The Great European Storytellers
Discover upcoming programmes on Europe’s future with inspiring writers and artists
During Forum, we explored “Artists Against the Tyrants” with Nino Haratischwili and Anne Applebaum and many more. This season, we continue that ongoing inquiry with some of the most compelling writers and artists of our time.
We seek out independent thinkers who create an antidote to authoritarianism: voices that challenge the belief that nothing can ever change, that strongmen will inevitably prevail. Through their work, they remind us that resistance, imagination, and courage remain powerful forces against resignation.
In the coming weeks, we welcome Georgi Gospodinov, Mircea Cărtărescu, Ece Temelkuran, and Oksana Zabuzhko. Each of them, through their own distinct forms of storytelling, confronts the urgencies of our time. How does the past shape the present? How can fiction bring suppressed identities to life?
Anne Applebaum at De Balie during Forum on European Culture
Featuring an immersive installation by Studio Julian Hetzel
A conversation with Ece Temelkuran about her personal experience of exile, and the political realities shaping our present moment. With an immersive art installation, by Studio Julian Hetzel, exploring the feeling of being “unhomed.”
Much of Ukrainian history has been misunderstood or overlooked. In conversation with Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko about her historical novel The Museum of Abandoned Secrets. How are traumatic events in Ukraine’s past remembered – or deliberately silenced? And how do unresolved histories continue to shape lives and identities decades later?
De Balie in je mail, werkt geestverruimend
