Stroom der bewustzijn II 10-/01/2013 Participating artist(s) Hanna Nilsson, Rasmus Svensson On the night of the 10th of January 2013 five streams of pure information will meet and intertwine in one local Host. Audiovisual data will flow through the wetware of the Host and the hardware of the Beamer for the enjoyment of the Attending. Stories […]

Opening Soon - Aapo Museum 13/01/2013 - 20/01/2013 Opening Soon is launching the new year for the Aapo Museum that will reaffirm and strengthen its place among leading international art institutions. Taking place in the temporary space of the Museum in W139, the exhibition offers a chance to preview our future practices and gives a […]

The Psychonaut 13/01/2013 - 10/02/2013 Participating artist(s) Sagi Groner Sagi Groner presents a large series of self-portraits that unite to offer a visual expression of the notion of Self. This portrait is inspired by his year-long investigation and visits with Shamans throughout China and Inner Mongolia. His coded portrayal of the personal and archetypal ponders on […]

Pole#2 Polite Limitation 27/01/2013 - 10/02/2013 Participating artist(s) Maria Gondek In a new work for the entrance of W139, Maria Gondek constructs an installation that explores the ambivalent function of the space as part entrance, part exhibition space. Playing with elements such as tension and humour, the work investigates the temporary reliability of the situation encountered […]

Primitives 31/01/2013 Participating artist(s) Renato Osoy, Femke Fransenm, Doris Prlic, Frouke ten Velden, Brenda Tempelaar Primitives is a one evening event in which students of the master program Artistic Research present new work. The artists experiment with the visual consequences of their recent period of reflection. The context of an exhibition invites them to explore one's 'matter', to step across […]

Weaving is a Word 23/02/2013 - 10/03/2013 Participating artist(s) Louise Kelpe For the entrance of W139 Louise Kelpe is reflecting on the heritage of Gunta Stölzl. Drawing from her patterns a new ideology. Confusing a weave with a word, a carpet with a construction, and a building with a sentence. The work is an investigation into […]

Civic Virtue 23/02/2013 - 14/04/2013 Participating artist(s) Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, Brian McKenna, Ruchama Noorda, Gijsbert Wouter Wahl As CIVIC VIRTUE returns home to Amsterdam after their Grand Tour across Europe, they bring with them the evidence and insights of their recent coming-of-age journey. Through the digestive-tracts of history, they have worked their way down to the […]

Gijs Deddens 02/03/2013 - 07/04/2013 Participating artist(s) Gijs Deddens With Indian ink, charcoal, marker pens and acrylic paint Deddens makes paintings, drawings and murals in a playful way that contain colourful and dark fragments at the same time. Hairy, whimsical hatchings and colourful shapes lead to images of complex worlds. Deddens’s images also come together in […]

Blijf ver bij me vandaan omdat het zich anders verspreidt, en de koorts je ziel doorklijft 17/03/2013 - 07/04/2013 Participating artist(s) Cornelia Herfurtner, John MacLean Cornelia Herfurtner and John MacLean, who are about to graduate from the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), share an interest in non-professional ways of expression, oftentimes confronting the viewer with […]

Reisgenoten 22/03/2013 Participating artist(s) Anne Verhoijsen Reisgenoten is the reading history of visual artist Anne Verhoijsen, who grew up in the fifties in the village of Someren in Brabant. Reisgenoten will be released in a limited edition of 150 copies and will be for sale for €70 for the first time on the 22nd of March. […]

Radical Colophon 28/03/2013 Participating artist(s) Caetano Carvalho, Emiliano Gandolfi, Frank Mandersloot, Anna Moreno, Joost Nieuwenburg & Mischa Poppe (Walden Affairs), Maria Pask, Elske Rosenfeld, Janós Sugár, Kosta Tonev In Radical Colophon, Anna Moreno proposes a deliberately partial and tendencious mapping on the way art deals with changing the world, politics, activism and direct action. Or rather, […]

The Temporary Department of Time and Space 08/04/2013 - 14/04/2013 Participating artist(s) Chun-Han "Dawson" Chiang, Silvia Gasperat, Maria Gondek, Senne Hartland, Tobias Karlsson, Stella de Kort, Max Kutschenreuter, Anne-Caroline Luttringer, Jessica Tucker, Lisa Vlamings The Temporary Department of Time and Space is a workshop organised at the VAV department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. But The Temporary […]

Neuzeit 11/04/2013 Participating artist(s) Bernd Trasberger Bernd Trasberger deals with the transformation of urban space in his sculptural works, installations and collages. The utopias of post-war modernism form an important reference point in the artist’s work. By appropriating and recycling architectural fragments and relocating them, Trasberger examines the value we place on this disappearing habitat and […]

W139 presents On Fresh Soil 29/06/2013 - 28/07/2013 Participating artist(s) Andreas R Andersson, Jabu Arnell, André Avelãs, Elke Baggen, Dovilė Bernadišiūtė, Kaleb de Groot, Benjamin Roth, Anami Schrijvers, Daniel Caleb Thomson, Merce Wouthuysen For the last six weeks, W139 has been a workplace for ten artists who used the old asphalt floor of the project space […]

Recreation Ground Amsterdam 05/09/2013 - 07/09/2013 Participating artist(s) Anneke van der Putten, Alonso Vazquez, Alex Head, David Bell, Ansgar Reul W139 proudly presents Recreation Ground, a collaboration between Wasteland Twinning Berlin, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham, and W139 , three partners of the Wasteland Twinning Network. As an audio research project, Recreation Ground explores the values, potentials, functions, and […]

FIVE HUNDRED AND TEN SHOWS, NO REVOLUTION 09/09/2013 - 20/10/2013 Participating artist(s) Caetano Carvalho, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Ronald Huynen, Sara Pape Garcia Acid-free folders alongside cheap removal boxes, pencil scrawled dates and blotted marker-pen descriptions. What exists and what could exist between four walls. We are carefully closing the boxes of the past; we leave the […]

Double You Street 19/09/2013 During this evening we are screening Double you street (On the occasion of the then fifteen year anniversary of W139, this portrait was made​​. A thirteen artists who were involved in this project talk about their experiences in interviews, which were held by as many filmmakers. Martin Grootenboer provides the umbrella of these […]

DA BEST OF W139RADIO 10/10/2013 Bring your own radio and join us on this evening where founder and producer of W139RADIO Jesper Buursink will make a live two hour radioshow and bring you DA BEST OF! After three years and 35 broadcasts of W139RADIO we bring you DA BEST OF. All these shows were broadcasted […]

Autumn break at W139 23/10/2013 Workshops for children aged 7-12 years. In the autumn break you can do a Walk in - workshop at W139 on Wednesday and Sunday You can make buttons, creative copies and archaeological research of hidden paintings! The walk-in workshops are on Wednesdays and Sundays between 14:00 and 17:00. Participation costs four […]

Museumnacht 02/11/2013 - 03/11/2013 Participating artist(s) PHOTONIC ORCHESTRA Sonja van Hamel & vrienden, PRIMARY BAR, YES...PINKPINK Sonja van Hamel is a musician, an artist and a graphic designer. Her current musical presentation is a concept that she calls Draw Clips. During Museum Night, a remarkable ensemble of friends - visual artists and musicians - will be […]

Liberty Inviting Artists to Take Part 09/11/2013 - 08/12/2013 A year ago, W139 launched its plans for the future in the form of a manifesto. Basically, W139’s vision of the future places artists at the heart and helm of the exhibition-making process. It’s a strategy that W139 believes is essential in an art world that […]

FETTER + ENDANDEND and OUR NATURE 28/11/2013 Participating artist(s) Jessica Tucker, Sinan Güven, Jeroen Heester Join us from 18:00 on - as usual we will serve some nice homemade food! Program FETTER + ENDANDEND: An evening of atmospheric audio and visual, brought to you by two members of the much rumored-about creative collective known as International.Sex… FETTER […]

Performance avond 05/12/2013 Participating artist(s) Fraser Stewart, Nathalie Chambart, Frederik Willems, Lotje van Lieshout, The Cirkos Micros PROGRAM We start the night at 18:00 with lovely homemade food. In the Frontspace Schmall Gallery + Fraser Stewart show their collaboration. Fraser Stewart made a work for the "Schmallest" gallery in town, we are all very curious what the outcome […]

ALL YOU’LL EVER NEED IS HERE — W139 GARAGE SALE 21/12/2013 Come join us on Saturday the 21st of December at our one-day garage sale and get yourself a basketball from our office, a slide projector from the AV room or a poster from the W139 archive. After a big clear-out these all are results […]

Open voor Publiek 20/03/2014 Evening of debate on the (in)accessibility of art by Platform BK Naar aanleiding van de recente discussie in de media over de (on)toegankelijkheid van kunst, organiseert Platform Beeldende Kunst een openbaar gesprek 'Open voor publiek – over de (on)toegankelijkheid van kunst' op donderdag 20 maart van 20:00 - 22:00 in W139 […]

Kick-Start 04/06/2014 - 06/06/2014 Participating artist(s) Fabian Herkenhoener, Galina Dimitrova, Judith Kisner, Carl Johan Wirsell, Peppi Bottrop, Fathma Dogan, Marlies DC, Ørjan EinarsØnn DØsen, Jasiek Mischke + Band, Jasmin Preiss, Florian Orlob, Tanja Ritterbex, Derk Thijs, Pim Blokker, Jochen Görlach, Eun Kyung Kim, Jan Vedder, Mikkel Pedersen, Alex Nowak A short intervention by 20 Artists

Timeless Gentle Flights 11/04/2014 - 13/04/2014 Participating artist(s) Sandra Gnjatović, Hannah Mjølsnes, Eric Peter A temporary travel agency will reside in W139. It comprises three different artist's installations. Each work is a personal reflection from a different region in the world against the background of shifting global powers.

A Public reading: The Challenge of Islam 17/04/2014 Participating artist(s) Sam Samiee Reading fragments of Norman O. Brown's, Love's body and The challenge of Islam.  

Free Cinema 18/04/2014 - 25/04/2014 Participating artist(s) Nathan Azhderian, Vince Boschma, Riley Harmon, Dominique Himmelsbach de Vries, Sarah Jones, Rei Kakiuchi, Avi Krispin, Johannes Langkamp, Pendar Nabipour, Mike Pelletier, Agnieska Polska, Masha Ru, Doran Schmaal, Kay Schuttel, Fraser Stewart, Rui Vilela, Jerry de Mars, Susan van Hengstum Screening a variety of films. Opening on Friday April 18th […]

"What do you want? Your whole life in one night?" 01/06/2014 - 22/06/2014 Participating artist(s) Hans Aarsman, Joost Benthem, Melanie Bonajo, de Culinaire Werkplaats, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Noa Giniger, Wendela Hubrecht, Wu Junyong , Kinga Kielczynska, Hannes Langeder, Ilse Leenders, Sachi Miyachi, Fab Morvan, Petra Noordkamp, Marcel Pedragosa, Eva Raeder, Lily van der Stokker, Henk Visch, Davor […]

THERE IS NO I 07/07/2014 - 10/08/2014 Participating artist(s) Papa Adama (Sawadogo), Paul Beumer, Aquil Copier, Raymond Cuijpers, Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Wieteke Heldens, Lieven Hendriks, Jeroen Hofhuizen, Judith Kisner, Gerben Koldijk, Henrik Kröner, Marie Van Vollenhoven, Marcel Van der Berg, Evi Vingerling, Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, Coen Vunderink, Ido Vunderink, Jasper van der Graaf An international group of […]

Radical Software 25/08-2014 - 07/09/2014 Participating artist(s) André Avelãs, DJ Turbot Van Lullen, Hans-Christian Dany, Barbara Dubbeldam, Linda Franke, Fyoelk, Goodiepal, Bruno Hiss, Ken Jacobs, Geoffrey Lillemon, Lost Property, Lee Mackinnon, Mik Quantius, Leandro Nerefuh, Rachel O'Reilly, Jelena Vesić, Daniël de Zeeuw, Caetano Carvalho Blue crystals, happy Dark Ages and Dirty Dishes… The Society for the Preservation […]

AKI goes Amsterdam 26/09/2014 - 26/10/2014 Participating artist(s) Jan Bilitewski, Rochelle Dy, Dewi Hoppe, Caroline Krajenbrink, Matthias König, Hannes Lichte, Hannes Nienhüser, Sam Samiee, Sjoerd Tegelaers, Eli Zegers, Maarten van Aken, Bas van der Linde, Geert van der Schaaf AKI matters. Artist-run spaces matter. W139 is in the Red light district, right next to the Condomerie. […]

Museumnacht 01/11/2014 - 02/11/2014 W139 and NEW SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT present: NOW BABYLON LIVE! On the work floor of W139, amidst the chaos of NOW BABYLON, PETER ZEGVELD will present his mechanical orchestra with two incredible performances. DJs CONIMEX, E MAUS & JOS JIVES will make you dance like there is no tomorrow and you will find […]

NOW BABYLON 07/11/2014 - 12/12/2014 Participating artist(s) New Sculpture Department (Kees Boevé, Lorenzo Quintanilla, Marc Barreda), Stijn Bles, Zoro Feigl, Pim Palsgraaf, Oscar Peters, Veronique Schrama, Dries Verhoeven, Terry Vreeburg, Peter Zegveld, Maze de Boer, Renske van Enckevort NEW SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT builds settlement in W139. NOW BABYLON: Challenging the promises of utopia. In the coming weeks, a […]

Holy Mountain 31/12/2014 - 01/01/2015 Photography: Ernst van Deursen We began a fairytale and came to life, but is this life reality? No. It is a film. This is magic! Let's go on a ritual trip to the Holy Mountain. Enter 2015 together with us in W139. Disguise yourself with a mask, dress up to […]

Circular Permutation - in between negative and positive space 10/01/2015 - 18/01/2015 Participating artist(s) Chiman Dangi, Thomas Hawranke, Matteo Maragoni, Anna Moreno, Sara Pape Garcia, Gava Pierfrancesco, Evelina Rajca, Brydee Rood, Evamaria Schaller, Johanna Steindorf, Sissel Marie Tonn, Leinkauf Wermke For the first exhibition of 2015, W139 presents a group of interdisciplinary artists who individually interpret […]

Nearly Not There... 30/01/2015 - 01/03/2015 Participating artist(s) Lucio Capece, Seamus Cater, Johnny Chang, Brandon LaBelle, Konzert Minimal, Koen Nutters, Morten J. Olsen, Gabriel Paiuk, Rishin Singh, Martijn Tellinga Nearly Not There... investigates the fluid occurrences and interactions happening between contemporary music, sound art and performance art. Focussed on compositional though transient arrangement, this permutational exhibition […]

Does Not Equal 13/03/2015 - 12/04/2015 Participating artist(s) Deniz Unal, Nana Adusei-Poku, Eva Barto, Urs Bechel, Lindsay Beebe, Hannah Black, Jenna Bliss, Basje Boer, Nina Bohn Pedersen, Butcher's Tears, Adam Christensen, Susan Conte, DJ Workshop for Women, E.C. Feiss, Gender Changer Academy, Rachel B. Glaser, Rose-Anne Gush, Morag Keil, Kapwani Kiwanga, Fanny Kuitenbrouwer, Gabrielle Le Bayon, […]

The Castle 24/04/2015 - 24/05/2015 Participating artist(s) kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé "My fate is to live amid varied and confusing storms. But for you perhaps, if as I hope and wish, you will live long after me, there will follow a better age. This sleep of forgetfulness will not last forever. When the darkness has been dispersed, our […]

BUK-M1 : MH17 17/07/2015 - 19/07/2015 An exhibition about the MH-17 incident, media manipulation and a missile called BUK-M1 On 17 July 2014 flight MH-17 (Malaysia Airlines), on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was hit by the missile BUK-M1 and crashed in Ukraine. On board were 283 passengers and 15 crew members. Who […]

True Players 24/07/2015 - 16/08/2015 Participating artist(s) Darja Bajagić, Paulien Barbas, Simeon Barclay, Erica Baum, Borden Capalino, Stuart Middleton, Marlie Mul, Ruairiadh O’Connell, Joanna Piotrowska, Suzanne Posthumus, Clunie Reid, Will Sheridan Jr., Aam Solleveld A murder was committed in a gothic revival mansion. But who is the murderer, what was the murder weapon, and where did […]

Wilful Blindness 28/08/2015 - 27/09/2015 Participating artist(s) Caner Aslan, Kate Bicât, Paul Haworth, Verena Klary, Axel Linderholm, Barry Martin, Sachi Miyachi, Eliza Newman-Saul, Roosmarijn Schoonewelle, Anami Schrijvers With contributions by Freija van Dijk, Rosa Doornenbal, Amy Galbraith, Sofija Gugina, Anita Horváth, Anna Ioannidi, Valgerður Jónsdóttir, Karis Lindelien, Momo Schrijvers, Arda van Tiggelen Whether due to a conscious […]

C'hu 09/10/2015 - 07/11/2015 Participating artist(s) André Avelãs, Fernando Belfiore, Libidiunga Cardoso, Luna Eggers Matz, Joseph Knierzinger, Goran Goki Kusic, Maria Netzer, Hopf Philipp, Clara Saito, Jija Sohn, Hans Vissers, Rozemarijn de Neve, Thijs de Zeeuw, Caetano Carvalho, Arda van Tiggelen From the 10th of October until the 7th of November we are operating a public […]

Idiotic Code: On Resistant Usership 18/10/2015 - 08/11/2015 The multi-disciplinary five-day seminar accompanying the (anti-) cybernetic steam bath C'hu, which opens at W139 from Friday 9 October until Saturday 7 November 2015. What are our idiotic, failing and resistant processes and uses-usages of the body, of living-life, and their prostheses and (technological) extensions or software: […]

C'hu - teatro cibernético 07/11/2015 - 08/11/2015 On Saturday 7th November C’hu’s cybernetic steambath at W139 climaxes into a night filled with mist, noise and pantropicalism. W139 warmly invites you to: PERMORMANCES AND SOUND 19:30 - 23:30 ANDRÉ AVELÃS Parametrically driven pendulum music (working title), a piece based on the giant thurible in Galicia's Santiago de […]

Sublime Eroding 21/11/2015 - 20/12/2015 Participating artist(s) Christoph Bartsch, Julien Dutertre, Sébastien Montéro, Michael Petri, Nans Quétel, Norbert Reissig, Martin Wühler A screen visualised in oil; a Parthian sculpture destroyed in Mosul cast in ballistic gelatine; a drone simulating human empathy. During the exhibition Sublime Eroding, the artists Christoph Bartsch (G), Julien Dutertre (B), Sébastien Montéro […]

NYE PARTY - COSMICAM AMORE QUADRANT 31/12/2015 - 01/01/2016 On New Year's Eve W139 transforms from 00:00 - 06:00 in an alien manner to provide you with a heavenly beginning of 2016. Let's create a friendship together on the dance floor between the heavenly angels from the galactic confederation of planets with earthmen in a […]

XII 16/01/2016 Participating artist(s) Harpo 't Hart, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Paul Koek, Genevieve Murphy, Oscar Peters, Anne-Jan Reijn, Caroline Ruijgrok, Carmen Schabracq, Yvo Sprey, Leon de Bruijne, Arthur van Beek, Jochem van Tol On Saturday January 16th slowly, but surely W139 will be bursting at the seams during XII. From 12:00 till 00:00 XII won’t stand […]

Gym of Obsolete Technology 29/01/2016 - 28/02/2016 Participating artist(s) Amal Alhaag, Michael Brennan, Femke Dekker, Craig Fahner, Maria Guggenbichler, Steve Gurysh, Nikki Hock, Annika Kappner, Willem Kempers, Guz Konstantin, Jan Robert Leegte, Nicole Martens, Margarita Osipian, Andrés Padilla Domene, Iván Puig, Anna Reutinger, Luis Rodil-Fernández, Helena Sanders, Cas Spoelstra When thousands of protesters took to the […]

Shifting Spaces 18/03/2016 - 01/05/2016 Participating artist(s) Khaled Al Kordi, Isfrid Angard Siljehaug, Katayoun Arian, Selçuk Balamir,Lola Bezemer, Eva Bjarnadótiir, Teresa Borasino,Juan Borgognoni, Mario Caporali, Chun-Han Chiang, Mariana Darvas Lanari, Decolonize The Museum, Discourse, Alexandra Dragne, Monique Duurvoort, Muhamed Elian, Titus Elias, Mitchell Esajas, Maaike Fransen, Quinsy Gario, Lenny van Gent, Sandra Gnjatović, Jasper Griepink, Paul Groot, Menno […]

U U & ME 10/06/2016 - 26/06/2016 Participating artist(s) Kazuma Eekman, Emile Hermans, Iris Schutgevaar, Diedrik Sibma, Roos Wijma, Sue van Geijn U U How do you face a space like me? How do you have a conversation, with me, a building? Do you show yourself? By relating? By creating? Do I become part of your […]

CAPITALOCEAN 10/09/2016 - 25/09/2016 Participating artist(s) Channa Boon, Daan Gerla, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Jan Huijben, Anna Moreno, Jeroen Nooter, Sara Pape Garcia, Evelina Rajca, Fazle Shairmahomed, Tom Verbruggen, Thom Vink “CAPITALOCEAN focuses strongly on the socio-ideological side of histories. We continuously emerge at the question of how to orientate and organize ourselves in the present moment, […]

Als het zwart is heb je nog 5 minuten 08/10/2016 - 05/11/2016 Participating artist(s) Jabu Arnell, Tim Breukers, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Quint Hartmann, Tabe Hemmes, Bert Jacobs, Gareth Nyandoro, Farida Sedoc, Marcel van den Berg W139 presenteert #alshetzwartishebjenog5minuten #vibration #weworkontheothersideoftime #andwealmostlost #cosmicsloppy #rawheat #andbeyond The Package Artscraper, Risktaker, Thrillseeker, Brainfeeder, Hosselaer, The Cook, The Coadjutant, The Guest, […]

Stampa - edition 1 04/11/2016 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch   What is happening in the art world, and what are artists talking about? Why do artists get paid so little, is it time to go on strike? What are your rights when making art in public space? […]

PEACH 19/11/2016 - 18/12/2016 Participating artist(s) Roger 3000, Chantal Akerman, Mathis Altmann, Ghislain Amar, Olga Balema, Nina Beier, Gerry Bibby, Aleksandra Bielas, New Bretagne, Madison Bycroft, OKAY CONFIANCE, Sabrina Chou, Raluca Croitoru, Michael Dean, Mat Do, Jane Fawcett, Daniel Fogarty, Kevin Gallagher, Laurent-David Garnier, Marta Hryuniuk, Lauren Huret, Mitchell Kehe, Bitsy Knox, Dico Kruijsse, Gislind Köhler, […]

Deadline December 15th 2016 Open Call In 2017, we want to provide the opportunity for artists to develop an exhibition free from preconceived thematic guidance. We are looking for artists who want to work in close collaboration with their peers to take full responsibility in the advancement of ideas and their implementation. We welcome submissions […]

Circo del Gringo - New Years Eve party 31/12/2016 - 01/01/2017 Ladies and Gentlemen, W139 warmly invites you, to the greatest show on earth! This New Years Eve, from 00:00 - 06:00, W139 will transform into Circo del Gringo! A breathtaking tent made of light, a sea of arms, red and yellow. Come and see […]

Stampa - edition 2 03/03/2017 STAMPA! Talk show about Art & Issues Friday the 3rd of March  2017, 20:15 W139 Excitement, Issues & Opinions on Stampa! Stampa! the talk show about Art & Issues at W139 promises excitement, knowledge, opinions and an abundance of art. We will speak to Céline Manz and Niek Hendrix about […]

Over hang 05/03/2017 - 09/04/2017 Participating artist(s) Jacob Dwyer, Marcia Gratton, Jean Hubert, Franziska Schulz, Rustan Söderling, Dan Walwin, Charlott Weise Opening 4 March 20:00 - 01:00 From 5 March - 9 April 2017 Program Opening, Friday the 4rth of March, 20:00 - 01:00 W139 presents: Tranqs a supplementary event of the exhibition Over hang. Saturday […]

Much ado about nothing 22/04/2017 - 28/05/2017 @ Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Menso Groeneveld opening Friday the 21st of April 20:00 – 01:00 Just like the title of the comedy Much ado about nothing, my work too is full of contradictions. Layered yet minimalistic, it is about time and space but also about people’s relationship to […]

„suppose there's right and wrong, it's probably right“ 22/04/2017 - 28/05/2017 Participating artist(s) Lisa Gutscher, Peter Hermans, Klara Kayser, Marius Land, Leonie Nagel, Felix Pötzsch, Philipp Simon, Ernst Sylvester Opening Friday the 21st of April, 20:00 - 01:00 Access to THIS and HERE are not subject to limitations, except for YOUR aforementioned attention and preferences and […]

The Wild 08/07/2017 - 13/08/2017 Participating artist(s) Jonathan Armistead, Kees Boevé, Zoro Feigl, Carolin Giessner, Wei-Ling Hung, Natalia Jordanova, Oscar Juul Sorensen, Arek Laskowski, Oscar Peters, Sander Puhl, Cecilia Rebergen, Silvia Schlömer, Philip Schuette, Maarten Schuurman, Philip Vermeulen, Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, Emily Wobb Opening Friday July 7th 2017, 20:00 - 01:00 Mechanical flirtations entice you to […]

Reality by Zero 08/07/2017 - 13/08/2017 @Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Wout Neutkens, Sylvie Verdierre Opening Friday the 7th of July 2017, 20:00 - 01:00 Each stitch of the needle is a postponement of doubt... each spool of yarn... the length of its thread, leads closer to a statement... an idea... that despite the precarious conditions of speaking, […]

Stampa - edition 3 13/07/2017 STAMPA! Talkshow over kunst en kwesties Donderdag 13 juli 2017, 20:15 W139 De zomereditie van de talkshow Stampa vindt dit maal plaats temidden van The Wild. IN DE DERDE EDITIE VAN STAMPA Wat doe je als je kunst wordt gekocht door iemand wiens denkbeelden je ver van je werpt? Of […]

Forgotten to Talk 25/08/2017 - 01/10/2017 Participating artist(s) Lydia Balke, Paul Czerlitzki, Fabian Herkenhoener, Judith Kisner, Melle de Boer At the end of a narrowing tunnel a surface of 400 m² has been turned into four wall paintings by: Fabian Herkenhoener, Judith Kisner, Lydia Balke and Paul Czerlitzki; attended with traces of Melle de Boer. This exhibition focuses on […]

Round & Big 25/08/2017 - 01/10/2017 @Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Johannes Langkamp Opening Friday the 25th of August 2017, 20:00 – 01:00 In the Polarroom Johannes Langkamp will equate new and existing works. He researches spaces and perspectives using cameras, searches for frames, controls and manipulates movement, shifting the way we perceive spaces. Spatial limitations are […]

Ideology Meets Implementation Mojtaba Amini, Vasily Bogatov, Ehsan Fardjadinia, Barbad Golshiri, Yoeri Guepin, Joseph Hughes, Mehregan Kazemi, Dimitra Kondylatou, Taisiya Krugovykh, David Maroto, Pendar Nabipour, Mojtaba Tabatabaie, belit sağ, Dorine van Meel De wereld waarin we leven lijkt te zijn vastgelopen in verouderde structuren. De ideologische systemen die aan de basis liggen van onze maatschappijen, zijn nog altijd gebaseerd op (Westerse) noties van postmodernisme, postkolonialisme, post marxisme, post […]

Carpetologia 18/10/2017 - 19/11/2017 @Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Lyubov Matyunina “River arising from no spring and flowing endlessly to no sea.” - William Somerset Maugham Opening Wednesday 18th October 17.00 - 21.00 Lyubov Matyunina’s ‘Carpetologia’ is based on her artistic study of the history and understanding of carpets through different philosophical movements and anthropological notions. It […]

Stampa - edition 4 19/10/2017 Important for our English speaking audience: Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Een nieuwe Stampa!, talkshow over kunst & kwesties met in deze aflevering het onwaarschijnlijk grote instagramsucces van de jonge Nederlandse illustrator Lois van Baarle alias Loish, met live performance en met internationale politieke kunst: Ideology Meets Implementation. En natuurlijk het vaste […]

W139 & X3 PRESENT: W IS OUR HOUSE 01/12/2017 00:00 – 06:00 Presale € 17,50 Between 10:00 - 18:00 also tickets available at Warmoesstraat 139! Doorsale € 25 (Friday night 00:00 - 04:00) LINE UP Bok Bok ( Night Slugs - LONDON ) soundcloud.com/bokbok Countess Malaise LIVE ( REYKJAVIK / AMSTERDAM ) soundcloud.com/countessmalaise Dinamarca (STAYCORE […]

w serves imperialism 15/12/2017 - 21/01/2018 Participating artist(s) André Avelãs, James Beckett, Cornelius Cardew, Nicolas Collins, DNK-Ensemble, Gijs Gieskes, Experimental Jetset, Joseph Kudirka, Brian McKenna, Jonathan Mikkelsen, Koen Nutters, Mike Ottink, Tristan Perich, Gert-Jan Prins, Natalia Domínguez Rangel, Paulo Raposo, Jasna Veličković, Bas van Koolwijk Opening: Friday the 15th of December, 20:00 - 01:00 Showing a single “opening specific” audiovisual installation by Jonathan Mikkelsen, followed by the full exhibition the next day. w […]

The Width of a Circle 23/03/2018 - 29/04/2018 Participating artist(s) Yasser Ballemans, Tim Breukers, Esther de Graaf, Charlotte Koenen, Leslie Nagel & Aura Rendón Benger, Pádraic E. Moore, Suzie van Staaveren Opening, Friday the 23rd of March, 20:00 - 01:00 The Width of a Circle is a project founded upon strategies conceived to reveal the possibilities inherent within imposed constraints. Participants -all […]

The snake games 23/03/2018 - 29/04/2018 @ Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Marije Gertenbach Opening, Friday the 23rd of March, 20:00 - 01:00 How does one experience space? This question Marije Gertenbach addresses in her work. She’s interested in the boundaries, history and characteristics of a space. They dictate the way a viewer’s physicality relates to it. […]

Stampa - edition 5 06/04/2018 Make Art not € Aanstaande vrijdag: Dé talkshow over Kunst & Kwesties  Stampa editie nummer 5 is weer loaded met goede gasten: Met Barbara Visser en Jhim Lamoree over de film End of Fear en het Stedelijk Museum. Met Adam Nillissen (Unfair) en galeriehouder Ornis Althuis over De Nieuwe Kunstmarkt. Bart Stuart […]

Distorted Reality 11/05/2018 - 17/06/2018 @Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Neil Fortune Opening vrijdag 11 mei van 20:00 tot 01:00 uur Neil Fortune creëert omgevingen die ruimtelijke en sociale conventies ter discussie stellen; ze te heroverwegen door objecten en situaties te maken. Inherent aan zijn praktijk, wordt het publiek onderdeel van het werk, welke vaak erupties […]

Unspoken We 11/05/2018 - 17/07/2018 Participating artist(s) Sarah Bayliss, Ninna Bohn Pedersen, Pippa Connolly, Susana Cámara Leret, Jason Dungan, Charlie Kerr, Freek Wambacq, Belén Zahera 11 May – 17 Jun As we push, pull and rub against each other, as we lean on things and chew over concepts and biological matter, our lives unfold. Acknowledging that contamination […]

Stampa - edition 6 26/06/2018 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Stampa a Dutch talkshow about art and related issues, is a collaboration between between Pictoright, Design Politie and W139. Sacha Bronwasser is the host of the show, and Gover Meit co-host. Every 3 months we bring together all […]

Codicil Screenings 19/07/2018 - 30/08/2018 Codicil Screenings is a screening program that will run in the front space of the W139 until September. Every Thursday evening an artist is invited to present their work amongst other moving images of their choice. A codicil is an addition or supplement that explains, modifies or revokes a will. […]

Summer Jam, a painting show 11/08/2018 - 08/09/2018 An exhibition with paintings and murals by: Rob Birza, Babs Bleeker, Pim Blokker, Sidyon Cucaro, Sam Hersbach, Arjan Hijbeek, Heidi Howard, Arthur Kempenaar, Mirthe Klück, Rabi Koria, Ruben Kragt, Axel Linderholm, Naomi Mitsuko Makkelie, Harry Markusse, Rik Meijers, David Noro, Charlott Weise, Ricardo van Eyk, Jana van […]

MEETING OLD FRIENDS 21/09/2018 - 28/10/2018 participating artist(s) Benjamin Jaubert, Jacopo Pagin, Grégoire Bergeret, Deborah Bowmann, Juliette Cazalic, Cuisine Sauvage, After Howl, Jardin, Romain Juan, Sarah Margnetti, Sarah & Charles, Kelly Schacht MEETING OLD FRIENDS BY AFTER HOWL Opening: Friday 21/09/2018 20.00 - 01.00 Exhibition: open daily 22/09/2018 - 28/10/2018 W139 opening times during Meeting […]

Double juicers 21/09/2018 - 28/10/2018 @ Polarroom W139 Participating artist(s) Su Tomesen Man can not be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. Hannah Arendt, The Human condition For her solo show in […]

Stampa - edition 7 27/09/2018 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Text only available in Dutch Stampa opent het seizoen in de tentoonstelling Meeting Old Friends van het Brusselse kunstenaarscollectief After Howl met de volgende onderwerpen: Diversiteit als voorwaarde voor subsidie? Discussie met curator Imara Limon, publicist Gerben Bakker […]

Stampa edition 8 19/12/2018 This text is only available in Dutch De achtste editie van Stampa zit tjokvol kunst: met een performance van Questions Collective, de tentoonstelling Last Meal Cafe op het snijvlak van kunst, journalistiek en activisme. En verder met de Lidl-mode van Lieselot Elzinga, het grote Science onderzoek naar de X-factor in kunst […]

M.M.T.P. Obmyak 19/12/2018 - 13/01/2019 @ Polarroom W139 participating artist(s) Mikhail Maksimov In Mikhail Maksimov’s non-linear spiritual legal thriller M.M.T.P. Obmyak film director Andrei Tarkovsky, actor Aleksandr Maslaev and writers Andrei Platonov and Yury Mamleev appear as metaphysical politicians engaged in a dispute concerning the future of the earth and space travel. The protagonists are venerated […]

Stampa editie 9 27/03/2019 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Text only in Dutch Op woensdag 27 maart vindt de negende editie van Stampa plaats in de door Axel Linderholm en Žilvinas Landzbergas tot studio omgevormde tentoonstellings-ruimte. Op het programma staan onder meer een performance van Driewieler Collectief, kleding van Ninamounah, […]

Studio Double V 06/04/2019 - 12/05/2019 participating artists Žilvinas Landzbergas, Axel Linderholm The friendship between Žilvinas Landzbergas and Axel Linderholm developed over the course of the past ten years. During those years they have had many free-floating conversations which (unknowingly) became a prelude or sketch to Studio Double V. Threads of thought, remembered, misremembered, and perhaps some even […]

In the land of the giants (the world stood still - briefly) 06/04/2019 – 12/05/2019 @ Polarroom W139 participating artist Jo Baer For the first time Jo Baer shows several digital and giclée prints of her paintings and studies side by side. The prints show the layering in her way of thinking and working and make the […]

It Happens Anyway 01/06/2019 – 07/07/2019 participating artists Antoine Bertin, Nina Glockner, Marika Groen, Nao Ishizaka, Kenzo Kusuda, Vilma Luostarinen, Sachi Miyachi, Ayako Nishibori, Nishiko, Alexandra Phillips, Natasha Rosling, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Giorgi Tabatadze, Laura Wiedijk & Toon Fibbe, Guido Yannitto, Bernke Klein Zandvoort A collaboration between Sachi Miyachi, Nina Glockner and Natasha Rosling, transforming W139 into a […]

assemblages en modifications 01/06/2019 – 07/07/2019 @ Polarroom W139 participating artist Lucassen "I make use of three techniques, that of painting, assemblage and modification. For painting, my starting point – the inner journey – largely determines the content. The modification is more on the razor’s edge than my other work. In what appears a delicate balance between […]

Stampa - edition 10 26/06/2019 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Text only available in Dutch Het is alweer de tiende editie van Stampa in W139, ditmaal in de tentoonstelling 'It happens anyway', met wederom vele gasten en onderwerpen die Sacha Bronwasser en Gover Meit aansnijden met het aanwezige publiek in […]

Schulz & Weise 20/07/2019 - 25/08/2019 Participating artists Charlott Weise, Franziska Schulz A duet by Franziska Schulz and Charlott Weise. Two women artists from the German East found an outlet for their fascination of the early friendship between Siggi & Gerri - visually, emotionally and cerebrally. Schulz & Weise is a soapy ode to friendship; […]

Europe Is Our Playground 20/07/2019 - 25/08/2019 @ Polarroom W139 Opening 19/07/2019 20.00 - 01.00 Participating artist Kitty Kamp Brutally stolen from Suede’s same titled song from the 1996 album Coming Up, it is not so much an ode or reflection to the contents of the original title holder, nor is it deeply concerned with the background […]

speak memory 14/09/2019 – 03/11/2019 Opening 13/09/2019 20.00 - 01.00 participating artists: Jonathan Castro Alejos, Marie Aly, Gijs Frieling, Meschac Gaba, Eulàlia Garcia Valls, Charles & Ray Eames, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ad de Jong, Job Koelewijn, Marijn van Kreij, Aernout Mik, Julika Rudelius, Gayatri Subramanian concept by: Melchior Jaspers & Anami Schrijvers Blue murder has been […]

Stampa - edition 11 02/10/2019 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch Text only available in Dutch Temidden van de tentoonstelling 'speak, memory', welke plaats vindt tijdens het 40 jarig jubileum van W139, praten de hosts Sasha Bronwasser en Gover Meit over het belang van een vrije plek voor kunst […]

Stampa - edition 12 07/01/2020 Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa is moderated in Dutch De kop van het nieuwe jaar gaat eraf met een nieuwe Stampa, met: Paul Rutger Bastiaan (Stealthpiano), Koos Buster (Clay God), Vincent Ludwig&Krystian Sokolowski (mode), Vincent Rietveld (Warme Winkel), en Brooklyn Live. Alles temidden van de spectaculaire W139 jubileumshow […]

WhyNot Festival @ W139 25/01/2020, 15.00 - 01.00 For the tenth anniversary of WhyNot, they return to W139, the place where it all began, for an old school evening of dance, performance, music and art! The evening at W139 is curated in collaboration with Julidans, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Veem House for Performance and […]

Solidarity Sessions 06/05/2020 live from 8pm What issues are cultural workers, independent exhibition spaces, institutions, and the webs of networks around them, facing in light of the corona-crisis? Join us live via W139’s YouTube channel on Wednesday May 6th, at 8pm, for an info session and open conversation on the corona-crisis and the cultural sector […]

market 01/06/2020 – 21/06/2020 contributions by: chun-han chiang, dave fransz, bert jacobs, petra ponte, nelmarie du preez & marcel van den berg, tim breukers, isabel da costa, monique duurvoort, thorsten grahl, jake, guy königstein, mick la rock, mitchell van ommeren, moira, rachel tokromo, eunice weerwind and evelyn agyemang special thanks to: cbk zuidoost & vinger.nl

Solidarity Sessions #2 11/06/2020 live from 8pm A vestzak-broekzak operation is an unnecessarily complex economic system where money is being pumped around, with most of it ending up back where it came from. How is the cultural sector part of these money flows—from the vest pocket to the pant’s pocket? In Solidarity Sessions #1, we […]

As far as eye can see 21/08/2020 - 06/09/2020 Enter Enter Treeed within Enter WHAT’S NEXT SEE ME Wees welkom — Enter into the world of ‘As far as eye can see’, a solo exhibition by Shertise Solano. Dive into the essence of all that exists with her mystical figures, off into a world that […]

It is very difficult to be an island of perfection in a sea of misery, but please do not doubt our sincerity, 25/09 — 01/11 A group art show initiated by Simon Wald-Lasowski for W139, with contributions by Kasper De Vos, Serge Onnen, Ryan Gander, Mire Lee, Aline Bouvy, Julius Heinemann, Maya Brauer & Annabelle […]

Stampa #14 — A talk show about Art & Issues Presented by Sacha Bronwasser and Gover Meit. Live at W139 and as a live stream via Stampa's YouTube channel. 4 x per year: The Amsterdam talk show about art and issues in art. Stampa is curated by Bob Witman and Sacha Bronwasser, in collaboration with […]

12 - 14 February Online benefit auction Love for Sale / Alles moet weg? & The Love Marathon Eight-hour long videocast talkshow 14 February 12:00 - 20:00 Love for sale / Alles Moet Weg?  powered by Dead Darlings In the first week of February, 170 artists donated their work for the online auction, offering a chance to stand stronger together against the reality of […]

SISTERS OF THE WIND Online, live from W139 February 24-28 A collective world-building journey to revive our earthly interconnections. A work by Juliette Lizotte aka jujulove Sisters.°· Let me take you to my world.•º Sisters of the Wind is the fruit of an artistic research on witches, ecofeminism, and science-fiction carried out between 2018 and […]

DIWAN - FIRST EVENT Friday 23 April | 18:00-20:00 DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue aims at supporting young contemporary art and design practitioners, especially those in the diaspora, in the development of their projects and artistic practice. The platform’s foundational focus is to facilitate navigating the Dutch art scene for post-graduate artists and curators, and tackle the […]

DIWAN talks: Institutional Solidarity Friday May 28, 2021 18.30 – 20.30 CEST DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our second event we aim to respond and reflect on institutional solidarity, especially as it has come into focus during the last […]

Under Bat Hill is a group exhibition that imagines the W139 as a glorious cavern in the middle of the city. Isolated from the outside world and its dwellers, this huge space is activated through a daily program of screenings and listening sessions. Tom Clark  Jacob Dwyer Bea McMahon Holly Mills Claudia Pagès At 19:35 […]

In 2021, the participants of Architectures of Noise were working individually and collectively in art-based research processes. They involve reading sessions, walks, talks, accompanied by architectural and sculptural interventions, performances, workshops, and experiments, especially in the sense of experiri (experience), reason, and resonance in the public and private domains. During the summer session at W139, artifacts of diverse but interconnected aspects of these genealogies of experience and […]

PHILIP VERMEULEN 10 SEPTEMBER - 03 OCTOBER Verbógen Verbrijzeld (Shattered Scattered) examines how white light can be splintered and bended - how you can become one with matter. In the solo exhibition by Philip Vermeulen you will get to know his newly developed ‘hyper-sculptures’, which shatter and mechanically scatter white light into thousands pieces of color. […]

DIWAN talks: Residence Permit for Self-employed Artists Tuesday October 12, 2021 16:00 – 17:30 CEST DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our third event, we aim to shed light and inform ourselves on the application procedure for acquiring a residence […]

THAT THOSE BEINGS BE NOT BEING 22 OCTOBER - 12 DECEMBER Guy Briller, Salim Bayri, EMIRHAKIN, Karam Natour, PHILTH HAUS, Chris Kore, Sarah Naqvi, Veronika Babayan, Müge Yılmaz, Ludmila Rodrigues, Marly Pierre-Louis, Tracian Meikle, and Tobi Balogun, Philipp Gufler, Hilda Moucharrafieh and Dina Mohamed, Fabulous Future, Foundland Collective, Hwang Kim Our contemporary moment is saturated […]

W139 hosts... marks the start of an energetic and dynamic month at W139. We invite you to experience this special programme from March 1 to April 8, which will include pop-up stores, workshops, meet-ups, but also gatherings, rehearsals, exhibitions, experiments, film screenings, work presentations and much more. The programme is composed of a careful selection of […]

How To Set Your Signs On Fire Fundraiser for Ukrainian arts and artists 2 April 2022 at W139, Amsterdam On Saturday 2 April W139 will host a fundraiser initiated by Ukrainian artists to support the Ukrainian art scene. How To Set Your Signs on Fire is a mixed event with performances, interviews, DJ’s. Above all, […]

14 MAY – 31 JULY (EXTENDED) SADIK KWAISH ALFRAJI A LANGUAGE UNDER MY SKIN “I am both a stranger and a native to the same land, to the same mother tongue. This century told us too many times to stay alone, to cut all ties, never to look back, to go and conquer the moon: […]

This summer, W139 presents... The One Minutes Watch from the street: 9-21 August Squeeze Crush Press Blush curated by Afra Eisma and Marnix van Uum The Stars Down To Earth, Margaret Haines, 2015 (© the artist, courtesy by The One Minutes Foundation) In Squeeze Crush Press Blush, curated by Afra Eisma and Marnix van Uum, […]

W139 will be hosting the Sonic Acts Biennial exhibition one sun after another together with two other locations, Zone2Source and Het HEM. The exhibition, taking place from 30 September to 23 October 2022, expands the long-term Sonic Acts research trajectory on the implications and origins of the climate crisis, and focuses on the irrevocable, intertwined […]

From 19 November until 18 December 2022, Gabriel Fontana’s Turning Towards Fluidity: A Tournament of the Unknown will take place at W139. Unfolding over a period of one month, and running parallel to the World Cup, A Tournament of the Unknown aims to overcome binary thinking and rigid social values, through a series of games, […]

Voluntarily or involuntarily we humans shed our dead skin. In this exhibition, Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri take this fact as their starting point to zoom in on the ambiguities within our relationship to dead skin—the tensions between its acceptance and rejection (some keep it, some scrub it away), its proximity and our neglect, our […]

Substitutes engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe our […]

SALWA's Internet Café at W139 Chen Yu Wang, Geo Barcan, Hala Alsadi, and Sixin Zeng Are you curious about how the internet has shaped the lives and creative expressions of migrant communities? During SALWA's Internet Cafe, we will dive into the topic of internet infrastructure in relation to migration. For the last three months, participants […]

  From 19 November until 18 December 2022, Gabriel Fontana’s Turning Towards Fluidity: A Tournament of the Unknown will take place at W139. Unfolding over a period of one month, and running parallel to the World Cup, A Tournament of the Unknown aims to overcome binary thinking and rigid social values, through a series of […]

Voluntarily or involuntarily we humans shed our dead skin. In this exhibition, Ghita Skali and Salim Bayri take this fact as their starting point to zoom in on the ambiguities within our relationship to dead skin—the tensions between its acceptance and rejection (some keep it, some scrub it away), its proximity and our neglect, our […]

  Substitutes engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe […]