POETS IN THE KITCHEN REVISITED | ANNE KRUL & TABEA NIXDORFF
June 20 - August 22, 2026

During their residency, anne krul and Tabea Nixdorff worked together as an intergenerational duo, using poetry, archival wandering, silkscreening and book making as artistic tools and mediums to explore broader questions about how to break silences, as a way to create and reshape supportive structures and practice solidarity and allyship.

ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
anne krul and Tabea Nixdorff met through their shared commitment to archiving the traces of marginalized queer and feminist lives—first in 2021, when Tabea encountered part of anne's archive at Atria in Amsterdam, home to the International Archive of the Women's Movement. It quickly became clear to them that their common interests also extend to poetry, literature, collage making, creative collaboration and social gatherings. For their Time Out / Tune In residency at Plaatsmaken, anne and Tabea explored their ways of co-creating further by using language as material to engage with, and to spark conversations around the questions that drive their work: Where and how do we find the courage to break through internalized silences? How can language, as an artistic medium, help to create or reshape supportive structures? How does solidarity emerge? Which archival traces in queer, people of color, and feminist archives are sources of unruly knowledges to us?

One book from the archives, which anne and Tabea have brought as a companion to their Ploegendienst is Zwart aan Zet (published by the Groep Zwarte Vrouwen Nijmegen, 1985). A sentence from the book’s introduction formed the central theme of the residency:

“Breaking a silence within yourself and a silence around you is such an act. It’s really not an easy one because: will the sound you produce resonate? And where does it arrive, and how long does it take before you hear the echo?”

Interested in the connection between a printed book, orality and space, the duo researched the questions above through reading and writing, as well as silkscreening and bookmaking—working with Plaatsmaken’s facilities and skilled workshop facilitators. Another important aspect was the collaboration with a weekly, Arnhem-based art workshop called Open Atelier. anne and Tabea wanted to deepen their engagement with their research questions by co-creating with this local group for which the connection between healing and art is central.  

For the Summer Gather Together, anne and Tabea present their residency research and works in the installation POETS IN THE KITCHEN REVISITED, which is both a nod to an artistic intervention from anne’s archives, as well as a broader acknowledgement of feminist efforts to challenge the hierarchies of where art belongs, where it is created. By questioning what words and worlds get to code and fixate these definitions, kitchen tables, sickbeds or support groups become spaces of resistant knowledges and creativity, where lived experiences translate into an errantry and openness that embraces a poetics of deviance.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The residency with anne krul en Tabea Nixdorff is part of the Time Out / Tune In program that Lenn Cox curated around Plaatsmaken's shared household. Read more about the program Time Out / Tune In.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tabea Nixdorff is an artist, typographer and researcher based in Arnhem. Her artistic practice involves writing, (self)publishing, sound and language based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives, or libraries, Tabea’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error.

Her artist’s books are held in several public collections, and her work has been featured in group exhibitions at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, Amsterdam (2024) and A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam (2025). In 2023, she founded the publication series Archival Textures, which centers on (re)distributing archival texts and ephemera, namely of queer and feminist archives.

anne krul is an Afropean visual artist, poet, archivist and activist. Among many other queer and feminist groups including the International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS) and ZAMI, krul was a member of Strange Fruit, an organisation for young queer people from different cultural backgrounds (1989-2002). anne krul is invested in creative discourse, activism, art and poetry to implement change: breaking silences, empowering each other, exploring co-creation.

As an artist, anne krul has participated in the group exhibitions Diasporic Self – Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca (Framer Framed, 2019), and Proud Aliens (2021), Hybrid Garden (2023) and Metamorphosis Manifesting (2024), as part of the artist community Open Atelier at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. In 2025, the unconventional retrospective ANAGRAMMA TICS featured the full scope of krul’s practice for the first time—anagram poetry, art making, education, organising, collaboration and intergenerational dialogue—at A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam.

Lenn Cox is a community organizer, artist, educator and program maker. Lenn explores solidarity economies by immersing herself in self-organised learning-working-living environments. Many with an eco-feminist and queer heart. Lenn initiates and organizes relational spaces and structures that facilitate collective learning. While engaging navigation cards and clothes as correspondence to transfer the exchanges she collects as topics of conversation. An ongoing research into how we organize ourselves, what we can learn from each other, and what is at stake in the cultural field and beyond.