Exhibitions
Sander Dekker - My Name Is Sander Dekker
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02 Jun - 30 Jun 2018 TORCH gallery My Name Is Sander Dekker Sander Dekker 02-30.06.2018 On Saturday the 2nd of June opens My Name Is Sander Dekker, a solo exhibition by photographer Sander Dekker at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. One part of the exhibition shows photo's that belong to the ongoing series 'The Project', while the other part is an installation called 'TenFifteen', consisting of thousands of tiny photographs. The style of Dekker is easily recognizable, due to his working method that could be described as spontaneous and playful. When shooting, Dekker does not know how the photos will turn out in the end, as he always tries to capture the unexpected. |
TINKEBELL - The Worst Is Yet To Come: relics from a distant past
Thijs Zweers - Unreal
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03 Mar - 07 Apr 2018 TORCH gallery Unreal Thijs Zweers 10.03.2018 – 21.04.2018 Extra event on 9th of March 6 pm at the Oedipus Taproom: Launch of the beer ‘Unreal’, a collaboration between Oedipus Brewing and Thijs Zweers.
On Saturday the 10th of March opens Unreal, the second solo exhibition of Thijs Zweers at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. Once again Zweers presents black powerful drawings made with Siberian chalk and charcoal, in which he examines the boundaries between our world and the virtual one. In a time when people spend more and more time in front of screens, looking towards realistic representations of what is actually around us, the certainty of what is real and what is not, disappears slowly. |
Louise te Poele - Acid Flowers
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27 Jan - 03 Mar 2018 TORCH gallery
Acid Flowers 27.01 - 03.03.2018
Acid Flowers, the second solo-exhibition of Dutch photographer Louise te Poele for TORCH gallery in Amsterdam, will open on Saturday the 27th of January between 5-7pm. With this exhibition, Louise will introduce a new body of work by means of a spectacular gallery-filling installation. Where her previous work was made in the spirit of the 17th century Dutch masters of the still life, these new pieces are futuristic flower arrangements bathing in bright neon lights. She orchestrates wondrous compositions of found objects that playfully disrupt suggestions of movement, scale and vanitas. After the opening the exhibition will be on view until Saturday the third of March.
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Gijs van Lith - The Browsing Chamber
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25 Nov - 06 Jan 2018 TORCH gallery The browsing chamber A Salon on Steroids Steven Cox Samuel Francois Ina Gerken Gijs van Lith (curator) Pierre Obando
Super salon shuffle - yoga session: Friday the 24th of November, 2-3 pm Opening during the Amsterdam Art Weekend: Saturday the 25th of November, 5-8pm
On Saturday the 25th of November a group exhibition curated by Gijs van Lith, entitled The Browsing Chamber, will open at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. Five young international talents will present works in a salon-style exhibition that will cover the entire surface of the backspace of the gallery, from floor to ceiling. All participating artists make process-based abstract works which relate to painting in a systematic manner. These young artists are inspired by their largely digital surroundings and the way images are indexed on the internet. Before the festive opening, the salon will be the location for an intense yoga session, the marks of which will become part of the final presentation. This installation can be viewed as a three-dimensional interpretation of a google image search. The neatly organized grids of images provided by search engines have become a point of first contact for people interested in the work of an artist.Entering the backspace should speak of human scale and our interaction with artworks grounded in their material. |
Anya Janssen - People say I'm different
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21 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 TORCH Anya Janssen People say I'm different Een ode aan het ongekende 21.10.2017 – 18.11.2017 Opening met performance “LOK KEDE KOM A” van Christine Ayo: zaterdag 21 Oktober tussen 17:00 en 19:00
Op zaterdag 21 oktober opent People say I'm different, een solo-tentoonstelling met nieuwe werken van Anya Janssen bij galerie TORCH in Amsterdam. De werken tonen de ontmoeting tussen Anya Janssen en Christine Ayo, een jonge kunstenares uit Oeganda. Ayo is zich bewust van haar positie als de 'ander' in de ogen van velen. Ze gebruikt dit spel met perceptie als machtsmiddel, haar uitstraling is haar eigen bezit. Janssen is gefascineerd door de visie van Ayo op de wereld en het contrast met haar eigen positie als mens, kunstenaar en Europeaan. Ze zoekt naar een gelijkwaardig contact en beseft zich gaandeweg: als je een verbintenis met iemand aangaat, wordt hij of zij onderdeel van je wezen. Je bent minder autonoom dan je denkt. Er ontstaat een poreuze identiteit waar het statische 'ik' plaats maakt voor een fluïde ‚wij'. |
Philip Akkerman - Paintings
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09 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 TORCH gallery / Oedipus Taproom On Saturday the 9th of September TORCH will start a new season of art with Paintings, an exhibition of new work by Dutch painter Philip Akkerman. For Paintings, Akkerman has collaborated with the well known graphic designer Dennis Koot, who has designed a series of 'Frames' based on Philip's most recent works. These frames deconstruct and unhinge Philips paintings on panel until they become wild, vector-based installation pieces. The Friday before the opening of Paintings will mark the launch of Château Akkerman, a special bock-style beer brewed by the Amsterdam based brewery Oedipus in collaboration with the artist. The festive launch will take place from 5pm on the 8th of September at the Oedipus Taproom and will include a tasting, an artist talk andmusic by DJ Akkerman. |
Various Artists - Grayscale
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12 Aug - 02 Sep 2017 Grayscale, a group exhibition featuring three contemporary photographers working in black and white, will open on Saturday the 12th of August between 5 and 7 pm at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. Although the methods of arriving at an image differ wildly for each of the three participating artists, they all blend classic sensibilities with a contemporary temperament. They take idyllic themes like still lives, pastoral family bliss and the wondrous nature of the Indonesian islands and give them an intelligent twist using photographic techniques, unexpected vantage points and their personal engagement with the subject matter. |
Various Artists - Excellence on Repeat
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08 Jul - 05 Aug 2017 TORCH In its 33 years of existence, TORCH has collected and helped produce a very broad variety of editions and multiples. This includes works by renowned, emerging and obscure artists from the Netherlands and abroad. This summer the gallery will make a selection from the archives, ranging from early works by Jan Worst and A.R. Penck to very recent works by Thijs Zweers and TINKEBELL. Opening Saturday the 8th of July from 5-7pm
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Eldon Garnet - The Garden of Hell on Earth
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27 May - 01 Jul 2017 TORCH gallery On Saturday the 27th of May between 5-7 pm The Garden of Hell on Earth, a solo-exhibition by Canadian artist Eldon Garnet will open at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. With a series of large-scale photographs depicting a post-apocalyptic narrative of struggle and lasting hope of biblical proportions he sets the tone for the final chapters of his long and fruitful career as an artist. These labor-intensive and highly ambitious pieces form a new lexicon for recovery as a fundamental human trait. After all the processes deemed as progress come to a grinding halt, when the modern age has had its grand finale and there is nothing left but soot and stone, then humans will inevitably start rebuilding their world. |
Popel Coumou - New Work
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08 Apr - 20 May 2017 TORCH gallery TORCH gallery Amsterdam is pleased to announce it's fifth solo exhibition by Dutch photographer Popel Coumou. New Work will open on Saturday the 8th of April between 5- 7pm. A new publication will be printed for the occasion and Popel will present a limited edition box set including a small work and all previous publications in the series. In her recent work she has made a surprising shift in her artistic framework towards more instable forms and less defined vistas. It is a reorientation on the way photographs can suggest time, space and light and simultaneously a reinterpretation of the visual patterns that have occurred throughout her work. Besides these photographs she will also present lightboxes and three dimensional collages. |
Line Gulsett - Rapid Repulsion
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18 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 TORCH Gallery On Saturday the 18th of February Rapid Repulsion, Line Gulsett's second solo-exhibition at TORCH gallery will open between 5-7 pm. After this festive event the exhibition will run through Saturday the 25th of March. TORCH is open from Thursday to Saturday from 12-6pm, and by appointment. For further information and images please contact the gallery via the contact information listed below, or visit the website of the artist: linegulsett.com. The exhibition will feature a selection of recent large and small scale canvasses in addition to drawings with oil pastel on black paper. |
Ashley Zelinskie - Reverse Abstraction
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07 Jan - 11 Feb 2017 TORCH gallery TORCH will start the new year with Reverse Abstraction, a solo-exhibition of new work by American artist Ashley Zelinskie. The exhibition will open on Saturday the 7th of January and will be on view through the 11th of February. |
Terry Rodgers - Solo Spaces
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29 Oct - 31 Dec 2016 TORCH gallery TORCH is thrilled to announce Solo Spaces , a solo-exhibition of new work by renowned American artist Terry Rodgers. On Saturday the 29th of October, between 5-7pm, the artist will be present at the gallery to open the exhibition. After this festive evening Solo Spaces will be open to the public until Saturday the 31st of December. A new, limited edition publication will be made available during the opening. During the upcoming Amsterdam Art Weekend (24-27 November) Terry will take part in a Q&A hosted from his studio in Columbus, Ohio via live video chat. This special event will be moderated in Amsterdam by media critic, writer and lecturer Catherine Somzé and will take place on Saturday the 26th of November from 4-5 pm. TORCH is open from Thursday until Saturday from 12-6 pm and by appointment. |
Gijs van Lith - Welcom to the Thunderdome
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03 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 TORCH On Saturday the 3rd of September TORCH gallery Amsterdam will open the new gallery season with Welcome to the Thunderdome. It will be the first solo exhibition by the young Dutch painter Gijs van Lith (1984) at the gallery. As this day marks the start of a new season of exhibitions after the summer many galleries in the Jordaan gallery district will open simultaneously. Afterwards the exhibition will be open to the public until Saturday the 22nd of October. |
Martin Roemers - Metropolis
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04 Jun - 09 Jul 2016 TORCH gallery On Saturday the 4th of June Metropolis, a solo-exhibition by Dutch photographer Martin Roemers will open at TORCH gallery in Amsterdam. His work is represented by galleries in New York, Paris and Dubai. After an impressive exhibition at Huis Marseille TORCH had the chance to work with the artist in the Netherlands. Metropolis is a report of his travels to mega-cities with over 10 million citizens. He sought out a great number of these metropolises, ranging from New York City to Tokyo. He aims his lens at the interaction between the masses and the individual and on those little moments of ritualistic silence found in the turbulent dynamics of a overflowing cultural melting pot. After the opening the exhibition will be open to the public until Saturday the 9th of July. The gallery is open for visitors on Thursday-Saturday, from 12-6 pm (and by appointment). |
Thijs Zweers - The land of virtually nothing
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16 Apr - 21 May 2016 TORCH On Saturday the 16th of April, between 5-7pm, TORCH gallery Amsterdam is pleased to open its doors for The Land of Virtually Nothing, the first solo-exhibition by Dutch artist Thijs Zweers at the gallery. In his imposing drawings Thijs describes the new habitat for the younger generations; a digital wilderness of subcultures, images and stories with a very distinctromanticism. Using pitch black Siberian charcoal he describes the digital existence in detail. After the opening the exhibition will be open to the public until Saturday the 21st of May. |
Sandro Miller - Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich - Homage to Photographic Masters
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27 Feb - 09 Apr 2016 TORCH TORCH gallery Amsterdam is honored to host Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich - Homage to Photographic Masters, a solo exhibition of photographs by world renowned Chicago-based photographer Sandro Miller. For this exhibition Sandro has reinterpreted a selection of iconic photographs that have been of great importance for his own career. He painstakingly re-staged some of the hallmarks in the history of the medium and then introduced only one significant change; their main subject became John Malkovich. This celebrated actor has known Miller for over 18 years and they have collaborated on several occasions since they met at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Now they have joined forces again to showcase both the chameleon-like qualities of Malkovich as an actor and Millers' expertise in the field of photography. The exhibition will open on Saturday the 27th of February between 5-7pm. Sandro Miller will be present for the opening. After this festive event the exhibition will be on view until Saturday the 9nd of April. |
Ellen Kooi - Crossings
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09 Jan - 20 Feb 2016 TORCH gallery
Opening: Saturday the 9th of January - 5-7pm Open on Wednesday - Saturday - 12-6pm
TORCH opens the new year with a solo-exhibition of new work by Ellen Kooi. This Dutch photographer enjoys international recognition for her panoramic photographs of the relation between man and landscape. The protagonists in her pieces are often young people expressing signs of intense inner turmoil. In her work Ellen Kooi searches for the exact moment in which this inner struggle becomes external. A swarm of birds or the reflection of clouds in a body of water become symbolic for personal development and submerged emotions. In other pieces the landscape itself is the main actor of the composition and Ellen lets her models emphasize the natural dynamic of the location.
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Teun Hocks - New Work
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24 Oct - 02 Jan 2016 TORCH gallery Opening at TORCH: Saturday the 24th of October 5-7pm
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