Silence-concert with @lailasakini During the Navid Nuur

The Oude Kerk presents a large-scale, context-specific exhibition by Navid Nuur that invites you to experience the church each time with different senses. Nuur peels back the history of Amsterdam’s oldest building, emphasising the here-and-now through experiences about seeing, smelling, hearing, earth, air, and light. Notably, an important part of the exhibition will only conclude one hundred years from now. Invite someone along Alchemy and art Navid Nuur is an artist who seeks meaning through an approach that oscillates between art and alchemy. He uses natural transformation processes of materials, influenced by light, darkness, or cold, to visualise immaterial phenomena – such as the flow of energy or the perception of time. In the Oude Kerk, Nuur’s works explore light, time, and space, visible and invisible phenomena, and physical and chemical principles. New and existing works converge in a moving interplay, encouraging us to take a sharper perspective on the world. A ray of sunlight occasionally reveals a streak in the heavens, an instrument periodically exhales a breath of air, and a field of pebbles crunches. 100 city vases (2125) During the duration of the exhibition, Nuur works in a specially designed studio on a series of 100 city vases. Nuur mixes the clay with materials and minerals he collects from Amsterdam. Before firing the vases, he takes them into the city and presses them against façades, kerbs, bridges, benches, and other street furniture. In this way, he gives the vases literal impressions of the city. At the end of the exhibition, the vases are stored in the Iron Chapel. For centuries, this has been Amsterdam's city vault. Each year, a vase is auctioned off. Only in 2125, after one hundred years, will all the vases have left the church, completing When Doubt Turns into Destiny.