Opening today 11 April at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons (till 14 June, 2026): across three interconnected exhibitions, "move not for reason but love" engages questions of historical erasure, the politics of representation, and archival silence, with each artist pursuing an imaginative exploration of embodied living memory as a counter-archive of history. Dear alumna Avan Omar (DAI 2015-2017) presents Zero Art, a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring how political upheaval and social transformation in South Kurdistan between 1990 and 2010 shaped artistic production and cultural memory. Click to read more, also about the other two artists that are presenting: Winnie Herbstein and Ama Josephine Budge.
Avan Omar Though initiated by Avan, her project unfolds as a collective cultural infrastructure that convenes and supports the work of artists alongside her own work, including Rozhgar Mahmood, Sirwan Shbr, Saman Rash, Shirwan Fatih, Sherko Abbas, Hemn Hamid, Walid Siti, and Zana Rasool; alongside reflections from Soran Rafat Ahmed, Rebeen Majed, Rahel Jabaar, Zana Rasool, and Narmin Mustafa.
About Avan Omar
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Winnie Herbstein presents We need to speak about living room, a new co-commissioned exhibition and film project examining community-led housing experiments and the conflicts that arise within them, unfolding across Kunsthuis Syb and Casco.
The sister exhibition opens this Saturday, 28 March, in Beetsterzwaag, Friesland.
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Ama Josephine Budge presents A Voyeur at the Keyhole, a multi-part installation of sculpture and archival materials exploring Blackness, mixed-race identity, queerness, fatness, and motherhood—and how these lived positions both exceed and are constrained by dominant categories of belonging.
The sister exhibition opens this Saturday, 28 March, in Beetsterzwaag, Friesland.
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Ama Josephine Budge presents A Voyeur at the Keyhole, a multi-part installation of sculpture and archival materials exploring Blackness, mixed-race identity, queerness, fatness, and motherhood—and how these lived positions both exceed and are constrained by dominant categories of belonging.
Save the date for: move not for reason but love
11 April–14 June 2026
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