H401 is delighted to announce the launch of a new European Collaboration: Peace and Mobilities. As a cultural partner within this consortium, H401 will contribute in the form of a number of artists-related activities, such as a residency.

Our new EU project (Erasmus+ Adult Education) TCZ will help museums and heritage sites to better connect with diverse audiences, recognizing all aspects of history, including conflict and dissent and problematic aspects in each society.

The EU-Funded project, Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues aims to discuss the problematic legacy of European colonisation found in museum collections and heritage sites. Via artistic research and action, it strives to increase the access, participation and representation of diverse audiences to the conversation on the former European Empires.

SPEME – Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia, comes back to Amsterdam, and H401, for another secondment.

Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia (SPEME) is a EU-funded (Horizon2020) programme of exchanges between academics working on memory, trauma and heritage and practitioners working at sites of memory in Italy, The Netherlands, Argentina and Colombia.

Productive Archiving – Artistic Strategies, Future Memories, and Fluid Identities is now available! Edited by Ernst van Alphen and published by Valiz.

Pasajes VI by Sebastían Díaz Morales, produced at H401 in the House of Gisèle, has premiered in June and July 2022.

Heritage Contact Zone (HCZ) is a EU project that investigates the potential of marginalised or contested heritage as a contact zone. The project has realised exhibitions and workshops across Europe and brought experiences together in a toolkit.

A travel magazine for those who are uncertain.

Perplex! is inspired by dialogues that began at Herengracht 401 and have extended into a method for opening up spaces and conversations - to be vulnerable even when it may feel impossible.

In this long term artistic research project Renée Turner explored the wardrobe of Gisèle in writing, photographs, videos, and illustrations. She reflects on the intimacy of the closet, a life-writing, history, the privileges of class, and the persona of the female artist.