Exhibition
13 Mar
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2025
Thursday
MASKS & MIRRORS: CARNAVAL RITUALS EXHIBITION
March 13, 2025

Dates: 13 March - 6 April 2025        Times: Thursday to Sunday 13h to 18h

Treehouse NDSM is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Masks & Mirrors: Carnaval Rituals, set to run from 13 March to 6 April, 2025. The group show will feature works from 11 artists, as well as special performances and workshops throughout the exhibition period.

Carnaval is a time of contradictions: shifting identities to express hidden parts of our fluid selves; blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy; rejecting established societal routines or expectations. The artists participating in Masks & Mirrors engage both with celebrations and tensions surrounding carnavals in different cultures and traditions.

The show also extends itself beyond the exhibition space to present an immersive performance. Daria Fedorchenko and Hannah Rojer’s performance The Jester of the Crown: An Aquarian Exploration blends music, movement, and ritual to question authority, identity, and transformation—echoing the carnaval’s subversive energy and its potential for renewal. The exhibition’s programme also includes workshops that you can find below. 

Through an eclectic mix of mediums and perspectives, Masks & Mirrors: Carnaval Rituals examines the magic, contradictions, and liberating power of carnaval. By exploring themes of masking and unmasking, fantasy and reality, celebration and resistance, the exhibition invites viewers to step beyond the everyday and embrace the transformative potential of ritual, identity and revelry.

PROGRAMME

  • 13 March, 18h | Opening Event
  • 22 March, 12h to 18h | Spring Equinox Masquerade - A confrontation with the monstrous: unsettling the status quo through storytelling, mask making, and performative actions on the street! Community Art Project and workshop by Julia Wilhem, NDNMK Solutions and PyroMuse. €7 pp. (max. 25 participants) |  Tickets 
  • 29 March, time TBC | Carnaval Accessories Workshop by Bruna Souza. €7 pp. | Tickets available soon
  • 4 April, 19h30 - 21h30 | The Jester of the Crown: An Aquarian Exploration. Immersive Performance Daria Fedorchenko and Hannah Rojer. €8 pp. (max. 12 participants)  | Tickets

Participating Artists: Yip Stals, Emma Shapiro, Jason Gardner, Naida Gomes Amorim, Ignacia Parraguez Agüero, Colina van Bemmel, Dilan Dibek, Vico Persson, Daria Fedorchenko (Anima Lab), Julia Wilhelm, Charlotte Apers, Hannah Rojer, NDNMK Solutions and PyroMuse.

/ This exhibition is made possible by the contribution of Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst. /

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PARTICIPANTS
Bruna Souza
JOHANNES-HARM HOVINGA
LOCATION
RESIDENTS
tt. neveritaweg 55-57
1033 WB Amsterdam, NH
NOORD HOLLAND