Collect Amsterdam: Your Piece of the City in One of 100 City Vases
30 November 2024
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Bring minerals and materials to the Oude Kerk for Navid Nuur's project.
Would you like to have a piece of Amsterdam immortalized in a new artwork? On November 30, artist Navid Nuur invites Amsterdam residents to bring minerals and materials from the city to the Oude Kerk. Think of materials such as sand, glass, stone, ash, rust, metal, or shells from the IJ. Do you have a special story about the material you’re bringing? Share it with us on November 30.
Nuur will incorporate these materials into a series of 100 unique city vases that he is currently crafting in a specially designed studio within the Oude Kerk. Before finalizing the vases, he will take them around the city, pressing them against facades, curbs, bridges, benches, and other street furniture, capturing literal impressions of the city in the clay.
Practical Information
The material you bring serves as your (free) entry ticket.
750 Years of Amsterdam
Nuur's project NN XXX ties into the celebration of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary. After the exhibition, the vases will be stored in the IJzeren Kapel, once Amsterdam's city vault. Each year, one vase will be auctioned. In 2125, exactly one hundred years later, the last 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 presents 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 all senses, peeling back the history of Amsterdam’s oldest building to reveal experiences rooted in the present moment—touching on sight, smell, sound, earth, air, and light. Meanwhile, a significant aspect of the exhibition will reach its conclusion only a century from now.
