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Off the Map at De Richel, Amsterdam

With music from Ukrainian born Alex Tugushin about borders that turn into battlefields and documentary photographer Rachel Corner on trees that foreshadow and facilitate colonization. Further: graphic designer Floor Koomen on Nutopia, journalist Jorie Horsthuis on Hormuz and a quiz by researcher Suzanne Hendriks.

Suzanne Hendriks | 10 May 2026

Review

Phantom Islands

In Isle of Seven Cities, visual artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland explores geographical fictions: islands which have been mentioned on maps, but never existed in reality.

Jorie Horsthuis | 17 Dec 2024

In focus

Score!

Ten years ago, Conifa started organising the world championship football for unrecognized countries. Since then, it has sparked the imagination of a number of artists and journalists, and rightly so.

Suzanne Hendriks | 12 Jun 2024

Past event

De Facto Live #7

‘Nature Calling’. With journalist Milo van Bokkum about nature & borders, artist Esther Kokmeijer about Antarctica and activist Raki Ap about West Papua. Introduction by graphic designer Floor Koomen, quiz by Suzanne Hendriks. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis

De Facto | 20 Sep 2023

De Facto recommends Kurdistan

In the Shadow of History

American photographer Susan Meiselas created an extensive visual archive in collaboration with the Kurdish community. A retrospective of her work is now on show in FOMU, Antwerp.

De Facto | 28 Mar 2023

Review

Fighters on Flip Flops

Photographer Philippe Dudouit is one of the few foreigners who continues to travel to the Sahelo-Sahara region. His remarkable work The Dynamics of Dust gives an exceptional insight into the shifting alliances in this vast area that is often neglected in world politics.

Jorie Horsthuis | 4 Feb 2021

Review

Blood and Honey

In Blood and Honey: Encounters at the Borders of the Balkans, Dutch journalist Irene van der Linde and documentary photographer Nicole Segers set out to document the borders of the Balkans. The picture they show is rather grim.

Jorie Horsthuis | 13 Jan 2021

Review North Pole

Looking into the Past and Future of the Arctic

Two exhibitions are on show in the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, each give their view on the North Pole.

De Facto | 25 Apr 2020

Past event

De Facto Live #2

With multimedia journalist Pierre Crom about the Donbas, political analyst Wladimir van Wilgenburg about Kurdistan, designer Irene Stracuzzi about the Arctic and graphic designer Floor Koomen about the South China Sea. Moderation: Jorie Horsthuis.

De Facto | 22 Jan 2020

In focus Donetsk People’s Republic

War in Ukraine

In War in Ukraine (Lecturis, 2017), multimedia journalist Pierre Crom has documented the highly explosive situation in the Crimea and the Donbas region between 2014 and 2016, when Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence. With his pictures, Crom brings us closer to the people who got trapped in the chaos of war.

De Facto | 10 Jan 2018