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

Workshop: Breath & Breeze – by HumDrumPress

Collaborative workshop during the Framer Framed Book Fair.

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

Guided Tour & Performance: Between Fires

A guided tour of Between Fires, an exhibition tracing the intertwined histories of nuclear infrastructures, colonialism and resistance

Book Launch: This Queer Arab Family

An evening focussed on a book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations

Roundtable: Nuclear Histories and Protest Movements

A discursive evening on the role of art and culture in anti-nuclear resistance and solidarity movements

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

Workshop: Weaving stories #3: the being of relation

Workshop exploring practices of relationality and how to move with a world in movement

Finissage: Remembering Otherwise

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

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

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

The Ghana Queer Underground

A presentation, talk and screening examining what it means to reclaim one’s existence as a queer individual in Ghana

Dancehall Divas Then and Now: Framing the Caribbean Feminist Narrative

This event explores the gendered dynamics of Dancehall culture through performance, discussion, and visual material

weaving stories #2: Co-creating conditions of possibilities at the end of the world as we know

Participatory programme exploring practices of relationality and how to move with a world in movement.

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

Exhibition: The Anarchist Citizenship – People Made of Stories

Exhibition on how storytelling and visual culture (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora

Finissage Weekender – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

On Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 January 2025, Framer Framed concludes the exhibition The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories with a weekend of talks, performances, music and celebrations.

Guided Tour – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Framer Framed invites you to join a guided tour of the exhibition The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Baati as Archive: Somali Textile Culture, History, and Ecology

With artist and educator Kinsi Abdulleh and writer and community organizer Philsan Osman

Gathering: Shaax iyo Sheeko

A relaxed tea gathering in a pop-up café format for the Somali community in the Netherlands.

Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Screening of Retazos Móviles, a documentary about resistance, migration and collective memories through the Arpilleras textile tradition

Workshop: Oh Sh!t, You Again? | Methodologies of Migration by Ishani Chatterjee

Workshop exploring challenges and struggles faced by non-EU practitioners in the cultural sector.

Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Molenwijk Textile Memories

Practical workshop series on female textile heritage in Werkplaats Molenwijk

Opening The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Opening of the exhibition which examines how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora

Pride Photo: A Love Letter to Queer Resilience

An evening programme highlighting some of the incredible visual stories in this year’s Pride Photo exhibition.

Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Refuge and Textile Memories

Practical workshop series on female textile heritage

Symposium: Now You See Me

Black Women’s Defying Worlds During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Indentured Servitude

We Sell Reality Memorial #1: Sudan – When Clouds Are Moving

Memorial organised by art collective We Sell Reality within the context of Amsterdam Museum's Refresh #2: War & Conflict.

Symposium: What and When Was Caribbean Modernism?

Visual and literary temporalities of Caribbean Modernism across languages and diasporas

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.

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

Launch Event: NON NATIVE NATIVE FAIR 2023

Open call for the Non Native Native Fair, PRO$PERITY NOW!

Symposium: Inward Outward

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

Exhibition: 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

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

Opening: While Awaiting an Unknown Future

With Milena Mulders, Hanneke Verbeek, Ribal El Khatib, Karen G, Mina Etemad, Babeth Fonchie & screening of 'Tussenlanding'

Exhibition: While Awaiting an Unknown Future

With work by Karen G. & Ribal El Khatib — made during their stay in an asylum seekers' centre (asielzoekerscentrum)

Film screening: Indisch Zwijgen

Film screening, exhibition & spoken word workshop

Songs of Freedom: A Memorial for Haacaaluu Hundeessaa

Commemoration of the assassination of singer and activist Haacaaluu Hundeessaa

Presentation: LIMBO - queer exilic narratives

The final presentation of 'LIMBO: Engaged scholarship and queer exilic narratives'

We Sell Reality: Sudan

A get-together in solidarity with the protests in Sudan

Atelier KITLV: Kreyol Warung

le thinnai kreyol presents an evening of creole commensality and conviviality

Crisis Imaginaries, Chapter 6: Ecologies of Vulnerability and Resistance

Discussion with Edna Bonhomme and J.T. Roane, moderated by Jeff Diamanti

Project: A Funeral for Street Culture

A group project by Metro54 and Rita Ouédraogo hosted by Framer Framed

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

Online Film Program: Damir Avdagić

Online Film Program with Curator Natasha Marie Llorens

Online Film Program: Selma Selman

Online Film Program with Curator Natasha Marie Llorens

Finissage: Temporary Monument – Srebrenica is Dutch History

A tour along 25 portrait photos on the Oranje-Vrijstaatkade led by Chris Keulemans

Pop-up exhibition: It's just a joke?

Pop-up exhibition and artist talk by Pan Asian Collective on anti-Asian racism in Dutch society

Exhibition: Temporary Monument - Srebrenica is Dutch history

By Bosnian Girl

Exhibition: From what will we reassemble ourselves

A group exhibition conceived by Anna Dasović and curated by Natasha Marie Llorens

Online Panel: Prevention is Better than Hate II

Anti-Asian Racism Roundtables

Online Panel: Prevention is Better than Hate

Anti-Asian Racism Roundtables

Framer Framed invites New Radicalism

Presentatie van nieuwe talenten op het gebied van digitale kunst en cultuur uit het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en diaspora

Finale Diasporic Self: Black Love Letters & Manifestos

An event celebrating the final day of Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca.

Diasporic Self: Informal gatherings with Anne Krul

Diasporic Self: Lexicon of Black Poetics

This event offers space for (performative) readings that peel away, show, uncover the layers and complexities of black poetics of the everyday.

Diasporic Self: Caring as Lingua Franca - Fiction & Myths of Black Womxnhood

An evening programme i.c.w. Dipsaus podcast.

Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante

Opening: Exhibition Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante.

Black Queerness & Diasporic Lives

An event on everyday intergenerational black queer social life, love and communities to look into the embodied experience of Black Queer people in Europe.

Diasporic Self II: Dancing as lingua franca (a gathering in progress)

An event in light of Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018, with Hannah Catherine Jones, Ogutu Muraya, Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante.

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 Ögüt 'migrates' from its current location on the IJ-river bank deeper into North, to Molenwijk.

Exhibition: Monuments to the Unsung - Public Art Amsterdam

Part of the collaborative art manifestation Pay Attention Please! in the public space of Amsterdam

Live conversation HOME #1: Imaginations of HOME

An event in the context of exhibition HOME.

Exhibition: Common Ground

Featuring work by Charl Landvreugd and Antonio Jose Guzman

Diasporic self: sound as lingua franca

The closing event to the exhibition 'Ancestral Blues'.

Exhibition: Ancestral Blues - Return to the State of L3

A research on a hybrid Transatlantic culture curated by Vincent van Velsen