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Exhibition: Close Up

A collaboration between VOX-POP’s Close-Up team and Allard Pierson Special Collections

What does it mean for a museum or university to hold a collection shaped by colonial power? And what might a more just and transparent space for knowledge production look like? Curated by five students from VOX-POP’s Close-Up team, Alicia, Eva, Madelief, Marina and Toer, this exhibition brings together interdisciplinary contemporary artworks in response to the Surinamica collection at the Allard Pierson.
Start date
11 June 2026
End date
2 July 2026
Location
BG 3
Room
VOX-POP

Through visual art, sound, textiles, poetry and other interdisciplinary practices, the participating artists reflect on colonial histories, institutional structures, memory and alternative ways of sharing and producing knowledge. The exhibition invites visitors to think beyond formal archives and explore how knowledge can also live through storytelling, rituals, embodied experiences and collective memory.

The exhibition is developed in dialogue with the Surinamica collection and the exhibition Not My Soul: On Slavery, Law and Freedom.

The exhibition will be on view until 2 July.

Opening programme: 11 June

The opening programme will take place on 11 June from 17:00-19:00 in VOX-POP. More details about the programme will be announced soon.