Zone2Source and DNK present ‘presence (Un) presence’ by Martijn Tellenga, 8 day performative installation piece for images, objects, performative actions, and sound at Zone2Source / Het Glazen Huis in the Amstelpark from 13 – 20 December, daily from 12.00 noon to 6 pm.
Mind Your Step, exhibition about the art of walking. From October 4th – November, 29th, 2020. Featuring: Tim Knowles, Esther Hovers, Malú Cayetano Molina & Sonia Pérez, Chikako Watanabe, Iris Hoppe, Justin Bennett, Naomi Bueno de Mesquita, Tom Bekkers, Liesje van den Berk, Isolde Venrooy, Ienke Kastelein
Exploded View is a group exhibition (27 July – 20 Sept, 2021) in and about the Amstelpark which shows the results of a research 12 artists have conducted over the last year into the Amstelpark. This exhibition is a collaboration with Krien Clevis and Clue+/heritage studies of the Vrije Universiteit.
The Bioremediating Missile by Jos Volkers, worlds largest seed bomb, is coming the Zone2Source in the Amstelpark, Amsterdam (August 15th – September 5th, 2020)
Linda Molenaar is artist in residence at Zone2Source from June 15 to July 20, 2020. During that time she works from Monday to Friday in the Orangerie, the beautiful plant …Read more
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 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
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.
For the exhibition Moon Gallery Garden (6 June – 12 July 2020) a prototype of a lunar lander with rovers and telescopes settles in het Glazen Huis along a selection of Moon Gallery artworks and prototypes designed to be sent to the Moon, and additionally also a space suit. Start 6 June with a Mission to the Moon performance at 3 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The work op Jaqueline Heerema is part of Explode View, read more Breath of Soil(s), Jacqueline Heerema Artist Jacqueline Heerema explores the phenomenon of ‘time’ and the representation of nature-culture …Read more
Het werk van KCCM is te zien tijdens Exploded View Floriade whisperings The plants that grow in and around the Amstelpark are a link between the different layers of the …Read more
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
24 March 2020 – Interview with Marjolein Boterenbrood about her project Parksporen / Traces by Anh Dinh from Zone2Source
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.
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.
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 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
Ingrid Vranken presents her graduation project at DAS Theater – Academy on Theatre and Dance in het Glazen Huis on Sunday 2th of June 2019, from 8:00 until 22:00. In preparation …Read more
June 14-16 2019
Zone2Source showed six artists as part of Festival of Choices, a series of exhibitions for the graduating class of the Fine Art Department at Sandberg Instituut.
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.
TUINBAZEN: Making the Commons In 2019 we invited everyone to think and explore with us how the Amstelpark can be maintained and managed in the coming time. In 2020 the …Read more
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.
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.
September 30 – December 2, 2018 Opening September 30, 3 – 5 PM The exhibition and performances take place in ‘het Glazen huis‘ and outdoors in the Amstelpark. BirdScore …Read more
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sunday April 23, 4.30 pm het Glazen Huis Together with musician Felicity Provan en light designer Ellen Knops Liesje van den Berk creates a 45 minute performance in het Glazen Huis. …Read more
het Glazen Huis April 9 till May 7, 2017 Drawalks by Liesje van den Berk explores the experience of the environment in time and space by means of image, drawing, …Read more
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.
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.
November 6 – December 31, 2016
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.
August 28 – October 24, 2016
In Ectogenesis/Phytoteratology: Plant-Human Monsters, the Slovenian biologist and new media artist Špela Petrič explores the possibility of creating human-plant hybrids.
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.
In de NRC van vrijdag 15 juni 2016 stond een mooi artikel van journalist Kester Freriks over het project Sporen van Marjolijn Boterenbrood. Lees het artikel hier.
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: