PROGRAMME

EXHIBITION    11.12.2025 - 25.01.2026
MWE – ME & WE
HELENA KAORI MAEDA 
SALON    

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Beeld  Helena Kaori Maeda

In the exhibition MWE, Helena Kaori Maeda presents her vision on how we relate to the Earth. Through a series of drawings, collected in a carefully designed leporello, she emphasizes our shared responsibility. We are in the same boat: we share the same oceans, the same land, and the same air. Her work reminds us that “mwe” exists — no “me” without “we.”

During the lockdown, Maeda noticed that many people were struggling with the same questions: Who are we, how did we get here, and what choices do we make? Out of this urgency, she developed a visual language without words, accessible to everyone. MWE becomes a visual journey from past to future, a pacifist protest, and a colorful call for connection in a world out of balance. The foldable, interactive booklet invites reflection, collaboration, and the shared search for possible solutions.

Opening Dec 12, 16.00 - 19.00

EXHIBITION PART 1   07.11 - 18.01.26  
SELFIE OF THE SOUL  – NDSM XPO XVIII    

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Photo Balthasar Prinsen

Selfie of the Soul is art without a filter. Ten artists bare it all, presenting work that transcends the polished façades of social media.

Where digital platforms often construct an image tailored to expectations, these artists reveal their doubts, vulnerability, strength, and a literally self-aware gaze.

The exhibition consists of two series of five solo presentations, each unveiling a different facet of the soul. In a society that increasingly polarizes and boxes people into categories, Selfie of the Soul seeks art that reveals the human behind the mask. What happens when we approach each other not as groups or defined roles, but in true encounter?

The participating artists explore diverse questions: Who determines who we are? How do heritage, time, and environment shape identity? Can the body serve as an instrument of the soul? Or is the soul a mirror of the people around us?

In addition to the solo presentations, a few interactive installations are part of the exhibition. One invites visitors to leave their own "selfie of the soul" through a self-portrait of their mouth.

Curatoren. Carlien Oudes, Femke Moedt en Jolanda Lanslots   Kunstenaars deel 1  Hotegni Daniel Dansou, Balthasar Prinsen, Merel Hegenbart, Esther Kin 
Interactieve installaties  Nanny Kok en Tiago da Sa Costa

EXHIBITION 09.11.25-04.01.26
SOFT RESET  
THE ORCHID AND THE WASP      
WUNDERKAMMER

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Photo The orchid and the wasp

Soft Reset invites a pause, a moment to realign. In a world of restlessness, abundance, and constant motion, this exhibition opens a space for attention, gentleness, and connection. Art becomes here a gentle restart: not by erasing what came before, but by tuning in again to what can emerge.

The participating artists open different paths into this slowing down. Charlotte Besuijn shapes playful creatures and cloud-like forms from leftover materials, hovering between recognition and imagination. Barbara Rink lets color and structure unfold in translucent layers where growth and decay coexist. Marlou Breuls and her House of Rubber explore the tactile border between sculpture and garment, as if material itself longs to breathe. Maud Oonk foregrounds the power of working and thinking together, where art becomes a shared encounter. In the paintings of Inge Thoes, nature and tradition resonate in works that are both comforting and alive. And in the woolen objects of Klaartje Gisolf, textiles appear as skin, carrying traces of vulnerability, birth, and transience.

Together, these works invite us to slow down, to sense, and to share. Soft Reset creates a collective pause in which silence, solace, joy, and encounter can exist side by side. A moment of gentleness in a time of many voices and rapid shifts.

Curator The orchid and the wasp   Artists  Charlotte Besuijn, Barbara Rink, Marlou Breuls, Maud Oonk, Inge Thoes, Klaartje Gisolf

EXHIBITION    24.11.25 – 18.01.26 
WIJ ZIJN DE TIJDEN     

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Where do we find hope in a fractured world?

Four artists from two generations of a single family — Alida Verheij, Winfried Scholz, Anne Verheij, and Jeffrey Choy — set out to examine this question together. Through monumental installations, powerful sculptures, layered collages, and embodied spaces, they explore the tension between external power structures and inner strength, between empty words and authentic connection, between the human lifespan and the eternality of nature.

‘Wij Zijn De Tijden’ is a visual journal that reminds us the most radical act is to be present. The exhibition challenges visitors to ask themselves: what does it mean to hold power and to wield it. How do we seek connection in an era of noise, and where is our place in the grand, elemental cycle of life and death?

Hope is found by taking responsibility for the space you occupy. We are the times, for we are here and we are not going anywhere.

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

THE ONE MINUTES

THE ONE MINUTES is a global platform for one minute videos. Every two months, THE ONE MINUTES releases a new series of one-minute films exploring our current time in moving images.
For 2023, 2024 and, 2025 THE ONE MINUTES will create a globally oriented program, focused on solidarity, collectivity and equal allocation, to make more voices heard.

For information about the latest series theoneminutes.org
Submit your videos and participate in the project theoneminutes.org/participate

CONTINUOUS VIDEO DISPLAY    04.12.2025 - 04.01.2026
PASSING THE LOVE        
THE ONE MINUTES
CURATED BY FEHRAS PUBLISHING PRACTICES

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Video still 'Is care a Chore', Julietta Acevedo

PASSING THE LOVE brings together 19 intimate One Minute portraits of individuals, friends, families, and collectives from all over the world as a tool for circulating affection; a visual diary of emotional landscapes.
LOVE here is imbued with profound meaning, not as pictured in Hollywood, but as a reflection of the complexities of shared human experiences and connections.
Fehras Publishing Practices, co-established in 2015 in Berlin, is a cultural workers collective. They interrogate questions of memory, political infrastructures of cultural spaces and history-making in relation to the geo-political transformations of Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Artists  Aimar Lomo & Sen, Amelie Befeldt, Amirali Ghasemi, Ato Malinda, bodhi_bodhisatva, The Comet Collective, Eduardo Garcia and Austin Miller, Elif Satanaya Özbay, Inès Heddar, Julietta Acevedo, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Makmur Djaja, Mana Tashakorinia, Prashant Chavan, projektado collective, Radu-Mihai Tanasa, Reda Merida, Remy Ryumugabe, Theo Tajes.

CADAVRE EXQUIS

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CADAVRE EXQUIS is a continuous artwork by Rienke Enghardt. CADAVRE EXQUIS is based on a children’s game that has been played all over the world for centuries. At the start of the last century the surrealists recognized the game as an expression of art and gave it its illustrious name. CADAVRE EXQUIS playful drawings that since developed give an impression of the zeitgeist of the turbulent years between the two world wars.
At NDSM FUSE is a permanent CADAVRE EXQUIS table with paper and pencils. The collected drawings, made by more than a thousand artists and visitors, displayed on the wall next to the table give an impression of today’s zeitgeist.



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