They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot | Bart Eysink Smeets
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SOON AT NDSM
THEY PAVED PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT- BART EYSINK SMEETS
THE OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, FROM 5:30 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M. THE STARTING LOCATION IS Smederijplein (Small square next to the ferry)
From 15 January, three car installations by artist Bart Eysink Smeets can be discovered at NDSM. In these playful works, which are parked throughout the shipyard, the car is central as a symbol of how we deal with space, movement and use.
In Picasso (2019) balances a Citroen Xsara Picasso on a million-year-old boulder on the waterfront. Resulting in an alienating image that plays with weight, time and context.
Forever Gift (2025) is a gift that can never be opened. For example, the promise of a gift never turns into disappointment; the gift can be nothing and everything at the same time, as long as it remains closed — a nod to Schrödinger's cat, according to Eysink Smeets.
In his latest work Het verloop van auto's (2025) Eysink Smeets stacks five sedans, as if a giant child had sorted his toy cars by color. The gray sedans, once the standard average car, have now grown into almost fossil archetypes. The artist reflects with humor and wonder on the role of the car in our public space. “The car takes up so much of our living space that we don't even know it,” says Eysink Smeets. “While there is often only one person in it and five fits in.”
The car installations invite us to think again about mobility, play, use of space and who can use this space, and thus also about the future of the city. NDSM is part of a rapidly developing urban area. Our extensive open area, which is regularly used as a car park, highlights these themes even more here.
About Bart Eysink Smeets
With his work, Bart Eysink Smeets shows what is already there in a sharp, humorous way. The artist expands, observes, questions and reflects. He looks at the world from an astonished, curious child's point of view in order to arrive at different insights.
They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot is made possible in part by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and Mondriaan Fonds.
SOON AT NDSM
THEY PAVED PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT- BART EYSINK SMEETS
THE OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, FROM 5:30 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M. THE STARTING LOCATION IS Smederijplein (Small square next to the ferry)
From 15 January, three car installations by artist Bart Eysink Smeets can be discovered at NDSM. In these playful works, which are parked throughout the shipyard, the car is central as a symbol of how we deal with space, movement and use.
In Picasso (2019) balances a Citroen Xsara Picasso on a million-year-old boulder on the waterfront. Resulting in an alienating image that plays with weight, time and context.
Forever Gift (2025) is a gift that can never be opened. For example, the promise of a gift never turns into disappointment; the gift can be nothing and everything at the same time, as long as it remains closed — a nod to Schrödinger's cat, according to Eysink Smeets.
In his latest work Het verloop van auto's (2025) Eysink Smeets stacks five sedans, as if a giant child had sorted his toy cars by color. The gray sedans, once the standard average car, have now grown into almost fossil archetypes. The artist reflects with humor and wonder on the role of the car in our public space. “The car takes up so much of our living space that we don't even know it,” says Eysink Smeets. “While there is often only one person in it and five fits in.”
The car installations invite us to think again about mobility, play, use of space and who can use this space, and thus also about the future of the city. NDSM is part of a rapidly developing urban area. Our extensive open area, which is regularly used as a car park, highlights these themes even more here.
About Bart Eysink Smeets
With his work, Bart Eysink Smeets shows what is already there in a sharp, humorous way. The artist expands, observes, questions and reflects. He looks at the world from an astonished, curious child's point of view in order to arrive at different insights.
They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot is made possible in part by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst and Mondriaan Fonds.
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