POST Arnhem
Jonas Vansteenkiste
POST on Sunday: Jonas Vansteenkiste - The City as a Strategy
Sunday, June 14
12:00 PM–5:00 PM, drop-in
Free entree!
POST ARNHEM: Weverstraat 40, Arnhem
On the final Sunday of PLAYTIME! at POST - ARNHEM, everyone is welcome to participate in a collective artwork by Jonas Vansteenkiste.
In The City as a Strategy, Jonas Vansteenkiste poses a fundamental question: how do we shape the city—and who has the right to do so? The work consists of a monumental table on which clay is offered to participants, children, and families —as a material to shape their vision of the city. Here, the city is not merely discussed, but literally shaped, molded, adapted, and reinvented. Here, we can collectively reimagine the city as a dynamic space of memory and imagination.
Architectural models—so-called strategy tables—often function as instruments of planning and control, through which visions of the city’s future are presented and directed from above. Jonas Vansteenkiste breaks with this model by approaching the city not as a fixed plan but as an open, collective, and constantly changing process. Through its participatory nature, The City as a Strategy becomes a cartography of possibilities: a place where the city and the future become tangible in clay, in play, and in dialogue.
POST on Sunday takes place on the final day of every exhibition at POST. Normally, mail isn’t delivered on Sundays, but during these workshops at POST, it is! The workshops are suitable for all ages and are free to attend on a drop-in basis.
Bio Jonas Vansteenkiste
Jonas Vansteenkiste’s works explore mental and architectural spaces, using installations, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and drawings to transform experiences and emotions into physical and psychological environments. Some of his recent exhibitions include: Coup de Théâtre. A Play of Clay at ABBY in Kortrijk (BE), Cities and Eyes at Fridman Gallery New York (US), Citytrip 2, La Société du spectacle, CC de Steiger, Menen (BE), Certainly Uncertain at Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE), lumen, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin (DE), and Testcase, EKWC, Oisterwijk (NL). In addition, he serves as curator for the Wrong House in Kortrijk (BE) and is Associate Professor of Ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.