Oude Kerk
Tild Greene
Opening hours:
10:00 - 18:00
Address:
Oudekerksplein 23
Yield is a new artwork by Tild Greene installed on the façade of the Oude Kerk. A transparent funnel mirrors the site’s drainage infrastructure, directing rainwater into a circular copper element that gradually patinates, while one section remains preserved in silicone. The work highlights how systems of regulation, access, and maintenance quietly shape behaviour.
Tild Greene is an artist whose work explores resilience and permanence through the behavior of materials. Their sculptures are often activated by use, time, or environmental conditions, allowing objects to slowly change. By working at the edge of function, Greene draws attention to systems that shape classification and patterns of behaviour. The artist lives in Amsterdam and works internationally.
About Location
The Oude Kerk (Old Church) is the oldest building in Amsterdam and has been the symbolic and physical heart of the city for over seven centuries. Originally a wooden chapel for fishermen on the Amstel River, it evolved into a stone church through which daily life flowed: people passed through the building like a village street, interacting with each other, conducting trade, and seeking shelter, long before it became a silent, monumental space.
Today, the Oude Kerk unites multiple functions in one place. It is simultaneously a vibrant church building, a carefully preserved heritage monument, and an internationally leading center for contemporary art, where artists are invited to engage with the city's charged history, architecture, and surroundings. It is precisely this layering that makes the Oude Kerk what it has always been: a place where the spiritual, the everyday, and the cultural converge, in the heart of a city constantly in flux.