{"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 heeft een persoonlijke connectie met De Wallen: ze bracht een deel van haar jeugd door in die buurt en kent de smalle straatjes niet alleen via het oog van een buitenstaander. Toen het Stadsarchief haar vroeg om een fotografisch project te maken over Amsterdam, koos ze bewust voor dit hart van de stad.\u00a0 … <\/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":""},"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,"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}]}}