Artists at Broedplaats Bouw are opening the door to the public. 

It’s a great opportunity to explore a vast array of art and design, see the most recent artwork and talk to artists about their creative process. You can also buy affordable art directly from the artist. 

DJ Cristel Ball and DJ Urvin are playing the tunes, food and drinks are on us! Mexican food and Margaritas by Lupe, vegan food by ASA Vegan Sushi. Beers by Oedipus. 

Kick off at 16:00. The entry is free. 

Location 
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
1061 HW Amsterdam 

Participating Studios:

Aga Lab
Atousa Bandeh
Boro Atelier
Bob Waardenburg
Brigitte de Langen
BYBROWN
Cian-Yu Bai
Clary Stolte
Daan Mars
Floor Knaapen
Gildelab
Studio Hagel
Hessel de Ronde
Itamar Gilboa
Iris Box
Josse Pyl
Ko Aarts
Logic Locks
Magnus Monfeldt
Meike Sier
Marilyn Sonneveld
Marnix Postma
Maureen Nahumury
Natalia Wyspianska
Peim van der Sloot
Roman Zhuk
Suat Ogut
Theo Brandsma
Tjitske Oosterholt
Triplets
Zid Theater

Highlights of the Program:

Aga Lab
AGA LAB will run a special photo printing workshop, where participants will be invited to print an image on traditional paper in the photo darkroom, using their own photos from their phones. This unique experience is a blend of old and new technologies and will give everyone a taste of what darkroom photo printing is really like. This drop-in workshop fun lasts maximum of 15 minutes and is open to small groups as well as individuals. 

Zid Theater
As part of Winter Bouw Open, ZID Theater will play the location performance Re-Dreams, followed by IthaKaZa (dinner with open stage) and afterparty at ZID! 
The performance of ZID Theater Re-Dreams starts at 17:00. This location performance takes you through Broedplaats Bouw on a journey through undiscovered dream landscapes. After the performance there will be IthaKaZa (dinner with open stage) in ZID Theater with a closing afterparty! 

If you want to show your stage talent during the open stage, sign up by sending an e-mail to organisatie@zidtheater.nl 

Boro Atelier
BORO*SUPER Sample Sale & dye-your-own t-shirt workshop with black beans and avocados. Open from 16.00h till 21.00h. Enjoy a warm cup of soup with some tortilla chips from 17.30h. 

Triplets
Between 19:30 and 22:00 you will be able to experience ‘Taking a Trip’ - three open improvisation jam sessions combining movement, performing arts, robots and fashion. 

BYBROWN
Take advantage of their studio sale, where you can buy bags made of recycled tent materials, archive clothing stock and of course their amazing raincoats.

N’atelier
New collection premiere and sale. Find out about and sign up to Ceramic Art courses. 

And so much more! 

Duration: 87 min
Location: Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
free entrance

In the next edition of De Bouwput Curated Movie Nights, we will be tackling the issues of free cultural spaces and self-organization in Senka Domanovic’s 2018 documentary Occupied Cinema. Occupied Cinema is a film about guerrilla action initiated by young activists taking over privatized cinema Zvezda in Belgrade, Serbia. The film chronicles this activity, paying equal attention to the structural factors that motivated the actors, as well as the internal struggles the collective has experienced in the process.

In Domanovic’s words: “The Occupation of the cinema was an opportunity for people to come together, to self-organize and manage a contained micro economy essentially bypassing the market logic and break away from the ideological apparatus of the state. There we had a rare gathering of artists, activists, former cinema employees, standing up together against the injustice -- and moment later everything collapsed. My film is an attempt to understand this transformation.”

Join us on Friday, December 2^nd at 19.30h for film and drinks, and a hearty deliberation on spatial and cultural agency in the increasingly privatized urban environments. After the screening, we will have a short Q&A with the director.

Directors’ statement:

It is commonly held that we are living in times where people have lost their trust in institutions and the state. The Occupation of the cinema was a opportunity for people to come together, to self-organize and manage a contained micro economy essentially bypassing the market logic and break away from the ideological apparatus of the state. There we had a rare gathering of artists, activists, former cinema employees, standing up together against the injustice -- and moment later everything collapsed. My film is an attempt to understand this transformation.

In terms of style, ethics and production, this film relies on the cinéma vérité method. Occupied Cinema, as an investigative documentary, putting things in medias res. The camera doesn't hide its presence, it invites movement members as well as the cinema goers to a dialogue.

Senka Domanović, short biography:

Senka Domanović lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Occupied Cinema is her debut feature film.

In gebouw ‘Kostgewonnen” zijn meer dan 21 eenheden waar gewoond en gewerkt wordt.

Gezamenlijk beheren we het gebouw, tuin en dakterras. In de tuin is een gedeelte met vaste planten en er zijn ‘tuinbakken’ waar individueel, kleinschalig groenten en kruiden worden gekweekt. Op het dakterras zijn bakken met kruiden en daar kunnen eventueel meer planten komen omdat daar nu dichtbij (regen)water voorhanden is. Dat is echt nodig want de planten op het dakterras drogen extra snel uit.

We hadden zelf al 3 watertonnen aangeschaft, waarvan één kleine ton voor het dakterras. Door de subsidie hebben we onze regentonnen kunnen aansluiten. Dit hadden we eerder nog niet kunnen realiseren omdat we geld aan het reserveren zijn voor oa het verduurzamen van het pand en stond dit project stil. Met de subsidie hebben we dit project eindelijk kunnen afronden en kunnen we meer regenwater opvangen, wat we goed kunnen gebruiken voor de planten in de tuin en op het dakterras.

We zijn al bewust bezig om zo zuinig mogelijk om te gaan met water voor de tuin. Het is fijn om nu voor het bewateren, meer regenwater te kunnen gebruiken. De planten in ‘de tuinbakken’ die langer in de zon staan, hebben vaker water nodig dan de vaste planten in schaduwrijke tuin.

Met de kinderen in het pand worden samen de ‘tuinbakken’ onderhouden, zodat zij worden meegenomen in het groeiproces en het water geven. Daarnaast hebben we bepaalde vaste planten de afgelopen zomers extra water moeten geven. Dit deden we plaatselijk met een gieter. Naar verwachting zullen we dit elke zomer moeten blijven doen. Dus zullen we extra spaarzaam moeten zijn met het regenwater dat we nu kunnen opvangen.

Just as our reflection is a virtual place behind the mirror, Face-to-Face is a fundamentally otherworldly place: an extra-ordinary counterpoint. a disturbing interspace and a new perspective.

Face-to-Face is above all a crisis point, a demasque and an inverted mirror of society. The endless series of portraits create an eco chamber, a wonderful Persian dream garden and a cemetery, public nudist beach and a darkroom, underground rehearsal room and a royal place. It pays tribute to revolutionary thinkers, shows bastards and their victims, it is both a place for children's play and a memorial for patients. Here te rich of the earth show their true face.

We greet each other in the morning, but the beloved is gone. Tere is a huge global imbalance of problems that are unprecedented. No country, no city or village, no street, no house, nothing or nobody escapes the current evolution pain.
Thanks to a persistent neoliberal policy, we have become consumers and therefore each other's competitors. At te same time, self-research is outsourced to Big Data and AI gets to know us and manipulate us.

Just as the refugee camp is a placeless place were you.  are a prisoner in the midst of ultimate freedom, de Bouwput is a disturbing place on the fringes of Amsterdam-West. A place where all usual orientation disappears.
This is where the messy reality is portrayed.
This is where the resistance blossoms.

Exhibition dates: 28, 29 May / 4, 5, 6 June (2 - 6 PM).
De Bouwput 
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74

Richard Menken
Ko Aarts

Exhibition with Vivian Mac Gillavry and Sofia Paravicini (AGA LAB Artist in residence program)

Sofia Paravicini is an award-winning illustrator and visual artist based in Milan, Italy.

Her work aims to explore the sensuality and poetry of movement and gestures of the human body, in particular the female one.
During her three months as an artist in residence at AGALAB, she experimented printing mono prints with cotton fabrics and with the linocuts process to deepen these two concepts.

Website: www.sofiaparavicini.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sofiaparavicini/

Vivian Mac Gillavry is an Amsterdam based visual artist. She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2021.

During my two months residency at AGA LAB I was experimenting with etching and embossing (blinddruk). I used these printmaking techniques to explore patterns of fungi and mycelia networks.

The mycelium can be seen - according to scientist Merlin Sheldrake - as the tissue that holds together much of the world.
There are parts of these fungi networks that are easy to spot, for example, the mushrooms you come across whilst walking in the forest, yet the majority of fungi spread spores without producing mushrooms.

It appeals to my imagination that mushrooms develop above the ground whilst their mycelium, which has no fixed shape, grows below the ground.

Website: https://vivianmacgillavry.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/vivian.mac.gillavry/

26th of May: 16.00-20.00
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74

They say that there is a monster that has multiple heads, that has many ways to dominate and that bites everywhere. They say that if a head is cut off from this monster, two are reborn. That it transforms and changes its shapes, colors and voices. That accumulation and dispossession are its fuel, that in division, terror and injustice it finds its pleasure, and that with war and oblivion it savors its next prey. The most terrifying thing about this monster is that it is real, the most bloodthirsty and cruel since history was divided between dominators and dominated.

Fortunately, this monster is not omnipotent, nor immortal; there would exist spell-images capable of transmuting the colonial fossils, which as fuels, feed the machinery of extinction.

In this first exhibition, the Association of Monsters Fighting for Life will present some proposals to rip out the heart of the Hydra: cut off its source of energy, dissociate linear and progressive narratives through cyclical, spiral or reverse stories, invoke pre-capitalist monsters, or convene activists to imagine other possible ends of the world.

We must truly be those monsters it says we are. We will be its worst nightmare.

Fortunately, this monster is not omnipotent, nor immortal; there would exist spell-images capable of transmuting the colonial fossils, which as fuels, feed the machinery of extinction.

In this first exhibition, the Association of Monsters Fighting for Life will present some proposals to rip out the heart of the Hydra: cut off its source of energy, dissociate linear and progressive narratives through cyclical, spiral or reverse stories, invoke pre-capitalist monsters, or convene activists to imagine other possible ends of the world.

We must truly be those monsters it says we are. We will be its worst nightmare.

Opening on 18th of May. 5 pm.

De Bouwput
​​​​​​​FERDINAND HUYCKSTRAAT 74 — AMSTERDAM

Visiting hours by appointment: dianoninoo@gmail.com