Lonnie Holley at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Tomorrow Is A Different Day, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Lonnie Holley's film installation, I Snuck Off the Slave Ship (2019), is currently on view at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as part of Tomorrow Is a Different Day, a renewed presentation of works from the museum's collection.

The exhibition spotlights art and design from the Stedelijk collection, from 1980 to the present, by international artists and designers who are helping to shape the changes of today and tomorrow.

In his directorial debut, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, many of Holley’s artistic activities over the past decades flow into one another. An assemblage of Lonnie’s encounters with the slave ship “America” and a testament to imagination as resistance, the short film was shot in collaboration with Cyrus Moussavi.

Lonnie Holley, I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, installation views, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2026. © CJ van Rooij. Courtesy Stedelijk and Edel Assanti.