Agenda

The Imagination Route transports visitors from Terneuzen from their everyday reality into the world of imagination. This year, that will happen through exhibitions in and around City Hall, along with a podwalk and a poetry promenade.

Have you ever wandered through the in-between spaces? The spaces that are never inhabited for long, spaces in constant flux, shaped by forces from within and without. This exhibition brings together works that reveal the unnoticed transformations of in-between spaces: the waiting room, the cocoon, the skin, and the Earth’s crust.

For nineteen years now, ‘Best of Graduates’ has been a summer tradition at Galerie Ron Mandos: an annual exhibition showcasing some of the most promising new talents from Dutch art academies. This year’s edition brings together twenty-seven recent graduates from across the country.

This summer, on eleven Saturdays, St. John’s Church in Moarre will be transformed into a place of silence, reflection, and imagination. During “Teken van Tijd,” a different artist will work on a prayer card in the church each time.

The SHE exhibition features 174 prints by female printmakers from all over the world. The works are small in size (10 × 15 cm), but highly expressive. Across 24 panels, they illustrate how women view the world in which they live: in the past, present, and future.

At this artist-first art fair, 44 emerging and established artists will showcase their latest work in solo presentations.

A sculpture exhibition featuring works by twelve artists on the theme of “Movement” has been set up in the gardens of the Hofje Van Aerden.

The Baakse Beek Art Biennale is a 30-kilometer art cycling route that connects visual art with climate issues and the bocage landscape of the Achterhoek region. The art route passes by eleven historic estates in the Baakse Beek Estate Zone, between Ruurlo and Vorden.

LandArt Duizel is a three-kilometer art walk along the Kleine Beerze in Duizel. About 20 artists are exhibiting work designed specifically for this natural setting. The idyllic landscape of the Kleine Beerze stream valley consists of very diverse natural areas. LandArt Duizel connects the importance of nature and a healthy climate with…

For four weekends, the world-famous artwork *Broken Circle/Spiral Hill* (1971) by American artist Robert Smithson will be open to the public in Emmen. The Land Art Contemporary Foundation has reached an agreement with the landowners regarding this. Bus tours will take place during the summer and fall of 2026. Broken Circle/Spiral Hill has been nominated…

Spread across Sonsbeek Park, downtown Arnhem, Museum Arnhem, Museum Bronbeek, Omstand, POST, and Rozet, the thirteenth edition of Sonsbeek presents work by eighteen artists that brings memory to life as a collective material.

Under the banner “Gemene Wegen,” the curators, together with a large number of collectives, artists, and poets, are exploring what we share and under what conditions that can work.

Folly Art Norg is an event that brings together art, architecture, and design in the form of whimsical structures, also known as follies. Together, the follies form a 7.5-kilometer walking route through the Drenthe countryside.

Haunted by Waters is the fifth in a series of international group exhibitions organized by Into Nature at various locations throughout the Drenthe countryside. For this edition, twelve artists created new works in response to the landscape of the Onlanden, a young marshland area in the northernmost part of Drenthe. Visitors can explore the artworks along a two-day cycling…

In 2026, Lustwarande, Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary with *Material Worlds*, an exhibition that offers a current snapshot of the state of international sculpture, with materiality as its central theme.

The art project *What Knots Knot Knots* explores how the colonial past of the Northern Netherlands continues to influence life today. Eight artists created new works based on research in local archives and stories from the region.

Foam presents work by a new generation of visual artists who are shaping the future of photography. This year’s exhibition features the work of fifteen artists, selected from nearly 3,000 submissions from 107 countries.

A quarter of the Netherlands is covered in grass. The way we manage these blades of grass says a lot about modern people. Looking at the empty, green fields in the Netherlands and beyond, the question arises: what stories lie hidden within them? What is happening between, on, and beneath these expanses? In the group exhibition *Under Our Feet*, grass connects the…

As humanity, we tend to preserve our legacy and pass it on to future generations. What or who are the custodians of our history and memories? And will our methods of preservation survive to the next generation? And to the next civilization? The group exhibition *Oblivion Was Inevitable* explores the archaeology of the future.

"Seeing Sounds" showcases the work of four artists from different generations and cultures for whom music is inextricably linked to freedom—personal, political, and artistic.

"Drawn to Nature" focuses on the journey from the city to nature. Artists show how, for centuries, they have ventured into nature to capture it directly and attentively. Lithography proves to be a powerful medium for capturing these impressions.

“Halverwege” is spelled here in the Old Zandvoort dialect. It is a word from the 18th and 19th centuries, when the fishwives of Zandvoort would walk the approximately ten-kilometer-long fishermen’s path from the coast to the fish market in Haarlem. Four artists reflect on the space between outside and inside, between movement and stillness, between the public and the personal.

The exhibition *A Room Neighboring the Planet* is the result of a co-creation process involving artists, scientists, and young researchers from various disciplines. The project, which was developed during a summer school, began with the question: How can we (re)connect healthcare with nature?

Escher & Islamic Art: 20 Perspectives highlights the enduring influence of Islamic geometry on the work of M.C. Escher and connects it to the work of twenty contemporary artists and creators from a variety of disciplines. Together, they demonstrate how Islamic cultural heritage continues to influence the visual arts, design… to this very day.

Vrouw Muskens’ residency program will conclude this year with an anniversary exhibition featuring work by all the artists who have participated in the guest studio over the past five years. In addition, the residents will each present a final exhibition within their own department.

"Het Maaiveld" presents the landscape through words and images. Seventy-two artists and poets from the Netherlands and Belgium present their work in pairs.

Living Mesh explores how we, as humans, view nature. Is nature something we organize and control, or are we ourselves part of a living, interconnected whole? The starting point is the influential classification system developed by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus during his stay at the De Hartekamp country estate in Heemstede. This system,…

What exactly are we washing away when we lather up our hands? In *Soap*, an exhibition that smells wonderful, thirty contemporary artists explore soap as an everyday object steeped in symbolism: from care and ritual to control, shame, and forgiveness.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Vleeshal, ArtBase Terneuzen and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art are presenting “Vleeshal Collection On Tour: International Contemporary Art,” which will be on display this summer at eleven locations throughout Zeeland, in collaboration with M HKA Antwerp.

This summer, Brutus will transform into a landscape full of hidden treasures. During Wild Summer of Art 2026 – The Treasure Hunt Edition, fifty Rotterdam-based artists will showcase a lesser-known, unexpected side of their work.

"Building a House Without Bricks" is a Harvest Festival consisting of a public program that took place in June and an exhibition as its second act. Here, the participants invite you into their homes, where they focus on physical and material structures; on objects and the potential for the redistribution of resources through transvestment…

An exhibition that, following an open call, brings together professional and amateur artists, thereby offering a cross-section of the visual arts in Limburg and the surrounding area. This year, the jury of twenty established artists made a selection from no fewer than 2,500 submitted works.