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City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

As the blue-skied spring starts to warm things up, Amsterdam’s galleries are starting to buzz with creativity and inspiration for the new year. Warm up from the chilly weather by diving into Art Fix’s guide to the season’s must-see shows — the perfect way to enjoy all the artistic richness the Dutch capital has to offer in 2025.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

First order of business: this Art Fix map will save you time when you’re busy gallery-hopping along the canals of Amsterdam. Save it on your phone in the Google Maps app, and share with fellow art-loving friends.

MUSEUM HEADLINERS

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Carrie Mae Weems | Rijksmuseum

You know her from her iconic Kitchen Table series – American mixed media artist Carrie Mae Weems is coming to the Rijksmuseum! This exhibition spotlights her 2021 photographic series, ‘Painting the Town’, depicting activism and censorship during the Black Lives Matter protests.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Anselm Kiefer | Van Gogh Museum & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Anselm Kiefer takes over Amsterdam in 2025 with a spectacular double feature at the Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum. Expect an exciting dialogue between Kiefer’s monumental works and Van Gogh’s intense emotions, alongside a deep dive into Kiefer’s bold explorations of history and memory at the Stedelijk.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Circulate: Photography Beyond Frames | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

As part of its annual tradition of exhibiting the year’s proposals for the Stedelijk Museum collection, this year’s theme is the use of photography beyond convention.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Andrés Reisinger | Moco Museum

Crossing from digital art into immersive experiences, this exhibition spotlights Argentine Andrés Reisinger’s most mind-bending installations and pretty-in-pink creations.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Saul Leiter | Foam

  • Until 20 Apr ‘25
  • Keizersgracht 609
  • foam.org

If you’ve heard of the ‘New York School’ of photography, Saul Leiter’s name won’t be new to you – hailed as the father of street photography, his images are a testament to the abstraction of ordinary life.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

‘Still Processing’ | NXT Museum

Still Processing at Nxt Museum delves into the digital age’s flood of information and emotion, showcasing cutting-edge installations by international artists that explore how we process, store, and experience data in a rapidly evolving world.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Kim Sooja | Oude Kerk

Okay, so it’s a little further away for now – but mark your calendars! Kim Sooja is set to transform the Oude Kerk into a meditation on ‘bottari’ – bundles of beautiful textiles knotted to transport belongings – and their connection to migration and displacement.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

New Dutch Horizons | Schiphol Airport

Schiphol’s Lounge 1 is getting a makeover, and in the meantime, travellers can enjoy New Dutch Horizons – a 200-meter-long art gallery showcasing 19 Dutch artists. Featuring photos, paintings, video art, and collages, the artwork explores the beauty of the land and sky, with the horizon at its heart. Featuring works by Art Fix faves Esther Tielemans, Gilleam Trapenberg, Jennifer Tee, Satijn Panyigay and many more. Pause, explore, and get inspired on your journey.

GALLERY SHOWS

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Anselm Reyle | Galerie Ron Mandos

Anselm Reyle’s ‘Babylon Fading’ reimagines modernist abstraction through industrial, urban aesthetics, offering a fresh perspective on the use of material, colour and light.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Angela Heisch | GRIMM Gallery

Angela Heisch’s luminous paintings are infused with energy and tension, capturing moments of balance and stillness inspired by natural patterns and the cosmos.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Echoes from Moengo | Kersgallery

The upcoming exhibition Echoes From Moengo showcases the works of Karen Sargsyan, Marcel Pinas, and Iris Bouwmeester, drawing inspiration from the rich cultural heritage and transformation of Moengo, a small town in Suriname. Once a thriving hub for bauxite mining, Moengo has become a center for arts and culture, celebrating the history and identity of the Maroon communities through initiatives like those of Marcel Pinas.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Marchand & Meffre | Galerie Fontana

What would the City of Light look like if it had fallen into disrepair and decrepitude? Building from their seminal photoseries ‘The Ruins of Detroit’, French photography duo Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre reimagine a post-apocalyptic version of Paris.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

‘A Walk in the Park with James Christie’ | Mulan Go x Christie’s Amsterdam

Looking out onto the perfect view of Amsterdam’s iconic Vondelpark, this exhibition brings together three international contemporary artists whose works explore the relationship between people and landscapes.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Pim Blokker | Galerie Stigter Van Doesburg

Pim Blokker’s paintings exude a breezy openness, where relaxed brushstrokes channel 50s optimism while remixing iconic imagery of the 80s.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Evelyn Taocheng Wang | Galerie Fons Welters

The beautiful centerpiece of Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s solo exhibition, Spreading Elegance (2019), is an installation exploring personal interpretations of elegance. It is presented alongside a series of banners and framed works on paper.⁠

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Laurence Aëgerter | Bildhalle

Based between Marseille and Amsterdam, Laurence Aëgerter is known for her re-use of traditional motifs into completely new images across various mediums – including tapestry, photography, and installation.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Yael Bartana | Annet Gelink Gallery

Following her success with the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024, Yael Bartana returns to Annet Gelink for her seventh solo exhibition at the gallery, exploring collective identity and imagined communities.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Anya Janssen | TORCH Gallery

Dutch artist Anya Janssen uses painting as a medium in which to explore processes of grief, and how they play on memory and the passing of time.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Milah van Zuilen  | Galerie Caroline O’Breen

Milah van Zuilen’s work delves into the intricacies of human relationships, presenting a series of intimate portraits that capture the subtle nuances of emotion and connection.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Hylton Nel | STEVENSON

South African Hylton Nel is a potter, but more broadly, a storyteller – these ceramics contain within entire worlds within them with tales to be told through intricate images and inscriptions.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Julius Vermeulen | EENWERK

In honor of the late gallerist’s life, ‘I’m Still Here’ is a poignant reflection on the work of EENWERK founder, Julius Vermeulen.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Beyond These Walls | AkzoNobel Art Foundation

An exciting collection exhibition of boundary-breaking artworks that reveal endless possibilities.

OUTSIDE AMSTERDAM

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Joana Schneider | Groninger Museum

All the way in the North of the Netherlands, textile artist Joana Schneider – trailblazer of contemporary feminist art – exhibits her reflections on standards of beauty, transformation and metamorphosis.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Lara Schnitger | Kranenburgh

Stitch Witch is a vibrant celebration of bold femininity, where textiles, sculptures, and cheeky slogans come together in perfect harmony. It’s like stepping into a playful, feminist wonderland that dares you to think and laugh at the same time!

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Mona Hatoum | Kunsthal Kade

British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s works confront nebulous topics such as cultural identity, displacement and diaspora – her solo exhibition at Kunsthal Kade will be the first retrospective of her career in the Netherlands.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Cosmos | Teylers Museum

At the oldest museum in the Netherlands, treasured works of art from past and present collide in a unique exploration of astronomy, space, and the celestial. Including artworks by artists such as Yinka Shonibare, Trevor Paglen, and Katie Paterson, this fascinating show is one you won’t want to miss.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Anna Aagaard Jensen | Centraal Museum

Danish artist Anna Aagaard Jensen’s weird and wonderful sculptures take on feminine forms that seem to command your attention in the gallery space.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Michael Johansson | Galerie Ramakers

‘Potato Tomato’ is a dialogue between artists Joncquil and Michael Johansson, where they find unexpected rhythms hidden in the ordinary; moments when the regular becomes irregular.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Simone Post | Voorlinden Museum

  • 5 Apr – 31 Aug ’25
  • Buurtweg 90, 2244 AG Wassenaar
  • voorlinden.nl

Have a sweet tooth? Your first stop this spring needs to be Voorlinden – where Simone Post is meticulously recreating her childhood home entirely from actual candy.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

‘The Life of Things’ | Voorlinden Museum

This year’s collection presentation, ‘The Life of Things’, explores the hidden stories, memories, and meanings embedded in everyday objects through sculptures, installations, and readymades.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

‘Grand Dessert’ | Kunstmuseum Den Haag

  • Until 6 Apr ’25
  • Stadhouderslaan 43, 2517 HV Den Haag
  • kunstmuseum.nl

Indulge your sweet tooth at Kunstmuseum Den Haag’s “Grand Dessert” exhibition, where centuries of European dessert history come alive through art, artifacts, and mouthwatering stories curated by TV personality Janny van der Heijden.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Ana Oosting | Museum Beelden aan Zee

Dive into Ana Oosting’s floating, folded sculptures that mimic the North Sea’s rhythms, inviting you to experience the world through a non-human lens.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Haegue Yang | Kunsthal Rotterdam

  • 1 Mar – 31 Aug ‘25
  • Westzeedijk 341, 3015 AA Rotterdam
  • kunsthal.nl

Haegue Yang is a South Korean artist who commutes between Seoul and Berlin – a journey which has undoubtedly inspired her artworks that comment on diasporic identity and migration. This will be the first major retrospective of Yang’s work in the Netherlands, showcasing over 30 years’ worth of work.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Beatriz González | De Pont

  • Until 9 March ’25
  • Wilhelminapark 1, Tilburg
  • depont.nl

The Colombian Beatriz González is a legend in South American art. War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture showcases her iconic career and reveals how she uses figures and gestures to express powerful emotions.

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Bonnefanten Museum | Marlies & Jo Eyck Collection

In collaboration with the estate of Kasteel Wijlre, Bonnefanten is showcasing its acquisitions from the most important private collection of Limburg – an outstanding Gesamtkunstwerk of architecture, nature, and contemporary art.

EAT AND DRINK IN AMSTERDAM

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Five Ways Coffee Roasters

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Café R. de Rosa

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25

Libertine Petit Café

City Guide Amsterdam – Spring ’25
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