AMSTERDAM.-
The exhibition ‘Stakes is High’ by Jakob
Kolding is in part the result of a residency by the Danish artist in
Amsterdam’s
Zuidas quarter, the new financial center of the Netherlands. He is the
third
artist in this residency project, which has been organised by the SMBA
for the
past three years in cooperation with the Research Group of Art &
Public
Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Virtual Museum Zuidas.

The title of the exhibition, ‘Stakes is High’, is derived from the title
of an
album by hip-hop group De La Soul, but also refers to the interests that
have a
stake in the development (or redevelopment) of urban areas, economic as
well as
political and social – and to protect that stake seek very different
courses of
action inside and outside the spheres of democratic influence.