Museumnacht Amsterdam 2025
Join us during Museumnacht 2025 and experience an evening full of art, creativity, and music. Together with Afrovism, Foam invites you to explore a new way of looking at art and to ask: what does it mean to represent yourself in a world where image formation has become all-important?
In a series of workshops, installations, and performances, young creators explore the relationship between identity, representation, and image. From collage workshops with Sisters Janssen to jewelry making with Goldiie, a photobooth inspired by the work of Co Rentmeester, and vinyl listening sessions with 1.06 Library. This Museumnacht has everything to spark curiosity, creativity, and connection.
Fragments of the Archive: Identity and Image Formation
During Museum Night, we invite you to question, distort and reinvent your own image. In an age where images circulate faster than ever, but rarely show who we really are, it is time to take control.
This Museum Night, Foam asks the question: what does it mean to represent yourself in a world where image formation has become all-important? In a series of workshops, installations, and performances, young creators explore the relationship between identity, representation, and image. From jewellery as a sculptural expression of origin and memory, to collages that question and distort existing images. From redrawing archive photos to capturing your own face in a photographic installation.
Foam and Afrovism invite you not only to express yourself, but to reflect. Which stories are preserved, passed on, and which are erased? And what happens when we break open those archives and bring them back to life? This Museum Night, visitors are not only spectators, but creators of a new visual narrative.
Activities
Get Tooth Gems with 95Gems
What started as a passion for creative self-expression has grown into a leading name in the world of tooth gems — from classic subtle stones to custom designs, grillz and ear piercings. 95Gems is known for its high-quality, safe and stylish tooth gems.
Decorating teeth with precious materials is a centuries-old tradition. Modern grillz culture, however, began in the 1980s in the U.S., pioneered by Eddie Plein. After breaking a tooth in Suriname, he created removable gold caps, known as grillz, that allowed wearers to express their style without permanent alteration. Since then, grillz have evolved in material, style and craftsmanship, from minimalist stones to complex, custom-made designs.
At 95Gems, it’s more than a tooth gem – it’s an experience that makes every smile unique and unforgettable.
Jewelry making by Goldiie
Join multidisciplinary artist Goldiie (@bygoldiie) for an experimental jewelry workshop where you’ll transform crimp foil into a wearable sculpture. Guided by themes of movement, abstraction, and balance, participants will create unique pieces such as earrings, brooches, necklaces, or keychains. Inspired by the illusions of Blommers & Schumm, this playful session invites you to explore identity, memory, and storytelling through material and design.
Goldiie is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Curaçao. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, family, everyday interactions, and the stories that fill her world, she transforms these influences into art. For her, the creative process is a dialogue with her environment—one that merges culture, design, art, and music.
Walk-in workshop 19.00 to 23.00 hrs
Vinyl listening by 1.06 Library
Inspired by the work of Augusta Curiel, 1.06 library (@1.06library) will create a listening station where visitors can plug and listen into a selection of Surinamese vinyl’s.
1.06 library aims to stimulate, educate and enlighten all curious minds and supporters of music. During the entire evening, we’ll create a space that holds on archive of physical music selections curated by DRKNGHTS. 1.06 library is a place where you can emerge into a library filled with listening stations where you are encouraged to fully dig into the music.
19.00 until 00.00 hrs
Expressive Colour Session by Sabrina Silver
Join a 20-minute drawing session inspired by Augusta Curiel’s photographs. Select one image from a curated set and reimagine it with bold marks using pastels, markers, or coloured pencils. No experience needed. It’s all about colour, mood, and imagination.
Sabina Silver (@sabinasilverstudios) is a British-Ghanaian visual artist based in London and Amsterdam. She works primarily with acrylic, oil pastels, and pigment inks to create paintings that explore emotional tension, interiority, and diasporic memory. Entirely self-taught, Silver’s practice is grounded in the slow observation of emotional shifts.
Walk-in Workshop 19.00 until 00.00 hrs
Activities
Master Your Inner Co Rentmeester
During Museumnacht at Foam, you will have the opportunity to feel like the photographer and the model at the same time. In a specially designed photo booth, you can create your own portrait, inspired by the rich visual language of Co Rentmeester. Afterwards, you can take your masterpiece home with you.
19.00 until 01.30 hrs
Illusion Faces by Sisters Janssen
Tisja Janssen (@tisjajanssen) invites visitors into Illusion Faces, a playful collage workshop inspired by Blommers & Schumm. Participants will cut, layer, and transform familiar images into surreal new faces, exploring the line between the ordinary and the unexpected. Each guest walks away with their own striking collage, a one-of-a-kind memory of the night.
Tisja Janssen is a conceptual artist and one of the two creators of Sisters Janssen. She develops concepts and expresses herself visually through various mediums, including collages, installations, and creative projects.
Walk-in workshop
Tunes by Zoe Janice
For Museumnacht, Zoë Janice curates a special playlist that sets the tone for the evening.
The Amsterdam-based DJ and creative maker tells stories through sound. Her eclectic sets move effortlessly between Hip Hop, R&B, Afrobeats, Amapiano and Baile Funk – rhythms rooted in her Afro-Brazilian background.
Zoë is all about creating moments that move people – familiar yet unexpected. For this edition of Museumnacht, she brings her sound to FOAM with an exclusive playlist showcasing her signature, genre-fluid style. Zoë creates more than just a vibe, she tells stories through sound.
Meervaart Flash Acts
Be inspired by the flash acts at Foam during Museum Night. Young artists from Meervaart Studio will surprise you at unannounced moments throughout the night with spoken word, music and dance. Inspired by the photography in the museum, the artists will wander through the galleries in search of visitors who want to join them on their journey.
19.30 - 00.00 hrs
Afrovism
Afrovism (@afrovism) is an open-source platform that celebrates the Afro-diaspora. Founded by Faouziat Biera Faous in 2021.
Foam has invited Afrovism to curate the museum's Museumnacht programme this year. Afrovism encourages visitors to view the exhibitions in a different way, focusing on inspiring and embracing shared experiences, traditions and values that bring the diaspora together.
Museumnacht Amsterdam 2025 was made in collaboration with Afrovism.
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Museumnacht Amsterdam 2025