Book launch 25 years BijlmAIR

CBK Zuidoost has been giving artists space to be inspired by Amsterdam Southeast for a quarter century. About the BijlmAIR residency program, the publication Live, Learn, Create…Repeat – BijlmAIR: 25 Years Artists in Amsterdam Southeast will be presented on Feb. 21, by CBK Zuidoost and publisher Jap Sam Books. With a special program and against the backdrop of the exhibition AIR In Southeast.

What does it mean to have a quarter-century residency in Amsterdam Southeast? For both the neighborhood and the artists – and for the Amsterdam art world? That’s what the bilingual publication Live, Learn, Create…Repeat is about . It contains a number of reflections as well as 99 profiles of artists, artist duos and collectives who have resided under the banner of BijlmAIR, CBK Zuidoost’s residency program, over the past twenty-five years.

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Impact

The book looks at the history of the residency, its various locations, how artists related and relate to the neighborhood and the impact of BijlmAIR. On the last day of the AIR in Southeast exhibition – which features the work of the artists in residency of 2025 – the book will be presented in a special program, which lasts from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Program

The first copy will be presented to Arts and Culture Councilor Touria Meliani, who will also give a speech. Before that, there will be a conversation about the importance of art residencies for creators and cultural institutions with artist/advisor Heidi Vogels and a video by writer/artist Bernard Akoy Jackson, artists Razia Barsatie and Yrene van Amstel will talk about their BijlmAIR experience, there will be a live performance by artist Ahmad Mallah, and there will be reflections on twenty-five years of BijlmAIR by Annet Zondervan and Renske de Jong, director and curator of CBK Zuidoost, respectively.

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Of course, there will be snacks and drinks at this festive occasion. Would you like to come? Then sign up in advance!