Jacob Dwyer, Spreekbuis, metal pipe and horn with speaker, technical production & install Tom Jaspers / Artvark Projects

This summer we developed three new artworks and for the first time we organized walks and meet-ups on the streets, often in conversation with the artists themselves. Artists of this edition were Jacob Dwyer, Kristina Benjocki, Stijn Verhoeff and Sarah van Sonsbeeck. Reviews appeared in the Volkskrant, De Groene Amsterdammer and Het Parool. 

Dive into our ARCHIVE to discover more about the works. Prefer streetview? Click on the MAP at the side.

Read more here if you want to know more about Welcome Stranger.

We’re excited to share an artwork initiated and developed by Welcome Stranger featuring in the latest book of a Sacha Bronwasser, De lotgevallen. 

One of the stories in the book is inspired by Esther Tielemans' temporary art installation, Scenery, which was originally commissioned by Welcome Stranger during the pandemic. While the artwork is no longer physically present, Bronwasser has given it a new life through fiction. Her story explores the intimate, hidden lives behind the windows that Tielemans' work framed, revealing the subtle connections between art, space, and human experience.

As Bronwasser says, “Looking at art triggers a stream of thoughts—it’s a different way to confront reality.” This connects deeply with how we see the temporary installations resonate in everyday life. 

Read the short story here and discover how a fleeting artwork continues to inspire long after its physical presence fades.

Recently a publication was published entitled 'Schaepmanstraat - De Kempenaerstraat' in response to the artwork that Lucas Lenglet made for Welcome Stranger in 2020. The design is by Michaël Snitker.

On the occasion of this publication, Lucas Lenglet also has an exhibition at the Stigter Van Doesburg gallery, 'Caged' it is titled. It shows an overview of his cage and grid works (on display until March 2, 2024). In addition, the work is part of the Imagine Home exhibition in the North Brabants Museum (on display until June 2, 2024).

Find out more about the work below.

Welcome Stranger co-published an edition of De Gids. Besides an essay about Welcome Stranger by Marianna van der Zwaag, Mia You and Siel Verhanneman write letters to the one who is always a guest in their writing: the imaginary reader. There are also short stories by Richard de Nooy, Maarten Inghels and Wytske Versteeg, and an essay by Florette Dijkstra.

Also to be read in this issue: essays by Sander Kollaard, Anneke Brassinga, Donald Niedekker, Maria Barnas and Niña Weijers, stories by Hamed A. Nadoshan, Max Urai and Aska Hayakawa and poetry by r. skipper, Hans Faverey, Yasmin Namavar, Ghayath Almadhoun and Tomas Lieske.

Here you will find the issue of De Gids in Dutch. The English version of the text of Marianna van der Zwaag you find here.

Roos van Lint, Groene Amsterdammer, 7 juli 2022 

Press about earlier editions here 

Recording live from somewhere (Hoofdweg reflections) is a radio show hosted by Radna Rumping, live from her living room, somewhere on the Hoofdweg in Amsterdam. The radio show is as a 'hidden track', which appears a few months after the opening of the work Hoofdweg (a possible line), an audio essay that Radna made at the invitation of Welcome Stranger.

While the sound work invites the listener to take a walk and thus form a long line along the Hoofdweg (2.5 kilometres), this radio show returns back to the intimacy of the living room, behind the facade. Here, Radna's record collection is housed in a built-in cupboard, which she does not often look at anymore, but opens again for this occasion.

During Recording live from somewhere (Hoofdweg reflections) the living room turns into a radio studio for a while; invisible to the listener but still 'from somewhere'. Radna will play music for an hour that is loosely related to the audio essay, and will discuss thoughts and questions that arose both during and after making Hoofdweg (a possible line).

The broadcast can be listened to via jajajaneeneenee.com - 

The audio essay 'Hoofdweg (a possible line)' is available over here.

Tracklist:

La Monte Young - Composition 1960 #7
Sun Araw - Flote
June Tyson - Theme of the stargazers
Sun Ra - New Horizons
The Natural Spiritual Orchestra - We love roll call y’all (fragment Do the right thing)
Rammellzee - Beat Bop (instrumental)
Peter Tosh & The Wailers - Steppin Razor
Adrian Piper - The Mythic Being (fragment Other than art’s sake)
The Slits - Newtown
Massive Attack - Exchange (mountain steppers dub)
Yoko Ono - She hits back
The Raincoats - Ooh Ooh La La La
Quasimoto - Come on Feet
De La Soul - can you keep a secret? (skit)
Inoyama Land - Bananatron
David Byrne - Tree (Today is an important occasion)
Poly Styrene on privacy (fragment Who is Poly Styrene?)
Curtis Mayfield - To Be invisible
Finis Africae - Segundos y segundos y segundos
Joanna MacGregor - Moondog Sidewalk dances
Laraaji - All Pervading
Donald Byrd - Stepping into tomorrow