This summer, TAAK and Stichting NDSM-werf are inviting Amsterdammers and local communities to join them in creating a large installation with urban stories and future visions on the wharf in Amsterdam North. The projectTower of Babel is an idea of artist Guido Van der Werve. With this concept he takes [...more]
Amsterdam Museum and OBA are working together on the project Collecting The City: 750 Jaar Amsterdam. The goal of this collaboration is to collect objects and stories of residents in developing neighborhoods, which will then become part of the collections of the city and the renewed Amsterdam Museum. Collecting The City also [...more]
“…a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.” Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019) In collaboration with TAAK and the association [...more]
This spring, TAAK responded to the Open Call by the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie for proposals of new living concepts for homeless youth. The proposal of TAAK, co-producer Building Conversation and partners, titled Volwaardige Participatie, was one of the five accepted projects. In this co-production, TAAK and Building Conversation [...more]
Writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos extends an Open Call to remember the current Corona era. The launch of this call is part of a research trajectory, initiated by TAAK, on alternative forms of commissioning art in the public domain. Everyone is invited to contribute a commemoration. All submitted memorials [...more]
At the invitation of TAAK, Stichting NDSM-werf came on board for a joint effort to assess the feasibility of the project ‘Nummer 19 – The Tower of Babel’ by Guido van der Werve. This project includes a landscape installation and a film, both set to take place at the NDSM-werf [...more]
Social Capital Round Table What if… Artists around the table for area development It’s broadly agreed upon that artists are important players in urban development. Artists create monuments to what once was, and they create a bridge between an area’s original residents and its newcomers. They observe changes critically [...more]
Julika Rudelius (Cologne, Germany) has lived since 1998 close to De Hallen in the Oud-West district, and she has seen and experienced how the complex drastically changed into the ‘cultural hotspot’ that it is today. Her films are precise observations of social codes and human idiosyncrasies within social groups and [...more]
In the eight years that she lived in Amsterdam, Lyubov Matyunina (1985, Kaliningrad, Russia) observed how the city changed from culturally-oriented to market-driven. She noted that artists often play a central role in gentrification processes but eventually have to clear the field. Could artists also permanently fulfill social functions in [...more]
Tuning In – the neighborhood Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec in collaboration with DNK Ensemble and the inhabitants of Woon en Werk Vereniging WG-terrein, Amsterdam Tuning In – the neighborhood, part of Social Capital #2. Amsterdam-West is a sound event, a gathering and an open invitation to participate in the [...more]
Amsterdam is expanding rapidly because of economic and social forces. As a result, the public domain is under increasing pressure. Despite regulations, monoculture and commodification, how can we continue to see public space as a place for imagination and adventure? To address this question, TAAK launched the multi-year art project [...more]
Because of economic and social forces, Amsterdam is expanding rapidly. As a result, the public domain is under increasing pressure. Despite regulations, monoculture and commodification, how can we continue to see public space as a place for imagination and adventure? To address this question, TAAK in collaboration with LIMA launched [...more]
On March 16, the presentation Amsterdam Allegories by Alessandra Covini will open in Villa Volten. Alessandra Covini won the Prix de Rome Architecture 2018 with Amsterdam Allegories, a design proposal for the Sixhaven area in Amsterdam-Noord. The [...more]
LIMA and TAAK are happy to invite you to the screening of Lyubov Matyunina’s I am a tool of gentrification: Noord. In the eight years that she lived in Amsterdam, Matyunina (1985 Kaliningrad, Russia) observed how the city changed from culturally-oriented to market-driven. She noted that artists often play a [...more]
The Making of Justice by Sarah Vanhee is presented at Veem House in collaboration with TAAK on Friday 7 December 2018. After the film screening, a moderated talk will follow together with Sarah Vanhee in dialogue with Veronique Achoui in collaboration with TAAK. Veronique Achoui is working with TAAK on [...more]
Artist Bob Gramsma is currently in Dronten, working on the artwork Riff, PD #18245, the eighth landscape artwork in Flevoland. The artwork is built up in several stages, each of which is important to both the creation and the meaning of the artwork. The composition and firmness of the soil [...more]
The activist artists Klaar van der Lippe and Bart Stuart have lived in the Van der Pek neighbourhood for years and have experienced all the changes personally. For Social Capital, they develop an app and performances that aim to conjure up experiences of new collectivity in public space. The performances [...more]
Social designer Manon van Hoeckel exposes a direct consequence of the increasing pressure and activity in North. Since July, several neighbourhoods have introduced paid parking, a difficulty for the neighbourhood and a cause for much debate. As a result of this new parking policy, the residents receive fewer visits from [...more]
Monnik, a speculative agency for future and fiction, will start with a pilot of the World Building Laboratory. In work sessions with interested parties, we will build towards shared future scenarios for a sustainable and inclusive Amsterdam. As a specific case, we will take the Sixhaven area. The work sessions [...more]
On 26 September 2018, Lara Almarcegui’s art installation BOLD TOWER BUILDING MATERIALS was unveiled. Almarcegui’s work used the façade of the new Hyperion Lyceum on Overhoeks aan ‘t IJ to show passers-by a simple list of materials: 19,436 tonnes of gravel, 11,213 tonnes of sand, 7,490 tonnes of cement, etc. [...more]
During the closing weekend of Pay Attention Please! on 29 and 30 September, we will be organizing a Social Capital Meet-Up. TAAK is the initiator of Social Capital, a multi-year programme in response to the explosive growth in construction throughout Amsterdam and the repercussions this growth is having on [...more]
Volgens Frantz Dhers raakt de geglobaliseerde mens ontheemd en moeten we op zoek naar een nieuwe balans tussen het nieuwe en het oude, het mondiale en lokale. Tijdens Wiekent Tolhuistuin spreekt Dhers op uitnodiging van TAAK om 20.30 uur in de Tuinzaal. Met zijn organisatie Let’s be Originals biedt [...more]
Start of the long-term art programme Social Capital in September 2018 Artists react to (the consequences of) the building boom in Amsterdam North Amsterdam is popular. The city rides the waves of the international economy; the throngs of tourists, many Airbnbs and large-scale construction and renovation projects cannot have gone [...more]
On 14 June 1918, the Zuiderzee Act came into force and made possible the construction of the Flevopolder. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Zuiderzee Act, Bob Gramsma created the monument Riff, PD#18245. On three pile foundations and a complex construction such as used in bridge [...more]
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‘wild care, tame neglect’ is a two-year experimental collaboration between artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson (United Kingdom, 1982) and Huize Frankendael. Since 2016, the artist has embedded his artistic practice in the last remaining 17th-century country house in Amsterdam researching the paradoxes of nature that abound in this cultural heritage. Beginning [...more]
Play Back Talk Back #2 Five years in Woensel West Film screening, artist talk and debate TAAK and Van Abbemuseum cordially invite you to the screening of I is Somebody Else by Julieta Garcia Vazquez at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven on Thursday 1 February 2018, followed by an artist talk and debate. Artist Julieta Garcia [...more]