Past exhibitions
2012

Past exhibition

Day's End

Frank Ammerlaan

Amsterdam, 30 Nov '12 - 19 Jan '13
Day's End

Upstream Gallery proudly presents Day’s End, the first solo exhibition of Frank Ammerlaan (b. 1979). “To Be” is a form of disappointment, it can be considered a static concept, a hollow fiction. The edge is more affecting than the central, the periphery seems to be attuned to chan...

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Light and Shadow

Marc Bijl

Amsterdam, 19 Oct - 24 Nov '12
Light and Shadow

Without darkness there is no light, without law there would be no crime and without Christianity no Satanism. In his new soloshow Light and Shadow in Upstream Gallery artist Marc Bijl wants to make clear that the dark side of our lives, exists by the grace of light. The paintings and sculptures in...

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Della Scultura Rustica

Marinus Boezem

Amsterdam, 8 Sep - 13 Oct '12
Della Scultura Rustica

“Er is alles in de wereld, het is alles” (Lucebert) Met Della Scultura Rustica toont Boezem niet zo maar een verzameling werken, de hele show is een statement. Boezem reageert op de huidige behoefte aan zekerheid in de maatschappij. De heersende angst voor het onbekende en de quasi...

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Second Modernity

Maja Borg, Ulay, Rob Voerman, Lucy Wood

Amsterdam, 2 Jun - 14 Jul '12
Second Modernity

Second modernity is a phrase coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck (1944), and is his word for the period after modernity. Re-modernity is a renaissance of modernity through realization that not all risks can be controlled. Family, politics, science, and religion were all institutions that pr...

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'Wege in den Nihilismus' and 'Be Not Content'

Dennis Rudolph & Mark Titchner

Amsterdam, 24 Mar - 26 May '12
'Wege in den Nihilismus' and 'Be Not Content'

Dennis Rudolph makes sinister landscapes and dramatic portraits in oil paint or graphics His landscapes can be related to the tradition of the symbolically charged Romantic landscape painting. Auratic sceneries, such as deserted landscapes, expansive skies, mountaintops or rocky coasts and gigant...

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No Style, Reflections of public statements on art..

Jeroen Jongeleen

Amsterdam, 4 Feb - 17 Mar '12
No Style,  Reflections of public statements on art..

Jeroen Jongeleen’s work generally evolves in public space. He leaves traces in the urban landscape which he documents with photographs and films. He labors under the alias “influenza”, creating various icons, signs and texts as an anonymous signature. With his interventions he p...

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