Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Art isn’t created in a white cube, so why view it in one?
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Huis Marseille has been offering a varied exhibition program in which photography's rich history and diverse uses are given consideration. The museum provides a view of the 'landscape' taking shape in photography; it presents photographers, artists and forms of photography which do justice to visual quality and which can be counted among the medium's major, but also lesser known, highlights. This

stands in contrast to the profusion of photography as a mass medium. The unique structure of this house plays a significant role. Each of the fourteen exhibition spaces has its own specific character. The building still has the atmosphere of a 'gentleman's residence', but its rooms have now become galleries. A sense of warmth and intimacy has remained. Huis Marseille strives to make the visitor feel welcome in these home-like surroundings.

Last chance! Just a few days left to see Tata Ronkholz’s acclaimed retrospective in Amsterdam 🏗️Tata Ronkholz was among ...
11/06/2026

Last chance! Just a few days left to see Tata Ronkholz’s acclaimed retrospective in Amsterdam 🏗️

Tata Ronkholz was among the first students of renowned photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying alongside artists such as Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth. While her classmates achieved international fame decades ago, Ronkholz’s work is only now receiving the recognition it deserves.

Known for her precise, documentary-style photographs, Ronkholz captured storefronts, kiosks, and everyday architecture with remarkable clarity. Working with a large-format camera, she focused on the character of ordinary structures rather than artistic self-expression, revealing the beauty and history hidden in the built environment.

⚙️ Designed World – Through the Eyes of Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997)
📆 On view until 21 June 2026
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam

Images Tata Ronkholz
Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Düsseldorf, Sankt-Franziskus-Straße 107, 1977
Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Ratingen, Volkardeyer Straße 25, 1977
Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Köln-Nippes, Merheimer Straße 294, 1983
Boutique, Köln-Mülheim, Berliner Straße 120, 1980
Installation view Designed World
Thomas Struth. Getreidespeicher, Rhenus seitlich / Grain silo, Rhenus lateral 1979
Aus der Serie / From the series „Rheinhafen / Rhine harbor Düsseldorf“, 1979–1981 © Thomas Struth
Installation views Designed World
Thomas Struth. Rheinhafen / Rhine harbor (Berger Hafen v. d. VHS / from Adult education center), Düsseldorf 1979 Aus der Serie / From the series „Rheinhafen / Rhine harbor Düsseldorf“, 1979–1981 © Thomas Struth
Imbissstube / Snack bar, Düsseldorf-Rath, Linienstraße 141, 1977
Tata Ronkholz. Firma / Company Tromm, Tor Gleisanschluss / Gate railway siding, Köln-Niehl, 1983
Installation view Designed World
© VAN HAM Art Estate: Tata Ronkholz, 2026

Football is deeply rooted in European culture, and football grounds form a familiar part of the landscape in villages ac...
10/06/2026

Football is deeply rooted in European culture, and football grounds form a familiar part of the landscape in villages across the continent.

Since 1995, photographer Hans van der Meer has documented lower-league matches, capturing not only the game but also its surroundings. Beginning in the Netherlands with the book Dutch Fields (1998) and later expanding across Europe in European Fields (2006), his work highlights the relationship between sport and place.

Photographed from fixed, often elevated viewpoints, the scenes frequently show solitary goalkeepers waiting as play unfolds at the far end of the pitch. These quiet moments form a tribute to the remote fields where amateur players pursue their passion, far from the spotlight of the UEFA Champions League.

📷 Hans van der Meer — Goalkeepers
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

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Thank you for being part of this inspiring conversation between Dr. Taous Dahmani and Yumna Al-Arashi 💚Together, they re...
05/06/2026

Thank you for being part of this inspiring conversation between Dr. Taous Dahmani and Yumna Al-Arashi 💚

Together, they reflected on some of the exhibition’s central themes: representation of women, depictions of the Arab world, colonial legacies, and matriarchal histories. In Body as Resistance, Al-Arashi’s work resists easy categorization, moving between the poetic, political, playful, and defiant, often all at once.

For updates on upcoming talks and events, visit the newsletter link in our bio 💚

Images © Yumna Al-Arashi
- Axis of Evil I, 2020 from the series Axis of Evil
- Images from the Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous Dahmani
- Untitled, 2020
- Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
- Northern Yemen I, 2013 from the series Northern Yemen (2013–2014)

Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Tata Ronkholz was one of the first students in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s famous photography class at the Kunstakademie Dü...
04/06/2026

Tata Ronkholz was one of the first students in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s famous photography class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her fellow students included Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, all of whom became artists of world renown. Oddly enough Tata Ronkholz’ work is only now receiving the same international acclaim.

Her photographic series lie within the tradition of objective, documentary photography, a tradition which was decisively shaped by the artist couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like theirs, Ronkholz’ work is characterised by clear compositions, a serial approach, and a documentary focus on architectural structures and everyday architectures. Using a large-format camera she produced sharply defined and realistic photographs in which the subject matter, rather than the individual style of the artist, takes centre stage.

📷 Tata Ronkholz: Gestaltete Welt. Eine Retropektive (2025, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH)
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore

⚙️ Designed World – Through the Eyes of Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997)
📆 On view until 21 June 2026

📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam

Coming soon! Is an artist born or made? Is a person’s identity set from birth, or discovered later?Martine Gutierrez add...
30/05/2026

Coming soon! Is an artist born or made? Is a person’s identity set from birth, or discovered later?

Martine Gutierrez addresses these questions in a large-scale solo exhibition, Wunderkind, emphasising the importance of creativity and expression – qualities that characterised her childhood and made her the internationally celebrated artist she has since become.

Martine sees childhood as the ‘threshold of selfhood’ and art was always her medium, in a deliberate, continuous practice of personal reinvention. The exhibition Wunderkind pieces together the riddle that is Martine, using never before seen artworks that date back to her childhood.

⭐️ Martine Gutierrez — Wunderkind
🪄 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
🫧 Opening 27 June, 2026

Images © Martine Gutierrez
Mom’s Refrigerator, 2026 from the series Still Life
Nursery, 2026 from the series Still Life
Wish You Were Here, 2026
The Search for True Beauty (film stills), 1999 - close-up
The Search for True Beauty (film stills), 1999 - close-up

Some moments deserve extra time. The Photography Bookstore stays open every Thursday until 9 PM., rain or shine, cold or...
28/05/2026

Some moments deserve extra time. The Photography Bookstore stays open every Thursday until 9 PM., rain or shine, cold or warm evening. Our lights shine bright, and the doors welcome you! 📸

Come by. Take your time. Get lost for a while.

📚 Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Images from our unique postcard selection
- Farah Al Qasimi. Aviary, 2019
- Deborah Turbeville. Asser Levy Bathhouse, uit de serie Bathhouse, 1975 © Deborah Turbeville / MUUS Collection
- Tata Ronkholz. Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Köln-Nippes, Merheimer Straße 294, 1983
© VAN HAM Art Estate: Tata Ronkholz, 2026
- Heesoo Kwon. Still from Garden New Sun, 2024
- View from the Photography Bookstore Amsterdam
- Lindokuhle Sobekwa. Gogo Lucy Zwane in her garden, Ezilalini (The Country), 2021
- Deborah Turbeville. Zonder titel, uit de serie Comme des Garçons, Passage Vivienne, Parijs, Frankrijk, Nov 1980 © Deborah Turbeville / MUUS Collection
- Jules, Henri and Louis Séeberger. The Jardin du Luxembourg. Sainte-Bathilde, by Thérasse (1848), September 1906 CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris
- Jules Séeberger. Old Montmartre. An artist in the maquis, March 1904 CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris

Join us next Thursday! Huis Marseille is pleased to announce an in-depth public conversation between the Zürich-based ar...
27/05/2026

Join us next Thursday! Huis Marseille is pleased to announce an in-depth public conversation between the Zürich-based artist Yumna Al-Arashi and the art historian Taous Dahmani, focusing on the themes in Al-Arashi’s first institutional solo exhibition Body as Resistance.

Through a wide variety of media the artist addresses the stereotyping of women, the way the Arab world is depicted, the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts, and matriarchal traditions. Dr Taous Dahmani is a French, British, and Algerian art historian specialising in photography.

In Body as Resistance Al-Arashi challenges dominant Western narratives and reveals the complexity of people in front of and behind the camera. Her work switches effortlessly between registers – sometimes playful and provocative, sometimes poetic, defiant or enraged – and more often than not, all of these things at once.

Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous Dahmani
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Thursday 4 June 2026 — 19:00 / 21:00
💬 Language: English
Including drinks in the Bookstore
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Images © Yumna Al-Arashi
I Am Whoever You Want Me to Be, 2018
from the series I Am Who I Am Who Am I
Bookmaking video from the series Aisha
Portrait Yumna Al-Arashi
Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
Northern Yemen I, 2013
from the series Northern Yemen (2013–2014)
Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
Portrait Taous Dahmani © Oumayma Ben Tanfous
Bookmaking video from the series Aisha
Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
Self-Portrait as Mercury at the exhibition Body As Resistance
Sculpture made by .be
Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
Bookmaking video from the series Aisha

Kommste klar? We’re open during Pentecost weekend! Bis gleich am Büdchen. Between 1977 and 1985, German photographer and...
24/05/2026

Kommste klar? We’re open during Pentecost weekend! Bis gleich am Büdchen.

Between 1977 and 1985, German photographer and designer Tata Ronkholz captured the quiet poetry of everyday urban life. Her photographs of kiosks (Trinkhallen) and snack bars (Imbissbuden) in Düsseldorf, Cologne and the Ruhr region reveal more than storefronts, they show places of encounter, exchange, and routine.

Trained as a product designer and interior architect, Ronkholz had a sharp eye for form, function, surfaces and structure. In the apparent ordinariness of these small buildings, she recognized something unique: individually shaped spaces that reflect social needs and economic realities.

The retrospective Designed World is the first large-scale tribute to this many-sided artist.

⚙️ Designed World – Through the Eyes of Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997)
📆 On view until 21 June 2026
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam

Images Tata Ronkholz
Installation close-ups Designed World
Friseur / Hairdresser, Köln-Ehrenfeld, Philippstraße 30, 1980
Boutique, Köln-Mülheim, Berliner Straße 120, 1980
Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Düsseldorf, Sankt-Franziskus-Straße 107, 1977
Trinkhalle / Kiosk, Köln-Nippes, Merheimer Straße 294, 1983
Imbissstube / Snack bar, Düsseldorf-Rath, Linienstraße 141, 1977
Installation close-ups Designed World
© VAN HAM Art Estate: Tata Ronkholz, 2026

Omaha Sketchbook: 15 years of midwestern masculinity“Traveling to the nation’s heartland—a vague construct increasingly ...
22/05/2026

Omaha Sketchbook: 15 years of midwestern masculinity

“Traveling to the nation’s heartland—a vague construct increasingly synonymous with the Bible belt— continues to mine this idea of Americanness in a place bounded by prairie and steeped in pioneer history. His work in the midwestern city of Omaha reveals America as pluralized, fragmented, and teeming with its own ‘brand of hypermasculinity’, as he terms it: adolescents on the cusp of promise or obscurity, land that seemingly leads to nowhere, a sense of unending time and a dark side to domesticity. Halpern’s efforts to visualize America yield an opportunity to learn about the country by staring back at images of it that breed their own complexity.” – Amanda Maddox

Omaha Sketchbook by Gregory Halpern is now available in the Huis Marseille Bookshop

📷 Gregory Halpern — Omaha Sketchbook
(Second Edition)
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Join us! Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous DahmaniHuis Marseille is pleased to announce an in-depth public conversation...
21/05/2026

Join us! Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous Dahmani

Huis Marseille is pleased to announce an in-depth public conversation between the Zürich-based artist Yumna Al-Arashi and the art historian Taous Dahmani, focusing on the themes in Al-Arashi’s first institutional solo exhibition Body as Resistance.

Through a wide variety of media – photography, book and sculpture – the artist addresses the stereotyping of women, the way the Arab world is depicted, the legacy of colonialism in our thoughts, and matriarchal traditions. Dr Taous Dahmani is a French, British, and Algerian art historian specialising in photography.

In Body as Resistance Al-Arashi challenges dominant Western narratives and reveals the complexity of people in front of and behind the camera. Her work switches effortlessly between registers – sometimes playful and provocative, sometimes poetic, defiant or enraged – and more often than not, all of these things at once.

Yumna Al-Arashi interview by Taous Dahmani
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Thursday 4 June 2026 — 19:00 / 21:00
💬 Language: English
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Images
- © Yumna Al-Arashi. Northern Yemen I, 2013
from the series Northern Yemen (2013–2014)
- Portrait Yumna Al-Arashi
- Portrait Taous Dahmani © Oumayma Ben Tanfous
- Installation close-up at the exhibition Body as Resistance
- © Yumna Al-Arashi. Untitled, 2020
- © Yumna Al-Arashi. Northern Yemen II, 2013
from the series Northern Yemen (2013–2014)

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