Traces of a City in Motion – Three photographic perspectives on a changing Amsterdam
Amsterdam never stands still. Urban fringes become residential neighbourhoods, ports change their function, and new communities emerge on the edges of the city. The people who live there and the communities they form change along with them. In the exhibition Traces of a City in Motion, photographers Herman Wouters, Karlijn van Diepen and Wouter Zaalberg each present their own perspective on the changing city.
Opening
Friday 11 September
Join us for the festive opening of the exhibition at Arcam on Friday 11 September at 5pm.
Herman Wouters
Herman Wouters photographs Amsterdam’s public spaces, where everyday objects stand alongside centuries-old monuments, and what is here today may have disappeared by next week. He is particularly interested in the in-between spaces: places where the city is, for a moment, no longer quite itself, such as former urban fringes being transformed into orderly residential and business districts.
By repeatedly photographing these places, Wouters captures not only space, but also time: a year later, much of it has often already changed.
Karlijn van Diepen
Karlijn van Diepen looks for the city where you might least expect to find it: at the edges. In Amsterdam Nieuw-West and Weesp, she walks through neighbourhoods that are often viewed through the lens of prejudice, photographing both the places and the people who live there without imposing preconceived ideas about these areas.
Van Diepen is interested in people within the changing city: who lives there, what do the social structures of a neighbourhood look like, and what does a place mean to the people who call it home? By bringing the environment and its residents together in her photographs, she shows how inseparably city and community are connected.
Wouter Zaalberg
Amsterdam is still the world’s largest petrol port. In his series A Better Port, Wouter Zaalberg documents the Port of Amsterdam during a period of profound change. Fossil bulk commodities, coal, oil and petrol are gradually making way for the economy of the future.
Zaalberg photographs the people, work and places of the port: an area that remains resilient and still largely dependent on fossil energy, but where the first signs of a different future are beginning to emerge.
Plan your visit
Location: Arcam, Prins Hendrikkade 600
Data: 11 September – 7 November (until Museumnacht Amsterdam)
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 1-5 pm
Adults: €5.00
Students: € 2.50
Entrance 0-18 years: free admission
accompanying person of a visitor with a disability: € 0,00
Entrance with I Amsterdam City Card: €0,00
Accessibility:
Arcam is wheelchair accessible. All floors are accessible via our lift and there is an adapted toilet on the ground floor. If required, we also offer assistance, please feel free to contact us at arcam@arcam.nl.