Hartwig Art Foundation collaborates on the 2026 edition of Sonsbeek (2 July–11 October 2026) as co-commissioner of a site-specific work by Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven presented in front of Arnhem City Hall, alongside a public programme at Hartwig Proxy in Amsterdam, extending Europe’s oldest large-scale public art exhibition beyond its home city of Arnhem
Hartwig Proxy
On Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 September, in partnership with Hartwig Proxy, the testing ground for the future Hartwig Museum in Amsterdam, Sonsbeek 2026 invites participants to engage with three scales of memory—the cosmic, geological, and bodily—through workshops, performances, film, and poetry. More information will be available soon.
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is an Antwerp-based artist. In her drawings, works on paper and textile, videos, murals, and installations, the erotic meets machine-fetishism with a straightforward feminist tone, intersecting science, philosophy, mysticism, technology, and social issues. In the early 1980s, neuroscientist Luc Steels invited her to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Brussels to create visual languages with scientific imagery. Since 1981, with her partner Danny Devos, she is part of key experimental band Club Moral. In 2023, she was the second artist featured in the FAÇADE series, KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels. Her solo exhibitions have been held at venues including Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, 2022 (a.o., since 1982); Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, 2025 (a.o., since 2000); M HKA, Antwerp, 2018 (and 1999); Kunstverein Hannover, 2017; Kunstverein München, 2014; Mu.ZEE, Ostend, 2012; The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2011; and WIELS, Brussels, 2008. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at venues such as S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2019 (a.o., since 2003); ICA, Philadelphia, 2013; and The Artist’s Institute, New York, 2011. Her work is in collections including Kunsthalle, Bern; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels; M HKA; S.M.A.K.; Mu.ZEE; and the University of Chicago.
Sonsbeek art projects is an international platform for art in public space, based in Arnhem. With its first edition opening in 1949, just after the Second World War, Sonsbeek is the oldest large-scale public art exhibition in Europe. From its home of Park Sonsbeek the periodic exhibition has featured multiple groundbreaking editions that have set the international agenda for contemporary art, while always maintaining a unique connection with its local audience. Sonsbeek is a place where knowledge production, experimentation, and sharing art with a diverse public go hand in hand. Sonsbeek 2026 is curated by Amira Gad and Christina Li, assisted by Berber Meindersma, with Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg serving as Commissioner of Sonsbeek 2026 and Director of Sonsbeek Art Projects.