Past exhibitions
2025

Imagine the weather invading your screen: fog slowly covering the interface, and strong winds fueling digital wildfires that blur the browser. In Tensed Screen, Noor Nuyten’s new exhibition at Upstream Gallery, the climate does not stop at the edge of the screen; it infiltrates our devices,...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by Harm van den Dorpel in the gallery’s private viewing space, opening concurrently with Noor Nuyten’s exhibition in the main gallery. Last summer, the artist’s latest NFT collection,  Quantizer, launched on the pla...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents its second solo exhibition with Kévin Bray (1989): The Interfaced and The Compass: Playing Realities. Structured as a fictional game inventory, the exhibition The interfaced and the compass assembles a visual archive of objects, symbols, and images across ...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the Upstream Focus exhibition: Three Compositions by David Haines in the Private Viewing Space.  In his recent work, David Haines continues his exploration of the dark, refracted reflections seen in the black mirrors of our digital devices—images th...

If I could escape… The concept of escapism is full of contradictions and yet, because of that, it gives us so much insight into what it means to be human. We get bored, curious, are hopeful or full of despair. Sometimes we just want to get away, and sometimes we want to get even clos...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present bronze works by Amol K Patil (IN, 1987) in the gallery's private viewing space.  Amol K Patil is a performance and visual artist. His body of work is based on the hierarchical Indian caste system. He focuses on social inequality within this system, particul...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents its first solo exhibition with Joseph Thabang Palframan (1997, Namibia) in the main exhibition space. Palframan was raised in England and Botswana. He studied Fine Art at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands and Art History at Leiden U...

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Ghosts. This exhibition, curated by Anne de Jong, brings together artists who work with artificial intelligence or critically reflect on it. The rapid developments in AI are bringing major changes to society and creative processes. The ar...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents Jeroen Jongeleen's new solo exhibition, Grey Zone Tactics: Black Ops, White Noise. The works in this exhibition build on his earlier running-based projects but are more than ever imbued with a political layer. The crises of our time, such as war conflicts and the ...