Closing the Vault
8 February 2025
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Festive placement of Navid Nuur’s 100 city vases in the Iron Chapel.
Registration opens on 28 November.
On Saturday, 8 February, 100 Amsterdam residents will take part in a festive programme to bring artist Navid Nuur’s 100 city vases to the Iron Chapel.
A new treasure for Amsterdam
The Iron Chapel is Amsterdam’s historic city vault. For centuries, it safeguarded the city’s most important documents, including the Tolprivilege. On 8 February, the chapel will be filled with a new treasure for Amsterdam, becoming a place of preservation once again for the next 100 years.
750 Years of Amsterdam
Nuur’s project NN XXX ties into the celebration of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary. Each year, one vase will be auctioned. In 2125, exactly one hundred years later, the final vase will leave the chapel, marking the completion of When Doubt Turns into Destiny.
About the Exhibition
From 7 September 2024 to 9 February 2025/2125, the Oude Kerk will present a new large-scale, context-specific exhibition by Navid Nuur (Tehran, 1976 – lives and works in The Hague). Nuur invites you to experience the church through your senses. He strips the history of Amsterdam’s oldest building down to sensory experiences focused on the here and now: seeing, smelling, hearing, earth, air, and light. At the same time, a key element of the exhibition will not conclude until a hundred years from now.
