Exhibitions in Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Nearly sixty paintings by Luc Tuymans on war, colonial memory and the uncanny, named after a Tuymans painting in the Stedelijk's own collection.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Award show for painter Hend Samir, winner of the 14th ABN AMRO Art Award: swirling wet-on-wet paintings about trauma, sexuality, family and living together.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Mahama's first major Dutch museum solo show, centred on a locomotive resting on hundreds of headpans, tracing Ghana's colonial-era railway and its material legacy.

Oude Kerk

South Korean artist Mire Lee installs a moving, almost-living structure of silicone, steel, motors and liquids exploring desire, decay and transformation.

Amsterdam Museum

Iconic 17th-century cityscapes showing how Amsterdam depicted itself as a wealthy, innovative world power as it transformed into a global trading hub.

STRAAT Museum

Photographer Henry Chalfant's documentation of graffiti culture, curated by SUSO33 with archival material from the Dutch Graffiti Library linking his lens to the Dutch graffiti scene.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

An installation of more than a thousand knitted strips in gold and crimson conjures the ghost of the East Indiaman Amsterdam: gold for trade and prosperity, red for colonialism and exploitation.

Rijksmuseum

Twenty-four worn, altered and reused garments dating from 1640 to 1930, from embroidered 17th-century mules to a dress passed down through generations of the Six family.

Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)

The golden age of magic through its Jewish illusionists, from Harry Houdini to Hans Klok, with tricks visitors can try themselves.

Allard PiersonFree

Free mini-show in the museum's Studio on Dutch DIY cassette culture, from VPRO's Radiola Improvisatie Salon to the Carcassettes label, with clips to listen to.

Amsterdam Museum

Stories of people and power: how Amsterdam's grand canal houses were financed through colonial trade and plantation slavery, told through residents and descendants of the enslaved.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

The Stedelijk's biennial group show, this edition on collectives such as Hackers & Designers and Image Acts, from artworks and social design to manifestos and printed matter.

Museum Willet-Holthuysen

Explores how two of the house's 18th-century residents built their wealth on plantation trade, with an audio tour guided by a descendant of an enslaved woman from Suriname's Jagtlust plantation.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

Choreographer Sedrig Verwoert traces dance in the diaspora, pairing a travelogue of his research into Winti, Kawina and Tambu in Suriname and Curacao with the dance film Strange Fruit 2.0.

Het Scheepvaartmuseum

Five years of photographing the coastline from northern France to the southern Netherlands: Vanfleteren's sea shifts room by room from glassy calm through misty drift to storm.

Joods Museum (Jewish Museum, Jewish Cultural Quarter)

Five years of acquisitions in the Art Gallery, from contemporary art to objects of Jewish firms and societies and personal mementoes of Holocaust victims.

Allard Pierson

A theatre-history show on crossdressing, the Slingelandt theatre and revue star Louisette, exploring how costume and staging reshape identity.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Kexin Hao turns the corridor around the historic staircase into a body, with large anatomical drawings that read institutions as organisms, from lungs to kidney stones.

Rijksmuseum

Over 100 drawings from European and American collections chart the revolution in drawing around 1600 led by Hendrick Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn II and Abraham Bloemaert.

Rembrandt House Museum

Five hands-on 'masterclasses' in Rembrandt's technique and tactics, with his etchings, paintings and a drawing, ending in a slow-looking room with The Anatomy Lesson of Jan Deijman.

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

A spring 2027 exhibition of the German photographer August Sander, known for his portraits of Weimar-era society; the museum will publish full details later.

Van Gogh Museum

The first ever retrospective of French artist Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883), gathering her delicate paintings and pastels from international museums and private collections.

Allard Pierson

How Dutch theatre normalised blackface, from medieval 'Moors' and 1840s minstrel shows to Zwarte Piet, told through the theatre collection with work by Kara Walker and Brian Elstak.

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

A tribute to disco's roots in Black, Latino and queer underground clubs, with tracks, videos, art, fashion and design celebrating freedom.