What’s happening in Art & Culture? 🇳🇱

Art inspires conversations about identity, technology, resistance and care.

This Art& Culture edition explores these themes through photography, street culture, personal memory, archives and more.

Special thanks to Melis Dumlu for this thoughtful selection!

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Bazarre Artistique
📅 6 Apr 2025
📍 NDSM Loods, Amsterdam
🔗 https://www.amsterdamstreetart.com/bazarre-artistique/
For those who are drawn to urban culture.

Garden Futures
📅 until 13 Apr 2025
📍 Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
🔗 https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/tuinen-van-de-toekomst
A vision for the gardens of tomorrow: exploring nature, design and future living.

Selma Selman | Sleeping Guards
📅 until 21 Apr 2025
📍 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
🔗 https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/abn-amro-kunstprijs
Powerful performance on themes of labour, identity and survival.

Saul Leiter | An Unfinished World
📅 until 23 Apr 2025
📍 Foam, Amsterdam
🔗 https://www.foam.org/events/saul-leiter
For those drawn to beauty in the periphery and poetry in the blur.

Art is a Verb
📅 until 27 Apr 2025
📍 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
🔗 https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/see-and-do/exhibitions-activities/art-is-a-verb
For anyone curious about art as an action, transformation and social imagination.

Ghosts
📅 until 4 May 2025
📍 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
🔗 https://amsterdamart.com/agenda/ghosts/
Exploring AI, presence and absence if you are curious about the human behind the machine.

Bare Machine – Group Exhibition
📅 until 4 May 2025
📍 Galerie Bart, Amsterdam
🔗 galeriebart.nl
Post human themes and embodied tech

Maija Wallinheimo-Heimonen | When I grow up, I will become a coat rack
📅 until 5 May 2025
📍 1646, The Hague
🔗 https://1646.nl/program/when-i-grow-up-i-will-become-a-coat-rack/
A bold and personal work for those thinking about disability, care and structural injustice.

Anarchief
📅 until 18 May 2025
📍 Roodkapje, Rotterdam
🔗 https://roodkapje.org/event/2025-04-anarchief/
An experimental space for ephemeral archive and artistic memory.

Finn Maatita & Jerrold Saija – Foam Talent Exhibition
📅 until 22 May 2025
📍 Foam, Amsterdam
🔗 foam.org
For those who are interested in new visual languages emerging from diasporas and experimental storytelling.

Çiğdem Yüksel | If only you knew
📅 until 25 May 2025
📍 Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
🔗 https://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/en/tentoonstelling/je-moest-eens-weten/
An intimate and necessary show on migration, memory and the stories that rarely get told.

Women of Amsterdam – an ode
📅 until 1 Jun 2025
📍 Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
🔗 https://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/en/exhibition/vrouwen-van-amsterdam-een-ode/149663
A loving tribute to the women who shape the city’s rhythm.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Inner Landscapes
📅 until 1 Jun 2025
📍 Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
🔗 https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme/nuri-bilge-ceylan/1367823
A slow poetic reflection on solitude, landscape and the depth of human emotion.

Anselm Kiefer — Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
📅 until 9 June 2025
📍 Van Gogh Museum & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
🔗 vangoghmuseum.nl/en/visit/whats-on/exhibitions/anselm-kiefer-sag-mir-wo-die-blumen-sind
For those interested in how contemporary art can confront and archive the unspeakable past, while questioning the ethics of remembrance.

Édouard Glissant – Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Archive
📅 from 18 April until 23 June 2025
📍 West Den Haag, The Hague
🔗 https://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/25_02_Eduard_Glissant
Decolonial thinking, poetic resistance and curatorial storytelling as a form of world building.

ARTZUID 2025 – Enlightenment
📅 from 21 May until 23 June 2025
📍 Public spaces along Apollolaan and Minervalaan, Amsterdam
🔗 artzuid.nl
Sculpture biennale celebrates Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary with works exploring freedom, enlightenment, and the poetics of public space.