CURRENT EXHIBITS [60]

De snelste weg van A naar B is een rechte lijn. Dat geldt zeker voor het traject tussen de Haarlemmerpoort in Amsterdam en de Amsterdamse Poort in Haarlem. De veelheid aan sferen langs deze fascinerende, kaarsrechte route van nog geen twintig kilometer, wordt met foto’s, films, maquettes en kaartmateriaal geschetst in de ARCAM-expositie ‘Van Poort tot Poort’. Met deze presentatie en een reeks v...   [more]

In November, 1948, the Dane Asger Jorn, Belgians Joseph Noiret and Christian Dotremont, and the Dutchmen Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant all signed a declaration they had themselves composed. With it, the establishment of Cobra became reality. The six artists spoke out against an intellectual approach in their new practice of art and on behalf of a simple principle of ‘Doing’. ‘Spontane...   [more]

SNAKE is the biggest solo exhibition to date by the Dutch/Surinamese artist Michael Tedja (1971). In SNAKE, Tedja transports us to a unique universe of pioneering painting. His expressive style reveals itself in many forms of imagery, associations, provocative texts and layers, often derived from popular culture. The approximately 350 selected works, some of them intimately small and others monum...   [more]

Opening: February 1st   5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Met de tentoonstelling ‘Armando vs Armando’ laat het Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst recent werk van Armando (1929) zien. In zijn atelier, gevestigd in een oude kazerne in Postdam, net buiten Berlijn, werkt de inmiddels 83-jarige kunstenaar nog iedere dag aan zijn indringende doeken. Met de bezetenheid en de bevlogenheid van een schilder die leeft voor zijn kunst. De tentoonstelling Armando v/s Arman...   [more]

18 April, 1936 Business rests for the day. The Tobacco Baron sits in his parlour. [A knock at the door] The Art Collector has come to call. They swiftly move to the dining room. Not much is said. Both know, economic matters of grave impor- tance will have to be discussed. But this can wait until after food has been served. [Another knock] The Visitor arrives late. Very late. By the time she i...   [more]

Opening: April 19th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

From 9 March until 26 May 2013 De Hallen Haarlem presents a solo exhibition by Keith Edmier. This will be the American sculptor’s first museum exhibition in the Netherlands, providing an overview of his sculptures, photographs and drawings from the mid 1980’s onwards. It will be the first time that these works, primarily from Dutch collections, will be shown together next to specially commissi...   [more]

Opening: March 9th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Within the scope of The Netherlands-Russia Year 2013 De Hallen Haarlem is presenting a group exhibition of Russian video art, titled The voice and the chorus. All the works are on loan from the collection of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) in Moscow. This institute for contemporary art is one of the most important centres for the research and presentation of contemporary art in Russia....   [more]

Opening: March 9th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This summer De Hallen Haarlem is staging a major retrospective of modern and contemporary Dutch portraiture from the past hundred years. Featuring the work of Isaac Israels, Carel Willink, Paul Citroen, Jan Toorop, Jan Sluijters, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas and many others - paintings and sculpture, video art and photography - it is a unique and varied overview. The exhibition is being staged to...   [more]

Opening: May 8th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Asmat in the Indonesian part of New Guinea (previously Dutch New Guinea) is a largely impassable mangrove swamp, roughly the same size as The Netherlands. The native inhabitants still live here, isolated from the rest of the world. Visual artist Roy Villevoye and photographer Koos Breukel visited the small hamlet of Tí together at the end of 2011. This small village is situated on the upper re...   [more]

Opening: April 12th   10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Los Angeles - the bright sun fades and twilight transforms the city into a bewitching wonderland, but its charm can disappear in an instant. In her project Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before, Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens captures the ambivalent appeal of one of the world's greatest cities: Los Angeles. Nouwens depicts the lively DIY subculture of the city she lives in. Her pers...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

Foam presents the first retrospective exhibition of English photographer Stephen Gill (Bristol, 1971). The Best Before End exhibition comprises a large number of series that Gill has made over the past fourteen years in and around the London Hackney district, as well as recent work being shown for the first time at Foam. The series in the exhibition all endeavour to reflect and respond to various asp...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

This spring Foam 3h will premiere Memento, the latest series by Lara Dhondt. In her work, Dhondt documents forgotten and found objects, materials and locations in the urban landscape. She does this in an effort to give marginal places a human dimension or dignity. Dhondt's interventions seem casual and are often nearly invisible. If one looks very closely, however, the care and precision with which t...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   10:00 AM - 9:00 PM

At the end of March, &Foam - Foam's shop annex project space in the Vijzelstraat - will acquire a photo book theme for the next two months. Both Dutch photography and work by Dutch graphic designers have a good international reputation - so it's no surprise that many of the world's best photography books come from the Netherlands. Books &Foam will be placing a large selection of these books in the spotlig...   [more]

Opening: May 10th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

In Frans Hals Year 2013, key works by the artist will be shown amidst paintings by such famous predecessors as Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens in Frans Hals: Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian. This extraordinary confrontation of old masters is essential to the understanding of seventeenth-century art. Famous painters often produced their works in response to one another, s...   [more]

Opening: March 23rd   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Deze kunstenaars maken deel uit van “Atelje Inuti2” dat is gevestigd in Stockholm en is toegelegd op de persoonlijke en creative ontwikkeling van mensen met autisme. Een uitgangspunt voor de expositie “A room of our own” is de wens om een groot werk te vervaardigen met het accent op textiel. De kunstenaars willen met hun werk de bezoekers een ontmoetingsplaats bieden waar ze kunnen zijn,...   [more]

Opening: April 19th   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM