Anu Vahtra – Goodbye air pollution, the future is here
The Space Conductors Are Among Us, Part V

11 March –  11 April 2021
Thursday – Sunday, 14-18 hrs

Anu Vahtra’s works investigate found spatial situations. Initiated by the architectural characteristics as well as historical and contextual background of a certain site, they often focus on the exhibition format and specifics of an exhibition space but also address issues concerning urban space. She composes both physical and photographic space as if through the camera, bearing in mind distinctive vantage points. What’s important is that the focus of attention is not so much on what her work depicts but rather on how it relates to and is displayed in a specific context.

In Goodbye air pollution, the future is here, Vahtra’s interest in exhibition space meets her fascination with urban space. A series of wall-like structures built out of discarded materials, collected from various demolition and construction sites in the area around P/////AKT, have been arranged in a formation dividing and organising the space. They host excerpts from the process of observing and documenting a city constantly under construction, including photography and video as well as a variety of debris from Brussels and Amsterdam.

Vahtra has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally, and has had solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Cologne, New York, Prague and Tallinn. She has been nominated for the Kristjan Raud Prize (2015) and the Sadolin Art Prize (2014); in 2015 she won the Köler Prize 2015 grand prix, and in 2017 received the Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s Foundation for Fine and Applied Arts. In 2017 Vahtra was an artist in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in New York and in 2020 at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels. She is currently based in [removed];

Metropolis M magazine recently published a conversation with the artist at P/////AKT. Read it (in Dutch) here.

David Grønlykke – Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another?

11 March –  11 April 2021
Thursday – Sunday, 14-18 hrs

You could maybe say that
a minute ago
The event did not happen here
even less;
by the Watermarks

They stapled on top of each other downstairs
-but maybe more in owner and endless, endless white…

Is it an invitation to
crossings and circles, to gut felt processes,
see how they glued January into the lack of a real body?

referred to as etc etc,
the real body sitting in it
is a global proxy… a day old world
which seeks to disturb the idea that
context is everything

You could maybe say that
the work
is already changed by the time
the data -runs-gallop-on-a-spring-summer-field

also you, now, -chestnut-horse-
are the gut “stock”
Sexed-up,
Logic being
dreaming of a radical elsewhere

space on the other hand, is not a 1:1 : exhibited like this, will be it

– Text by Sara Milio

Do you recognize perhaps, also you, now, that a minute ago you were another? is the third and last presentation by David Grønlykke in the P/////AKTPOOL. The artist graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam in 2019.

Evita Vasiljeva and Dan Walwin
New publication and editions

11 March –  11 April 2021
Thursday – Sunday, 14-18 hrs

We are proud to present two brand new additions to our P/////AKT Collection: If told correctly it will centre on me, 2020 by Evita Vasiljeva and Extracts from talk to be given at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London, February 2021, 2021 by Dan Walwin. These limited edition artworks – commissioned for the P/////AKT Collection and available through our Membership program – are on display in the P/////AKTSALON alongside the publication Town at Edge of Garden at Edge of Town – a result-in-print of the artists’ duo show at POST Gallery in [removed];

At our bookshop, you can find a selection of P/////AKT publications, artists’ books and editions by our alumni artists (and more). 
Here below is a selection of new arrivals:

➤ Anu Vahtra & Gordon Matta-Clark,
‘Short Term Eternity’, Lugemik, 2019, € 15,00
➤ Claudia Pagès, ‘Rats and Roaches’, Yaby, Jupiter Woods, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), 2020, € 12,00
➤ Erik Odijk, ‘The Academy of the Sublime’,
Jap Sam Books, 2020, € 35,00
➤ Lisa Sudhibhasilp, ‘No thanks, I’m just looking’,
Building Fictions, 2020, € 32,00
➤ Katja Mater, ‘Time is an Arrow, Error’, € 26,00


Are you looking for a short term accommodation in Amsterdam? Then look no further! P/////AKT’s apartment is available from March until August 2021.

The apartment is located above P//////AKT exhibition space in Zeeburgerpad 53 – 1019 AB Amsterdam and it consists of an open space (of 42 m²) with:
– sleeping area (double bed and closet)
– living area (double sofa/bed, table and chairs)
– a small built in kitchen (cooking plate, fridge, washing machine, dry machine)
– a separate bathroom with a toilet and shower
and of course there’s wifi
Regular rate: € 50,00 (excl. VAT) per night for 1 person. Extra person € 10,00 (excl. VAT) per night. One-time cleaning costs: € 25,00 (excl. VAT). Minimum stay: 3 nights.

We apply special rates for stays of 15/30/60 nights.
Interested? Please send an email to More information here.

P/////AKT would like to thank:

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Ammodo