Saturday 21 December
Date: Saturday, December 21
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend there will be a free (excluding museum entrance) guided tour of the exhibition Open depot on Saturday at 15.00. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover the stories hidden in the artworks of Cobra artists!
Saturday 21 December
Experimental painting for adults: don’t think, do!
Date: Saturday, December 21
Time: 13.00 – 15.30 hours
Cost: €30 per participant, entrance included
Sign up: via this link
Meet Cobra artists such as Karel Appel and Corneille and get inspired by the works of art in the permanent collection of Museum Cobra. The artists of the Cobra movement were guided by the material they worked with, by its spontaneity and unpredictability. This is also how we will work in this workshop. What story or theme does a particular work of art tell you? Either way, the final result will be a personal work of art!
Sunday 22 December
Making Christmas ornaments for young and old!
Date: Sunday, December 22, 2024
Time: 14:00 – 16:00 (continuous, free walk-in)
Admission: free (excluding museum admission)
For whom? Everyone, young and old, is welcome to participate
What will you hang in the tree this Christmas? Homemade Cobra ornaments!
Inspired by the creativity of Cobra artists and in line with our exhibitions, Museum Cobra organizes a workshop making Christmas ornaments. With all kinds of colorful materials we invite you to give free rein to your own creativity. On the ground floor is an atmospheric area where all visitors with a valid museum admission ticket can take a seat to get into the Christmas spirit.
Saturday November 30
Date: Saturday, November 30
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend there will be a free (excluding museum entrance) guided tour of the exhibition Open depot on Saturday at 15.00. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover the stories hidden in the artworks of Cobra artists!
Sunday 1 December
Date: Sunday, December 1
Time: 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend on Sunday, December 1, at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. there will be free (excluding museum entrance) family tours of the exhibition Open Depot. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover together the stories hidden in the works of art by Cobra artists. A tour for young and old!
Saturday 30 November
Workshop on linoprint for adults: The power of simplicity
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2024
Time: 14.00 – 16.00 hours
Cost: €30 per participant (including entrance fee)
Duration: 2 hours
Sign up: via this link (select only the workshop linoprint)
Discover the pleasure of this artistic ‘stamping technique’ for creating small format graphics. A simple drawing is gouged from a sheet of linoleum. With the printing press and special paints, we make multiple prints on paper in one or more colors. All materials are provided. Choose a design option to get started right away, or create your own design inspired by the Cobra artworks in the Open Depot exhibition on the first floor.
Pauline van Buringen
This linoprint workshop is taught and guided by Pauline van Buringen, she is a printmaker and painter, living and working in Amsterdam. After a graphic education and a career in graphic and spatial design, she started painting in 2010. First outdoors, by observation, but due to her interest in a simplified image, now using a mix of sketches, photographs and fantasy. Architecture and water often come up as subjects. She translates this into her own “graphic realism” with limited use of color, few details, high contrast and clear directions. Light, shadow and reflections are the icing on the cake here.
The technique of lino printing fits well with this simple style: working from planes with the power of simplicity. She is both an enthusiastic creator and inspired teacher and would like to teach you this technique from the conviction: ‘Less is more’. For an impression, see: www.vanburingen-art.nl/linoprints
Sunday 27 October
During the exhibition Recall of Infinity, Museum Cobra in collaboration with Special Arts is hosting a finissage with an ongoing program for the public, studios and artists on
What can you do this day?
– Viewing the exhibition Recall of Infinity
– Join art in motion
– Get to work with Klets & Kwast in the Cobra Atelier
– Open Poetry Stage in collaboration with Nikki Verhoeven, city poet of Amstelveen and Mattino, ambassador of The Other Poem. Write a poem to a work of art and come recite it on stage October 27.
– The announcement of the winner of the Special Award 2024.
It is an ongoing program, for which you cannot make reservations by section. Subject to program changes.
About ChelseaBoy
Internationally acclaimed for their appearance on Drag Race Holland and being a returning judge on Make Up Your Mind, ChelseaBoy is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary artist, using the power of drag for (inter)personal transformation.
After focussing mainly on the performative aspect of drag, CB is currently expanding their field of work by voicing their experience as an artist within our rich community. A vulnerable and exciting new path to embark on.
Saturday 26 October
Date: Saturday, October 26
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend there will be a free (excluding museum entrance) guided tour of the exhibition Open depot and Recall of Infinity on Saturday at 15.00. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover the stories hidden in the artworks of Cobra artists!
Sunday 29 September
Visual Sounds
Date: Sunday, September 29
Time: 15:00-15:30
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
To conclude the exhibition I challenge you to love me, a special musical performance will take place amidst the art. Especially for this occasion, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti wrote five compositions, inspired by Blok’s work and using grammatical, structural and emotional elements. The compositions are based on five exhibited works. The public is cordially invited to walk with her and listen to these extraordinary musical reflections. Stop by and experience this moving interaction between image and music.
About Frances-Marie Uitti
Frances-Marie Uitti is an American cellist and composer known for her versatile technique and performance of contemporary classical music. Tom Service, music critic for The Guardian newspaper, calls her “perhaps the world’s most influential experimental cellist. Uitti broke many musical boundaries in her career. She developed new playing techniques, including playing with two bows simultaneously, and collaborated with several contemporary composers. Her musical pieces have been presented at the Venice Biennale, the Holland Festival, Metz Music, Warsaw Festival and many more. She has previously performed her compositions based on works of art at the Stedelijk Museum, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and during her collaboration with Marina Abromovicz and Ulay at Art Basel.
Saturday 28 September
Children’s tour with puppets
Date: Saturday, September 28
Time: 15:30 – 16:45 hours
Cost: free (excluding museum entrance)
On Saturday, September 28, there will be a fun afternoon for children through the exhibition Pierre Verger – The One That I Am not.
The afternoon begins with a children’s tour through a puppet animated by Andre Mello from Bahia. This tour will be held in Dutch, English and Portuguese. After the tour, the children get to talk with Lilly who is dressed in authentic Bahian costume as seen in some of Verger’s portraits. Then the children will color in the studio.
The exhibition Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not is on view through Sunday, September 29!
