Guided Tour: Past Disquiet

Each month during the exhibition Past Disquiet, Framer Framed invites you to join a guided tour. The next one takes place on 10 May at 14:00. This will be the last one led by curator Rasha Salti. After the tour, visitors can pose questions and share conversations. There will also be solidarity posters available to take home, donated from the collection of Jan Koperdraat and Toos Koedam. Afterward the tours, you are welcome to join a printmaking workshop: bring your own t-shirt, tote bag or jacket to get it printed with a lovely design by graphic designer Farah Fayyad. The exhibition series Past Disquiet traces its research to four forgotten ‘museums in solidarity’: the International Art Exhibition for Palestine (Lebanon, 1978), the Museum of Latin American Art in Solidarity with Nicaragua, the International Museum of the Resistance Salvador Allende, and Art Contre/Against Apartheid. These initiatives were intended as acts of solidarity, supporting the liberation struggles of the Palestinian people, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, rejecting the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and opposing the apartheid regime in South Africa. Despite their significant scale and impact, the presented collections have largely faded from historical memory – until now. Curators Khouri and Salti’s research journey followed threads from Beirut, Paris, Rome, Rabat, Baghdad, Tokyo, Venice, Santiago, Managua, Cape Town, and Amsterdam back and forth. Their investigation uncovered thousands of intersecting stories of visionaries who organised exhibitions, intervened in public spaces, and created a particular form of museum as an embodiment of their causes. Through compelling archival materials – documents, photographs, pamphlets, press clippings, posters, interviews and videos – the exhibition brings this shared counter-history of art practice and political mobilisation to light. This iteration of Past Disquiet (2025) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam casts a special focus on the history of artistic solidarity within the Netherlands, and particularly in Amsterdam where many solidarity organisations were based. It explores how international movements from the ’60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, such as the anti-apartheid, anti-Vietnam War, and Chilean resistance efforts, were met with local activism. The exhibition celebrates the creativity and enduring influence of these movements.