Althuis Hofland, Caroline O'Breen, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Depth Of Field, dudokdegroot, LANG, Stigter Van Doesburg, tegenboschvanvreden, TORCH, Wouter van Leeuwen and Martin van Zomeren present:
Salon Amsterdam
17 January – 14 February 2026
Opening: Saturday 17 January 16:00 – 19:00
"Out with the old, in with the new" is an adage that the gallery scene often lives by. To celebrate the start of the new year, 'Salon Amsterdam' does something new by showing something old. Eleven friendly galleries team up and each exhibit art from their archives. Together, we turn the Hazenstraat area into a publicly accessible depot full of artworks ready to be (re)discovered.
The focus on anything that's new makes sense: artists want to show what they have just created, and visitors want to see what is happening right now. But what happens to the artworks after they've had their moment, their spot in the exhibition or on the wall of an art fair? When they disappear into storage, they might lose the public's attention, but they certainly don't lose their value.
The title 'Salon Amsterdam' refers to the 18th- and 19th-century Parisian art salons, where the walls would be filled with artworks from floor to ceiling. Our joint exhibition aims to recreate this overwhelming experience of the richness of art. The participating galleries have delved into their storages (and collections) and showcase a wide selection of classic, iconic, almost forgotten and newly relevant artworks from their exhibition history.
Works on display by: Toshio Enomoto, Hans van der Meer, Michael Wolf, Jim Mangan, Thomas Manneke, Mark Steinmetz, Jeroen Hofman, Steve Fitch, Sanlé Sory, Rogier Houwen, Pentti Sammallahti, Mark van den Brink, Olaf Otto Becker, Willem Diepraam, Andrew Bush, Asako Narahashi, Marie Jose Jongerius, Charles Freger, Han Singels, Jessica Backhaus and many more.