September 21 – November 30 2014
In August 2017, AnneMarie van Splunter developed a sculpture of salt in the front space of the Glazen Huis. For this work, 3000 kilos of salt will be poured using molds to form a floor work that can be overlooked as a salina, an intensely white undulating landscape of evaporated seawater.
June 21 2014
Secret Signals, an exhibition that takes place in and outside the pavilions in the Amstelpark, explores the interaction between people and their natural environment.
21 – 25 May 2014
The Kunstvlaai takes place in the Amstelpark from May 21 to 25, during this event Zone2Source presents its archive.
21 June – 24 Augustus 2014
Grondvormen presents a large mythical installation in which both new and previously realized laboratory installations are combined and connected to form the ultimate tea brewery. The Theemachine is an installation of plants, glass, volumes and curious objects which give the impression of a laboratory with aspects bordering on the incredible.
June 21 – August 24 2014
Inspired by the complex improvised songs of the black bird living in forests and cities all over Europe, Bird is an interactive audio-video installation in which a virtual bird, which moves in an 8 channel space, composes algorithmic songs based on recordings of black birds.
June 21 – 30 October
Chiel Kuijl designs a new work for the birds over the big pond of the Amstelpark. The installation consists of an interactive rope sculpture with swings and two pending feeding scales: some large branches and feeding bowls above the water as seats for birds and a swing on the side of the pond for people to move the installation.
June 21 – August 24 2014
Ronald van der Meijs’ work takes place around the tension between man and machine, culture and nature. He portrays natural processes as both part and subject of the work. This installation lets technology communicate with living matter and natural elements such as water, wind, rotting fruit and evaporation.
March 9– April 27 2014
Ivan Henriques developed a prototype of an autonomous photosynthetic bio-machine which will create a symbiotic system with the environment where it is located.
January 12 2014 – February 23 2014
For the Glazen Huis they created an architectural structure of “pixel pallets”, pallets that have been transformed into luminous green building blocks where all the technology is visible from outside. The design and construction process is the result of a collaboration on location in which the functions of Pixel Palace are formulated and shaped.
06 October – 01 December 2013
Ronald van der Meijs investigates the way in which nature and man organise themselves. A Time Capsule of Life is a hanging and moving sculpture whose structure is derived from a plant seed; a complete survival kit. The sculpture is constructed of plastic bags, a contemporary carrier of daily goods, which are connected to each other to form a transparent structure of cells and conduits.
26 September – 30 December 2013
Marjolijn Boterenbrood will be working in the Amstelpark for two months, until 15 October 2013 in the Orangerie and then in the Rietveld Huis. Her research into experiences of hidden places in the park will result in the creation of an alternative map that allows visitors to experience the Amstelpark in a new way.
21 July – 22 September 2013
The artists collective N55 and designer Till Wolfer presents the XYZ Factory, consisting of an exhibition and workshop, in which they concern themselves with issues of reclaiming the production process and the development of non-growth economies based on eco-friendly technologies.
21 July – 22 September 2013
MedicineFactory is a low threshold art project in which health, responsibility, social cohesion and the care for nature and environment meet each other at the work place. It is a public accessible work place in which people are given access to the healing effects of nature and make their own medicines.
May 19 – July 14 2013
The Incredible Shrinking Man is and ongoing speculative research project into the possibility of creating a human which is more ideally suited for our earth.
19 May – 14 July 2013
Francisco López presents Ghost Forest a site-specific compositional transposition of a multitude of original recordings, made in diverse forests all over the world, into different outdoor or indoor spaces. Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch present Hydrogeny a water-filled chamber, strings and strata of hydrogen bubbles meticulously trace their emergent surroundings.