SEXYLAND World has enlisted our assistance in locating a new accommodation within Amsterdam. SEXYLAND World is a labyrinth of diverse cultural, creative, and societal initiatives with an all year round program and a shared vision about nightlife.

2024–currently, Amsterdam Noord, The Netherlands

Zadelhoff, a real estate company specialized in the (re)development of special buildings in the Amsterdam region, commissioned us to develop and implement a social-cultural concept within a 4.000 m² wing of Slotervaart in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

The concept, known as Louwes Lab, involved transforming the former Slotervaart hospital building into a temporary social and cultural well-being laboratory. This has led to the initiation of Care Design Lab, Care Next and Kinderkledinglab and to the housing of literary neighborhood café Casa Sofia, Buurtteam Amsterdam Nieuw- West, and the ROC Health Experience Centre.

In Louwes Lab, professionals collaborate with residents, designers and artists to shape the future of care. Together with local stakeholders a vibrant program of cultural and social activities is developed around wellbeing, health and care in connection to the Amsterdam Nieuw-West neighborhood.

2021–2023, Amsterdam Nieuw-West, The Netherlands

Commissioned by EDGE Technologies and ABN AMRO, we developed a public art project on a 400 m² facade of a garage building in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Two local artists created the floral-themed mural “The Botanical Garden of Bims”, which represents the cultural diversity of Amsterdam Zuidoost.

The opening of the project took place in April 2023, and the artwork can still be viewed at the Foppingadreef as a permanent part of the Bijlmer.

In collaboration with the Stadvinderij Foundation of the ROEF festival, we developed a new public art project called RARe (ROEF Art Residency). RARe consisted of various arts and culture projects on rooftops throughout Amsterdam Zuidoost. These projects aimed to connect municipal districts and local stakeholders to the cultural sector of Amsterdam Zuidoost.

This edition of RARe was titled 'Dis/Connect' and addressed the emotional ownership of a neighborhood by its residents. During the summer of 2022, a program of various cultural activities and tours along the art projects was presented.

2021–2022, Amsterdam Zuidoost, The Netherlands

As a cultural broker we were asked by the real estate developer Stadsbehoud to find cultural and creative organizations to house in some of their warehouses in Amsterdam Sloterdijk. We found a perfectly suitable new theater concept by the theater collectives De Warme Winkel and BOG for an old chemical company that was about to leave the area. We connected Stadsbehoud to these cultural parties which has led to the creation of DE SLOOT.

DE SLOOT functions as an experimental theater incubator and has opened its doors in 2022. Within its 3.300 m² floor space, it hosts theater shows with affordable irregular programming, festivals and try-outs. In addition to this, the location boasts a popular restaurant, a boxing gym, a dance studio, music studios, and studio’s for decor and costume design.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the INNSiDE hotel on the Zuidas has commissioned us to develop a cultural concept for the hotel rooms that unexpectedly stood empty.

In collaboration with the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, we have developed an art project for sixteen second-year students, selected by a team of Rietveld teachers and hotel staff. The students were tasked with creating site-specific artworks while using the empty hotel rooms as their studios. The result was an exhibition throughout the hotel. The art projects are still on display to this day.

2020, Amsterdam Zuidas, The Netherlands

Commissioned by the municipality of Amsterdam, together with local stakeholders, we developed the public art project PLAY STATION SLOTERDIJK. PLAY STATION SLOTERDIJK featured a series of temporary and semi-permanent works of art specially developed for their locations in public spaces around Station Amsterdam Sloterdijk.

Through experimentation, speculation and imagination, PLAY STATION SLOTERDIJK investigated Sloterdijk’s future as a new city quarter. The art route took human playfulness as its theme, tracing it through the entire program, including guided tours, workshops and various opening events.

2019–2020, Amsterdam Sloterdijk, The Netherlands

Get Lost Foundation was established in 2015 with the initiation of GET LOST – art route on the Amsterdam Zuidas. Get Lost generated art projects in public space by connecting municipalities, organizations and local stakeholders with emerging artists.

With GET LOST – art route young artists were commissioned to make artworks that would be temporarily placed in public space. These artworks created an art route with which the public would get lost along the Zuidas.

The first edition was titled “Where the sidewalk ends” and addressed the thin line between private and public space. The second edition was titled "Code of Conduct” and featured artists who reflected on corporate identities.

The artworks were presented in the respective summers alongside a program of guided tours, performances and workshops.

2015–2018, Amsterdam Zuidas, The Netherlands

Commissioned by VTTI, a Dutch storage provider for energy products, we initiated the interdisciplinary art project “PUNCTURE POINTS: Where energy meets the everyday” in Cape Town, South Africa. In collaboration with local researchers, stakeholders, a local curator and an artistic team we developed a socially sensitive cultural concept that raised awareness of the energy-life relationship in the region. Through an open call we engaged with local artists and the diverse creative community of the Western Cape.

The project aimed to highlight the various distribution channels of energy and their impact on everyday life. Its result was a public exhibition in the heart of the Cape Town harbour, including guided tours, workshops and a performative program.

2017, Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika