The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is pleased to announce its program for 2023/2024, featuring a diverse array of acclaimed international artists including Nan Goldin, Ellen Gallagher, Marina Abramović, Miriam Cahn, stanley brouwn, Ana Lupas, and many others.
Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well
October 7, 2023–January 28, 2024
Nan Goldin is one of the most influential artists of our time. Goldin documented the world of her creative, bohemian friends with raw tenderness, capturing intimacy and coupling, wild parties and the quotidian, and the struggle between autonomy and dependency. While Goldin is known as a photographer, this retrospective exhibition is the first to comprehensively present her as a filmmaker.
Prix de Rome, 2023
October 14, 2023–March 3, 2024
As finalists for the prestigious Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023, artists Ghita Skali, Jonas Staal, Josefin Arnell, and Michael Tedja will create new work to be displayed at the Stedelijk.
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief
November 3, 2023–April 1, 2024
The late Chinese American artist Martin Wong is recognized for his depictions of social, sexual, and political scenographies from late 20th-century America. This extensive European exhibition of his work explores this period of recent history through its changing urban landscapes, unfolding hidden desires, and complexities.
Ellen Gallagher: All of No Man’s Land Is Ours
December 2, 2023–March 10, 2024
The Stedelijk presents the first solo exhibition in Amsterdam by Rotterdam-based American artist Ellen Gallagher. Reflecting the diversity of Gallagher’s artistic practice which intertwines painting, cut and carved rubber, crumpled notebook papers, and beaten metal, she transforms the historic Stedelijk’s IMC Gallery of Honor into a consideration of a futurity that has been with us all along.
Cosmism: Vasily Chekrygin and Others
January 13–March 3, 2024
Small but precise presentation on Ukrainian-raised Vasily Chekrygin and many of his early 20th-century contemporaries were adherents of Cosmism, which held that advances in science would make immortality and interplanetary colonization a reality. Also featuring works by Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Elena Guro, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Matyushin, and Fedir Tetyanych.
Marina Abramović
March 16–July 14, 2024
This extensive retrospective exhibition represents the first major solo show in the Netherlands of internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramović. A pioneer of performance art, Abramović beckons audience interaction and engages with spirituality, the natural environment, and the transience of the body.
Wilhelm Sasnal
March 30–September 1, 2024
In this exhibition, Wilhelm Sasnal takes cues from his new film project based on Robert Walser’s novel The Assistant (1908), in which the protagonist’s adventures become a parable of contemporary life.
Ana Lupas
May 9–September 15, 2024
This first retrospective of Romanian artist Ana Lupas’ oeuvre spans over 70 years of work that is conceptual, spiritual, radical, and often representing a form of resistance.
Unravel
September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025
Unravel explores the transformative and subversive potential of textiles, with artworks from international contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mounira Al Solh, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Quiltmakers of the Gee’s Bend (Loretta Pettway), Sheila Hicks, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, and Faith Ringgold.
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June 1–September 1, 2024
Miriam Cahn: Reading Dust
October 5, 2024–January 26, 2025
The work of Miriam Cahn, following her breakthrough in the early 1980s with performative drawing, spans diverse mediums and responds affectively to genocide, environmental destruction, and population displacement. The Stedelijk, having recently acquired two paintings, now presents the artist’s first substantial exhibition in the Netherlands.
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Ongoing
This series gives contemporary graphic design center stage on the enormous walls around the Stedelijk’s iconic staircase. The current presentation by Kristyan Sarkis will be on view until November 5; the editions for 2024 will be announced soon.
Until November 5, 2023:
Keith Haring: Amsterdam Notes
After over thirty years, this 125-foot drawing Keith Haring made for the Stedelijk on the occasion of his first solo museum exhibition in 1986 is on view again.
