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]
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]
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]
For its second chapter, the research platform and event series Heterotropics in collaboration with the Research Center for Material Cultures invited KUNCI Cultural Studies Center (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) to engage in a 6-week research residency at the Tropenmuseum. During their residency, various KUNCI [...more]
In the summer of 2016, Huize Frankendael and artist Edward Clydesdale Thomson started a two-year collaborative project: wild care, tame neglect. The artists looks back on the first half year. “It’s now 6 months since we held the launch event for ‘wild care, tame neglect’. To reflect on what’s been [...more]
This summer, there is a ruin on view on the Zuidas: Palace Ruin. James Beckett rebuilds a fragment of the Paleis voor Volksvlijt. His installation serves as a stage for lectures and concerts. The Paleis voor Volksvlijt (1864) burned down completely in 1929. A photograph from that time shows [...more]
To celebrate the reopening of the Rijksmuseum a spectacular performance took place on 14 april 2013 at the Museumplein in Amsterdam. The event is based on an idea of artist Job Koelewijn and titled Held Aloft: Love in geometrical order. In a whirling choreography, designed by mass choreographer Penny Jones, over 700 children [...more]
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27 Februari, 20h00 – 22h00 @ De PUNT, Amsterdam From 26 May until 14 June 2014, twenty students of Dutch Art Institute and the Sandberg Instituut/Gerrit Rietveld Academie participated in Summer School Marfa, Texas (USA). Accompanied by guest lecturers, tutors and TAAK, the students explored the sociological, natural and cultural meanings [...more]
TAAK presents Summer School Marfa Second Edition Opening event on 12 June TAAK Summer School Marfa 2014 finds twenty young artists (seventeen nationalities) and their instructors in Marfa for a three-week fieldtrip and fieldwork studio. These graduate students study at the Dutch Art Institute and the Sandberg [...more]
After several interventions in hidden alleys and other unused places in the city last summer, Tussen-ruimte pops up in Amsterdam again at the 12th of March. Artists Charbel-joseph H. Boutros and Amie Dicke present their vision on ‘between space’, with new work that opens in [...more]
The broad landscape of Zeeland’s Wilhelminapolder is the backdrop to Europe’s largest work of landscape art. The nine concrete sculptures installed by the German artist Michael Beutler, spread over the 1700-hectare landscape, together form the iconic work Polder Peil (Polder Level). The landscape of the Wilhelmina [...more]
A project by William Speakman and Theo Tegelaers River Scene is a three-day journey on a raft designed and built by William Speakman along the Ugra River through the Ugra National Park. The construction of the raft, the journey along the river, and the dismantling and conversion of the raft [...more]
The Commons Project invites local residents and other interested parties to discuss the future of the Toren van Oud at the Gemeentemuseum on 22 June. This prominent tower has been empty for quite some time. The Commons Project has received the keys of the tower from HaagWonen and would like to talk [...more]
As part of The Commons Project, some ‘Vacancy Safaris‘ will be organized in the Toren van Oud in The Hague in June and July. The Toren van Oud is the first skyscraper built in The Hague and is designed by architect JJP Oud. Did you know that this building is [...more]
FIND DAILY UPDATES ABOUT SUMMER SCHOOL MARFA ON THE BLOG: WWW.LEARN.TAAK.ME Click here to find all information for participants Summer School Marfa is a three week fieldtrip and student fieldwork studio from May 20 to June 10 2013 in Marfa, Texas for students from the Dutch [...more]
