We are starting the new year with a new exhibition: The Broken Pitcher opens on Saturday 17 January with the Opening Forum reaffecting property, and continues over the coming months with a rich public programme. Join us for the seminar Monument Zero, about the International Women’s Day in 1979 in Iran, and for a monthly Tatreez workshop running from January to June. Below you'll find more info, details and how to visit!
A project by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina , Peter Eramian with Raissa Angeli, Dimitris Chimonas, Stelios Kallinikou, Athina Kassiou, Orestis Lambrou, Orestis Lazouras, Olga Micińska, Panagiotis Mina (Pyrgatory Studios), Faysal Mroueh, Keti Papadema, Nayia Savva, Nikos Stephou, Maria Toumazou, Rumen Tropchev, Emiddio Vasquez
The Broken Pitcher looks at the banking system and the potentials for changing the script of interacting with it. The project consists of a one-to-one scale model of the bank room, which functions both as an exhibition space and as a set which features in a 70-minute film that reconstructs a bank meeting.
In the iteration at de Appel, The Broken Pitcher foregrounds historical patterns of rupture through interlocutors who approach their practice both as a social score and as a means of confrontation and critical intimacy. In parallel to the walk-in installation, research material, video interviews and film, these contributions expand on the intent of place-making, calling for the urgency to and reclaim both space and narrative. Within this movement, the additional artistic contributions by Stelios Kallinikou, Olga Micińska and Maria Toumazou trace the dead ends of state bureaucracy and the collapse of banking as a social structure. ‣ Read the full announcement
📌 Opening Forum: Saturday 17.01.2026, 11:00–18:30
Join the Opening Forum reaffecting property for a walk-through with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina , discussions with Noura Alkhalili, Toula Liasi and film screenings of The Broken Pitcher. ‣ More info & schedule
Throughout the project’s span, The Broken Pitcher Forum activates a programme including open discussions, film screenings and a performance of a homonymous record released by the Cyprus-based label Moneda.
Further Public Programmes
📌 The Broken Pitcher Forum: reaffecting place
Saturday 31.01.2026, 10:30–14:00
With WORKNOT!, Spookstad & Lumbung Land working group
📌 The Broken Pitcher Forum: Film Screening & Talk at Filmtheater Kriterion
Sunday, 15.02.2026, 19:00–21:00
With Transit Levantkade (1990) by Rosemarie Blank;
Squatting the Archive by Luna Hupperetz & Kenneth Geurts
📌 The Broken Pitcher Forum: Film Screenings at Filmtheater Kriterion
Sunday, 15.03.2026, 19:00–21:00
With What the Soil Remembers (2023) by José Cardoso;
Fables for the Flood (2017-present) by Abdo Zin Eldin & Mahdy Abo Bahat
📌 The Broken Pitcher Closing Forum
Friday, 20.03.2026, 19:00–21:30
With a film screening of Aujourd’hui, on est là (2021) by Erika Roux;
Book presentation of LE GALION EN MODE RÉVOLUTION by Erika Roux,
Hadama Traoré, Cosimo Lisi & Building Fictions (Rudy Guedj);
Record Release & Performance The Broken Pitcher: A Soundbank
Meshkat Talebi, Sensorial Remembering: ACT III, Monument Zero.
This seminar, organised together with NICA, emerges from the publication Monument Zero, initiated by visual artist Katayoon Barzegar and writer/curator Niloufar Nematollahi. It revives the disfigured history of International Women’s Day 1979 in Iran, during which the first protests erupted not only against the mandatory hijab but also against the newly established state. These 6-day protests, sit-ins, occupations, and conferences took place in the capital, Tehran and other cities, including Abadan, Tabriz, Sanandaj, and Esfahan. ‣ To sign up and receive the reading list please email niloufar.nematollahi@yahoo.com, and see here for the full announcement
📌 First workshop: Saturday 31 January, 15:00–17:30
You are invited to join Rima Musa for a workshop on Tatreez, the traditional Palestinian art of cross-stitch embroidery. The session will trace the evolution of Tatreez from early village customs to its role as a medium of political expression among Palestinian women who advanced community leadership initiatives during the Intifada. The workshop will also address current practices, digital preservation, and the symbolism of Tatreez as an embodiment of love and resilience, carrying forward Palestinian women’s matriarchal insistence on memory. Participants will create a small embroidered motif at the end.
‣ The workshop will be repeated once a month, between January and June 2026. All skill levels are welcome, it is not required to attend all sessions. Capacity is limited, make a reservation here.
