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Saturday, 10-10-2026, 20:00, The Black Archives, AmsterdamA collaboration featuring a live radio show, artistic research, and a conversation exploring how black queer histories are preserved, passed on, and reimagined.
Art Events in Amsterdam
Map viewToday, 10 October
Coward
Saturday, 10-10-2026, 22:30, Eye Filmmuseum, AmsterdamThe latest feature film from Belgian director Lukas Dhont, Coward is a drama about a queer love between two young soldiers during WWI.
Tomorrow, 11 October
Queer Crafting at Bar Buka
Sunday, 11-10-2026, 16:00, Bar Buka, AmsterdamJoin a cozy and creative afternoon for queer individuals at Bar Buka. Bring your own knitting, crafting, or drawing project, or get inspired to try something new in a friendly atmosphere.
Tuesday, 13 October
Coward | Pink Film Days Monthly Special
Tuesday, 13-10-2026, 18:30, Het Ketelhuis, AmsterdamLukas Dhont (Girl, Close) returns with Coward: a breathtaking love drama about two boys who find each other in the horrors of the First World War.
Wednesday, 14 October
Prisoner Correspondence Project Amsterdam // Screening: Criminal Queers (2015)
Wednesday, 14-10-2026, 19:45, OCCII, AmsterdamA screening of the film 'Criminal Queers' (2015), exploring the prison industrial complex through a queer and abolitionist lens, followed by a discussion.
Thursday, 15 October
Electronic Music and the Present
Thursday, 15-10-2026, 20:30, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, AmsterdamDJ Lynnée Denise and DJ Robert Machiri lead a listening experience and open conversation about the role of African electronic music on international dance floors and in Amsterdam's nightlife.
Friday, 16 October
Erotic Poetry Night - Berlin Special
Friday, 16-10-2026, 19:30, Tolhuistuin - Club, AmsterdamAn evening designed to awaken the senses through poetry, storytelling, music, and performance art, all centered around the erotic, featuring artists from Berlin and the Netherlands.
Saturday, 17 October
Kinky Masterclass 21: Body Modification
Saturday, 17-10-2026, 15:00, Mediamatic, AmsterdamAn inclusive safe space for curious kinksters to meet and be educated by experts about the world of fetish and kink. Everyone is welcome!
Wednesday, 21 October
Striptopia
Wednesday, 21-10-2026, 19:00, Melkweg, AmsterdamA reinvented strip club full of art. Striptopia is 90 minutes of pure energy, breaking stigmas and celebrating the art of pole dance, drag, stripping, and performance.
Thursday, 22 October
ADE X Plein Theater: Sex & Death
Thursday, 22-10-2026, 17:00, Plein Theater, AmsterdamAn immersive diptych exploring pleasure and loss through two one-on-one experiences: a performance on desire and a VR simulation about your own death and afterlife.
Saturday, 24 October
Kissable Screens: Looking Back by Porn Film Festival Amsterdam
Saturday, 24-10-2026, 20:30, Filmhuis Cavia, AmsterdamA film block from the Porn Film Festival Amsterdam revisiting historical sites of porn consumption and celebrating pioneers through archival footage and first-hand recollections.
Wednesday, 28 October
Simon Van Schuylenbergh / KWP: Dark Habits
Wednesday, 28-10-2026, 20:00, de Brakke Grond, AmsterdamDark Habits questions our longing for community in times of spiritual crisis and hyper-individualism, balancing between intense mystical rituals and clumsy YouTube vanishing acts.
KENKI KRIN KRIN
Wednesday, 28-10-2026, 20:30, Podium Mozaïek, AmsterdamKENKI KRIN KRIN is an interdisciplinary performance by creator and performer Cherella Gessel (she/he/they), in which different identities are peeled away and rebuilt layer by layer.
Thursday, 29 October
Final Girls Berlin Film Fest – Best shorts of 2026
Thursday, 29-10-2026, 20:30, Filmhuis Cavia, AmsterdamA screening of the best short horror films from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, showcasing work by women, trans, and non-binary filmmakers.
Friday, 30 October
Art Out of the Closet!
Friday, 30-10-2026, 16:00, Ramses Shaffy Huis, AmsterdamDiscover the creative works of twenty members from Roze Stadsdorp Amsterdam in this special weekend exhibition. A diverse mix of styles and disciplines from both amateur and professional artists.
Thursday, 5 November
FUTURE VOICES: Fluid Figures & Isle of Eros
Thursday, 05-11-2026, 20:00, Frascati, AmsterdamNicole Beutler Projects presents the makers of the future in a double bill about identity in motion, featuring a dance duet and a post-porn pop concert.
Friday, 6 November
The Hours
Friday, 06-11-2026, 19:30, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, AmsterdamThree women. Three time periods. The same struggle. A stage adaptation of Michael Cunningham's classic novel The Hours, connecting the lives of three women searching for freedom.
Saturday, 7 November
Museum Night: The Archive Is Alive
Saturday, 07-11-2026, 19:00, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, AmsterdamWith performance, music, visual arts, and storytelling, we explore the archives our bodies carry, and what in turn preserves us.
Thursday, 12 November
OUT LOUD, TOGETHER
Thursday, 12-11-2026, 21:00, Frascati, AmsterdamWhat if consent isn't the end of desire, but the beginning of the game? Step into a playful, sex-positive FLINTA* world full of pleasure and connection.
Tuesday, 24 November
Liturgy (solo)
Tuesday, 24-11-2026, 20:30, Cinetol, AmsterdamLiturgy is the project of Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, whose yearning, energetic 'transcendental black metal' moves between metal, art music, and sacred ritual.
Wednesday, 25 November
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man
Wednesday, 25-11-2026, 20:00, Royal Theatre Carré, AmsterdamMatthew Bourne's award-winning dance thriller, loosely based on Bizet's opera, reimagines the story in a greasy 1950's American garage-diner shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger.
Friday, 27 November
P4rTy GWoRLz N3v4h Di3
Friday, 27-11-2026, 20:00, Frascati, AmsterdamAn ode to 'brave spaces', radical friendship, spectacular failure, transformation, and bodily fluids.
Tuesday, 1 December
Judith Engelen: I met you once, I loved you twice
Tuesday, 01-12-2026, 20:00, de Brakke Grond, AmsterdamA visual performance based on Plato's myth of lost other halves, exploring the desire to love and the mistrust that can make it impossible.
Blue
Tuesday, 01-12-2026, 20:00, Eye Filmmuseum, AmsterdamDerek Jarman’s final, most daring film is a pure blue screen with a sumptuous sound design, reflecting on his life and battle with AIDS.
Friday, 11 December
Pornceptual
Friday, 11-12-2026, 22:00, Parallel, AmsterdamPornceptual is an art movement presenting pornographic art as queer, diverse, and inclusive through club nights, digital media, exhibitions, and screenings.
Tuesday, 16 February
HIT ME
Tuesday, 16-02-2027, 20:00, Frascati, AmsterdamA raw, confrontational performance exploring the thin, explosive line between attraction and violence, and the paradoxical nature of human desire.
Wednesday, 3 March
Louis Janssens - AMOUR
Wednesday, 03-03-2027, 20:00, de Brakke Grond, AmsterdamAmour is a performance about how love directs and defines our lives. Seven queer actors use their voices and bodies to tell a universal and loving story, like a heartbeat, a breath, a swirling sea.
Friday, 2 April
Holobiont
Friday, 02-04-2027, 19:30, Frascati, AmsterdamHolobiont is a five-hour happening that blends a queer rave, collective ritual, and anarchist playground. Performers and attendees explore identity, fluidity, and freedom in an immersive, transformative space.
Tuesday, 20 April
Ferenc Balcaen / NTGent: Please, Open The Curtains
Tuesday, 20-04-2027, 20:00, de Brakke Grond, AmsterdamSix performers embrace melancholy. Not as an illness or a romantic image, but as a powerful desire.
Monday, 3 May
Anne-Laure Vandeputte: Who's your Daddy?
Monday, 03-05-2027, 20:00, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, AmsterdamA theatrical performance by Anne-Laure Vandeputte exploring queer parenthood, family structures, and societal norms through the art of male drag.