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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]

Play Back Talk Back #1 by TAAK: Post Carnival of the Oppressed Feelings

December 14, 2017 - December 14, 2017

Thursday December 14 at 8 pm Doors open: 7.45 pm Venue: Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (Entrance: Downstairs, left from the stairs at the front of the THT building) With: Maral Noshad Sharifi (moderator), Charles Esche, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Erik Hagoort, Gluklya and others. Settling in a new country requires a lot of perseverance, [...more]

Wild care tame neglect: salvage, destruction and renewal

November 26, 2017

radical conservation (winterklaar) Nils van Beek and Edward Clydesdale Thomson Sunday 26 November 2017 15.30-17.00 hrs Huize Frankendael, Middenweg 72, Amsterdam On Sunday, November 26, you are invited to join us for some digging, cutting, pruning, planting, saving and destroying. It’s a chance to remake an [...more]

Everything you need to know when you participate in the Carnival of the Oppressed Feelings

October 28, 2017

On Saturday, October 28, 2017 the Carnival of the Oppressed Feelings will fill the streets of Amsterdam. This performative march, initiated by Russian artist Gluklya and TAAK brings together refugees housed in the center for asylum seekers at the former prison Bijlmerbajes, artists and everyone who feels involved, in a grotesque carnival. [...more]

Publication: Art – Cure. Activating the Potential

In the summer of 2017 Cure Park took place in Amsterdam. This art manifestation, organised bij TAAK, brought together over 30 artists, creatives and thinkers with audiences and care professionals in a multidimensional program: comprising installations, experiments, interventions, workshops, exercises, lectures, performances and films. For six weeks, The Future and PUB, students’ initiative [...more]

Carnival of the Oppressed Feelings

October 28, 2017 - October 28, 2017

Performative demonstration from the former prison Bijlmerbajes to Dam Square. Join and help refugees be heard! Take a look at the teaser video made by Yulia Ratman Photo’s of the march can be viewed on Flickr. Saturday, October 28, 2017 Start: 1 p.m, end around 4. p.m Starting [...more]

5 Day Program as a prelude to the Carnival of Oppressed Feelings

Gluklya and TAAK at Tijdelijk Museum/ Lola Lik 2 – 6 October 2017, 10 am – 2 pm FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE THEMES AND SPEAKERS OF THE 5 DAY PROGRAM PLEASE CLICK HERE: 5_Day Program The Carnival of Oppressed Feelings on Saturday October 28, 2017 is the concluding event, [...more]

Pavilion. Performance by Luisa Ungar and Milena Bonilla

October 13, 2017 - October 13, 2017

Gabriel Lester – De Rimpeling

Heterotropics symposium: Tropical Dissonance

June 6, 2017

Heterotropics and the Research Center for Material Culture are pleased to invite you to the symposium Tropical Dissonance: Decolonizing knowledge through ethnographic archives. The symposium is organized by the research collective KUNCI Cultural Studies Center (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) as a concluding event of their residency project at the Tropenmuseum. Tropical Dissonance brings [...more]

Heterotropics 2: Resound, Revision, Recollection: Sensing Through Colonial Archives

May 1, 2017 - June 6, 2017

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]

wild care, tame neglect: Workshop by artist Toine Horvers

May 14, 2017 - May 14, 2017

As part of wild care, tame neglect, Edward Clydesdale Thomson invites artist Toine Horvers for a public workshop at Huize Frankendael, a performative exploration of time and space through body and voice. We would like to invite you to: North, South, East, West Workshop by [...more]

Modern Candor: Finissage Event and Book Presentation

May 7, 2017

Finissage Event and Book Presentation With Ihab Saloul, Metahaven & Jasmijn Visser Sunday May 7th 2017, 15.00 -17.30 Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam Hosted by the Special Collections UVA Language: English and Dutch Entrance is free, but please RSVP at: www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl On May 7th, 2017, [...more]

Cure Park. Art of Care

June 4, 2017 - July 16, 2017

Art manifestation in the Amsterdam Forest, June 4 through July 16, 2017 Cure Park is a contemporary health resort that will pitch its tents this summer from June 4 to July 16 among the trees of the Amsterdam Forest. Centered around the Bostheater, Cure Park brings together over 30 artists, [...more]

Report from Prison. An Unusual Round Table Discussion

Gluklya, TAAK and Framer Framed present: PERFORMANCE GLUKLYA @ IJzaal, Tolhuistuin (next to Framer Framed) WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH, 20.00-22.00 HRS IJPROMENADE 2, AMSTERDAM The Russian artist Gluklya is currently renting a studio at the former prison Bijlmer Bajes, in the part of the building which is now called Lola Lik. [...more]

wild care, tame neglect – 6 months update

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]

Modern Candor. The struggle for the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas

January 27, 2017 - May 7, 2017

An exhibition of Jasmijn Visser At the Allard Pierson Museum With books and maps from the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam 27 January 2017 – 7 May 2017 Address: Oude Turfmarkt 127, Amsterdam Opening and book launch: January 26 at 16.30-18.30 hrs; please RSVP here. Although the [...more]

February 1, 2017

Heterotropics: Premises & Prospects Colonial nostalgia against the grain Expert meeting Reinwardt Academie (Amsterdam University of the Arts) 1st February 2017 From 15.30 to 17.00 (drinks afterwards)  Location Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts), Hortusplantsoen 1-3, Amsterdam.  Register at: w.wesselink@ahk.nl With Sara Giannini, Christiane Bosman (TAAK), Milena Bonilla [...more]

Opening Speech Palace Ruin by Dirk van Weelden

Palace Ruin, Amsterdam, Friday 26 August 2016 How good to see you all gathered here, around this half sized replica of a fragment of the ruin of the Amsterdam version of London’s Crystal Palace, the Palace of Industry, het Paleis voor Volksvlijt, built in de 1860s, that burned down in [...more]

Edward Clydesdale Thomson: wild care, tame neglect

August 28, 2016 - August 28, 2018

Launch of Heterotropics

September 24, 2016 - September 24, 2016

Launch of Heterotropics September 24, 2016 12pm – 7pm   A multifold dramaturgy of exhibitions, performances and a boat trip to imaginary islands Artists: Alex 2000 & Pauline Curnier Jardin, David Bernstein & Jokūbas Čižikas and Jacopo Miliani Where: Indische Buurt, Amsterdam Oost Curated by Sara Giannini [...more]

Program Palace Ruin

August 14, 2016 - October 14, 2016

Palace Ruin functions as a stage for thematic concerts and an architectural lecture series. Palace Ruin is a fragment of Amsterdam’s own ‘Crystal Palace’, the Paleis voor Volksvlijt, which is being rebuilt in part by artist James Beckett. By echoing the ambitious cultural programme of exhibits and concerts [...more]

Palace Ruin by James Beckett at Zuidas

August 14, 2016 - October 14, 2016

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]

July 8, 2016

The house is me   Project of Julieta Garcia Vazquez with residents of Woensel-West Opening with guided tour 8th of July 2016 – 4pm It all started with a process of urban renewal and gentrification, like many others. With local museums engaging social issues, like many others. With a four-year [...more]

Because I Can Swim in the Immense

May 6, 2016 - May 6, 2016

Cure Master: Post Mortem_Unshrouded

May 7, 2016 - May 7, 2016

Martine van Kampen juror for Artina 2016

Following the International Visitors Program ‘Research Trip: Dialogue between Art and Nature – Methods and Strategies of Curating Art in Public Space in 2015‘, organized by the Nordrhein-Westfalen Kultursekretariat near Düsseldorf, Martine van Kampen was invited to be the juror for Artina 2016. This outdoor exhibition is a collaboration between the [...more]

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