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Curdin Tones

          Entangled moments of intimate publicness: Out of myself/ fuori di testa   Public parks promise public life: hanging out with or without purpose, meeting or …Read more

collectief walden

      Collectief Walden sees in the Amstelpark (and the Floriade in particular) the ultimate way of controlling nature. In our research, we want to dedicate ourselves to ‘taming’ …Read more

Zoo of the Future

In collaboration with ZOOOF, Zone2Source presents the project Zoo of the Future. The ZOOOF exhibition opens again for restricted audience during weekends (13.00-17.00) and under booking for week days. Visitors are allowed only four at a time while keeping the 1,5 distance.

Barbara Neves Alves

In working at the Amstelpark, I am considering how, along the centuries efforts towards understanding and cataloguing nature largely developed together with projects of colonization and contributed to set out …Read more

Birthe Leemeijer

The work of Birthe Leemeijer is part of Exploded View During our first collective stroll through the Amstelpark a recurring topic of conversation was plant intelligence and sensitivity. The question …Read more

Jasper Coppes

The work of Jasper Coppes is part of Exploded View Wasteland There is a growing interest in archeology to regard this discipline as a critical involvement in the production of …Read more

Pavèl van Houten

The work of Pavèl van Houten is part of Exploded View Take care of the park Both in Rome in the Parco Via Appia Antica, and in Amsterdam in the …Read more

Eline Kersten

The work of Eline Kersten is part of Exploded View Humming Trees Trees are living fossils. Through their slow but gradual growth, small birches can become giants over time. However, …Read more

Wouter Osterholt

The work of Wouter Osterholt is part of Exploded View Growing Resistance An ecological disaster exercise in the Amstelpark, Amsterdam The Amstelpark emerged from the large-scale horticultural exhibition the ‘Floriade’ …Read more

Leonid Tsvetkov

The work of artist Leonid Tvetkov is part of Exploded View, read more I started this project by thinking about the paths I navigate through the park. At first I …Read more

Jacqueline Heerema

The work op Jaqueline Heerema is part of Explode View, read more The time of the earth is not (yet) in our system. Faced with current and future environmental challenges, …Read more

KCCM

Mijn naam is Garcia We have worked in the Amstelpark previously on the invitation of Zone2Source (Floriade Trash & Treasures). From the basis of this working period, we continue our …Read more

De Onkruidenier

The work of de Onkruidenier is part of Exploded View Plant Bed Sociology The research of the Onkruidenier within Exploded View questions existing frameworks derived from the genesis of a …Read more

Tuinbazen presentation

February 15 to 23, 2020, The final presentation of Tuinbazen, a project Irene Fortuyn and her foundation Ketter & Co have developed during 2019 in the Amstelpark to explore alternative forms of public park management will take place.

Congress of Glassolallia by The Warp

Each year, Zone2Source invites The Warp, known for their unique multi-media performances. The installation Congress of Glassolallia can be experienced from outside the Glazen Huis. Daily until 2nd February 2020. The installation is also central to a series of performances on December 15th 2019, January 12 2020 and the final performance on 2nd February 2020.

The Body Imitates the Landscape

November 16 – December 1 2019
Zone2Source presents the The Body Imitates the Landscape: an interactive sound installation by Adi Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni. The installation is designed in the form of a playground which transforms music into vibrations felt through the entire body.

Waiting Room by Terike Haapoja and Laura Gustafsson

Waiting Room is a 16 speaker sound installation that brings an immersive soundscape of pigs before going to slaughter into an otherwise empty room, which reflects on the way our society relates to animals but renders them invisible in our living environments. From September 8 – November 10, 2019

Clean Society – Hehe

June 22 – August 25, 2019
The artist duo HeHe’s Clean Society brings the infrastructure (the incinerator), the material (waste) and the communication around energy and waste inside of the exhibition space.

Reading by Osmosis – Semâ Bekirović

16 February – 28 April 2019
Reading by Osmosis is a research project by artist and curator Semâ Bekirović. It focuses on artworks made by non-human artists: for example animals, trees, the wind, and other entities and processes.

Beholder – Vladimir Grafov

December 15, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Zone2Source collaborates with The Warp on its annual multi media performance event in and around het Glazen Huis which will start with the installation ‘Beholder’ by Vladimir Grafov.

Visitors Zone2Source: new experiences with art and nature

On average, our projects in the Glass House attract about 1,000 people per exhibition to make about 5 – 6,000 people a year. For outdoor exhibitions, the number can even reach tens of thousands. Look here to see how the public receives some of our past and current exhibitions/ performances.

Going Nomad Exhibition

22 July until 9 September 2018 Opening 22 July 2 – 6 pm Curators: Holger Nickisch en Alice Smits Artists: Robbert van der Horst, Danielle van Vree, Henry Alles, Elke …Read more

The Cloud Sequencer 2.0 – Ronald van der Meijs

The Cloud Sequencer is a first start for a new sound research project into the diversity of clouds, sun and wind in order to create a sort of ‘natural sequencer’ for an outside sound installation.

Machine Wilderness exhibition 2018

Exhibition: May 20 – July 8, 2018. Machine Wilderness presents work of Ian Ingram, Driessens & Verstappen, Rihards Vitols and Jip van Leeuwenstein who develop robotic projects for specific ecosystems in the Amstelpark, and experiment with the interaction between technology and the living creatures in the park. Together they explore how technology engages the surrounding and chaotic living nature.

Zone2Source - Resonant met Martijn Tellinga, Adi Hollander, Sagi Groner en Mark Bain

Resonant

March 18 – May 13, 2018
Resonant brings together four artists who have been working with sound, acoustics and architecture to find a common subject in the exploration of resonance.

Mapping the Ground | Grounding the Map

January 14 – March 4, 2018
The exhibition Grounding the Map, Mapping the Ground explores, through the work of five artists, alternative relations to the earth as a critical reflection on the abstract cartographic methods that characterize the Anthropocene.

Complex Compound – Robbert van der Horst

September 17 – October 1, 2017
With Complex Compound visual artist Robbert van der Horst realizes the first version of his experiment with interactive, volatile architecture through a construction which consists of moveable architectonic elements.

Radiant Matter – Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde

September 17 – December 3, 2017
Radiant Matter is the first duo exhibition by Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde, where old and new works are presented in which shared concerns are brought to the fore to explore the complex relation between human’s impact on the environment and vice versa.

Carboniferous – Pinar Yoldas

July 9 – September 3, 2017
Pinar Yoldas presents Speculative Biologies which resides in the realm of the biological imagination where genomic reconstruction of living organisms is put in the service of the creation of hybrid subjectivities in order to imagine alternate realities.

“Trust me, I’m an Artist”

May 13 – June 25 2017
Trust me, I’m an Artist is a series of performative events that investigates the ethical issues arising from art and science collaborations, particularly in the field of bioart. It considers the roles and responsibilities of the artists, scientists and institutions involved.

The Garden and the Gardener – Irene Fortuyn

January 22 – March 19 2017
Through a series of video recordings of the gardeners and policymakers who shape the Amstelpark, the exhibition ‘The Garden and the Gardener’ brings the visitor into contact with a usually invisible part of the park.

FIFTY PERCENT HUMAN – Sonja Bäumel

October 8 – 16 2016
Fifty Percent Human creates an in-between space, addressing uncertainties, ambiguities and imagination linked to the microbial paradigm shift both on an aesthetic and on an epistemological level. 

Grounded matter – Malou van der Molen

August 28 – September 25 2016
Malou van der Molen presents textile designs composed of natural elements, such as a section of water in the canal, the first day of snow, the vegetable shelf. The textile designs, nature elements and photos of the locations, are processed in an installation that covers 31 square meters displayed in the Orangerie.

lobster

In de parken leven ongelofelijke hoeveelheden kreeften. Je vind de schildjes overal. Bij de kaartpresentatieten we ze: parkkreeftjes van de Keuken van het ongewenste dier:    

Waterzooi

After the water walk and the waterzooi lunch, we returned leftovers to the water. Remnants of the meal we serve on rice sheets to the lobsters, water fleas, post horn …Read more