05 september 2025, Wouter van den Eijkel
Amsterdam Art will be festively opening the new art season
Amsterdam Art will be festively opening the new art season on Friday 5 September and Saturday 6 September 2025, with no fewer than 29 galleries presenting their newest exhibitions – the perfect opportunity for visitors to discover a wide range of artists, styles and stories in a short time, from international names to emerging talents.
The festive Gallery Night will take place on the evening of Friday 5 September, a special evening event featuring celebratory openings and vibrant an atmosphere, with all participating galleries staying open until 8:00 pm.
Amsterdam Art is also organising special public tours on both days, guiding visitors along a selection of participating galleries. Accompanied by an expert guide, visitors will explore different exhibitions and learn more about the artists and their work. More information, including the entire programme and map, can be found at www.amsterdamart.com
Below is a brief overview of the openings this weekend, with a focus on those galleries affiliated with Gallery Viewer.
Sea Legs - Antonietta Peeters, andriesse~eyck galerie
andriesse~eyck galerie
Sea Legs - Antonietta Peeters
Adam Jeppesen, Work no. 184, from the series Tank, 2025, Bildhalle
Bildhalle
Nature, perception, and materiality – Adam Jeppesen, Inka & Niclas, Joost Vandeburg
Inka & Niclas, Adam Jeppesen and Joost Vandeburg approach nature not as a fixed entity, but as a living partner—vulnerable, changeable and transient. In their work, nature functions as both material and metaphor. Each artist explores this in a unique way, pushing the boundaries of photography. In their work, nature is seen, shaped and felt, never simply recorded.
Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Bradwolff & Partners
Bradwolff & Partners
Inspiration – Expiration - Ewerdt Hilgemann & Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky
Our breath as movement, force and measure of time is the starting point of Inspiration – Expiration. Hilgemann and Kovacovsky are from different generations and have distinct visual languages, yet overlap in their characteristic stillness, implosion and growth. Hilgemann uses air as a physical force: his stainless steel sculptures implode under vacuum, undergoing a controlled transformation, while Kovacovsky’s photography and installations focus on light, leaves and the passing of the seasons. Using analogue techniques, she captures subtle forms of growth, transience and rhythm, creating images that breathe slowly.
Charles Pétillon, Igloo Mobile 3, 2024, Brandt Gallery
Brandt Gallery
Charles Pétillon
French artist Charles Pétillon gained recognition with poetic installations and photography in which he places white balloons in abandoned spaces or in nature. These ‘balloon invasions’ evoke a quiet, contemplative atmosphere, transforming the everyday into something surprising and encouraging a fresh look at our surroundings.
Britte Koolen, Engrenagem 1, 2025, Galerie Bart
Galerie Bart
Vigor – Britte Koolen
Britte Koolen wants to slow down our gaze and draw attention to things we normally overlook, such as the small, inconspicuous objects – rods, gears and sliders – she found during a residency at an industrial site and transformed into ceramic sculptures. It was her first time working with ceramics and proved to be an excellent choice, as making ceramics involves a slow-making process and produces unique results, compelling us to look longer.
Inez de Brauw, After Teniers - Establishing novelties, 2025, Galerie Fontana
Galerie Fontana
The Muse Withdraws – Inez de Brauw
In her first solo exhibition at Fontana, Inez de Brauw turns to the 17th-century genre of the ‘cabinet of curiosities’ paintings, works depicting a collector’s collection, often filled with other paintings. De Brauw’s work is driven by historical revisionism: she searches for the women in these paintings-within-paintings, the muses. Their presence, gaze and roles are reconsidered, along with the subtle codes that surround them, from precious objects to painted dogs symbolising manners, status and chastity.
Best of Graduates 2025, Galerie Ron Mandos
Galerie Ron Mandos
Best of Graduates - groepstentoonstelling
This weekend is the last chance to enjoy an overview of the work being done at Dutch art academies. As in previous years, Galerie Ron Mandos is treating visitors to a survey of graduation exhibitions across the country. The word ‘treats’ is apt here, as Best of Graduates is nothing less than a gift for those who don’t have time to visit them all. For this edition, curator Radek Vána selected 26 young artists from nearly all academies.
Aldert Mantje & Peter Kempff (G4) , 2021 - ‘Riots in Sheffield’ The british circle paintings, oil on canvas, 40 x 55 cm, Gallery Vriend van Bavink
Gallery Vriend van Bavink
Everybody wants to rule the world – groepstentoonstelling
Now that the Schoof cabinet has collapsed for the second time and we face political uncertainty, Vriend van Bavink questions the role played by propaganda in shaping political ideas, beliefs and realities. The focus here is not on the message of propaganda, but on the means employed, from flags and flyers to media and protest signs, and from framing and slogans to subtle visual strategies. With work by Folkert de Jong, Koos Buster, Anouk Kruithof, Peim van der Sloot and Sam Andrea.
ONGEKEND – Young Masters @ Auction
Kersgallery
Unprecedented – Young Masters @ Auction
In collaboration with Adams Amsterdam Auctions, Kersgallery is organising a unique art auction featuring recently graduated artists under the age of 35. Discover 30 promising names in contemporary art—fresh out of the academy and ready to make their mark. The works were specially selected by a jury including Marc Mulders and Raquel van Haver. Viewing days: 4-6 September at Kersgallery.
The Deer Years - Phil Bloom, Lumen Travo Galerie
Lumen Travo Galerie
The Deer Years - Phil Bloom
In honour of Phil Bloom’s 80th birthday, Lumen Travo is opening the new season with The Deer Years, a rich overview of more than 40 years of artistic practice. Bloom’s oeuvre of paintings and work on paper presents a unique visual language in which dreams, travels, mythological figures and cultural symbols converge in vibrant, playful compositions. Themes of innocence, identity and the human condition are explored where the enchanting and macabre converge. The gallery is transformed into a contemporary wunderkammer, also showing objects from her personal collection, offering insight into her sources of inspiration.
Lumen Travo Galerie, Folds – Lesley Foxcroft
Slewe Gallery
Folds – Lesley Foxcroft
Folds presents new work by Lesley Foxcroft in MDF, iron and copper. This British sculptor is known for her MDF work, but also uses everyday materials like rubber, paper and cardboard. Foxcroft deliberately employs such materials to emphasise that it is not the material, but the artist that gives a sculpture its value. Through folding, pressing, cutting and stacking, she arranges the material against the wall and floor, rendering the everyday aesthetic and flat plane architectural.
Shakespeare’s sisters – Marenne Welten
tegenboschvanvreden
Shakespeare’s sisters – Marenne Welten
For Marenne Welten, painting is a game. Looking at her work is also a game, as it forces the viewer to keep moving in order to understand it. Following Merleau-Ponty, Welten believes that our bodies play an active role in our understanding of the world. Seeing is moving and moving leads to understanding. Welten translates this by using her hands to bring forth women from her family and their interiors from thick layers of paint, binding memory, time and presence into a tangible experience.
Kévin Bray , It is preparing the floral offensive, 2025, Upstream Gallery
Upstream Gallery
The interfaced and the compass: playing realties – Kévin Bray
Kévin Bray has designed his solo exhibition as a visual archive of a computer game. Across two rooms, he presents digital and physical objects, symbols and artifacts. According to Bray, four layers—digital, physical, pre-idea and post-idea—together form reality. A floor grid serves as interface and memory, where the remnants of a game lie side by side. At the centre stands Oan, a protagonist moving between the layers. The exhibition reveals how fiction and matter jointly produce realities.
Thomas Manneke, Continuum, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Continuum – Thomas Manneke
Continuum brings together work from Manneke’s most recent book Zillion and photographs made since then. This continuation refers to the paper and cardboard sculptures that first appeared in Zillion. Over the past year, Manneke logically expanded this by experimenting with multiple exposures, creating sculptures of patches of sunlight.
Anastasia Samoylova, Blue House after Flood, Fort Lauderdale, FL from the series Atlantic Coast, 2023, Galerie Caroline O'Breen
Galerie Caroline O'Breen
Atlantic Coast – Anastasia Samoylova
In 1954, when private transport was about to radically reshape landscapes and communities, Abbott documented the towns and villages along the Atlantic coast. In Atlantic Coast, Samoylova retraces the same route, revealing the effects of industry, commerce and ecological shifts. Her images capture both loss and resilience in environments shaped by modernisation. The series exposes tensions between myth and reality, and between local history and global developments.
Minne Kersten, Day for night, Annet Gelink Gallery
Annet Gelink Gallery
Day for night – Minne Kersten
The title of Minne Kersten’s second solo exhibition refers to a film technique that simulates night during daytime shooting. It’s an artificial intervention, illustrative of Kersten’s interest in how perception is constructed and how illusions can carry emotional truth. She develops this idea in her video work, sculptures and paintings, circling around the residue of a story: what remains psychologically and physically after an event.
Bobbi Essers, Love Ridden (I've looked at you), 2025, Stigter Van Doesburg
Stigter Van Doesburg
Love Ridden (I've looked at you) – Bobbi Essers
With her paintings, Bobbi Essers shares an experience both uniquely personal and universally recognisable: the enchantment of friendship. Drawing on her own photo archive, she creates life-sized compositions in which overlapping figures blur the boundaries of gender, identity and intimacy. She shows us life as it presents itself to someone in their mid-twenties, from buzzing gallery openings to intimate birthdays. Her paintings present us with unfiltered moments—honest, nostalgic and deeply human.
Annabelle Binnerts, Spoken, Martin van Zomeren
Martin van Zomeren
Spoken – Annabelle Binnerts
The title Spoken, Annabelle Binnerts’ first solo exhibition, reflects the artist’s interest: language and its elusiveness. In Dutch, spoken means ‘ghosts’, while in English, it refers to ‘speech’. The exhibition can be read as an attempt to grasp the intangible. Alongside a new series of work on enamel and textile, Binnerts also created several site-specific works.
