Public Art. Amsterdam

Agenda

Ontmoetingsplaats 21ste eeuw

Figuren en Vuur

Ladders

Krijger

Vruchtbaarheid

Totempaal

Mensen op strand met parasol

Monument voor de Vrede

Aardewerk

Zwerm

Blauwe Boog

Jongen met Haan

Papieren vliegtuigpijl

Schaapjes

Senza Parole

Vleugelvormen

Zonder moeite niets (Het Sieraad)

Herdenkingsmonument voor slachtoffers Tweede Wereldoorlog

De Wending 666/999

Boegbeeld

Ankh

Het Molecularium

Vierwindstrekenbrug

Zonder Titel (hekwerk poort)

Home is where the heart is: de potkachel

BOLD TOREN BOUWMATERIALEN

Strike a Pose – Wafae Ahalouch

Amsterdam, the magic center, art and counterculture 1967-1970

Schip van Slebos

De Appel

Het Bankje

Het Raam

De Oude Kerk

Het Stoepje

Licht

De Brug

De Brug

Ruimtestructuur

Het Zandkasteel en de Amsterdamse Poort

How to Kill a Tree, Edward Clydesdale Thomson

City Cells

Nelson Mandela

Monument tegen Apartheid en Racisme

DOE IETS / DO SOMETHING

Spanje Monument

De Muur

Gedenkteken Steven van Dorpel

De Grote Glijbaan

Yellow Wings

Dolle Mina

Man en Schaap

Hortus Botanicus

Portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, J.L. Vreugde

Anton de Kom

Now, Speak!

Tayouken Piss

Monument Bijlmerramp

Sequin Monument

Mama Aisa

Zonder titel (Twee Schuine Naalden)

Nationaal Monument Slavernijverleden

Monument for Martin Luther King

Gloei!

Voor de Bijen

Industrieel Monument

The Black Archives

Tussentijd

Corned Beef

Sami

Brace for Impact, Node #6

Untitled (You Don’t Have To Be Here)

Staalmanplein

Wegwerphuisje

Groot Landschap

De 7 poorten

Klimmuur

De Kies

Black Waves

Tectona Grandis

Stapeling omlaag

Animaris Rhinoseros Transport

Tuinen van West

De Poort van Constant

Fietstunnel station Amsterdam CS

Noordbeeld

NDSM-Werf

Ontmoetingsplaats

IJ boulevard

ADM monument

De Ceuvel

NDSM-Werf

Observatorium

De Ceuvel

Gedenkteken Ataturk

Twee Beelden

Sunday Seminar Pay Attention Please! curating the city

Official Opening Pay Attention Please!

De Kost en de Baat

Van Eesteren Museum and Aldo van Eyck’s climbing frames

Constructie met I-balken, André Volten

Mirage, Tamás Kaszás

Rembo, Bastienne Kramer

Untitled, Margot Zanstra

Horse Chestnut, Amok Island

2 U’s naar buiten / 2 U’s naar binnen, Carel Visser

Opstandingskerk, Marius Duintjer

Cascoland

WOW Amsterdam

Leonard van Munster, Under Heaven 02

Lex Horn, Concrete relief Hendrik de Keyser

Het Wiel, Jeroen Henneman

Herbert Nouwens, Brettensuite

White Noise

De Wachter

Feestelijke Beelden (festive sculptures)

Your Life is Calling

Untitled

Primum movens ultimum moriens

11 Rue Simon Crubellier

Lady Solid

Opgelichte Stoeptegels

Ode to Mungus, Menhir Tower and Spire

Untitled (Hildo)

The First Turk Immigrant or The Nameless Heroes of The Revolution – Framer Framed

Amsterdam, the Magic Center Art and counterculture 1967-1970, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Monument for the White Cube – P/////AKT

Monuments to the Unsung – Framer Framed

wild care, tame neglect – Frankendael Foundation

GET LOST – art route, several artists

Ode to the Bijlmer – CBK Zuidoost

Untitled (You Don’t Have To Be Here) – De Appel

We should have a conversation (2018) – De Appel

Fiep van Bodegom

Roos van Rijswijk

Alma Mathijsen

Massih Hutak

Chris Keulemans

Rashid Novaire

NDSM-wharf

Kunstroute Oost

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In the second half of the seventeenth century the botanist and artist Agnes Block wrote: ‘Art and work are called for where nature fails’. Only in her skilful hands can nature bloom. She was the first to succeed in what many were attempting at the time: to cultivate the pineapple, imported from the colonies in the West, on European soil. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) started importing tropical plants and animals to the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Many of them found their way to private collections, including the animals, until Artis Zoo was founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The plants cannot survive on their own in the changeable Dutch climate, but the wealth acquired through international trade led to technological progress and new ways of domesticating nature. The VOC encouraged research on flora with a view to the economic potential of new crops.

In 1682 the Amsterdam botanical garden was founded, initially to provide medicinal herbs during outbreaks of the plague. The VOC director and mayor of Amsterdam Johan Huydecoper was a member of the board. Greenhouses made it possible to simulate the original climate of the plants. The collection included the pineapple, an okra, a mulberry tree and two coffee plants. Cuttings were taken from both the coffee plants and the Asian mulberry tree and exported to Java and Surinam in the hope of creating a large-scale production of coffee and silk for the European market. The mulberry trees could not survive in the Surinamese climate, but coffee remained an enormously lucrative commodity for the Netherlands down to the end of the colonial era.

The economic value of natural products in the colonies whetted the appetite of traders ever since the overseas expeditions began. There was a demand for spices, fruits, textiles and raw materials on the European market, and their production was stepped up to meet that demand by violently exploiting the local labour force. Europe had little to offer in return, so monopolies of products were secured by foul means.

The economy and nature are inextricably intertwined. The twenty-first century once again confronts us with the problematic relation between them. In their modern form, the ideal of shaping the world as we choose and the consumerism that already played a part at the beginning of the colonial era have changed nature for ever and now pose a threat to human existence. This threat is unequally divided over the world. As a prosperous country, the Netherlands has the possibility of keeping the rising sea level outside the dykes and of developing technologies that limit the consequences of climate change as far as possible. Less well-to-do countries are faced with droughts and natural catastrophes without the resources to tackle them. The problem, however, is a global one. Fortunately, the Hortus Botanicus and the neighbouring Hermitage Museum have adopted a vanguard position in climate technology. Since 2016 the two institutes have been collaborating on the project Between Art and Greenhouse. The excess warmth generated by the Hermitage air conditioning system is pumped underground to the Hortus Botanicus to heat the greenhouses, making them dependent for eighty per cent on sustainable energy. It is the first time that this technique has been applied in the Netherlands.

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