Our guide to the major art exhibitions in the Netherlands and the editor's tips on how to get into the Amsterdam Art scene.

Read the editor's tips on getting into the Amsterdam Art scene - where to find listings of gallery openings.

On this page:

• Art in Amsterdam
• Art around the Netherlands

ART IN AMSTERDAM

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EXHIBITIONS

29 April-22 June
World Press Photo
Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23 (Tel: 020 625 8284)
Online: www.worldpressphoto.org
Time: 10.30am-5.30pm Mon-Sat, 1pm-5.30pm Sun; Price tbc

The prestigious exhibition of award-winning press photography which opens in Amsterdam before travelling to 100 cities around the world. Although the exhibition can often be confronting (there is something intrinsically powerful about a still – as opposed to moving – image), it remains a veritable hommage to the photo-journalist who often works in life-threatening conditions to report the news. Note that the exhibition is closed on 30 April.

1 March-31 August
Amsterdam & The House Of Orange
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357 (Tel: 020 523 1822)
Online: www.ahm.nl
Time: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat, Sun 11am-5pm; Price: EUR 7

An exploration of the occasionally fraught relationship between the city and the Dutch royal family over the centuries.

ONGOING

The Masterpieces

Rijksmuseum, Jan Luijkenstraat 1 (Tell: 020 674 7047)
Online: www.rijksmuseum.com
Time: Daily 9am-6pm; Price: EUR 9 (under 19s free)

While all but one wing of the Rijksmuseum is closed for renovations (until 2008), a selection from its collection of Dutch painters from the affluent Golden Age are on display in the Philips Wing. Among the 400 works by Dutch masters such as Jan Steen, Frans Hals and Johannes Vermeer, it is also the place to head to see Rembrandt's Night Watch.

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Every Friday

 

Installation by Chel van Zels

Various Exhibitions

HPVK (Hang Plek voor Kunstenaars), Raamgracht 58
Online: www.chiellerie.nl
Time: 5-8pm; Price: free

Every Friday a different underground artist exhibits at this social/cultural 'Hangout for Artists'and, as is the custom, leaves one artwork behind for the walls, along with works by other artists. The gallery is open Wed-Sun between 2pm-6pm.

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ARNHEM

Ongoing

Openlucht Museum

Schelmseweg 89, Arnhem (026-357 6111)
Tickets: EUR 11 (adults); Time: 10-5pm
Online: www.openluchtmuseum.nl

If you are claustrophobic this might be the museum for you: see Dutch culture in the open air museum.

 

2 February - 23 November
Go China! Assen-Groningen
www.gochina-assen-groningen.nl

In honour of the 2008 Olympic Games, the Drents and Groninger Museums are staging five exhibitions on archaeology and contemporary art from China. Highlights of the exhibitions include world-famous soldiers from the Terracotta Army of Xi'an (on display at the Drents Museum until 31 August).

 

SPANBROEK

25 May - 31 August
Holland in slow motion
www.scheringamuseum.nl
Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroekerweg 162, Spanbroek

Around 70 intriguing black-and-white photos depict a relaxed 1950s Holland.

 

SCHIPHOL

Until July 7
Paintings by van Gogh
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol (Between Piers E and F), Schiphol Airport
www.rijksmuseum.com
Eight paintings by Vincent van Gogh, including Almond Tree in Blossom (1888).

 

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH

Until August 31
Music: Played and portrayed

Noordbrabants Museum, Verwersstraat 41, 's-Hertogenbosch

www.noordbrabantsmuseum.nl
Hieronymus Bosch's The Concert in an Egg fronts this exhibition on "music in art", brought to life by musical and ingenious installations.

 

Until September 7
Ah Xian
www.gemeentemuseum.nl
Gemeente Museum, Stadhouderslaan 41, The Hague
An exhibition of porcelain busts and life-sized porcelain figures embellished with traditional Chinese motifs by Ah Xian (Beijing, 1960). 

 

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