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      • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
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  • Over ons
    • Diensten
    • TBA wint Stimuleringsprijs AFK!
    • Vacature(s) >
      • Vacature Marketing- en communicatiemedewerker
    • In de media >
      • Bekladding van pand vereniging Ons Suriname en The Black Archives is poging tot racistische intimidatie
      • ‘Geen wegen blokkeren maar bruggen bouwen’ - NUC / TBA Statement
    • Samenwerkingen / Collabs >
      • HZT x The Black Archives
      • TBA x LUSH: Zwarte geschiedenis is Nederlandse geschiedenis
      • Patta x The Black Archives
      • So So Lobi 2 Winne x Patta x TopNotch
    • Meest gestelde vragen
    • Kijk met ons mee!
  • Doneren
    • Wat willen wij met de donaties doen?
  • Archieven
    • Archieven
    • TBA Podcast
    • The Black Archives Bijlmer
    • De Huiswoud Collectie
    • De Philomena Essed collectie
    • De Heilbron Collectie
    • De Willemsen Collectie
    • De Corsten Collectie
    • All Power To The People! Reading List
  • Agenda
    • 3/2 Film Screening 'What The Soil Remembers'
    • OOSTCAST: wandelroute & podcast
    • Manifest voor Zwarte Emancipatie >
      • Anti-zwart racisme - actieonderzoek
    • Events (Uit het verleden) >
      • 5/11 Museumnacht @ TBA
      • 21/10 Black Business Meeting 2022
      • 14/10: Hoe Dapper was Vrolik? Hoe Vrolik was Dapper?
      • Expo: Zwart Manifest @ OSCAM >
        • 4/3 2022: Finissage Zwart Manifest Expo
        • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
      • 30/9: Safe spacesessie met Jilllian Emanuels
      • 1/7 Keti Koti special @ Keti Koti festival Oosterpark
      • Erken 1 Juli Als Nationale Dag! #1juli
      • 2/7: DSGN-IN symposium: Pilot Bijlmer Dossier
      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
      • TBA Muur van Zwarte & Surinaamse helden
      • All Power To The People Reading List
      • Reeds geweest >
        • 6/11 Museumnacht: Black Joy As A Form Of Resistance
        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
        • Expo 'Surinaamse School' @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
        • TBA x Sonsbeek: Sound Waves of Resistance
        • Expo: Zwarte Beweging: #BlackLivesMatterNL
        • 25/9 Verzwegen Verzet: de zmv-beweging
        • 9/4 The Hidden History of The Moors @ Museum het Rembrandthuis
        • 19/1 101 jaar Ons Suriname festival
        • 15/10: Boekpresentatie Antonlogie >
          • Anton de Kom Schrijfwedstrijd
        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
        • 22/2 Memre Anton de Kom | Herinner Anton de Kom
        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Expo: Onze * Tori (2018)
  • Exposities
    • Expo: Facing Blackness | Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen
    • Pop-up expo 'Ga Terug En Haal Het' met Clarice Gargard
    • BLACK - the Expo
    • Exposities (Geweest) >
      • Expositie: 100 jaar Surinamers in Nederland
      • Documenta 15 x TBA
      • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
  • Webshop
    • Anton de Kom - Wij Slaven van Suriname
    • Interwoven histories t-shirt
    • Poster '10x meer geschiedenis'
    • Antonlogie
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  • Contact
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  • About us
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  • Donate
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  • Tours + Exhibition
    • Exhibition: Facing Blackness
    • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
    • Past exhibitions >
      • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
  • Buy
    • Poster '10x more history'
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Documenta 15 x The Black Archives

The Black Archives has been invited to participate in documenta 15. Documenta is seen as one of the most important art exhibitions and takes place every 5 year in Kassel, Germany. Our exhibition 'Interwoven Histories of Solidarity: Documenting Black Pasts & Presents' is part of the ‘Fridskul’ in the Museum Fridericianum, one of the oldest museums in the world.

Statement of solidarity (open letter, 10 September 2022): read the open letter "We are angry, we are sad, we are tired, we are united"

'Interwoven Histories of Solidarity: Documenting Black Pasts & Presents'
The Black Archives is a historical archive with a unique collection of books, documents, and artifacts documenting the histories and culture of Black Dutch emancipation movements, thinkers, and activists in the Netherlands and beyond.  The stories rediscovered in the archive challenge normative historical narratives which tend to whitewash histories of colonialism, racism, imperialism and its legacies in present day societies. The stories uncovered in the archive also show histories of a Black radical tradition and stories of transnational solidarity. Histories which seemed isolated and disconnected are more interwoven than we may think.     

Inspired by the practice of lumbung The Black Archives will share stories uncovered in the archive which show histories of a Black radical tradition and stories of transnational solidarity. We will present the international dimension of the stories of Black radical thinkers and activists Anton de Kom, Hermina & Otto Huiswoud. These histories seemed isolated and disconnected but are more interwoven than we may think.  

Extra chapter Facing Blackness

For Documenta 15 The Black Archives developed an extra chapter of the exhibition ‘Facing Blackness: Visual Representations of Black People and Their History of Resistance’ which is on view at The Black Archives in Amsterdam. In this extra chapter we highlight the role of German missionaries in the European colonies such as Surinam, the history of scientific racism in Europe, imagery about Black people & resistance against it.
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The exhibition at Documenta 15 includes art by: Raul Balai, Rossel Chaslie, Brian Elstak, Jaasir Linger, Iris Kensmil & Dion Rosina. 
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When? 18 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
Where? 
Fridskul, Fridericianum
More information and tickets via the Documenta website.

Exhibition and graphic design: Serana Angelista & Tyneisha van Veltum
Concept development: Jessica de Abreu & Mitchell Esajas
Production: Camille Parker, Gerardo Gomez Tonda, Hannah Rustomjee, Jomaira de Souza & Richard Weaver
Statement of solidarity & open letter

Since the beginning the lumbung community of artists and collectives have been faced with unfounded accusations of anti-semitism, racism and discriminatory practices.  The management of documenta 15 crossed another line with the creation of a "scientific" advisory panel. We refuse censorship, anti-Palestinian and racist practices and stand in solidarity with ruangrupa, our fellow artists, collectives and the brave Palestinian people.

Read the open letter via E-Flux.
Ruangrupa & lumbung

Indonesia based  artists’ collective ruangrupa is the Artistic Direction of documenta 15. They built the foundation of their documenta 15 on the core values and ideas of lumbung (Indonesian term for a communal rice barn).  Lumbung as an artistic and economic model is rooted in principles such as collectivity, communal resource sharing, and equal allocation, and is embodied in all parts of the collaboration and the exhibition.

More information about lumbung

19 June: Convo ‘Archives & libraries as sites of storytelling and community building’
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The three lumbung artists Keleketla! Library, The Black Archives, and Asia Art Archive come together to imagine and activate libraries and archives as sites of storytelling and community building. The conversation will also invite other lumbung artists to share their stories and culminate into an after party with music selected by the participants.

When? 19 June 2022
Where? Fridskul, Fridericianum 
Time? 4 - 6 PM


More info via Documenta 15 website.


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Openingstijden/Opening Times

De expositie is van donderdag t/m zaterdag van 11:00 tot 17:00 uur te bezoeken.  Neem contact op via contactformulier voor rondleidingen buiten het programma.

 You can visit our exhibition from Thursday to Saturday from 11AM to 5 PM, see current visiting hours and tours on our page 'Tours & Exhibition'. Check the website for our event schedule or contact us via the contact form.

(Rolstoel)toegankelijkheid/Accessibility

Momenteel beschikt The Black Archives niet over een speciale ingang en lift voor personen met een fysieke beperking en voor rolstoelgebruikers.  Er is een traplift bij grotere evenement bij ingang 19A. 

At this moment, The Black Archives does not have a special entrance or lift for person of disability. There is a stairlift available during our events at Zeeburgerdijk 19A.