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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.

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.

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!

Make Your Own Cobra Button during the Kegel Family Fair

Museum Cobra will participate in the third edition of the Kegel Family Fair on Saturday, September 21, from noon to 5 p.m. at Park de Kegel on Bovenkerkerweg 81 in Amstelveen. This annual event, organized by Grand Hotel Amstelveen, the National Tennis Center and Bowling de Kegel, promises to be another day full of fun and entertainment for the whole family.

Make your own button
At the booth of Museum Cobra, children and adults can make their own free button. Get inspired by the colorful and expressive artworks of Cobra artists, or create your own unique design.

Free admission for Amstelveners on Wednesday
In addition to the creative button activity, visitors will also be informed about our special promotion: free admission for Amstelveners on Wednesdays. This offers a great opportunity for local residents to discover our museum and enjoy our inspiring art collections and family activities.

About the Kegel Family Fair
The Kegel Family Fair offers a wide range of activities for all ages, including workshops, clinics, music, sports, dance, a fairground, children’s fair, and a variety of food and drinks. Admission to the fair is free. Stop by and experience a creative and fun day with Museum Cobra during the Cone Family Fair! For more information, visit our website: museumcobra.nl.

Camping Cobra

Date: Friday 1 – Saturday 2 November
Time: 19:00 to 09:00 hours
Price: € 20,00 per ticket (including breakfast)
Age: 4+
Tickets: buy your ticket through this link

Would you like to spend a night in a museum? Sleep among art together with other visitors? This is your chance!

From Friday, Nov. 1 to Saturday, Nov. 2, Museum Cobra will stay open all night for children and their (grand)parents. You will sleep among the art of the Special Award exhibition.
Bring your own mattress, sleeping bag and flashlight and find a nice spot among the art. Maybe you want to lie in the middle of the room or under your favorite painting. In the evening there are all kinds of fun activities: there is a movie, there are workshops and we will play games like Twister. And then we go to sleep, among the art. The next morning there is breakfast together.

Adults are welcome accompanied by a minimum of 1 child and a maximum of 3. Walk-in is between 19:00 and 20:00. Breakfast is between 08:00 and 09:00.

Bring your own:
Sleeping mat or air mattress
Sleeping bag and pillow
Pajamas and slippers
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Teddy bear
Flashlight
Toilet roll

Panel talk: Which perspective is the truth?

Date: Saturday, September 28
Time: 13:00-15:00

On Saturday, September 28, Cobra Academy invites you to a panel talk. Which perspective is the truth? 

The photo exhibition by French Pierre Verger & Dutch Diana Blok brings together images by two divergent photographers. As a visitor you ask yourself: how do they connect and how do they differ?
Verger captured African culture as an anthropologist – and thus an outsider – while Blok was part of the LGBTQ+ community and captured them as an insider of the group in her portfolio. Verger’s role as an outsider to African tribes, as well as enslaved groups in Latin America, is one that raises difficult questions. Questions we hope to illuminate with you during our panel discussion.
Can his art, made from that anthropological perspective, speak the truth? Or can only the insider of a community do so honestly?

About Pierre Verger
From May 31 through September 29, 2024, Museum Cobra will exhibit a selection of works from the extensive oeuvre of photographer Pierre Verger (Paris 1902 – Salvador 1996). Pierre Verger was born in Paris and eventually found his home in the Brazilian city of Salvador. The Pierre Verger – The One That I am Not is a celebration of his photographic legacy, his heart and his ceaseless quest for self-discovery. The exhibition features more than 160 works he made during various trips. This is the first time a solo exhibition has been shown in the Netherlands.

“I began to travel, not so much out of the desire to do ethnographic research or reportage, but out of the need to distance myself, to free myself and escape from the environment in which I had lived until then and whose prejudices and rules of behavior did not make me happy… However, the feeling that a vast world existed did not leave my mind, and the desire to see and photograph it took me to other horizons.”

About Diana Blok
The exhibition I challenge you to love me presents a survey of the work of photographer and artist Diana Blok (Uruguay, 1952). Blok was born in Montevideo and lived in Colombia and Guatemala. She studied sociology in Mexico City. In 1974 she emigrated to Amsterdam and developed into a highly successful photographer and artist. Through her work, Diana explores issues of identity, gender, sexual diversity and culture.

About the speakers
Sioe Jeng Tsao (33), known as SEEYOUSIOE, is a queer, East Asian artist based in Rotterdam. Through their multidisciplinary work, which includes paintings and digital illustrations, they colorfully and critically explore themes of LGBTQIA+ rights, climate change and racial justice. SEEYOUSIOE combines personal and political themes, making their art a powerful platform for social change and self-expression.

Phaedra Haringsma is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Amsterdam. She is interested in transatlantic history and contemporary colonial relations and pursued a master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Currently, Phaedra is Guest Correspondent Colonial Present at De Correspondent. She is also involved in the research project Decolonial Futures at the University of Amsterdam, and gives tours at The Black Archives.

With a reading by Sascha Sylbing:
Questioning the absurdity of our everyday; that’s what poetry exists for. At least, according to Sascha Sylbing (she/who/he). As a word artist, program maker, moderator, dreamer and bearer of various fluid identities, Sascha explores lived reality. In this, queerness, conflict, and feelings of alienation often find their place in Sascha’s work. Always from curiosity and vulnerability, often with a touch of activism and a touch of brutality. With the hope of touching you and leaving you with new questions.

Human Pendulum Paint: zwierend schilderen in Museum Cobra

Date: Sunday, October 13
Time: 13:00 – 15:00 hours
Price: The activity is free, admission is 2 for 1 (for adult with child, the child is free).
For whom? Children 4-12 years old

Experiment
The Cobra artists loved experimentation and looked for ways to get the paint on the canvas as spontaneously as possible. Karel Appel, for example, slammed his paint forcefully against the canvas, while Asger Jorn thoughtlessly dripped and let the paint follow its own path. Above all, the process was important rather than the result.

The activity
This first edition of Moving Arts will be just as experimental at Museum Cobra and you will be able to paint swinging, hanging in a canvas from the ceiling. Moving back and forth, you will apply paint to the canvas, creating an enormous work of art. As a taster, demonstrations of aerial acrobatics will be given, after which children will take turns helping themselves into the canvas and then painting in a swinging motion.

Culture Kick Amstelveen
From Wednesday, Oct. 9 through Sunday, Oct. 13, the cultural festival Culture Kick Amstelveen will take place. Nine Amstelveen cultural institutions throw their doors wide open and invite all Amstelveeners to discover what they have to offer. Performances, lectures, workshops and more around the theme ART MOVES; young and old can come and enjoy, listen, party and experience. Amstelveen is 60 years old. Therefore the municipality is treating and many activities are free! Visit www.culturekickamstelveen.nl for the full program.

Guided tour for adults by Pierre Verger – The One That I Am Not

Date: Sunday, September 8
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Price: Free (excluding museum admission)
Language: English

A tour for adults will take place on Sunday, September 8, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. A guide and two Brazilian photographers will provide a different perspective on the current exhibition by French photographer Pierre Verger, who chose Bahia – a region in northeastern Brazil – as his home. This is an opportunity to bring portraits of Brazilian culture, so far away in time and space and so close to our emotions.

About the guide and photographers
Luiza Monteiro
Luiza is a sociologist, theater artist and museologist. She has published articles in theater journals and participated in anthologies on theater and fiction literature. In the museum field, she developed a project for the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa regarding documentation of museum objects based on the “Handbook of Standards” – an ICOM publication. As director of the museum department of FUNARJ Foundation in Rio, Brazil, she worked to democratize museum access with projects connecting students from peripheral areas and museums in Rio. With museum students, she developed a temporary museum ( Museu da Formiga) in a vulnerable community. She currently lives in Amsterdam and is a member of the Brazilian Citizenship Council.

Margo Dalla
For 45 years Margo Dalla has been a photographer, capturing the diversity of Brazilians and the world.
Journalist, photographer, videographer, visual anthropologist, host of an Instagram program in which I interview Brazilians on all continents.
On my travels around the world, I gather ideas and turn them into photos and texts that stir hearts and minds wherever I go.
I do my work freely and with a peripheral vision, with a journalistic eye that allows me to capture the action as it unfolds. I have degrees in Fine Arts and Digital Marketing.

Neyde Lantier
Neyde Lantyer is a Brazilian visual artist living in Amsterdam. She works with installations, video and photography among other media and techniques to reflect on migration, belonging, feminism and society.
She attended the Escola de Belas Artes of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and obtained a Master’s degree in Fine Arts/Intermedia at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Porto, Portugal. In the Netherlands, she attended the “Histories and Theories of Photography” program at the Art Academy of the University of Leiden (2008-2009) and taught photography, printmaking, video and film in various institutions.
Lantyer is also interested in exploring gender inequality in art and since 2018 she has been curating art projects and exhibitions focused on women artists, both in the Netherlands and Brazil.