Yoshiyasu Tamura in Kyas Art Salon
Art Galleries in Amsterdam
Get to know Amsterdam’s galleries. Discover Amsterdam’s vibrant art scene by exploring its diverse range of galleries. From contemporary art spaces showcasing cutting-edge works to traditional galleries highlighting classic masterpieces, Amsterdam offers a rich tapestry of artistic expression. Discover the city’s cultural gems as you navigate its dynamic gallery landscape, where creativity knows no bounds and every corner reveals a new perspective on the world of art.
Amsterdam
Nederlandse Galerie Associatie
The NGA is the point of contact for government, cultural institutions, the media, and the business community on a wide range of topics affecting gallery owners, such as subsidies, fees, legal matters, and art fairs. The Mondriaan Fund regularly consults with the NGA as a representative of contemporary art galleries.
The NGA maintains contacts with the following national and international umbrella organizations: the Mondriaan Fonds, the Federatie Cultuur, SMEs, and the Federation of European Art Galleries Association. Furthermore, the NGA is a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition, which aims to promote the reduction of galleries’ climate footprints. The NGA continues to advocate for a low VAT rate, a fair implementation of the resale right, and the continued existence of the KunstKoop (Art Purchase) scheme. The NGA office provides its members with information and serves as a point of contact for the aforementioned organizations and institutions. Because the NGA has concluded several collective agreements and contracts, it can offer its members an attractive service package.
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Annet Gellink Galerie
Annet Gelink Gallery is one of the leading contemporary art-galleries in the Netherlands. It is situated in the center of Amsterdam. Since its foundation in 2000, the gallery has been exhibiting work of groundbreaking artists, ranging from drawing, painting and photography to installation and video art. The primary aim of the gallery is to show new tendencies and individuals, focusing on both Dutch and international art.
AKINCI
AKINCI has a large focus on new developments in contemporary art and is explicitly engaged with artists who incorporate socio-political, ecological and gender questions into their work. Our programme is defined by a diversity of media as well as cross-overs between sound, architecture, painting, sculpture, film and installation. Since 1988 AKINCI’s mission is to be a career-building platform as well as a solid base for the artists we represent. The gallery grew with the artists who joined us in the founding years and carries growth further together with young generations.
Bildhalle
Bildhalle is a gallery dedicated to classic and contemporary photography and photo-based art. The gallery represents a highly curated selection of artists from around the world with a strong focus on photography of the latter 20th century and contemporary positions of the 21st century. In addition to showcasing internationally established artists, Bildhalle’s ambitious program provides space for innovative young and upcoming artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium of photography, creating a crossover to photo-based art and introducing new initiatives to the discourse.
Galerie Bart
Galerie Bart promotes and sells art from a broad range of established artists who have graduated from Dutch art academies, and offers high-quality exhibitions in an accessible environment in Amsterdam.
Galerie Fons Welters
Galerie Fons Welters is a gallery presenting exhibitions by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Located in the center of Amsterdam, the gallery presents both national and international artists. The gallery’s origin dates back to 1984 when Fons Welters opened a gallery space in the Jordaan area. Opening Galerie Fons Welters in 1989 in a former garage in Amsterdam’s Bloemstraat, the gallery has been praised for its distinctive quality of showing young, talented artists when they are still relatively unknown. Since its start, the gallery established itself nationally and internationally with its particular focus on installation art and sculptural approaches, a presence still strongly embedded in the program. Maintaining a diverse exhibition programme, Galerie Fons Welters presents solo exhibitions and group shows of gallery artists as well as special projects. The gallery has a dual exhibition format with its front and back space; often presenting two shows simultaneously.
Galerie Ron Mandos
Galerie Ron Mandos celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024. In its twenty-five years existence the gallery has earned its place of prominence within the Dutch art scene. First opening its doors in Rotterdam in 1999, it has since accrued a roster of over 30 artists from around the globe, becoming an integral nexus-point for artists at all stages of their careers – from established names to recently graduated artists. In 2007, the gallery moved to its current location in the Amsterdam gallery district. Facilitated by its spacious venue, the gallery presents immersive installations and an extensive program of international group exhibition seeking innovations within contemporary art.
Gerhard Hofland
Throughout the years, Gerhard Hofland has grown to become one of the largest galleries in Amsterdam, representing a wide variety of art and artists. The gallery both exhibits and represents international artists that work from abstraction, such as Koen Delaere, Koen Doodeman, Thomas Trum and Janine van Oene, as well as those who rather find expression in figuration, such as Marjolijn de Wit, Michael Kirkham, Johan Tahon, Damien Cadio and Robert Seidel. Or artists that use large installations as their medium like Henk Stallinga. Also Gerhard Hofland holds a great interest in ‘Photo Brut’ artists and therefore presents collections of artists Type 42 (Anonymous), Horst Ademeit and John Kayser.
GRIMM
GRIMM is an international contemporary art gallery representing 35 artists, with locations in Amsterdam (NL), London (UK) and New York, NY (US). Since its establishment in 2005, it has been the gallery’s mission to represent and support emerging and mid-career artists who work in a diverse range of media. In addition to the exhibitions that the gallery programs internationally, GRIMM maintains a publication series that offers further critical insights into its artists’ practices.
Kyas Art Salon
Amsterdam Art Fair is the quality fair of contemporary art in the Netherlands for both art lovers and collectors. After a successful first edition in the former Citroën garage (2015) and a fantastic second edition in the middle of Museumplein (2016), this year Amsterdam Art Fair will open its doors at Huidekoperstraat, next to De Nederlandsche Bank. From May 17, the fifty best Dutch galleries will move into this temporary location for five days. It’s renamed Kunsthal Koper for the occasion, and shows the latest work of some of the best artists.
NDSM FUSE
NDSM FUSE is an independent, artist-run contemporary art space in the NDSM warehouse in Amsterdam-Noord. It serves as a platform for research and experimentation by artists and makers at the NDSM. Under the name NDSM XPO, they exhibit their work in the front section of the space. In the rear section, and in the KINO, SALON, and WUNDERKAMMER—five large display cases—NDSM FUSE programs changing guest exhibitions throughout the year.
No Man’s Art Gallery
No Man’s Art Gallery has an international exhibition programme with a particular focus on emerging contemporary artists. The gallery has two permanent spaces in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and opens temporary galleries in other countries each year, forming strong cultural ties to the artist communities in which the gallery’s artists are rooted.
Stevenson
Stevenson has an international exhibition programme with a particular focus on the region. Founded in 2003, the gallery has spaces in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Amsterdam.
Tim Cantor Gallery
In 1975, Tim Cantor’s father recognized his son’s extraordinary desire for drawing. Not like something taught. This was love. He went into the attic in search of a long-forgotten box of oil paints and brushes that had once belonged to Tim’s great-grandfather. With these very tools—used nearly a century earlier as his British ancestor traveled through Asia, Europe, and America—Tim began painting. His understanding of oils was immediately clear, and his lifelong passion was set in motion. By the age of five, he had completed his first oil painting; by fifteen, he held his first gallery exhibition, where one of his works was acquired for display in the White House. From that moment, his art was in demand.
Upstream Gallery
Upstream Gallery, established in 2003, has quickly gained a credible international reputation among collectors, art institutions and critics, and is a perfect example of Amsterdam’s internationally renowned contribution to contemporary art. With a focus on radical, engaged, conceptual and digital art, Upstream Gallery brings pioneering and critical work from over 20 artists from the Netherlands and abroad. Having worked with artists focussing on digital mediums for the past ten years, Upstream Gallery is currently at the forefront of the Dutch and international digital artscene.