A time when the dogs barked every night

Woonhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025

Installation view, A time when the dogs barked every night, Woonhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2025. Photo Maarten Nauw

Exhibition Text

There’s something in the house. Someone knocks on the door. A fallen exit sign – dust taking a familiar shape. Water boiling, misting the windows. Steps pulsating in the marrow of the wall. The dogs barked for a reason.

A time when the dogs barked every night is a group exhibition brought together by the participants of De Ateliers. Woonhuis will house a patchwork of speculative gestures: as a body of apparitions, as the intangible materialities of belonging, as the inaccessible in personal or generational histories, as ghosts of the private space. In, or as a home, possibly haunted.

The exhibition features works by Cameron Clayborn, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Prem Sahib, Anastasia Sosunova, Abbas Zahedi, and Hazel Meggie Zander.

The show is curated by the second-year participants of De Ateliers: Finn Theuws, Flora Fritz, Greta Eimulytė, Levi van Gelder, Lizzy Deacon, Lorian Gwynn, Ruoru Mou, Sofía Salazar Rosales, Swan Lee, Tumelo Mtimkhulu.

The exhibition is accompanied by the public programme Hound. A series of screenings in Woonhuis during various Thursday evenings in October and November. Cocktails, comfort, company, cool films.

Further information about the exhibition can be found on the Woonhuis website source