Josien Pieterse Josien Pieterse
Josien is co-founder and co-director of Framer Framed. Framer Framed is a platform for art and culture, with an exhibition space in Amsterdam. The exhibitions are situated at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture and politics. They present work by both well-known and lesser-known artists who are active internationally and engage with social issues.
In addition to and around each exhibition, in-depth interdisciplinary public programmes take place, consisting of artist talks, lectures, film screenings and performances.
In 2018, Framer Framed opened the community and project space Werkplaats Molenwijk,for the Molenwijk neighbourhood in Amsterdam North.
On behalf of Framer Framed, Josien has realised dozens of exhibitions with alternating international guest curators, including the first Dutch pavilion at the 14th Gwanju Biennale in South Korea. Since 2017, Framer Framed has been part of the Basic Infrastructure of the Dutch Ministry of Education Culture and Science and the multi-year funding programme of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
Josien Pieterse was also founder and for ten years director of Network Democracy, a platform for democratic innovation. In 2014, she received the oeuvre prize ‘Radical Innovators’ from the journalistic magazine Vrij Nederland for her work with Network Democracy. Network Democracy was co-initiator of the whistleblower website PubLeaks, of Voorjebuurt, a crowdfunding platform for neighborhood initiatives,and of the debate series New Democracy in collaboration with Pakhuis De Zwijger, which hosted more than 40 gatherings.
Josien Pieterse holds various social functions, primarily in the visual arts sector. She is a board member of MOKER, an association of more than forty visual art and development institutions in Amsterdam; De Zaak Nu, the national platform for exhibition spaces; and ACI, the consultation body for Amsterdam’s cultural institutions. She is also chair of the Consul Democracy Foundation, an online democracy platform developed by the municipality of Madrid.
Josien has a strong commitment to public dialogue. She was for many years chair of the Association of Dutch Debate Centers and worked as a programme maker at Felix Meritis and the Utrecht debate platform Tumult.
From 2007–2017, Josien worked independently as an oral historian and researcher at Atria, institute for emancipation and women’s history. Josien directed two documentaries about different aspects of the women’s movement. She carried out research and interview projects with women from the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), the women’s aid movement, pioneers of the Blijf van m’n Lijf shelters, feminists within the church, and survivors of abuse within the Catholic Church. She was involved in setting up Atria’s oral history (video-)archive and in developing its interview methodology.
- NRC Handelsblad - Weg met de stempel cultureel divers
- Mister Motley - 'Non-Spaces' losgezongen van tijd en ruimte
- Het Parool - Alles draait bij Framer Framed om het andere verhaal
- Keti Koti Tafels
- Network Democracy - platform for democratic innovation
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Agenda
Symposium: Shapeshifters
Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation.
Werkplaats Molenwijk 5-Year Celebration
A festive program including a parade, a book launch, a walking tour, workshops and more!
Book Launch: Debaltsevo, Where Are You?
by Karine Zenja Versluis book launch and exhibition opening
Symposium: This is Our Audience - Other Ways of Reporting
A symposium on qualitative methods of audience reach and evaluation
Symposium: The State of Patronage
Hybrid panel discussion on the culture of giving within the Dutch art sector after ten years of budget cuts
Educational series: Broadcasting from Babylon
On intersectional feminist, queer, and anti-colonial embodied, listening and sounding practices.
Opening: exhibition UnAuthorised Medium
With curator Annie Jael Kwan and participating artists Noel Ed De Leon, Sau Bin Yap, Erika Tan, and Sung Tieu.
Some Things Hidden: Film screening 'Herengracht 401'
Documentary on the controversial history of Castrum Peregrini, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Janina Pigaht, Frans Damman (Castrum Peregrini) and Josien Pieterse.
Young Collector's Circle at Framer Framed: Engaged Art
Why is it interesting for a collector to immerse himself in engaged art?
Oral History and the audiovisual archive
Oral history as a complementary to the archive of written historical sources.
Magazine
Amsterdam Noord / Art economy / Gentrification /
The living archive / Bookshop Selection /
Publication: Lost and Living (in) Archives
Museology / Collection development / Global Art History /
Publication: Changing Perspective
Feminism / Collection development / The living archive /
Publication: Traveling Heritages
Feminism / Oral History /
Documentary: Feminism and healthcare in the 70’s and 80’s in the Netherlands
Digital commons & democracy / Citizenship / The living archive / Politics and technology / Social Practice /
Digital Afterlives: the legacy of Network Democracy at Framer Framed
Planetary Poetics / Ecology / Education / Open Call /
Open Call: Planetary Poetics: a two-year Masters programme
Community & Learning / Shared Heritage / Colonial history / Museology /
Report: Decolonial Futures with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Photography / Community & Learning / Migration / Molenwijk /
Photography project: At Home in Molenwijk
Art and Activism / Action Research / Community & Learning / Residencies /
Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed: Experimental Knowledge in Art, Activism, and Academia
Contested Heritage / Colonial history / Museology /
Expertmeeting on the presentation of contested heritage at Westfries Museum
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For Framer Framed it all revolves around telling a different story
Art in Public Space / Amsterdam Noord / Gentrification / Turkey /
Framer Framed, De Appel en de stad - door Joke de Wolf
Amsterdam Noord / Community & Learning / Molenwijk /
Framer Framed in the Molenwijk district
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NRC - 'Weg met stempel ‘cultureel divers’
Curatorial Text / Global Art History /
A conversation between Mirjam Westen and Josien Pieterse about the exhibition 'What We Have Overlooked'
Oral History /
Report: Erfgoedarena on Oral History
Feminism /
Documentary: Fem.doc - on the history of the womensmovement in the Netherlands
Oral History / Feminism /
Artikel: Dans om de camera
Gentrification / Feminism / Art and Activism /