PROGRAMME

EXHIBITION   23.04 – 31.05.2026
IT’S ABOUT EXPRESSIVE VARIETY 
CINETONE     

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Image  Patty van Hoften

Where the model long served as the point of departure, this fifth edition broadens that starting point once again. The works move between figuration and abstraction, between observation and imagination.

The exhibition demonstrates how diverse visions can coexist without losing their autonomy. Each work speaks in its own tone, use of materials, and rhythm. Together, they form a visual composition in which difference is not a contradiction, but a reinforcing element.

Through a wide range of techniques and materials — including canvas, paper, paint, chalk, ink, plexiglass, and collage — the multiplicity of expression is made tangible.

It’s about expressive variety is a plea for artistic freedom and for trusting one’s own signature style.

Come and experience the power of versatile expression!

 Artists  Hadewych Cels, Heleen Heintjes, Patty van Hoften, Erik Theissing, and guest artists.

Opening April 25 at 3pm

EXHIBITION PART 3    24.04 – 05.07.2026   
SELFIE OF THE SOUL – NDSM XPO XVIII    

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Image  Femke Moedt

Selfie of the Soul is art without a filter. In this exhibition, artists present work that moves beyond the polished façades of social media. Where digital platforms often display carefully constructed images shaped by expectations and ideals, these makers choose openness. They reveal doubt and vulnerability, but also strength, individuality, and a consciously self-aware gaze.

The exhibition consists of a series of solo presentations, each revealing a different facet of the soul. In a society that is increasingly polarized and inclined to place people into categories, Selfie of the Soul seeks art that uncovers the human being behind the mask. What happens when we approach one another not as a group or a role, but truly meet as individuals?

In Part III, six artists present their unfiltered inner worlds through solo exhibitions. Through installations, films, paintings, photographs, and more, you encounter both fleeting moments and the continuous movement of the soul. Themes such as balance and imbalance, shamelessness, incompleteness, and the transience of existence come together in these intimate presentations. The artists share their deepest layers and personal perspectives—everything flows, everything changes.

Selfie of the Soul III takes you into a fluid world and invites you to find your own place: who you wish to be, and who you truly are.

Artists part 3   Allard Boterenbrood; Femke Moedt; Neyde Lantyer; Paul Rinsma; Maria Escarpenter; Aron Vellekoop Leon   Curators  Carlien Oudes, Jolanda Lanslots

Opening April 24, 5 - 8 pm.

EXHIBITION    09.01 - 31.05.26 
HELLING X (RE)PRESENTS 
WUNDERKAMMER    

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Image  Hélène Min

In this exhibition, the artists of Broedplaats Helling X present themselves together for the first time. Drawing from their personal archives, they rediscover existing works and bring them together in unexpected combinations, creating new contexts and meanings.

Helling X (1922), the oldest ship slipway of the NDSM Wharf, is a monumental concrete structure that once supported ship hulls. Over time, the building has acquired a new function and now serves as the home base of the participating artists, providing space for their studios.

In 2007, Helling X was designated a national heritage monument. Ten years later, in 2017, the city council adopted a groundbreaking motion stipulating that the X-slipway should be preserved for so-called “dirty-hands artists”. This decision paved the way for the development of the creative hub.

Thanks to extensive self-initiative and self-management, the dedicated efforts of Municipal Real Estate, and the generous policies of the Bureau Broedplaatsen, this vision has been successfully realized. The new Broedplaats Helling X was officially opened on 20 March 2025 by Alderman Touria Meliani.

The new collective consists of 23 makers: visual artists, musicians, theatre makers, photographers, designers, builders, performers, illustrators, and a shoemaker.

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

THE ONE MINUTES

THE ONE MINUTES is a global network for one-minute videos. Every two months, new series explore our current time through moving images.

Through short, accessible films, The One Minutes creates spaces for free expression, collective imagination, and global solidarity in our diverse yet deeply interconnected realities. Submit your video! http://theoneminutes.org/participate

VIDEO INSTALLATION 
UNCOMFORTABLE ENCOUNTERS      
THE ONE MINUTES    

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Video still, Martha Colburn, 2024 Albania

‘Uncomfortable Encounters’ brings together 23 works that move between the banal and the brutal, from the absurdities of everyday life to the structural violences that shape it. These works expose situations of unease, moments that are laughable, painful, humiliating, confusing, or deeply distressing.

Josefin Arnell participated in the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten residency in Amsterdam, won the Theodora Niemeijer Prijs, was nominated for the Prix de Rome with a presentation at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and exhibited at WIELS (Brussels), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and Athens Biennale.

Participating artists: Michal Butink, Daisy Smith, Youssef Assaf, Julia Tarissan, Martha Colburn, Meshkat Talebi and Mana Tashakorinia, Anna Spanlang, Dindi van der Hoek, Laura Merendi, Milou van Vlijmen, Creston Brown, Julie Goslinga, Kubilay Mert Ural, crazinisT artisT, Female Handala, Mike Moonen, Teun Maessen and Jill Moonen, Hassan Mukhtar Abukar, Xinying Zhong, Sanie Irsay, Daniel Jacoby, Jianhui Deng, Giorgia Frigerio, Ron Pront.

Curator: Josefin Arnell

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.



NDSM FUSE IS CLOSED MARCH 23 to APRIL 22

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OPENING HOURS THU - SUN, 12:00 - 18:00

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