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Lookback: Boomgaardsstraat 69 – New Theatre, New Art 2018

A brown box, hanging from a thread with text written on one side in red marker ink. The text says: Make A Universe Together. From Haar en Hem, a play created by WORM's Charlien Andriaenssens and Ivan Winter

WORM news archive -Press reactions to various Performance Bar RE#SISTER and Pirate Bay activities in S/ash Gallery and ... →

OPEN CALL: Ecologies, Big Feeling Machine

Hand drawn deer in red. Cave painting stile the line drawing features three humans under his tummy. On white background.

WORM talks to the Pirate Stitching Club

Colour photo of Dari Zaeva from Pirate Stitching Club, sitting in WORM's Stube, with a pink worm wrapped around her 2026

We talk to Dari Zaeva , organiser of the monthly stitching and craft meet up in Wunderbar Stube →

It Can Happen Anywhere – WORM interviews RESIDUE

RESIDUE gathering Precious, WORM, 10 February 2026 Discussing performance costumes and clothes, in the image, Marieke Coppens showing her self-made costume for her performance The O stands for: reenactment chalk rite (2020)

WORM talks to ieke Trinks and Nina Boas about their archiving work →

Interview with Bolotsa Collective – WORM X Amarte 2025

Photograph of the members of Bolotsa Collective on the side of a canal.

Get to know the collective behind the Party Party Workshop Series! 10 min read →

Rituals

poster for St.Elio’s Salon of Queer Indoctrinations is a series of performance nights that aim to generate communal, multi-perspective knowledge and awareness by collectively exploring different social concepts, relevant to queer thought. For the third edition of this performance night, the theme is “Rituals”.

Third edition of Salon of Queer Indoctrinations →

Gender-Queer Narratives

UBIK Performance Night / Salon of Queer Indoctrinations poster For the second edition of this performance night, the theme is “Gender Queer Narratives.”

Second edition of Salon of Queer Indoctrinations →

FILMTUIN 2025

Illustrated bright coloured design depicting creatures with heart heads sitting on deck chairs on a grass field at dusk, watching a film and eating popcorn. In front are two tiny insect creatures doing the same. On top of the image, it is written Film Tuin, Open-air cinema in Eendrachtstuin. In the right corner, it is written Eendrachtsstraat 113, Start at 21:3, entrance = free.

Free Open-Air Cinema in the centre of Rotterdam! This June and July →

Lookback: Sounding Here #4

A poster for Sounding Here with blur background

A night with Kyle Gregory Price & Yokolina, NDNMK Solutions, 'In Stillness' by Lola de la Mata →

Lookback: Sounding Here #3

An unexpected music event in Rotterdam again! →

Lookback: Sounding Here #2

A NIGHT WITH ENSEMBLE ECHOLAB, ESTHER MUGAMBI + MARC ALBERTO, CHARLES ANTONI →

Lookback: Sounding Here #1

A review of the first Sounding Here event here at WORM →

Robin Nimanong, Sugah, Gato, Guenter raler – Break The Algorithm

WORM X Amarte 2024 - Residency Interview →

WORM X Amarte “Algorithms” (2024) – Selected Projects

Image in bright blue and strong pink with white lettering an indistinct patterned design in the middle advertising the 2024 WORM x Amarte Algorithms project.

The finalists of WORM x Amarte's Open Call for Algorithms →

WORM 25 – Future focus – with Ratri Notosudirdjo

Ratri Notosudirdjo tells us about her work at and hopes for WORM in our WORM 25 archive →

WHAT IIIF? – Final Day

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Lookback: Electric Umbrella # 5

held on 23/04/2023 →

Lookback: Electric Umbrella #7

held on 11/06/2023 →

SABINE PENDRY & NADIA BAKHSI “AFFECT” (2023)

WORM x AMARTE 'Affect' 2023 winner: interview + project description →

MARTA WÖRNER & NIKOS TEN HOEDT “AFFECT” (2023)

A photograph showing two people - Nikos ten Hoedt and Martha Worner - standing either side fo a low light. The image is dark and the light projects a red glow. The title Dark Grey Almost Black is top left in yellow lettering. A number of pink scratch lines create a defacing effect on the image.

WORM x AMARTE Affect 2023 winner: interview and project overview →

WORM x Amarte winners 2023

WORM X AMARTE FOUNDATION →

WORM x Amarte 2023 – OPEN CALL for interdisciplinary makers

Are you a Netherlands-based creative who is interested in an interdisciplinary way of working? →

Extraordinary Lucha Libre Wrestling Show Series at WORM!

FULL PROGRAMME by Thais Di Marco | 14 - 17 Sep →

INTERVIEW: Bodies in Resistance

Image of two performers of Luche Libre wearing futuristic and flamboyant outfits at FLAM #9 Live Art Manifestation, Amsterdam. Some members of the audience, wearing masks, standing and sitting in background.

Goldfish... director Thais Di Marco in conversation with Anahi Saravia Herrera for Performing Borders. →

Labyrinth presents Tomer Baruch

On 11 june Tomer Baruch will play pieces of his latest album Synthesized Sounds of the Sea. →

O. gabber4lIfe – Hajo Doorn interview

Hajo Doorn and Louis van der Waal Hajo have created the theatre show Gabber4Life (a fairy tale). Catch this at O. in Ma... →

Meet the Artist: Thais Di Marco

Portrait of the artist Thais di Marco looking side on at the camera, wearing a black broadbrimmed cowboy hat with green and white feathers

Biography of Thais di Marco →

The Goldfish Bleeding – Modes of production 16 March – 16 April 2022

Photograph of Thais di Marco by Mila Cavalcante wearing a green feather boa and knee length black boots, posing with a white block against a coloured background.

Latin American form of wrestling and entertainment employed to work on questions around art-making in these neoliberal t... →

Main Funding Partners: Fonds Podiumkunsten

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Meet the Makers – Ratri Notosudirdjo

Colour photograph of a large and long continuous sheet of coloured material, in green, red and yellow portions. There are people in the material. The strip is on a playground in an urban area and in the background we can see people, looking on.

Short interview with Wunderplatz x Skills artist Ratri Notosudirdjo about her practice and why art belongs on the street... →

Look Back: Cinema Colombiano 2021

Colour photograph taken in a darkly lit room of a crowd, silhouetted against two screens showing indistinct coloured images.

This year the Cinema Colombiano festival was dedicated to female, non-binary and trans makers from Colombia! →

O. Interview: Thomas Azier

Analogue photograph from 2021 of Thomas Azier and another man, who wears a flat cap and a coloured scarf, standing in front of a wood-panelled wall.

WORM and The Quietus's Richard Foster interviews Thomas Azier about his performance in UBIK at O. Festival. →

Interview: Fons Burger

Colour portrait photograph of a white man with grey white hair and a black top, the man is looking to the viewer's top left.

WORM interviews sustainability activist entrepreneur Fons Burger about WORM's ongoing sustainability projects. →

RE#SISTER and the History of a Feminist Festival

Colour photograph of two brightly coloured cardboard placards leaning against a metal grille. The text on the one at the back in blue, says I Just Wanna ... the black text on the one at the front says, There is Pleasure There is Pain There is Power

Interview with Mariette Groot on the International Womens Day Festivals in WORM →

Feature: Avantgardistic Makers

Colour photograph of a projector standing on a table with another device in front of it.

WORM news archive - An overview of the WORM Avantgardistic Makers series of festivals Winter 2017 →

Feature: The Love Imams 2017

Image of a person kneeling over a lying figure wrapped in sheets looking upwards in an enclosed area, demarcated by a hanging tent-like sheet. The figures are bathed in blue light. Recording WORM's Museum Nacht installation, the Love Imams

The Love Imams are an art, design and performance collective. They were part of WORM’s Avantgardistic State. →

Lookback: Museumnacht 2017 – WORM’s Love Offensive

Colour photograph of a person lying in a sleeping bag on the floor of an installation

WORM news archive - Musesumnacht 2017 WORM presents a physical manifestation of the Avantgardistic State →

Feature: Looking back and forward – WORM in 2020-21

An essay from WORM PR Head, Richard Foster, accompanying WORM's 2021 publication, WORM in Beweging. →

Lookback: Self-Destructive Book Club #4 – An Art of Failure

Photo collage of a book with a busy and vibrant collection of various hand drawn images and cut and paste lettering superimposed over the top: Self Destructive Book Club. The background is black with a formulation of straight neon pink lines running centrally and horizontally

Lookback: Self-Destructive Book Club #4 - An Art of Failure by Agata Albu →

Lookback: TRICKSTER: HEROPERA: Untold Tales of Gynoid Heroines 2020

Landscape image of two actors dressed in white standing in front of a chequerboard projection. One actor stands a way behind the other, both arms raised as if carrying something above their head. The foremost figure is speaking onto a microphone. Part of the Trickster Heropera Residency 2016

WORM news archive - review of TRICKSTER: HEROPERA: Untold Tales of Gynoid Heroines by Marta Franzoso 2020 →

Lookback: Possessing UBIK for a month with Bernardo Zanotta 2020

Colour photograph of a young woman with an angry expression wearing a black crop top and shorts, kneeling, one hand on the ground, the other holding a microphone she is snarling into. Used to illustrate Bernado Zanotta's work 'The Repossessed' staged in UBIK in 2020.

WORM news archive - Possessing UBIK for a month with Bernardo Zanotta 2020 →

Lookback: Club Gewalt Rehearse Their New Opera, ‘Yuri.’

Colour photograph of eight young people, six standing two sitting in front, in colourful clothing. The image shows Club Gewalt, during the rehearsals for their opera, ‘Yuri’, in UBIK, spring 2017

A quick talk with Club Gewalt on rehearsing their opera, ‘Yuri’, in UBIK, spring 2017 →

News: 22-1-2018 WORM wins Best Podium: (VNPF – De IJzeren Podiumdieren)

Image showing two stag horns, centred, over the words Izeren Popdium Dieren. Between the horns, in white, the year, 2017. Purple background. To commemorate WORM winning IJzeren Podiumdier for Best Dutch Venue in 2017

WORM news archive - WORM wins Best Podium: (VNPF - De IJzeren Podiumdieren) 2018 →

News: 13-2-2017 WORM Residency at Hull City of Culture 2017

Digital photo collage of a ship smashing into Hull's Aquatic Centre and causing a huge fireball. In the background, one stanchion of the Humber bridge collapses. Various tropical fish leap out of Humber and the sky is pink as a consequence. On the ship, a sailor with a Huilie face salutes. On the Aquatic Centre, two aliens from UBIK stand and look out. Image made to commemorate WORM's week in Hull, UK, as a resident during Hull's City of Culture 2017.

WORM news archive - WORM Residency at Hull City of Culture 2017 →

REVIEW: WORM X MAMA CASH X KONTRA Feminist Festival 7-8 March 2020

Colour photograph taken from the top of the film seats in WORM Central Station of a number of people congregating, and dancing near the stage. A woman in a voluminous yellow top can just be made out, playing a laptop. Taken during WORM X MAMA CASH X KONTRA Feminist festival 7-8 March 2020.

Review of WORM X MAMA CASH X KONTRA Feminist festival 7-8 March 2020 →

Interview: WunderPlatz x SKILLS: Henrietta Müller and Charlien Adriaenssens

Dual promotional photograph of Henrietta Mueller and Charlien Adriaenssens. Henrietta is on the left, dramatically front lit and sideways to the camera, a set of lines suggesting shutter movement is to eth right of her head. Charlien stands frontally to the camera, head cocked to one side, opening her jacket to reveal a jumper with a meat-eating dinosaur on.

WunderPlatz x SKILLS project in Foyer and Wunderbar 2021, with Henrietta Müller and Charlien Adriaenssens →

Feature: Toine Klaassen: The Birdcage

Photograph of the artist Toine Klaassen, staning in a public space, with people behind him, looking on. Klassen, dressed in white, has a bird cage and various props at his feet, on a carpet. Promoting the IMACO residency in UBIK summer 2020.

Toine Klaassen IMACO residency in UBIK summer 2020. Interview By Marta Franzoso. →

Interview: Niek Hilkmann: Leuk Dat Je Niet Erbij Was

Colour photograph of Niek Hilkmann and his band, standing in front of what could be a warehouse door. Used to promote Hilkmann's LP, Leuk Dat Je Niet Erbij Was

Interview: Niek Hilkmann, over the covid-driven frustrations based around his musical project based round his 2021 LP, L... →

RESIDENCY: MINT NEST Summer 2020

Promotional colour photograph of the front of Slash Gallery with white lettering promoting MINT Nest event, summer 2020 residency, WORM S/ash Gallery.

MINT Summer 2020 residency, WORM S/ash Gallery →

Interview: The Red Bra. A Conversation with Marta Wörner

Image of the performance artist and dancer, Marta Wörner, balancing on what seems to be a one legged chair. Worner is parallel to the ground, one arm resting on the ground to create a pose. image used to promote Wörner's IMACO residency in UBIK Summer 2020.

Marta Wörner IMACO residency in UBIK Summer 2020. Interview By Marta Franzoso. →

RESIDENCY: Kate Shilonosova (RU) November 2018

Colour photograph of the Russian singer and pop musician, Kate Shilonosova, standing in WORM's UBIK theatre, back to camera, in a spotlight, surrounded by a table, an exercise bike and a step ladder. Taken during Shilonosova's residency at WORM, November 2018.

Kate Shilonosova dance residency in UBIK, November 2018 →

RESIDENCY: Eli Gras (GR) 2016

Eli Gras residency, WORM Sound Studios April 2016 →

RESIDENCY: Moeremans & Sons: Moral Auction Try Out 2016

Group photograph of the assembled cast of Belgian-Dutch Theatre company Moeremans & Sons in WORM Central Station standing against a wooden wall in a test-residency at UBIK in April and May 2016

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RESIDENCY: Trickster in UBIK: 2014-2020

Landscape image of two actors dressed in white standing in front of a chequerboard projection. One actor stands a way behind eth other, both arms raised as if carrying something above their head. The foremost figure is speaking onto a microphone. Part of the Trickster Heropera Residency 2016

Trickster in UBIK: La Donna E Mobile (2014) and HERO/PERA (2018, 2020). →

UBIK @ Hull – Boxing Without Poets

A landscape image showing six people, four teenager and two adults, wearing tracksuits, and in a makeshift. boxing ring made of cardboard and rope. The two adults, wearing blue tracksuits, have their backs to us. Three of the young people, all coloured and of Asian parentage, are wearing red tracksuits, one, white, is wearing black. Image taken at Residency in Hull, UK in 2017.

WORM Residency Humber Street gallery Hull City of Culture June 2017 - UBIK →

TREVOGA × SPELL_LOCKET

Mensen Zeggen Dingen #4: Met Sabina Lukovic, Oumaima Yahiaoui, e.a.

RADIO-MACHINE-THEATER

Salon of Queer Indoctrinations #6 -PUNKs

RESIDUE Gathering - June 2026

Mensen Zeggen Dingen Clubshow #3: met Rachad, Dean Bowen, Yanaika Zomer

UBIK Performance Night w/ SPELL_LOCKET with Magdalena Petrova

UBIK Performance Night w/ Salon of Queer Indoctrinations

UBIK Performance Night w/ Pelagic Ambient

BITCHCRAFT

de Construct Album Release with Ruda Krua & Puebla Sisters

Wij Zijn Het Archief

Singing Club

Singing Club

Mensen Zeggen Dingen : Clubshow

Singing Club

SPECTRAL IMPROV session #4 & #5

Dutch Modular Fest 2025

UBIK Performance Night / Visa Reveal Party 2

Sounding Here: Many homes between

UBIK Performance Night : Salon of Queer Indoctrinations

UBIK Performance Night w/ playful connection workshop by gentle juiciness

O. Lab #8: Hello Schatje, Adios Amour

O. Lab #7: large space in the back of the mouth

O. Lab #6: Trouble Score

CLOSER TO THE TRUTH - FORMS OF ART IN WARTIME UKRAINE

O. Lab #5 : Different Voices

O. Lab #4 : TRIBUNE

O. Lab #2: The Witch's Mark

O. Lab #1 : GRANIET

UBIK Performance Night w/ Pelagic Quadraphonic

UBIK Performance Night / 'Looking Forward' and 'Roaming the Realm'

Decomposing Manifest: Performances @ Dansateliers x WORM

UBIK Performance Night / Salon of Queer Indoctrinations

ZING EN WEES GELUKKIG over DIET KLOOS

UBIK Performance Night w/I'm a Robot and I need Therapy by Marina Orlova

UBIK Performance Night // Analog Camp

UBIK Performance Night / Salon of Queer Indoctrinations

Mensen Zeggen Dingen

Amsterdam Poets' Theater presenteert: De Keizerin. Met Amanda Payne en Gillis Biesheuvel

UBIK Performance Night / Move & Heal

Silent Sirens by Gerwin Luijendijk and Mirjam Somers

Crème de la Crème / Offbeat Records

Crème de la Crème / Snàck de la Snàck by Goblin Feast & Music performances

Crème de la Crème: Rise n' Shine sober rave w/ C00 & SCHUFFELEN ARTENTERPRISE & NatWood

Crème de la Crème / pen plotting and dance performances

Crème de la Crème

UBIK Performance Night / Salon of Queer Indoctrinations

Ample Space Between/ Sonic Installation + Sound Performance

MUSEUMNACHT 010 @ WORM!

Conny Janssen Danst: NEXT #2: PREMIERE

Conny Janssen Danst: NEXT 2: Avant-premiere

UBIK Performance Night w/ Museum of Shared Miseries

Midnight at the Circus

WE ARE SHADOWS SEARCHING door Eef van Breen en Nathalie Smoor deel 2

WORM X AMARTE: Break The Algorithm

Portal - Break The Algorithm

UBIK Performance Night w/ TRIAL SESSIONS by Nina Iggy, Mylan Hoezen & Nina Wijnmaalen

UBIK Performance Night w/ playful connection workshop by gentle juiciness

UBIK Performance Night w/ No Matter What / Day 2

UBIK Performance Night w/ No Matter What / Day1

Field Recordings 5 - Day 2

WE ARE SHADOWS SEARCHING door Eef van Breen en Nathalie Smoor

Dance: Body of Goodbyes by Teddy Shouldn't Smoke

write, share, read: LOVEWORK Travelling Theatre (CH)

SOLD OUT: Body of Goodbyes by Teddy Shouldn't Smoke

Art-Gang x LOVEWORK Travelling Theatre @ WORM #131

workshop @De Boog: LOVEWORK Travelling Theatre (CH)

Tot Onyx

UBIK Performance Night // Poncili Creación

UBIK Performance Night w/ ¿The Anatomy of Radical Action?

LAAL AASMAAN, HARA GULAAB, NEELI DHARTI

Sounding Here: Kyle Gregory Price & YoKolina, NDNMK Solutions, "In Stillness" by Lola de la Mata

Mezrab House of Stories: Rasha Hilwi, Sobhi Khatib, Sinin Nakhle, Chris Keulemans & Sahand Sahebdivani

UBIK Performance Night w/ PLETTIEPOES: Stacking cards & drinking coffee

Absence/Presence research of the Genetic Choir

PEOPLE'S CANTEEN / a post-communist dinner table

Sounding Here: Katrien Gaelens, Rachel Beckles Willson & Kotkamp + Magnúsdóttir

O. LAB: SING WITH YOUR MOUTHFUL

O. LAB: INNER VISIONS