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 [...]
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
On the brink of the 2009 Open Studios at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, architect and 2001 Prix de Rome winner (with his project ‘Shifting Horizons, Towards a non-Deterministic Urbanism’) John Lonsdale will visit De Verdieping for the Rijksakademie BeamClub. Lonsdale will talk about his activity of the last years, mapping the ‘Mudscapes of the Netherlands’ [...]
On tonight’s Rijksakademie BeamClub at De Verdieping, photographer, Volkskrant publicist and curator Hans Aarsman will join artist and 2009 Prix de Rome winner Nicoline van Harskamp in showing what inspires them to make their art. Doors will open at 8.30 PM,and the film starts at 9 PM. Entrance is free, and the night will be moderated [...]
On Wednesday 11 June De Verdieping had its first collaboration in with the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The night was a pre-screening of the documentary ‘Rem Koolhaas – A Kind of Architect’ by director Markus Heidingsfelder, in honor of the DOKU.ARTS festival that is taking place in Amsterdam. Here are some pictures of the night, taken [...]
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 [...]
Last night’s BeamClub was a warm welcome to the Rijksakademie from De Verdieping . We appreciate your coming, and hope you enjoyed our ad-hoc-sublevel-cinema despite the Spartan circumstances. Artists Sarah van Sonsbeeck and Gino Saccone will share their playlist soon, so you can check out what you missed if you weren’t there, or relive the moment if you [...]
Every Wednesday night De Verdieping hosts a night of art, music or discussion. On most of these nights we invite another institution to adopt this night to present itself in our environment. This time the Rijksakademie has kindly accepted our invitation – or, better, kindly approached us – to show videos that formed inspiration for residing [...]
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