What’s happening in Art & Culture? 🇳🇱

Nothing grows in a vacuum.

Inspiration passes from mind to mind; we walk away, look again and breathe new life into the city. This summer’s Dutch calendar is an invitation to pause, wander and come back renewed.

Scroll on for the full list of exhibitions, festivals and one-night happenings İrem has curated for you!

Special thanks to İrem Sezer Kalyoncu for this thoughtfully interconnected selection.

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Activities & Festivals
closing soonest → latest

Red Light Jazz
https://redlightjazz.com/en/
can be visited until 8 June 2025
Historic Red-Light District, Amsterdam
✍️ Hear international jazz while discovering the neighbourhood from a fresh cultural angle.

This Art Fair
https://thisartfair.com/
can be visited until 8 June 2025
DOOR Open Space, TT Vasumweg 31, Amsterdam-Noord
✍️ A great variety of artists show and sell their work on their own terms, no galleries or dealers between you and the makers.

Rotterdamse Dakendagen (Rooftop Days)
https://rotterdamsedakendagen.nl/
can be visited until 9 June 2025
50 + rooftops across Rotterdam
✍️ Discover the city from above rooftop walks, live music and ideas for greener urban skylines.

Foam, “What happens when we listen?” Dinner
https://www.foam.org/events/salon-vin-naturel-dinner
on 12 June 2025
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
✍️ A communal dinner and natural-wine tasting led by artist Dilruba Tayfun, perfect for slowing down and really listening.

DinnerMeyhane with a Modern Twist
https://platesandmates.gigb.ee/event/QNS1JF
on 22 June 2025
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
✍️ An unforgettable night of flavor, music, and community where tradition meets innovation on every plate.

Holland Festival 2025
https://hollandfestival.nl/
can be visited until 29 June 2025
Various theatres & outdoor stages, Amsterdam
✍️ Three packed weeks of performing arts-study the programme early and act fast for tickets.

North Sea Jazz Festival
https://www.northseajazz.com/nl/
can be visited until 13 July 2025
Rotterdam Ahoy
✍️ One of the world’s largest indoor jazz gatherings, 1 000 + musicians on 13 stages, with soul, hip-hop and funk on the side.

PPP, Political Party for Potatoes (W139)
https://w139.nl/en/event/ppp/
can be visited until 27 July 2025
W139, Warmoesstraat 139, Amsterdam
✍️ Playful workshops, murals and debates dig into potato politics at this ever-surprising experimental space.

Voorlinden, Kite Club
https://www.voorlinden.nl/exhibition/kite-club/?lang=en
can be visited until 3 August 2025
Museum estate, Wassenaar
✍️ All summer, artist duo Scheltens & Abbenes invite visitors to make and fly giant kites across the dunes.

FENIX, Crossing Tables
https://www.fenix.nl/en/whats-on/crossing-tables/
next edition 21 August 2025 (series continues thereafter)
FENIX Museum, Rotterdam
✍️ Art meets communal dining, each third Thursday a chef or artist explores migration stories through food.

Amsterdam Sculptuur Biënnale (ARTZUID 2025)
https://artzuid.nl/
can be visited until 21 September 2025
Apollolaan • Minervalaan • Zuidas, Amsterdam-Zuid
✍️ A cosy way to enjoy art outdoors on long summer days, 70 free-to-see sculptures line leafy boulevards, plus a kids’ Art Camp.

Unfair Amsterdam 2025
https://unfair.nl/
can be visited late November 2025 (exact dates TBA)
Gashouder, Westergas, Amsterdam
✍️ Artist-run fair where brainstorming literally happens over table-football, watch their feed for this autumn’s dates.

Voorlinden, Silence on Socks
https://www.voorlinden.nl/visit/events/silent-hour/?lang=en
ongoing every Sat & Sun morning (tickets required) – current schedule until 31 December 2025
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
✍️ Enjoy the museum in total stillness, phones off, shoes off, just you and the art before the doors open to the crowds.

EXHIBITIONS
closing soonest → latest

The Cost of Alliance
https://www.stroom.nl/stroom-algemeen/activiteiten/the-cost-of-alliance
can be visited until 26 June 2025
Stroom Den Haag, The Hague
✍️ A timely, critical look at NATO through film, graphics and lively public debates.

Facing the Storm, A Museum in Wartime
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/nu-te-doen/tentoonstellingen/huis-in-de-storm
can be visited until 29 June 2025
Mauritshuis, The Hague
✍️ Step inside the museum’s WWII bunker years: empty frames, propaganda shows and stories of people hiding onsite.

Cihad Caner, Parroting the Parrot
https://1646.nl/program/parroting-the-parrot/
can be visited until 13 July 2025
1646 Experimental Art Space, The Hague
✍️ Playful fictional worlds collide with Turkish TV tropes and talking parrots in this witty show.

From Rembrandt to Vermeer Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection
https://museumnacht.amsterdam/tentoonstellingen/365/van-rembrandt-tot-vermeer-meesterwerken-van-the-leiden-collection
can be visited until 24 August 2025
H’ART Museum, Amsterdam
✍️ Seventy-five Golden Age gems, including 18 Rembrandts and a newly restored Vermeer, on rare public view.

Haegue Yang, Leap Year
https://www.museum.nl/en/kunsthal-rotterdam/exhibition/hague-yang-leap-year
can be visited until 24 August 2025
Kunsthal Rotterdam
✍️ Kinetic blinds, tinkling bells and scent-laden installations fill the vast hall in this sensory retrospective.

Poetry of the People
https://amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/poetry-of-the-people
can be visited until 24 August 2025
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
✍️ Powerful West-Asian and North-African poems leap off the page via calligraphy, sound and contemporary art interventions.

Charley Toorop, Love for Van Gogh
https://krollermuller.nl/charley-toorop
can be visited until 14 September 2025
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
✍️ A rare chance to see 60 + works showing how Van Gogh inspired one of the Netherlands’ leading modernist painters.

Fiona Tan, Monomania
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/fiona-tan-monomania
can be visited until 14 September 2025
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
✍️ The video artist re-curates 19th-century collections to explore historical ideas of the mind and obsession.

Isamu Noguchi in the Rijksmuseum Gardens
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/isamu-noguchi-in-de-rijksmuseumtuinen
can be visited until 26 October 2025 (free)
Rijksmuseum Gardens, Amsterdam
✍️ Playful stone, bronze and Akari paper sculptures animate the lawns, ideal for a sunny wander.

Karel Martens, Unbound
https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/karel-martens-en
can be visited until 26 October 2025
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
✍️ First full retrospective of the legendary Dutch graphic designer, prints, phone cards and an interactive letter-lab.