Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
Residency
6 January – 24 March, 2025
Gasworks, London, United Kingdom
Odonchimeg Davaadorj
Sound of Sun
Solo exhibition, part of San Francisco Art Week
21 January – February, 2025
re.riddle, San Francisco, United States
Haruspex
Curated by Marcella Barcelo
6 January – 1 March, 2025
pal Project, Paris, France
Curitiba Biennial
Curated by Marc Pottier
22 November, 2024 – 25 May, 2025
MON Museum, Curitiba, Brasil
Lungiswa Gqunta
In Land We Resonate
A duo exhibition with Lungiswa Gqunta & Lakisha Apostel
Curated by Eva Burgering & Zazie Duinker
31 January – 8 March 2025
Nest in Laak, Den Haag, Netherlands
Black Ancient Futures
Curated by Camila Maissune and João Pinharanda
18 September 2024 – 17 March, 2025
MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Sala
Curated by Storm Janse van Rensburg
15 December, 2023 – 12 April, 2026
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
How to dream?
Curated by Stefanie Böttcher and Sabine Rusterholz Petko
7 March – 22 June, 2025
Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Inge Meijer
We are very proud to announce the publication of Inge Meijer’s book The MoMA Plant Collection. It includes 340 photographs and drawings of exhibitions at the New York institution, in which plants feature among the works. Inge Meijer wants to render museum plants visible once again, to make us aware of their real as well as metaphorical importance.
The book is now available for purchase at the gallery.
112 pages
ISBN 9789464460537
Price €32
renan@akinci.nl (for orders)
We are proud to announce that Inge Meijer will be part of the ISCP Program New York for 2025 from 1 February, 2025 – 31 January, 2026.
Cevdet Erek
We are very proud to announce the acquisition of Cevdet Erek’s Bergama Stereo – Berlin Fragment (2019-2024) by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin. The collection presentation Museum in Motion – A Collection for the 21st Century, including this work, will be on view from 6 September on in the Rieckhallen at Hamburger Bahnof, which is reopening for exhibitions.
Museum in Motion: A Collection for the 21st Century
From 6 September, 2024 (until further notice)
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Gulnur Mukazhanova. Memory of Hope
Secon stage of THE WIND MAKES THE SKY. La Biennale di Venezia on the traces of Marco Polo.
Curated by Luigia Lonardelli
10 December, 2024 – 28 February, 2025
Ca’ Giustinian, Venice, Italy
Edwin Zwakman
We are proud to announce that Edwin Zwakman’s ‘At Night I See the Future’ will be part of
New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow
‘At Night I See the Future’ is a long-term research initiative exploring what the Netherlands might look like in 100 years. Through staged photography, augmented reality installations, and experimental videos, it brings future scenarios to life. How will we shape housing, infrastructure, industry, and agriculture in a world defined by water?
Residency Tembe Art Studio
April – May, 2025
Moengo, Suriname
Anne Wenzel
We are very proud to announce that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has acquired House of Fools (Witte), 2024 for its Modern and Contemporary Art Collection. House of Fools (Witte) will be presented from 18 April, 2025 at depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Énormément bizarre
The Jean Chatelus collection, donated by the Fondation Antoine de Galbert
26 March- 30 June, 2025
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ik, de ander & de aarde
Permanent collection presentation
From 29 November, 2024 onwards
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
Imogen Stidworthy
We are proud to announce that Imogen Stidworthy has been shortlisted for the Freelands Award 2023.
In 2025, Chapter will present a new body of immersive, multi-channel video and sound work by Imogen Stidworthy (b. 1963, London, UK). Exploring the concept of crisis, Stidworthy will draw on dialogue with patients and therapists, as well as field and embodied research, to explore radical therapies and mental health today.
Charlotte Schleiffert
We are proud to announce that Museum Dordrecht has acquired a work on paper from the series ‘What kind of leader do we need?’ (2014) by Charlotte Schleiffert.
Furthermore, we are excited to announce that on the occasion of the travelling exhibition ‘Tolerance Test’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, as well as the Drents Museum have acquired several monumental works on paper by Charlotte Schleiffert.
POP LIFE
Curated by Euan Gray and Witte Wartena
2 November, 2024 – 9 March, 2025
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ik, de ander & de aarde
Permanent collection presentation
From 29 November, 2024 onwards
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
Stéphanie Saadé
We are very proud to announce the recent collection acquisition of Stéphanie Saadé’s work The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust by Centraal Museum Utrecht.
Présence
Residency and exhibition in the permanent collection
from 14 November 2023 onwards
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Stéphanie Saadé
Curated by Fatma Cheffi
2 February – 9 March, 2025
P/////AKT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bearing Witness
Curated by Laura Mudde
8 February – 30 March, 2025
Willem Twee Kunstruimte, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
RugLife
Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared.
14 December, 2024 – 20 April, 2025
Museum of Crafts and Design, San Francisco, United States
Trip Down Memory Lane
Curated by Anouck Nouvel-Papaïconomou, Inès Carrazé & Clotilde Borg
13 March – 25 May, 2025
La Gaya Scienza, Nice, France
Gluklya
We are proud to share that the book ‘Two Diaries’ by Gluklya and Murad can now be ordered (via DM or email). The book covers the period in which Gluklya & Murad Zorava met in the Bijlmerbajes, when it was used both as an artists’ incubator and an asylum centre. Gluklya (Natalia Pershin- Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist living and working in Amsterdam. Murad Zorava is a Kurdish activist and poet currently living in Europe.
Pages 240
ISBN 9783753302867
Price €25
renan@akinci.nl (for orders)
Published by Walther & Franz König
Editors Charles Esche & Ashley Maum
Producers Framer Framed & Van Abbemuseum
Designer Bardi Haliti
Made possible with support from Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Mondriaan Fonds, Prinsbernhars Cultuur Fonds, AFK, Blue Square Gallery and AKINCI.
Gulmira’s Fairy Tales
Screening and discussion
11 March, 5.30 – 7 pm
Center for Russian + East European Studies, University of Michigan, USA
Jaap van den Ende
We are very proud to announce the publication of Jaap van den Ende’s book tegenstelling en samenhang (contradiction and coherence). This monumental monograph is dedicated to Dutch painter Jaap van den Ende (Delft, 1944). In richly illustrated chapters, four authors illuminate the development of a multiform oeuvre spanning almost six decades.
The book is now available for purchase at the gallery.
tegenstelling en samenhang
Waanders Uitgevers
Pages 312
ISBN 9789462625822
Price €40
tessa@akinci.nl (for orders)
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Tomorrow is a Different Day
Collection exhibition from 1980 – now
Presenting Prime Time Paradise
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Het Hof van de Leeuw – Kunstparade #3
14 & 15 March, 2025
Screening throughout the day, 12 – 8 pm
Schelpenpad Lange Vijverberg, Den Haag, Netherlands
28 – 30 March, 2025
Screening throughout the day, 10 am/12 pm – 4 pm
Informatiecentrum Binnenhof Renovatie, Den Haag, Netherlands
Cinedans FEST ’25
Screening I Wan’na Be Like You
23 March, 2025 – 7 pm
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
melanie bonajo
We are very proud to announce that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam has acquired When the body says Yes by melanie bonajo.
melanie bonajo, When the body says Yes, 2022, HD video, 41:23 min., installation & scenography in collaboration with Théo Demans, specially commissioned by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
When the body says Yes was the Dutch entry for the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, commissioned by Mondriaan Fund.
Other recent museum acquisitions are:
Matrix Botanica, Biosphere Above Nations, 2013 to Institut d’art Contemporain Rhône, Villeurbanne and the video installation TouchMETell, 2019 to SeMA, Republic of Korea. In addition to the Museum acquisition, melanie bonajo realised a version with children from Korea in collaboration with SeMA: TouchMETell_02, as a donated to the Museum.
When the body says Yes has and will be traveling to (international) museum venues. The journey started at FOMU, Antwerp and went further to KUMU Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; IMMA – The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. In 2025 When the body says Yes will be shown at Lahti Museum of Visual Arts, Marva, Finland and NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, DE.
in the hours between dawns
Curated by Sarah Caillet
7 February – 13 April, 2025
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
When the body says Yes
Curator by Ilari Laamanen
8 May – 2 November, 2025
Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lathi, Finland
Lives of Animals
Showing Progress vs Sunsets, Re-formulating the Nature Documentary, 2017
Curated by Joanna Zielinska
10 April, 2025 – 10 August, 2025
Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
melanie bonajo: Night Soil Trilogy
Curated by Anni Venäläinen
26 September, 2025 – 1 March, 2026
Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
melanie bonajo. Schule der Liebenden
Curated by Amely Deiss, commisioned by Kunstpalais Erlangen
from 28 November, 2025
Kunstpalais, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Erlangen, Germany
Ik, de ander & de aarde
Permanent collection presentation
From 29 November, 2024 onwards
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
