About the part that art plays in a globalising society

Framer Framed

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Magazine


Collectives / Diaspora / The living archive / Performance / Southeast Asia /

Don't Hit Mama: Living Archive
Feminism / Performance / Podcast /

Podcast: Armenian Lullabies - A Journey Through Voice and Memory
Performance / Diaspora /

Salman Dirir: A Personal and Artistic Exploration of His Truths
Queer / Performance / Podcast /

Podcast: Queering the Open Stage
Ecology / Extractivism / Performance /

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters
Curatorial Text / Feminism / Art and Activism / Performance / Textile /

'To those who can imagine' by Anna Bitkina
Ode a/d Twijfel opening
Amsterdam Oost / Education / Performance /

Ode aan de Twijfel
Performance / Amsterdam Oost / Iran / Political Climate /

Cat Smits’ thought-provoking puppetry will be part of our Museum Night
puppet theatre children
Migration / Performance /

A Theatre Play by CHTO DELAT
Migration / Ecology / Extractivism / Performance /

Interview: Artist Tuan Mami

Exhibitions


Exhibition: Planetary Poetics Graduation Show

Planetary Poetics considers how to imagine alternative visions for this planet beyond extraction and extermination

THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Performance installation that explores themes of transformation, in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto LĂłpez Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis

Exhibition: To those who have no time to play

A Solo Exhibition by Gluklya

Agenda


Still from Everything was forever, until it was no more by Aram Lee (2025). © Aram Lee

Transcorporeality in Toxic Times

A session exploring the relationality and porosity of human and non-human bodies and how these are affected by toxicity
Spoken Word: Queer Tales of Transformation
An evening of spoken word performances and an open mic, inspired by MAISON the FAUX’s installation THE TAIL
Performances: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX
Live performances in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto LĂłpez Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis.
Introduction and Q&A with MAISON the FAUX
Before the final performance of THE TAIL, creators Tessa de Boer and Joris Suk from MAISON the FAUX give an introduction to the work and its development
THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX
Performance installation that explores themes of transformation, in collaboration with Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto LĂłpez Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis
Exhibition: Planetary Poetics Graduation Show
Planetary Poetics considers how to imagine alternative visions for this planet beyond extraction and extermination
Performance: 0UT SPOK3N B$Cht%% by Thais Di Marco
A work-in-progress presentation by artist Thais Di Marco, recipient of the Amsterdam Fund for the Art’s 3Package Deal programme
Her Voice: Behind Armenian Lullabies
Listening session with artist Lucia Kagramanyan, curated by League of Tenders as part of Vleeshal’s International Nomadic Program
Queer Open Stage: Act 11
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Queer Open Stage: Act 10
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Creative Publication Launch: to M‱Others #2
Launch of publication 'to M‱Others #2' with initiator Sun Chang during Queer Open Stage
Queer environmental embodiment: UÝRA - The Rising Forest
Screening, talk and sound performance on queer rights and environmental resistance
Counter-extractivism: Poetics of remedy and transmission
A closing event for cultural practitioner Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi’s seminar on politics and extractivism at the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Institute
Queer Open Stage: Act 9
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Workshop: Maintaining the Root
Three workshops and a performance on heritage by artist Sarah Ndele as part of the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Insitute
From Rites to Rights: Imagining Ecologies of Tomorrow
Discussions and a performance on future ecologies, in collaboration with the CAREC programme of the Prince Claus Fund.
Queer Open Stage: Act 8
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Performance: Moddertong
A performance by artist Sebastién Hendrickx about the climate crisis
Queer Open Stage: Act 7
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Queer Open Stage: Act 6
Monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Queer Open Stage: Act 5
A monthly event celebrating art, diversity and community, and welcoming queerness
Masterclass by Puma CamillĂȘ: The intersection of voguing and capoeira
Performance and workshop by Puma CamillĂȘ that combines voguing and capoeira, organised as part of the Willem de Kooning Academy's course 'Things and Stuff'
Queer Open Stage: Act 4
A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness
Queer Open Stage: Act 3
A monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness
Rebel Dances: Borders in Tranc-it
A performance initiated by Papaya Kuir, directed by Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla and hosted by Framer Framed
Queer Open Stage: Act 2
A new monthly event that celebrates art, diversity, and community, and welcomes queerness
Queer Open Stage: Act 1
A new monthly series to celebrate art, diversity, and community, to coincide with Queer Amsterdam
Summer Parade Molenwijk
Buurtparade om het einde van het schooljaar en het begin van de zomer te vieren!
Youth Leadership & Resilience
Final presentation of the youth project in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for Societal Resilience), ASKV, Giving Back Projects, Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid Amsterdam, Dreamers NL.
Performance: Electrify Everything
Performance with artists Pom Bouvier b., Marjolijn Dijkman and Jean Katambayi Mukendi reflecting on the structuring power of electricity and its relation to resources and exploitation.
Launch & Performance: “What are the words you do not have yet?”
Live performance and launch of a multifaceted publication project that brings together performative, sonic and tactile experiences.
Launch Event: NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2023
Open call for the Non Native Native Fair, PRO$PERITY NOW!
More-Than-Human Encounters
Performative evening on the different dimensions of global extraction with artists Femke Herregraven, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Georges Senga.
Performance: Ausangate, a gaseous cosmology
A performance, a ceremony, a conversation with an earth-being, an ofrenda.
Bread, Freedom, Bisexuality, and Social Justice
Presentation and performance about identity and social justice for Moroccan bisexual individuals
Finissage: To those who have no time to play
Live performance of 'Antigone Update' and discussion
Exhibition: To those who have no time to play
A Solo Exhibition by Gluklya
Opening: To those who have no time to play
Exhibition Opening with artist Gluklya and a performance by Matras Platform
Queer Poetry Night x LIMBO
In collaboration with Unwanted Words & Queer Currents
Parade Molenwijk
Music parade for all ages in the Molenwijk
EAST& Oranje-Vrijstaatplein
Pleinfestival voor kinderen en ouderen
Parade Molenwijk
Music parade for all ages in the Molenwijk
Liquid dependencies
A life simulation and a generative social experiment by Yin Aiwen
To Serve You
Performance and discussion by La Cocina
Werkplaats Molenwijk Balcony Concerts - by Bert Scholte
Mini concerts by Bert Scholten
Museum Night 2021
Performances by Art Harder, Cat Smits, DJ Mr. Winter & more
Participatory performance: Tete-a-Tete
Led by the Amsterdam-based DAY Collective
Concert: Lady Shaynah
A live performance as part of the Grachtenfestival
Opening: Amsterdam Roots Festival
Kick off of the festival with a multidisciplinary program on “vulnerability’
Performance: Tar for Mortar - by Comfort Ball
A Performative Food Workshop with Comfort Ball
Performance: Manifesto Against Nostalgia
Outdoor Performance by Giulia Crispiani, Golrokh Nafisi and Ahmadali Kadivar
Intentions and Attentions of Tension in the Tenses – Performance by Natahsa Papadopoulou
Guided tours and a performance by Natasha Papadopoulou
Finissage HERE/NOW: Poisoned and Punctum
The final event departing from the exhibition HERE/NOW: Current Visions from Colombia with a performance and a talk by Milena Bonilla and Ana MarĂ­a GĂłmez LĂłpez.
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.
Finissage: Monuments to the Unsung - Public Art Amsterdam
The artwork ‘The First Turk Immigrant or the Nameless Heroes of the Revolution’ from Suat ÖgĂŒt 'migrates' to project spaceWerkplaats Molenwijk.
Finissage: Monuments to the Unsung
Framer Framed sets in motion one of the works of art: the mobile 'The First Turk Immigrant or the Nameless Heroes of the Revolution' by artist Suat ÖgĂŒt 'migrates' from its current location on the IJ-river bank deeper into North, to Molenwijk.
Opening: exhibition UnAuthorised Medium
With curator Annie Jael Kwan and participating artists Noel Ed De Leon, Sau Bin Yap, Erika Tan, and Sung Tieu.
Performance: Alexis Blake - Anthology of Anger
Performance in the context of exhibition 'Some Things Hidden'.
Performance: by Kirvan Fortuin - A Festival of Project Spaces
Event as part of A Festival of Project Spaces; a performance by choreographer and dancer Kirvan Fortuin
Performance: My Tongue Softens On The Other Name
Interactive performance reflecting on the exhibition Re(as)sisting Narratives, through taking inspiration from a poem by Gabeba Baderoon.
Straatpraatj(i)es: Onthoud jy nog
An intervention by Burning Museum in the Transvaalquarter, Amsterdam.
Filthy Mouth, Dirty Politics #2
An 'anti-conference conference', experimenting with transgressive speech acts, filthy, vulgar language, radical feminism and digital (non) spaces.
Diasporic self: sound as lingua franca
The closing event to the exhibition 'Ancestral Blues'.
In Dialogue II: Questioning the explorer
With a historical re-enactment by performing artist Xenson Znja.
In Dialogue I: Deciphering and Reclaiming Histories
Artist talk with collaborating artists Papa Shabani and Xenson Znja.
VENUS: the anti-hero hero
An interactive programme that explores the historically violent imageries surrounding Venus.
Side-expo: 'Venus' masks by Shertise Solano & Ronald de Graaff
By Shertise Solano & Ronald de Graaff. In addition to the 'Embodied Spaces' exhibition.
Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind II. On Decolonial Aesthetics and European Blackness
Lecture and round table discussion in the context of the exhibition Who is more sci-fi than us?
Hacking History
A brainstorming about the relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia and its representation in public space.
Framer Framed: The Estranged Gaze
Conversation and exhibition inspired by artist, Nam June Paik.