Date: 31 March & 1 April
Time: 10.00 – 17.00 (museum opening hours)
Cost: Free (excluding museum entrance)
For whom: Everyone, young and old!

Can you find all the paper Easter eggs?

Celebrate Easter at the museum! During Easter, paper Easter eggs are hidden on the outdoor square in front of the museum. Find the paper Easter eggs together with your grandma, friends, brothers or sister.

How does it work?
– Get a chart from reception showing all the Easter eggs
– Find all the paper Easter eggs
– Have you found all the Easter eggs? Go to the reception and who knows, you might get a treat!

Have fun!

Date: Sunday 21 April
Time: 14:00-16:30
Admission: Free on presentation of valid museum ticket for that day
Group: maximum 30 participants
For: everyone (children up to 12 years accompanied)

Booking instructions:
1. Book your ticket via this link
2. Select entrance Sunday 21 April 2024
3. Select a time slot before 2 p.m.
4.Select your entrance ticket and click on next
5. Select the workshop R.I.P. my Jeans

The Cobra Museum challenges you to create something new out of old denim. Do you have old jeans lying around at home? Or a denim jacket you no longer wear? Turn them into something new! Be inspired and guided by our professional museum teachers and create, for example, a denim flower still life, a handy storage bag or a denim vase. The possibilities are endless!

Photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn presents photos in MOØDe in which he explores the crossover between photography and the world of fashion. The exhibition features around two hundred photos, including Corbijn’s now iconic portraits of model Kate Moss, fashion designer Alexander McQueen and campaign photos for major jeans brands Levi’s and G-Star.

Afterwards, we will make an exhibition of all the creations together in the museum. This exhibition will then be on display at the museum for another week. Of course, you can also choose to take your work home immediately and not leave it behind.

Still have old denim lying around at home? Take it with you!

Foto: Evgeny Astapov

Kunst | vrouw | werk
(Dutch) Lecture by Sytske Frederika van Koeveringe

Date: Saturday 9 March
Time: 15.00 – 15.45 followed by Q&A
Admission: Free for museum visitors. Please register via this link.

In the context of International Women’s Day, the Cobra Museum has invited writer and artist Sytske Frederika van Koeveringe to speak on the occasion of her recently published novel Meeloper. Meeloper is a novel about work. Why is work so connected to our lives and even to our identity? In her book, Van Koeveringe shows in a completely idiosyncratic, original and humorous way how work is intertwined with all aspects of our lives and its value to our society.

During her (Dutch) talk, Van Koeveringe will reflect on the question of what work means to an artist anno nowadays. Does the work of an autonomous artist involve more than the final artwork you see, and if so, what exactly? How autonomous and free is an artist in this day and age? Where are the possible openings to make free work in a society that is mainly about high fixed costs, goal-oriented commissions and achieving successes, and what role does womanhood play in her artistry? This and more will be highlighted in a playful lecture on Saturday 9 March at the Cobra Museum.

Image: Raffaella Huizinga

Sytske Frederika van Koeveringe (1988) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and has since worked as a writer, painter and artist. She writes novels, essays, drama as well as poetry. Her second book – Dag nacht licht toch – was nominated for the Jan Hanlo essay prize. Her visual work is mainly recognisable by the amount of colour. She is currently working on a 5-by-5-metre painting canvas that will be on display at the Stadsschouwburg from July.

Website of Sytske: www.desjaak.com
Instagram of Sytske: @Im.all.orange

Date: Saturday 20 April
Time: 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Cost: €18.50, excluding entrance fee
Register: via this link

On the occasion of the exhibition MOØDe, the Vrije Academie is giving a (dutch) lecture on the world of fashion through the lens of Anton Corbijn.

The role of photography in fashion culture.

Fashion is everywhere. At the exhibition MOØDe in the Cobra Museum for Modern Art in Amstelveen, you will discover the groundbreaking relationship between fashion and photography, through the lens of the renowned Anton Corbijn (1955). Want to know more about how Corbijn embraces the terms “mood” and “fashion” in the broadest sense?

Register for this lecture by art historian Aldwin Kroeze via this link.

Concert by Fie Schouten bass clarinet & Manuela Tessi dance

Date: Monday 1 April
Time: 15.00 – 16.00 hours
Cost: free (excluding museum admission)
Register: you can register via this link

Sela (Aire) of November ’96 by Margriet Hoenderdos (1952-2010) is a 60-minute composition for bass clarinet and dancer, not performed for too long, thus unlocking Dutch heritage.

Hoederdos often gave her works the name of the month in which she finished her work, in this case November ’96, and she accompanied them from only very brief explanations. The music speaks for itself and the interpretation is entirely up to the listener. This work lasts 60 minutes and moves around one theme (theme ‘articulation’) on which very subtle variations are always made.

Manuela Tessi: What drives me in my work is the desire to understand the relationship between the musicality of movement and sound. In my movement research I look for sensuality and embodiment in dance, often referring to kinesthetic empathy, how is the movement read by the spectator, not only with the eyes and intellect, but perceived on a visceral level.

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The visitor in the spotlight!

Date: Saturday, March 30
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Admission: museum admission + 20 euros*

During this master class, Harmen Meinsma will introduce you to the magical world of (portrait) photography. Together you will first view the exhibition Anton Corbijn MOØDe and he will take you along a selection of his favorite photographs.

Then you will learn about the different aspects and roles involved in making an intriguing portrait photo. During the master class, of course, you will also get to work yourself and assume the roles of the photographer, the stylist and, of course, the person being portrayed. You will be encouraged to find the superstar in yourself!

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 a neccesity 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 ‘paradijsvogels’ 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 Kunsthal Rotterdam. In addition, his work has been published in FD Personal, NRC, Vogue Italia and Volkskrant Magazine. Harmen currently lives in Rotterdam.

In collaboration with Queer History Month, the Cobra Academy is organising Queer Dating at the Cobra Museum!

Date: Saturday 30 March
Time: from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (all day)
Cost: free (free with a valid museumticket)

How free do you feel? And how important is expressing your identity?

Take your date to the exhibitions: A Cry for Freedom! and Anton Corbijn – MOØDe. In good spirits and with an exciting/intriguing question booklet in your hand, explore the art in the museum and get to know each other better.

Cobra was an international movement of young, progressive artists. In the years after World War II, they caused a revolution: a breakthrough in modern art that continues to this day in art conceptions and artistic expressions. The joy of total spiritual and artistic freedom and spontaneity was to counterbalance the nightmare of war.

Freedom is not as obvious as it seems, it still has to be fought for. As you walk around the exhibitions, you will be challenged to think about freedom and identity.

Bring your date, share your perspectives and create lasting memories together.

The question booklet is available at the box office/counter

Image: Danny Griffioen, Thats What She Set

Guided tour: Saturday, 30 March
Starting time: 3pm (half an hour tour)

There are Dutch tours available on Friday at 2pm and 3pm, Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 2pm and 3pm

All tours are free of charge. You only need an entrance ticket to the museum.

In March we are organizing free guided tours for visitors, given by a museum teacher.

During this tour of about half an hour, you will discover the stories behind the exhibition MOØDe where Anton Corbijn presents photographs from his extensive oeuvre (between 1979 – 2023) in which he explores the crossover between portrait photography and the world of fashion. In doing so, Corbijn embraces the terms ‘mood’ and ‘fashion’ in the broadest sense.

“I predominantly photograph personalities, but fashion is increasingly part of it. We all decide every morning what we will wear that day, even if it is just a hat or a black T-shirt. Fashion is not always spelled with a capital F.” — Anton Corbijn