For the Warmoesstraat Biennale, Oude Kerk Amsterdam collaborated with artist Tild Greene on Yield, a temporary artwork installed at the threshold of the church, directly opposite the Plaskrul, Amsterdam’s distinctive public urinals. Oude Kerk, as one of the city’s oldest roofed public spaces, enters into dialogue with another form of urban infrastructure designed to organise public life.

Yield explores how architecture shapes behaviour through repetition, and regulation. The Plaskrul functions as both subject and site: a place where intimacy, routine and social codes converge. Traces of use—wear, residue and patina—form an informal archive of daily life in the Warmoesstraat, a neighbourhood long shaped by trade, sex work, tourism, labour and nightlife.

This logic of accumulation resonates with the Oude Kerk itself. Over centuries, the church has absorbed the presence of countless bodies: through worn floors, eroded surfaces and the slow transformation of its materials. In Yield, copper responds visibly to the environment. One section remains deliberately exposed, changing through contact with air, water and touch; another is sealed and protected. Together, they echo the tension between openness and control that structures both public utilities and sacred architecture.

Situated between church and street, Yield creates a mirrored space in which systems of regulation meet. The work reflects on how public space—whether roofed or open-air—records use, desire and vulnerability, and how the traces left behind reveal who is welcomed, who is managed, and what remains unseen.