Amsterdam Fall Art Guide
Summer break is officially over, the tans are fading, the spritzes are gone, and the galleries are back in full swing. With the official start of the new season, I’ve curated a list of must-see exhibitions in Amsterdam this Fall.
OUT OF TIME | GROUBNOUV FILIPP & RODRIGO SANDOVAL
JOSILDA DA CONCEICAO GALLERY
In Out of Time, Rodrigo Red Sandoval and Groubnov explore the liminal space where memory intersects with infrastructure. Their works, both poetic and procedural, map the unconscious systems that tether us to place: water, gas, electricity, internet. These invisible networks surface as echoes of our fears, desires, and bodily urgencies. Here, the built environment becomes a soft architecture of emotion and latency. Viewers enter a landscape where the past hums quietly beneath the surface, where forgetting is a brief rupture, a portal. This exhibition invites us to emerge, momentarily, outside chronology, into a space where time is not linear but layered, unstable, alive.
FIONA LUTJENHUIS, MAI VAN OERS + ALEXXX
GALERIE FLEUR & WOUTER
The first exhibition in their newly renovated permanent gallery space presents the work of three artists. Fiona Lutjenhuis shows two folding screens, work on textile and a series of drawings, among other things. Mai van Oers and Alexxx show a joint project: wallpaper they created for the presentation of No Limits! Art Castle at Centraal Museum Utrecht.
YERE MI STEN | AUGUSTA CURIEL
FOAM
With a large record camera on a wooden tripod, Augusta Curiel took thousands of photos between 1904 and 1937 in her studio in Paramaribo and on location, assisted by her sister Anna. Celebrated for her strong sense of composition and technical expertise, Curiel was frequently commissioned to capture the people and daily life of Suriname. From special occasions and official events to religious missions, work on plantations, cityscapes, inland expeditions and industrial infrastructures. The exhibition brings together vintage prints, modern reproductions, postcards and photo albums from various private lenders and museum collections in the Netherlands.
SKIN TO SKIN | SANDRA MUJINGA
STEDELIJK MUSEUM
Sandra Mujinga presents her most ambitious work to date: Skin to Skin. The Norwegian artist transforms the basement space of the Stedelijk Museum into a mysterious twilight zone. Sound, light, mirrors and sculptures evoke an extraterrestrial world in which 55 identical figures populate the space. By repeating these figures endlessly, Mujinga investigates repetition as a strategy for camouflage.
LOS FRAGMENTOS QUE CURAN | ROJONEGRO
NO MAN’S ART GALLERY
No Man’s Art Gallery presents Los fragmentos que curan, the first solo exhibition of RojoNegro, the artist duo composed of María Sosa and Noé Martínez, with the gallery. Revolving around the performance of rituals in which bodily movement enters into dialogue with the historical energies of colonial documents and activates material elements, RojoNegro usher in a new chapter of their practice, using it as a means for spiritual communication and healing.
MEMENTO | PHOTOGRAPHY INTERUPTED
HUIS MARSEILLE
In 2025 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography will be 25 years old. To celebrate this, from 28 June till 12 October 2025 the museum will hold the exhibition Memento. Photography, interrupted, in both of its 17th-century buildings on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Displaying the works in both an unconventional and monumental way, Huis Marseille is presenting over a hundred contemporary photographic highlights from its rich collection, offering insight into a quarter-century of collection policy. The exhibition shows that the collection has not only closely reflected developments in photography and visual culture, but also developments in society itself, particularly over the last five years.
CEASELESS ARRANGER | ANTHONY CUDAHY
GRIMM GALLERY
Cudahy weaves imagery culled from photo archives, art history, film stills, hagiographic icons and personal photographs to explore themes of queer identity and tenderness. His evocative figurative paintings and drawings are informed by extensive historical research. They negotiate feelings of loneliness, isolation, desire, and safety through the lens of the artist’s own autobiographical narratives and crafted mythologies.
QUIET LONGING | HELENA VAN DER KRAAN
MADÉ VAN KRIMPEN GALLERY
Quiet Longing brings together a selection of Helena Van Der Kraan’s photographs that embody this stillness and subtle desire. Images where ordinary things hold a sense of waiting, tenderness, and time passing.Themes of love, friendship, and memory run throughout her work. With a refined sense of light, texture, and color, she created images that appear effortless yet resonate deeply.
VIGOR | BRITTE KOOLEN
GALERIE BART
Galerie Bart presents Britte Koolen’s solo exhibition Vigor, in which she invites us into her unique visual language of ceramic sculptures. A subtle contrast emerges: the use of materials and colours lends the sleek, geometric forms an unexpected vulnerability. In this way, Britte creates a delicate tension between strength (“Vigor” in Portuguese) and fragility. With the minimalist sculptures in Vigor, Britte seeks balance, tranquillity, and depth – and invites the viewer to do the same. The focus is on the smallest details – those that are normally overlooked.
THE DEVIL HAS ALL THE BEST TIMES | TOM SOLTY
ENARI GALLERY
Enari presents Tom Solty’s first solo exhibition in the gallery space, titled The Devil has all the best times. This new body of work, created between May and August 2025, arises from a recurring rhythm of oscillation: moments of disorder followed by moments of calm. This cadence mirrors the wider condition of our time, a “new age” shaped as much by natural chaos as by human intervention. To reflect on the world today is to acknowledge the consequences of our mere existence, of breathing the very air we have already altered. Yet these paintings are not solely about sadness, guilt, or conflict. They also serve as reminders of the value of simplicity, though simplicity itself has become elusive, contingent on where and how one is born into the world.
OCCUPIED CITY | STEVE MCQUEEN
RIJKSMUSEUM
From September 11, the facade on Museumplein will turn into a large film canvas for 137 days. The film Occupied City (Still) is shown there day and night without sound on the facade at Museumplein. In the museum's auditorium, the film is screened on special screening days with sound and a voice-over that reveals the human stories and tragedies. At first glance you don't see it, but the core of the film is the occupation of Amsterdam during the Second World War (1940-1945). The film moves along more than 2,000 places where this history is still present below the surface, from well-known locations to far corners of the city.
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO’S THE DARKEST OF THEM ALL? | TIEMAR TEGENE
AKINCI GALLERY
AKINCI presents the first solo exhibition by Ethiopian experimental printmaker Tiemar Tegene (1993, Addis Ababa). Entitled Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Darkest Of Them All?, the exhibition presents recently created monoprints which, contrary to what the definition of a print suggests, are all unique, multi-layered works. This exhibition not only provides insight into the experimental nature of Tegene’s work through her reinvention of the technique, but also tells personal and universal stories of identity and memory.
WHAT REMAINS | BOHYEON HWANG & SANGHYUK KIM
ENSEOUL GALLERY
Enseoul presents What Remains, a duo exhibition of new works by Bohyeon Hwang and Sanghyuk Kim. The exhibition explores incompleteness and asks whether wholeness, as we imagine it, exists at all. Both artists begin from the idea that essence is found not in perfection but in fracture, absence, and transformation. By stripping away ideals projected onto object and figure, Hwang and Kim examine what endures once completeness is dismantled.
FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS UNSEEN
RON MANDOS GALLERY
Galerie Ron Mandos presents Four Photographers Unseen, a group exhibition featuring Mayte Breed, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Kevin Osepa, and Gilleam Trapenberg.