Past exhibitions
2026

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present Silence, Third Wave Feminist. A Misandrist Is Talking a new solo exhibition by Marijke De Roover. In the age of endless circulation, the worst thing you can do is still speak. Especially if you are a woman who has read too much and forgiven too little. Th...

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present city paintings AMSTERDAM, a solo exhibition of new work by Armen Eloyan. Eloyan is known for heavily impastoed canvases that blend cartoon imagery, abstraction, and personal narrative. This exhibition marks his first solo show dedicated entirely to landscape p...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Dirk Paesmans at the gallery POKE-PLAY-ETC. More info will follow here.  Images: 1.POKE PLAY #Untitled (Asger Jorn Museum), 2026 by Dirk Paesmans Photoprint on canvas 120 x 80 cm 2.Poke Play - Untitled , 2025 by D...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present the group exhibition CONTENT MACHINES – Jouissance, curated by Constant Dullaart. CONTENT MACHINES – Jouissance excavates an ongoing confrontation with automated production, tracing a lineage from cybernetic experiments and automatic art throu...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present Marinus Boezem - Mail Art (1964–1996), on view in the gallery’s private viewing space opening on Friday March 20 2026, simultaneously with the group exhibition in the main space: CONTENT MACHINES – Jouissance. Brought together for the first t...

Save the date for SYNTROPY, a collaboration between glitch404, Upstream Gallery & Salon Huisfeest. Join us on January 31st (20.00 - 03.00) for a Bring Your Own Beamer and club night at Het Salon (Condensatorweg 36, Amsterdam). Organized in collaboration with Het Salon and Glitch404, releas...

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present Glorious Substances, Beautiful Settings, a new solo exhibition by Jen Liu (USA, 1976), opening on January 17, 2026. The exhibition brings together Liu’s latest video work and paintings, part of FUTURE PERFECT 888666, a body of work based on the stories ...

Opening simultaneously with Jen Liu's show is our first solo presentation with Lucas Lugarinho (BR, 1992) in our private viewing space. Lugarinho is currently a resident at Rijksakademie and works between video game design and painting, sampling disparate media ecosystems into counter-colonial nar...