Beftival Program

The act of licking pussy is still surrounded by shame and red ears, but not everywhere! Partly influenced by social media, society seems to become more predatory, but at the same time, female...

Sex toys are called toys for a reason. But why do we feel guilty when kids find them? Jin Lee transforms sex toys into slides, seesaws and swings. Come color inside or outside the lines in the sex...

Pornography is most fun when it is not allowed. Former curator Bert Sliggers shows his fantastic collection of paper pornography. By pulling, twisting, pushing and folding, secret sexual fantasies...

Nelke performs as a 'housewife' to create a visual commentary on gender roles by deconstructing and re-establishing prominent gendered sexual archetypes. Come see how a traditional patriarchal gender...

What is the line between pleasure and torture? Eva Schippers a.k.a. She-Man gets inspired by the potentiality of the future. The ‘orgasmatron’ is a machine made to give women pleasure known from...

Sam Nemeth responds to the Orgasm Machine by creating a tongue interface. Lik Locus explores the cultural significance of this highly complicated muscle structure and its role in our sexual protocols.

Can algorithms morph our sexual sensitivity? Objects of Desire by Pleun van Dijk investigates the increasingly intimate relationship between human and technology. A series of selected images...

Olga Middendorp's genots-zoötroop turns drawings into moving images. By turning the carousel, her sexual fantasy comes to life. Get inspired, draw your own sex-comic and put it in the the befbox. Who...

What does your tongue teach you about your erotic potential? Have your sexual future predicted by the shape, folds and lines of your tongue. How thick is it, how pointed, how strong, how soft? After...

If gender is a construct, it means we created it at some point in human history and that before that, gender didn't exist in the way it has been imposed on us over the last centuries. Many indigenous...

See illustrator and poet Amber Rahantoknam, aka Ambigou, working on the windows of the Mediamatic restaurant, armed with a paintbrush and headset. While painting fluorescent pussies, tongues, fingers...

Do you crave for a gentle, yet intense touch of the tongue? There is no scientific evidence that oysters actually make you horny, however we can’t deny the fact hat a specimen swimming in its own...

Come create jewellery with Annika Hagen. Her collection of 'flaunting' hair (which sounds much better than pubic hair, right?) comes from people who replied to her call on Instagram to donate their...

Who said embroidery can't be sexy? Join for a steamy embroidery session with artist and storyteller Lizette van Hecke. During this workshop, you are invited to bring sensual images and fantasies to...

Get into the bathtub with artist and writer Daphne Gakes. In her podcast Tussen de Lakens (In between the sheets) Daphne talks openly with people about life, relationships, love and sex. This time...

“Reconnecting with the female body” is a collaboration between visual artist Irma Joanne and photographer Lana Prins. The female body is the main theme in both their individual practices. Their many...

Irma Joanne is an interdisciplinary artist, with a background in fine arts, scenography and bodywork. Her work occurs where she touches, sees, and feels the bare skin. Female skin, to be precise. An...

This event is part of   Beftival  during Museumnacht Amsterdam.

Anna has her own television show called “Anna’s Brain” in which she and a team of young inventors and scientists, use scientific knowledge, guts and creativity to come up with spectacular answers. ...

Paroah pulls hot records, sultry female voices, spicy stories, and sexy bangers from her music collection. Pussy power galore guaranteed.

How do men deal with licking? Are men perhaps a little afraid of it because it gives freedoms to women to solve their pleasure themselves? Victor provides insight into cultural expressions and...

Darkness and light, playfulness and control: Spill Gold is a duo enhancing the transcendental character of duality. With cosmic, catchy & alienating sounds, coming from their drums, synths and voices

Thijske works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict. For her, working with latex feels like working...

By creating this interactive installations, students of the Willem de Kooning Academy Eline, Noah and Susanne  redefine the interpretation of intimacy   by stimulating our senses. Their aim is to...

For Beftival, Jinnie Ahn and Julia Leis Lap created a video that shows the over-sexualisation of both the animal body as a way to sell it as food and the female body. This causes a new level of...

This visual pamphlet takes to the streets of Amsterdam for a week. It reacts to the contemporary image of the double standards surrounding women's sexuality in the media. All Hester Scheurwaters...

Clarissa Smith, Professor of Media & Sexual Cultures at Northumbria University (UK), explores some of the contradictory pleasures of female sexuality as represented in art and pornography. Journalist...

This six-course dinner experience is a collaboration between chef and designer Yacinth Pos and film critic Laura van Zuylen as part of Beftival . Dishes are paired with movie excerpts to explore the...

Kijk*doos, the grand finale of Beftival , is a steamy art, performance, music and dance afternoon celebrating fe-male sexuality, gender and preferences.  Click here for more information.