Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Art isn’t created in a white cube, so why view it in one?
•Amsterdam’s 1st Photography Museum
•Exhibitions •Bookshop •Library •Garden
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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.

31/08/2026

How do I keep ending up here? Welcome to the home for art photography. The bookstore is open and free to visit every day of the week ☔

29/08/2026

Join us! Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother

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On Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutierrez will attend a special screening of her film The Search for True Beauty. After the screening she will engage in conversation with her mother, who has played an important role in nurturing Martine’s creativity from an early age and whose influence can be felt in various ways throughout the exhibition Wunderkind.

During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.

📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Sunday 6 September 2026 — 13:30 / 15:00
💬 Language: English
Including drinks in the Bookstore
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Join us! The making of a Wunderkind, with Martine Gutierrez and her motherOn Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutie...
24/08/2026

Join us! The making of a Wunderkind, with Martine Gutierrez and her mother

On Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutierrez will attend a special screening of her film The Search for True Beauty. After the screening she will engage in conversation with her mother, who has played an important role in nurturing Martine’s creativity from an early age and whose influence can be felt in various ways throughout the exhibition Wunderkind.

During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.

Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Sunday 6 September 2026 — 13:30 / 15:00
💬 Language: English
Including drinks in the Bookstore
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Images
Martine Gutierrez for Numéro by Gijs van de Veerdonk
Installation close-ups at the exhibition Wunderkind by Eddo Hartmann
© Martine Gutierrez. Dress Up 11, 2026
© Martine Gutierrez. The Search for True Beauty (film snippet), 1999
© Martine Gutierrez. The Creation, 2026

Coming soon! Adolphe de Meyer’s recently rediscovered collection of photographs of VeniceHuis Marseille presents The Sub...
22/08/2026

Coming soon! Adolphe de Meyer’s recently rediscovered collection of photographs of Venice

Huis Marseille presents The Substance of a Venetian Dream, the first ever European museum exhibition devoted to the photographer Adolphe de Meyer (1868–1946). This follows the remarkable discovery in 2019 in the municipal library of Tours: a series of 75 photographs documenting his life and photographic work in Venice.

This collection is being displayed in its entirety for the first time, and offers an exceptional glimpse into his personal and artistic world.

🎞️ Adolphe de Meyer — The Substance of a Venetian Dream
🕊️ Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
✨ Opening 24 October, 2026

Images:
Attributed to Gertrude Käsebier, Adolphe de Meyer posing on a balcony, Palazzo Balbi-Valier, 1905,
courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Attributed to Adolphe de Meyer, View of the garden from the Palazzo Balbi-Valier (side view of the Palazzo
Contarini Dal Zaffo, also know as Contarini Polignac), ca. 1904–1908, courtesy of the Bibliothèque
municipale de Tours
Adolphede Meyer, Olga de Meyer reading the paper in the garden of the Palazzo Balbi-Valier, ca. 1905, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, Self-portrait at the piano, ca. 1904–1905, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, View of the Palazzo Barbaro from the window of the
Palazzo Balbi-Valier’s salotto, ca. 1904–1908, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, Portrait of Olga de Meyer, Palazzo Balbi-Valier’s garden, ca. 1904-1908, courtesy of the
Bibliothèque municipale de Tours

In 1959, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park ...
20/08/2026

In 1959, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park that had become New York’s best-known outdoor meeting place for q***r men. Designed as a picturesque woodland in the nineteenth century, by the late 1960s it had grown wild, a hidden, half-forgotten place of chance encounters in the middle of the city.

For a little over a year, Tress returned again and again, recording the everyday choreography of cruising and creating what is now recognized as the earliest known photographic record of outdoor cruising in a natural setting.

Long unseen, The Ramble is now considered a vital piece of New York’s q***r history, part ethnography, part fantasy. More than fifty years later, it stands alongside a new generation of q***r landscape projects that share its quiet focus on how bodies, longing, and hidden places shape each other.

The Ramble is the first publication of this remarkable archive: an early portrait of a hidden world, a city’s wild corner, and an artist searching for himself among the trees.

📷 Arthur Tress — The Ramble, NYC 1969
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

19/08/2026

We’ve got stickers! The Photography Bookstore at Huis Marseille is free to visit every day 📚

Before we know who we are, we play with who we could be.For any child, understanding the mystery of existence is a homec...
17/08/2026

Before we know who we are, we play with who we could be.

For any child, understanding the mystery of existence is a homecoming. To find oneself is the answer that must first be put to question: ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Why are we here?’.

For children like Martine, whose differences were expected to fit rigid cultural norms, toys became avatars. They offered an imaginative refuge and a space to explore individuality, opening paths to self-permission through play.

Martine’s toys stage a set of origin stories she grew up with, yet she invites visitors to join the play, using her creations as a springboard to imagine worlds of their own.

⭐️ Martine Gutierrez — Wunderkind
🪄 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
🫧 On view until 18 October, 2026

Close-up installation images © Martine Gutierrez
from the series Mother of Dolls (2026)

As the sun disappears, we look up into the universe.“The journey of life itself is so fascinating that we always encount...
13/08/2026

As the sun disappears, we look up into the universe.

“The journey of life itself is so fascinating that we always encounter the unexpected.

I decided to record and give credit to what happens around me by using photography. What’s left for me is merely shattered information that I try to put together, in order to create connections with the universe. I have many profound reflections on gender differences, the origins of our euphoria and satisfaction, curiosity and security.

In the end, I think our emotions are our most natural, primary toys, and the ones we have been playing with since we were born. What we are observing and experiencing is the result of our interactions with the depth of every other individual.” — Bing Nv (Sick Girl)

Image from the Huis Marseille collection:
Sick Girl (Bing Nv), Universe, 2019

In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper ...
10/08/2026

In the summer of 1949, Susan Weil introduced her partner Robert Rauschenberg to the process of exposing blueprint paper at her family home in Connecticut.

What began as a playful experiment rooted in Weil’s childhood memories grew into a striking series of large-scale works. Weil and Rauschenberg laid sheets of light-sensitive paper in the sun, arranging everyday objects and human figures to capture fleeting silhouettes and delicate traces of presence in hues of deep blue.

This new publication brings together the complete collaborative blueprint works from this short but influential period, alongside rare photographs by Wallace Kirkland, who documented Susan and Robert’s collaboration in New York, in images that display the erasure women artists so often faced, even in their own stories.

At the heart of the book is a new interview between Susan Weil and writer Lou Stoppard, exploring the long summer on Outer Island and the years the couple spent working side by side as young artists in New York and Paris. The book stands not only as an archive of historically important works, but also as a record of a relationship, a creative partnership that unfolded into marriage, parenthood and, eventually, separation.

📷 The Blueprints of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, 1950
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Wunderkind is a sassy show, full of humor and seduction, but also a sense of childhood imagination, a reminder of how mo...
08/08/2026

Wunderkind is a sassy show, full of humor and seduction, but also a sense of childhood imagination, a reminder of how most of us have lost the ability to create and fully inhabit other worlds. — The Photosphere

Read the full review, All Dolled Up: Martine Gutierrez by Jean Dykstra in The Photosphere on Substack. Link in bio

⭐️ Martine Gutierrez — Wunderkind
🪄 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
🫧 On view until 18 October, 2026

Images © Martine Gutierrez
Dress Up 3, 2026
Dress Up 5, 2026
Dress Up 2, 2026
Mom’s Refrigerator, 2026 from the series Still Life
Dress Up 11, 2026
Installation view at the museum

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