Annual program 2024
News — Sep 10, 2023
We are happy to share our annual program 2024!
ELLEN GALLAGHER – ALL OF NO MAN’S LAND IS OURS
December 2, 2023 – March 10, 2024
The Stedelijk Museum presents a new exhibition by Rotterdam-based American artist Ellen Gallagher (1965, Providence, Rhode Island, US). It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Amsterdam. The installation reflects the diversity of Gallagher’s artistic practice in which painting, cut and carved rubber, crumpled notebook papers and metal beat to airy thinnesses intertwine in a dynamic relationship. Gallagher transforms the historic building’s IMC Gallery (also known as the ‘Hall of Honor’, where all routes in the museum converge) into a consideration of a futurity that has been with us all along.
Curated by Vincent van Velsen, in close collaboration with the artist. Sponsored by ABN AMRO.
COSMISM: VASILY CHEKRYGIN AND OTHERS
January 13 – March 3, 2024
Vasily Chekrygin (1897–1922) was, like several of his contemporaries, a fervid adherent of Cosmism, a religious philosophical tradition that believed humanity’s salvation lay in overcoming death. Advances in science and technology would make the resurrection of the dead and immortal life a reality. Since this would result in overpopulation, conquering other planets became imperative to rehouse deceased generations. The exhibition highlights how artists envisioned this utopian/dystopian phase in the evolution of humanity. A selection of drawings and paintings from the Khardzhiev collection will be complemented by recently acquired works by Ukrainian Cosmist Fedir Tetyanych (1942–2007). Featuring works by Vasily Chekrygin, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Elena Guro, Gustav Klutsis, Ivan Leonidov, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich and Mikhail Matyushin. During the exhibition, Buro Stedelijk will host a programme of films, lectures and performances to delve into Russian Cosmism from multiple perspectives on space, science fiction, immortality, and infinity.
This presentation is organised on the occasion of the biennial Khardzhiev-conference on March 1 and 2, 2024. Curated by Robbie Schweiger and Frank van Lamoen.
MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
March 16 – July 14, 2024
This exhibition represents the first major solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramović (1946, Belgrade, Serbia), pioneer of performance art and former resident of Amsterdam. In a career that spans five decades, the artist has propelled performance from its experimental beginnings into the mainstream. In this retrospective, Abramović’s entire oeuvre is reviewed and put into contemporary context—from her early works made in the 1970s in Belgrade and Amsterdam, to the revolutionary works she created together with her longtime partner Ulay through the 1980s, up to and including works from her renewed solo practice, which is still active today. Famous for works such as The Artist is Present (2010), Abramović’s solo practice beckons audience interaction, and engages with spirituality, the natural environment, and the transience of the body. An early proponent of the use of the live body, Abramović has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance, while also expanding her practice to embrace collective experience, whether through participatory works or founding the performance art training initiative, the Marina Abramović Institute.
The exhibition Marina Abramović is organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The exhibition is generously supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, the benefactors of the Marina Abramović Circle and the benefactors of the Stedelijk Museum Fonds, and sponsored by ABN AMRO.
WILHELM SASNAL
March 30 – September 1, 2024
In this exhibition Wilhelm Sasnal (1972, Tarnów, Poland) takes cues from his new film project based on Swiss writer Robert Walser’s novel The Assistant (1908), in which Joseph Marti, assistant to the engineer-inventor Carl Tobler, becomes entangled in his bizarre world. In Sasnal’s rendering of the novel, Marti’s adventures become a parable of a contemporary life, in which flexibility became a new norm. The show will feature a selection of paintings, drawings, texts, and film excerpts. Some of Sasnal’s paintings for the film, which interpret iconic modern masterpieces and lesser-known works, will be repainted for the exhibition. Additionally, new paintings will be created based on existing historical artworks, along with some of Sasnal’s recent works from 2021–2023.
The show is curated by Adam Szymczyk, Curator-at-large at the Stedelijk.
ANA LUPAS
May 9 – September 15, 2024
The first overview of Ana Lupas’ oeuvre (1940, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) spans over 70 years. Despite being an Eastern European leading female artist, Lupas is relatively unknown to the general public in the Netherlands. In the 1960s, she began as an innovator in textile art, later shifting her focus to happenings and monumental installations. Her work is conceptual, spiritual and radical, representing a form of resistance against the dictatorship in Romania during that era. The exhibition will showcase some of her most notable installations, including The Solemn Process Humid Installation, and Coats to Borrow— an installation in which the actions of a group of people take centre stage.
The exhibition is being developed by the Stedelijk in close collaboration with the artist and is a coproduction with Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. Curated for the Stedelijk by Leontine Coelewij.
UNRAVEL
September 14, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Contemporary artists explore the transformative and subversive potential of textiles through stitching, weaving, braiding, and knotting. They communicate multi-layered stories about lived experience, addressing gender, colonialism, the movement and displacement of people, ancient forms of knowledge, and more. From intimate hand-crafted works to large-scale sculptural installations: all works are radical in their form and politics, revealing how textiles have been forces of resistance and repair. Unravel brings together over 100 artworks of international practitioners, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Mounira Al Sohl, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Louise Bourgeois, Feliciano Centurión, Cian Dayrit, Tracey Emin, Quiltmakers of the Gee’s Bend (Loretta Pettway), Jeffrey Gibson, Antonio Jose Guzman and Iva Jankovic, Sheila Hicks, Teresa Margolles, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Faith Ringgold, Lenore Tawney, and Billie Zangewa.
This exhibition is co-curated by Amanda Pinatih for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith for the Barbican, London.
stanley brouwn
June 1 – September 1, 2024
This exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum and curated by Ann Goldstein and Jordan Carter. The curator for the Stedelijk Museum is Leontine Coelewij.
MIRIAM CAHN – READING DUST
October 5, 2024 – January 26, 2025
The work of Miriam Cahn (1949, Basel, Switzerland) is rooted in feminist thinking and activism. Her artistic breakthrough was through performative drawing she practiced in the early 1980s. Cahn’s oeuvre, in the meantime, encompasses writing, painting, sculpture, found images, photography, and film. Responding affectively to the past and present genocidal wars, destruction of human habitat and displacement of entire populations, Cahn depicts bodies in extreme states; torn by violence, forced into exile, guided by hope, experiencing pain—and open to pleasure. Miriam Cahn has exhibited worldwide, including her much-discussed contributions at documenta 14 (2017), the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and a solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2023). The Stedelijk has recently acquired two paintings and will now present the artist’s first substantial exhibition in the Netherlands.
PROPOSALS FOR THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
October 26, 2024 – March, 2025
Every two years, the Stedelijk organizes a large group exhibition by means of an open call aimed at artists or designers who live and work in the Netherlands. The guiding principle is always a discipline or a topical theme. This time, the museum’s new direction in photography is the starting point of the exhibition, presenting works that are on the cutting edge of visual art and photography. A jury will select the participants, who usually create new work for the exhibition. Part of the work shown will be purchased for the museum collection.
Curated by Vincent van Velsen. The Proposals for Municipal Art Acquisitions are financially supported by the City of Amsterdam
COLLECTION
ongoing
The Stedelijk aims to keep on telling new stories with its renowned collection. The recently renewed collection presentation therefore combines well-known and new public favourites, in an attractive mix of visual art and design. The exhibition occupies no less than three wings in the historic building: Yesterday Today, with the collection before 1950, Everyday, Someday and Other Stories, the collection between 1950 and 1980 and Tomorrow is a Different Day, the collection from 1980 to the present.
POST/NO/BILLS
ongoing
In the POST/NO/BILLS series, the Stedelijk shows contemporary graphic design, which often responds to developments in society and the field. The designers are given a large stage, namely the enormous walls around the museum’s iconic staircase. Previously, visitors could enjoy the work of Kristyan Sarkis, Sophie Douala, Now You See Me Moria and Metro54. The current presentation is by Hezin O.
Curated by Thomas Castro.
