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📍Amsterdam
7 of november MAÏTÉ SUPERSTITIOUS ,NDSM
until 29 of november at No Limits! Art Castle

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Madalena Dimas @l.mada.l talks about her works Holy Cards, Flower Dream Tea Bag painting & Amulets

The intention of these works is to create a personal mythology through memory, craft, and rituals around dreaming, while exploring the relationship between the sacred and the undervalued. The relics are inspired by Catholic devotional practices, where imagery, handmade objects, and personal items of prayer are gathered together in domestic altars and oratories.

Plucking the Broom (4 September - 29 November)
Opening hours: 12:00 - 19:00 (Wed - Sun)
@nolimitsartcastle
Check the link in bio for upcoming workshops and events~

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Plucking the Broom - participating artists and works

In order of appearance:
@shannamariacasey “Participation”
@mugeyilma “Three Fires”
@venusjasper.earth “Mandragora Mortar (she/her)”
@shanileseman, multiple works
Lewis Parrington-Stack, represented by @wijdedoelen “Masked Villainess”
@rowanmoonlion, multiple works
René van Breene, represented by @wijdedoelen “Heksenverbranding 1 & 2”
@qiao_chu_guo “No Spell Lost” - series
Donne Dijkhorst, represented by @wijdedoelen “Schoonheid van een heks” & “Heksenvrouw”
@krijnkroes, “Rising Sun”, Rhythm” & “Fluere”
@anoukvanwijk “they sprouted a mouth instead of a flower”
@noazuidervaart “The Cast” & “Wyrm I to VI”
@cocosannehassink, multiple works
Kitty van Straaten, represented by @wijdedoelen “Regenboog heks”
@hannahvanderheide, multiple works
@b1elszcz00r “Circuits” - serie
@ginevraarvenig “The Possibility of Fascinating a Technical Object”
Jessica Magnin, represented by @wijdedoelen, multiple works
@l.mada.l, multiple works

Photography by @djangovanardenne

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Plucking the Broom is currently on show from 4 September - 29 November
Opening hours: 12:00 - 19:00 (Wed - Sun)
Free entrance @nolimitsartcastle

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Last Friday was the opening for the new exhibition Plucking the Broom. A show that invites you to look again at the figure of the witch. Not a character from a fairy tale, but people who fell outside the norm and who, despite everything, continued to care, share, make and dream.

Greeted with the special opening words by curators @sarahnuiver and @emmavangoor, and the opening initiated with the powerful ritual by Avery Oldershaw @witchlantern, it was an evening of reclamation, connection and great banter.

Thank you for stopping by @nolimitsartcastle and special thanks to all the artists that are currently featured in the Plucking the Broom exhibition. @mugeyilma, @venusjasper.earth, @shanileseman, @ginevraarvenig, @cocosannehassink, @l.mada.l, @noazuidervaart, @shannamariacasey, @qiao_chu_guo, @rowanmoonlion, @anoukvanwijk, @krijnkroes, @b1elszcz00r, @hannahvanderheide, and artists Kitty van Straaten, Jessica Magnin, Donne Dijkhorst, René van Breene & Lewis Parrington-Stack represented by @wijdedoelen.

Plucking the Broom (4 September - 29 November)
Opening hours: 12:00 - 19:00 (Wed - Sun)
@nolimitsartcastle

Photography: @hiddepost_ & @deqnisimo

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See you all tonight and/or tomorrow!

Here is a map of the church and last practical info and announcements. Please make sure to bring your blanket and pillow.

@calle.kitchen will provide a nourishing breakfast in the morning.

Our Dream Priestexes Victoria, Mada, Lindsay and Mel will welcome you and help with any questions.

Sound will be provided by @industryplant.sound

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🫧🦢💍🪽🛸🥄🖇️🫧

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A quick PSA on behalf of @emmavangoor and @sarahnuiver. Come to the opening of the new exhibition Plucking the Broom this Friday 4th of September from 17:00 - 21:00 @ No Limits! Art Castle!

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⚗️ As the effervescent bubbles escape the witchy crockpot and the brew is thickening, see what awaits you next week Friday 4 September in the programme below!

🧹 During the opening of Plucking the Broom, you’ll be welcomed with an opening speech by curators Sarah Nuiver @sarahnuiver & emma van goor @emmavangoor, followed by an invitation to join the opening ritual by witch Avery Oldershaw @witchlantern together with @lavenderxdreamcather en @aryennadoz

🎴 Avery Oldershaw (they/them) is a professional tarot reader and witch who began reading tarot in 1984. Their enterprise Witch Lantern @witchlantern covers tarot reading and workshops workshops in witchcraft practices, from traditional charms to chaos magic. Witchcraft has always lived in the margins!

Later in October Avery will also provide a workshop as part of our Plucking the Broom public programming. So, stay tuned!

🍷 Grab a drink afterwards and enjoy the works of the 19 Plucking the Broom artists: @mugeyilma, @venusjasper.earth, @shanileseman, @ginevraarvenig, @cocosannehassink, @l.mada.l, @noazuidervaart, @shannamariacasey, @qiao_chu_guo, @rowanmoonlion, @anoukvanwijk, @krijnkroes, @b1elszcz00r, @hannahvanderheide, and artists Kitty van Straaten, Jessica Magnin, Donne Dijkhorst, René van Breene & Lewis Parrington-Stack represented by @wijdedoelen.

Opening programme | Fri. September 4th @nolimitsartcastle
𝟭𝟳:𝟬𝟬 | walk-in + welcome speech by curators emma van goor and Sarah Nuiver
±𝟭𝟴:𝟯𝟬 | opening ritual by @witchlantern
𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟭:𝟬𝟬 | drinks and chit-chat

🧹 Plucking the Broom is on view from September 4 until November 29.
🔍 Curated by @sarahnuiver & @emmavangoor
🖼️ Poster design by @marieke.jpg

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Madalena Dimas - @l.mada.l
Sacred dreaming
In order to honour sleep, I fantasize and build a personal environment for prayer. A bed becomes an altar, pyjamas become sacred vestments, and an oratory is filled with dream imagery. Through textiles, ceramics, printmaking, found objects and installation, I transform everyday materials into devotional objects that celebrate dreaming as an artistic practice. By crafting rituals and materialising dreams, I explore imagination, memory and spirituality as forces that can inhabit ordinary life. My work invites the viewer to experience dreaming not only as a nocturnal event, but as a spiritual and creative practice.

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since last Saturday: working hard to install the Grad Show 2026 of @wdka_photography and @wdka_defineart in @c3.rotterdam !!! we will ve open from tomorrow Wednesday 8 July from 12-21h - there are performances starting from 14h and i will do an opening speech at 18h :) an amazing group of young artists is presenting really outstanding works so do miss this!!! After Wednesday we are open from 12-18h Thursday 9th up until Saturday 11th - we are building down Sunday so we’ll ve closed then!! looking forward to seeing you in Huismanstraat 30 Rotterdam Charlois

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✨ What a thrilling opening to WORLD PRi̶d̶e̶OTEST it was last Friday.

🪧 Twenty-one makers, activists and collectives came together to show what is important through their own protest posters, one virus art installation by Hasret Arslan, and three amazing collaborations between @patchworkfamily.official x @ramblerstudios, @bookblocbrigade x @swarm.movement, and @atjakoozi x @fullserviceproductions.

💬 During the opening, conversations with visitors revealed that some of the information on the posters was not widely known. All the more reason, then, not to forget that Pride is not just a month of celebrations, but also a month to reflect on the causes we are still fighting for! We want to return to the Pride of the past, where solidarity and protest took centre stage.

The visitor is just as important to the exhibition as the works themselves. What cause do you stand for today? We give you two options. You’re allowed to pick one poster for free, if you keep the promise to hang them in the city, and you can buy one poster as artwork for your home for only €10.

So, what are you waiting for? Come to the exhibition and bring one message into the city with us!

If you hang the poster somewhere, don’t forget to tag us @nolimitsartcastle!

🌈WORLD PRi̶d̶e̶OTEST
🗓️ 12 Jun – 23 Aug
🕔 12:00 – 19:00 (Wed–Sun)
📍 No Limits! Art Castle, Amsterdam

📸1-7 by @anemoia.tacenda, 8-13 by @djography, 14-19 by @loisnellyresa

#WORLDPRIDEPROTEST #NoLimitsArtCastle #AmsterdamArt #RedLightDistrict #ActivistArt #AmsterdamPride #WORLDPRIDE

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Magic cabinet designed by Mada for herself , 3 months healed.

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We’re beginning to wake up to bright spring days, so how do we hold on to our dreams of the night?

Come join us on Sunday, 26th of April, and make your own dream journal🌙🌙🌙✍️✍️✍️✍️ @l.mada.l will teach you how to stitch it together, and we’ll also also chat about all the different to express your dreams in the journal - from scribbles to mandalas to drawings🌀

☁️Madalena Dimas is a young Portuguese artist in love with the art of dreaming. Her artistic research involves crafting new understandings of the world during sleep and wakefulness. She blends drawings and textiles with neuroscientific, psychologic and spiritual insights.

We will provide materials, but we invite you to bring any extra stuff you may have at home - paper, fabrics, glue, old notebooks you want to repurpose, etc!

Entry is free with donations welcome❤️ Seating + materials limited, RSVP via DM to reserve a spot!

NOTE: At capacity, DM us to join the waitlist!

Sunday, April 26 | 14:00-16:00
Post-Office, Hoofdweg 403, Amsterdam

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