Augusta Curiel | FOAM | 23 Might – 6 November
FOAM hosts Surinamese photographer Augusta Curiel’s first European retrospective on the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s independence – smack within the capital of its former colonial ruler, the Netherlands. Taken between 1904 and 1937, the artist’s documentary images, of which greater than 100 are on show right here, are arguably most attention-grabbing for what’s ignored of the body. Curiel, whose Paramaribo studio was widespread for commissions from Dutch authorities and their boosters, presents an illuminating but rose-tinted historic view of a ‘affluent’ colony. In a single shot from 1928, as an illustration, sharply dressed locals look out at an anchored Dutch struggle ship underneath two archly pruned timber, the work’s expert composition and distinction belying an uneasy peace.
‘1985 – 2025’ | Fons Welters | 22 Might – 25 July
Fons Welters, a stalwart of Amsterdam’s gallery scene, celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a retrospective exhibition, forward of its deliberate closure in September of this 12 months. The group present brings collectively works by artists from Fons Welters’s spectacular roster, together with Tom Claassen, Maria Roosen and Berend Strik – every of whom has been related to the gallery for greater than 30 years. Youthful members of the fold are additionally featured, together with Dutch sculptor Magali Reus and Brazilian set up artist Adriano Amaral. In a commemorative gesture, each Roosen and Evelyn Taocheng Wang contribute works that includes rubies – the symbolic jewel denoting 40 years. Roosen’s providing is the drooping glass sculpture Ruby (2025); Wang’s, the playful pastel portray Frog-Princess Flies into Diamond Ruby (2025). August will see the publication of an accompanying catalogue that rounds out Fons Welters’s spectacular run with essays, interviews and a photographic survey of exhibition highlights.
Melanie Bonajo | AKINCI | 21 Might – 12 July
Along with representing the Netherlands on the Venice Biennale in 2022, Melanie Bonajo is, in accordance with AKINCI’s web site, a ‘sexological bodyworker, somatic intercourse coach, cuddle workshop facilitator and activist’. Their plush, vibrant installations and trill identity-speak are the kind of factor to make right-wingers squirm. At AKINCI, Bonajo screens three of their current video works in site-specific viewing installations and scenography co-designed with Théo Demans, together with Schule der Liebenden (College of Lovers, 2024), proven right here for the primary time within the Netherlands. Made in collaboration with cognitively disabled performers, the work is a cheerful, pseudo sex-education movie – the type Bonajo needs existed. At one juncture, a person clothed in cut-up stuffed animals asks, ‘Who is aware of what a clitoris is?’ Even when Bonajo’s work won’t be your queer cup of tea, it’s delightfully provocative both approach.
Arturo Kameya | GRIMM | 22 Might – 19 July
At GRIMM Gallery, Arturo Kameya’s muted work provide an intriguing sojourn via the mundane but treasured ephemera of his childhood in Peru. The 12 works on show within the gallery’s grand, canal-house area splice pop-visual photographs resembling Coca-Cola adverts, soccer jerseys and the Pope. These works discover their most intriguing kind within the situations the place Kemeya has carved his picket canvases into distinctive sculptural objects, as in Torino de Talara (2025). A current graduate of town’s Rijksakademie, whose open studios are additionally to not be missed throughout Amsterdam Artwork Week, Kameya cites Édouard Glissant’s writings on postcolonial identification as inspiration within the exhibition literature. In these work, traces of Kameya’s personal identification, like metaphorical islands, disappear into the ocean of globalism that’s his life.
Pamela Rosenkranz | Stedelijk Museum | 21 Might – 24 August
A perverse, immersive wonderland awaits on the Stedelijk, the place Pamela Rosenkranz opens her first solo exhibition within the Netherlands. It incorporates hits, together with a reinstallation of the fleshy liquid pool Our Product (2015), initially unveiled within the Swiss Pavilion on the Venice Biennale, and her assortment of skin-toned, silicone-filled water bottles, ‘Agency Being’ (2009–ongoing), that also have the capability to disturb. The museum locations one in every of Yves Klein’s ‘Blue Monochrome’ work from its assortment (L’accord bleu (RE 10), 1960) alongside a number of of Rosenkranz’s personal daring blue sequence (‘As a result of they tried to bore holes in my biggest and most stunning work’, 2012, and ‘Alien Blue Home windows’, 2017-present) to exhibit what the exhibition literature refers to as her ‘biologically knowledgeable strategy to color’s religious energy’. Positive to be Instagrammed.
‘OFFSPRING 2025’ | De Ateliers | 15 Might – 1 June
De Ateliers, one in every of Amsterdam’s esteemed postgraduate residency packages, hosts ‘OFFSPRING 2025’. Curated by Eliel Jones of KANAL–Centre Pompidou, this two-week open-studio occasion options particular person and collective works by the resident artists: Lizzy Deacon, Greta Eimulytė, Flora Fritz, Levi van Gelder, Lorian Gwynn, Swan Lee, Ruoru Mou, Tumelo Mtimkhulu, Sofía Salazar Rosales and Finn Theuws. Fittingly subtitled ‘enter via the again door’, the exhibition begins within the former caretaker’s home on the rear of the constructing earlier than unravelling throughout the cavernous interiors of the 1874 former house of the Rijksakademie.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | EYE Filmmuseum | 18 January – 1 June
An amazing of up to date Turkish cinema, Nuri Bilge Ceylan will get his due on this breathtaking survey on the EYE Filmmuseum. The exhibition’s star is his ‘Turkey Cinemascope’ picture sequence (2003–12) depicting lonely Anatolian villages and Istanbul avenue scenes. Printed within the extraordinarily broad CinemaScope format, the 16 images on show really feel like stills from misplaced reels. Right here, they’re proven collectively for the primary time with excerpts from seven of Ceylan’s movies. With on a regular basis topics dotting stark and snowy landscapes, lots of the compositions really feel like modern-day equivalents to Pieter Bruegel’s Sixteenth-century canvases – wealthy with social commentary a few nation in pressure.
Most important picture: Augusta Curiel, Werklozendemonstratie in Paramaribo in 1931 naar aanleiding van de economische disaster (Unemployed demonstration in Paramaribo in 1931 in response to the financial disaster), 1931, {photograph}. Courtesy: Rijksmuseum Assortment, Amsterdam
