Sonic Acts transformation of the Glass House into a Listening Room is reaching its final weekend, so don't miss it. And now that the first days of spring are slowly bringing the Amstelpark into bloom, there is a full program of exciting events coming up at Zone2Source with a lot of outdoor activity exploring the park. Below you will find the programme in chronological order.
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22 March - IN THE PARK Public closing ceremony 2nd School of Multispecies Knowledges
On 22 March, from sunrise to sunset (6:37 a.m. to 6:53 p.m.), the festive closing of the 2nd School for MultiSpecies Knowledges will take place. In this learning community, new learning temporalities, activities and methods for attuning to the world around us were collected and tested through artistic research over a period of six months. You are welcome to attend the closing ceremony of the School with a full day of activities in the park, a public day for all species. All events starts from the Rietveld `House, come by any time to find us and see what is happening.
The learning community consists of Alice Smits, Christine Hvidt, Irina Shapiro, Junying Wu, Lea Novi, Maeve Kuitenbrouwer, Mariken Overdijk, Marjolijn Boterenbrood, Natascha Hagenbeek en Theun Karelse.
The School for Multispecies Knowledges is organized by Zone2Source in collaboration with Irina Shapiro. Theun Karelse joins as Speaker of the Living for Zoöp Amstelpark.
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28 March - With Darkness Listening session with Christine Hvidt & Slow Research Lab
artist Christine Hvidt leads a participatory listening session in the dark in Amstelpark, in dialogue with the publication SlowTechnology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures (Valiz, 2025). Inspired by her essay on Darkness as Technology, Hvidt invites participants to listen attentively to the night, the park and their own inner landscape. Read more here.
Programme: 6:30–6:50 p.m. Meet at the Zone2Source Glass House, bring things to keep you warm (blanket, cushion, thermos of tea?) 19:00 Start (introduction and lecture), followed by the listening session in the park 22:00 Closing with tea and biscuits
Please note: Enter the park via the Red Bridge and park your bicycle outside.
2 april ORIGIN STORIES - Rhine River beginnings, endings, and becomings Dialogue & Launch
Artist Xandra van der Eijk invites you to an intimate evening of dialogue in the Glazen Huis about the stories, images and histories that shape our relationship with the Rhine. The programme builds on her long-term project which started with an exhibition at Zone2Source in the summer of 2024. It marks the launch of the new online platform, a living archive of field notes, essays and artistic reflections on the river.
Guests and audience will engage in conversation about how the Rhine influences our daily lives, infrastructure and landscape. The evening will be accompanied by a short film by Maud van den Beuken and field recordings of the river by sound artist Kristina Mau Hansen. Read morehere.
Programme: 18:00–21:00 Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark.
exhibition & outdoor art
Block the 19th of April in your diary please, because there will be two wonderful openings that afternoon. Inside the Glass House, Host(ile) Lands will open, and outside, in the trees in front of the Glass House, the Chorusing Symbionts by Matteo Marangoni will make an appearance .
19 April HOST(ILE) LANDS Exhibition at het Glazen Huis 19 April – 14 June 2026 Kumi Hiroi, Hangfeng Chen, Mariko Hori en Pan
When does a guest become an intruder? In Host(ile) Lands, Kumi Hiroi, Hangfeng Chen, Mariko Hori and Pan present new work about plant and animal species that are valued in their countries of origin but are considered invasive in the Netherlands. The exhibition opens on 19 April and closes on 14 June.
From their position as Asian artists living in the Netherlands, they explore the parallels between biological invasions and human migration. The exhibition raises questions about who is welcome, who is seen as an intruder, and how political and cultural perspectives determine who – or what – is allowed to occupy our lands. Read more here.
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19 april CHORUSING SYMBIONTS Artwork outside het Glazen Huis 19 April – 10 May 2026 Matteo Marangoni
Programme:
Opening12 April, 15:00–17:00
This spring, the Chorusing Symbionts will settle in the trees around the Glass House in the Amstelpark. Who are they? Artificial creatures created by artist Matteo Marangoni that reside high in the trees around the Glass House.
The project explores how interspecies music can connect people, machines and animals. The creatures respond to their environment and create a spatial soundscape that invites visitors to listen more attentively to the park and the living world around them. The work can be visited and listened to from 19 April to 10 May.
