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];

Press
• Metropolis M, Verbrusseling – in gesprek met Anu Vahtra bij P/////AKT, Nadeche Remst, 2 March 2021
• Tique, Six Questions: Anu Vahtra, 17 March 2021
• Het Parool, De stedelijke ruimte op losse schroeven, Edo Dijksterhuis, 19 March 2021
• Echo Gone Wrong, Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Goodbye air pollution, the future is here’ by Anu Vahtra at P/////AKT, 25 March 2021
• Art Viewer, Anu Vahtra at P/////AKT, 26 March 2021

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

Since working with Dan and Evita in 2015 and 2017 respectively, P/////AKT wanted them to join forces in one exhibition. This was realized in the duo show Town at Edge of Garden at Edge of Town at POST Gallery in Kaunas in Lithuania in fall in 2019 and curated in collaboration with Audrius Pocius. This brand-new publication comes as something of an afterthought that loosely addresses what was before, their brief encounter in the middle and what will come after. The cunning and insightful designers Gaile Pranckunaite and Mislav Žugaj have mediated it for print. Vaida Stepanovaite wrote the central text and graciously allowed us to use [removed];Both artists have also recently added a new edition for the P/////AKT Collection, which we are happy to present alongside the book.

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

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

Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Ammodo