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Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden
The Stedelijk presents a retrospective comprising over 200 drawings and paintings by the South African artist Marlene Dumas who has lived in Amsterdam since 1976.
The artist now works mainly with o...
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Larry Clark: Tulsa & Teenage Lust
Foam presents two celebrated but controversial projects by American documentary photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark.
Tulsa (1971) and Teenage Lust (1983) reveal an underworld youth culture peopl...
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Foam presents the first exhibition of works selected from its own collection, which forms an essential part of the museum's ongoing exhibition programme.
Foam's collection policy focuses on support...
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Richard Mosse's multimedia installation is centred around the conflict situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he travelled throughout 2012 with artistic collaborators Trevor Tweeten and...
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Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs, 1996
The Stedelijk hosts an exhibition of almost 40 works by celebrated Canadian photographer Jeff Wall.
The exhibition focuses on Wall’s work since 1996, including recent photographs in colour an...
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Expedition Silk Road: Treasures from the Hermitage
The Hermitage provides a glimpse of the long-lost civilisations along the Silk Road, the ancient trade network which ran almost 7,000 km from China to the Mediterranean.
The 250 items on show all...
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Marcel Wanders: Pinned Up at the Stedelijk. 25 years of design
The Stedelijk devotes an exhibition to the work of internationally renowned Dutch designer Marcel Wanders who is known for his product, furniture and interior designs, and art direction.
The exhibi...
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Rembrandt - Auerbach: Raw Truth
Six paintings by Frank Auerbach are displayed alongside works by Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum.
Born in Berlin in 1931, Auerbach has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947 and, along with Ba...
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Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde
The Stedelijk Museum presents a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the Russian avant-garde pioneer Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935).
The exhibition, which is billed as the largest Ma...
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Holland's largest ethnographic museum takes a fresh approach to the work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelius Escher, examining the extent to which he was inspired by Islamic art.
The exhibit...
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Gauguin, Bonnard, Denis: Prophets of the Avant-garde
The Hermitage highlights three major figures from the world of late 19th and early 20th-century art: Gauguin, Bonnard and Denis.
After the Impressionistic period, the three French artists each set...
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Bowie by Duffy - Photographs ’72
The Amsterdam Photography Museum exhibits a selection of images of David Bowie by the late fashion photographer Brian Duffy who worked with Bowie on five photographic projects between 1972 and 1980....
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This exhibition takes place on the 160th anniversary of the artist’s birth and the 40th year of the Van Gogh Museum's location at Amsterdam's Museumplein museum complex. It is also the open...
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The third edition of the open-air international sculpture exhibition takes place in the picturesque Berlage quarter of Amsterdam.
The theme of this year's event is "engagement" and the exhibition...
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The exhibition presents 32 Dutch genre paintings "leftover" from the current display dedicated to the Van Abbemuseum collection, established in 1936 by Dutch cigar manufacturer Henri van Abbe.
Prod...
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25 March-15 September. The Museum of Bags and Purses presents a nostalgic exhibition of assorted schoolbags.
Although the schoolbag can conjure up different connotations for different people, orga...
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The Amsterdam City Archives presents an exhibition on the construction of the city's canals in the Golden Age, during the year of their 400th anniversary.
Using archival documents and maps, it is...
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10 Jan-20 March. The Amsterdam Photography Museum (FOAM) presents MOAM, a unique combination of photography and fashion involving established names and emerging talent.
15 Dutch fashion photograph...
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15 Dec-17 March. The Huis Marseille presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of award-winning Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen, spanning the last 17 years of her career in artistic and fashion...
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15 Dec-1 April. The Stedelijk Museum presents a major retrospective of the work of American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) whose wide-ranging practice encompassed painting, sculpture, works on p...
