Amsterdam exhibitions calendar 2019

25 years after Nelson Mandela was elected president, Van Denderen and Tlali present a critical sequel to the highly-praised photo book Welkom in Suid-Afrika (1991) in which van Denderen chronicled apartheid’s final days in the gold mining town of Welkom. Welkom Today combines old and new photos by Van Denderen and Tlali with photos taken by students, family albums, newspaper archives and stories by writer Margalith Kleijwegt.

The Lebanese – American artist Walid Raad (1967) presents his philosophical, politically charged, and often witty vision of the complexities of the Lebanese Civil War (1975 -1991) and developments in contemporary art in the Middle East.

The exhibition ‘Colorful Japan’ shows 226 Japanese posters in the Gallery of Honor of the Stedelijk Museum – from floor to ceiling.

Temporary exhibition at Amsterdam’s prestigious modern art museum about Chagall, Picasso, Mondrian and a number of other artists who came to Paris in the years 1900-1950.

Exhibition exploring how the work of Jean-François Millet inspired well-know artists like Van Gogh. With his radical painting technique, modern style and inspirational portrayal of peasant life, Millet undoubtedly sowed the seeds of modern art.

Edouard Vuillard believed that producing prints or posters was just as important as creating paintings. The French artist could spend up to three years designing a final print. The Van Gogh Museum exhibits Edouard Vuillard’s print series ‘Paysages et Intérieurs, one of the highlights of the oeuvre of French artist Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940).

Temporay exhibitions in Amsterdam photograpy museum Foam. In Casting Out the Self, multi-disciplinary artist Dominic Hawgood (1980, UK) visualises the effect of the drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT).His work creates a hallucinatory effect: photographs seem to move, flat surfaces reveal hidden depths, and the perception of space turns out to be an illusion.

The work of Kévin Bray is a hybrid of techniques, motifs and formal languages in which he brings together painting, graphic design, sculpture, video, 3D-photography and sound design.

French-Hungarian photographer Brassaï created iconic images of 1930s Parisian life. He was famous for capturing the grittier aspects of the city, but also documented high society, including the ballet, opera, and intellectuals – among them his friends and contemporaries like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse.

Huis Marseille presents a retrospective of the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991). Her work forms a bridge linking the artistic avant-garde in the ‘Old World’ with the emerging art scene of the 1920s and 1930s in New York.

To mark the museum’s tenth anniversary Chikako Watanabe created a dolls’ house inspired by the famous dolls’ house (ca. 1668–1710) made for the rich merchant’s wife Petronella Oortman, and now part of the Rijksmuseum collection. Employing the same ratio of 1:9 Watanabe made miniature versions of everything, including video projections, ceramic sculptures and soap blocks.

Outside Fashion shows about 150 vintage fashion photos and magazines by a variety of photographers from the period 1900–1969.

How did Rembrandt make his paintings and etchings? And how do we go about investigating this today? Discover how a drawing by Rembrandt has changed over the centuries, see what was added to an etching by others and consider the dilemmas of researchers and conservators.

Temporary exhibition at the Amsterdam Museum, displaying 700 objects from its collection. Visitors discover the special and often personal stories behind the objects and how they ended up in the Amsterdam Museum.

In Amsterdam’s souvenir shop the Red Light District is an important inspiration among windmills, tulips, clogs, canals, cows and bicycles. Artist Jimini Hignett Hignett collected these artefacts with the idea of investigating if souvenirs can reveal something of the way some narratives are repressed whilst others are promoted to represent a particular version of history.