers.

Since 2017, it also co-produces new works by mid-career choreographers with the aim of contributing to the evolution of dance and strengthening international collaboration.

In 2025, Oona Doherty and the choreographic duo David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen (Out Innerspace) will create new work.

julidans.nl

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ NDT
2025 - 2027

Each year, Nederlands Dans Theater invites internationally renowned choreographers to create new work with NDT’s dancers. In the past, this has included artists such as Tao Ye, Marne and Imre van Opstal, Christos Papadopoulos, Simon McBurney, and Crystal Pite.

By collaborating with guest choreographers, NDT positions itself as a creative production house. Dancers are involved in the creation process, productions become more varied in dance language and themes, and there is more room for experimentation and innovation.

In the coming seasons, choreographers such as Marcos Morau, Jiří Kylián, and Botis Seva will create new pieces.

ndt.nl

Pictured: Ties Unseen, Christos Papadopoulos, 2024

Magali Reus

Magali Reus
AMMODO ✕ KM21
2025

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

Reflex

Reflex
AMMODO ✕ BIMHUIS
2025 - 2027

With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Part of this initiative is Reflex, a programme in which BIMHUIS acts as a (co-)producer of large-scale (inter)national productions. Musicians and creators are invited to reflect on global and societal developments through their work. This has resulted in new musical pieces by trumpeter Alistair Payne, guitarist Reinier Baas, singer Sanem Kalfa and others.

bimhuis.nl

Pictured: Nicolò Ricci (Reflex 2024)

Composition assignment

Composition assignment
AMMODO ✕ BIMHUIS
2025 - 2027

With BIMHUIS Productions, BIMHUIS contributes to a vibrant jazz scene by developing new work and supporting talented musicians and composers.

Each year, BIMHUIS commissions a composition from an internationally renowned composer – in the past, this has included Kaja Draksler (2023) and Martin Fondse (2022).

bimhuis.nl

Pictured: Kaja Draksler and band (BIMHUIS composition assignment 2023)

Art Directions: Installations and performances

Art Directions: Installations and performances
AMMODO ✕ IFFR
2025 - 2027

Next to a large film programme, International Film Festival Rotterdam annually presents various works which explore the boundaries of cinema. Its Art Directions section includes (film) installations, immersive media, artists’ moving image, expositions, music and performances.

Ammodo contributes to installations and performances within the Art Directions section which have never been shown in Europe before.

iffr.com

Pictured: DUCK (installation), Rachel Maclean, IFFR 2024

Alida Dors – (Sur)render

Alida Dors – (Sur)render
AMMODO ✕ Theater Rotterdam
2024 - 2025

Alida Dors is choreographer, theater director and artistic director of Theater Rotterdam. Her new production (Sur)render is an interdisciplinary performance combining dance, video, poetry, spoken word and live music about humanity’s disturbed relation to nature and to each other. (Sur)render premiers at Theater Rotterdam in 2025 and will tour throughout the Netherlands.

theaterrotterdam.nl

Performance Programme

Performance Programme
AMMODO ✕ Biennale Arte
2024

The 60th edition of the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia takes place from 20 April until 24 November 2024. This year’s curator of the exhibition is Adriano Pedrosa from Brazil.

Ammodo supports the performance programme that forms part of the main exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. 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).

labiennale.org

Navid Nuur

Navid Nuur
AMMODO ✕ Oude kerk
2024

Twice annually, Oude Kerk Amsterdam invites an artist to create a site-specific work relating to the building’s architecture and history.

In 2024, 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

Sancta

Sancta
AMMODO ✕ Florentina Holzinger
2024

Sancta is a large-scale international co-production and the first major opera directed by Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger.

The opera, based on Paul Hindemith’s one-act Sancta Susanna (1922), investigates the relationship between music and the sacred. It draws inspiration from religious practices and will take the form of a service dedicated to themes such as salvation, purification and martyrdom in the 21st century.

neonlobster.org

Three times left is right

Three times left is right
AMMODO ✕ Julian Hetzel
2025

Three times left is right is a theater production by interdisciplinary artist Julian Hetzel about living together in times of radical political ideologies.

With this performance Julian Hetzel continues a long-running investigation into emotions – in this case, hate as a driving force for right-wing radicalism, and love as a survival strategy in times of war.

The play will premiere in 2025 at the Wiener Festwochen and will subsequently be shown in Leipzig and Utrecht (SPRING festival).

julian-hetzel.com

New productions

New productions
AMMODO ✕ Michel van der Aa
2024 - 2026

Ammodo contributes to two new operas by composer Michel van der Aa.

In 2023, Ammodo Docs released the short documentary In Between Realities about the work of Michel van der Aa.

vanderaa.net

Pictured: Upload, Michel van der Aa, 2020

Call and Response

Call and Response
AMMODO ✕ Kunstinstituut Melly
2024 - 2027

With the new exhibition series Call and Response, Kunstinstituut Melly will present two double solo exhibitions annually from 2024 onwards. In this format, two internationally renowned artists each develop new work that is on display simultaneously, while responding to a changing world.

kunstinstituutmelly.nl

Pictured: Bewaard, Sijben Rosa, 2023

Computational Pathology Group – winner

Computational Pathology Group – winner
AMMODO ✕ Ammodo Science Award
2024

The Computational Pathology Group (Radboud University / Radboudumc) is developing software models based on artificial intelligence (AI) that can help pathologists diagnose tumours. The group was one of the first in the world to demonstrate that AI can match and even exceed the performance of human experts in specific diagnostic tasks.

The team is currently working on the world’s first virtual pathologist, ANTONI. This AI model is not only capable of making accurate diagnoses for conditions such as breast, prostate, and kidney cancer, but can also reveal the reasoning behind the diagnoses. This can help medical professionals make reliable diagnoses more efficiently and make the most appropriate treatment decisions for their patients faster.

ammodo-science-award.org