We have been accompanied by our bodies throughout our entire lives. Our body has experienced the same things as we do. Some of these events are permanently visible on our body in the form of a scar. They are solidified testimonies of often intimate changes. On 20 May, artist Joost van Wijmen will come to […]

On Sunday 25 March the Van Abbemuseum choir is celebrating its fifth anniversary and will take you on a musical tour through the museum! Five contemporary artists - Glucklya, Iris Kensmil, Cindy Moorman, Laure Prouvost and Hans de Wit – were commissioned to compose new pieces for the collection in the form of musical compositions specially […]

In the last weekend of the exhibition ‘Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective’ Buro Kato will give a workshop with a focus on storytelling. Rasheed Araeen is a London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer and curator. The exhibition, spanning 60 years of work, presents a body of work that has had a profound influence on generations of […]

'Museum as Parliament' is inspired by 'The People's Parliament' of Rojava which also opens in March 2018 in Dêrik, Rojava (North Syria). This parliament is a project by the Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava, North Syria, designed in collaboration with artist Jonas Staal and his New World Summit team. The parliament connects art and politics and […]

Thursday 1 February the Young Art Crowd organizes a Portfolio Night at the Van Abbemuseum. Especially for you, The Young Art Crowd invited the professionals like Charles Esche, Frank Veenstra (Muziekgebouw Eindhoven), Tijs Rooijakkers (designer) and other professionals in art, design, photography, graphic design, illustration and fashion for a series of quick-fire portfolio review sessions. […]

Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings seeks to open up new understandings of Conceptualism produced by artists based in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968.

How do you look at art? What do you experience when you're fully present, mentally and physically, in the museum room? What is the difference between just entering a museum or stepping into the room when you've just meditated? We will explore this in this workshop, consisting of 2 parts. Together with Marieke Verberne (Yoga […]

Becoming More is a ten-day caucus comprising of lectures, performances, screenings, commissions, discussions and food hosted by the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Through the caucus we will ask how art can provide a productive, critical space where solidarities are formed and political visions rehearsed. In other words, it will ask: ‘How can we become more?’ For […]

The Guerrilla Girls 1985 - Today exhibition presents the history of the development of the activist group of artists Guerrilla Girls and shows their relevance through the years and up to today.  It shows a selection of the group’s work made between 1985 and 2012, supplemented with a number of art books that the group […]