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Social Capital Round Table. What if…artists around the table for area development

May 24, 2023 - May 24, 2023

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]

Screening I am a tool of gentrification. Noord by Lyubov Matyunina

March 9, 2019

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]

Just Practice! – Klaar van der Lippe and Bart Stuart

September 29, 2019

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]

Parking for Stories (Verhaalt Parkeren) – Manon van Hoeckel

September 26, 2018 - September 30, 2018

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]

World Building Laboratory – Monnik

September 26, 2018 - September 30, 2018

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]

Lara Almarcegui, BOLD Toren Bouwmaterialen

September 26, 2018

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]

Social Capital Meet-Up

September 30, 2018 - September 30, 2018

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]

De Homo Globalis in Amsterdam-Noord – lezing van Frantz Dhers

September 29, 2018

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

September 12, 2018 - September 30, 2018

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]

Five years in Woensel West: film screening and artist talk Julieta Garcia Vazquez

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]

TAAK neemt deel aan Public Art Amsterdam met Social Capital

March 22, 2023 - March 22, 2023

Op 21 juni 2018 start de manifestatie ‘Pay Attention Please!’. TAAK is een van de 11 Amsterdamse kunstinstellingen die in de zomer van 2018 de krachten bundelen bij het tonen van de rijkdom van de publieke ruimte van Amsterdam. Please Pay Attention! is de eerste editie van een tweejaarlijkse manifestatie die [...more]

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