W139 opens its mouth and swallows you whole in Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (Chilling Incisions Calling Things That Have No Name), an exhibition initiated by Mette Sterre. Featuring works by Lolly Adams, Özgür Atlagan, Monster Chetwynd, Diane Mahín, Aimée Philips & Nina Läuger, and Mette Sterre, this immersive group show explores the limitless potential of the body—turning W139 into a possessed, grotesque, more-than-human organism.

The exhibition features new and existing works that similarly distort the body beyond limitations and familiarity—creating chimeric apparitions that defy categorization and offer counter-narratives against oppressive systems. What unfolds is not a descent into horror, but a reckoning with the politics of fear—woven through the systems that marked specific bodies as monstrous. Fear is not avoided, but disassembled, recoded, reimagined—jammed into new categories.

Temper Tantrum Bonehouse is a place where ghosts linger and monsters thrive. The exhibition pulses and panics, dares and disorients, asking us to renegotiate our relationships to power, to the system, and to our own corporeality.

This exhibition is supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Mondriaan Fund, het Cultuurfonds and Fonds 21.

Initiated by Mette Sterre.

At W139, we work collectively and intersectionally on exhibitions — guided and led by the initiating artists that we invite. This exhibition has been developed by the artistic team, with Claudio Ritfeld leading the process, together with Tomas Adolfs, Maya Asad, André Avelãs, Dana Claasen, Levi van Gelder, Dil Ghale, Geer van der Klugt, Monica Liu, Margarita Osipian, and Annette Wolfsberger.

Visual identity: Javier Rodriguez Fernandez

Sound design: BJ Nilsen

Technical support: Jan van Witteveen, Jan Inti van Delft

Partners: Amsterdam Dance Event, Mezrab, House of Løstbois.

A special thank you to Ilvy Adams, Sander Alblas, Renske Buissant des Armorie, Peter Cripps Clark, Lucia Fernandez Santoro, Anne Huttinga, Geertje Jacobs, Koos Jaspers, Liesbeth Klaver, Matthijs Koerts, Stephan Kuderna, Agata Leszczyńska, Wouter Lucifer, Miles Luxembourg, Lotte Nijhof, Yolane Rais, Kees Reedijk, Octave Rimbert-Rivière, Kirti Soekaloe, EKCW, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Kwintus Art, Pauwhof Fund, and Sadie Coles.