Agenda

An exhibition of volume with installations in public spaces. This year the grand blow-up artworks can be seen simultaneously with Voorhout Monumentaal, Pulchri Studio's sculpture exhibition. With these simultaneous outdoor exhibitions, Pulchri Studio, BlowUp Art Den Haag and West Den Haag have joined forces.

De Balie is hosting the fifth edition of the Forum on European Culture, with this year's theme being Art against the Tyrants. In this day and age autocrats are gaining ground, also in Europe the temptation of the authoritarian alternative is growing. The Forum brings together artists, writers and thinkers to reflect on the future of...

For the 9th edition of this sculpture fest, curator Ralph Keuning invited 60 artists. Marking Amsterdam 750 years, the exhibition celebrates the city's distinctive freedom and tolerance.

Courage, hope and perseverance characterize those who stand up against injustice. The new edition of Beelden in Leiden focuses on these and other characteristics of resistance. Under the guidance of curator duo Kunstmest (Mette Samkalden and Rob de Melker), seven young artists present their works on the Hooglandse Kerkgracht and in the Leiden Bio Science...

Amsterdam Art Week is an art festival and dynamic collaboration with more than 70 galleries, museums, residencies, project spaces, incubators, private collections, art schools and artists. More than 200 events at 70+ venues, featuring the work of more than 300 artists. The public program will introduce visitors to a diverse range of artists and art venues, both emerging and...

Every year the Rijksakademie opens its doors during Open Studios. Fifty international artists share their work with the public. The Rijksakademie of Fine Arts is an international residency program that provides an environment for the development of contemporary artists' practices. It houses an artist community that is highly international, multidisciplinary, experimental and critically engaged. During the two-year residency,...

In 2025 and 2026, Land Art Contemporary and DIEP are organizing a series of bus excursions to Robert Smithson's Land Art artwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971). Two weekends per season can be used to visit the artwork. To minimize site impact, the excursions take place by bus....

For centuries, the Frisian landscape has been characterized by meadows, ditches, mounds, and historic farms. But in recent years the landscape is changing drastically due to the impact of climate change. Especially around the peat meadow area there is reason for great concern. In the exhibition Peat Meadow Atelier, the Fries Museum, in cooperation with Arcadia, examines the...

Every three years, the province of Friesland hosts a 100-day cultural program featuring theater, dance, song, photography, lectures, discussions, walks, visual arts, literature and poetry. Arcadia is about innovation and exploring pressing social issues such as climate change, biodiversity and community spirit. This is done with a mix of art installations, performances, and projects that push the boundaries between art and...

The exhibition Crit Club: Meme Debates transforms IMPAKT into an arena for debates about art and memes. This format was developed by artist Cem A., known for his popular Instagram account @freeze_magazine, on which he shares satirical memes about the art world. Thanks to their seemingly light-hearted nature and viral nature, memes are ideally suited as...

Woman with Wings showcases the diversity and strength of contemporary art from India. The works in the exhibition are from the Schoo Collection. In 2021, former minister and ambassador Eegje Schoo donated 142 works, by forty contemporary artists from India, to Museum Arnhem. These are mainly works on paper, prints and paintings from...

Where did we come from, where are we and where do we want to go? Leading and emerging visual artists, designers, collectives and activists share their perspectives from around the world. Starting point is Constant Nieuwenhuys' visionary project New Babylon (1956-1974), a key work in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag collection. In it, the artist shaped a society...

Art event designed for professional working artists and gallery owners from around the world. The emphasis is on the artists and their work. During the weekend in May, 270 artists from 30 countries will present their work. In a specially designed pavilion, newly graduated artists from Artez present their work.

Meeting place at various locations in Am,sterdam for anyone interested in contemporary audiovisual art, experimental electronic music and bold conversations in relation to technological developments and social issues. This year the festival explores the theme "Wildness" and this 10th edition will ask the question: What is wildness? What art, music and research practices engage...

International art project, which as part of the commemoration of 80 Years of Freedom aims to explore what the traces of war are. There are traces in buildings and the landscape, there are monuments to remember, and very definitely there are also traces that are deeply engraved in the souls of different generations. TRACES...

The Netherlands is celebrating 80 years of freedom this year. A celebration with two sides, because freedom is only appreciated when we (er)know the consequences of war and oppression. In the Gorcums Museum, eleven artists show how the creative process is a processing of war, flight and freedom. In their own way, each artist provides a struggle...

This year we commemorate eighty years of freedom, but war is raging all around us. This is the starting point of Hoe Ver is 't? Twenty artists from home and abroad use their work to ask questions about freedom, peace, war and its consequences. Here at home and further away. But how far is it?

Das Leben am Haverkamp is an artist collective that functions like a soap opera, in which the individual and collective artistry of its members is intimately intertwined. Its protagonists Anouk van Klaveren, Christa van der Meer, Dewi Bekker and Gino Anthonisse founded the collective in 2014, after graduating from the fashion department of the Royal...

This exhibition is a journey along five important European design collections. Especially for Design Museum Den Bosch, Design Museum Brussels, Designmuseum Danmark, mudac Lausanne, Triennale Milano and Domaine de Boisbuchet made a selection from their extraordinary collections.

Animals and humans are more connected than we sometimes realize. But our relationship with animals is complex. The exhibition Beastly shows how four contemporary artists interpret the relationship between animals and humans. With their artworks, they highlight how we adore, domesticate, prepare and ultimately consume our fellow creatures. Through video,...

An exhibition assemblage about multi-species worlds, around the central question: who benefits when species meet? Participating artists: Sander Blomsma, Elsa Brès, Gabi Dao, Anka Helfertová, Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, Manjot Kaur, The Multispecies Collective, Jochen Lempert, Kris Lemsalu, Sonia Levy, nabbteeri, Thomas Pausz and Hanna Rullmann.

This exhibition is the first group presentation of artist collective SAAC (Sexually Abused Artists Collective), founded in Amsterdam. Het Nieuwe Domein offers a stage to sixteen artists working in various disciplines such as painting, film, illustration, performance, literature and photography. They depict the personal experience of sexual abuse in their work. The result is an exhibition that...

Six artists and one artist duo present their work in the exhibition Raw Material, focusing on their fascination with the material. The common denominator for the artists is that in addition to the material used, the raw material is also the theme of the work they create. In the end, work and raw materials almost coincide. Artists: Kaneli & Smit,...

As the glaciers melt away, we are losing a wealth of knowledge. Deep in the ice lies information that offers a glimpse into the climatic conditions of thousands, tens of thousands, and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of years ago. Through film, sculpture, light and music, the Ice Memory exhibition explores the relatively short-term memory of humans and...

What does a hospital actually sound like? And if you get to choose, would you rather talk to a doctor in a consulting room or while walking in the park? These questions are posed by the exhibition Small Gestures, Big System at ArtEra, the gallery in Erasmus MC's new Education Center. How do we address healthcare challenges, such as staff shortages and...

Rainbow Soulclub is an art and solidarity collective founded in 2005 by visual artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit. The collective consists of makers and thinkers from different social, economic and cultural backgrounds, who meet regularly in the shared studio at the drop-in center of Stichting De Regenboog Groep, an organization in Amsterdam that...

This group exhibition at Studio 2, de Doelen in Rotterdam focuses on female visual artists in Rotterdam, with the aim of drawing attention to the position and visibility of women within the arts field. The exhibition features recent self-portraits of 119 Rotterdam professional artists who identify themselves as women.

Museum MORE, museum for modern realism, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In Reality Check, MORE presents work by more than fifty contemporary artists working in a wide variety of media: painting, photography, video, installation, sculpture, drawing and printmaking. The most important criterion: the work has been made in the Netherlands in the ten years that Museum MORE has existed.

Art as an ideological filleting knife. That is the ideal of Kendell Geers, compiler of Everything is true - nothing is permitted. A protest and celebration in one. A challenging celebration of the power of art to subvert our expectations, to inspire, heal, excite, confuse, disrupt and challenge. At the same time.

Kleigenoten2020 is a group of thirteen ceramists. In the exhibition 100 Vases, they show one hundred variations on a single form. The result is a diverse overview of vases, both turned and hand-formed, intended for use or made as art objects.

Humor and superficiality. Mockery, ambiguity and Jesus as a target: Oh My God! Pop art has enjoyed undiminished attention for sixty years. One angle that has remained underexposed is the art movement's connection to religion. It is precisely in this area that Popart is at its best.

The exhibition brings together work by more than seventy contemporary Belgian painters. Without striving for completeness, S.M.A.K. attempts in this exhibition to sketch a picture of recent evolutions and trends within painting.