Please join us on Tuesday March 24th at 5pm for the last Artist Talk of this season, by Ricardo van Eyk.
Ricardo van Eyk (Utrecht, 1993), lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Eyk's practice is informed by his fascination for the urban environment as a "support" bearing traces of human presence and the lapsing of time. The continuously changing public space generates endless visually- and culturally layered collisions which become motifs and approaches transformed in a studio practice balancing order and entropy. My playful way of working is at the same time aggressive and sensitive: materials are exhausted and patched-up like palimpsests, resulting in two dimensional-, sculptural work, installations and architectural interventions.
He concluded his residency at The Ateliers in 2018, working with Amsterdam based galerie tegenboschvanvreden. His solo shows include projectspace P////AKT in 2019, PARK Tilburg in 2021, Collectie De Groen in 2021, Art Brussels in 2022. A selection of group shows range from presentations in Museum De Fundatie, Dordrechts Museum, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Language is English, tickets are €5 and available through the link in our bio. Talks start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!
📸 by Kaka Lee
Please join us on March 17th at 5pm, for the artist talk by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami.
Born in Gutu, Zimbabwe in 1993, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami currently lives and works in the UK. Her paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources, such as online and archival images, and personal photographs, which collapse past and present. Autobiographical in nature, her works address how in a digitised world of infinite images we construct a sense of self, or experience and try to understand one another in a complex social reality.
In 2016, the same year she graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, she was awarded the Clyde & Co. Award and the Young Achiever of the Year Award at the Zimbabwean International Women’s Awards, as well as being shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries. In 2019, Hwami presented work at the 58th Venice Biennale as part of the Zimbabwe Pavilion, the youngest artist to participate in the Biennale. In 2022 she returned to the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia as part of The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Hwami's first institutional solo exhibition, (15,952km) via Trans – Sahara Hwy N1, was held at Gasworks, London, in 2019. Recent institutional exhibitions include a solo presentation at Kunsthal Rotterdam, They have always been here, on view from 8 November 2025 until 12 April 2026; and Kudzanai-Violet Hwami at Kunsthaus Pasquart, Switzerland, which was on view until 12 June 2022.
Language is English, tickets are €5 and available through the link in our bio. Talks start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!
Please join us on March 10th at 5pm, for the artist talk by June Crespo.
June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. Obtained her BFA from the Basque Country University (Bilbao) in 2005 and completed a two years residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam) in 2017. Her solo shows include: Danzante (2025) at Secession, Vienna; Rose Trraction (2025) at Le Credac, Paris; Solar (2025), at Ehrhardt Flórez gallery, Madrid. Their weft, the grass (2024) at 1646.nl, The Hague; Vascular (2024) at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum; they saw their house turn into fields (2023) at CA2M, Madrid; Acts of Pulse (2022) at P420, Bologna; entre alguien y algo (2022) at Carreras Mugica, Bilbao; Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz. Recently her work has also been shown in group such as: L´écorce (2023) at CRAC-Alsace; The Milk of Dreams (2022) at Venice Biennale; Fata Morgana (2022) Jeu de Paume (Paris) and The point of Sculpture (2021) at Fundación Miró (Barcelona).
Language is English, tickets are €5 and available through the link in our bio. Talks start at 5pm sharp, so please be on time!
On February 1st we will be screening the new documentary film Goodbye, Art by The Yearbook Committee at De Ateliers (main building).
Screening starts at 19:00
Q&A with filmmakers at 20:00-21:00
Tickets €3 at the door
About Goodbye, Art
Goodbye, Art is a documentary film which attempts to answer the question of why art feels stuck today. Hollywood is churning out endless sequels and the galleries are full of bad imitations of 20th century art. How did we get here? Why does art suck now? The film puts that question to artists and intellectuals and even to a man who suspects that the Earth might be flat.
About the Yearbook Committee
The Yearbook Committee is a New York City based film studio formed in 2022 by Taylor Ervin and Stephanie Kim. Together Ervin and Kim produce and direct an ongoing art criticism web series titled Scorned by Muses, which takes an irreverent look at contemporary art. They have also collaborated on the Art Boy trilogy of films, which address the history of modernism and its relevance today.
The discussion is anchored by writer and critic Annie Goodner. Annie is the editor-in-chief of Tangents, an art writing and review platform focused on the Dutch scene, and has written for BOMB, Artforum and e-flux.
@the_yearbook_committee@annieygoodner
Please join us on February 3rd at 5pm for the artist talk by David Claerbout.
David Claerbout (born 1969, lives and works in Antwerp and Berlin) is known for his practice in time-based media and research into duration, dark optics and visual perception. His practice bring together works ranging from experimental cinema and video installations to digital animation and generative moving images, Claerbout’s art practice is a relentless exploration of the status, function, and impact of the technical image. However, his works are not entirely devoted to exposing the underlying mechanism of photographic imagery in the digital era, nor are they exclusively determined by the repercussions of its circulation through and between communication systems. Rather, Claerbout’s project processes images as a synonym of vision, or more accurately, as a synonym of the diffusion of vision, memory, and hallucination established by and in his practice. Mistaken at times for being an artist celebrating advanced technologies, a high-tech artist, so to speak, Claerbout’s primary interest lies in the ways we perceive images on a cognitive-sensorial-neurological level. His motivation is to create what he once named ‘the photographic madness’ through technical imagery diffusing vision, memory, and hallucination, and to reconcile it with a ‘casual, daily, innocent visual perception’.
Language is English, tickets are €5 and available through the link in our bio. Talks start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!
Just one more week before the deadline! This is your last chance to apply for the upcoming working period at De Ateliers.
The deadline to apply for the working period 2026-2028 (September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2028) is January 15, 23:59 CET.
Find the complete call and application form on our website.
Happy new year! There are only two weeks left to apply for the next working period at De Ateliers.
The deadline to apply for the working period 2026-2028 (September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2028) is Thursday January 15, 2026 at 23:59 CET.
Please find the complete call and application form on our website.
On Thursday January 8, De Ateliers will organize an Open Day for all who are interested in applying for the next working period. There will be tours of the building, a short presentation, and you will be able to ask all your questions about the application process. On top of that you can visit the Woonhuis show We Are Keeping Each Other Close.
Date & time: January 8, 2pm – 4pm
Location: De Ateliers, Stadhouderskade 86, Amsterdam
Please reserve your spot by registering through the link in our bio.
On Thursday December 11th, De Ateliers will organize an Online Open Day for all who are interested in applying to De Ateliers. There will be a short presentation about the programme and the application form, and you can ask any question you might have.
Date & time: Thursday December 11, 1pm-3pm CET
Location: Zoom.com
Please reserve your spot for the online Open Day by registering before Wednesday December 10, 12pm. You will receive a link to the online meeting via email on Wednesday December 10.
Find the link to the registration form in our bio.
De Ateliers is now accepting applications for the next working period, starting September 1st, 2026
De Ateliers is an artists’ institute open to artists at the beginning of their professional career. It offers a two-year studio and tutoring programme that is best tailored to the needs of highly motivated artists who wish to strengthen their artistic foundation, develop their ideas and deepen their practice in a focused, critical environment among peers from around the globe. The programme is centred around weekly individual studio conversations, with regular and guest tutors, most of whom are practicing artists. The aim is to create a better understanding of one’s artistic position and process by offering a multiplicity of perspectives and critical feedback.
The individual and intensive nature of the De Ateliers programme, with weekly one-on-one studio visits by tutors on Tuesdays, demands a highly motivated and committed attitude. For those artists who are actively looking for regular critical feedback and who have an open attitude towards a wide range of artistic voices and opinions, the generous time and space the De Ateliers programme offers, can produce a life changing experience.
The deadline to apply for the working period 2026-2028 (September 1, 2026 - August 31, 2028) is Thursday January 15, 2026, 23:59 CET.
Please find the complete call and application form on our website (link in bio).
Join us on Tuesday November 11th at 5pm for the last Artist Talk of this season, by Tanoa Sasraku!
Tanoa Sasraku’s (b. 1995, Plymouth) practice encompasses sculpture, drawing and filmmaking. Her work is rooted in the material and symbolic properties of land via landscapes, pigments, and minerals, and informed by a personal relationship to textiles and patternmaking. Sasraku graduated from Goldsmiths University (2018) and Royal Academy Schools (2024).
Forthcoming and recent solo exhibitions include ‘Morale Patch’, ICA, London (2025); ‘Man Engine’, Vardaxoglou, London (2023); Tanoa Sasraku, Vardaxoglou, London (2022); ‘Terratypes’, Spike Island, Bristol (2022); and ‘Liths’, Peer, London, UK (2023).
📸 Belinda Lawley
Language is English, tickets are €5 and available through the link in our bio. Talks start at 5pm sharp so please be on time!
