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In the city, sounds exist everywhere and at all times. They have a great impact on the way we experience the urban environment.…
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Border # 0 shows more than just the anonymity of the modern inheritance at the end of the twentieth century; the film also shows the…
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The trees that grow on the polder’s new land are still young and developing. Full-grown trees such as willows and poplars with…
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Generally, for me an expressive comment in Almere should doubtlessly refer to land-water, weather and wind, the extent etcetera.…
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Because the new city Almere did not have any signs of recognition, Hans Koetsier proposed his plan Marking Almere which consisted of…
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As the good, the bad and the ugly, artistic cowboy Joep van Lieshout can flout all laws of the Dutch society.
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Where you find water and people, there are boats; boats as a means of transportation with which you can travel from A to B. In a…
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Shirin Neshat explores the ambiguity of reality in countries like Iran, where politics and religion are connected inseparably and…
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The versatile body of work of Armando (painter, sculptor, film and documentary maker, author and violinist) often has to do with…
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In Flevoland's geometric polder, in Almere Hout, a 'gothic' cathedral can be found. No sky-high stone vaults, immense stained glass…
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A sparrow can look like a fat dog and a horse can really be similar tot a cow. And who isn't fascinated by the 'fairytale' that…
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Carsten Höller’s Kompaktes Kommunehaus fits seamlessly into the new main reception room of the town hall of Almere. It is both…
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Visual artist Gabriel Lester creates spatial installations and poetic films. In his visual work, he uses cinematic means and…
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The Almere Collection
Portrait gallery of mayors Almere
The thing the people in these portraits have in common is that all three of them have been the mayor of Almere. A more personal…
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This is the paradox: to love a country, but also to have to leave it to liberate your body and your thoughts. It is a mirror. I am…
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An enormous copper ball, with the sans serif capitals H, I, E, R (constituting the Dutch word for HERE) cut away across the ball,…
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Collection
Yael Bartana, Trembling Time (2001)
An endless stream of cars moves through the eternal night of a tunnel. In the background, we hear noises of muffled sirens, moving…
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An archaeologist is always looking for traces of the past. With his findings, he tries to piece together a reconstruction of life in…
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You see a table with four empty chairs, each with something hairy lying before them on the white tablecloth. Only on coming closer…
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Transformation and (failed) communication are important themes in the work of the Surinamese-Dutch artist Remy Jungerman. In…
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In Almere Pampus five intersecting lines lie in the landscape as the letter of a strange script. Three narrow canals, a strip of…
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Rough iron and stainless steel balance above the clayground of Almere: as if it is made from lightweight material and as if you can…
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The Energy Needle by Jan van Munster can be seen from far. Day or night, from the city center or the highway: the Energy Needle…
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Almere as a city never knew war or resistance and neither have I with my age . - Marcel Smink