06 september 2024, Wouter van den Eijkel
Opening gallery season: part 1
The gallery season is about to begin. This weekend and the next, all galleries will open their doors again. Below is an overview of all exhibitions opening this weekend in Amsterdam.
Galerie Fleur en Wouter
Infini | Tim Breukers, Niko Riedinger & Tom Volkaert
Breukers, Riedinger and Volkaert create different works, but find common ground in blending traditional and innovative materials. They work with porcelain and bronze, as well as epoxy and oxidised metal. For Infini, they jointly created a large wall installation. Individual works by the artists are also on display.
Krijn de Koning, Provisional, Slewe Gallery
Slewe Gallery
Provisional | Krijn de Koning
The colourful sculptures of Krijn de Koning challenge our perception of space. De Koning often creates site-specific architectural installations, which is exactly what he does at Slewe. Several new smaller sculptures are also on display, constructed in a way that allows viewers to create their own sculpture. Provisional is an invitation to explore the notion of space.
Rafaël Rozendaal, Manual, Upstream Gallery
Upstream Gallery
Manual | Rafaël Rozendaal
With Manual, Rozendaal is taking a new direction. He gained international recognition by using the internet as his canvas, but for Manual, he has returned to the traditional canvas. For the first time in 25 years, Rozendaal rented a studio and began painting 'manually'. Enjoyment was the key to his process. While his working method may be different, Rozendaal's style remains the same. The works explore the tension between figuration and abstraction, which he calls ‘minimal figuration’..
Krijn Kroes, Bles-harlekijn, 2024, Upstream Gallery
TORCH Gallery
Letters To My Grandfather | Krijn Kroes
TORCH is presenting a personal project by Krijn Kroes. Letters to My Grandfather is a tribute to Kroes' grandfather and marks his return to his birthplace in the Veluwe. Some time ago, Kroes received his grandfather's archive, an ecologist who documented the bloom of orchids and alpine flowers. Kroes took it upon himself to digitise the archive and preserve the corresponding narratives. The flowers have found their way into his new oil paintings, forming a new way to preserve the family history.
Ricardo van Eyk, Level, tegenboschvanvreden
tegenboschvanvreden
Level | Ricardo van Eyk
While most artists rely on structure or chaos, Van Eyk incorporates this contrast into his work. For his third solo exhibition at tegenboschvanvreden, Van Eyk carefully built his paintings layer by layer, only to subsequently distort them in search of the moment when the result can no longer be explained rationally, but simply feels right.
Johannes Daniel, End of season (so honest and so perfect), 2023, Rutger Brandt Gallery
Rutger Brandt Gallery
Platinum tears | Johannes Daniel
Leipzig painter Johannes Daniel creates large collage-like paintings featuring fragments of human figures. Daniel draws from his extensive archive of music videos, magazines, poetry and photography. The figures in Platinum Dreams are hybrids of men and women that challenge our habitual gaze, often dominated by the male perspective, and encourage a more nuanced view of identity and representation.
misha de ridder, #0174 [glitch], 2024, Galerie Caroline O'Breen
Galerie Caroline O’Breen
glitch | Misha de Ridder
With glitch, Misha de Ridder explores the complex interplay between creation, destruction and transformation through the removal of graffiti. De Ridder transforms the erased graffiti into new forms of expression. What was once a public, rebellious statement becomes, through his lens, an abstract and painterly composition that emphasises the textures of the walls and remnants of the original tag. For De Ridder, erased graffiti is not the end but only a step in a creative process.
Josilda da Conceição
Synonyms for cardboard | Nathan Joshua Bastien, Ruben Raven, Vicente Baeza
The group exhibition curated by Ruben Raven, featuring work by Nathan Joshua Bastien and Vicente Baeza, shows how each artist interprets the same concept in his or her own unique way. The result is an exhibition in which the works contrast yet complement each other.
Gerhard Hofland
As far as I know | Caja Boogers
‘Indisch zwijgen’ (Indonesian silence) is a well-known concept in the Indo-Dutch community and refers to how people prefer not to talk about their homeland, the former Dutch East Indies. Caja Boogers talked to his Indo-Dutch grandparents at length, who gradually revealed how they lived in the past. With the installation on display at Gerhard Hofland, Boogers seeks to understand this somewhat veiled history and culture, both visually and conceptually.
Bryan Schutmaat, Lou, 2020, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Sons of the living | Bryan Schutmaat
In Sons of the Living Bryan Schutmaat presents intimate portraits of hitchhikers and drifters living along American highways. He intersperses them with landscapes and still lifes of a country in decline. On his wanderings through the southern United States, Schutmaat is guided by curiosity, gravitating toward the liminal space between wilderness and civilisation. His landscape photos capture the effects of wastefulness, irresponsible land exploitation and humanity's disastrous impact on ecology.
Galerie van Gelder
Blue Ray One | Frederique Jonker
Blue Ray One is Jonker's first solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder. Her paintings are displayed under the light of a flickering Lotus lamp to the accompaniment of her self-composed and computer-generated music. She views the motifs in her paintings as received ‘messages’ that emerge in the form of fragmented images and words. Each painting is first inscribed with messages and short sentences that serve as a ‘guideline’ for creating the final painting on canvas.
Galerie Ron Mandos, Best of Graduates. Photo by Jonathan de Waart
Galerie Ron Mandos
Best of Graduates | Group Exhibition
Last chance to visit Galerie Ron Mandos to find out what's happening at the art academies. Curator Radek Vana, along with Lars Been and Ron Mandos, visited all bachelor graduation exhibitions and selected 24 recent graduates. The result is a beautiful overview featuring works in all disciplines. This edition's RM Young Blood Award went to Rietveld Academy alumna Katarzyna Baldyga.
Stefan Peters Untitled, 2024, Galerie Roger Katwijk
Galerie Roger Katwijk
Hyper Vista | Stefan Peters
Belgian artist Stefan Peters paints imaginary vistas and installations in which time and space give way to a meditative atmosphere. The landscapes are geographically unplaceable. Peters does not strive for romanticism, but presents work that confuses our perception. He distances the viewer from the world, prompting reflection on our place within it. With Hyper Vista, the artist presents a new variation of the Vistas, the Symmetry series.
Henny Overbeek, The sky takes notes when we spreak (take 24), 2023, Galerie Franzis Engels
Galerie Franzis Engels
Follow-up Art on Paper Amsterdam | Marian Bijlenga, Anouk Griffioen, Henny Overbeek, Katrien Vogel
Franzis Engels had a stunning presentation at Art on Paper Amsterdam. It left a desire for more, so she is opening the new gallery season with a 'follow-up' of Art on Paper, showcasing more and new work in which paper takes centre stage. The exhibition includes paper thread drawings by Marian Bijlenga, charcoal drawings on paper by Anouk Griffioen, ballpoint pen drawings on paper by Henny Overbeek and paper objects by Katrien Vogel.
galerie dudokdegroot
I have seen the future| Jasper de Beijer
In I have Seen the Future Jasper de Beijer analyses the optimism he grew up with in the 1970s and how he slowly realised that the idea of controllability did not fit well with reality. In this field of tension, realism gives way to utopian thinking, while a utopia remains unattainable. In De Beijer's fictional world, inhabitants are trapped between different visions of the future and reality. They try to maintain the illusion at all costs, while desperately trying to make reality resemble their dream.
Kasper Akhøj, Untitled (Bichos), Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Bichos | Kasper Akhøj
Kasper Akhøj documented the weekly maintenance protocol for Lygia Clarke's Bichos, a series of hinged, unstable sculptures that the Brazilian artist created in aluminium from 1959 onward. Akhøj's Untitled (Bichos) consists of a series of analogue black-and-white photos taken in the conservation laboratories of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. With Untitled (Bichos), Akhøj continues his practice of complicating the historiography and theorisation of modernism by documenting the conservation processes, relocations and changes through which artworks, architecture and design are transmitted over time.
Peter Struyken, andriesse ~ eyck galerie
andriesse ~ eyck galerie
Colour changes in two and three dimensions 1979-2014 | Peter Struyken
The title of the season opener at andriesse ~ eyck speaks for itself. Central to the exhibition is work focused on colour changes in two and three dimensions from 1979 to 2014. Struyken created visually limitless spaces in which colours are structured and changed using algorithms. He conceived this concept in 1976 and worked with it throughout his lifetime, making him a true pioneer in the field. In addition to photo works from 1979 and the early 1980s, the renewed edition SHFT34 from 1981 is also on display.
Claudy Jongstra, Landscape Small I, 2024
Galerie Fontana
Atmosphaera | Claudy Jongstra
Claudy Jongstra gained international fame with large wall sculptures made of wool and felt. Everything about her work is organic: the wool comes from her own sheep and she makes the dyes from plants grown on her farm in Friesland. The new work in Atmosphaera is also organic. She view these works of art as atmospheres that express a particular state of mind. Jongstra poses the question, "Where are we now and how can we relate to a safe, vital future?" In this exhibition, as viewers we are enveloped by atmospheres in which we seek protection.
Maria Roosen, Galerie Fons Welters
Galerie Fons Welters
Tools - Maria Roosen
For Maria Roosen, creating art is a way to explore and better understand the world. "I see my work as 'tools for feelings' that I used to transform emotions and feelings into forms." Roosen's works can be considered self-portraits, depicting her thoughts and where she is heading. Her body also plays a significant role in this, as it is through her body that she relates to the world.
Afroditi Terzi, Galerie Fons Welters
Galerie Fons Welters
Unbound | Afroditi Terzi
Greek artist Afroditi Terzi is a recent graduate of the Rietveld Academy. Her work is at the interface of textile techniques and painting. Terzi sews on canvas in a way that resembles automatic writing, with the final form only becoming visible once the canvas is stretched on the wall. She then applies paint to either accentuate or soften the patterns created with the sewing machine.
