Made for: 'Cities and Objects'
Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
6 April 2008 - 27 April 2008
Made for: 'Het gonst in Arti'
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
29 February 2008 - 30 March 2008
Made for: 'Goddamn Contemporain…'
Plan B, Amsterdam
August 2007
Made for: 'DMO entrance hall'
Dienst Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling, Amsterdam
June 2007 - June 2008
Made for: 'w139/basement'
W139, Amsterdam
March 2007
Made for: 'BijlmAir 2006: Residency in the Bijlmer'
Infocentrum, Amsterdam Zuidoost
29 June 2006 - 28 July 2006
It was only 40 years ago that building work started on the Bijlmer as we now know it. With the exception of a few names of squares, parks and flats, there is almost nothing left that refers to the history of this place.
"Tomas Adolfs wants to bring visitors and inhabitants of the Bijlmer in touch with that history. Amongst his finds in the city archives he discovered a 16th century coat of arms for the region, the ground plan of a fort that once stood on the edge of the Bijlmer and extensive photo-reportages of the farms and their inhabitants that surrounded the original Bijlmermeer polder. In his scale model-like installations, posters, postcards and a painting in the Information Centre of Amsterdam South-East, Adolfs spreads history as a layer over the present Bijlmermeer. Using the characteristic colour and texture of feather-weight Styrofoam, his sculpture combines the view of a high-rise flat with the ground plan of the fort. In a model he shows the modern suburb rise once again but this time in an as yet un-reclaimed Bijlmermeer.This work is not only a visionary plan for the Bijlmermeer as it could have been - with due recognition of its historical identity - but above all it makes its history visible. In the large painting the former regional coat of arms makes its re-entry, this time executed in the more contemporary manner of the graffiti artist. Historical identity and modernity are constantly interchanged in Adolfs’ work." (text: Jelle Bouwhuis)
Made for: 'Jong Talent 2005'
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
November 2005
Made for: 'Art for Sail'
Loods 6, Amsterdam
August 2005
Made for: 'Rietveld end exam exhibition'
Pavillion (Rietveld Academy), Amsterdam
June 2005
Made for 'Rietveld in de kerk'
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Januari 2005
