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]
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 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]
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]
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]