Celebrating Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018, De Ateliers proudly presents a public interview with the acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Karimah Ashadu (b. London, 1985), former participant of De Ateliers. The interview is an addition to the exhibition of Ashadu's work. Public interview: Saturday November 24th 16.00 Moderated by Dominic van den Boogerd   Tickets can be obtained via the […]

Bárbara Wagner (Brasilia, 1980) & Benjamin de Burca (Munich, 1975), collaborate since 2011, live in Recife, Brasil   Brasilian Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca from Germany collaborate since 2011. In their short films and film installations, the artists duo explores the significance of racial identity, sexual orientation, religion and economy in Brasilian popular culture […]

Pauline Curnier Jardin (b. 1980, Marseille, France), lives in Amsterdam and Berlin   Artist and performer Pauline Curnier Jardin is known for her eccentric and theatrical films and installations, many of them made in collaboration with dancers, performers, and costume and set designer Rachel Garcia. The films are based on allegoric narratives, reimagening historical events […]

Kasper Bosmans (b.1990, Lommel, Belgium), lives in Brussels and Amsterdam Belgian artist Kasper Bosmans makes colourful paintings, drawings and sculptures which take their inspiration from heraldry and an inherited visual culture of signs, symbols and emblems. His playful combinations of local traditions and universal myths touch upon the distinctions between arts and crafts, between the […]

Renzo Martens (b.1973, Sluiskil, Netherlands), lives in Amsterdam Dutch artist Renzo Martens rose to fame with controversial films such as Enjoy Poverty (2008), suggesting how Congo could profit from its own poverty. He is the founder of the Institute for Human Activities (IHA), that uses art as a tool to fight economical injustice. In collaboration […]

This event is sold out   Jessica Stockholder (b.1959, Seattle, USA), lives in Chicago For over 25 years now, American artist Jessica Stockholder has been celebrated for site-specific sculptures and installations that challenge boundaries, blurring the distinction among painting, sculpture and environment, and even breaching gallery walls by extending beyond windows and doors. She shares […]

Lily van der Stokker (1954, Den Bosch), lives in Amsterdam and New York The visual repertoire of Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker includes flowers, looping lines, clouds and curlicues in bold and bright colors, raising questions about what we regard as typical ‘feminine’ or ‘girly’. Her murals, drawings and paintings can be situated in […]

Melanie Bonajo (1978, Heerlen), lives in Amsterdam In her videos, performances and installations, Melanie Bonajo examines the erosion of intimacy and isolation in an increasingly sterile, technological world. Presenting the human body as a political battlefield, she explores in her work feelings of alienation, spiritual emptiness and our changing attitude towards nature. Melanie Bonajo had […]

Anthea Hamilton (1978, London, VK), lives in London Anthea Hamilton is known for her arrangement of objects, sculptures, costumes and images in immersive installations. The British artist mines many heterogeneous image sources frequently. Her sometimes surreal and humourous works hold an internal logic, based on the cultural connections between objects and the shifting usage of […]

Bani Abidi (1971, Karachi, Pakistan), lives in Berlin and Karachi Pakistani artist Bani Abidi is best known for her satirical engagement with contemporary politics and culture in South Asia, especially the hostile relations between India and Pakistan, infested with nationalism and post-colonialism. In her films, installations and photoworks Abidi zooms in on the lives of […]

Esiri Erheriene-Essi (1982, London, UK), lives in Amsterdam Esiri Erheriene-Essi’s figurative paintings are based on images, objects, and documents which reflect both individual and shared memories and histories that we all unconsciously carry within us and are present in all that we do. By creating new scenarios, she continuously questions the order, the discrepancies and […]

Marianna Simnett (1986, UK), lives in London. This lecture is organised in collaboration with Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem London-based artist Marianna Simnett is known for her multi-channel video installations, exploring our fears and phobias surrounding the human body. Her female protagonists are hybrid figures, altered by technology and contracting diseases and contaminate infections. Simnett: ‘I think […]

Oscar Santillán (b.1980, Ecuador), lives in Equador and Amsterdam Cybernetician Oscar Santillán is the founder of :studio ANTIMUNDO. His artistic practice is embedded in a network of collaborations with astronomers, biologists, engineers and other scientists. In his exhibitions, Santillán explores the edges of the known world, identifying lost episodes of science and generating new narratives […]

Calla Henkel (b. 1988, Minneapolis, USA) & Max Pitegoff (b. 1987, Buffalo, USA), live in Berlin Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff have been working together for over a decade after meeting during their studies at Cooper Union in New York. They live in Berlin, where they have initiated several artist-run spaces such as Times Bar […]

Lydia Ourahmane (b.1992, Saida, Algeria), lives in Barcelona and Algiers A graduate from London’s Goldsmiths College of Art, Lydia Ourahmane’s art encompasses video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation. Recurring themes are histories of displacement, transcience and colonialism. Ourahmane’s work has recently been shown at De Appel (Amsterdam, 2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2021), Triangle Astérides (Marseille, 2021), […]

Mirak Jamal (b.1979, Tehran, Iran), lives in Berlin Mirak Jamal has lived in the USSR, Germany, the USA and Canada and is currently based in Berlin. His oddly figurative paintings reflect an environment of global placement, and adjustment, after his family fled Iran at the dawn of the Islamic revolution. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthall […]

Monika Sosnowska (b.1972, Ryki, Poland), lives in Warsaw Monika Sosnowska is best known for her large sculptures, exploiting the mysterious grace of engineered architecture. These industrial skeletons, ungrounded and unhinged, seem to crumple, to bend, and to contort, something ghostly resonates from them. Recent solo shows took place at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, […]

Moshekwa Langa (b. 1975, Bakenberg, Limpopo, South-Africa), lives in Amsterdam The studio practice of South-African artist Moshekwa Langa spans drawing, painting, installation, video, and photography, culling materials from his immediate surroundings. Simultaneously poetic and emotional, Langa creates a visual language to convey personal histories as a way to grapple with the often slippery meaning of […]

Anders Dickson (b. 1988, Wisconsin, USA), lives in Paris and The Hague American painter and sculptor Anders Dickson is a former participant of De Ateliers. He studied art in Karlsruhe with Harald Klingelhöller and in Frankfurt with Amy Sillman. Fascinated by conspiracy theories, ghost stories, and Americana his paintings, drawings and sculptures explore instable connections […]

Phung-Tien Phan (b.1983, Essen, Germany), lives in Essen In her sculptures and videos, German-Vietnamese artist Phung-Tien Phan explores the social significance and cultural references of everyday household objects we surround ourselves with. From 2014 to 2017, Phung-Tien Phan was involved with artists run space Belle Air in Essen. Her work was presented in solo and […]

Michelle Williams Gamaker (b.1979, London, UK), lives in London Michelle Williams Gamaker is an artist working in moving image and performance, often in dialogue with film history. Through an interrogation of cinema and its artifice, she recasts characters as fictional activists, proposing critical alternatives to colonial and imperialist storytelling in early 20th-century British and Hollywood studio films. Her work has featured in […]

SOLD OUT Alexis Blake (b.1981, Pittsburgh, USA), lives in Amsterdam Alexis Blake’s multidisciplinary practice coalesces visual art, performance and dance. She investigates the way in which the body is represented and treated as an archive, which she then critically examines, disrupts, and re-negotiates. Her work directly engages with the representation and subjectification of women’s bodies while […]

Mounira Al Solh (b.1978, Beirut, Lebanon), lives in Beirut and Zutphen, the Netherlands

Raimundas Malašauskas (b.1973, Vilnius, Lithuania), lives in Brussels, Belgium Raimundas Malašauskas has a distinctively reflexive approach to writing and curating, drawing from various modes of communication. His questioning of the exhibition concept often results in unpredictable, playful projects. ‘Hypnotic Show’ for example, his longest-lasting project (from 2008 on), is an exhibition that takes place through […]

Allison Katz (b.1980, Montreal, Canada), lives in London, UK Allison Katz’s paintings derive from playful curiosity, puns, and irreverent wit. She draws from a diverse array of references, including art historical clichés associated with painting and the history of representation. Recurring motifs such as mouths, roosters, noses, fairies, and cabbages add up to a personal, […]

Are you looking for Grace Ndiritu? Please click here. Tenant of Culture (Hendrickje Schimmel, b.1990, Arnhem, Netherlands), lives in London, UK Tenant of Culture is the name of the practice of Hendrickje Schimmel. By disassembling and rebuilding manufactured garments, Tenant of Culture examines the ways in which ideological frameworks and power structures materialize in the […]

De Ateliers is happy to invite you to the screening of the film René Daniëls by artist Erik van Lieshout on Tuesday January 31st from 5-6pm at De Ateliers. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the artist. The film is in Dutch and has English subtitles. Tickets for the screening are available […]

Grace Ndiritu (b.1982, Birmingham, UK), lives in between places Central themes in the performances, films, architectural spaces and social practices of British-Kenyan artist Grace Ndiritu are shamanic ritual, meditation, healing, esoteric beliefs, and care. She has worked with museums on restitution of looted objects, decolonization, and reactivating the sacredness of art spaces. After her residency […]

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (b.1984, Brooklyn, New York, USA), lives in Paris Working across various mediums including performance, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, and painting, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy embraces the spirit of collaboration to expand his knowledge and his skills. Where his ceramics are influenced by working with artists in Europe and Brazil, his large-scale paintings unearth his fascination with the […]

Simnikiwe Buhlungu (b.1995, Johannesburg, South-Africa), lives in Johannesburg and Amsterdam Simnikiwe Buhlungu researches the production of knowledges, how they are disseminated, and by whom. Through film, sound, installation, and text, Buhlungu transports viewers into considerations of the ways we come to ‘know’ and what informs those narratives. Buhlungu, former resident of WIELS and the Rijksakademie, […]

Zeinab Saleh (b.1996, Kenya), lives in London In her paintings and drawings, British artist Zeinab Saleh explores the themes of personal memory, tenderness, and intimacy with a great economy of means, inviting calm and intense contemplation. Saleh’s distinct technique sees the use of acrylic, charcoal and chalk swept across the canvas, revealing depths of texture, […]

Koenraad Dedobbeleer b.1975, Halle (Belgium), lives in Bruxelles The sculptures, spatial installations, and architectural interventions of Koenraad Dedobbeleer are riddled with subtle allusions, ironic commentaries, and references to the histories of art, craft and design. The Belgian sculptor changes the structure of common objects, their dimensions, materiality or colors — often by minimal interventions — […]

Dora Budor (b.1984, Zagreb, Croatia), lives in New York Dora Budor is an artist and writer who lives in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Continent, Kunsthaus Bregenz; Incontinent, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAMeC), Bergamo; Autoreduction, Progetto, Lecce; I am Gong, Kunsthalle Basel; Benedick, or Else, 80WSE, New York; and Spring, Swiss Institute, […]

Huw Lemmey (b. Barrow-in-Furness, UK, 1986) is a novelist, artist and critic living in Barcelona. He is the co-author, with writer Ben Miller, of the book Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Verso Books, 2022), based on the popular podcast of the same name. He is the author of three novels: Unknown Language  (Ignota Books 2020), […]

Nora Kapfer (b.1984, München, Germany), lives in Berlin Behind the familiar imagery of the works by German artist Nora Kapfer hides an experimental approach to painting and picture making. In her work, radical questions that modern painting has been asking itself since its inception, revive. Using tar-like bitumen and paper cut outs as material, Kapfers […]

Onyeka Igwe (b. 1986, London, UK), lives in London London-born artist and researcher Onyeka Igwe is working mainly with moving-image. Her work is aimed at the question: How do we live together? She is interested in the prosaic and everyday aspects of black livingness and the exposure of overlooked histories. She had solo/duo shows at MoMA […]

Olga Balema (b. 1984, Ukraine), lives and works in New York. Olga Balema received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA and subsequently attended the Rijksakademie as a resident, as well as Skowhegan. She is the 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2017 and 2021 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has […]

Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) (b.1977, Busan, Korea), lives in Berlin and Amsterdam She was awarded the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2023, and was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme (2022-2023). Since the late 1990s, Chang has created a rich body of work that traverses film, text, immersive film- and […]

Nel Aerts (b.1987, Turnhout, Belgium), lives in Antwerp Nel Aerts is both maker and subject of her paintings, drawings, and collages. Her work features strange cartoonish characters that explore the complex interplay between the self and the public persona of the artist, ironically addressing issues like sexuality, loneliness, pleasure, and power relations. Her solo exhibitions take […]