For three days, Amsterdam City Hall becomes a home for the people, sounds and ideas that shape Amsterdam after dark.

Music, light, food and art come together in a setting that belongs to the city as much as it belongs to the people who inhabit it. A temporary and custom-built world where familiar faces meet new perspectives and where Amsterdam's creative night culture is celebrated without translation.

Rooted in Amsterdam yet open to the world, Motie celebrates the city's creative spirit during its most international week.

Curious by nature, uncompromising in taste, and welcoming to everyone willing to discover something new.

Initial program release:
Helios by Heleen Blanken (AV Installation)
Young Marco (live) ft. Jonny Nash
Oceanic (live)
Gizem Öz (live)
Presented by Nxt Museum Sophia Bulgakova (installation)
Arno Schuitemaker (choreo)
L'atelier du Champagne (wine)
Living Room Session w/ Shaquille Joy, Tamara Shogaolu (Nationale Opera & Ballet)
PEEL (music)
Pintai (music)
Sprezzatura (Wine)

File #002 and program per day coming soon.

About Motie ADE

The former municipal service desks of Amsterdam City Hall becomes a meeting place for Amsterdam’s creative ecosystem. Music, food and art come together in a custom-built world. From Amsterdam, for Amsterdam.
At the centre of the stage sits Helios, a kinetic audiovisual installation by Heleen Blanken.Each evening, Helios takes on a different musical interpretation. Young Marco ft. Jonny Nash, Oceanic and Gizem - artists known for moving dance floors - step into slower, more atmospheric territory for a series of one-off performances.

As an official part of ADE Arts & Culture, the program extends beyond music, featuring newly commissioned and previous work by interdisciplinary Ukrainian artist Sophia Bulgakova, curated by Nxt Museum. Bulgakova’s practice connects personal experience with wider political realities, exploring how art and activism can exist side by side. Her works Spomyny (2024) and Sensitive Guidelines (2026) will pull the audience into the passage.

As the hours pass, the former bureaucratic hallway starts to shift. What was once a place for forms and numbers becomes a place to wander into and experience the full width of Amsterdam night culture.