Exhibitions

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  Simnikiwe Buhlungu | suggestures among us (Interlude)

  2 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 Bookmarking a larger project that explores ways in which we come to know, suggestures among us (Interlude) exists as a moment compiled by ‘suggestures’, wherein inconspicuous encounters, looped socio-historical tangents, hazy familiarities and shallow depths ultimately ask, “what’s happening in a pause that we may have missed before?” Through textual... Read more

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  Pauline Curnier Jardin | Le Lente Passioni

  15 Apr - 20 May 2023 Read more

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  Anne-Lise Coste | FRONTEX FACHO MACHO MANAGEMENT

  10 Mar - 8 Apr 2023 Read more

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  Semicolons

  14 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 We are kicking off 2023 with a special film program. Semicolons is a screening program curated by Sergi Rusca that seeks to engage different artistic practices in conversation through film and video, with the participation of 13 artists––both represented and guest artists. Every week, two films have been paired following... Read more

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  Jeremiah Day | Provisional Temple of Semi-Failed Resistance Artist Fighter Dreamers

  12 Oct - 24 Dec 2022 In line of Jeremiah Day’s interest in affirmative political examples, his new work brings together a long-term research investigation into the life and work of Willem Arondeus, a largely forgotten figure in the history of Amsterdam. Provisional Temple Of Semi-Failed Resistance Artist Fighter Dreamers attempts to transform the gallery space... Read more

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  Klaas Kloosterber | Handen en Voeten

  2 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Let us build a game metaphor. First, an understanding of game: in a determined space and time, a social system in which to explore a distinctive perspective on the relationship between rules and constraints. Game metaphors are appealing because they extend an invitation to a deeper understanding of rule-governed systems... Read more

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  Heading into the forest, never to walk back again

  An exhibition with Michelle Chang Qin and Mickey Yang, curated by Sergi Rusca 25 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 In J. G. Ballard’s novel The Crystal World (1966), doctor Edward Sanders begins a journey through a Cameroonian forest to reach a leprosy facility to pay a visit to his friends. With time, he becomes aware of a strange phenomenon occurring in the forest: the nature, animals, and even humans... Read more

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  Linus Bill + Adrien Horni | Midlife Painting

  11 May - 18 Jun 2022 There is always more than meets the eye in the work of the artist duo Linus Bill + Adrien Horni (both b. 1982, CH). What is seemingly a conventionally looking abstract painting bears extensive processes of transformation, revaluation, and experimentation that subvert painting itself. Despite their appearance, it could be... Read more

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  Mauricio Limón de León | Les petits pois sont verts... Les petits poissons rouges...

  26 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 An unassuming stained-glass window in Adriana González Hulshof’s house in Amsterdam was the starting point for the collection of haute couture dresses designed by Mauricio Limón and Adriana González Hulshof realized by Atelier Caraco in Paris. Westerstraat 87 is one in a growing collection of flimsy open edition dresses, each... Read more

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  For every word an emergence of entropy and a call for reconstruction

  12 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 A group show with Anne-Lise Coste, Daniele Formica, Dora García, and Klaas Kloosterboer Curated by Sergi Rusca This exhibition is articulated as an ontological opening, [1] that is, a proposal where artistic practices enact a multiplicity of aesthetic and conceptual overlaps around language. The displayed artworks allow for a conversation... Read more

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  Lara Almarcegui | Stopped Quarry

  27 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Following her extensive artistic practice around the exploration of the material aspects of land and urban space, Lara Almarcegui presents two new works around the extraction of natural resources and the physicality of the land its constant transformation and arbitration. Read more

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  Tyna Adebowale | She called me woman

  16 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Tyna Adebowale’s multidisciplinary artistic practice has a strong focus on societal processes and constructions regarding gender, queerness, ostracism, community, and identity politics. With an interest inthe gender fluidity in the African cultural and spiritual histories prior to colonisation, the artist reflects on contemporary Nigerian society and its diaspora and its... Read more

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  Uta Eisenreich | As If

  3 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Uta Eisenreich’s visual world is one with many worlds within. In her long-awaited new book AS IF and the eponymous solo show at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Uta Eisenreich explores representation and language, following her interest in perception and illusion. Her photographic still lifes bear a particular sense of logic;... Read more

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  A future unknown to me except as the whisper of a plea

  17 Jul - 28 Aug 2021 A group show with Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Anne-Lise Coste, Daniele Formica, Erin Johnson, and Maria Pask. Curated by Sergi Rusca. A future unknown to me except as the whisper of plea reflects on the confrontational duality of desire and caution in a time of coping with the impactful shifts that have... Read more

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  Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann | As if a house should be conceived for the pleasure of the eye, she says

  29 May - 10 Jul 2021 The manner in which we dwell is the manner in which we are. Where we live is not an objective, unbiased space; on the contrary, it has been constructed and designed in ways which, either consciously or unconsciously, obey specific biopolitical systems of gender and sexuality. What constructions of the... Read more

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  Daniele Formica | Boys by the Pool

  17 Apr - 22 May 2021 To swim in a pool of material belongings, plunging, drifting, whirling. The water is glistening, and so are the boys, staying afloat in the quiet streams of aquatic nostalgia. Fidgety silhouettes merge into one another, blurring the limits of their bodies. The water is inviting yet challenging, for its fluid... Read more

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  Lucile Desamory | My People (Heaps and Piles)

  6 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 Lucile Desamory presents a new solo show at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS. Following her multifaceted practice, Lucile Desamory presents a selection of sculptures, drawings, photographs, and embroidery that seek to visualize the many layers in objects and challenge their understanding as inanimate entities. Read more

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  Maria Pask | Lord Lift Me Up

  6 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Maria Pask | Lord Lift Me Up, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS Read more

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  Anne-Lise Coste | Poème, Pute, Police

  5 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Anne-Lise Coste Poème, Pute, Police Read more

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  Summer Exhibition

  27 Jun - 1 Aug 2020 A vicious cucumber, a well accessorized sausage, and a fierce woman who rises from her grave to ask for money she should have earned during her life: you can find these apparent absurdist elements in the Summer Exhibition at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS. The exhibition includes works of Kubilay Mert... Read more

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  Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz | Staying with the Trouble

  14 Mar - 20 Jun 2020 Citing the title of Donna Haraway’s last book, Boudry/Lorenz refer to the trouble of cohabitation, of “living and dying together on a damaged planet“. On this background, the exhibition brings up negotiations around the concept of the ‘human’, the question of agency, and the right to have rights. Read more

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  Klaas Kloosterboer | 2 steps 3 steps

  18 Jan - 7 Mar 2020 Ellen de Bruijne Projects is pleased to announce “2 steps 3 steps” a solo by Klaas Kloosterboer with paintings, semi-paintings and paintings in disguise. Klaas Kloosterboer is a conceptual painter whose art takes variable forms. In his practice he pursues a kind of 'expanded painting'. Kloosterboer makes pieces following instructions... Read more

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  Suchan Kinoshita | Platzhalter

  22 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 Ellen de Bruijne Projects welcomes the acclaimed time-based-installation artist Suchan Kinoshita for her 3rd solo show in the gallery space in Amsterdam. Kinoshita's art incorporates elements from her background in experimental music and theatre, including in particular the direct connection between work and audience. Kinoshita's oeuvre reveals itself in time... Read more

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  Thomas Rentmeister | Elbisbach

  7 Sep - 10 Nov 2019 Elbisbach is Thomas Rentmeister's fifth solo exhibition in the gallery since his first exhibition in 1999, the initial year of Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS. The title refers to a forgotten village in Germany, close to Leipzig where oblivion has struck, but an abandoned building with leftover goods seems to tell... Read more

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  Falke Pisano | Vondervotteimittiss (the stories we tell)

  25 May - 27 Jul 2019 Ellen de Bruijne Projects presents the completion of Vondervotteimittiss, a series of performances that Falke Pisano has been developing since 2017 and that have been presented at venues such as Stedelijk Museum, Manifesta Foundation (Amsterdam), Museum M (Leuven) and Petit Palais (Paris). Upon entrance to the gallery, it is clear... Read more

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  Kubilay Mert Ural | Cheapskate

  13 Apr - 18 May 2019 Ellen de Bruijne Projects is proud to present the first solo show in the gallery with new and recent work by Kubilay Mert Ural: Cheapskate. Kubilay Mert Ural’s work opens a window into the desires, frustrations, and ultimately into our needs of the present times, now. On an infinite and... Read more

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  Write me a letter, Works on paper

  2 Mar - 6 Apr 2019 Ellen de Bruijne Projects is pleased to present Write me a letter, works on paper. With a.o.: LINUS BILL + ADRIEN HORNI DORA GARCÍA ANNE-LISE COSTE KLAAS KLOOSTERBOER Read more

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  Susan Philipsz | War Damaged Musical Instruments

  19 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Ellen de Bruijne Projects is delighted to announce 'War Damaged Musical Instruments' by the Turner Prize-winning artist Susan Philipsz. After being shown at several major museums and exhibitions spaces, including Tate Britain, we are more then proud to present this work at our new canal house gallery space. Read more