Art scene in NL

_festivals & fairs

★ Dutch Design Week // Eindhoven
an event about Dutch design, hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The event takes place around the last week of October and is a nine-day event with exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties across the city.
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★ FIBER // Amsterdam
a meeting place for everyone interested in contemporary audiovisual art, daring conversations and experimental electronic music.
↳ I attended a FIBER lab on Natural Intelligence in 2022 as a researcher and wrote this piece for their blog.
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★ STRP // Eindhoven
explores the relationship between art, technology, and major societal issues with the general public, artists, designers, media makers, and thinkers. The Eindhoven-based organisation starts a dialogue about speculative future scenarios with various events throughout the year and an annual festival in Spring. ↳ I attended it in 2023 - the theme was "the art of listening" and was 100% connected to my ongoing master's research. Loved the way it was organised and had a great time during the evening line-up, curated by Loma Doom.
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★ Sounds of Music // Groningen
Soundsofmusic is a non-profit foundation that has been organizing a festival for innovative, contemporary music since 1991 (in varying forms).
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★ Zine Camp // Rotterdam
a free festival to make zines and friends.
↳ I love it! It's organised by xpub alumni and in 2023 I am facilitating a workshop on audiozines making; and also joining the fair with my classmates and our Blob Shop.
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★ Anarchist Book Fair // Amsterdam
The ABFA is an event to learn and to work together towards a world without states, borders, ecocide, capitalism and any other forms of oppression.
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★ Paper Bound // Amsterdam
born in 2022 out of love for zines and a grant from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
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_art spaces

_Rotterdam

★ WORM
test environment for alternative art production, experimental ways of living and non-academic knowledge development. We are a network organisation at the intersection of (popular) culture and (performing) arts, fueled by an abiding interest in all the inspiring, beautiful, urgent, vital, raw, unruly and / or crazy shit that our fellow human beings come up with. We do not see the chaos that comes with it as a problem; rather we use it as energy for action.
↳ basically where I spent a lot of time during my master's programme. Accessible, welcoming, experimental, and exciting. The Re#Sister community is absolutely amazing; and radio WORM streams online - music, sound art etc.
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★ Varia
a space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology. As varia members, we maintain and facilitate a collective infrastructure from which we generate questions, opinions, modifications, help and action. We work with free software, organise events and collaborate in different constellations.
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★ Roodkapje
local laboratory for ART X LIVE X FOOD and everything in between.
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★ V2_
a lab for unstable media.
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★ Kunstinstituut Melly
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★ MaMA
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★ TENT
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★ Het Wilde Weten
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