Amidst everything that has and is still going on, what is silenced and what reverberates? What is revealed and what is ignored? Is solidarity resonating? Do we perceive its echoes while some people keep being denied breath?
In the run-up to the public opening of sonsbeek 20 →24, we are more than excited to announce that our app is officially launched!
Read a glimpse of the web of reflections and associations that gave way to sonsbeek20→24, titled Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies by artistic director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.
public programme
On Sundays during July and August, we invite you to the Eusebius Church for a new kind of church. Fix up, look sharp, we invite you to sonsbeek sunday service. In this upcoming edition on August 1, our guest will be S*an D. Henry-Smith.
radio
Parasite Radio explores the (digital) ether as a possible exhibition space, situating sound and oral cultures, across histories, languages and geographies.
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion.
On the 12th of August we invite you to the performative book launch of exhibition participant Laure Prouvost.
Every Saturday from 10:00 to 10:05AM, until the end of August, city carillonneur Bob van der Linde will play a special composition created by artist Sam Auinger from the tower of the Eusebius Church...
editorial room no.4
A cacophony of voices, silences, whispers, thoughts, laughter and cries that question how gendered and racialised capitalism shape our understanding of contemporary labour conditions...
news
Reframing HERstory Art Foundation is welcoming youth from all walks of life to participate in a series of two workshops and delve into the importance of researching the colonial and slavery-past.
sonsbeek 20→24 is looking for volunteers this summer: a group of art enthusiasts, sonsbeek supporters and park fanatics will become a vital connection between artworks, surroundings, locations and our visitors.
The sonsbeek exhibition was initiated in an effort to help Arnhem recover from the severe damages the city suffered during the Second World War (The Battle of Arnhem). Since this first edition in 1949, sonsbeek has significantly contributed to and helped
We are looking for participants for a live performance/ intervention taking place in the city of Arnhem!
podcast
From February to May 2021, second and third-year students of BEAR (Base for Experiment Art and Research) ArtEZ became archivists excavating the Sonsbeek archive.
archive
In the run-up to sonsbeek20→24, we are creating a special archive that will bring together the present, past and future.
DJ Lynnée Denise created The Rhythm of Labor, a sonic blend drawn from a preexisting multi-media essay.
playlist
editorial room no.2
This playlist is a sonic quilt, an invitation to listen together. We firmly believe that there isn’t any better way to introduce sonsbeek than to start sharing mixtapes with you.
editorial room no.3
Mali is writing to tell her younger self, Marcue, about the turbulence the world is witnessing at the moment and how she continues to work during times of hibernation, loneliness, and longing.
editorial room no.1
"Film is: a quest for some kind of meaning, some purpose, for signs of beauty and life" A conversation between curator Aude Mgba and Hira Nabi.
In this music performance commissioned by sonsbeek, OTION blends elements of hip hop, storytelling, spirituality, and soul, within the DIY setting of his home in Amsterdam...
This roundtable stages a conversation amongst activists and cultural producers involved in feminist and queer of colour politics in the Netherlands from the 1980s to the present.
sonsbeek2024 international contemporary art exhibition in arnhem, the netherlands
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