Collecting the City #4 - Ongekend Zeedijk

Image from Francoise Bolechowski

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The Zeedijk is a place where many cultures and backgrounds come together. The Chinese, Surinamese and Jewish communities, the queer and jazz scene, young creative entrepreneurs - they all feel at home here. Yet the question remains: how much longer, and who actually owns this street? This question is explored in the small exhibition Ongekend Zeedijk. Visit this exhibition in the Amsterdam Museum on the Amstel.

Collecting the City #4 - Ongekend Zeedijk

Dates

Sat 27 Apr10:00 - 17:00

Sun 28 Apr10:00 - 17:00

Mon 29 Apr10:00 - 17:00

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Location

Amsterdam Museum aan de Amstel

Amstel 51

1018 EJ Amsterdam

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Residents about 'their' Zeedijk

During the coronavirus pandemic, three trainees from the municipality of Amsterdam started the Ongekend Zeedijk project in 2021 and 2022 in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum. Ravenna Westerhout, Jelmer Peter and Niel Oedit Doebé spoke to 100 residents, entrepreneurs and Amsterdammers from and around the Zeedijk. They asked them: What does the Zeedijk mean to you, and why do you feel connected to the Zeedijk?

Photo album

Together with artists Susan Kooi, Neil Fortune, and Tja Ling Hu, they created an exhibition with these stories on the Zeedijk and a book was published with photos by photographer Eveline Renaud, who has been photographing on the Zeedijk for more than 30 years. Due to the lockdowns, tourists stayed away for the first time in years, and it was quiet.

Who owns the Zeedijk?

Now that the hustle and bustle on the Zeedijk, just like in the rest of the city centre, is increasing again, the stories take on a new meaning. The makers spoke again for this exhibition with residents, entrepreneurs and visitors. Supplemented with previously created works of art and photographs by Eveline Renaud, they are bringing the Zeedijk to the Amsterdam Museum this year. Here they ask the question: who owns the Zeedijk?

Collecting the City

Collecting the City is an exhibition series in which the Amsterdam Museum, together with various communities and organizations, collects and presents the vibrant city of Amsterdam. In this fourth edition, we present the small exhibition Ongekend Zeedijk, which focuses on this old street.