Archives: Activiteiten

Date: Sunday, September 29
Time: 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)

During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend on Sunday, September 29 at 14.00 and 15.00 free (excluding museum entrance) family guided tours through 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!

Zaaloverzicht, Peter Tijhuis

Date: Saturday, 28 September
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)

During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend there will be free (exclusive of museum admission) guided tour of the exhibitions Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not & Diana Blok – I challenge you to love me on Saturday at 15.00. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover the stories hidden in the photographs of Pierre Verger and Diana Blok.

Portret van mijn moeder en vader, Arles, 1982, Diana Blok

Date: Sunday, September 1
Time: 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)

During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend on Sunday, September 1, at 14.00 and 15.00 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!

Gallery view, Peter Tijhuis

Experimental painting for adults: don’t think, do!

Date: Saturday, August 31
Time: 13.00 – 15.30 hours
Cost: €30 per participant, entrance included
Sign up: via this link
For more information: activiteiten@cobra-museum.nl or call the Education Department 020 5475031

Get to know Cobra artists such as Karel Appel and Corneille and be inspired by the works of art on display 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!

Masterclass Harmen Meinsma
Portrait Photography

Date: Sunday 29 September
Time: 14.00 – 16.00 hours
Cost: 20,- (excluding museum admission)
Register: via this link

During this master class, Harmen Meinsma will introduce you to the magical world of (portrait) photography. Together you will first look at the exhibition Diana Blok – I challenge you to love me and he will take you along the series of photographs ‘Adventures in Cross-Casting’.

Then you will learn about the different aspects and roles involved in making an intriguing portrait photo. During the master class, you will also get to work yourself and assume the roles of the photographer, the stylist and, of course, the person being portrayed. “We were born naked and the rest is drag.” Is a phrase made popular by legendary drag artist RuPaul. For this master class we will look at the technical aspects of (portrait) photography and you will be encouraged to get into a different skin for a change.

About Harmen Meinsma
Harmen Meinsma grew up in a small village in Friesland where he lived with his grandmother. In his teens he got his first camera. Photography allowed him to capture unconventional beauty, celebrate it and in doing so, carve out a place in the world for himself and his friends.

Harmen is inspired by people who do not fit into a conventional mold. He photographs people whose expression of identity is not merely a preference, but for whom it is necessary to style themselves expressively. This celebration of the quirky, the unique and the flamboyant characterizes his visual language. “In my work I shine the spotlight on the misfits and birds of paradise in this world and turn them into icons.”

Harmen Meinsma received his BA degree from the Willem de Kooning academy in 2017, specializing in photography. His work has been exhibited in New York during Photoville and at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. In addition, his work has been published in FD Personal, NRC, Vogue Italia and Volkskrant Magazine. Harmen currently lives in Rotterdam.

Self portrait, Harmen Meinsma

“The One That I am Not”
Drawing yourself, And OTHERS, without Othering the other or yourself

Date: July 22-July 26, 2024
Time: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Language: English and Dutch
Location: Museum Cobra Amstelveen
Tickets: via the link

This year, the eighth edition of Jonas Ohlssons’ Summer school takes place at Museum Cobra. From Monday 22 to Friday 26 July, participants will have the opportunity to explore their creativity together with artist Jonas Ohlsson. The program consists of substantive art and philosophy lectures and lots of drawing. The Summer school will end with a festive presentation of the works created by Class of ’24.

Summerschool
Ohlsson is an artist and creator of drawings, installations and objects. His art is as multifaceted as his artistic practice with plenty of provocation and humor. Special guest lecturer of this edition is Kenneth Aidoo, an artist who studies the social position of people from the African diaspora through film, paintings, drawings and video installations. There will also be model drawing and, like last year, Taneesha Sijmons will be a guest.

The Summer school is from 22 to 26 July from 10.00-17.00. Cost is €325 per participant including materials, coffee/tea and entrance to the museum. There is a discounted rate of €275 for participants up to 30 years old.

Practical information and daily schedule can be found here.

Exhibition Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not
Theme: The One That I am Not.
Drawing yourself, And OTHERS, without Othering the other or yourself

Besides familiar topics such as flow, the theme of this edition is derived from an exhibition currently on show at Museum Cobra. The One That I am Not shows the important photographic oeuvre of Pierre Verger, a French photographer, ethnologist and writer who captured encounters with people and cultures during his travels. The photographs are a visual record of the encounter between Verger and the one he was not, but whose life and wisdom he wanted to understand and share.

Jonas:
‘Of course we will do what we ALWAYS do, trying to get in touch with our intuition, finding joy and play, opening up the gate to the imagination. Finding FLOW. ‘The special theme during this edition is that we will work with drawing portraits, and again drawing from model, Taneesha. We will debate about what it means to draw yourself, can we do something ELSE than classical drawing from a mirror or photographical image of ourself. Drawings about yourself, SO a MUCH broader idea of what a portrait could be, AND talk about what it means to have a position, yes, identity. HOW do you draw about the other? How are you honest to your self-image?’

Pierre Verger investigated the connection between Afro-cultures on both sides of the ocean, whose emergence in America was a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade. He studied the lives of these people and wanted nothing more than to become one of them. From his own origins, he distanced himself as much as possible. At the same time, anno 2024, you cannot get around his white, privileged position. This touches on themes around identity politics:

Jonas:
‘I have experienced the same with my travels in faraway countries. Who can travel, who can visit who, who does the framing, is there an economic imbalance? And who will do the final editing of a photography and film? Who has the power over the narrative? I experienced it myself, when I came to Bijlmer and started making a SKOR project on Hip Hop in the Bijlmer. Oh I had such good intentions, but oh how that project was full of misses and well-meaning opinions and ideas, not full-blown racism, or was it? It was certainly a case of ignorance.’

About Kenneth
Kenneth Aidoo is a visual artist who explores the social position of people from the African diaspora through film, paintings, drawings and video installations. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2019 with a series of portraits, which explored the everyday experiences he had in the Netherlands. Other topics in his work include the triangle connection between Ghana, the Netherlands and Suriname, and what it is like to have a tri-cultural identity. Aidoo has exhibited both in the Netherlands and an international show in Antwerp, Belgium. He has been nominated for the Royal Prize for Modern Painting in 2021 and is one of three winners in 2022. His work is in private and public collections.

Kenneth Aidoo, fotograaf: Dylan

About Taneesha
Taneesha Sijmons is a sensuality, relationship and intimacy coach and erotic dancer. Through her work, she empowers and supports people to discover their relationship with themselves, their partner(s), their bodies and embrace and deepen their sensual well-being. As an erotic dancer, she embodies the celebration of women, demonstrating the power of empowerment. Through her performance art, she emphasizes that nudity and sensuality need not be seen as taboo and uses her art forms to exhibit the beauty, magnetism and freedom within sensuality.

Taneesha Sijmons, fotograaf: Juliane Falk

About Jonas
Jonas Ohlsson (born 1967, Örebro, Sweden) is an artist and creator of drawings, installations and objects. He also composes music and performs as Blodfet & DJLonely. His art is as multifaceted as his artistic practice with plenty of provocation and humor. Collaboration also plays an important role in his work: drawing and making music together with others, like with grandma Fanny, to achieve new surprising results. Ohlsson’s background in electronic music permeates his artistic process, with plenty of attention and space for intuition and free association. Ohlsson also teaches at the KABK and Design Academy in Eindhoven. He has also given workshops in Boston, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Los Angeles, Aruba, Xiamen and Geneva.

Jonas Ohlsson

Ticket sales
Ticket sales instruction:
1. Click on the link
2. Select July 22
3. Select summerschool and 10 a.m.
4. Follow the next steps
5. Checkout

Only a limited number of tickets are available.
Anyone over the age of 18 may register, no experience or prior knowledge is required, but a love of drawing is desirable.
Questions about ticket sales? From Monday to Friday between 09.00 and 17.00 you can call 020 547 50 37.

Date: Saturday, July 27
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)

During the Cobra Pakt Uit!-weekend there will be free (exclusive of museum admission) guided tour of the exhibitions Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not & Diana Blok – I challenge you to love me on Saturday at 15.00. During this tour of about half an hour you will discover the stories hidden in the photographs of Pierre Verger and Diana Blok.

From July 26 to 28, you can camp in Kostverloren and Museum Cobra will host a painting workshop.

Date: Saturday 27 July
Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where: Kostverlorenhof
Price: free for campers
Sign up: via this link

Painting with Museum Cobra at De Buurtcamping
From July 26 to 28, 2024, the park near the Kostverlorenhof will be transformed into a cozy Neighborhood Camping. Stichting De Buurt organizes three days of friendly camping where local residents can get to know each other better. At De Buurtcamping you enjoy the outdoors all day long and everyone is equal. Museum Cobra will be present on July 27 with a colorful painting workshop for young and old.

Painting with Museum Cobra
Be inspired by the famous Cobra artists such as Karel Appel and Corneille. Their motto was “Don’t think, but do!” The artists of the Cobra movement were guided by the material they worked with, the spontaneity of children and its unpredictability. In this workshop we will work in the same way. The result is always a personal work of art on an A4 canvas! The workshop takes place on Saturday, July 27, from 13:00-15:00.

De Buurtcamping
For a weekend, the field next to the Bloeiwijzer will be transformed into a temporary campsite, for and by the neighborhood. For three days, the park will be a friendly campsite, where neighborhood residents can get to know each other better. At De Buurtcamping, you’ll be outside all day and everyone is equal.

About The Neighborhood
De Buurtcamping is an initiative of De Buurt, who strengthen neighborhoods by organizing temporary campsites together with residents, entrepreneurs and organizations. They work with various organizations that strive to create a fine neighborhood where people greet, know and help each other. More information about this activity can be found at museumcobra.nl.

Tickets
Buy your ticket now through the ticketshop. Come along and experience a wonderful weekend full of fun activities, good food and fun at De Buurtcamping! For more information and the ticketshop visit: https://debuurtcamping.nl/campings/buurtcamping-amstelveen-kostverloren/

Would you like to come and help?
Do you enjoy helping during this weekend? Sign up to volunteer! This can be done by emailing kostverloren@debuurtcamping.nl