Goodbye Zeeburgerpad - Garage Sale
Friday 9 January from 13:00 – 18:00 hrs
Saturday 10 January from 13:00 – 22:00 hrs
Cold in Church / Mauricio van der Maesen:
Music set / installation, Saturday at 20:00 hrs
Amsterdam, Zeeburgerpad 53, 20 June 2003 – 10 January 2026
Dear all,
On behalf of P/////AKT, we wish you all the very best for the new year!
We also have an important announcement to make, as we are finally saying goodbye to our beloved old location at Zeeburgerpad 53. We can safely say that this marks the end of an era, and of course we are saddened that this iconic place will cease to exist – as a successful experimental platform for art, as a studio facility for artists and as a go-to venue for a generation of art lovers. It is a loss for us and, above all, a loss for the city.
But we are also proud that we have lasted this long, and above all extremely grateful for everything that has been achieved in those twenty-three years. A small quote from our love letter to the exhibition space, included in the publication marking our fifteenth anniversary in 2018:
We wanted you from the first moment we saw you. You weren't pretty, but you had plenty of potential to compensate for your lack of good looks. (...) We know this is going to sound a bit sappy, but it's true: you were always our best feature. Never changing yet always changing through the efforts of all the artists we so much enjoyed working with. (…) So here it is, a short history of you. It goes back all the way, from the very beginning to where we find ourselves today and will still be heading together.
On 9 and 10 January, we warmly invite you to visit Zeeburgerpad 53 as we once found it: a vacant building with remnants and relics of its previous use. Not an exhibition, but a Garage Sale in the exhibition space – the former garage of the painting company from whom we took over the building in 2003.
There is everything, from publications and editions to chairs and dodgy refrigerators. (We will be posting some must-haves in the coming days, so keep an eye out.) And last but not least: Cold in Church and Mauricio van der Maesen will present their hybrid installation / musical set on Saturday January 10th at 20:00 hrs.
Looking forward to seeing you then and there!
Her Business of words
Colder than Churches,
As Cold in Church braces itself for releasing its Sophomore album, Convent, our large robes hide suggestively internal liveness. The Convent contains our new sound, which is both darker, heavier, and more heavenly. Cécile’s lungs teem with the miasma of DIVANY. Danielle embraces dark spoken word, and female rap with recourse to Fantasy subtexts. Jacob Dwyer emerges from the drumkit in a spoken body within a body.
Cold in Church is first and foremost a dream pop band, but through our rehearsals and commitment to collaboration, we’re weaving space for transness, existential ardour, betrayal fantasies, you name it, in which our vessel hosts multiple other vessels:
Mauricio van der Maesen de Sombreff is an artist based in Haarlem who works with live elements from kinetic sculptures, displayed through a theatrical light setup, making use of site specific elements. The space is carefully redesigned to create an intimate, immersive experience. The installation reflects on life support systems and the links between complexity and fragility. Activity and stillness, motors and pulses of light and sound echoing the rhythms of decaying human bodies. This installation mirrors the emotional tension between fascination and discomfort.
