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"Wild Waters" explores how water is linked worldwide to power, colonial history, ecological changes, and the struggle for land and livelihood security. Water is essential for life, but it is also used as a means of exercising control over people, nature, and territory. This is clearly evident in the Netherlands as well. Through installations, video, photography, and…

“For the fourth and final time, we were looking for the quietest, the least, the narrowest, the slowest, the lightest, the shortest, the thinnest and the smallest. We show work that is barely perceptible to the eye, ear or mind, yet unmistakably present.” This festival can only be attended online.

Deadline to register is Sept. 18. Cost 250 euros. In what ways is your work highly visible? How do you make sure your work stays in view, even after a success experience? Do you feel you could pay more attention to your network? Should these be questions you would like to take the next step in...

Land Art Flevoland is organizing three bus tours. On June 14, Landscape Full of Art, with all kinds of art in the Flevoland landscape, from small sculptures to special installations. On July 12 Land & Water, along land art with a special relationship to water. And on September 13, the XL Tour along all ten of Flevoland's iconic landscape artworks.

This summer three museums, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), the Roger Raveel Museum (RRM) and the Museum of Deinze and the Leie Region (mudel), are joining forces for the 10th time during the Biennale of Painting. With three idiosyncratic exhibitions, they link their own collections with work by contemporary artists from home and abroad.

Looking is never neutral. What we see, and what we look away from, says something about us. The exhibition Before Our Eyes explores how 11 (inter)national artists question and shape this responsibility. Their work responds to the political events of our time, with a particular focus on the genocidal violence in Palestine. With images that take a stand ...

The exhibition Threadpower - Handcraft as a statement shows how handcraft can be a powerful tool to tell stories about emancipation, identity and sustainability. Wire power connects contemporary works with historical handicrafts and shows that handicraft is more than technique and beauty. It is also a means of sharing ideas, emotions and beliefs.

In collaboration with Housing Corporation Poort6, the Gorcums Museum's The City as Canvas reflects on how the city has developed under the influence of public housing. In addition, the museum is giving a stage to five artists and one artist duo who are designing murals as a gift to the city on the occasion of this collaboration. Each artist has created from...

On The Inside presents the exhibition Transit, a dialogue between contemporary art and science. Transit reflects on the transformation of industry and wealth in light of the climate crisis.

Is man a Caterpillar Never Enough? Our distant ancestors collected out of sheer necessity, to survive in times of scarcity. Today, we seem to be completely caught up in amassing as much stuff and wealth as possible. Why do we actually want to own so much? When has the limit been reached? Can we do things differently? In the exhibition series...

Drawing, drawing from, drawing with, being drawn to something, getting involved with, a draw - returning to the drawing board as a space for rethinking and making new plans for a desired form of singularity. Starting from a broad meaning of drawing, Draw Withdraw Redraw brings attention to recognition, resistance and reinvention.

In a world marked by global conflict, digitalization and a rapidly changing climate, we seek stability and meaning. We seek faith and stories that help us find our way in these uncertain times. Yet religious traditions, sacred stories and collective beliefs are often accompanied by division and control. Realms of...

Layered Realities: Photography & Collage is a group exhibition featuring the work of fifteen contemporary artists from home and abroad who work with collage. The artists use this visual language to explore current themes such as identity, (family) history and the role of images in a world where we are inundated with visual information on a daily basis. Many works begin at...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the BPD Art Collection, the North Brabant Museum is organizing Samenspel - where imagination makes space, an exhibition on art as a building block of our society. Art, architecture and living environment come together in this exhibition that shows how imagination and space mutually influence each other. Artists include: Juan Muñoz, Pablo Picasso, Jaap...

Mundo Mágico (magical world) is an homage to the imaginative program of gallery Mendes Wood DM in Sao Paulo, shown through the lens of twelve of its artists. They show a world in which reality is given just a little twist, making the experience rise above direct perception and feel ‘magical. A...

Out of Office (Still Here) is an exhibition about ‘leisure’ and inequality during the summer period. For many people, summer vacation means a period of rest, freedom and relaxation. But for others, the summer period means something else: working through, staying home, being bored, perhaps visiting family or caring for others. Therefore, the content of summer vacation says...

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Eleven artists respond to Eye's collection of some 2,000 colonial-era films from former occupied territories in Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Through ten new works, they expose colonial structures and practices and question the role of the camera in perpetuating power....

An exhibition where twenty-two contemporary artists bring together past, present and future around one urgent question: how do we relate to the dune landscape and the North Sea? For their work, the artists are inspired by the ideas of Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten. The artist couple asked as early as 1881, with their famous Panorama of...

Pixel Pioneers is Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's first major exhibition devoted entirely to digital art. In two rooms of the Depot, visitors are taken on a journey past artists who use digital technology to experiment, excite and reshape our visual culture.  

For the artists in the exhibition, paper is an essential part of their work, as an image carrier, but also as a material. The presentation aims to show that paper ‘breathes’ and can be seen as a kind of installation where the artworks also tell a collective story about the different aspects of paper and its use.

Images in Leiden presents an exhibition in the public space every summer, giving starting, professional artists a stage. This year the Hooglandse Kerkgracht is transforming into a place where the future and imagination take center stage. The exhibition Memories for Tomorrow explores how we live in a time when old stories are losing their effect and new ones are...

In the exhibition Naked that touches, primarily female, feminist and queer artists use the naked body as a means of expression, activism and reflection on norms, identity and equality. Nude that touches shows art from 1920 to the present: from paintings to contemporary photography and performances.

The 61st Venice Biennale - In Minor Keys by curator Koyo Kouoh - will take place at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as various venues in Venice.

'Be heard' is the underlying encouragement of Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change.", the ninth and final edition of Positions, a series that has been making space for experimentation and idiosyncratic artist positions for a decade. Twelve international artists and collectives take the stage in a powerful mix of solo presentations, performances and other encounters.

FUNGI is curated by Anna Tsing, who inspired countless thinkers, makers, activists, designers and curators with her book The Mushroom at the End of the World, and designer Feifei Zhou (terriStories). With FUNGI. Anarchist designers as an exhibition at the intersection of science, art and design, the New Institute looks beyond the traditional boundaries of design disciplines:...

What does a coffee cup tell us about air pollution, resources and social inequality? Ceramics is one of the most durable materials in existence: as long as it doesn't break, it can last for thousands of years. At the same time, its production is anything but sustainable. The firing process releases a large amount of CO₂, some raw materials and glazes are harmful to humans and...

The theme of this five-kilometer art route is "art and architecture in the Post65 era. In no other period was so much built in Rotterdam as in those between 1965 and 1990. The city center received reflective towers, brutalist office towers and experimental residential areas, such as the Cube Houses. In the field of art, a critical counter-movement emerged in which...

New works have been placed at ten different locations along the Sculpture Route 'From Slot to Centrum' around Slot Zeist. The Sculpture Route is an open-air exhibition of 49 sculptures around Slot Zeist and in the center.

On the occasion of 600 years of Leuven University, visual artists and poets address the big issues of our time, inspired by conversations with university researchers. The art and science trail And So, Change Comes in Waves brings together eight new artworks and as many poems in a trail around Leuven.