Past exhibitions
2013

Past exhibition

A Decade Upstream

Frank Ammerlaan, Cristian Andersen, Marc Bijl, Marinus Boezem, Armen Eloyan, David Haines, Jeroen Jo

Amsterdam, 30 Nov - 19 Dec '13
A Decade Upstream

A Decade Upstream: Only Dead Fish go with the Flow 30 november - 19 december, 2013 Lloyd Hotel & Culturele Ambassade This fall Upstream Gallery, one of Amsterdam's leading contemporary art galleries, celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special exhibition at the Lloyd Hotel & Cultural ...

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Radiant Bodies: The Spirit and the Index

David Haines

Amsterdam, 29 Nov '13 - 11 Jan '14
Radiant Bodies: The Spirit and the Index

The exhibition features a series of meticulously crafted graphite drawings and a rhythmic textual video project. Haines actively examines his position as an artist who makes pictorial and textual narratives in the wake of abstraction, conceptual art and photography. At the same time he is conscio...

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Love Illumination

Frank Ammerlaan, Marc Bijl, Marinus Boezem, Studio Drift, Germaine Kruip and Rafaël Rozendaal

Amsterdam, 19 Oct - 23 Nov '13
Love Illumination

Frank Ammerlaan, Marc Bijl, Marinus Boezem, Studio Drift, Germaine Kruip and Rafael Rozendaal. Throughout the centuries, from the Dutch masters to the Impressionists, the depiction of light has always been an important motive for artists. The symbolism of light is till of great significance ...

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Underground

Maartje Kostanje

Amsterdam, 7 Sep - 12 Oct '13
Underground

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the soloshow 'Underground' by Maartje Korstanje (Goes, 1982). This exhibition mainly presents ceramic sculptures, which are the result of a work period at the European Ceramic Work Centre in Den Bosch (ECWC). Maartje Korstanje makes sculptures often based on crise...

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Flowers

Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña

Amsterdam, 8 Jun - 20 Jul '13
Flowers

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the exhibition Flowers by Cristóbal León (Santiago, Chile, 1980) and Joaquín Cociña (Concepción, Chile, 1980). The latest video of León and Cociña, titled ‘Los Andes’ (2013), recently had it’s premie...

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The palm at the end of the mind

Noor Nuyten

Amsterdam, 16 Mar - 20 Apr '13
The palm at the end of the mind

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition by Noor Nuyten (1986), opening 16 March, 2013. Imagine a book lying on a table. While your eyes focus on the book, you move your body downward until the point that your eyes are level with the edge of the table. Now you perceive the book as...

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Crossing the Threshold

Izaak Zwartjes

Amsterdam, 29 Jan - 2 Mar '13
Crossing the Threshold

For his second soloshow in Upstream Gallery Dutch sculptor Izaak Zwartjes (1974) investigates the twilight zone between art and reality. He plays with the capacity to believe in a spiritual world. For him, being an artist is a means of establishing contact with this other realm. Here, the distinctio...

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