Character Queequeg in the berth of a ship, on their knees, chest naked, stretching their right arm and fist up

Programmes

The Hartwig Art Foundation supports artistic projects and engages in sustainable partnerships with local and international institutions, initiatives, makers and thinkers in an effort to stimulate the access to art for a wider audience.

Production Still (Tosh Basco as Queequeg), MOBY DICK; or, The Whale (2022), Dir. Wu Tsang, Prod. Schauspielhaus Zürich. Photo by Greg Amgwerd
Backlit photograph with 3 silhouettes in white onesies in front of a white bricked wall

Upcoming

Hartwig Art Foundation and Oude Kerk Amsterdam present the first-ever European survey of Meredith Monk in the context of visual art.

21 Oct. 2023 — 17 Mar. 2024 | Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

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  Meredith Monk, Cellular Songs (2018). Photo: Julieta Cervantes

Upcoming

Han Schuil

2 Sep. — 12 Nov. 2023 | Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd

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Han Schuil, HEAT XLVIII (2018), alkyd, varnish and spray paint on aluminium. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam. Photo Peter Cox  

Ongoing

The Hartwig Art Foundation and Performa, the internationally acclaimed organisation dedicated to live interdisciplinary performance by visual artists, are announcing a major institutional partnership.

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a red hand with three fingers opening a studded door

Ongoing

The Hartwig Art Foundation and the Rijksakademie have launched a multi-year collaboration entitled Art in the Age of the Metaverse. The project began in February 2022 with a six-month research period in the field conducted by Leonardo Dellanoce and Arthur Steiner, from Memory Gems.

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Artwork: Kévin Bray, graphic design: Clara Lezla
The librarian surrounded by piles of books, possibly in the belly of the whale

Ongoing

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale by artist Wu Tsang, a silent film screened with live chamber orchestra, premiered in March 2022 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich.

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Film still, MOBY DICK; or, The Whale (2022), Dir. Wu Tsang, Prod. Schauspielhaus Zürich. 

Past

Painting of a dog sitting in front of surrounded by blueish vegetation at dusk/ dawn
Hannah van Bart
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
1 Apr. — 20 Aug. 2023
Projection of a close up digital character (lower face) on a wooden box in a former courtroom
Ed Atkins: The worm
Holland Festival 2023
1 Jun. — 1 Jul. 2023
Performers dressed in white and other dressed in black in a circular formation, surrounded by musicians in a former gas holder building.
Meredith Monk: Indra's Net
Holland Festival 2023
23 — 24 Jun. 2023
Ed Atkins reciting in front of a microphone, wearing black clothes and with shaved head
Ed Atkins: Epitaph
Holland Festival 2023
18 Jun. 2023
A mountainous landscape with a lake (or river), two undefined flags planted in the ground and a person staring at the water
John Akomfrah: Arcadia (2023)
Sharjah Biennial 15
7 Feb. — 11 Jun. 2023
Eliza shirtless with AR glasses with the title of the exhibition drawn in red
Anne Imhof: Youth
co-presented with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1 Oct. 2022 — 29 Jan. 2023
Bright blue background with white text: "Disco isn't dead. It has gone to war."
Tony Cokes
De Balie
22 Dec. 2022 — 8 Jan. 2023
Video on a large screen depicting the backside of a tall classical statue of the Stadio dei Marmi in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky
Marijke van Warmerdam
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
10 Sep. — 13 Nov. 2022
Amie Dicke
Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd
16 Apr. — 21 Aug. 2022
An audience watching a large video projection featuring a dark-skinned person facing the camera in front of a bright yellow background.
Arthur Jafa
with De Balie & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
21 — 25 and 28 June 2020