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Programmes

Hartwig Art Foundation supports artistic projects and engages in sustainable partnerships with local and international institutions, initiatives, makers and thinkers in an effort to stimulate the access to art for a wider audience.

Julien Creuzet, Algorithm ocean true blood moves (2023). Choreography Ana Pi.  Commissioned by Performa and Hartwig Art Foundation. Photo Buffy

Upcoming

Holland Festival and Hartwig Art Foundation are presenting Welcome to Asbestos Hall, an ambitious project by American choreographer Trajal Harrell

12 — 29 Jun. 2025 | Holland Festival 2025

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Welcome to Asbestos Hall © Aurelius Carson

Upcoming

Aria Dean presents a new theatrical work commissioned by Performa and Hartwig Art Foundation

1 — 23 Nov. 2025 | Performa 2025, NY

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Aria Dean, Rendering of Luisen-Denkmal (Queen Louise of Prussia Statue, Tiergarten, Berlin), (2025). Digital image, based on a 3D model sourced from TurboSquid. Courtesy of the artist. 

Ongoing

Hartwig Art Foundation and Performa, the internationally acclaimed organisation dedicated to live interdisciplinary performance by visual artists, are announcing a major institutional partnership.

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Ongoing

Hartwig Art Foundation and the Rijksakademie have launched a multi-year collaboration entitled Art in the Age of the Metaverse. The project began in February 2022 with a six-month research period in the field conducted by Leonardo Dellanoce and Arthur Steiner, from Memory Gems.

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Artwork: Kévin Bray, graphic design: Clara Lezla

Ongoing

Hartwig Art Foundation Becoming CLIMAVORE

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Ongoing

Hartwig Art Foundation commissions Minor Music at the End of the World by Saidiya Hartman

Work in development

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Still Arthur Jafa, AGHDRA (2021). Collection Hartwig Art Foundation, promised gift to the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed / Rijkscollectie and Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. 

Ongoing

Evi Vingerling and Katja Mater join the programme of exhibitions in Oud-Amelisweerd

12 Apr. — 26 Oct. 2025 | Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd

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Film still Katja Mater, When Things Fall Apart (2024) 

Ongoing

Tarek Atoui deepens his exploration of sub-Saharan cultural and musical heritage in collaboration with diasporic communities in the Netherlands, emphasising their interconnected histories

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Tarek Atoui, Forgotten Tales Through Time (2025). Photo LNDWstudio

Ongoing

Nurses come and go, but none for me (2025) marks both Hartwig Art Foundation’s first commission of a work by Ed Atkins and the artist's debut feature-length film

2 Apr. — 25 Aug. 2025 | Tate Britain

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Film still, Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski, Nurses come and go, but none for me (2025). Commissioned and produced by Hartwig Art Foundation

Ongoing

Hartwig Art Foundation and Pivô launch institutional partnership

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View from Lina Bo Bardi's Ladeira da Misericórdia, future site of Pivô-Coaty. Photo: Manuel Sá

Past

Musicians in white jellabahs clapping and playing drums.
Tarek Atoui: Forgotten Tales Through Time
De Balie, Amsterdam
6 MAR. 2025, 8.30 P.M.
Julien Creuzet: Algorithm ocean true blood moves
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Brown Arts Institute
20 Feb. 2025
Wu Tsang: Carmen and Carmen
De Balie, Amsterdam
20 Dec. 2024 — 12 Jan. 2025
Julien Creuzet: Algorithm ocean true blood moves
Dak'Art 2024 – Ancien Palais de Justice
7 Dec. 2024
Wu Tsang: La gran mentira de la muerte
MACBA, Barcelona
20 Jul. — 3 Nov. 2024
A drawing of red and blue plastic shopping bags falling down, with words like 'Continue' and 'Thank you' written on them.
Rory Pilgrim
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
13 Jul. — 27 Oct. 2024
Meredith Monk: Indra's Net
Park Avenue Armory
23 Sep. — 6 Oct. 2024
Julien Creuzet: Algorithm ocean true blood moves
Studio Boekman, National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam
29 — 30 Jun. 2024
Ansuya Blom
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
23 Mar. — 30 Jun. 2024
Wu Tsang/ Moved by the Motion: Carmen
Holland Festival 2024
23 JUNE 2024
Backlit photograph with 3 silhouettes in white onesies in front of a white bricked wall
Meredith Monk: Calling
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
21 Oct. 2023 — 14 Apr. 2024
Tianzhuo Chen: TRANCE
Sonic Acts Biennial
23 Feb. 2024
The librarian surrounded by piles of books, possibly in the belly of the whale
Wu Tsang/ Moved by the Motion: MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
12 Mar. 2022 — 16 Feb. 2024
Courtplay: COURTPLAY
Parnassusweg 220, Amsterdam
12 — 13 Jan. 2024
An oil refinery industrial zone aglow at night, bathed in an ambient orange hue amidst a smog-laden atmosphere.
Monira Al Qadiri: Landscapes of extraction
De Balie
22 Dec. 2023 — 7 Jan. 2024
Han Schuil
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
2 Sep. — 12 Nov. 2023
A white gallery space with display of sculptures crafted from wooden sticks and adorned with colourful threads suspended from the ceiling
Julien Creuzet: Algorithm ocean true blood moves
Performa 2023, NY
10 — 11 Nov. 2023
Painting of a dog sitting in front of surrounded by blueish vegetation at dusk/ dawn
Hannah van Bart
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
1 Apr. — 20 Aug. 2023
Projection of a close up digital character (lower face) on a wooden box in a former courtroom
Ed Atkins: The worm
Holland Festival 2023
1 Jun. — 1 Jul. 2023
Performers dressed in white and other dressed in black in a circular formation, surrounded by musicians in a former gas holder building.
Meredith Monk: Indra's Net
Holland Festival 2023
23 — 24 Jun. 2023
Ed Atkins reciting in front of a microphone, wearing black clothes and with shaved head
Ed Atkins: Epitaph
Holland Festival 2023
18 Jun. 2023
A mountainous landscape with a lake (or river), two undefined flags planted in the ground and a person staring at the water
John Akomfrah: Arcadia (2023)
Sharjah Biennial 15
7 Feb. — 11 Jun. 2023
Eliza shirtless with AR glasses with the title of the exhibition drawn in red
Anne Imhof: Youth
co-presented with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1 Oct. 2022 — 29 Jan. 2023
Bright blue background with white text: "Disco isn't dead. It has gone to war."
Tony Cokes
De Balie
22 Dec. 2022 — 8 Jan. 2023
Video on a large screen depicting the backside of a tall classical statue of the Stadio dei Marmi in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky
Marijke van Warmerdam
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
10 Sep. — 13 Nov. 2022
Amie Dicke
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
16 Apr. — 21 Aug. 2022
An audience watching a large video projection featuring a dark-skinned person facing the camera in front of a bright yellow background.
Arthur Jafa
with De Balie & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
21 — 25 and 28 June 2020