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Screen & Taste IV: Population Boom

The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner. Take a seat and enjoy. 

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our tasting, hearing and viewing senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato.

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Marcus Shockley and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching a film together and tasting delicious food.
€49,50 per ticket. This includes a movie and a 3-course dinner. Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.

“Excellent concept, the low barriers connect people. Love the living room vibes!”

– Gita

The film: Population Boom

directed by Werner Boote, AT, 2013, 94 minutes
Green | Society

There are currently about 7 billion people in the world and the number continues to rise. Are there too many people on planet Earth? Werner Boote takes on the overpopulation myth in a light-hearted global investigation. A cinematic journey with the masses between myth, facts and politics.

Watch here the movie trailer:

Program

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat.
19:00  Introduction of the concept and film by Sofia Mourato
19:10  First section of the film
19:30  Starter
19:50  Second section of the film
20:25  Main course
20:45 Third and last section of the film
21:20  Dessert
22:00  The End.

Menu

Screen&Taste’s 3-course menu is a special one. Every edition, a new menu is composed the by chef, based upon the story of the film presented. The menu is to supplement the experience of watching this specific movie. The menu is mainly vegan and sometimes vegetarian and might contain gluten and dairy.

€49,50 include movie and dinner. Excluding drinks.
Due to our time schedule, we can not take into account any allergies or dietary requirements.

About the team

Screen & Taste is organised as collaboration between Sofia Mourato (curator), Eric Haas (initiative) and @droog.

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as communication ecologist, film curator and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the  film competition coordinator.
More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com\ 

Eric Haas

Eric Haas (August 27, 1970) is a passionate social entrepreneur, initiator, out of the box thinker, concept developer, facilitator, and interim manager. He has specific expertise in co-working, heritage redevelopment, food distribution, circular economy, and ecological building. Eric works hands-on, proactive, and has a knack for building networks/communities and developing profitable, refreshing new propositions. “Screen & Taste” (a series of exclusive film dinners) was created in 2018 in Eric’s Wunderkammer in Amsterdam Oud-West, in collaboration with Sofia Mourato and Jorge Rochazul.

KomedieLab: Nina de la Parra *Uitverkocht*

Femilicious

Kut* wordt het. In één woord: kut*. Want KomedieLab wordt overgenomen door een zwerm vrouwen. Lees: Nina de la Parra en haar posse. Join deze multidisciplinaire bende. Met 3 gasten per avond en muziek van Sanne Landvreugd. We zijn woest. We zijn bloederig. We zijn kwetsbaar. We zijn heks. We zijn met elkaar. We zijn femilicious. Van spoken word naar beeldende kunst. Van rap naar stand-up. Van gesprekken naar zelfonderzoek. La de la Parra voert een nieuwe golf van feminine talenten aan. En op. En presenteert ze op haar geheel eigen wijze. Ze hakt, ze fileert, ze ondervraagt en reageert. KomedieLab kleurt eclectisch. En we zijn benieuwd hoe dat gaat klinken. Waarschijnlijk geweldig kut*.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT!

*Hier gebruikt in de willens en wetens volledig door vrouwen geapproprieerde oftewel femino-cultureel toegeëigende betekenis van het woord: ‘in verbinding staand met alle levende wezens op aarde, inclusief die van onze oermoeders.’

Over KomedieLab

Het is nieuw. Het is een experiment. En het is niet aan de Amstel. De Kleine Komedie gaat ook programmeren bij @droog: KomedieLAB. Een plek voor nieuwe verhalen, nieuwe vormen, experimenten en try-outs. Van nog onbekende talenten maar zeker ook van gevestigde namen. Zo wil De Kleine Komedie bijdragen aan de ontwikkeling van nieuw talent en het genre cabaret en kleinkunst verdiepen en verbreden.

KomedieLAB is gevestigd in The Grand Space van @droog. Net als De Kleine Komedie aan de Amstel is dit iconische gebouw rijk aan Amsterdamse historie. Zo zaten ooit de Staalmeesters in dit pand, geportretteerd door Rembrandt. KomedieLAB is een eenvoudige zaal; een blank canvas. Contrasterend met het traditionele pluche van de theaterzaal aan de Amstel, maar toch sfeervol en warm. De plek ademt kunst en experiment, wat het tot de ideale omgeving voor experiment en kleinere theatervormen maakt.

Deze voorstelling is uitverkocht

Exhibition See All This: Paradise Found with Piet Oudolf

Paradise Found with Piet Oudolf

It’s Piet Oudolf’s summer! On June 2nd, the See All This summer issue “Paradise Found” featuring Piet Oudolf has been released, and starting from June 3rd, the exhibition will be open to visitors at the gallery@droog. The gallery will transform into a green oasis for the first two weeks where you can purchase plants from the special Piet Oudolf Collection. Additionally, you can explore the exhibition showcasing artworks by artists such as Simon Heijdens, Zora Ottink, Naoko Benom-Miura, and Sophie Steengracht, which will be on display until mid-September.

Exhibition: June 3rd until mid-September
Temporary plant nursery: June 3rd until June 18th
Permanently on display: the new facade garden Amsterdam Low Line by Piet Oudolf for See All This

About the exhibition

It’s Piet Oudolf’s summer, globally adored for his wild gardens like the New York High Line, which revolutionized our relationship with the outdoors. His 300-hectare gardens worldwide opened our eyes to the power of perennial plants, creating gardens that maintain their beauty throughout each season. In this exhibition “Paradise Found” and the summer issue of See All This (no. 30), See All This contemplates what it means to be in nature: what it does for us and how we can align ourselves with its rhythm. Rediscover Eden, immerse yourself in the work “Lightweeds” by Simon Heijdens and other artists, and take home your own Piet Oudolf plants.

Just around the corner, at Groenburgwal, you’ll find Piet Oudolf’s Low Line, a new permanent facade garden that brings more oxygen into the city, specially designed by Oudolf for this occasion.

 

About See All This 

See All This is an art magazine that appears quarterly in print. An enthusiastic and captivating guide featuring special interviews and adventurous background stories about art, photography, fashion, nature, and travel. Since March 2023, See All This has been housed at @droog, where it curates (sales) exhibitions, dinners, and masterclasses in the gallery space. “Paradise Found” is their inaugural exhibition at @droog.

See All This No. 30 – SUMMER 2023

Photography: Inga Powilleit

Screen & Taste III: Acasa, my Home

Screen & Taste: A new monthly cinematic dinner experience

The concept is simple yet tasteful. Together we experience watching a film with impact on society and enjoying a 3-course dinner. Every second Tuesday of the month @droog.
Take a seat and enjoy.

Theme

The films will be curated to reflect on what makes cities alive, showcasing stories of climate crises, human connection and resilience, urban development, and design innovation. Together we have an interactive evening where our senses will be touched. The films are selected by film curator Sofia Mourato. When possible, the filmmaker will be present for a Q&A, moderated by Sofia.

“Excellent concept, the low barriers connect people. Love the living room vibes!”
– Gita

Dinner

All recipes are original, created by chef Marcus Shockley and inspired by the culture and environment portrayed in the film.
The menu enhances the experience of watching a film together and tasting delicious food.
€49,50 per ticket. This includes a movie and a 3-course dinner. Drinks can be purchased separately at the bar.

About the film: Acasa, my Home

directed by Radu Ciorniciuc, RO FI DE, 2020, 55 minutes (English subtitles)
Human Interest | Society

For 20 years, nine children and their parents lived in the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, in perfect harmony with nature, until they are chased out and forced to adapt to the big city. With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom.

“Heart-breaking and relevant”– Cineuropa
“An emotional journey” – Roger Ebert
“Lyrical and provocative” – The Hollywood Reporter

Watch here the movie trailer:

Awards

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography Sundance 2020
Main Competition DOK.international Award DOK.fest München 2020
Special Jury Award Thessaloniki Doc Fest 2020
Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Film in the International Documentary Competition Krakow Film Festival 2020
Best Moral Approach Award MakeDox 2020
Special Mention Focus Competition Zürich Film Festival 2020
Human Rights Award Sarajevo Film Festival 2020
Ulysse Price for Best Documentary Cinemed 2020
EFCA Doc Award Filem’On IFF 2020
Special Mention Maysles Brothers Award for Best Documentary Denver FF 2020
Human Rights Award “Balkan Horizons” Free Zone International Film Festival 2020
Golden Key Award for Best Feature Documentary Kasseler Dokfest 2020
Best Documentary Trieste FF 2021
Cine Junior Award Cine Junior 2021
Best Documentary Dublin International Film Festival 2021
Best Documentary Sofia International Film Festival 2021
Best Cinematography German Camera Award 2021

Program

18:30  Walk-in – take a seat. There are some appetizers on the table in case you are hungry.
19:00  Introduction of the concept and film by Sofia Mourato
19:10  First section of the film
19:30  Starter
19:50  Second section of the film
20:10  Short break
20:20  Main course
20:40  Third and last section of the film
21:00  Dessert – during and after the dessert, a talk will be guided by Sofia Mourato and Eric Haas.
21:45 The End.

Menu

Screen&Taste’s 3-course menu is a special one. Every edition, a new menu is composed the by chef, based upon the story of the film presented. The menu is to supplement the experience of watching this specific movie. The menu is mainly vegan and sometimes vegetarian and might contain gluten and dairy.

€49,50 include movie and dinner. Excluding drinks.
Due to our time schedule, we can not take into account any allergies or dietary requirements.

About the team

Screen & Taste is organised as collaboration between Sofia Mourato (curator), Eric Haas (initiative) and @droog.

Sofia Mourato

Sofia Mourato (Lisbon, Portugal) has always been inspired by how the processes of design, cinema, architecture and technology intersect. She is interested in connecting concepts and people in order to create something new at the intersection of knowledge with emotions. She appears frequently on and off stage as the former Lisbon architecture film festival founder and director, guest curator, moderator and member of the jury at various events such as the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the Budapest Architecture Film Days, Porto Design Biennale, Experimenta Design, AA Visiting School, One Minutes Foundation, among others. She is based in Amsterdam and works as communication ecologist, film curator and culture innovation agent. She also maintains her connection with the architecture film festival currently being held in Porto, as the  film competition coordinator.
More info: www.arquiteturasfilmfestival.com\

Eric Haas

Eric Haas (August 27, 1970) is a passionate social entrepreneur, initiator, out of the box thinker, concept developer, facilitator, and interim manager. He has specific expertise in co-working, heritage redevelopment, food distribution, circular economy, and ecological building. Eric works hands-on, proactive, and has a knack for building networks/communities and developing profitable, refreshing new propositions. “Screen & Taste” (a series of exclusive film dinners) was created in 2018 in Eric’s Wunderkammer in Amsterdam Oud-West, in collaboration with Sofia Mourato and Jorge Rochazul.

 

KomedieLab: Volmondig *Uitverkocht*

De ingrediënten: spoken word, muziek, poetry, stand-up comedy en woordkunst om van te watertanden.
Het menu: zeven verschillende performers, zeven heerlijke gerechten.

Aan tafel! Spoken word en spijs. Kunst en kost. Verwacht een woordkunstavond van 7 performers in een maaltijd van zeven kleine gangen, onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden. Woordchef Luan Buleshkaj, die furore maakt als spoken word artiest, presenteert de avond. Luan schotelt ons zeven verschillende acts voor, van kersvers talent tot gevestigde namen. Spoken word en stand-up, muziek en poëzie. Kortom, een avond vol woordkunst om van te watertanden. Volmondig ja!

Volmondig wordt georganiseerd door KomedieLAB. Meer informatie over KomedieLAB vind je hier.

Dit evenement is uitverkocht.

Exhibition Claudy Jongstra X See All This

Claudy Jongstra exclusively opens her archive for an exhibition in collaboration with art magazine See All This. Jongstra’s works go back two decades and offer a good overview of the artist’s extensive oeuvre. With samples and artworks made for various exhibitions around the world, this initiative is the way to get your hands on a unique artwork.

For one time only, leading up to International Women’s Day 2023, artist Claudy Jongstra will open her archive for a unique and festive exhibition. This exhibition will co-facilitate LOADS, the new extension of Studio Claudy Jongstra: an indispensable and dynamic place for educational and agricultural projects that encourage biodiversity and revive historical dye plants and craftsmanship.

About Claudy Jongstra

Claudy Jongstra creates monumental, tactile installations in shimmering colours. All materials used for her fabrics are locally sourced: the wool comes from Jongstra’s flock of Drentse heath sheep and the natural dyes come from the dye plants growing in the botanical garden surrounding the farm in the Frisian village of Húns. In her creative process, she reverts to centuries-old colour recipes and techniques. Her work is featured in the collections of museums such as the MoMA in New York, the V&A Museum in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Archive Sale Claudy Jongstra by See All This

Art Magazine See All This would like to invite you to the special Archive Sale with works by Claudy Jongstra at gallery@droog.
Around International Women’s Day 2023, SAT will organise a festive sale and exhibition with unique works from the artist’s archive.

For one time only, leading up to International Women’s Day 2023, artist Claudy Jongstra will open her archive for a unique and festive sales exhibition. This Archive Sale will co-facilitate LOADS, the new extension of Studio Claudy Jongstra: an indispensable and dynamic place for educational and agricultural projects that encourage biodiversity and revive historical dye plants and craftsmanship.

About Claudy Jongstra

Claudy Jongstra creates monumental, tactile installations in shimmering colours. All materials used for her fabrics are locally sourced: the wool comes from Jongstra’s flock of Drentse heath sheep and the natural dyes come from the dye plants growing in the botanical garden surrounding the farm in the Frisian village of Húns. In her creative process, she reverts to centuries-old colour recipes and techniques. Her work is featured in the collections of museums such as the MoMA in New York, the V&A Museum in London and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Experiential experiments #2 December 4th 2022

Raw mind+fulness is the second event in a series of curated experiences @ droog. This time, we will focus on debunking mindfulness and approaching it from a simple and mundane perspective. Again, we will co-create an inspiring space and focus on critical engagement with different artistic and mundane practices and objects through a multidisciplinary approach.

About Collaborators 

Uno

Ikebana is a traditional Japanese flower arrangement technique and philosophy. “Ikebana reflects the person who arranged it.” is the basic principle of Sogetsu Ikebana. Flowers, no matter how beautiful, come from nature. In the process, we use them to create beauty guided by our feelings and intuition. Uno Fujisawa, who has Sogetsu Ikebana experience of more than 10 years, will share with us ‘How to capture/ discover the beauty with Ikebana’. During her Ikebana journey, a hard lockdown happened back in 2020. Since then, she was forced to redirect her focus on using vegetables and fruits for making Ikebana, cooking and eating the materials used for Ikebana to express the concept: To feel ‘life’ is to feel ‘connection’.  During this workshop, we will all make our own Edible Ikebana and eat together the materials which you use for making it.  We will all feel more profoundly connected after this workshop.  

 

Sofi 

Sofia Lee is an Amsterdam-based visual artist, photographer and linguist. Her interests lie in discovering the limits of old digital cameras and documenting their history. On the 4th of December, Sofi will present a digicam photo-booth installation, inviting guests to take a more active role in image-creation and deepen their relationship with digital photography. Her booth will feature a full digicam-to-printer setup using retro equipment. Guests are invited to approach the booth and directly engage with the digital photo creation process in all of its steps — beyond just pressing the shutter button. Guests may also bring their own digicams for prints. Prints will be available while supplies last.

 

Nikita

Nikita is fascinated and determined to bring not only the highest quality tea but also to infuse the experience with aspects of mindfulness. During the event, Nikita will facilitate a matcha experience in his mindfulness corner, enabling everyone to visit and have a personal moment of peace. During this process, participants will have a chance to visit Nikita and have a personal moment with him. This moment can be the moment of stillness, vulnerability, or comfort … – anything a person might need at that time. By granting ourselves this intentional time of stillness and connection, we are encouraged to give space to anything that is requiring our attention at the moment. 

 

 

Curated by Xenia Sikora

Das Mag Yard Sale

Het is weer yardsale-tijd! (Licht)beschadigde Das Mag-boeken voor een spotprijsje. Dezelfde formule als altijd: een tas vol boeken voor €25 (!), bij @droog in Amsterdam. Tot de 13e!

€25 voor een tas vol Das Mag-boeken.
No reservation required.

Exhibition Bas Kosters: Sincerely Yours

‘Sincerely yours’ shows Kosters’ latest series of personal and loving drawings about being self-aware of emotions.

“How do I feel today?” The luxury of constantly reflecting on this is something Kosters occupies in daily life. But when thinking about feelings, the real feeling may also be overlooked. Opinions about feelings also contribute to this. Allowing but also rejecting the thought, the emotion is a game that you can keep yourself busy with. The emotional self-awareness takes place within us but also outside us, sometimes even publicly. Could it be a sign of a generation or an outcome of our hyper complicated lives? With this series of drawings, Kosters shows these often conflicting principles and emotions in a clear graphic style, in which the teddy bear as the main character plays a major role.

The exhibition is completed with an extensive selection of autonomous work that shows the inner world of Bas Kosters. This world, which is mainly known for his idiosyncratic, sensational fashion shows from the beginning of his artistic career, has been translated for several years now in drawings, rich tapestries, glass objects, soft sculptures and paintings.

With this own initiative, Kosters shows his work as an autonomous artist himself and for this he settles for the second time at Gallery@droog. The centrally located location forms an excellent backdrop for Koster’s work. The choice for an independent sales exhibition without gallery representation is an experiment to determine your own course. The exhibition ‘Sincerely yours’ is like a visual letter to the viewer; sincere, candid and loving.

About Bas Kosters

Since his graduation, Bas Kosters (1977) has worked with his studio on a variety of design and art assignments. This enables him to further develop and deepen his autonomous work. The course of his work is increasingly shifting from applied to autonomous. His 2016 solo exhibition ‘I want it to be soft’ in Museum Arnhem paid tribute to the adroit creative centipede he really is. Iconic is an overused term, but it certainly applies to Bas’s work, which includes actual fashion as well as costume design, graphics and illustration, installations and performance art, punkish publishing and engaged protests, commercial creative collaborations and everything that the artist wishes to file under his cherished fluid autonomy. He recently worked on glass objects with the National Glass Museum Leerdam, published a book with 100 portraits, has been able to create new work especially for various museum exhibitions and currently works as an artist in residence at the European Ceramic Work Center.

Artist Talk: Olphaert den Otter

On Monday 21 November, visual artist Ophaert den Otter gives an artist talk on the occasion of the exhibition Reality Check.

Reality Check is a solo exhibition by visual artist Olphaert den Otter (Poortugaal, 1955). The exhibition features 28 paintings in egg tempera on paper and canvas/panel, from the series World Stress Painting, Home Made, and Postcode. Most of these have never been shown before. They form a bridge between classical landscape painting and contemporary subject matter. This exhibition shows how beauty and engagement can reinforce each other.

In his talk den Otter spins a philosophical story around the theme of ‘worldview’. Is the earth the centre of the universe or a speck of dust? Do you think reality is malleable, or are we powerless in the face of the challenges ahead? Should we do something, regulate it, fix it, or should we meditate, like a hermit in a Chinese scroll painting? Den Otter demonstrates the themes using art historical examples and his own work, by engaging the conversation with the audience.

Olphaert den Otter will be introduced by the curator of the exhibition Reality Check Renny Ramakers.

The artist talk will be held in Dutch.
Ticket includes a free drink.

The exhibition Olphaert den Otter: Reality Check is on view from 10 November 2022 to 9 January 2023.

About the artist

Olphaert den Otter (born 1955, Poortugaal) studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Den Otter’s career spans over 40 years as a visual artist, a painter, animator, and, in the past, teacher at various academies. His work is included in various museum collections including the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Belvédère Heerenveen. Den Otter participated in group exhibitions in the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, and Australia. Besides his practice as a visual artist, he is a countertenor in the Rhetorical Quartet and lectures on cultural-philosophical themes. Olphaert den Otter lives and works in Rotterdam.

IDFA hub @droog

Internationaal Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) heeft dit jaar meerdere festivalcafés, waar @droog er één van is! Kom voor je IDFA documentaire een hapje eten of tussendoor even uitrusten in ons café.