Holland Art Cities

The top ten museums in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht will be joining forces to put together an unprecedented art spectacle.

More art & culture per square mile

The Rijksmuseum presents the first survey of winter landscapes by Hendrick Avercamp

The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague shows the works of Cézanne, Picasso and Mondriaan alongside one another in an unique exhibition.

The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam presents 'The Masterpieces', the crème de la crème of the Golden Age of its own collection.

The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, participant of Holland Art Cities, presents the first solo exhibition on the artist Michael Raedecker in Holland.

The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague presents a private top collection by old Dutch masters in the fall of 2010.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is proud to present this overview of the works of Ron Arad. Arad expresses his personal style in the chairs, tables, cabinets and architectural projects that he has produced since the 1980s.

International exhibition on how fashion influences visual art in so many ways.

The Vincent Award is a major European award that is granted once every two years to a European artist whose work is currently very relevant. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam exhibits the work of fives nominees.

2009 is the Year of Darwin. The exhibition “Ongoing Evolution” in the University Museum Utrecht is devoted to Darwin’s evolution theory.

Droog Design is one of the best-known exponents of Dutch Design.

With over thirty historic photographs and an exquisite selection of The Hague School paintings from the collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Neue Pinakothek Munich, Kunsthal Rotterdam casts a surprising glance at the landscape painting and photography of the nineteenth century.

The Exhibition 'Show your colours' of the Museum for Contemporary Aboriginal Art presents the daring and visionary use of colour by leading Aboriginal Artists.

The inaugural exhibition of Hermitage Amsterdam, At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century, promises to be one of the most lavish ever presented in Europe, and one of the largest.

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag mounts the Kandinsky & Der Blaue Reiter exhibit, from February 6 through May 24, 2010. They are among the artists’ collectives from the early 1900s that appeal most to people’s imaginations.

Flowers and Holland. A match made in heaven. The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague will mount an exhibition on flowers in spring 2011.

The Central Centraal Museum in Utrecht presents the work of designer and architect Gerrit Th. Rietveld in a large international exhibition.

Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht showcases a selection of top works from Holland’s Golden Age, the 17th-century, that illustrate the relationship between faith and art.

In spring 2010, the Gemeentemuseum The Hague will present an exclusive peek into the rich history of the fascinating world of champagne, charm and Chanel.

From 17 October 2009 to 18 April 2010, some 250 outstanding items from different museum collections in Oman will be on display in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam.

From 19 September 2009 through 10 January 2010 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shows the most creative visions in Dutch Design of the past two years which have been nominated for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009.

The work of Mike Kelley, one of the main exponents of American performance art, will be on display in the The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

The Belgian artist Alfred Stevens (1823 – 1906) is known for his paintings of elegant, intriguing and distant women. This fall Stevens’ works are on display in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam shows the main art works that are mentioned in letters that Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo.

The Hermitage Amsterdam not only houses historical art, but also modern art from the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

This fall, the Kunsthal Rotterdam will mount a major exhibition on American paintings from the early 1900s. After well over twenty years, works by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) will be on view in Holland once again.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents eighty paintings from the Rotterdam-born artist Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1068).

The Dutch fashion designer, performance artist and artist Aziz Bekkaoui (*1969) boasts a unique vision, and remarkable associative and styling skills. This guarantees an intriguing exhibition in the Catharijneconvent Museum in the summer of 2010.