{"id":72964,"date":"2025-09-27T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=72964"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:30:42","slug":"de-wallen-dana-lixenberg-city-archive","status":"archived","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/de-wallen-dana-lixenberg-stadsarchief\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Lixenberg shows intimate city scenes in The Red Light District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dana Lixenberg has a personal connection to De Wallen: she spent part of her childhood in that neighborhood and knows the narrow streets not only through an outsider's eye. When the Stadsarchief asked her to make a photographic project about Amsterdam, she deliberately chose this heart of the city.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 2021 and 2025, she immersed herself in the microcosm of De Wallen: residents, sex workers, students, entrepreneurs and artists. She observed without judgment and captured moments that often remain invisible. The result is a combination of intimate black-and-white portraits and monumental color photographs of interiors, combined with a video installation that fuses space, silence and presence.<\/p>\n

\"city<\/p>\n

The exhibition not only shows faces, but shows how connection and tension coexist. The Red Light District is a neighborhood where tourism, commerce, living and working constantly collide. Lixenberg captures those collisions not as spectacle, but as gentle, shaking moments: a glance, a door, a window with insulation, but also a conversation, a back, a family photo in a room. The silence in a hallway speaks louder than any sign.<\/p>\n

In the Salon Room (Exhibition Hall) of the Stadsarchief, a spatial interplay between photograph, light and shadow emerges. The installation invites you to slow down: not through rest, but through attention. You see not only what the camera recorded, but what takes place behind the surface.<\/p>\n

\"The exhibition turns a busy neighborhood into a quiet place to really look.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"The Red Light District\" proves again that a neighborhood is not defined by simplistic images, but by continuity, relationships and nuance. Lixenberg invites you to listen: to light, to spaces, to life going on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dana Lixenberg has a personal connection to De Wallen: she spent part of her childhood in that neighborhood and knows its narrow streets not just from an outsider\u2019s perspective. When the City Archives asked her to create a photography project about Amsterdam, she deliberately chose this heart of the city. \u2026 <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Dana Lixenberg","rank_math_title":"De Wallen Dana Lixenberg: intieme fotografie in Stadsarchief","rank_math_description":"In \u201cDe Wallen\u201d (12 sept 2025 \u2013 15 feb 2026) toont Dana Lixenberg in het Stadsarchief intieme portretten en interieurbeelden van de Amsterdamse rosse buurt \u2014 zonder oordeel, met aandacht."},"categories":[19],"tags":[10923],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-72964","post","type-post","status-archived","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","tag-tentoonstellingen-amsterdam","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[72968,72966,72971],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLeCTvx1cUc?si=29j-oQyWJ06u_xvi","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"In de Stadsarchief-zaal ontvouwt zich een portret van diversiteit, uitzicht en samenleven","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"start_datum":"20250912","eind_datum":"20260215","cord_A":"","cord_B":"","introductie_tekst":"\u201cDe Wallen\u201d is geen glansversie van de Amsterdamse rosse buurt. Dana Lixenberg portretteert de stegen, interieurs en bewoners met onthullende precisie. In de Stadsarchief-tentoonstelling kruip je binnen in een wereld die vaak alleen van buitenaf wordt bekeken.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Tentoonstellingszaal, Stadsarchief","adres":"Vijzelstraat 32","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.amsterdam.nl\/stadsarchief","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72964"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72981,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72964\/revisions\/72981"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72971"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72966"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72964"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=72964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}