The interior, exterior
Amsterdam has 934,526 people. People who move, renovate, separate, have a child, or simply buy a new sofa. And that old sofa? It ends up in the bulky waste. Just like chairs, tables, TVs, lamps, and mattresses that have seen better days. Entire interiors are put out on the street during the neighborhood bulky waste evening.
Boris Suyderhoud drove through these 17 neighborhoods between 2019 and 2025, and built the interior of the city there from bulky waste.
Weekly ritual
Since the second half of the 20th century, bulky waste evening has been a fixed part of the Amsterdam street scene. A weekly ritual in which the city's private life unintentionally reveals itself in the public space. Starting in 2026, this practice will be phased out by the municipality. What was visible on the streets for generations will thereby disappear from daily life.
Interiors made from waste
Between 2019 and 2025, Suyderhoud documented this practice in seventeen districts of Amsterdam. He rearranged the objects residents placed outside on-site into carefully lit interiors. The resulting images are poetic, alienating, and at the same time a sharp urban document. They show what people owned, used, needed — and ultimately let go of.
The opening will also see the presentation of the photobook INT/EXT Amsterdam , which brings together the entire project. Together, this exhibition and publication form the natural culmination of a 6-year project and the documentation of an Amsterdam custom that is on the verge of disappearing.
