Boris acket to take over Amsterdam’s centrale markthal with monumental einder installation for ADE

around an approximately 80 by 25 metre expanse of textile suspended inside the former market hall, EINDER uses fans to keep its surface in continuous motion. Light, sound and shifting air currents alter the work throughout the space, turning the fabric into something closer to a moving environment than a fixed object.

The installation continues Acket’s interest in systems that resist complete control. Wind, water, sound and light have repeatedly appeared across his work, often alongside technologies designed not to dominate those elements but to expose their instability. Here, the scale changes the relationship. Visitors enter beneath a structure whose form is never entirely settled.

"With EINDER, we wanted to create a work that people can experience with more than just their eyes," Acket says. "Much like a club, it creates a moment that cannot be fully predicted, a moment where everything comes together."

That connection to club culture sits quietly at the centre of the project. Rather than reproducing the architecture or language of a club, EINDER takes some of its basic conditions, darkness, sound, collective presence and temporary transformation, and moves them into a different spatial register.

Music will also alter the installation itself.

The programme opens on October 21 with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony beneath EINDER. A day later, Amsterdam artist Elias Mazian will perform with his live band, before pianist and composer Joep Beving presents material from his new album Liminal on October 29.

The distance between those three performances feels deliberate. Beethoven’s Fifth, Mazian’s songwriting and electronic lineage, and Beving’s restrained contemporary composition are not being presented as variations of the same musical idea. Instead, each will encounter the same physical structure differently.

From October 22, choreographer Kiani del Valle will also activate EINDER through selected performances, introducing another body into a work already dependent on movement. Del Valle’s recent work includes choreography for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Acket has spent years moving between electronic music and institutional art spaces, with previous collaborations and presentations involving the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Lowlands, Dark Mofo, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and NXT Museum, as well as work with Fred again.. EINDER makes that movement unusually explicit. The visual environment is no longer positioned around the performance. It becomes the architecture the performance has to negotiate.

For ADE, the project also arrives at a particular point in its own history. Founded in 1996, the Amsterdam institution celebrates three decades in 2026, having expanded from an electronic music industry gathering into a city-wide programme encompassing clubs, conferences, live performance and contemporary art.

"I see our future not only as reflecting what's happening in the cultural landscape but also helping shape what's next," says ADE Managing Director Jan-Willem van de Ven.

EINDER is produced by Boris Acket and Making Waves, with production by Goonie Crew.

Pre-registration for the concert programme runs from August 11 to 24, followed by pre-sale on August 25 and general sale from August 27. Concert tickets start at €27 excluding service fees.

EINDER runs at De Centrale Markthal, Amsterdam, from October 21 to November 1, 2026.