Breath/Breeze/Box
Feel the oldest air in Amsterdam. Visit the Oude Kerk and experience Navid Nuur’s installation Breath/Breeze/Box. The work is activated daily at the following times: 12:30 - 12:45 (except Sundays), 13:30 - 13:45, 14:30 - 14:45, and 15:30 - 15:45.
Drying Conservatory
During the exhibition, Navid Nuur will create a series of 100 city vases. Over the coming months, he will mix clay with raw materials and minerals collected from various parts of Amsterdam in the Oude Kerk. He then takes the vases into the city, imprinting them with textures from façades, street furniture, and ornaments. The vases will then dry in the drying conservatory. You can visit the drying chamber with our staff at the following times: 12:45 - 13:00 (except Sundays), 13:45 - 14:00, 14:45 - 15:00, and 15:45 - 16:00.
Navid Nuur at work
Would you like to see Navid Nuur at work? Over the coming months, you may regularly encounter him in the Oude Kerk. In one of the chapels, he is working in a specially set-up studio on a series of 100 city vases. Nuur mixes the clay with raw materials and minerals he collects from across Amsterdam. Before firing the vases, he takes them into the city, pressing them against façades, curbs, bridges, benches, and other street furniture. This way, he imprints the vases with literal impressions of the city.
About the exhibition
From 7 September 2024 until 9 February 2025/2125, the Oude Kerk will present a new large-scale, site-specific exhibition by Navid Nuur (Tehran, 1976 – lives and works in The Hague). Nuur invites you to experience the church through your senses. He peels back the layers of history of Amsterdam’s oldest building to reveal experiences rooted in the here and now: seeing, smelling, hearing, earth, air, and light. At the same time, an important part of the exhibition will only come to an end in a hundred years.
