Wallen Festival: Guided Tours
27 June – 28 June 2026
Join us at the Wallen Festival to learn more about artist Jesse Darling’s installation.
On Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June, the historic city centre celebrates the fourth edition of the Wallen Festival. Upon presentation of the festival programme booklet, admission to the Oude Kerk is free on both days. Programme booklets are available at the entrance to the Oude Kerk, at the Wallen Festival market stall on Nieuwmarkt, and at other participating venues.
We are organising a series of free guided tours of the exhibition Godsworth by artist Jesse Darling, currently on view at the Oude Kerk.
Tour times: 14:00 and 15:00 (tours last 45 minutes)
Admission: Free, please register at the entrance to the Oude Kerk.
Language: Dutch
About the Wallen Festival
On Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2026, the fourth edition of the Wallen Festival will take place: a festive and wide-ranging neighbourhood festival in which residents, entrepreneurs, cultural institutions and community organisations come together to showcase the richness of Amsterdam’s historic city centre. The festival offers a varied programme of performances, guided tours, workshops, tastings and encounters across almost 100 locations throughout the Wallen and Nieuwmarkt area.
About the exhibition
With his installation Godsworth, British artist Jesse Darling transforms the church interior into a landscape constructed from building rubble, scrap metal and other materials from Amsterdam, some of which he collected himself. Darling’s work presents a world that is unstable, fragile, mutable and unfinished, raising questions about what connects people when familiar structures begin to falter.
