Rijksakademie – A tree is one thing, a stone is another

Exhibitions, performances, talks and other activities from residents and alumni outside the Rijksakademie.

Netherlands
- Sat 14 Mar 2026 – Mon 25 May 2026
Kunsthal, Rotterdam
- Mandy Franca
- Fiona Lutjenhuis
group show
NN Art Award 2026
Netherlands
- Sat 13 Sep 2025 – Mon 25 May 2026
Artbase Terneuzen, Terneuzen
- Josse Pyl
duo show
Post 65 on view
Netherlands
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sun 24 May 2026
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
- Hans Aarsman
group show
Rotterdam in Focus
Netherlands
- Sat 31 Jan 2026 – Sun 10 May 2026
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
- nora aurrekoetxea etxebarria
- Arthur Kleinjan
- André Pielage
- Helen Verhoeven
group show
Stairway to...?
Netherlands
- Sun 30 Nov 2025 – Sun 10 May 2026
Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen
- Dan Zhu
solo show
All Ends Meet
Netherlands
- Sat 24 Jan 2026 – Sun 3 May 2026
Concordia, Enschede
- Peng Zuqiang
solo show
Chronical
Netherlands
- Thu 15 Jan 2026 – Sat 2 May 2026
Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen
- Magali Reus
solo show
Tales and Reals
Netherlands
- Tue 18 Nov 2025 – Fri 1 May 2026
VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam
- Lotte Werkema
- Eva Spierenburg
- Meiro Koizumi
group show
On Limits
Netherlands
- Fri 6 Feb 2026 – Sun 26 Apr 2026
1646, Den Haag
- Eric Giraudet de Boudemange
solo show
Seeds of Plenty
Netherlands
- Sat 28 Feb 2026 – Sat 25 Apr 2026
Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
- Inez de Brauw
group show
Contemporary Ceramics Collective II
Netherlands
- Fri 27 Feb 2026 – Sat 25 Apr 2026
Metro54, Amsterdam
- AYO
group show
Practicing Freedom and Refusal
Sustaining the Otherwise
Netherlands
- Sat 8 Nov 2025 – Wed 22 Apr 2026
Kin Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna
- Dora García Lopez
duo show
A Hole in the Real
Dora García, Pablo Picasso, and the Legacy of Mining
Netherlands
- Sun 9 Nov 2025 – Sun 12 Apr 2026
CODA, Apeldoorn
- Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen
- Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
- Otobong Nkanga
group show
The mushroom at the end of the world
Netherlands
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sat 11 Apr 2026
EENWERK, Amsterdam
- Guido van der Werve
solo show
NUMMER NEGENTIEN
IN A SOFT VOICE WITH A LOT OF FEELING
Netherlands
- Wed 18 Feb 2026 – Mon 6 Apr 2026
No Man's Art Gallery, Amsterdam
- Hend Samir
- Josefin Arnell
- Krystel Geerts
group show
Bring on the dancing horses
Netherlands
- Fri 9 Jan 2026 – Sun 5 Apr 2026
Nest, Den Haag
- Sharan Bala
group show
Urning and Urningin
Language and desire since 1864
Netherlands
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sat 4 Apr 2026
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
- Klaas Kloosterboer
solo show
But came the waves
Netherlands
- Fri 6 Feb 2026 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
W139, Amsterdam
- Olga Micińska
group show
Melted for Love
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026
Netherlands
- Sun 8 Feb 2026 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
- Noor Abed
group show
Melted for Love
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026
Netherlands
- Wed 4 Feb 2026 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam
- Ada Maricia Patterson
- Nazif Lopulissa
group show
Royal Award for Modern Painting 2026
Netherlands
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sun 22 Mar 2026
Namuso Gallery, Den Haag
- Paul Beumer
group show
A gust of wind gives voice to the trees
Netherlands
- Fri 6 Feb 2026 – Sun 22 Mar 2026
Working Title, Amsterdam
- Müge Yılmaz
duo show
The Importance of Soil
Netherlands
- Sat 21 Feb 2026 – Sat 21 Mar 2026
Josilda da Conceição, Amsterdam
- Joanne Igbuwe
group show
Everything that holds everything apart
Netherlands
- Thu 5 Feb 2026 – Sat 21 Mar 2026
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
- David Claerbout
solo show
The woodcarver and the forest
Netherlands
- Sat 17 Jan 2026 – Fri 20 Mar 2026
De Appel, Amsterdam
- Olga Micińska
group show
The Broken Pitcher
Netherlands
- Sat 25 Oct 2025 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
- Abul Hisham
- Femmy Otten
- Jennifer Tee
- Fiona Lutjenhuis
- Agnes Waruguru
- Evi Vingerling
- Carla Klein
- Hans Broek
group show
Everything Flows
Netherlands
- Sat 29 Nov 2025 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- Thierry Oussou
- Fiona Lutjenhuis
group show
Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2025
Netherlands
- Sat 11 Oct 2025 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Textielmuseum, Tilburg
- Chathuri Nissansala
- Baha Görkem Yalım
- Ada Maricia Patterson
group show
Haus of fibre
Netherlands
- Sat 17 Jan 2026 – Sat 14 Mar 2026
Joey Ramone, Rotterdam
- Tudor Bratu
solo show
The Burden of Proof
Norway
- Thu 19 Feb 2026 – Sun 10 May 2026
Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim
- Pilvi Takala
solo show
Breaking Ranks
Poland
- Fri 21 Nov 2025 – Sun 3 May 2026
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
- Paulina Olowska
group show
The Woman Question 1550-2025
Poland
- Fri 21 Nov 2025 – Sun 3 May 2026
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
- Tala Madani
group show
The City of Women
Poland
- Sat 11 Oct 2025 – Sun 12 Apr 2026
Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź
- Chathuri Nissansala
group show
Deconstruction Reconstruction
Portugal
- Sat 16 May 2026 – Mon 28 Sep 2026
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- Rosa Barba
solo show
Drawing Vocabulaires
Portugal
- Sat 21 Feb 2026 – Sun 17 May 2026
Lumiar Cité, Lisbon
- Willem de Rooij
solo show
Hut Hut
Saudi Arabia
- Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Sat 2 May 2026
JAX District, Diriyah
- Yazan Khalili
- Moshekwa Langa
- Müge Yılmaz
group show
In Interludes and Transitions
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale
Sweden
- Thu 4 Dec 2025 – Sun 3 May 2026
Skissernas Museum, Lund
- Metahaven Vinca Kruk & Daniel van der Velden
group show
Coded Threads
Singapore
- Fri 31 Oct 2025 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
Multiple venues, Singapore
- Ahmet Ögüt
- Julian Abraham 'Togar'
- Özgür Kar
group show
pure intention
Singapore Biennale 2025
Thailand
- Sat 29 Nov 2025 – Thu 30 Apr 2026
Different venues, Phuket
- Pauline Curnier Jardin
- Rossella Biscotti
- Taiki Sakpisit
- Chi-Yu Wu
Eternal [Kalpa]
Thailand Biennale
Türkiye
- Thu 19 Feb 2026 – Sun 18 Oct 2026
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
- Zeynep Kayan
group show
Panorama: Dream and Places
Taiwan
- Sat 13 Dec 2025 – Sun 12 Apr 2026
Taichung Art Museum, Taichung City
- Yin-Ju Chen
- Chi-Yu Wu
group show
A Call of All Beings
See you tomorrow, same time, same place
Taiwan
- Sat 1 Nov 2025 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
Taipei Biennale 2025, Taipei
- Gaëlle Choisne
- Jacky Connolly
group show
Whispers on the Horizon
United States
- Sat 2 May 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA)
- Arturo Kameya
- Claudia Martínez Garay
- Li Yi-Fan
group show
If the word we
59th Carnegie International
United States
- Fri 6 Mar 2026 – Sun 6 Sep 2026
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (NY)
- Esteban Cabeza de Baca
group show
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way
United States
- Fri 23 Jan 2026 – Sat 9 May 2026
Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (TX)
- Lisa Oppenheim
group show
Imaging after Photography
United States
- Fri 21 Nov 2025 – Sun 26 Apr 2026
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO)
- Shahryar Nashat
solo show
Raw is the red
United States
- Fri 6 Feb 2026 – Fri 20 Mar 2026
Variety Arts Theater, Los Angeles (CA)
- Thomas Demand
group show
What a wonderful world
An Audiovisual Poem

Residents & Alumni Activities

NN Art Award 2026

Post 65 on view

Rotterdam in Focus

Stairway to...?

All Ends Meet

Chronical

Tales and Reals

On Limits

Seeds of Plenty

Contemporary Ceramics Collective II

Practicing Freedom and Refusal

A Hole in the Real

The mushroom at the end of the world

NUMMER NEGENTIEN

Bring on the dancing horses

Urning and Urningin

But came the waves

Melted for Love

Melted for Love

Royal Award for Modern Painting 2026

A gust of wind gives voice to the trees

The Importance of Soil

Everything that holds everything apart

The woodcarver and the forest

The Broken Pitcher

Everything Flows

Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2025

Haus of fibre

The Burden of Proof

Breaking Ranks

The Woman Question 1550-2025

The City of Women

Deconstruction Reconstruction

Drawing Vocabulaires

Hut Hut

In Interludes and Transitions

Coded Threads

pure intention

Eternal [Kalpa]

Panorama: Dream and Places

A Call of All Beings

Whispers on the Horizon

If the word we

Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way

Imaging after Photography

Raw is the red

What a wonderful world