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    Institutional Critique / Ecology / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history / Museologie / Southeast Asia /

    On the Nature of Botanical Gardens: Decolonial Perspectives - by Evie Evans
    Podcast / Extractivism / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Podcast: Reclaiming Relationalities – From Shinkolobwe to Hiroshima
    Curatorial Text / Diaspora / Ecology / Extractivism / Colonial history /

    Curatorial Statement: Fabienne Rachmadiev on the exhibition Between Fires
    Jay Afrisando, a medium-skin-toned male with bunned hair, sits on outdoor neighborhood concrete steps in a serious pose, with his fingers clasped and arms on his thighs. He wears dark blue jeans, a light gray sweatshirt, and black shoes. Photo: © DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program / Diana Pfammatter.
    The living archive / Indonesia / Colonial history / Residencies /

    Interview with Jay Afrisando – KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency 2025-2026
    The living archive / Ecology / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Performing Colonial Toxicity on show at the University of Quebec in Montreal
    Global Art History / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Museologie / Textile /

    Shapeshifters – Where Opacity Holds the Light
    Bookshop Selection / The living archive / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Museologie /

    Bookshop Selection: Emptying the Shelves
    Institutional Critique / Global Art History / Colonial history / Museologie / Textile /

    Review: Shapeshifters: On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation, A Group Exhibition at Framer Framed
    Jay Afrisando, a medium-skin-toned male with bunned hair, sits on outdoor neighborhood concrete steps in a serious pose, with his fingers clasped and arms on his thighs. He wears dark blue jeans, a light gray sweatshirt, and black shoes. Photo: © DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program / Diana Pfammatter.
    Colonial history / Indonesia / Residencies /

    Announcement: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence
    Collectives / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Hidden Faces of Papua by Danielle Hofmans
    Collectives / Diaspora / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Remembering and Solidarity-Making: 60 Years after 1965
    Middle East / Colonial history / Migration / Palestine / Political Climate /

    Antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism and Europe: A plea for a critical and democratic debate
    The witnesses of the CICC London hearings raising their arms to vote.
    CICC / Ecology / Extractivism / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Putting the Law on Trial: On the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes, Serpentine Galleries
    Residencies / Caribbean / The living archive / Colonial history / Open Call / Southeast Asia /

    Open Call: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency 2025-2026
    Artist Talk / Colonial history / Slavery /

    Exhibition: Askari Soldiers by Amado Alfadni - with Afrovibes Festival
    Colonial history / Indonesia / Residencies / Southeast Asia /

    Framer Framed in Surabaya – Sensible Past: Of Distances and the Fabrication of the Frame
    Curatorial Text / Colonial history / Art and Activism / Politics and technology /

    Curatorial Statement: Art and the Battle for Truth
    Ecology / Action Research / The living archive / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    "...exposing the pasts, presents, and futures of colonial toxicity." – Samia Henni in Critique d'art
    Slavery / Bookshop Selection / Colonial history / Suriname /

    Bookshop Selection: 1 July Keti Koti 2024
    Colombia / Ecology / Colonial history /

    "For us, knowledge and spirituality are not separate" - in conversation with Indigenous leader Hernando Chindoy
    Extractivism / Colonial history / Planetary Poetics / Podcast /

    Podcast: Counter-extractivism: Poetics of remedy and transmission
    Extractivism / Ecology / Education / Colonial history / Planetary Poetics /

    Picha and Framer Framed: A long-term collaboration
    Ecology / Curatorial Text / Extractivism / Colonial history /

    Curatorial statement: Towards a Perma-Future by iLiana Fokianaki
    Shared Heritage / Action Research / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Simangaliso Sibiya and The Kousin’s Project
    Collectives / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    From Tanah Merdeka to Tanah Tumpah Darah: Taring Padi in Brisbane, Australia
    Education / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Shared Waters: How the Camissa Museum in Cape Town extends beyond its spatial borders to Amsterdam
    The living archive / Ecology / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Performing Colonial Toxicity travels to Zurich, London, Paris and Montreal
    Bookshop Selection / Conflict / Ecology / The living archive / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Bookshop Selection: Colonial Toxicity by Samia Henni
    Colonial history / The living archive / Residencies /

    Announcement: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency
    Conflict / The living archive / Colonial history /

    Video: Megan Hoetger in conversation with Samia Henni
    Podcast / Conflict / The living archive / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Podcast: Uncovering the Dark Legacy of Nuclear Colonialism with Samia Henni
    Palestine / Bookshop Selection / Colonial history / Middle East / Political Climate /

    Reading List & Films on the Palestinian experience and struggle for liberation
    Curatorial Text / Ecology / The living archive / Colonial history /

    Curatorial Statement: Megan Hoetger on the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity
    Diaspora / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Podcast / Textile /

    Podcast: Decolonizing the Gaze - Textile Cultural Heritage vs Colonialism
    Caribbean / Colonial history / Open Call / Residencies / Southeast Asia /

    Open Call: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency
    Ecology / Extractivism / Colonial history /

    Sacrificial Energy by Rose-Anne Gush
    Education / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Report: Shared Waters and Family Histories - An exchange with Camissa Museum in Capetown, SA
    Slavery / Bookshop Selection / Colonial history / Suriname /

    Bookshop Selection: 1 Juli Keti Koti 2023
    Collectives / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    The making of Tanah Merdeka - Dialogue through collaborative practices
    Collectives / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    An introduction to the exhibition Tanah Merdeka - by Alexander Supartono
    Collectives / Curatorial Text / Indonesia / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Seeking Restorative Processes by Benjamin Seroussi
    The living archive / Colonial history / Art and Activism / Residencies / Southeast Asia /

    Announcement: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence
    Action Research / Community & Learning / Diaspora / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Report: Decolonial Futures Winter School
    Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Colonialism in museums: Islamic art from Indonesia
    Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Podcast Series: Black Togetherness
    Institutional Critique / Shared Heritage / The living archive / Colonial history /

    Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
    CICC / Ecology / Colonial history / Art and Activism /

    Errant Journal: A conversation between Radha D'Souza and Jonas Staal
    Indonesia / Collection development / Ecology / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    On the (de)coloniality of Kebun Raya Bogor, museum objects and contemporary Indonesian art
    Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes Framer Framed
    CICC / Ecology / Colonial history /

    The climate crisis is a colonial crisis - by Roos van der Lint
    Community & Learning / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Report: Decolonial Futures with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
    Colonial history / Indonesia / Art and Activism / Residencies /

    Announcement: Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence
    Action Research / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Report: Decolonial Futures with Aditi Jaganathan
    Shared Heritage / Community & Learning / Colonial history / Art and Activism / Suriname / South Africa /

    Report: Sara Blokland's lecture as part of Decolonial Futures
    Shared Heritage / Action Research / Community & Learning / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Decolonial Futures: Second Term
    Shared Heritage / Action Research / Community & Learning / Photography / Colonial history / South Africa /

    Decolonial Futures: First Term
    Ecology / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Digital Archive: Decolonise Botanical Gardens
    Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

    Article: Smithsonian’s Leader Says ‘Museums Have a Social Justice Role to Play’
    Indonesia / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Amsterdam: Postcolonial Processes
    Ecology / Action Research / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Report: On the Future of Botanical Gardens
    Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Review: 'On the Nature of Botanical Gardens' at Framer Framed
    Contested Heritage / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Expert meeting: On the presentation of contested heritage at Westfries Museum
    Extractivism / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Review: Sammy Baloji. A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
    Colonial history / Extractivism / Photography /

    Review: A History Coloured by Belgians
    Colonial history / Ecology / Extractivism / The living archive /

    Curatorial Statement: Vincent van Velsen on the exhibition A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
    Indonesia / Colonial history /

    On Power and Other Things – by Sophia Zürcher
    Photography / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Suriname /

    Report: Sara Blokland on Srefidensi and Reproduction of Family
    Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Colonial history /

    Report: Modern Indonesian painters in revolution and nation building
    Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Report: What is modern Indonesian art?
    South Africa / Colonial history /

    Review: 'Re(as)sisting Narratives' - A Group Exhibition at Framer Framed, Amsterdam
    Colonial history / The living archive / Contested Heritage / South Africa /

    Re(as)sisting Narratives: Exploring The Past To Write The Future
    South Africa / Colonial history /

    Interview: Chandra Frank in conversation with Toni Stuart
    South Africa / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Interview with Judith Westerveld about her work 'The Remnant'
    Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

    Symposium: Decolonize The Museum
    Curatorial Text / Caribbean / Diaspora / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Migration /

    Curatorial Statement: Vincent Van Velsen on the exhibition Ancestral Blues
    Colonial history / Curatorial Text / Institutional Critique / Museologie / Contested Heritage /

    Article: Towards a decolonial curatorial practice - by Chandra Frank
    Colonial history / Institutional Critique / Contested Heritage /

    Decolonising the Museum: Limits and Possibilities
    Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Video: Suspended Histories
    Shared Heritage / Colonial history /

    Exhibition: Suspended Histories at Museum van Loon
    Contemporary Aboriginal art / Colonial history / Contested Heritage /

    Exhibition: BOMB
    Fotografie: Anoek Steketee
    Colonial history / Institutional Critique /

    Article: Colonial nostalgia in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
    Foto: Cas Bool
    Institutional Critique / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Video: Contested History
    Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Video: Suspended Histories
    Colonial history /

    Symposium: BE.BOP 2013
    Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Lecture: Debate on the reopening on the Rijksmuseum
    Fotografie: Anoek Steketee
    Photography / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Exhibition: 'Vroeger is een ver land'
    Colonial history /

    Bookweek Launch: Golden times, Black pages
    Contested Heritage / Indonesia / Institutional Critique / Colonial history /

    Physical anthropology in the Netherlands East Indies, ca. 1890-1960
    Colonial history /

    Reading: The black canon
    Colonial history / Bookshop Selection / Suriname /

    Booklaunch: Farewell to the Colonies
    Colonial history / Slavery /

    Conference: The Colonial Legacy Conference - on the occasion 300th anniversary of the De Vrede van Utrecht
    Colonial history /

    Conference: Edward Said Memorial Conference
    Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Report: Contested History
    Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Study Afternoon: Beyond Indië - The cultural decoloniastion of Indonesia
    Photography / Shared Heritage / Indonesia / Colonial history /

    Book launch: What is Colonial Photography?
    Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Art in Public Space /

    Report: Hacking History
    Colonial history / Collection development / Shared Heritage / Institutional Critique /

    Report: Symposium Contested History
    Caribbean / Colonial history / Migration /

    Performance: Nets have many holes
    Colonial history / Institutional Critique / Art economy and policy /

    Press Release: Closure of Molucan Museum
    Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Colonial history /

    The national symbol of openness - by Sylvia Pessireron
    Indonesia / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Art in Public Space /

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    Exhibitions


    Presentation: Menaut Waktu, Merekam Jejak - Threading Time, Archiving Traces

    Presentation by artist Jay Afrisando as part of the Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed’s residency programme

    Exhibition: Wild Waters

    Curated by Àngels Miralda, the exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power

    Exhibition: Shapeshifters

    A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge

    Exhibition: Lawan!

    An exhibition that brings attention to the legacies of post-colonial imperialist expansion in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua

    Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial

    An exhibition of the CICC in London focused on the colonial and industrial crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company.

    Exhibition: Sensible Past in Surabaya – Of Distances and the Fabrication of the Frame

    Group exhibition in Surabaya, Indonesia with Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed artists-in-residence

    Exhibition: Breaking Waves

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

    Exhibition: Stories of Wounds and Wonder

    Presentation of the artistic research & experimental children's book by researcher, writer and pedagogue Nuraini Juliastuti

    Exhibition: The One-Straw Revolution

    An exhibition curated by iLiana Fokianaki exploring permaculture as a methodology for exhibition-making

    Exhibition: Shared Waters

    Presentation of young people in Amsterdam and Cape Town searching for their roots, for mutual cultural connections past and present.

    Exhibition: Amidst the Sand Wall

    An exhibition by Moroccan artist 739 offering further context to the current state of the Western Sahara

    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.

    Exhibition: Tanah Merdeka

    An exhibition with the Indonesian art & activist collective, Taring Padi, reflecting on the concept of land as the object and site of decolonial struggles.

    Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars

    An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.

    Exhibition: Charging Myths

    An exhibition by transnational collective On-Trade-Off exploring how technological innovation is dependent on natural resources.
    Image for the exhibition The silence of tired tongues at Framer Framed

    Exhibition: The Silence of Tired Tongues

    Contemporary Art & Brazil

    Exhibition: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens

    Contemporary indonesian perspectives by nine Indonesian artists

    Exhibition: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

    A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji
    Based on drawing by Ervance ‘Havefun’ Dwiputra / Design by Diego Montero Ris

    Exhibition: Pressing Matters

    Featuring 24 Indonesian artists brought together by artist Kevin van Braak

    Exhibition: Re(as)sisting Narratives in South Africa

    Exploring lingering legacies of colonialism between South Africa and the Netherlands through engaging with contemporary artists from both countries

    Exhibition: Re(as)sisting Narratives

    Exploring lingering legacies of colonialism between South Africa and the Netherlands through engaging with contemporary artists from both countries

    Exhibition: Simuda Nyuma - Forward Ever Backward Never

    A contemporary interpretation of missing documents in an Ugandan archive of Ham Mukasa. Curated by Robinah Nansubug and Andrea Stultiens

    Agenda


    Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past

    Join us in creating a monumental tapestry measuring 35 meters long and 3 meters high
    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
    Living with the Delta: Myth, Memory and Water Knowledge
    A programme that delves into the lives of waterside communities from different geographical perspectives
    Opening: Wild Waters. Dams and Deltas After Modernity
    Opening of the exhibition Wild Waters, featuring a performance by sound collective GalalaLive
    Exhibition: Wild Waters
    Curated by Àngels Miralda, the exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power
    Workshop: Breath & Breeze – by HumDrumPress
    Collaborative workshop during the Framer Framed Book Fair.
    Finissage: Between Fires – Irradiated Imaginations & Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
    The finissage wraps up the exhibition by bringing different geographies of nuclear colonialism and resistance in conversation
    Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past
    Join us in creating a monumental tapestry measuring 35 meters long and 3 meters high
    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.
    Finissage: Srefidensi – Suriname Vrij!
    Finissage of the exhibition Srefidensi – Suriname Vrij! Symbols of 50 Years of Surinamese Independence
    Book Launch: MAKAN #3: Synthetic Agencies
    The book launch of MAKAN's third issue invites readers to rethink (and unthink) dominant assumptions, polarities and discontents surrounding the notion of agency
    Workshop: Moving Labels – Shifting Narratives
    A series of workshops by Barbara Neves Alves with Clare Butcher and Pedro Manuel about re-interpreting museum labels
    Symposium: Cultural Imagination and the Legacy of Colonialism
    This event features creative and scholarly work that engages with the legacies of colonialism and push for social and cultural change
    Checkpoint Time: Architectures of Control and Resistance
    A workshop and seminar that critically examines spatial instruments of Israeli domination in Palestine – as well as the possibilities for resistance embedded within them
    Symposium: Shapeshifters
    Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation
    Opening: Shapeshifters
    Group exhibition that examines how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood
    Exhibition: Shapeshifters
    A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge
    Moving Memories: Countering Historical Silences, Narrating Archives of the Indonesian Left
    Public launch of Watch65’s archival website to decolonise Indonesian historiography and reclaim the nation’s narration
    Against the State's Single History: A Conversation with Indonesian Exiles
    Panel with Indonesian exiles in the Netherlands expanding on the interpretations of what happened in 1965/1966
    Roundtable: Decolonizing the Gaze – The Colonial Heritage of Italian and International Fashion Design
    A project and panel discussion examining how fashion has historically contributed to the visual construction of colonial ideologies
    Cross-border Solidarity: The Case of Komitee Indonesië
    Documentary screening and panel discussion contemplating the work and legacy of Komitee Indonesië
    Exhibition: Lawan!
    An exhibition that brings attention to the legacies of post-colonial imperialist expansion in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua
    Opening: Lawan!
    Exhibition opening of a pop-up show bringing attention to the colonial legacies in the Indonesian archipelago and West Papua.
    Colonial Violence Then and Now: From Vught to Gaza
    Critical scholars examine the deep connections between Europe's colonial past and contemporary forms of violence and exclusion.
    A Cutting Room Floor: Practices & Methods of Disclosing Militant Cinema
    Conversation which aims to discuss strategic practices of anti-colonial audiovisual collections.
    Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial
    An exhibition of the CICC in London focused on the colonial and industrial crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company.
    CICC School London – Indigo Resistances: Sonic and Textile Testimonies
    Artists Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic (Messengers of the Sun) explore the colonial legacies of the indigo trade
    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
    Book Talk: Inheritance – A Speculative Ethnography of Evidence
    Book presentation in collaboration with The Research Center for Material Culture on the bodily inheritance of colonial frameworks and the tools to resist them.
    Opening: Past Disquiet
    Opening of the exhibition Past Disquiet with an introduction by curator Rasha Salti and a performance by protest song choir Verzet per Couplet
    Panel Discussion: Desire and Vision – Art, Philanthropy, and Decolonial Futures
    Panel discussion examining the colonial history of European philanthropic support for arts and culture in the Global South
    Launch: Errant Journal #7, Embodying Resistance
    Errant Journal #7 aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below
    Exhibition: Sensible Past in Surabaya – Of Distances and the Fabrication of the Frame
    Group exhibition in Surabaya, Indonesia with Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed artists-in-residence
    Ancestral Damages: Demanding Climate Reparations
    Workshop with climate justice activist and researcher Marcela Varconte.
    Decolonial Summer School: Celebrating 15 Years of the Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
    Events hosted by leading experts in the field of decolonial thinking at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven)
    Artist Tour & Workshop: Breaking Waves
    Artist tour end workshop by artist Clara Jo as part of her exhibition Breaking Waves during Amsterdam Art Week
    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
    In conversation with Jodi Dean, Michael Hardt and Sandro Mezzadra about student protests and Gaza
    Two events organised by Critical Conversation Collective, together with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Framer Framed
    Finissage: The One-Straw Revolution
    Finissage of the exhibition, The One-Straw Revolution, curated by iLiana Fokianaki
    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
    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
    Symposium: Stressing Solidarity - Witnessing Palestine through Art and Architecture
    A symposium on Palestinian art and cultural heritage initiated by the Teach-in Series workgroup of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
    Guided Tour: Stories of Wounds and Wonder
    Guided tour with the author of Stories of Wounds and Wonder, Nuraini Juliastuti
    Book Launch: Stories of Wounds and Wonder
    Reading of the play and publication Stories of Wounds and Wonder by artist Nuraini Juliastuti
    Exhibition: Stories of Wounds and Wonder
    Presentation of the artistic research & experimental children's book by researcher, writer and pedagogue Nuraini Juliastuti
    Exhibition: The One-Straw Revolution
    An exhibition curated by iLiana Fokianaki exploring permaculture as a methodology for exhibition-making
    Opening: The One-Straw Revolution
    Opening of the exhibition, The One-Straw Revolution, curated by iLiana Fokianaki
    Finissage: Performing Colonial Toxicity
    Finissage programme for the exhibition Performing Colonial Toxicity including a book launch of Samia Henni's newest publication.
    Screening: And still, it remains
    Film screening in within the context of the exhibition, Performing Colonial Toxicity.
    Exhibition: Shared Waters
    Presentation of young people in Amsterdam and Cape Town searching for their roots, for mutual cultural connections past and present.
    Symposium: Now You See Me
    Black Women’s Defying Worlds During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Indentured Servitude
    Performance Lecture by Samia Henni
    In the context of her exhibition 'Performing Colonial Toxicity' now on show at Framer Framed
    Exhibition: Amidst the Sand Wall
    An exhibition by Moroccan artist 739 offering further context to the current state of the Western Sahara
    Rematriation Rehearsals: On a Mesoamerican Skull Displayed in Leiden
    A conversation on 3D printing in the context of stolen or looted artefacts from indigenous communities
    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
    Opening: Performing Colonial Toxicity
    An exhibition by researcher Samia Henni on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara
    Launch: Errant Journal #5, Learning from Ancestors
    Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
    Roundtable: Decolonizing the Gaze - Textile Cultural Heritage vs Colonialism?
    Roundtable discussion on what different fabrics and their history tell about interculture, colonialism and cultural appropriations.
    Screening: Land Rifts – Extraction and Sedimentation
    Film screenings and discussion about ecosystems and coloniality, in collaboration with ASCA.
    Exhibition: Anonim
    Final presentation of Theo Frids Marulitua Hutabarat's Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence project.
    Roundtable Conversation: Tanah Merdeka
    Roundtable conversation with researchers and curators from different art museums and institutions within the context of Taring Padi's exhibition, Tanah Merdeka.
    Exhibition: Tanah Merdeka
    An exhibition with the Indonesian art & activist collective, Taring Padi, reflecting on the concept of land as the object and site of decolonial struggles.
    Opening: Tanah Merdeka
    Opening of the exhibition Tanah Merdeka with works by the Indonesian art collective Taring Padi and collaborators.
    Finissage: Charging Myths - 'In words nourished'
    A storytelling event within the context of the exhibition, Charging Myths.
    Education project: Shared Waters
    Exchange project with the Camissa Museum (Cape Town, SA)
    Exhibition: CICC Gwangju Biennale - Extinction Wars
    An exhibition of the CICC at the Netherlands Pavilion of the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, commissioned and produced by Framer Framed.
    Kunstschooldagen 2023
    Two-day programme where groups of 8th-graders and facilitators visit different cultural institutions.
    Symposium: Inward Outward
    Symposium with lecture/conversations and workshops on the theme of Witnessing/Care & The Archive
    Exhibition: Charging Myths
    An exhibition by transnational collective On-Trade-Off exploring how technological innovation is dependent on natural resources.
    Opening: Charging Myths by On-Trade-Off
    Opening of the exhibition, Charging Myths, by transnational artist collective On-Trade-Off.
    Performance: Ausangate, a gaseous cosmology
    A performance, a ceremony, a conversation with an earth-being, an ofrenda.
    Transoceanic Memories: Disaster Haggyo presentation
    An afternoon of transdisciplinary dialogues on disasters in the Anthropocene supported by Arts Council Korea
    Film screening: Indisch Zwijgen
    Film screening, exhibition & spoken word workshop
    Kunstschooldagen 2022
    Two-day programme where groups of 8th-graders and facilitators visit different cultural institutions.
    Exhibition: The Silence of Tired Tongues
    Contemporary Art & Brazil
    Opening: The Silence of Tired Tongues
    With Julia Arbex, Aline Baiana, Arthur Chaves, Vitória Cribb, Benedito Ferreira, Estêvão Parreiras, Luana Vitra & Raphael Fonseca
    Atelier KITLV: Declaring Distance
    Ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive with Atelier KITLV
    Symposium: Decolonial Futures
    The final program of the cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa
    Decolonial Futures Workshop Series: The Womb Republic - How to Rebirth
    A cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa
    Decolonial Futures Winter School: Creating Space for a Hundred Flowers to Bloom
    A cultural exchange programme with Funda Community College, Soweto, South Africa
    Lecture: The Colonisation of the Future by David van Reybrouck at Framer Framed
    On the colonisation of the future, and living on the brink of the climate catastrophe
    Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
    First term of the Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022
    Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Aditi Jaganathan
    First term of the Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022 with selected Artist Talks
    Decolonial Futures: Workshop with Sara Blokland
    First term of Decolonial Futures programme 2021-2022
    Atelier KITLV: Zouk is Medicine
    On creole manifestations of cultural as a means of resistance with Ari Gautier, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Jocelyne Beroard & Bonaventure Ndikung
    Atelier KITLV: Kucini, kallu, kakkus - Creolising India Across the Oceans
    Kucini, kallu, kakkus: Creolising India Across the Oceans
    Decolonial Futures 2020-2021: Second Term
    Online seminar as part of the second term of Decolonial Futures
    Book launch: Revolusi
    A conversation with David Van Reybrouck, Wim Manuhutu, Sadiah Boonstra, Goenawan Mohamad and Amanda Pinatih
    Decolonial Futures 2020-2021: First Term
    Open Call for participants for the Decolonial Futures Cultural Exchange Programme 2020-2022
    Launch: Errant Journal #1, When Are We?
    Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed
    Finissage: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens
    Featuring a performative lecture investigating the etymology of plant species by artists Amy Pekal and Marit Mihklepp
    Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 2: Visibility Politics & Climate Justice
    Online panel on intersectional climate justice with Chihiro Geuzebroek, Asuka Kähler and Raki Ap, moderated by Amanda Boetzkes
    Re-visiting Botanical Gardens
    Nieuwe perspectieven op het netwerk van Nederlandse botanische tuinen
    Exhibition: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens
    Contemporary indonesian perspectives by nine Indonesian artists
    Opening: On the Nature of Botanical Gardens
    Contemporary Indonesian Perspectives
    Memoria Plantae: Perspectives on the Dutch Botanical Network
    A conversation with Sadiah Boonstra, Andreas Weber en Jennifer Tosch in the lead-up to our upcoming exhibition
    Finissage: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
    With Sammy Baloji, Georges Senga Assani and Heleen Debeuckelaere.
    Book launch: When we speak about colonisation
    On the occasion of the recent publication by Faassen and Verdijk, and in the context of the running show 'A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes' by Sammy Baloji
    Curator tour: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
    A tour by Vincent van Velsen.