In the backdrop of an ever-deteriorating garage nestled in the outskirts of Amsterdam South East, a group of undocumented individuals sought refuge. Their condition laid bare the complexities of the situation, where the pursuit of basic human rights was entangled in bureaucratic mandates. Through videos of interviews and conversations with them, Raul Balai and Ehsan Fardjadniya zoom in on their lives and struggles to collect evidence for a tribunal against the city of Amsterdam in 2025.

Join artists Ehsan Fardjadniya and Raul Balai for a guided tour through their exhibition 'Edgelanders: Amsterdam on Trial / Part III: The Witnesses', where they will share about the works on display at de Appel and the overarching project.

De Appel is happy to join and contribute to the different mirroring solidarity events at de Uitkijk, De Sloot/De Sering and Theater Bellevue upon Mirror Soup Kitchen’s invitation. The program includes the screenings of The One Minutes Series 'Mirroring' curated by Seda Yıldırım, Werkplaats Typografie (2004, NL, 14 min), a talk by Mirror Soup Kitchen and a Palestinian Dabke dance workshop with a dance score from the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance, in Ramallah.

Van Abbemuseum and de Appel are thrilled to invite and host artist Tony Chakar, who will be in residence in The Netherlands upon invitation by Van Abbemuseum in May 2024, for a lecture performance in de Appel. A story about an old house in Beirut, and its secrets.

The symposium is on occasion of the exhibition Edgelanders: Amsterdam on Trial / Part III: The Witnesses. Through the multi-part project, artists Ehsan Fardjadniya and Raul Balai are building material for a people’s tribunal against the city of Amsterdam in relation to the right to housing for undocumented people.

Why Germany is an international, online lecture series addressing the crackdown on free speech in Germany and beyond. These weekly lectures are co-hosted by a network of institutions that grows over time. By means of a rolling program, it creates a space for creative, informed and considered expression.

On the 24th of June, Ann Demeester will moderate an evening about about innovation in the arts and the need for continuity. Since five years de Appel again has a remarkable home: Broedplaats Lely, a brutalistic building in a diffuse part of town, where the accelerated effects of the gentrification of the surrounding are clearly visible. As an institution de Appel is part of this ongoing temporality. Now that the precarity this enhances seems to become more extensive, it is time to start the conversation.

Between sunrise and sunset on 30 November 2020, de Appel devotes space and time to remembering ULAY (born Frank Uwe Laysiepen on 30 November 1943 in Solingen, Germany), an artist and much more, who shaped our institution profoundly and who passed away on March 2nd this year.

To celebrate the publication: Audre Lorde – Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984–1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020), de Appel organised a close reading group starting late September 2020, in order to collectively read and give voice to Lorde’s work as assembled in this book.