Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny
The Oude Kerk presents a new large-scale context-specific exhibition by artist Navid Nuur. Nuur invites you to experience the church with your senses. He peels back the history of Amsterdam's oldest building to experiences that are about the here and now: about seeing, smelling, hearing, earth, air and light.
Navid Nuur: When Doubt Turns into Destiny
Navid Nuur
Navid Nuur (1976, Tehran) is an artist who searches for meaning in a work process that is somewhere between art and alchemy. He uses the natural change processes of materials under the influence of light, dark or cold to make intangible phenomena visible - such as the flow of energy or the experience of time. Nuur's work explores light, time and space, visible and invisible phenomena, physical and chemical principles in the Oude Kerk.
Series of a hundred vases
As part of the exhibition When Doubt Turns into Destiny, Nuur creates a series of a hundred vases in the Oude Kerk. He goes out every week in search of soil, minerals and grit from all parts of Amsterdam, the city that will celebrate its 750th anniversary in 2025. He mixes this material with the clay. Before the vases are fired, Nuur takes them into the city again to create 'impressions' of city bridges, walls and streets. During the last weekend of the exhibition, all vases are stored in the Iron Chapel, which functioned as a city vault for centuries. Every year, a vase is released and offered for sale. It was not until 2125, after a hundred years, that all the vases left the church, and When Doubt Turns into Destiny was completed.
Dates and times
Saturday 7 September | 10:00 - 18:00 |
Sunday 8 September | 13:00 - 17:30 |
Monday 9 September | 10:00 - 18:00 |
Part of
Amsterdam 750
On 27 October 2025, Amsterdam will be celebrating its 750th birthday. During the 12-month lead-up to this momentous milestone, the city is going all out. The festival year kicks off on 27 October 2024, filled with various activities from small neighbourhood get-togethers to major cultural events
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