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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

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

Aspic from Park Lobster

After the waterzooi walk we talk in the Orangerie in the Amstelpark. We eat the lobsters in the park waters live, in aspic. The lobsters are poured in aspic so …Read more

Entropical

December 13, 2015 – Februari 16, 2016,
Entropical is a research project started in 2015, the international year of the soil. This first presentation of Entropical consists of four art works in which the value and dynamics of the exchange of materials in the biological world is set against the abstract value of algorithms and computer calculations.

Introduction

As part of the summer program of Zone2Source in 2015, Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens (KCCM) researched the history of the Amstelpark, that was established for a horticulture exhibition, the …Read more

The Orangerie as a direction room

The Orangerie serving as a direction room presents the field work and archival research which underlies the works in the park.  

Come Take a Look

Invitation: Come and see what is hidden under your feet, in the ground and in the water. 20 September, 12 noon Meeting island Gijsbrecht van Aemstelpark It is the year …Read more

Egied Simons – Radix Morgana

September 7 – October 11 2015
Radix Morgana is an exhibition on the study of root systems, in which the Orangerie is used as a living laboratory where plants are grown from seeds and their roots are visible for examination.

Growing Matter

September 27 – November 30 2015
Growing Matter is an exhibition which explores work by artists who use materials in a state of growth to explore processes and relations found in nature. This exploration creates space to reflect on the creative impulse and the capacity for art to engender an intrinsic content.

Handje aarde

Deze tekening is van Joseph Semah. Het doet mij denken aan mensen die hun grondgebied moeten verlaten en wat grond meenemen. Terug verlangen, geur die de herinneringen terugbrengt? Iedereen kent …Read more

Herbarium Vivum

In Herbarium Vivum, Driessens & Verstappen study the adaptive capacities of seven living crops under various extreme conditions

Exhibition: Floriade trash and treasures 1972 – 2022

May 31 – August 23 2015
Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelijne Montens (KCCM) researched the history of the Amstelpark, that was established for a horticulture exhibition, the Floriade, in 1972. Many residues of this Floriade are, although sometimes neglected, still visible in the park. How should we deal with these residues?

Aquaplanet

May 31 – August 23 2015
Labofactory is an interdiciplinary collective that consists of scientist Jean-Marc Chomaz, architect Laurent Karst and composer Francois-Eudes Chanfraults. Together they explore the cross-overs between the imagination of art and science.

Buzzbench by AnneMarie van Splunter (temporarily closed)

Buzzbench is a sculptural environment by AnneMarie van Splunter that can be shared by humans and insects. It is a monumental bench in the middle of a flower field that functions simultaneously as a place to sit for human beings and a biotope for insects.

Black²

March 8 – May 17, 2015
Black² is a tribute to the 100th anniversary of Malevich Black Square. The exhibition reflects on the meaning of this seminal painting for contemporary artists who deal with phenomena from the natural sciences.