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Following an enthusiastic first collaboration in 2024 in the form of an exhibition dialogue with the singular spatiality of Loods6 and based on Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, we are very pleased to present from 18 to 21 September 2025 a new extension in Amsterdam of the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, with this second edition of the Rencontres Internationales Loods6/Amsterdam.
One of the guiding ideas of the project is what Roland Barthes expressed in his inaugural address at the Collège de France in 1977, entitled “How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces”. There, he explores the possibility of a singular form of sociability, in which the independence of the individual coexists with a sense of collective belonging, the dream of a life both free and shared, without alienation to a discourse or ideology. Admittedly Barthes went on to see this as a utopian possibility, but the questions and issues remain as relevant as ever, and that’s what we want to share with the guest artists and the public over these four days.
For four days, the Bagagehal will be transformed into a living laboratory of discovery and sharing dedicated to contemporary practices of moving images. Circulating between the different spaces, similar to foyers, allows you to alternate between contemporary forms and practices, inviting you to a hybrid experience: screenings, carte blanche events, looped videos, live performances, artist talks and discussions.
The artists presented in the programme engage directly with our time, working through documentary and fictional images, through narrative as well as abstraction, to confront both the radical ruptures of the world and the possibility of living together. They do not claim to speak for others, nor to act the part of them, yet they do not speak without them either.
Rather than being diminished or subsumed by discourse, voices and perspectives are multiplied, expanded, and opened to new forms of understanding. In the same spirit, the programme does not seek to impose a single explanatory line that would confine the viewer’s interpretation, but instead recalls the complexity and attentiveness that reality demands of us. This approach is echoed in the performances and works that punctuate these four days, each addressing the fractures of our present while, above all, questioning the possibility of transformative individual action.
The programme of this new edition, free and open to all, is punctuated by numerous highlights. On the opening evening, 18 September, we will present a performance by Shahram Yazdani in collaboration with Broersen and Lukács, alongside screenings of “Shelf Life” by Meg Stuart and Laure Prouvost’s remarkable “Every Sunday, Grand Ma”. On 19 September at 5pm, a focus and conversation with Sebastián Díaz Morales and Ernst van Alphen, “Art in the Face of Collapse”, followed at 7.30pm by Gustavo Gomes’s existential performance “Tintinnabulum”. On 20 September at 4pm, a round table with three curators addressing the question “Will Museums and Contemporary Art Centres Disappear?”, and at 6pm Dora García’s performance-reading “Letters of Disappointment”, followed by the screening of her most recent documentary feature “Red Love”. Finally, on 21 September at 2pm, a carte blanche to Wendeline van Oldenborgh in conversation with Julian Ross, with screenings of “Obsada” and “Reading Group”; at 4.30pm an exceptional performance by Paula Rosolen, “Crash Test #5: THEATER”; and, at 6pm, as the closing event, a performance by Alisa Berger, “Domesticated Spectacle (Simulation)”, which, reversing the outside and the inside, will literally set the Bagagehal ablaze with a simulated fireworks display inside the building, speaking to us about freedom and representation.
Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig
Curators
Directors of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
