The Parool, Feb. 11, 2011 by: Emma Boelhouwer

An old elderly home in the Kolenkit neighborhood has been converted into a guest house. A godsend in a neighborhood where large families are living small. 'Ideal when visitors come from Morocco.'
'Very good, very good.' A North African man nods approvingly during a tour by the artists' collective Cascoland of the guest house in one of the so-called Piggelmee houses in the Kolenkit neighborhood. ‘You guys are doing good for the neighborhood.’

The two-room, 34-square-meter apartment has received a lick of paint, three beds have been installed and the kitchen cabinets contain plates and cups. 'Very low budget though,' says Fiona de Bell of Cascoland. Starting Monday, the former elderly person's home at Piet Paaltjenspad 6 will serve as a place to sleep for five euros per person at a time for rent and a maximum of three nights in a row. 'As a fall-back option when family comes over.' 

And that's not an unnecessary luxury in a neighborhood where the bulk of the houses are not much bigger than this Piggelmee home and at the same time house large families. Cascoland touched down in the Kolenkit neighborhood in September. The collective operated a neighborhood restaurant, traded a snack for an idea, held consultation hours and built a winter garden with large mobile chicken coops on a piece of vacant land. Fiona de Bell: 'People told me they were annoyed with the piece of land that nothing was being done with and came up with stories about Moroccan farm life with chickens.' 

'Families are crammed into their houses, there is no room for visitors.' 

The Rochdale housing association's tiny homes were also discussed during the consultation hour. With the guest house, Cascoland wants to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. Neighborhood resident Mohamed El Abdi is sure it will be busy. 'The Kolenkitbuurt is the poorest neighborhood in the Netherlands, there is a lack of everything. Families are crammed into their houses. One room for the parents and one for the children. When visitors come from Morocco or Turkey, the children have to fight for a place on the couch. Now that the demolition and renovation of the houses in the neighborhood has been postponed, this is a great initiative to still help people out. 

El Abdi and his wife themselves do not need to use the house; they have come by to offer their help. Cascoland gratefully accepts that offer. De Bell: ‘We set it up, but the neighborhood has to take over.’
El Abdi: ‘I first came here when I came to the Netherlands in 1992 and I have something with the Kolenkitbuurt. My wife and I bought a house here. Together we can make it a beautiful neighborhood.'
His wife laughs, ‘And if we have a fight, I'll send you here.’

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Twelve years later, we see more and more shared spaces appearing in Amsterdam. In response to smaller and more expensive housing in the city and growing individualization of society, shared spaces are proving to be a godsend. We see the concept of a Logeerhuis appearing more and more in large newly built housing complexes, such as in the Rhapsody complex in the Kolenkit neighborhood. But where is the position of a Logeerhuis for the entire neighborhood?

From May 16-21, Cascoland transforms the Bouwput into the former setting of the Logeerhuis. Starring Aicha and Asma as former administrators, we welcome neighborhood residents for an overnight stay for visiting family or friends. We look back and look forward: what have been the various functions and values of the Logeerhuis in recent years? What do we take with us into the future, of the Kolenkit as a neighborhood and for Amsterdam as a city?

May 16 to 21: Logeerhuis de Bouwput
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74, Amsterdam

Programme

Daily exposition: 10:00-17:00 
Daily overnight stays: 17:00-10:00
Daily consultation hour: 10:00-11:00 
16 May 16:00-17:00: Festive opening with auction of Logeerhuis items
May 17 and 18: 12:00-14:00: Communal lunch and conversation
Confirmation of your arrival is appreciated

Want to book a night for friends or family? 

Contact
Aicha: 0685386256
Fiona: 0652606667
Room: 2 beds - Price: FREE!

Book quickly this special night, because full is full!

Een groeiende mixed–media expositie van vier internationale kunstenaars over de wensen van Amsterdammers voor hun stad.

In het kader van het Europese project Remix Comix en het aankomende ExploreZ festival verblijven vier beeldende kunstenaars uit Servië, Slovenië en Tsjechië bij ZID Theater in Artists in Residence (AIR). Ze ontwikkelen kunstwerken, die gekoppeld worden aan de openingsvoorstelling Boom! Crash! Oh! Hello!, die de relatie tussen strips en performance onderzoekt.
Elke partner selecteerde speciaal voor deze Artist in Residency een kunstenaar die dit experiment aan wil gaan: Danilo Milovanovic uit Slovenië, Iva Atoski en Darija Dragojlović uit Servie en Mirka (Miroslava) Konenc uit Tsjechië.

De verhalen van de stadsbewoners, jong en oud, dienen als uitgangspunt voor dit onderzoek en voor de kunstwerken. Ze zijn opgehaald tijdens workshops ‘Verhalen vertellen’, volgens de VerhalenVanger methode van ZID Theater. Verschillende groepen buurtbewoners, kinderen en volwassenen namen deel aan deze workshops. Met hen ‘vangen we verhalen’ rond hetgeen zij graag zouden zien in de openbare ruimte in Amsterdam. Deze wensen en dromen vormen de input voor de strips, installaties en de locatievoorstelling.  

In de pop-up expositie Remix Comix – Amsterdam, in de Bouwput, wordt zowel het werkproces, als een aantal werken die ontstaan tijdens deze AIR, tentoongesteld. De kunstenaars experimenteren met verschillende materialen, vormen en mixed media waarbij het creatieve proces en de samenwerking centraal staat.    

Tijden:  
De groeiende expositie is vanaf dinsdag 8 mei te bezoeken. Het is mogelijk om langs te komen op aanvraag via explorez@zidtheater.nl of meld je aan via nummer 020-4888449.
Op vrijdag 12 mei vanaf 17:00 uur vindt de officiële opening plaats.  
Zaterdag 13 en zondag 14 mei is de expositie van 13.00 – 17.00 uur te bezoeken of op andere tijden via aanvraag (zie bovenstaande gegevens).  

Credits: Installatie, strips en kostuums door beeldend kunstenaars: * Danilo Milovanovic - Forum Ljubljana, Institute for Art and Cultural Production (Slovenië) * Iva Atoski - Komunikart (Servië) * Darija Dragojlović - Multimedia Center ICE ART (Servië) * Mirka (Miroslava) Konenc - LUSTR Festival (Tsjechië)

You are invited to Blue and Yellow don’t make Green, an exhibition that widely explores abstract art through the lens of colour and form. The exhibition’s title was taken from Michael Wilcox’s eponymous book on color mixing. His insights changed the way many artists compose and use colour.

Artists Eline Boerma, Aquil Copier, Ralph de Jongh, Robert Quint and Thijs Rhijnsburger translate their imagination into colourful dialogues on the surface. The diverse range of works include vivid and layered paintings, challenging the viewer to consider how paint expressions may interact. 

Opening:
5 May - 16.00-21.00 hrs
De Bouwput
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
Amsterdam

The title of the show: “It’s The Thought That Counts…” you might be familiar with: “when people give you things that you don’t want, you must remember that it’s the thought that counts”.

The same might go for this retrospective of Hughes' works. No one asked for them but behind every piece there’s a kernel of an idea to reveal. 

"This exhibition will connect 10 years of autonomous works by showcasing them in one space together for the first time, displaying a dominant visual language and thinking that is an integral part of my practice. Which is why you might discover giant slinky’s next to condoms, vandalised design classics, a motley crew of pooping pigeons and a car covered in bullet holes.”

- During the opening there will be a Flop Shop (a play on Keith Haring's infamous store) - an extension of Hughes’ work with limited edition multiples on sale. 
- Live music is supplied by: Kiran Bhaat @kiranvfbhatt
- Sunday 19 March 15:00 a community mural will be instigated, come one come all (meeting at De Bouwput).

Funded by AFK Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst.

Opening
Friday 17 March 
18:00 - 22:00

Opening hours gallery 
Daily between 12:00 - 18:00
& by appointment on 0639587041

Events:

Community Mural Painting
Sunday 19 March 
15:00 - 17:00
meeting at De Bouwput

Finissage 
Friday 24 march 
16:00 - 18:00

Joseph Hughes is a visual artist and autonomous designer who combines ready-made sculpture, assemblage, conceptualism, design and film to communicate his thoughts to a broader public. His work demonstrates a child like playfulness that is simultaneously novel yet apparently obvious. He actively seeks to avoid classification and instead prefers to assume the position of a jack of all trades and a master of some."

Graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree he then studied Design for Visual Communication at the London College of Communication before relocated to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, respectively. His professional experience in the fields of design, architecture and higher education amalgamate in his autonomous works. Ricocheting between design as art, the amateur and the professional but always somewhere between communication and visible language.

W: www.hughesjoseph.com
IG: @hughesjoseph 
FB event: "It's The Thought That Counts..."

De Bouwput is proud to be hosting the presentation of “Signature Selfie Volume 1: A-G, M, V.” featuring work by Mariana Vidal-Escabi. The NYC-based artist started the series of hand-printed textiles in Amsterdam’s AGALab in the Summer of 2021 as part of their AIR program and completed the work in New York. It is returning to Amsterdam for the first time at De Bouwput. The show will run from March 14th to 16th, 2023, with a finissage happening on Thursday, March 16th, from 6-9 PM.

Signature Selfie explores how the symbols, signs, and visual markings we wear affect the perception of ourselves.

A series of medium and large-scale hand-printed textiles inspired by Wiener Werkstatte’s use of monograms as personal logos and the uniquely personal and abstract nature of handwriting and handwritten signatures. These prints hover between abstraction and figuration and invite the viewer to question the ubiquity and purpose of personal branding.

Each piece comprises silk-screen printed geometric and organic shapes that form the letters in a monogram. On the fabric’s selvage, heat-pressed markings resemble handwriting exercises on the edges of a page. These suggest something that continues outside the picture plane, like a bolt of printed fabric with its continuous patterns or pages of a notebook full of scribbles and doodles.

Various added elements that nod to the tradition of garment making (straps, hems, and finishes) make it unclear if these textiles are supposed to be draped on a body or hung to be displayed.

We also see the creation process of these monograms in more detail, resembling the repetition in writing exercises interpreted as the constant search for different ways of presenting oneself—our diverse identities.

Mariana Vidal Escabi (b.1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico) earned a BA from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Fashion Design and Textile Design from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. The artist has participated in exhibitions at “Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair” at MoMA PS1, New York, in 2018 and 2019; “Every Woman Biennial” in New York in 2019; Baxter Street Camera Club, New York in 2019; “Stand Out Prints” at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN in 2018; Fisher Parrish Gallery inaugural show, New York in 2017. Vidal-Escabi had a solo exhibition of her textile work in 2021 in New York City. Her work is part of the library collections at the MoMA and the SFMoMA.

She is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Vidal-Escabi currently lives and works in New York City.

www.marianavidal.com
www.awindownyc.com
www.debouwput.com

with: Korrie Besems - Carina Diepens - Clary Stolte - Ad van Campenhout

opening hours
Friday 10 February: 17.00-20.00 > opening
Saturday 11 February: 14.00-18.00
Sunday 12 February: 14.00-18.00 < 16.00-18.00 > finissage in the presence of the artists

The exhibition ONONDERBROKEN shows work of four different artists. What they each share is that they continue to work on foundations developed in depth over a long time frame: memories are made into solidified stories.

Each artist interweaves various actions, materials, words and/or time fragments into a work of art. Continuously they add layer upon layer, line to line and image upon image. Parts are cut out, erased, scratched out or brushed away and earlier operations, image fragments and layers remain visible. Repetitive actions in charcoal, photo, crayon, rubber and tape, are attempts to capture narrative stratas in images. The joyful ease of replication is restrained, subdued rather than exuberant and colour is mostly sober. 

Because the repetition does not aim for perfection, like stuttering, the stories falter. But where and how they falter creates new room for ever more shifting interpretations. Due to new turns, these solidified stories are never finished, but continue to open up new re-creations and metamorphoses.

curator Korrie Besems

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Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74
1061 HW Amsterdam
www.debouwput.com
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