Markt Kabaal in Markt Centraal
28 December 2024 – 21 February 2025 in Café Bern
From December 28, 2024 to February 21, 2025 Café Bern is looking back at the already legendary ‘Markt Centraal’ and in particular at ‘Markt Kabaal’ (Market racket) by means of photo’s by David Hup and posters.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended over Café Bern.
Below you can already get a first impression. And for more information, check here.
Markt Centraal
Markt Centraal (Market Central) was there for everyone.
In the huge, monumental market hall on the wholesale area of the Amsterdam Food Center, a very special world has emerged in the past four years and unfortunately disappeared again. This world was called ‘Markt Centraal’.
A stage, a club, a breeding ground, a pub, a canteen, a meeting place, a restaurant, a family business, Markt Centraal was all of this. In the Central Market Hall, build in 1934, you flew from a Brazilian samba party into a punk mosh pit and then landed to see the latest hip-hop talent from Amsterdam. All this with the festival tents and trucks of the Cantina Mobile, well-known from the ‘Aprilfeesten’. It offered a stage to the young, emerging bands of the city, but big names from home and abroad also came along.
The club nights, under the heading ‘Markt Kabaal’ (market racket), are featured in this exhibition, with photos by David Hup and posters, brought together by Abe van Warmerdam, illustrator and Markt Centraal’s music programmer, in his role as curator of the exhibition.
For some it offers a glimpse into this quirky world, for others it is a ‘trip down memory lane’.
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