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Friday
25 November 2022
15:00 - 17:00
Public Art Work Development underground river
Underground River public art work proposal
(nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation and artist carly rose bedford reintroduce how built environments are related to water, and tap into their potential to inform cultural meaning-making and contemporary mythology. the public art work proposal “underground river” proposes a glass sculpture made from the grains of sand drilled from the many layers of the amsterdam’s sluisbuurt soil, marking the temporary ferry stop that takes people from central amsterdam to the sluisbuurt area. Download the public art work proposal and get in touch via nadine@theovandoesburgstichting.nl to join the development or sponsor the further realisation of the work.Introducing (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundations’ publicart work programme
Since 1987 the theo van doesburg foundation strives to realise visual art projects and initiate formats that generate positions and commissions for emerging- and early career artists that studied or resided in amsterdam. based on the placemaking terrain of sluisbuurt in amsterdam since 2011, the foundation collaborates with artists to develop scenarios for different public art works in the neighbourhood currently still under construction. parallel to the building process a public programme introduces neighbours, property developers, investors and other stakeholders with ideas on six themes that are key to the identity of the new neighbourhood sluisbuurt.construction site conversations
artists thorben grobel (spazio cura), annee grote viken, kitty maria van ekeren, elise ehry, franziska goralski, carly rose bedford, aaro murphy and philip coyne collaborate with the (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation on their unsolicited ideas for cultural development for the yet to be built neighbourhood in the capital of the netherlands.each directed towards a different organisation, company or property developer, the proposals tackle six different sites and topics. the (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation seeks investment for further development and production of these public art works. the process is curated by project space reneenee and jules van den langenberg.
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Saturday
21 August 2021
15:00 - 17:00
Public Art Work Development reed field
reed field public art work proposal
(nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation and spatial practioner Spazio Cura imagine tools for nature maintenance and place-specific tourism for people and animals on the inside and outside of the dikes of the sluisbuurt in the public art work proposal “reed field” . the goal of the project is to gain the necessary knowledge and experience to create an extensive space of reed that is harvested and made into objects, sculptures and architecture during the first decade of the neighbourhoods’ existence, together with the national ecological network and municipality of amsterdam. Download the public art work proposal and get in touch via nadine@theovandoesburgstichting.nl to join the development or sponsor the further realisation of the work.Introducing (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundations’ publicart work programme
Since 1987 the theo van doesburg foundation strives to realise visual art projects and initiate formats that generate positions and commissions for emerging- and early career artists that studied or resided in amsterdam. based on the placemaking terrain of sluisbuurt in amsterdam since 2011, the foundation collaborates with artists to develop scenarios for different public art works in the neighbourhood currently still under construction. parallel to the building process a public programme introduces neighbours, property developers, investors and other stakeholders with ideas on six themes that are key to the identity of the new neighbourhood sluisbuurt.construction site conversations
artists thorben grobel (spazio cura), Annee Grøtte Viken, kitty maria van ekeren, elise ehry, franziska goralski, carly rose bedford, aaro murphy and philip coyne collaborate with the (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation on their unsolicited ideas for cultural development for the yet to be built neighbourhood in the capital of the netherlands.each directed towards a different organisation, company or property developer, the proposals tackle six different sites and topics. the (nelly&)theo van doesburg foundation seeks investment for further development and production of these public art works. the process is curated by project space reneenee and jules van den langenberg.