From July 22 until August 7 we host the 4th edition of the festival Queer Currents!   Queer Currents is an annual program with events, lectures, film, expo, dance and music on Queer topics. Their goal is to bring more diverse and inclusive, relevant content, culture and art to the Pride Amsterdam weeks. QC is … Continued

Reading Preliminary Notes for a theory of the Young Man. On Bart Groenendaal’s The Young Man as Movie Star   For the exhibition The Young Man as a Movie Star by Bart Groenendaal, Persis Bekkering, wrote an essay commissioned by ROZENSTRAAT, that she will read during the finissage.     Persis Bekkering (1987) made her … Continued

In The Young Man as a Movie Star, stereotypes of women are used to show different forms of ‘masculinity’. During the event Stereotypes and Cinema, artist Bart Groenendaal, film critic Dana Linssen and professor of Media Studies Jaap Kooijman will discuss the use of stereotypes in films. How are they formed and what is their influence on … Continued

A short film about love 1988 Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski 87 minutes In Polish with English subtitles   Friday July 15 8.30 pm. (doors will be op at 8 pm.)   Once again, Jeffrey Babcock shows a film within the context of The Young Man as a Movie Star by Bart Groenendaal. Don’t miss it! … Continued

The One Minutes Series ‘Squeeze Crush Press Blush’ part II curated by Afra Eisma and Marnix van Uum Wednesday 13 July 20.00-22.00 pm Free entrance   For a second night, on Wednesday 13 July, The One Minutes will hack the exhibition ‘The Young Man as a Movie Star: Paranoia, Opulence, Perversion, Competition’ by Bart Groenendaal at ROZENSTRAAT. The installation is an … Continued

Monument to a Dansenkater, het Aardappeloproer (Potato Riot), June-July 1917   For her performative walk Onze Roeping, on Joyful Militancy Mercedes Azpilicueta, together with ROZENSTRAAT curator Sjoerd Kloosterhuis collaborated intensively with Mieke Krijger of the Jordaan Museum. Monument voor een Dansenkater, het Aardappeloproer, juni-juli 1917, that is developed by Mieke Krijger, is the perfect walk for those who … Continued

This week on view at ROZENSTRAAT, next to The Young Man as a Movie Star by Bart Groenendaal and Ciudad Mujer Ciudad by Pola Weiss:   Black Butterflies a work in progress by Jonathan Hielkema & Jacopo Planet   In this musical documentary, the alter egos of artists Jonathan and Jacopo Planet set out on … Continued

Join us for the Panel session Other perspectives on ‘masculinity’ Wednesday June 29 8 pm. The conversation will be mainly held in Dutch   In Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men (2018), the American Psychological Association (APA) describes masculinity through a set of globally assigned characteristics. These are: “anti-femininity, heterosexism, the urge to … Continued

Mercedes Azpilicueta, Onze Roeping, on Joyful Militancy A performative walk  Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 July Starting point: 17:00 at ROZENSTRAAT- a rose is a rose is a rose  No reservation needed   Women have fought several times in history for the rights of the working class, despite the engendered assumption that they had no … Continued