01 september 2026, Flor Linckens
A new gallery season: what to see in Amsterdam
Get your calendars out: the gallery season is back on! Early September traditionally marks the moment when the art world gets back into gear and this weekend, Amsterdam in particular offers a highly concentrated offer. Across the city, galleries are opening their first exhibitions of the new season, in some cases at a new location. A good reason to clear an afternoon, map out a route and spend some time hopping from one gallery to the next. Not every gallery follows the same schedule, of course: some exhibitions have already opened, while others will follow a week later or towards the end of the month. Below, we highlight a selection of shows worth seeing. Click here for a full exhibition overview, including exhibitions outside of Amsterdam.
tegenboschvanvreden
On 5 September, tegenboschvanvreden opens a duo exhibition by Ricardo van Eyk and Han Schuil in their Amsterdam space. The gallery recently opened a second location in Heusden aan de Maas.
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
From 5 September, Ellen de Bruijne Projects presents Milena Bonilla’s solo exhibition ‘Notes on Soils, Light and Gravity’. Taking plant life as her point of departure, the Colombian artist examines the social, political, ecological and economic traces embedded in historical places and events. In doing so, she approaches vegetation as a source of memory and knowledge.
Lumen Travo Gallery
On 4 September, Lumen Travo Gallery opens ‘Four legs good, two legs bad!’, featuring work by Noor Abed, Ni Haifeng, Jackie Karuti and Daniel de Paula. Inspired by George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the artists focus on the invisible infrastructures within our society, the relationship between time, labour and money, political propaganda and the gradual disappearance of collective memory.
Galerie Fontana
From 5 September, Galerie Fontana brings together work by Claudy Jongstra, Mirte van Laarhoven and Gerbrand Burger in ‘An Encounter: Materials, Nature and Time’. Working with wool, wood, earth, pigment and other natural materials, each artist examines our relationship with the living world from a different perspective. Craftsmanship, ecological awareness and the origins and life cycles of materials play an important role in their practice.
Slewe Gallery
In ‘Ama’, on view at Slewe Gallery from 5 September, Paul Drissen presents new paintings that grew out of his fascination with Henri Matisse’s early work. Like Matisse, he plays with the boundary between representation and abstraction: flowers, vases, tables and landscapes appear recognisable, yet as you look at them they dissolve into new constellations of colour, form and paint.
Vriend van Bavink Gallery
On 4 September, Vriend van Bavink Gallery opens ‘Jeroen Henneman – An overview’, Jeroen Henneman’s first major solo exhibition at an Amsterdam gallery in eight years. Drawing on more than fifty years of artistic practice, the broad selection reveals not only his familiar, almost iconic visual language but also lesser-known aspects of his oeuvre.
Bildhalle
From 4 September, Bildhalle presents the exhibition ‘Echoes’. Here, Margaret Lansink shows how she uses photography, painting and sculpture to examine the fragile relationship between landscape, memory and time. She prints her photographs on delicate Japanese washi paper, which she subsequently folds, mounts on canvas and paints. In doing so, landscapes become tactile, layered images that reflect on what remains from a place or experience in our memories.
Bradwolff & Partners
From 4 September, Bradwolff & Partners presents work by herman de vries in ‘to be’. In this exhibition, the 95-year-old artist returns to one of the most fundamental principles of his practice: looking at what is already there. Here, earth, plants, stones, water and other natural materials are not used to represent nature, but presented as realities in their own right. Pieke Bergmans’ concurrent exhibition ‘to become’ in the gallery’s Back Space focuses on the process of transformation. For her work “Solidified Water”, Bergmans blows hot, molten glass over nine sections of a split tree trunk, allowing the material to sag and deform before intervening just before it breaks, fixing the form in place.
Kersgallery
On 5 September, Kersgallery inaugurates their new gallery space at Hazenstraat 2A with a group presentation featuring work by Gommaar Gilliams, Florentijn de Boer and Marc Mulders.
Galerie van Gelder
On 5 September (17:00-19:00) Galerie van Gelder opens a new presentation featuring work by Jaap Kroneman and Lieven Hendriks.
Galerie Roger Katwijk
In ‘Ga naar de Zilveren Zee’, on view from 4 September, Galerie Roger Katwijk presents new work by Stefan Peters and Peter Henry Waterschoot, two Belgian artists who use painting and photography respectively to examine how light and colour shape our perception.
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
From 5 September, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen presents an exhibition by Nadav Kander, coinciding with his retrospective at Foam. The exhibition brings together fourteen works from different series spanning three decades of his photography, from swimmers in the Yangtze and wintry trees to the deserted banks of the Thames.
Also on view this weekend
Galerie Franzis Engels
Last weekend, Galerie Franzis Engels opened ‘Afroditi Terzi meets Marja Kennis’. In the exhibition, Marja Kennis’s porcelain impressions of everyday organic forms are paired with Afroditi Terzi’s paintings that explore ‘negative space’.
Torch Gallery
In ‘The Planets’, on view at TORCH Gallery since 29 August, Woody van Amen paints his own solar system for the 21st century. A recurring figure carries not planets, but symbols of money, technology, war and entertainment, ranging from a Bitcoin to a rocket and a football. The exhibition coincides with his solo exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam.
andriesse eyck galerie
In andriesse ~ eyck galerie, the exhibition ‘Snuffel is a Drag on Art’ opened on 28 August. Curator Bobo Ophuis brings work by Tang Pinggang, Zhang Wei, Yang Xinguang, Liao Guohe, Kang Wanhua, Lova Yu, Wumen Ghua and Mia Cecille together around an unusual premise: visitors are first encouraged to slow down at a tea table before encountering the Chinese abstract and contemporary art that is presented throughout the gallery.
Opening a week later
Visiting next week? Then make sure to see the following exhibitions as well.
Galerie Ron Mandos
From 12 September, Galerie Ron Mandos presents Zanele Muholi’s ‘Hlanganani’, in which the South African photographer and visual activist marks twenty years of ‘Faces and Phases’ with self-portraits, paintings and new portraits of members of Amsterdam’s Black queer community.
Annet Gelink Gallery
From 11 September, two exhibitions will be on view at Annet Gelink Gallery. In ‘In the café, a landscape is placed on the wall at eye level’, David Maljković uses a new series of paintings to examine how a single space can exist in several versions at once. Downstairs in The Bakery, Alessandro Di Pietro’s ‘La Vita Agra’ focuses on the charged moment just before a collision or rupture.
Rademakers Gallery
From 12 September, Simone Post transforms Rademakers Gallery into a colourful textile world. She incorporates remnants from the Dutch textile industry, pieces from her family archive and elements of ‘Drifting Through Textiles’, an installation she previously created for the Hermès windows in Amsterdam.
SmithDavidson Gallery
In ‘Reflections’, on view from 12 September, SmithDavidson Gallery brings together work by Zhuang Hong Yi and Pepe Valenti, two artists who play with light, material and our perception in very different ways. Zhuang creates sculptural fields of flowers that shift in colour and depth as you move past them. Valenti’s layered abstract works also change according to the light and the viewer’s position.
Later in September
BorzoGallery
From 26 September, BorzoGallery presents Jan Henderikse’s ‘Too Much is Not Enough!’. The exhibition centres on his insatiable fascination with everyday objects and the excesses of consumer society. The Zero artist abandoned the paintbrush as early as 1960 in favour of licence plates, dollar bills, coins, corks and bars of soap, materials he continues to transform into colourful and often humorous assemblages.
