Agenda

LI-MA explores with participants the challenges of preserving digital, performative and process artworks through panels, workshops and discussions. Both days also provide opportunities to (re)connect with other professionals in the field.

LUNA Young Masters shows work by fourteen young talents in the Station District. Through Feb. 1, the festival takes to the streets, squares, alleys, ponds and indoor locations with LUNA Nights, featuring work by (inter)national and regional makers. LUNA Currents offers a daily fringe program including theme nights, films, performances, workshops and tours. The...

OBJECT is a pop-up platform for design labels, well-known designers and up-and-coming talents. Working in a variety of design disciplines and with different materials. OBJECT operates at the intersection of design, crafts, fashion, architecture and art. Each year OBJECT takes up residence in an iconic building in or around Rotterdam, the designers themselves are present to present their designs...

In 2024, eleven artists were commissioned to each create a work on the theme of "comfort" for "Feast of the Spirit" in Delft. Their individual interpretations were shown in eleven separate churches. At Pictura, these works will be presented in a different context: side by side in two connecting spaces.

Platform East is a former overseer's house on an industrial platform. It is so small that you can see everything through the windows; exhibitions can be viewed 24/7. Kim Streur invited twenty artists and writers to send a "night letter. This can take any form: an object, a poem, a sound. The building will slowly...

The exhibition celebrates the transformation of clay from traditional craft material to a full-fledged and groundbreaking medium. Clay is more than a material; it is a means of expression that has been continually reinvented over the centuries. Contemporary artists have dramatically expanded the possibilities of clay both technically and artistically. This exhibition brings together sculptures...

The exhibition explores the hidden journeys and aftermath of plastic waste. Featuring work by Ravi Agarwal, Kevin van Braak & Ipeh Nur, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Kelly Jazac, Diana Lelonek, Milisifilem Collectivee and Riar Rizaldi, the exhibition is part of a long-term research project developed by Compound 13 Lab* (2018-2023) that focused on the...

The collective Het Harde Potlood (consisting of Richtje Reinsma, Roosmarijn Schoonewelle and Heleen Wiemer) is inspired by domestic work. The artists look with wonder at the ritual power and possession involved in cleaning, maintaining and stylizing bodies and homes. To this they give form in a playful and whimsical world of...

Glass artists can employ a variety of techniques, including glass blowing, fusion, glass casting, grinding and sandblasting. Eight renowned glass artists from home and abroad are participating in the exhibition, each with their own handwriting.

Lucas Hoeben (the collective of visual artist Karla Hoeben and artist/curator Martijn Lucas Smit) invited four artists with whom it feels a strong kinship: Fransje Killaars, Marijn van Kreij, Ilona Plaum and Roy Villevoye. What binds these artists is that they all use their work to mirror their personal vision of the world towards...

The Dutch Drawing Circle (NKvT) is a national association founded in 1947. This collective of professional artists showcases the diversity of drawing styles and materials in autonomous drawing. From silver marker to charcoal, abstract to figurative, small to large: a wide range of drawing styles. The exhibition is like the symphony....

In Art Gallery 45 with works in clay and sand as the basis for ceramics and glass. Both materials need fire to reach their final form. Not only the fire of the glass or ceramics kiln, especially the fire of the artists is important to achieve an inspiring exhibition with contemporary and...

The exhibition makes experienceable the invisible forces affecting urban nature. The urbanization of areas damages nature. As a result of human interventions over the centuries, much urban life, above and below ground, has been severely degraded or disappeared. How can we better respond to change in cities by making greater use...

The artists of the collective 0000artcollective create work that is an extension of what the Zero movement set in motion, based on the philosophy and formal language of this movement while being contemporary. Stillness and love for craft and the beauty of the material are unifying elements that appear in their...

About 140 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the collection, by more than 75 artists are highlighted. The common thread in the exhibition consists of the different generations of artists. Gen F begins with the precursors of figurative art, those born before 1940. Then the exhibition continues through to the current generation. In...

With this expo, Lex van Lith bids farewell as director of Make Eindhoven, the sanctuary where creative makers explore the possibilities of materials and techniques. 

With fresh theater, abrasive dance, a culinary performance, kinetic textiles, intimate activism and much more. Line-up: Sofie Kramer, Ahmed El Gendy, Amparo González Sola, Tabor Idema, Samah Hijawi and Jasmine Karimova & Johannes Offerhaus.

Annual media arts festival where some 30 media artists showcase their work during LUNA Young Masters and LUNA Nights, and in a deepening Currents program.

Through Jan. 26, Willen Twee Kunstruimte is showing the group exhibition Growing Pains by Ulrixa, winners of the Jan Naaijkens Prize. Participating artists: Eva van Ooijen, Ivo van den Baar, Karma Hamed, Nicole Driessens, Sixin Zeng and Wout Peeters.

The exhibition explores how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and the social structures in Somaliland, the Somali region and the diaspora shape citizenship.The Anarchist Citizenship is an ongoing project on contemporary visual and oral culture in Somaliland.

The collective To See the Inability to See is known for their collectively written texts and performative readings. In 2022 and 2023, they developed an unfolding multidirectional book/object called My Garden's Boundaries Are the Horizon: A Porous Reader to Unguard the Garden. The book/object has now unfolded in the exhibition My Garden's Boundaries Are the...

Migration is a fraught topic. In today's heated social debate, the human perspective is in danger of being lost from view. Foreign Land illuminates the theme through the eyes of artists who themselves have a history of migration.

Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking science fiction book Parable of the Sower from the Earthseed trilogy (1993) begins in the year 2024. In light of this significant moment, Müge Yılmaz and Anna Hoetjes are initiating Taking Root Among the Stars. The exhibition builds on the legacy of Butler's work and commemorates a year when the future is the...

The exhibition explores kinship and diversity between species and beings. Whether we are humans, animals, plants or other life forms; what connects us? Oracles from Far and Near embraces the ideas of American philosopher Donna Haraway, who advocates shaping our relationships with other earthlings differently rather than human...

The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of two hundred years of Overijsselian painting.

A plea for the activating power of art. Artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólaffson, al-yené, Svetlana Romanova & Chelsea Tuggle, Cristina Flores Pescorán and the BKP collective show how art gives us tools to live our lives. This exhibition is the eighth in the annual Positions exhibition series, which includes multiple solo presentations by inter-national artists...

Four contemporary artists interpret the tension between life and death. With their work, Ronald Zuurmond (paintings), Aline Thomassen (watercolors), Shirley Welten (photography) and Folkert de Jong (sculpture) reflect on the natural process of rise, flowering and decline of human existence.

The New Mother Sculptures transforms the upstairs hall of Museum Cobra into a large, open landscape where fifty contemporary sculptures by artists living in the Netherlands can be experienced in a seductive way. Each sculpture forms its own specific physical and spiritual world, sometimes cursing and screaming, sometimes loving. A world that does not want to be rationally understood....

Happiness is multifaceted: it has different meanings depending on whom you ask. For example, for some, happiness is linked to financial stability, material possessions and achieving goals. Others link happiness to health. There are also those who see happiness as an inner state of mind, arising from personal relationships or the pursuit of...

Artificial intelligence (AI), or artificial intelligence. We are increasingly having to deal with it, including in the arts landscape. For what impact does AI actually have on the creative industry?

An exhibition around the theme of memento mori. This ancient Latin proverb calls people to reflect on their own mortality and the finiteness of life. On view is work by several artists, all reflecting on the temporality and transience of life.

In a society where cracks are increasingly visible and a solid foundation can no longer be taken for granted, fragility and vulnerability have many forms and versions.