For years, since the bankruptcy of the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw en Droogdok Maatschappij (NDSM, the Dutch Shipbuilding and Dry dock Company) in 1984, the NDSM Shipyard in the Northern part of Amsterdam stood abandoned. With the exception of the occasional flea market or show by the experimental theatre group Dogtroep, not much was happening on the [&hellip… →
NDSM Shipyard
Frontage design
The frontage clearly shows that Heesterveld is evolving. The mural on the frontage of Heesterveld will be finished in September 2013. Amsterdam Zuidoost lacks a strong identity for cultural organizations, and that is why Eva and her team decided on a visible change to the building itself, which would mark Heesterveld as a cultural hotspot: [&hellip… →
Hip hop school
Hip-hop school Solid Ground Movement. From 2007 to 2009, Eva was the temporary business manager of Solid Ground Movement, the first hip-hop school and theatre workshop of Amsterdam focusing on quality, development, and hip-hop as an art form. It was started by Alida Dors and Bryan Druiventak, pioneers of the Dutch hip-hop culture and active [&hellip… →
Cultural Program
The residents of Heesterveld contribute to the cultural programme of Heesterveld Creative Community, and organize debates, performances, exhibitions, and shows. These all take place in the communal space H75 and in the courtyard. They also organize events elsewhere in the city. Eva has made the renovation of H75 possible, has directed the organisation and content [&hellip… →
Communual Space
The residents of Heesterveld felt a great need for a communal space. Eva held a competition for the interior, the entry send in by students of Rietveld Academy (the art academy) and residents of the building complex won, and the communal space H75 was realized. Eva helped with the development of the plans, the permits, [&hellip… →
Transformation basement units
Heesterveld continues to evolve. In 2014, the storage units in the basement, where drug dealing once took place, will be converted into eight business accommodations for, among others, a light designer, a piercing shop, and The Community Shop of Bijlmer Style, a local foundation aimed at discovering creative talent in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Music is an [&hellip… →
Dazzleville
The temporary studio village Dazzleville arose on grounds of the NDSM Shipyard in 2003. It was built to house the artists during the renovation of the shipbuilding hall. Brightly coloured studios accommodated around 20 creatives. Once the renovation of the hall was complete, the Dazzleville residents moved into Kunststad and the village was demolished. Dazzlevile [&hellip… →
Art project ‘De Valigia on Rails’
De Valigia is Italian for ‘suitcase’, and refers to the artwork by the Italian sculptor Gianpaolo d’Andrea Moravecchia. In 1995, Gianpaolo exhibited the suitcase pieces of 30 Italian and 30 Dutch artists with De Valigia, in the Open Haven Museum in Amsterdam. There, he met the German artist Hans Kalliwoda and the foundation De Blinde [&hellip… →