The Stedelijk Museum brings work of the South African photographer Zanele Muholi to Amsterdam. 8 JULY – 15 OCTOBER 2017 It was previously shown in the Netherlands in group exhibitions and is represented in several Dutch collections. Muholi’s self-appointed mission is: ‘to re-write a black queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the […]

If you happen to be a fan of Ed van der Elsken’s  photography, you’ve come to the right place at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. From 3rd of February there is the exhibition “De Verliefde Camera”. It is the largest global overview of his work in 25 years. Ed van der Elsken was a unique […]

Foto Museum Amsterdam- Foam proudly presents The Nine and The Ninety Nine, an exhibition of the American photographer Katy Grannan (1969, USA), comprising her two newest series which are shown here for the first time outside the United States. Grannan is renowned for her remarkable and intimate portraits of strangers, most of whom are somehow […]

17 April – 14 June 2015 Foam presents an exceptional and, until now, little-known theme in the voluminous oeuvre of the well-known Dutch painter Carel Willink. In the 1930s, he began to photograph the Amsterdam sky from his apartment and studio,  overlooking the famous Rijksmuseum, to use as material for sketches. These clouded skies were […]

20.2.2015-31.5.2015 | Humanity House, The Hague Exactly four years after the start of the Arab Spring, for the first time in the Netherlands we can view the new exhibition Stories of Change – Beyond the ‘Arab Spring’. Photographers and multimedia authors give a revealing and intimate glimpse into daily life in five North African societies. […]

Brooklyn, New York City (USA), 14 March – 26 April 2015 This exhibition was first shown at Foam Museum in Amsterdam from September to December 2014. Group exhibition at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York City featuring works by Joshua Citarella, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Matt Lipps, Matthew Porter, Sara […]

In the photography works of Denis Guzzo (b.1977 Vicenza, It) past and present play a significant role. Being an Italian, Guzzo feels the past of the country in his veins. The history of Italy going back to the Roman (Etruscan) period, the Renaissance or Baroque period, forms part of the DNA of Italians. They feel […]

A very special photography collection of the noble Van Loon family will be exhibited for the very first time. The exhibition is a collaboration between across the canal neighbours, Museum Van Loon and photography museum Foam. Museum Van Loon is the former residence of the Van Loon family. The Van Loon photo collection consists of historic […]

175 Years of Photography in Rotterdam Since the invention of the medium of photography, there has never been an exhibition on Rotterdam that has given such a broad representation of the city and of the photography used to produce this representation. Rotterdam in the Picture displays a tough city, a multicultural, constructive and dynamic city, a […]

As of Saturday 20 December, the Kunsthal Rotterdam presents the historical exhibition ‘Two Hundred Years of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Atlas Van Stolk’. Hundreds of prints, drawings, photographs, cartoons and posters from the Atlas Van Stolk – atlas is an Old Dutch term meaning collection -illustrate the lives of the Dutch people during […]

Every day millions of people all over the world share photos of themselves. Photography is a powerful way to show who you are or want to be. But is this unique in our time? You’ll find the answer to that question in this photo exhibition, between 20.11.2014-15.3.2015 at Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam. The Tropenmuseum has explored its rich historical […]

28 November – 10 December 2014 In 2013 the Gieskes-Strijbis Fund and Foam awarded Doina Kraal* the Foam 3h Award to grant her the opportunity to create a new work or to make an artists’ book. This led to the project ‘Touche-à-Tout’, a traveling installation that builds on her multimedia installation ‘In de Rarekiek’ which […]

This winter Foam proudly presents the first major Dutch retrospective of the famous Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940). Araki is without doubt one of the most famous Japanese artists of our time. His inexhaustible creative energy shown by the large amount of more than 450 books which he published in the past four decades. Since […]