Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tomorrow is a Different Day: Collection 1980–Now
Everyday, Someday and Other Stories: Collection 1950–1980
Yesterday Today: Collection until 1950
The Stedelijk presents its new collection presentation of visual art and design, organized thematically and in a loose chronology, consisting of three exhibitions. All three chapters emphasize that art and design develop alongside social movements and bear multiple histories that encompass diverse perspectives. The presentation introduces familiar artworks to unfamiliar contexts, and juxtaposes these works with those that deserve rediscovery. By starting new conversations, exploring yet unexplored narratives, and telling different stories from diverse perspectives, new stories rise to the surface.
Yesterday Today, with art and design from approximately 1880 to 1950, encapsulates well-known artistic movements, such as the Amsterdam School, Functionalism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, CoBrA and the avant-garde around Kazimir Malevich and Olga Rozanova. Works from these movements engage subjects such as the rise of industrialization, the modern city and nightlife, which provide stark contrast to the poverty and ideological strife that lead to both war and subsequent resistance. The relationship between modernism and colonialism is examined, as well as several anti-colonial struggles. The presentation pays keen attention to female makers and professionals, including female collectors, curators, and critics.
With works by, amongst others, Alvar Aalto, Emmy Andriesse, Karel Appel, Max Beckmann, Else Berg, Eva Besnyö, Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Erwin Blumenfeld, Georges Braque, Marcel Breuer, Heinrich Campendonk, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Agoes Djaya, Otto Djaya, Theo van Doesburg, Max Ernst, Anneke van der Feer, Vincent van Gogh, George Grosz, Nola Hatterman, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Mikhail Matyushin, Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondriaan, Marlow Moss, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Gerrit Rietveld, Willem Sandberg, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Charley Toorop, Jan Toorop, Nicolaas Warb, Ossip Zadkine, and Piet Zwart.
Everyday, Someday and Other Stories presents the collection from 1950 until 1980, an era of new opportunities and progress, mass culture, pop culture and consumption. It shows how art gradually draws closer to everyday life as artists begin to use quotidian materials, actions and events. It is also an era of idealism, feminism, impactful protest and the critique of established order. Stories that have been historically elided enter the arts through diasporas, with works by contemporary artists, for example, from the former Dutch colony Suriname.
The presentation includes works from, amongst others, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Armand Baag, Jo Baer, Mary Bauermeister, Lynda Benglis, Lee Bontecou, stanley brouwn, John Cage, Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Christo, Wim Crouwel, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Charles & Ray Eames, Sheila Hicks, Jacqueline de Jong, Ellsworth Kelly, Corita Kent, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Verner Panton, Charlotte Perriand, Martha Rosler, Robert Ryman, Robert Saint-Brice, Cindy Sherman, Chavalit Soemprungsuk, Ettore Sottsass, Erwin de Vries, and Andy Warhol.
Tomorrow is a Different Day presents the collection from 1980 until now, highlighting works by international artists and designers who offer alternative perspectives in decades that have been marked by dramatic global transformations—globalization, migration, decolonization, digitization, the expansion of the primary and secondary markets, and the acknowledgement of various diasporas in art and society. Increasingly responsive to the world we live in, artists use their work as a force for change. By voicing resistance, challenging conventions, and sharing narratives of hope and longing, they tell meaningful stories that resonate in our lives today.
On view are works by, amongst others, Francis Alÿs, El Anatsui, Belén, Harvey Bouterse, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Danielle Dean, Marlene Dumas, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Jana Euler, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sheila Hicks, Remy Jungerman, Patricia Kaersenhout, Louise Lawler, Olia Lialina, Klara Lidèn, Jonas Lund, Steve McQueen, Yerbossin Meldibekov, Zanele Muholi, Marcel Pinas, Josephine Pryde, Walid Raad, Martine Syms, Tenant of Culture, Yulia Tsvetkova, Anna Uddenberg, and Don Yaw Kwaning.
“The new collection display of the Stedelijk is about broadening the scope and providing alternative proposals for what used to be the history of art. Different and new narratives are intertwined, juxtaposing well-known works from the famous Stedelijk collection with newly acquired and at times rediscovered works. Matisse meets Saint-Brice and Abélard Gessner, El Anatsui teams up with Sigmar Polke and Sheila Hicks, Marlene Dumas, Louise Lawler and Cosima von Bonin unexpectedly confront Jeff Koons. Questions on gender are raised, diasporic lines become visible, and engagement touches viewers to the core.” —Rein Wolfs, Director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Program highlights 2022–2024
Anne Imhof: YOUTH
October 1, 2022–January 29, 2023
Yto Barrada: Bad Color Combos
October 22, 2022–March 5, 2023
General Idea
mid March–early July 2023
Ellen Gallagher
October 2023–early February 2024
Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well
September 2023–January 2024
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
mid November 2023–February 2024
Marina Abramović: Coming and Going
Spring 2024
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is supported by: Gemeente Amsterdam; VriendenLoterij
