Framer Framed

Performance: Fractally in Medias Res by A Capetonian Quintet

In the spirit of Keti Koti, this musical performance reclaims colonial Dutch music as an act of resistance

Book Presentation: Open Archief 4.0 – A History that Never Arrived

Final publication launch of the Open Archief residency project with researcher Wassila Abboud and decolonial feminist theorist Françoise Vergès

Book Launch: Notes to Other Futures

Book Fair, book launch and party to celebrate the anniversary publication of Framer Framed

Presentation: Open Archief 4.0 with mo Futures and Wassila Abboud

Final event Open Archief 2025-2026, a collaborative project that explores the potentials of making archival material accessible

Call and Response: Archive and Counterarchive

Panel discussion on archival research which explores the impact of Dutch colonialism on disabled/difabel people in Indonesia together.

Re:Use Clinic - Altaring Archives

An altar-making workshop led by Chimira Obiefule and a creative writing workshop led by Savannah Wolin.

Opening Exhibition: Remembering Otherwise - OBA De Hallen

Opening of Remembering Otherwise by belit sağ in OBA De Hallen, with an introduction by district mayor Fenna Ulichki, musical performances, readings and a panel talk with the artist

Re:Use Clinic - The Question of Culture

A conversation on the legacies of the MENA and Iranian Left within archive collections and heritage institutions.

Finissage: Remembering Otherwise

Finissage of the exhibition Remembering Otherwise, diving into the story of three migrant women workers from Turkey

Workshop: Moving Labels – Shifting Narratives

A series of workshops by Barbara Neves Alves with Clare Butcher and Pedro Manuel about re-interpreting museum labels

Guided Tour in Turkish: Remembering Otherwise

Guided Tour in Turkish by artist belit sağ through the exhibition Remembering Otherwise

Screening: Eye on Art – Remembering Otherwise

A special film screening and Q&A at Eye Filmmuseum with artist belit sağ for her Framer Framed exhibition, Remembering Otherwise.

The Work of Contextualising - by belit sağ

A conversation focusing on the contextualisation of belit sağ’s research, which led to the creation of the solo exhibition Remembering Otherwise

Beyond the Archival: Visual Memories of First-Generation Female Migrants from Turkey in the Netherlands

The panel discussion addresses the context of life and work in the Netherlands in relation to the first-generation migrant women workers from Turkey

Opening: Remembering Otherwise

Opening of the solo exhibition artist belit sağ, conceived in close collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova.

Exhibition: Remembering Otherwise

Solo exhibition by artist belit sağ in collaboration with curator Katia Krupennikova on a pivotal 1978 labour dispute led by migrant women workers from Turkey

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #2

Workshop session for queer people who are interested in archiving their personal stories and experiences

Finissage: Past Disquiet

On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May, Framer Framed concludes the exhibition Past Disquiet with a full weekend programme

Exhibition: Past Disquiet

Curated by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, this documentary and archival exhibition uncovers a largely forgotten history of politically engaged artists and initiatives

Film screening: Past Disquiet at Het Documentaire Paviljoen

On 11 May at Het Documentaire Paviljoen, curator Rasha Salti presents two films to accompany the exhibition Past Disquiet

Black Family Archives: Theorising on Death, Mourning and Discomfort

The programme aims to examine questions of Black Death, grief and mourning through methodologies that use familial narratives and oral histories as empirical materials

Workshop: All Access Archive

Workshop exploring the possibilities of an open-source archive platform, initiated by graphic designers Minhu Jun and Özgür Deniz Koldaş

Inward Outward - Revisiting Witnessing & the Archive: A Conversation with Tina Campt & Mohanad Yaqubi

Event by Inward Outward on the themes of conflict, coloniality and image and sound archives, organised by KITLV, RCMC and Sound & Vision

Book Presentation: Archival Textures – (Re)claiming

Using archival traces to show how queer and feminist communities in the Netherlands have (re)claimed symbols, words and stories as a means of empowerment

Artist Tour & Workshop: Breaking Waves

Artist tour end workshop by artist Clara Jo as part of her exhibition Breaking Waves during Amsterdam Art Week

Open Call: Archiving the Present workshop series

A workshop series by Archival Consciousness focused on translating physical collections into digital archives

Opening: Breaking Waves

Opening of the exhibition Breaking Waves by artist Clara Jo during Amsterdam Art Week

Exhibition: Breaking Waves

The exhibition Breaking Waves by artist Clara Jo on epidemiological and maritime movement

Workshop: Archiving Personal Queer Stories #1

Workshop session for queer people who are interested into archiving their personal stories and experiences

Finissage: Performing Colonial Toxicity

Finissage programme for the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity including a book launch of Samia Henni's newest publication.

Exhibition tour by architectural historian Samia Henni

Screening: And still, it remains

Film screening in within the context of the exhibition, Performing Colonial Toxicity.

The New Social: Hybrid Strategies for Cultural Spaces - at Dutch Design Week 2023

Part of the exhibition Innovatie Labs #1: The Living Archive in Klokgebouw, Eindhoven

Exhibition: Performing Colonial Toxicity

An exhibition by researcher and architectural historian Samia Henni, in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution

Exhibition: Anonim

Final presentation of Theo Frids Marulitua Hutabarat's Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence project.

Finissage: Scattered - Hidden Narratives Through Archives

An exhibition featuring visual artists from Turkey who settled in the Netherlands and their presence in the Dutch Art Ecosystem

Symposium: Inward Outward

Symposium with lecture/conversations and workshops on the theme of Witnessing/Care & The Archive

Symposium: In-Between Media - Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era

A two-day symposium on hybrid media tactics and togetherness in the field of art and activism.

Opening: Scattered - Hidden Narratives Through Archives

An exhibition featuring visual artists from Turkey who settled in the Netherlands and their presence in the Dutch Art Ecosystem

Atelier KITLV: Declaring Distance

Ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive with Atelier KITLV

Amsterdam Assembly: Letting Go of Having to Speak All the Time

A gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners

Opening: Taking Stock

Exhibition Opening with artist Elke Uitentuis

Exhibition: Taking Stock

by Mariam Elnozahy, Wouter Osterholt, Elke Uitentuis

Launch: Now water can flow or it can crash, my friend

A public program exploring art, archive and activism in East Asia and beyond

Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission

Panel discussion and publication launch on datasets and artistic ways of interfacing them

Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante

Finissage weekend UnAuthorised Medium: Intense Visitations

Performances and presentations in the closing weekend of exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Museumnacht Amsterdam 2018

An interactive programme filled with performances by Poetry Circle Nowhere, dance by Don't Hit Mama, body art, tours and more! Centred around exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.

Exhibition: UnAuthorised Medium

A group show curated by Annie Jael Kwan

Finissage: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

With Sammy Baloji, Georges Senga Assani and Heleen Debeuckelaere.

Curator tour: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

A tour by Vincent van Velsen.

Exhibition: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji

Finissage: Collectively (Re)shaping the Archive

Finissage of exhibition House of Wisdom, in collaboration with Casco and 7 Hills Foundation.

Exhibition opening: House of Wisdom

With an opening performance by Istanbul Queer Art Collective.

Exhibition: House of Wisdom

Curated by Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplangı)

Lecture: Sara Blokland - Srefidensi and the reproduction of a family history

Lecture by Sara Blokland, about her art and the the project SrefidensiFoto, photo archives and the role of memory and identity in her work.

Imagining and capturing resistance

A discussion on creating and archiving images of resistance, at Atria.

Symposium: Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive

Public debate on the relationship between digital archiving practices and activism.

Feminist art practice today: pushing the boundaries

Dialogue on what feminist art practice means today; with Iris Kensmil, Chandra Frank, Elizabeth Kleinveld and Milo van der Maaden.

The Story Might Not Be Complete

A discussion on erasure and the archive.

Feminist Memory: Digging the Black Archives

On the representation and presence of black women in institutional and unconventional archives

Exhibition: Iran’s Women’s Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi

An exhibition on the emergence of the women’s movement in Iran, at the beginning of the 20th century. Curated by Azadeh Fatehrad

De-toothing Africa - An evening with an intimate reading of a family archive

A cinematic installation that is fueled by film abstracts, family archives, readings, music, performance and soundscapes.

Perspectives

Public encounters in the context of the exhibition Embodied Spaces.

The Archive: unveiling the present

An evening about the notion of the archive in political issues

Oral History and the audiovisual archive

Oral history as a complementary to the archive of written historical sources.