The Unsafe House is an innovative art collective focused on creating truly avant garde performance and conceptual art. We are based in Amsterdam, but are also at the center of a new international art world. Our collective is composed of painters, actors, writers and conceptual artists. As an institution we are interested in the historical traditions of twentieth century modernist experimentation and formalist practice.

We are a post-woke art collective focused on creating a “safe space for unsafe ideas”….

We are not interested in cancelling or marginalizing anyone for their opinions or world views- no matter how heretical, radical, silly, impractical, anodyne, conservative, reactionary, traditional or progressive those views may be. We are totally against the stultification of the art world as we see it now- dominated by piety and humorless authoritarianism and puritanism. We reject all demands for conformism of the “left” or the “right”.

We reject the conformist strictures of the contemporary art world, which is sadly dominated by people who are more interested in imposing their political values than in making good art. We believe that “progressive” values are often a smoke screen for the imposition of authoritarian social credit systems.

Instead, we aim to sustain a space in which grievances, obsessions and dark inclinations are not suppressed, but are instead used as an engine and material for creation. We believe that art comes from strange places within. We also believe that the impulse to create means implies the capacity to exert control over our deepest urges. The sublimation of those urges is the path to understanding the eternal.  We strive to find beauty everywhere - even within ugliness.