In addition to the gallery, Raam art space Amsterdam will open its doors with the exhibition Post Pollution by Willem de Haan and 99 artists. An exhibition about the value of art, pollution and collective responsibility.
For the exhibition, Willem de Haan traveled to the Mediterranean Sea to collect 99 plastic bottles from the sea. Some were still intact, others worn down by the elements. These plastic bottles were distributed among 99 international artists, each invited to transform their bottle into an artwork and exchange it for a special-edition piece by Willem de Haan.
Waste transformed into something romantic and monetarily valuable: a message in a bottle from an artist.
Post Pollution presents these 99 artworks. If the artworks remain unsold at the end of the exhibition, they will reluctantly be thrown back into the Mediterranean Sea. In doing so, visitors are placed under pressure, confronted with questions about collective responsibility.
Post Pollution will be the first exhibition in a new art space by Gallery Vriend van Bavink, in addition to the gallery. Just a stone’s throw from the gallery, Raam art space Amsterdam will open. In this 8-meter-high glass space of 400 square meters, a rotating exhibition program will be presented, complemented by a broader cultural program.
We are excited to open Raam art space Amsterdam in this beautiful location. It is a new step for the gallery, and we believe it can become a prominent addition to Amsterdam’s cultural scene.
