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Opening at P/////AKT on Sunday 19 November, 16 – 19 hrs:
Jerrold Jaija | Christian Friedrich
23 November – 22 December, Thursday – Sunday, 14 – 18 hrs
Groenhoedenveem 2 (entrance around the corner at Veemkade)

Opening at P/////AKT old location on Saturday 18 November, 17 – 21 hrs:
Residue – a project by Anika Schwarzlose and Elena Khurtova
19 November – 16 December, Thursday – Sunday, 13 – 18 hrs
Zeeburgerpad 53

Jerrold Saija
A slim band, something that binds, and a range of frequencies

UP/////DATE: Christian Friedrich
Touch Me Not

P/////AKT is proud to present a brand new work by Amsterdam-based artist Christian Friedrich, with whom we previously collaborated in 2011. Touch Me Not is part of a series of reliefs in which he exploits and submits to chance by breaking ceramic tiles into pieces, before assembling them into forms and figures on background planes.

The work of Christian Friedrich (b. 1977, Freiburg, Germany) has been shown, among others, at Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Haus N, Athens, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Cabinet Gallery, London, Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff, NYU, New York, PS120, Berlin, Cobra Museum for Modern Art, Amstelveen, Goethe-Institut Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein, De Hallen, Haarlem, De Appel, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe and Kunsthaus Baselland. In 2017, Friedrich received the Cobra Art Prize.

Image: Touch Me Not (detail), 2023
Glazed ceramic tiles, wood, dispersion adhesive, grout, lacquer
120,5 x 101,5 x 6,5 cm

Residue at P/////AKT Zeeburgerpad

Anika Schwarzlose and Elena Khurtova, curated by Masha Domracheva

While P/////AKT has moved its program to a new location, the old building at Zeeburgerpad 53 is still up and providing space for studios and projects. From 18 November until 16 December Anika Schwarzlose and Elena Khurtova are presenting the second part of their new project Residue, which first premiered at the Amsterdam Museum within the current edition of Refresh Amsterdam – ‘War and Conflict’.

For Residue the artists engaged with the history of the Hembrug weapons factory in Zaandam. Having been the Netherlands’ biggest weapons factory between 1904 and 2003, it played an important role in many international conflicts, including the suppression of the independence struggles in Indonesia during the colonial wars. Currently, the area is in redevelopment in order to revive it for civilian use, but the violence that used to be exported from here has not disappeared; the soils beneath the former factory contain contaminating remnants of the weapons manufacturing. An extensive process of soil remediation tries to cure such contamination. An act that represents attempts of cleansing, but can just as well be read as the covering up of an uncomfortable past.