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Contemporary art. Design. Performance. Politics.
Prinsengracht 526, Amsterdam

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COKO SPACE TURNS ONE!

When we started COKO in September 2025, we hoped it would become a place where people could gather, hang out, discover artists, and celebrate the art of performance.
And looking back at our first year, we feel that this vision is becoming a reality.
Through the COKO Happenings, we’ve connected artists and audiences, given artists a space to create and experiment new work, and given performance art the space and attention it deserves.

We marked our first anniversary with BUST, a powerful work by Anna Riley-Shepard and Maria Pisiou.

Thank you to all the artists, audiences, friends, collaborators, and everyone who has been part of this first year.

Happy birthday, COKO!

For more info and photos visit www.coko.amsterdam, link in bio
wearable sculptures by @natalia_manta

Supported by @afk020 (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts)

#cokospace

🎂@curumimcake taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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Curators in Crime @coko.space
wearable sculptures @natalia_manta for BUST @arileyshepard
@pisiou.maria
📸 Reinout Bos

#cokospace taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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A big and heartfelt thank you to AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) for believing in COKO Space and supporting our programme COKO Happenings Dissident Bodies. As a young, independent space, this support means so much to us. It gives us encouragement and strength to keep building a home for performance art in Amsterdam, where artists and audiences can meet, exchange ideas, and imagine new possibilities together. We are truly grateful for your trust and support! ❤️

#cokospace taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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Halloween at COKO Space:
We invite you to enter a Kafkaesque night:
On Thursday 29 October, COKO becomes the territory of Trevoga Collective, an Amsterdam-based choreography label and community of artists who resist convention: dreamers, doomers, and affect aliens drawn towards intensity.

Trevoga, which means anxiety in Bulgarian, creates experimental works that explore the emotional and cultural tensions of our time, moving between choreography, performance, music, fashion, and DIY culture.

We look forward to seeing you.

COKO Happenings
0000-00-00
by Trevoga x Softrot
Thursday 29.10.26 8 pm
COKO Space, Prinsengracht 526 H
* wheelchair accessible

0000-00-00 doesn’t fear the end of the world, but a world that never quite ends.

Through heavily processed vocals, comfort clothes, soft hexes, and disorienting dramaturgy, 0000-00-00 captures Softrot mid-molt.

Like an insect whose new exoskeleton hasn’t hardened, her world is unstable, suspended between incomplete images, worst-case scenarios and everyday rituals stuck on repeat. Her softness means she can only move wrongly.

Inflected by Trevoga’s fascination with grim aesthetics and algorithmic alienation, the work turns this suspended state into a condition rather than an exception. What happens when the act of becoming hardens into logistical obligation, when transformation ceases to promise renewal and becomes continuous labor instead?

Duration
45 m
Doors open at 8:00 PM
Performance starts at 8:30 PM
*Language no Problem

more info and get your ticket at www.coko.amsterdam, link in bio

Supported by the @afk020 (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts). taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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COKO SPACE TURNS ONE!

Since opening one year ago, COKO Space has been growing into what we truly hoped it could become: a place to meet, gather and celebrate the art of performance, giving it the space, attention and visibility it deserves.

Through our COKO Happenings, artists and audiences come together, new work takes shape, and performance art is not something on the margins, but at the centre of the conversation.

To mark COKO’s first anniversary, we’ve curated BUST, a tribute to the femme chest as a site of memory, power and resistance.

So come celebrate with us and raise a glass to the next chapter of COKO:

What stories does a chest?
BUST investigates the femme chest as a contested body zone, shaped by history, intimacy, and power. Drawing on punk’s disruptive energy, the work opens a personal, political, and sensorial archive. Two performers move through space, shifting landscapes as explorers in an archaeological site, revealing wild and poetic terrains. Breath, lungs and heart become their compass for navigating and unfold these layered stories.

BUST is a multidisciplinary performance by Anna Riley-Shepard and Maria Pisiou, created in collaboration with punk duo Persobag and visual artist and ceramicist Natalia Manta. The work brings together dance, music and wearable installation, combining practices of bodily archive, raw punk sound, ceramic and metal work.. Together, these elements create a visceral landscape where the chest becomes both intimate territory and a site of political and embodied resistance.

Duration
1 hour
Doors open at 8:00 PM
Performance starts at 8:30 PM
*Language no Problem
*This performance contains loud sound and may be distressing for some audience members.

More info and tickets 🎟️: www.coko.amsterdam
link in bio taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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Last Sunday at COKO Happening: Yalla Tnam
Sharing a few moments from this beautiful and moving performance by Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich-Krüger.
Inspired by the beloved lullaby made famous by Fairuz and informed by grief rituals from the Syrian Revolution, Yalla Tnam invited us into a space of care, remembrance, and reflection.
In light of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine, this special edition was dedicated to a peaceful show of support, with all ticket proceeds donated to humanitarian initiatives focused on Palestine.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make this gathering possible.

For more information, videos and photos, visit our website: www.coko.amsterdam, link in bio

Photo @thomaslenden
Video @bea_correa_

#COKOHappening #YallaTnam #PerformanceArt #ContemporaryPerformance #Amsterdam #Fairuz #LiveArt taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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During the evening of COKO Happening Yalla Tnam, taking place on Sunday June 14 @coko.space , you will have the opportunity to acquire original artworks from Palestinian Artist Ahmad Mallah, featuring selections from his ongoing portrait series, Precious Souls:

Precious Souls is a new ongoing series of original postcard-sized portraits, painted only in black gouache. Each work is a small meditation on presence, absence, and the fragility of the human soul. Stripped of color, these portraits reveal a raw and unfiltered intimacy—each one unique, yet bound by the same quiet simplicity.

 Price: €60 per artwork taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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After a seven-day artistic residency at COKO Space, (Love (Rocks)) presented the outcome of their creative process to the public with Losing/Steam, an experimental dance work that explores power, intimacy and resistance.

For more information, videos and photos, visit our website: www.coko.amsterdam, link in bio

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(Love(Rocks)) consists of Row Särkelä-Bassett and Shy Verstraete.

row is a performance artist based in Berlin working with dance, textile, video, voice, and land. Born and raised in Taos, New Mexico, their dance training is rooted in social dance and includes intensive periods with Minako Seki and at PERA Gau, Anfibia, and Tic Tac. row is recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation grant for their collaborative short dance film split mica (2026).

Shy is a belgian dancer, performance artist & make-up artist based in Berlin. They've had training at Motion*s Berlin and Tic Tac Art Center in Brussels. In Berlin, they’ve worked with Ausland, New Fears Gallery and Ponderosa, amongst others. Apart from using dance, text and voice in performance, they have facilitated drag workshops and work as a pole dance teacher.

photo by @thomaslenden
#cokospace taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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Yalla Tnam with Ahmad Mallah + Rebecca Lillich // Krüger

Upcoming Dates:
May 24- Broken Hearts at Rodekapje, Rotterdam NL
(@roodkapje_rotterdam @squish.rotterdam)
14.15

June 14- COKO Space, Amsterdam NL
(@coko.space)
20.00

July 2- Utopien26 at Pavillion, Hannover DE
TBA

A eulogy for the future, Yalla Tnam utilizes grief songs, lullabies and privilege to create a space for despair.

Thank you so much to MOMO festival/ Motel Mozaïque/ Amarte Fonds (@motelmozaique) and Kunstinstitute Melly (@kunstinstituutmelly) for having us, as well as the wonderful space Clublokaal (@clublokaal_breda) in Breda where Jesse Immanuel Bom’s (@immanuel_bom ) film of the piece can be seen as part of the exhibition (Un)harmed.

We were also happy to present the work during Amarte Wonderland at Club Raum.
(@amartefonds @club.raum)

Video shot and edited by Harvey Gibbs (@mr_gibbs1) at Frascati Amsterdam (@frascatiamsterdam @cometogetheramsterdam by @coko.space

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For this COKO Happening edition we are transforming the event into a peaceful act of solidarity with Palestine, bringing together performance, presence, and community. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Palestine-focused humanitarian aid initiatives Rebuild Gaza and The Sameer Project.
We warmly invite you to join us.

Sunday 14.06.26 8 pm
COKO Space, Prinsengracht 526 H
* wheelchair accessible
ticket 🎫: www.coko.amsterdam, link in bio

In this multidisciplinary performance, weaving together song, live looping, movement, and text, Ahmad Mallah and Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite audiences to witness a eulogy for the future.

Drawing on the Arabic children’s bedtime song Yalla Tnam, immortalised by the iconic Lebanese singer Fairuz, and blending it with grief rituals from the Syrian Revolution, the work unfolds as a moving meditation on care, loss, and remembrance.

Through it, the artists explore their converging and conflicting relationships to heritage, belonging, and displacement, reflecting on the distinct trajectories of their migration experiences and their shared present in the Netherlands.

Shared Bio
Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger are an Amsterdam-based performance duo intersecting the personal and political, performing open symbols to generate reflection, introspection and connection.
Their debut works The Ladder (2023) and The Price of Bricks (2024) utilize singular objects through multiple mediums as action-based performance art happenings.
Their new works, pulling blood from stone (2025) and Yalla Tnam (2026), dive into surrealism and heteronormativity through song, gesture and costume as an evolution of their process.
The duo has performed at Oerol Festival (Terschelling NL), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam NL),
Sismógraf Festival (Olot ES), and Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam NL), among others, and
recently presented their first full-length exhibition following a residency at Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem NL).

video by Harvey Gibbs taken in Amsterdam, Netherlands by @coko.space

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Yalla Tnam with Ahmad Mallah + Rebecca Lillich // Krüger

A eulogy for the future, Yalla Tnam utilizes grief songs, lullabies and privilege to create a space for despair.

Thank you so much to MOMO festival/ Motel Mozaïque/ Amarte Fonds (@motelmozaique) and Kunstinstitute Melly (@kunstinstituutmelly) for having us, as well as the wonderful space Clublokaal (@clublokaal_breda) in Breda where Jesse Immanuel Bom’s (@immanuel_bom ) film of the piece can be seen as part of the exhibition (Un)harmed.

We were also happy to present the work during Amarte Wonderland at Club Raum this past week.
(@amartefonds @club.raum)

Dates:
May 24- Broken Hearts at Rodekapje, Rotterdam NL
(@roodkapje_rotterdam @squish.rotterdam)

June 14- COKO Space, Amsterdam NL
(@coko.space)

July 2- Utopien26 at Pavillion, Hannover DE

Looking forward to welcome you into this world.

Video shot and edited by Harvey Gibbs (@mr_gibbs1) at Frascati Amsterdam (@frascatiamsterdam @cometogetheramsterdam by @coko.space

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Amuses bouches on @palet.company tiles @coko.space
&
Cheese and macarons served as a dessert buffet

Steak tartare
Gerookte radijs en labneh
Oesters met duindoorn en dragon
Crudité by @coko.space

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