You are very welcome to attend the artist talk with Robert Zandvliet and Léon Krempel on Saturday, December 14 at 1 pm in the exhibition ‘Robert Zandvliet x Galerie Onrust, 30 Years’. León Krempel (1966) is an art historian with specialization in Dutch baroque art. He curated more than 50 exhibitions mainly in the field of contemporary art, e.g. Marlene Dumas, Rosilene Ludovico, Stan Douglas and John Gerrard. He has been director of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt since 2014. León Krempel will curate and organize a solo exhibition of Robert Zandvliets work in 2026. Over the past twenty-five years Robert Zandvliet has developed a versatile as well as consistent oeuvre. That diversity is expressed in the choice of motif, but also in the manner of painting, in the degree of figuration and abstraction, in the character of the brushstroke and in the use of or perhaps even the very avoidance of color. The coherence among the works has to do with their subject matter. From the very start Zandvliet has been fascinated with the medium of painting. As a theme found throughout his work, the desire to fathom its potential is given shape in all sorts of ways.
You are kindly invited for the opening of the exhibition Robert Zandvliet x Galerie Onrust; 30th Anniversary on Saturday November 16, 1-3 pm We have been working together for 30 years. This Exhibition celebrates that fruitful collaboration. Work from different periods of Zandvliets oeuvre show how he keeps reinventing his work while staying true to himself.
During the opening of Derk Thijs | The pond which I belong to with my imagination Sunday September 1 - 3 pm, you are invited to a walk through the exhibition with Bernice Nauta, in conversation with Derk Thijs. This walk will start at 2 pm.
For his first exhibition in the UK with GRIMM, Robert Zandvliet has developed a series of imagined landscapes that break down the archetype of his subject – a field, a moonrise, an empty road, a willow tree. These motifs echo art historical fragments, captured with an economic and gestural brushstroke that highlight the abstraction of the landscape into shape, form, light and shadow. The compositions balance the immediacy of the viewer’s experience with the slower resolution of the influence, ideas and history that underline the world of Zandvliet’s painting. His minimal approach shifts and merges foreground and background, subject and negative space, to reorient the viewer’s perception of depth and surface. Though nature acts as a catalyst for Zandvliet’s painting, the artist resists the impulse to translate the natural world through a realistic perspective. Instead, he deconstructs the elements of nature to their essence, seeking to capture what he describes as ‘an idea of landscape’. The resulting works fuse abstract and representational elements to reframe our perspective of the natural world. For Pink Moon, Zandvliet has experimented with scale and texture, adding oil to his egg tempera works to animate the surface of the painting. GRIMM represents the artist in London (UK), in close collaboration with Galerie Onrust in Amsterdam (NL). From Press Release GRIMM, London
Artists depict the spot in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh made his last painting. In 2020, Wouter van der Veen discovered the spot in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise where Vincent van Gogh produced his last painting Boomwortels. The original roots of the Robinia pseudoacacia are still present here. The owners of this heritage site granted artists access to make studies of the original roots on site. Emmy Bergsma (1960) travelled there several times to draw. Robert Zandvliet (1970) and Sabina Timmermans (1984) went there and spent two days making sketches, which they then developed further. Timmermans in large drawn detail studies. Zandvliet produced a monumental quadriptych in monotype in color. Back in 1999, Zandvliet painted a canvas based on Tree Roots. This work from the collection of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation is also shown at the exhibition. As well as a large canvas by Diana Roig (1982) that she made after Van Gogh's last painting. As an introduction to the exhibition, the museum is running the documentary 'The "Boomwortels" cold case, on Van Gogh's ultimate painting' (Arte, 2022). In addition, the photographs on the basis of which Van der Veen made his remarkable discovery will be presented.
For now the gallery is closed. For information or an appointment, please contact the gallery. Upcoming: Een en ander. A group exhibition, more information will follow soon.
On a cold and windy Sunday morning in January, around fifty people are gathered in the bright gallery building of Galerie Onrust in Amsterdam. Within the high-ceiling space of the gallery, the exhibition Spaceship Earth (Plant Your Seeds of Hope) by Emma Talbot is on display. Various works from Talbot's 21st Century Herbal series are included; large paintings on silk that float freely and lightly in the space. In addition, the walls are adorned with small framed drawings featuring cyclical line patterns and traveling figures, created on handmade paper. It also includes a sculpture resembling a branch, made from 3D-printed yarn. The exhibition is the center stage for a conversation between Emma Talbot and curators Heske ten Cate and Laurie Cluitmans, which takes place in front of one of the the big herbals by Talbot depicting the magical powers of rosemary and sage.
With works by more than 60 artists, this large-scale, interdisciplinary exhibition seeks to define the phenomenon of creativity from a broad, humanistic perspective. What are the conditions for creativity in society today? And is there reason to fear that
December 22 or Friday December 29, 10-2 pm. Ina van Zyl took part in “Saw this, Made This”, a portrait event by Soho House, Amsterdam. Ina enjoyed it so much that we decided to organise one ourselves. Let us know if you would like to have your portrait sketched by Ina van Zyl in our gallery on Friday December 22 or Friday December 29 between 10-2 pm, costs € 250. Mail us to make an appointment: info@galerieonrust.nl
You are kindly invited to attend the opening of Spaceship Earth, Plant Your Seeds of Hope on Sunday December 17. between 1-3 pm. The artist will be present.
The Jewish Cultural Quarter organises a symposium accompanying the Sol LeWitt exhibition on 10 January. This programme will be about Sol LeWitt's Jewish background and his contribution to the Dutch art scene of the 1960s-1970s.
The exhibition A Journey You Take Alone by Emma Talbot focuses on birth and death – the beginning and end of human life. Her works, whether it be her densely woven sequences of images on silk, videos or three-dimensional objects, all deal with archaic aspects of love and mourning, age and transience, as well as with themes such as gender inequality,
KISS MY SOUL - Heavenly & Earthly Love in Contemporary Art.
Cycle, Portal, Path shows that Af Klint’s exploration of the relationship between science, nature and spiritual life is as urgent now as it was in her time. The artists in the exhibition relate directly or indirectly to Af Klint and her views and supplement them with contemporary or futuristic ideas.
Opening hours during Amsterdam gallery season openingsweekend Friday September 8 : 5 - 9 pm Saturday September 9 : 12 - 6 pm As the gallery season begins on the 8-9 September, new exhibitions are popping up in galleries across the city. To help you explore all the contemporary art on display, we've put together special guided tours for you to join during the festive weekend. Let us, together with @galleryviewer, lead you through the galleries of Amsterdam, making it simple for you to enjoy the art.
Emma Talbot (* 1969 in Stourbridge, lives in London and Italy) develops a site-specific installation for the 20-metre-high Kesselhaus at KINDL, consisting of paintings on silk, sculptural ensembles, and hanging objects, in which archaic voices are brought back to life: Furies, sirens, oracles, witches, and spirits warn of the environmental and political disasters of our present. They tell a story of toxicity and healing and point to alternatives that make a positive future conceivable. Curator: Kathrin Becker
From 2022 to 2026, the Centraal Museum is taking up residence at Oud Amelisweerd. From spring to autumn for the next five years, this beautiful historic country estate will form the backdrop for solo exhibitions by renowned Dutch contemporary artists. Han Schuil's work will be on display from the 1st of September until 12th of November 2023. Han Schuil (Voorschoten, 1958) has managed to build up a consistent and, above all, idiosyncratic oeuvre over the past forty years. Schuil always works in series in which a subject (or reason) results in a series of paintings. In these, the full spectrum of a colour palette is used to create powerful images, vibrating with energy and compositional expressiveness. The confrontation with Han Schuil's works provides a renewed acquaintance with a hijacked reality, provided you are able to look 'through' the painting. After all, the magnification of the symbols used or the cutting off of the original image pushes the reality into the background and makes the power of painting claim all the attention. Those who feast their eyes on the fabulous painting technique can almost discern the dozens of layers of thinly applied paint.
Read more about Amsterdam Art Week. The information hubs, the programme folder, the opening hours, costs for participation, how to recognise the participating institutions at www.amsterdamart.com.
You are welcome to come on 6 May to see, meet, print t-shirts (bring one) and eat sunflower soup.
Opening Saturday 11. March, 4-6 pm
Benjamin Roth
Odile Maarek | Diana Quinby | Ina van Zyl
Galerie Onrust and Petra Rinck Galerie are pleased to present an artist talk with Emma Talbot on Friday, November 4 at 16.00 on the occasion of the show You Travel in Your Own Storm, in the section Monologue/Dialogue of Artissima 2022. The conversation between artist Emma Talbot and independent curator Alessandra Laitempergher will focus on the new work Talbot made for Artissima.
On 2 and 3 September GalleryViewer and Amsterdam Art host the start of the gallery season.
