Stichting Ammodo, For arts, architecture and science

Cráter Invertido is a collective of eleven artists and activists from Mexico City. In honour of the fifteenth anniversary of the collective, Framer Framed will present a retrospective exhibition of their body of work in 2025, including new commissioned pieces.

Cráter Invertido creates absurd stories through mediums such as (riso)prints and publications, drawings, puppets, video and radio. Their work focuses on subjects such as coexistence, care and the protection of areas where biodiversity is threatened.

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The artist duo Suzan Boogaerdt and Bianca van der Schoot combines performance and (video) installations. They call their field of operations the ‘grey space’: the zone between the black box (theatre) and the white cube (museum).

This approach is evident in their New Body Project, which they will present in 2024 – a diptych about mourning lost bodies and embodying a new world.

The first part, called WOMBTOMBOLA, is presented at MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven in spring of 2024. It consists of a series of WOMBTOMBS: hiding places that are both memorial sites and incubators. These spaces can be visited by the public and will host performances at certain times.

The second part, SONGOFSONGS, takes the form of a multimedia performance which will tour across the Netherlands in the fall of 2024. Here, new forms of existence are presented which were developed in the WOMBTOMBS, merging human, technological and digital ‘bodies’.

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Photo: Annaleen Louwes

As in previous years, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ will (co-)produce three new compositions in contemporary music annually between 2024 and 2027. Dutch and international composers will get the chance to develop their practice and present their own contribution to the canon of contemporary music.

All pieces will celebrate their world premiere at Muziekgebouw. The performances are realised in cooperation with Dutch and international partners including Asko|Schönberg, Cappella Amsterdam, Klangforum Wien and Collegium Vocale Gent.

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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

The Curatorial Programme is the training program for talented international curators at De Appel. For the period 2024-2026, the institute selects one or two curatorial collectives to immerse themselves in the Amsterdam art scene, conduct research in collaboration with tutors and experts, and develop exhibitions and a public programme for De Appel.

From 2024 onwards, the Curatorial Programme is focused on the collective curatorial practice. In doing so, De Appel builds upon the concept of ‘Lumbung’ introduced by ruangrupa during documenta 15 in the Western art sector. Lumbung refers to an Indonesian communal rice barn, symbolising the principles of collectivity, sharing and fair distribution of (financial) resources.

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Pictured: The Curatorial Programme 2022, Super Feelings Episode 2. Photo Sander van Wettum.

Toneelschuur Productions has selected five young directors to create several new theatre productions in the coming years. These are Abdel Daoudi, Jessie L’Herminez, Koen Verheijden, Angelo Ormskerk and Agnese Kumpina.

Each season, at least four new plays will see their premiere. In addition, Toneelschuur Productions has reserved space for ad hoc productions by guest directors.

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Pictured: Dieven, Jessie L’Herminez, 2023

The Ruhrtriennale is a renowned annual performing-arts festival in the German Ruhr area. A new artistic leader is appointed every three years. From 2024 to 2026, the festival is led by former ITA director Ivo van Hove. During this period, Ammodo supports several new (co-)productions each year which will premiere at the Ruhrtriennale and are created in cooperation with international partners, including ITA.

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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

From April 20 to November 24, 2024, the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale will take place. Ammodo contributes to the performance programme, part of the main exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.

Nine renowned international artists will each develop a performance piece to be presented during the Biennale. The selected artists are Ahmed Umar, Antonio José Guzman & Iva Jankovic, Barbara Sanchez-Kane, Güneş Terkol, Isaac Chong Wai, Joshua Serafin, Lydia Ourahmane, Simone Forti, and Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki-Olivo).

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Pictured: work by Dora Budor at the Venice Biennial 2022

In a solo exhibition in the mezzanine of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nora Turato explores the function of language in a society flooded with information. What information sticks and what is ignored? She urges her audience to reevaluate their relation to language and its underlying power structures.

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Pictured: Pool 2 (2018), Nora Turato

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