Rijksmuseum

Metamorphoses

With works by Caravaggio, Bernini, Rodin, Bourgeois, Brancusi and more

This major spring exhibition explores how artists from antiquity to the present have responded to Ovid's Metamorphoses. More than 80 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, goldsmith's works, photographs and videos are shown in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

FAKE!

Early photocollages and photomontages

Using 50 historical images from the museum collection, this Photography Gallery show traces hand-made image manipulation from the 19th century to 1940, from playful illusions to pointed political photomontages.

WORN

Treasured clothing

This intimate Special Collections presentation brings together 24 worn, altered and reused garments and accessories from 1640 to 1930, highlighting repair, craftsmanship and the long life of clothing.

Carel Visser

In the Rijksmuseum gardens

Thirteen monumental sculptures in iron, steel and concrete bring the work of Carel Visser to the Rijksmuseum Gardens, highlighting the Dutch sculptor's increasingly abstract language and his dialogue with minimal art.

Ed van der Elsken. Up Close

The summer exhibition follows Van der Elsken's life and working method through well-known and newly shown photographs, contact sheets, letters, notes, book designs and film fragments from his archive.

Willem de Kooning at work

With around 120 works, this exhibition focuses on de Kooning's creative process and follows his artistic development from the Netherlands to New York and Long Island through drawings, paintings and sculptures.