June 6 10
Last year we received a request from the Duivenvoorde Foundation to make a contribution to the yearlong celebration of their 50th anniversary in 2010. The foundation controls Duivenvoorde Castle, a stately museum-mansion and unique parkland (see below) near the city of The Hague. For eight centuries, this historic site has remained in family hands. Descendants of the [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Posted in Non-fiction
Also tagged Andrew Makkinga, Aynouk Tan, Brueghel, Duivenvoorde, Facebook, Gabriel Lester, Grrr, Hans Aarsman, Hotmamahot, Huddersfield, John Lonsdale, Juha van 't Zelfde, Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Koen Nutters, Machinefabriek, Michael Portnoy, Michiel van Iersel, Nuit Blanche, Saelors, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Wire Magazine, Wouter van Veldhoven
January 3 10
With contributions from 36 of our dearest friends and heroes, including Ben Cerveny, Nalden, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Saskia Sassen and Winy Maas, our co-created vison of Amsterdam in 2020 appeared in the new year’s edition of Time Out magazine Amsterdam. Download it here. Tweet This Post
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By Michiel van Iersel
Posted in Amsterdam, Article, Interview, Media, Non-fiction, deVerdieping
Also tagged 2020, Aaron Koblin, Adam Greenfield, Amsterdam, Ben Cerveny, Bruce Sterling, Claire Boonstra, De Verdieping, Edial Dekker, Euro Beinat, Friedrich von Borries, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, James Burke, John Lonsdale, Juha van 't Zelfde, Kai van Hasselt, Kasper Joen Larsen, Katja Hogenboom, Lars Ebert, Ljubo Georgiev, Markus Miessen, Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, Michiel van Iersel, Nalden, Neville Mars, Nina Siegal, Non-fiction, Ollie Bown, Pjotr de Jong, Radna Rumping, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Saskia Sassen, Time Out Amsterdam, Tino Haenen, Tjade Stroband, Tracy Metz, Winy Maas, Xander Karskens
June 9 09
Another week of Non-fiction events in Amsterdam, starting with the collaboration with the Filmmuseum and DOKU.ARTS festival on Wednesday at De Verdieping. We will screen the documentary ‘Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect‘, with a brief interview with festival director Andreas Lewin. Entrance is free of charge. More information on this on Facebook. On [...]
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By Juha van 't Zelfde
Posted in Amsterdam, Architecture, Aura, Castrum Peregrini, Film, Interview, Non-fiction, art, deVerdieping, event
Also tagged Andreas Lewin, Aura Salon, DOKU.ARTS, Dragan Klaic, Filmmuseum, Henk van der Waal, Juha van 't Zelfde, Macha Roesink, Machinefabriek, Michiel van Iersel, Non-fiction, Pierre Bastien, Rem Koolhaas, Theu Boermans, Tracy Metz
May 22 09
Today the Aura exhibition, curated by Non-fiction’s Michiel van Iersel, was reviewed by the Amsterdam newspaper Parool. The article gives a pretty accurate description – in Dutch – of the exhibition’s theme and the works on show. We are very happy that they included a large image of Amie Dicke‘s installation in the abandoned room of [...]
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May 19 09
Crowd outside the main entrance before the opening (l) Castrum Peregrini’s Lars Ebert (l) and Michiel van Iersel (r) Last Thursday we celebrated the opening of the Aura project: an exhibition and a series of events in the historic premises of Castrum Peregrini Foundation, where in WWII young German Jews survived in hiding. The opening [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Posted in Amsterdam, Aura, Castrum Peregrini, Non-fiction, art
Also tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Castrum Peregrini, Chris Kabel, Eric Wie, Jan Robert Leegte, John Kleckner, Lars Ebert, Michiel van Iersel, Renée van Marissing, Roger Willems, Sarah van Sonsbeeck, Susanne Kriemann
May 14 09
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art projectAura: an [...]
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By Non-fiction
Posted in Amsterdam, Aura, Castrum Peregrini, art, event
Also tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Castrum Peregrini, Chris Kabel, Erik Lindner, Henk van der Waal, Jan Robert Leegte, John Kleckner, Michiel van Iersel, Renée van Marissing, Susanne Kriemann
May 1 09
The Non-fiction office has relocated from the Scheepvaartmuseum to the former laboratory of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, right in the busy museum district and the cultural heart of Amsterdam. Overlooking the famous Museumplein and neighbouring the Stedelijk Museum and the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, we are (again) in good [...]
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May 1 09
What does a contemporary artist do with the vibrant past of a former hiding place on one of Amsterdam’s canals? Is it the aura, the uniqueness and authenticity of this place to be captured and can it be transformed into something new and relevant? Those questions live at the heart of the art project Aura: [...]
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By Michiel van Iersel
Posted in Amsterdam, Architecture, Aura, Bimhuis, Castrum Peregrini, FWD:, Heritage, Media, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Non-fiction, Scheepvaartmuseum, Trouw, Viral Radio, art, deVerdieping, event, images
Also tagged Alexandra Leykauf, Allerd van den Bremen, Chris Kabel, Dragan Klaic, Erik Lindner, Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Henk van der Waal, Jan Baeke, Jan Robert Leegte, Joachim Umlauf, John Kleckner, Juha van 't Zelfde, Machinefabriek, Max Beckmann, Michiel van Iersel, Pierre Bastien, Renée van Marissing, Simon van Keulen, Susanne Kriemann, Theu Boermans, Ton Venhoeven, Tracy Metz, Walter Benjamin