Discover Aimée Zito Lema's Site-Specific Installations: Here is Where we Meet at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

This exhibition at the Oude Kerk presented site-specific installations by artist Aimée Zito Lema, focusing on the building's history of social resistance and conflict. Lema explored how art can be a form of resistance and provoke it, using the Iconoclasm and a later event as starting points.

At the invitation of the Oude Kerk, Aimée Zito Lema created a series of new, site-specific installations for Amsterdam's oldest building, titled 'Here is Where we Meet'. The artist used the building's numerous visible and invisible traces of social resistance and conflict as a starting point, drawing from archival research. The exhibition centered on questions of change as a constant in history, both within the Oude Kerk and society at large. Zito Lema took two key moments of resistance as her focus: the Iconoclasm of 1566 and the opposition to Giorgio Andreotta Calò's red glass artwork in 2018. Through her installations, she investigated the complex relationship between art and resistance, questioning art's potential to be both a form of resistance and a provocation of it. The work served as a subtle tribute to the Oude Kerk's eventful history, with adapted basins and industrial pipe frameworks echoing the building's architecture and ongoing restoration work. Edited images derived from existing visual elements within the church were presented on various surfaces, offering new perspectives on the interplay between resistance and change.

Booking is available for the exhibition via the provided link. Admission is likely tied to general museum entry, though specific details are directed to the booking platform.