Opening: Ode to the Bijlmer – CBK Zuidoost
8 September
September 8th, 19.00h
CBK Zuidoost
Anton de Komplein 120, Amsterdam
Entrance: Free
www.cbkzuidoost.nl
The district that was supposed to be the city of the future was already demolished after 25 years. The utopian urban development plan of Siegried Nassuth became known as a great failure. The Bijlmer had had and still has a stigma, especially for those who have never been to this area
Meanwhile, this part of the city exists for half a century and people lived, grew up and worked there and nowadays a third generation of children are growing up. Apartments have been demolished and apartments have been renovated. The plan has changed drastically and still new apartments are being build: this area is still in development. The artists in Ode aan de Bijlmer show their Bijlmer as a monument, as a new urban development, as an utopia, as special or different or as a sentiment from the past. The common theme in this exhibition is a visual translation of a positive experience with this area.
With: Syd D. Doscher, Lard Buurman, Katrin Korfmann, Hans van Houwelingen, MOHA – Kaleb de Groot, Floor Wesseling & Marquez Malacia, Pieter Postma, Evy Jokhova, Patrick Koster / Thérèse Zoekende, Sonja de Boer.
