Exhibition History

  • February 25- April 11, 2015: Art History students added the Strijd ∞ exhibition to the visual culture of the Maagdenhuis until the eviction of all protesters.
  • May/June 2015: Strijd ∞ was shown at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
    • The Van Abbemuseum is renowned for its vision of a museum as a public sphere in which different voices can be expressed and heard. It is, therefore, similar to the demands of university protesters: more democracy. During the Maagdenhuis re-appropriation, the Rietveld Academy held its contextual programme there. As part of the event, Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum, discussed with students and staff. When he heard about Strijd ∞, he invited the exhibition to the Van Abbemuseum, offering the “room for urgent projects”. At the same time, the artist Ahmet Öğüt had his solo exhibition Vooruit!  (Forward!) at the museum and instead asked the work to be included in his exhibition.
  • Summer semester 2015: The Freie Universität Berlin held a high-profile lecture series entitled The Art of Protest.
    • Speakers included W.J.T. Mitchell, Ariella Azoulay, Gregor Raunig and Oliver Marchart. Contact was established between the organizers Frauke Surmann and Sara Dornhof and the Strijd ∞ exhibition group. They invited Amsterdam students and staff to participate in the lectures via Skype link. The exhibition was also installed in the room used for the lectures at the FU. After a number of weeks the images were removed by cleaning staff. 
  • September 2, 2015- January 18, 2016: At the exhibition space of the Turfdraagsterpad 15-17, Art History Faculty, University of Amsterdam.
  • ​December 3, 2015: Published as part of the pictorial glossary of an ongoing project of the "Nomos of Images" research project, based at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (KHI) in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.
  • May 9, 2016: Goldsmiths, University of London. Graduate Festival "Vehicles of Thought". Guest speaker Dr. Prof. Lerm Hayes discusses Strijd during the roundtable panel discussion "Learning to Make a Fuss".
  • May 18, 2016: BAK, Utrecht. "Strijd: Art, Activism and the University".  Panel discussion with the Strijd ∞ Curators, Charles Esche (Director of the Van Abbemuseum), Dr. Emma Mahony (National College of Art and Design, Dublin), Ahmet Ögüt (Artist), Gregory Sholette (Gulf Labor/GULG & Precarious Workers Pageant).
  • May 19, 2016: Archive2015: "Strijd: An Activist Exhibition in Context", Dr. Prof. Lerm Hayes speaks on a panel at the launch event of Archive2015. Archive2015: A group of UvA students and art students at AHK came together to preserve thousands of records of video, pictures, articles and social media entries, as well as dozens of banners, zines, printed material, and more. The project is now supported by the City Archive of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI).
  • November 10-17th 2016: Strijd was installed as part of the Commoning UvA working conference at BG3 Vox Pop. ​
  • December 13-15th 2017: Strijd ∞  installed at “Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis” conference, to be held in The Netherlands between December 13th and 15th 2017. The conference location will be at the Research Center for Material Culture within the Museum Volkenkunde (National Museum of World Cultures) in the city of Leiden.
  • Strijd ∞ article published: “Strijd ∞ - a Performative Exhibition.” Art for the Sake of Democracy, Issue 16 (2017): 133-141.
  • May 5-6, 2018 Strijd ∞ exhibited in Paris during the occupation at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in solidarity with the strike led by the employees of the postal service (La Poste). These protests also mark the anniversary of the May 1968 protests in Paris. Coordination by Aster Hoving and Solange Manche.
  • June 1, 2018 Strijd ∞ at Vox Pop at the UvA in conjunction with the program exploring the legacy of May 1968 protests.
  • October 18-19, 2018 Strijd ∞ at Fifth Annual ACGS Conference: Global Critical Pedagogies. Presentation by Tamara Breugelmans and Astrid Kerchman, ‘Strijd ∞: A Visual Contribution to the Contestation of the Neo-Liberal University' . Global Critical Pedagogies is the fifth international conference organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) in collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).
  • March 8, 2019 Strijd ∞ exhibited at Skek in conjunction with the Humanities Rally UvA programming on the 50 years since the 1969 protests.​