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Artist & Writer, b. Barbados, 1994.
Amsterdam, London & Barbados.
Representation: @copperfield_london
2023-25 Resident: @rijksakademie
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MEET THE PANELISTS! Tomorrow, September 24th, we're kicking off our fundraiser with Don't Go We Will Fund Them with a panel talk on crowdfunding for transition costs. Swipe to meet the people on stage 👉 Stella R. Portal (she/her) is our very own Head of Door at TILLATEC and will host and moderate the talk. She just finished her Master's in Gender and Women's Studies with a thesis on how Amsterdam-based trans DJs experience transitioning across both gender and genre. Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Amsterdam, working across drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video. Youssef Mahmoud (they/them) is a Cairo-born, Amsterdam-based community builder, door host, drag artist and political scientist whose research covers trans healthcare policy, pinkwashing and queer safety. Together they'll share first-hand experiences with crowdfunding for transition: how it can be an act of community care and solidarity, and also where it falls short, especially when it comes to online visibility and privacy. Tickets are pay what you can, starting from €10. Every euro goes towards transition costs that insurance rarely covers. Come early for the talk, stay for the food, performances and DJ sets. SEE YOU TOMORROW! 💋💋💋
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The Crooked Studio invites you to “May you read me like a poem”, with Ada M. Patterson, Gamze Öztürk, Jeltje Schuurmans, Luca Calderó, and Zela Odessa Palmer. Opening night: September 18: 17.00 - 22.00 Opening hours: September 19, 20, 26, 27: 12.00 - 17.00 Special reading by Luca Calderó on September 27, 15.00. May you read me like a poem frames the body as a universe — stratified, exposed, and quietly unyielding. The exhibition interrogates bodily discomfort as it’s molded by society — how we navigate the systems we’re born into, and where our own bodies feel inadequate against the ideals we’re held to. Drifting through an introspective space loaded with autobiographical work, the artists render identity, desire, and loss into a shared, subconscious vocabulary. Curated by Rayne Geurtsen. Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering what it means to change under duress and what life can look like under existential threat. Patterson is an alumna resident of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Courtesy of @ada_patterson_ & @copperfield_london Luca Calderó (Barcelona, 1999) is an artist and researcher. The backbone of their practice is writing, which they understand as embodied and expanded, taking the form of performance, text, video, or installation. They are currently researching vulnerabilty—the body’s capacity to be wounded—as a space of relation to the transcendent, a field they refer to as Somatomysticism. Calderó studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and are currently pursuing the Master of Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, with the support of the Fundación Botín Art Grant 2025–2026. Their work has received the Art Jove Producció Award (2023) and the Barcelona Crea Grant (2024), and has been exhibited at Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona, 2023), Punt WG (Amsterdam, 2024), Paradise (The Hague, 2025), and the Felicia Fuster Foundation (2026). Their performances have been presented at Hangar (Barcelona, 2025), the Joan Brossa Foundation (Barcelona, 2026), a
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From the playground with Barby Asante, to Soñ Gweha’s vocal workshops — we gathered, rehearsed, marched, wrote and plotted together over the first week of July, for the second iteration of Black Art Summer School (2026). This week-long program was special in many ways, and we are beyond grateful for the energy and compassion brought to each day from our participants and facilitators. Thanks to Tracian Meikle @tracianmeikle, Jason Allen-Paisant @jallenpaisant, Raimi Olakunle Gbadamosi, Emmanuel Ndefo @emmanuel_ndefo, Tobi Onabolu @tobionabolu, Odette Casamayor-Cisneros @odettecasamayor, Soñ Gweha @sonxseed, Raél Jero Salley @raeljerosalley, Negarra A. Kudumu, Päiviö Maurice Omwami, Ada Maricia Patterson @ada_patterson_ , Lyse Ishimwe, Wayne Modest, Black Archives, OSCAM & Bijlmerparktheater.  We look forward to seeing what will grow in the third iteration. Look out for our open call in the Fall!
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What does it mean to create as a trans femme artist in a world that so often demands explanation, performance, or resilience just to exist? From 17–26 April, the Fund’s Exchanges programme—made possible through the support from the City of Amsterdam—partnered with @losanglescollective to bring together trans artists from across networks for a 10-day interdisciplinary gathering rooted in collaboration, care, and artistic exchange. As part of the public programme at Domo, Seed Awardees Lucrezia, Princesa Hardcore, and Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı came together in conversation with Los Angles to reflect on artistic autonomy, survival, visibility, tokenisation, and the realities of working within systems that continue to marginalise trans creatives. Moving between personal experience and broader structural questions, the discussion explores the pressures of visibility, the exhaustion of constantly being asked to represent or explain oneself, and the importance of reclaiming storytelling as a form of agency. Throughout the conversation, the artists return to the necessity of community — not only as support, but as a condition for sustaining creative practice and imagining different futures together. At its core, the talk is a powerful reflection on resilience, collective care, and the importance of creating spaces where trans artists can exist and work on their own terms. Read the full story via link in our bio.
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22 mei 20:00 | doors open 19:30 | tickets from € 10,00 | language: English | Forsaken in the wilderness, talking to God when God feels absent, floating directionless in open seas, 'to she who treads water' offers a score that wails, grieves, rages, yearns and loves. A Perdu Avond with Ada Maricia Patterson, Yael Davids, and M. Maria Walhout , who call and respond through poetry, voice, sound, music and movement. Hosts: Marija Cetinić & Jimena Casas. More info: link in bio. Poster design: @alix.chauvet & @ada_patterson_ @ada_patterson_ @mmariawalhout @jimena999999999999 @em_sea__
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We just wrapped up our first Exchanges of the year! In collaboration with trans-femme led collective Los Angles, we brought together three Seed Awardees from the Fund’s global network—@princesahardcore, @lucr3z1a_, & @okyanuscagricamci—and three artists from the collective’s local network—@aron.saxe,@rrrrrrri7a, & @ada_patterson—for a 10-day programme of exchange, collaboration, and shared reflection. The programme kicked off with studio days at @productiehuis.nowhere, where the three artist pairs worked alongside one another across disciplines and mediums, seeing where their practices intersect and spark new collaborative works that were shown at the end of the programme’s public event. As part of the Exchange, the visiting artists also spent time immersing themselves in Amsterdam’s art scene first-hand. They were welcomed at @burostedelijk and @rijksakademie for guided tours where they could meet with the institutions’ curators and teams, during which conversations were sparked about sustainable artistic infrastructures and continued international collaboration. The week also created moments for public exchange. On 22 April, the programme featured a panel talk at @domo.culture, where the participating artists and Los Angles’ founders reflected on the marginalisation of trans communities, the politics of hypervisibility, and how to better support trans creatives in today’s contemporary moment. The Exchange culminated in a public art showcase at @studio.wieman, where the three artist pairs shared their collaborative studio work alongside local peers through visual art, poetry readings, performance, fashion, and a celebratory party featuring @jasonvgalen, @princess.vineyard, and @youngw0man. All images courtesy of @catareyesnavarro. With sincere thanks to @gemeenteamsterdam for making this Exchange possible.
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We can't wait to welcome you at @studio.wieman tomorrow, to showcase and celebrate the 10-day Exchange with @princeclausfund featuring collaborative works by @princesahardcore + @aron.saxe, @lucr3z1a_ + @rrrrrrri7a, and @okyanuscagricamci + @ada_patterson_ 💌 Doors open at 20:00, and the showcase starts at 21:00, so bring your friends and lovers early and stay late for a signature Los Angles party with @jasonvgalen, @princess.vineyard, @youngw0man and @smother.val. This event is free of charge. RSVP via the link in our bio🎟️
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Nowhere days. 🪭
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Hii Angles 💌 This week, we start our Exchanges programme with @princeclausfund and we're soo excited to bring three inspiring artists to town for a 10-day creative collaboration! We’re gearing up for two (free!) public events and want to see you cuties there 😙 𝟐𝟐 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 | 𝟏𝟔:𝟎𝟎 – 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 | 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐨 Join us for a panel talk at @domo.culture, where the three Exchanges participants—Princesa Hardcore (Paraguay), Lucrezia (Georgia), and Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı (Türkiye)—sit down with the Los Angles team for a conversation about the realities of navigating the cultural sector as trans creatives faced with issues of hypervisibility and marginalisation. 𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 | 𝟐𝟎:𝟎𝟎 – 𝐞𝐧𝐝 | 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 We will present a multi-disciplinary public showcase at @studio.wieman, where the three Exchanges participants will present their collaborative work developed with local artists from Los Angles’ network—Aron Saxe, Rita Bifulco, and Ada Maricia Patterson. The night then evolves into a high-energy party featuring some of the most exciting DJs on the local scene: @jasonvgalen, @princess.vineyard, @youngw0man, @smother.val and @lucr3z1a_. Join us for a programme that centres trans voices and lived experiences, creating room for exchange, reflection, and new forms of collaboration to take shape. Both events are free and open to the public. There’s limited capacity, so be sure to RSVP via the link in our bio.
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We had the privilege of hosting an intensive week led by artist, writer and educator Ada Maricia Patterson (@ada_patterson_). During this week, Ada led the workshop “Texts of Terror, Fits of Rage / Nurturing What Is at Stake by Any Means Necessary.” This workshop was an invitation to consider what is at stake, what threatens it, and how far—and by what means—you might fight for it. How might conditions of terror and expressions of rage help us know when we have had enough? And how might we live, think, and act differently after knowing when enough is enough? Informed by Black/trans/feminist literatures and “pessimisms,” and guided by collective reading and free-writing exercises, the workshop paid attention to what terrorises us and the work we do, to the feelings that drown and surface in our bodies around that work, and to the ways we nurture what is at stake for us through it. Sitting with fears to learn something about fearlessness. Sitting with rage so that we might pay it back and forward. How do we reckon with our rage? How might our rage become a reckoning?
 —— Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London, and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles, and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defence, and survival. Her work has been included in exhibitions internationally, including Prospect.6 Triennial, New Orleans, USA; Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now at Tate Britain; and The Whole World is Turning at TENT. Patterson was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow and is an alumna resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Image credits: Ada Maricia Patterson and Abel Hartooni
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We’re gearing up for two upcoming Exchanges events in collaboration with Los Angles, the Amsterdam-based, transfemme-run collective that uplifts and nurtures trans talent. 𝟐𝟐 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 | 𝟏𝟔:𝟎𝟎 – 𝟏𝟖:𝟎𝟎 | 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐨 Join us for a panel talk at @domo.culture, where the three Exchanges participants—Princesa Hardcore (Paraguay), Lucrezia (Georgia), and Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı (Türkiye)—sit down with the Los Angles team for a conversation about the realities of navigating the cultural sector as trans creatives faced with issues of hypervisibility and marginalisation. 𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 | 𝟐𝟎:𝟎𝟎 – 𝐞𝐧𝐝 | 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧 Los Angles present a multi-disciplinary public showcase at @studio.wieman, where the three Exchanges participants will present their collaborative work developed with local artists from Los Angles’ network—Aron Saxe, Rita Bifulco, and Ada Maricia Patterson. The night then evolves into a high-energy party featuring some of the most exciting DJs on the local scene: @jasonvgalen, @princess.vineyard, @youngw0man, @smother.val and @lucr3z1a_. Join us for a programme that centres trans voices and lived experiences, creating room for exchange, reflection, and new forms of collaboration to take shape. Both events are free and open to the public. There’s limited capacity, so be sure to RSVP via the link in our bio.
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From 17 to 26 April, the Fund’s Exchanges programme partners up with Los Angles Collective, the Amsterdam-based, transfemme-run collective focused on showcasing and nurturing trans talent. Exchanges is the Fund’s platform for creative cross-pollination: it connects Prince Claus Awardees with Amsterdam’s cultural landscape while building long-lasting relationships across the city’s diverse artistic scenes. The programme brings together three Seed Awardees from the Fund’s network—Princesa Hardcore, Lucrezia, & Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı—and three artists through the Collective’s network—Aron Saxe, Rita Bifulco, & Ada Maricia Patterson—for studio days, immersive art visits, and two public events. This 10-day interdisciplinary Exchange nurtures trans talent through Los Angles Collective’s “T4T” ethos, bringing six artists together in a programme rooted in collaboration and community. Connecting practices across drawing, text, fashion, and performance, it culminates in two public events while fostering enduring relationships between trans artists and audiences in Amsterdam and beyond. Learn more about the Exchange with Los Angles and sign up for the public events via link in our bio! Exchanges is made possible through the generous support from the Municipality of Amsterdam. Cover image by Jake Dennis (@jakedennis).
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