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What Knots Knot Knots — Friesland

VHDG, Leeuwarden

Event
26 Jun - 30 Aug 2026

What Knots Knot Knots explores how the colonial past of the northern Netherlands continues to shape the present. 

Date
26 June - 30 August 2026
Opening: Friday 26 June 2026, 17:00–20:00
Location

In Leeuwarden, Cihad Caner, and Thato Toeba present new work that rubs up against the archival absences and abstractions in the maritime histories of Freisland, while Jori(k) A. Galama presents a film that was recently acquired by the Fries Museum. They explore how images, stories and histories that connect the Frisian context and its archives to wider questions of migration, language and belonging. Together, the three present a Frisian edition in which archives appear not as neutral records but as active systems that decide what is seen and what is left unsaid.

What Knots Knot Knots

Opening Friesland

Location: VHDG, Leeuwarden
Date: Friday 26 June 2026 
Time: 17:00–20:00h

Programme:
17:00 — Doors open
17:30 — Opening speeches
20:00 — End of opening 

Free admission, no RSVP required.