Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Introduction

Danh Vo

This free 15-minute introduction helps visitors enter Danh Vo's exhibition through a short guided look at the objects, fragments, and relationships assembled in the galleries. The program is scheduled on selected dates in May, with English introductions at 2:45 pm.

ABN AMRO Art Award: Ivna Esajas

Wayward Lines. Consent not to be a single being

The 2025 ABN AMRO Art Award winner presents a solo exhibition at the intersection of drawing and painting, where figures merge into fragile but resilient constellations. Structured like the A and B sides of an LP, the show explores interconnectedness, Blackness, family histories, and shared authorship.

In Situ #2

Farida Sedoc – Social Capital

Farida Sedoc takes over the mezzanine with a monumental triptych made through photography, graphic design, textiles, and screen printing. The commission explores collectivity, solidarity, and the networks of trust that help communities shape a shared future.

Experimental Jetset

Circuits

This installation by the Amsterdam design collective Experimental Jetset uses sixteen wall paintings to revisit obsolete media carriers, from film reels to cassette tapes and CDs. Set into the rosettes above the historic staircase, it reflects on how physical formats shaped memory and how digital storage changes that relationship.

Danh Vo

πνεῦμα (Ἔλισσα)

This solo exhibition brings together Danh Vo's own works, collected objects, and pieces by other artists in an open arrangement shaped by intimacy, displacement, faith, and power. The presentation turns personal histories and global forces into a shifting constellation of objects, fragments, and relationships.

Beyond the Manosphere

Masculinities Today

This intergenerational group exhibition brings together 35 artists to examine masculinity as power, performance, and lived experience. The works move from postwar and consumer culture to intimacy, queerness, labor, race, class, vulnerability, and popular culture.

Kho Liang Ie

Mid-Century Modernist

The Stedelijk's first major retrospective on Kho Liang Ie surveys the designer's furniture, interiors, and graphic work from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It highlights how his poetic functionalism, material experimentation, and international network shaped Dutch design.

Zhana Ivanova

Cadence

Created for Beyond the Manosphere, this durational performance places six men inside the exhibition space over two afternoons. Zhana Ivanova uses gesture, posture, and movement to probe how authority and masculinity are staged and absorbed in everyday life.

Yayoi Kusama

Major retrospective

This landmark retrospective surveys more than seven decades of Yayoi Kusama's work across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, fashion, collages, and happenings. The exhibition traces her themes of infinity, repetition, and self-obliteration, including a newly created version of one of her iconic installations.

Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton's exhibition foregrounds his contribution to contemporary painting and his concept of Black Dada. Installed in the central spaces of the historic building, it layers abstraction, gesture, fragment, and form into a focused dialogue with the museum's iconic architecture.