Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon / Bio Art and Design: Philipp Kolmann
Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon
Irene Ha
Netherlands/FASHION/
Operating as Baby Reni, Irene Ha metabolises bliss not as obliviousness but as hypersensitivity to relentless input of information; a fullness with everything at once. At the foundation of her artistic macrocosm is her own bedroom. Feeling alienated from the categorical expectations of cultural dichotomies, she takes shelter within her own four walls and turns to the digital realm, where all events have long become equal. Why be anywhere when you could be everywhere?
PRESENTING
BLISS, as a small pop-up defile in the hallways of Felix Merits as part of unpacking the 3Package Deal, Baby Reni doubles down on the fascination with exhibitionist domesticity. An embarrassing moment becomes a luxury item — a glass nose ring resembling a snot bubble. The acetone-printed hoodies recycle previous works into wearable memories, which are more lounge than streetwear (and too deliberately white for reckless inner-city posturing anyway).
Stimulating and facilitating top talent with affordable living and working space, a budget and a network – that is the goal of the 3Package Deal. This successful program of the Amsterdam Fund of the Arts (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen in collaboration with renowned Amsterdam institutions is now regarded as the best practice in the field of talent development.
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in the arts which enrich the experience of life in the city of Amsterdam. The AFK encourages the quality, dynamism and diversity of the arts in Amsterdam, and contributes to the city's strong and richly varied cultural climate. The fund is available to all disciplines within the cultural sector, for cultural organizations and artists. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality, established organizations and those that are relatively new, the professional arts and amateur arts - from every district of the city. As a metropolitan cultural fund, the AFK offers support to high-quality cultural activities, it functions as a booster for the arts within the city and is an investor in a sustainable future for the cultural sector.
Bureau Broedplaatsen is part of the municipality of Amsterdam. Its task is to realize more affordable studios and (residential) workspaces for artists and incubator groups. Bureau Broedplaatsen does this in collaboration with target group organisations, city districts, central services, corporations, real estate agents, developers, and banks.
We thank our partners, the renowned Amsterdam cultural institutions listed below who take part in the 15 coalitions that select the participating artists and provide them with guidance and a supportive network. They are of vital importance to the program.
Film: Filmacademie / IDFA / EYE / Fashion: HTNK / Rolien Zonneveld / OSCAM / AMFI / Visual Art I: FOAM / Rietveld Acadamie / De Appel Arts Centre / Visual Art II: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Kunstverein / Rijksacademie / Engaged Art: Veem House of Performance / De Balie / De Ateliers / Public Realm: NDSM-Werf / Over het IJ Festival / Das Arts (AHK) / Theater: Academie voor Theater en Dans / Amerpodia / Theater Bellevue / Dance: ICK Artist Space / Frascati Theater / AHK / SNDO (AHK Dans) / Music: Conservatorium Amsterdam / Muziekgebouw aan het IJ / Melkweg / Cabaret: Academie voor Theater en Dans / De Kleine Komedie / Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival / Interhistoricity: Oude Kerk / Museum van Loon / H401 / Reinwardt Academie / Performance: Werkplaats Typografie (ArtEz) / If I Can’t Dance / Sandberg Instituut – Critical Studies / Social Design: Waag / Hackers&Designers / Framer Framed / Autodidact: Likeminds / Theater Bellevue / Theater De Meervaart / Bio Art and Design: Waag / Mediamatic / VU Amsterdam
Event credits:
Curated by Bogomir Doringer.Event production by Rafael Kozdron.
Felix Meritis production by Rivka van der Berg.
Project leaders: Johanna Brils (AFK) and Naïma Bouchtaoui (Bureau Broedplaatsen).
Press contact: Emma Heinhuis (AFK)