Private visit to MycoMythological Patterning and Re:Tune
The Re: Tune exhibition can currently only be viewed through the windows of the Glass House. The work of Pei-Ying Lin and Yi-Fei Chen and that of Anton Kats is …Read more
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PIT Portal by Karin van Dam
From 10 April 2021 in Amstelpark Since this spring a black, spiky object can be found in the Amstelpark between the Glazen Huis and the Red Bridge. This work, …Read more
NRC: review on audioplay Floriade Fluisteringen
In the newspaper NRC of Saturday 13th February, 2021 Kester Freriks wrote about Floriade Whisperings, the four audioplays the artists Krijn Christiaansen & Cathelelijne Montens (KCCM) have developed for the …Read more
Odoshi Cloud Sequence is off temporarily due to ice
In February 2021 Artist Ronald van der Meijs had to temporarily switch off the work Odoshi Cloud Sequence due to the severe frost and the ice formation on the pond. Mid March the work was re-installed in the pond.
Unloomed #1 extended until 21 Februari
Due to its great success (and the lockdown), the installation Unloomed # 1 by The Warp will be extended until February 21, 2021. The installation attracts a lot of attention …Read more
NRC: Unloomed #1 sensational symphony of laser light over 1001 strings
Lucette ter Borg of the national newspaper NRC visited Unloomed #1 at Zone2Source and talked to Lee Ellickson of The Warp [article in Dutch only)
Walking as Research
The audio documentation of ‘Walking as Research’, a performative talk with Marlies van Hak (researcher and writer) and artist Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (SI/NL) is now available. This walk-and-talk event was part of the finissage of the Mind Your Step exhibition on 29th November, 2020.
Open Call for outdoor installations and sculptures
With our ambition to develop the Amstelpark into a unique park for art and nature, Z2S is looking for inspiring outdoor installations and sculptures focusing on rethinking nature-culture relations and proposing new experiences and practices to the environment.
Zone2Source launches outdoor art map of Amstelpark
Since November a free printed map is available at Het Glazen Huis and other spots in the Amstelpark, showing the artworks that were realised with Zone2Source in the Amstelpark. Pick up …Read more
Mind Your Step and WalkAway at Nieuw Amsterdam #3
Friday November 27, 2020 Alice Smits from Zone2Source and artist Naomi Bueno de Mesquita will be guests at the Livecast Nieuw Amsterdam # 3 of Pakhuis de Zwijger at 9.30 …Read more
Salon Mister Motley featuring Marjolijn Boterenbrood
In the Salon series, Mister Motley invites artists to develop an exhibition entirely at their own discretion. Marjolijn Boterenbrood, an artist who has exhibited at Zone2Source before, now presents the …Read more
Welcome to the Parliament of Things
On November 22, we are organizing three art expeditions, including the opening of two new works (by KCCM and by De Onkruidenier) in the Amstelpark as part of ‘Welcome to the Parliament of Things’. Take a walk through the Amstelpark in three sessions that reflect on the relationship between humans and plants.
Mind Your Step, this is what you can do after the expo
5 walking projects remain open in 2020 Now the Mind Your Step exhibition is finished we would like to point out the several op the projects can still be experiences. Suggestions …Read more
Erase the streets of Amsterdam
Sorry this text is only available in Dutch. Artist and researcher Naomi Bueno de Mesquita invites everybody in Amsterdam to jointly erase the street of the city using her web-app …Read more
Mind Your Step review in Metropolis M
Artist and writer Kaylie Kist reviewed the exhbition Mind Your Step. ‘There exists an on-going constant dialogue between the works: Mind Your Step has a kind of rhizomatic format that …Read more
thehagueartists.nl highlights Esther Hoovers and Justin Bennett
The artists Esther Hoovers and Justin Bennett are in the spotlight at the platform The Hague Artists, an initiative by Stroom, The Hague. On this platform over 1000 artists from The …Read more
Newsletter Zone2Source, including Save the Date Mind your Step, Finissage and more
Read the Zone2Source newsletter (September 2020) including: A save the date for Mind Your Step, a group exhibition about the art of walking, opens on October 4, in which we venture …Read more
Finissage Exploded View with premiere and presentations
Sunday September 20, 2020 from 3 – 6 PM is the final day of the Exploded View exhibition. This is the last chance to visit the exhibition in the …Read more
Seedbomb and sustainability, event by Squarewise and The Pollinators
Event in Dutch about sustainability in the context of the Bioremediating Missile by Jos Volkers, organised by Squarewise and The Pollinators. — read on in Dutch Johannes Regelink (Squarewise) en …Read more
Breath of Soils events with Jacqueline Heerema
29 and 30 August and 19th September 2020 Artist Jacqueline Heerema started in spring 2019, as part of the Exploded View research program, with a reconstruction of the history of ‘Land …Read more
Corona Rituals, performance by Vilbjørg Broch
Vilbjørg Broch travels through Europa to perform ‘Corona Rituals, Chamber Music during a Mass Psychosis’, a live concert for voice and electronics. On Sunday 23rd August she will perform at Zone2Source, location Glazen Huis
Zone2Source 4-year grant Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
The Zone2Source team and board are happy, excited (and relieved) that Zone2Source has been included for the first time in the 4-year Arts Plan (2021 – 2024) of the Amsterdam …Read more
Seed bomb travels through Europa
The rocket with seeds from artist Jos Volkers of Ecological Space Engineering is on its way to the Netherlands. Jos left Romania on Tuesday. The seed bomb can be seen at Zone2Source in the Amstelpark from 15 August to 5 September
Sissel Marie Tonn wins the BAD award
Sissel Marie Tonn has won the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD Award) for the project ‘Becoming a sentinel species’. She showed the work project Cartographies of the vanishing now with Jonathan …Read more
Expedition Amstelpark 2020, summer workshops for young people
At Zone2Source we are super excited we can join the Mokum Midzomerprogramme, aimed at children and young people up to the age of 23. With a number of artists we …Read more
Please help, vote for Buzzbench 2.0 and PIT
Zone2Source wants to install the Buzzbench 2.0 and PIT in the Amstelpark together with the artists AnneMarie van Splunter and Karin van Dam. Zone2Source is committed to positioning the Amstelpark …Read more
Tour Moon Gallery Garden with curators
Video with Elizaveta Glukhova and Anna Sitnikova, curators of the Moon Gallery Garden exhibition, on show at Zone2Source until 12th July 2020
Bioremediating Missile by Jos Volkers
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 Artist in Residence at Zone2Source
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
Wild Amsterdam, Deltaplan Biodiversity
Zone2Source doet mee aan de oproep Wild Amsterdam, een Deltaplan Biodiversiteitsherstel voor een natuurrijk Amsterdam (2020 – 2025). Het Deltaplan is een aanpak in 10 projecten, variërend van Amsterdam als parkstad: ‘alle …Read more
Rietveld academy students exhibit at Orangerie
Exhibition of Rietveld academy students facilitated by Zone2Source in Orangerie, Amstelpark
Private tour through the Zoo of the Future at Zone2Source
We filmed a private tour through the Zoo of the Future at Zone2Source in 2020. Your guide is Thijs de Zeeuw, one of the initiators of the Zoo of the …Read more
“Inhale.Exhale. The art of making a peat ball, an earth sphere” online workshop
Upcoming online workshop by Jacqueline Heerema on 31 May 2020 during which Jacqueline will work in her garden at home in The Hague, Netherlands and seek to engage online during 24 hours with other ball-makers around the world.
Unlocked / Reconnected with astronaut suit in Zone2Source
Zone2Source will participate on June 1 in the national event Unlocked / Reconnected and will present an astronaut suit in front of the windows of the glass pavilion. Apollo Block …Read more
Amstelpark – Reinventing the zoo in our backyards
Machine Wilderness student research program in collaboration with Wageningen University As part of the Machine Wilderness project we work together with Clemens Driessens, connected to the Wageningen University, on a …Read more
ZOOOF Open Call in Metropolis M
On 20th of April Metropolis M published an article on a number of Open Calls more or less related to the Covid-19 situation. Also the letter to an animal in the Zoo of ZOOOF was featured
Open Call for Multispecies Storytelling
22th April 2020, Earth Day Dear friends, dear earthlings, On the 50th occasion of Earth Day Zone2Source calls upon everybody to contribute projects, documentation, poems, texts, sounds to explore together …Read more
How speculative design plays with reality. Zone2Source update
How speculative design plays with reality and lots of other news from our projects, including on how to watch the Zoo of the Future from your home and how you …Read more
Zoo of the Future becomes Quarantine Zoo
In consultation with ZOOOF team we have decided that the Zoo of the Future exhibition will be physically quarantined due to the COVID19 virus. We also decided to postpone the …Read more
“50% of the park experience is invisible” – An interview with Marjolijn Boterenbrood
24 March 2020 – Interview with Marjolein Boterenbrood about her project Parksporen / Traces by Anh Dinh from Zone2Source
Alice Smits’ Article “Tracing the Land” in Art Journal
Alice Smits was one of the 34 international participants of the art-science Field Notes expedition of the BioArts Society. She then published a summary and reflections of her experience in …Read more
Lecture by Alice Smits at Bath Spa University
Friday 28 February 2020 Alice Smits delivered a lecture titled “Art Practices and Theories of the Anthropocene” at Bath Spa University as part of her visit to the UK last …Read more
Machine Wilderness in ARTIS Magazine
The first public announcement of Machine Wilderness 2020 was featured in the ARTIS Magazine. From 12 April to 18 October 2020, Zone2Source will organise, together with FoAM and ARTIS Zoo in …Read more
Reading by Osmosis – a Book by Sema Bekirovic
On February 20th, artist Sema Bekirovic is presenting her new book Reading by Osmosis – Nature Interprets Us as the final result of her research project at Zone2Source.
Terike Haapoja at Sonic Acts Academy
A former collaborator with Zone2Source, the artist Terike Haapoja will deliver a lecture in the Sonic Acts Academy this February in Amsterdam.
Alice Smits and Bioart Society’s Exhibition
Our director Alice Smits contributed to the Bioart Society’s exhibition “Time and River are alike” taking place in Helsinki from December 2019 to January 2020.
Bringing the Work Home – An Interview with Adi Hollander and Claudio Baroni
How do they hold a concert with no stage? How do they create the sound installation as a game? What do they notice in the public interactions with the installation and why is Zone2Source the perfect venue for this?
More than 250 Visitors during the Opening Weekend
On Saturday 16 Nov, artists Adi Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni kicked off their sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape at Het Glazen Huis. During the first weekend, including the opening day, the exhibition welcomed an extraordinary 250 visitors.
Parool: This installation makes you listen differently. With your stomach for example
Amsterdam 15 november 2019 – The Parool’s issue today includes an article on Adi Hollander and her work The Body Imitates The Landscape.
Presentation Smart Hybrid in Smart Culture Conference
Zone2Source collaborated with many other artists and scientists from the Free University of Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, and Waag Society to deliver the presentation “Smart …Read more