Galerie Ron Mandos

29/01/2023

🌟 Yesterday, Mirjam Westen, who curated Hadassah Emmerich's first solo exhibition at Museum Arnhem in 2003, officially opened Emmerich's exhibition 'Botanical Body Bliss'.
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The exhibition is running through March 5, 2023. You are very welcome to visit the exhibition. We hope to see you soon!⁠
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Click the following link for more information: https://bit.ly/4065QTF
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⁠Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
January 28 - March 5, 2023⁠
Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam

28/01/2023

💫 Our new exhibitions by Hadassah Emmerich and Marcos Kueh are open now. Tomorrow we are open between 12:00 and 5:00 PM.

Discover more about Hadassah Emmerich's 'Botanical Body Bliss' here: https://bit.ly/3Rfp991

Discover more about Marcos Kueh's '福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' here: https://bit.ly/3Y7r5CH

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⁠Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
Marcos Kueh | 福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities⁠
January 28 - March 5, 2023⁠
Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam

27/01/2023

Opening Tomorrow: Marcos Kueh's '福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' at Galerie Ron Mandos! ⁠🧵⁠
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We would like to invite you to the opening of the exhibition ⁠
'福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' by Marcos Kueh. The Malaysian artist presents a new textile installation featuring the Sanxing deities, three popular Chinese gods that embody Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou). Kueh, who has Chinese heritage, contemplates on the contemporary significance of these three forms of prosperity.⁠ Experience the installation yourself and visit the opening tomorrow!⁠
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For more information please click the following link:
https://bit.ly/3wuuwb1⁠
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Official Opening:⁠
Marcos Kueh | 福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠⁠

📸: MICHÈLE MARGOT

27/01/2023

'Under God's Eye' by Marcos Kueh. ❤️💙⁠
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This work by Marcos Kueh is a tapestry depicting the most supreme deity of the Chinese pantheon: the Jade Emperor (玉皇大帝, Yù Huáng Dà Dì). Here, we as viewers literally sit at the feet of this great emperor and, as the title suggests, Under God's Eye places us right beneath his gaze. ⁠

For more information about the exhibition please click the following link: https://bit.ly/3wuuwb1
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Official Opening:⁠
Marcos Kueh | 福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠

Featured Artwork:⁠
Marcos Kueh⁠
Under God's Eye #1, 2023⁠
Polyester, 8 colors⁠
110 x 75 cm

26/01/2023

Looking back: Marcos Kueh's graduation show at the Royal Academy of Art. 🧶🧵⁠

Because of Marcos Kueh's upcoming exhibition at the gallery we would like to take a moment to highlight his installation at the KABK graduation show last year. Kueh graduated from the Textile and Fashion department.⁠
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'Kenyalang Circus' (2022) embodies Marcos Kueh’s search for a critical stance to the neoliberal fetishism of “icons”. With this project, Kueh highlights the use of visual iconography in advertising through the lens of graphic design and visual art. Extrapolating from his roots from the Malaysian side of Borneo and the island’s commodification and exotification as ‘Malaysia’s exotic unknown’ ‘the land of the orang-utans’, Kueh questions the significance of post-colonial independence which resulted in a forced position of role-playing into the expectations of the West.⁠
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For more information about his graduation project click the following link: https://bit.ly/3R76xYL

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Installation Views:⁠
Marcos Kueh, Kenyalang Circus, KABK Graduation Show, 2022.

26/01/2023

Hadassah Emmerich's unique collage technique! 🪷💐🪷⁠
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Emmerich has developed her material process over many years, unique in how she repurposes vinyl flooring and cuts it into stencils. These stencils are then painted and used to print on canvas or walls. This creative process generates cycles between works. As shapes and patterns recur in new compositions and contexts, each work begins to speak to or of another.⁠
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For more information about the exhibition 'Botanical Body Bliss' opening this Saturday, January 28th, please click the link below:
https://bit.ly/3wvWGlO
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Official Opening:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Opening Speech by Mirjam Westen: 3:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠

Featured Artwork:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich⁠
Oben Ohne IV , 20232⁠
Oil and printing ink on vinyl⁠
60.2 x 77.7 cm

Photos by Roncada

25/01/2023

Look at Emmerich’s luscious, abstract painting wherein recognizable forms begin to emerge, like tropical fruits, palms, and other "exotic" plants and flowers. 🌸⁠
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Her painting 'The Seventh Papaya', consists of a green-yellow papaya, within which Emmerich hints at both mandorla and v***a. Around it, leaf patterns evoke auras, elevating the already healing and nourishing fruit to the status of religious objects. ⁠

For more information about the exhibition 'Botanical Body Bliss' opening this Saturday January 28th, please click the link below:
https://bit.ly/3wvWGlO
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Official Opening:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Opening Speech by Mirjam Westen: 3:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠

Featured Artwork:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich⁠
The Seventh Papaya, 2023⁠
Oil on canvas⁠
199 x 119 cm

22/01/2023

Save the date: Opening of Marcos Kueh's '福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' at Galerie Ron Mandos! ⁠🧵⁠

We would like to remind you that on Saturday January 28th the exhibition '福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' by Marcos Kueh will officially open. It is his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Last year, the artist won the Ron Mandos Young Blood Award during Best of Graduates 2022. Now,the Malaysian artist presents a new textile installation featuring the Sanxing deities, three popular Chinese gods that embody Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou). Kueh, who has Chinese heritage, contemplates on the contemporary significance of these three forms of prosperity.⁠
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Official Opening:⁠
Marcos Kueh | 福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Opening Speech by Mirjam Westen: 3:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠⁠

Featured Artwork:⁠
Marcos Kueh⁠
Woven Talisman #01 The Millionaire, 2023⁠
Polyester, 8 colors⁠
225 x 170 cm

17/01/2023

Save the date: Opening of Hadassah Emmerich's 'Botanical Body Bliss' at Galerie Ron Mandos! 🍑🌿🌺⁠
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We would like to remind you that on Saturday January 28th the exhibition 'Botanical Body Bliss' by Hadassah Emmerich will officially open. Mirjam Westen, who curated Emmerich's first solo exhibition at Museum Arnhem, will introduce us to Emmerich's colorful world of blending bodies, plants and fruits at 3.00 PM.⁠
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Official Opening:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Opening Speech by Mirjam Westen: 3:00 PM⁠
Location: Galerie Ron Mandos, Prinsengracht 282, Amsterdam⁠

Featured Artworks:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich, Botanical Body Bliss I & II, 2022

15/01/2023

Yesterday we had a new year's get together with ⁠champagne and cake to celebrate the beginning of 2023!⁠ 🥂🎂⁠

It was an amazing day at the gallery with a lot of our artists present as well as good friends of the gallery. There also was great news to share with everybody, as Sheila Verdegaal will be Gallery Director of Galerie Ron Mandos.
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⁠Last but not least we presented the exhibition program for this year and we're looking forward to all the new shows we are going to create this year. We hope to see you soon at the gallery!

15/01/2023

💥 We are proud to announce the exhibition '福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities' by Marcos Kueh, his first solo show at our gallery. ⁠
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The Malaysian artist presents a new textile installation featuring the Sanxing deities, three popular Chinese gods that embody Fortune (Fu), Prosperity (Lu), and Longevity (Shou). Kueh, who has a Chinese background, contemplates on the contemporary significance of these three forms of prosperity. ⁠
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On Saturday January 28th, 2023 we will be welcoming you to the official opening of the exhibition at 3:00 PM. The exhibition opens at the same time as 'Botanical Body Bliss', the large solo exhibition by Haddassah Emmerich. ⁠
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Official Opening:⁠
Marcos Kueh | 福禄寿: Three Contemporary Prosperities⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM

14/01/2023

◾ Tip: Hans Op de Beeck — In Galerie Ron Mandos is t/m 15 januari 2023 een immersieve solotentoonstelling te zien van de prijswinnende Belgische kunstenaar Hans Op de Beeck. Een terugkerend thema in zijn werk is een bepaalde vervreemding van het moderne leven en de oppervlakkigheid, eentonigheid en miscommunicatie die daarmee gepaard gaan. Zijn ruimtelijke installaties, video’s en foto's stralen dan ook een diepe verlatenheid en leegte uit en ru**en bepaalde scènes uit de werkelijkheid uit hun originele context.

13/01/2023

NRC: Artikel Isaac Julien

NRC publiceerde onlangs een artikel over Isaac Julien. Het artikel gaat over aankomende tentoonstellingen in 2023. Met name de focus op het werk van Isaac Julien, van zijn tentoonstelling in 2015 in museum de Pont tot aan de tentoonstelling aankomend jaar in Tate Britain. De tekst is geschreven door Toef Jaeger en is te lezen via onderstaande link.

“In 2013 kreeg de Britse kunstenaar Isaac Julien van The Guardian de volgende vraag voorgelegd: „Maak deze zin af: diep in mijn hart ben ik gewoon een gefrustreerde…” Een mooie vraag, die je eigenlijk wel in elk interview aan iemand zou willen voorleggen. Vooral wanneer je dan een niet ontwijkend antwoord krijgt, zoals dat van Julien. Hij antwoordde: „schilder”. Dat is tamelijk geestig voor een kunstenaar. Tegelijkertijd: dat het schilderen kennelijk niet zo makkelijk gaat, is vast de reden waarom Julien vooral films en videokunst maakt, en zich toelegt op fotografie.”

Klik voor het artikel op de volgende link: https://bit.ly/3iyXGCx

11/01/2023

Marcos Kueh is now featured in group exhibitions at Museum Voorlinden and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Soon he will open a new exhibition at Galerie Ron Mandos!💥⁠

At Museum Voorlinden Kueh shows his work 'Kayo Ara'. With the exhibition 'This far and further' the museum takes a pause in its new collection to show how artists explore other paths. Thanks to the powers of their artistic imagination, you yourself start longing for a new vista and want to contribute to change. This exhibition will be on view until 24 September, 2023.⁠
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⁠Kueh's work is also on view in the group exhibition 'When Things Are Beings' at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In this exhibition proposals for acquisitions for the museum's collection are shown. Five of Kueh's tapestry works are on view there. The exhibition can be visited until 10 April, 2023.⁠

We are very pleased that Marcos Kueh will show new work at the gallery. The Malaysian artist will exhibit new textile works in the gallery’s center space. Currently he is creating these works during his Ron Mandos artist-in-residence at Brutus in Rotterdam.⁠

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⁠This far and further⁠
17 December, 2022 - 24 September, 2023⁠
Museum Voorlinden⁠, Wassenaer⁠
Discover more: https://bit.ly/3W4qhxh
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When Things Are Beings⁠
26 November, 2022 - 10 April, 2023⁠
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam⁠
Discover more: https://bit.ly/3ZrfW1e

1. Installation View 'This far and further'. Marcos Kueh, Kaya Ara, 2022. Photo by Antoine van Kaam.⁠
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2. Installation View 'When Things Are Beings'. Marcos Kueh, Kenyalang Circus, 2022. Photo by Gert-Jan van Rooij.

10/01/2023

Final week of the exhibition 'Works on Paper' by Hans Op de Beeck!⁠

If you haven't seen the exhibition yet, don't hesitate and stop by. It is your last chance for a visit.⁠ The gallery is open from Wednesday to Saturday between 12:00 and 6:00 PM and on Sunday between 12:00 and 5:00 PM.

Op de Beeck invites you to approach and enter his works through the mind; to – at first – evoke feelings of recognition, comfort, and calmness. Then, through deeper examination unfurl further layers of meaning and cultural reference.

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⁠'Works on Paper | Hans Op de Beeck⁠
Until January 15, 2023⁠
Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam

Photos by Michèle Margot

08/01/2023

It's the final week of Best of Graduates in the House of Representatives! 🔚⁠
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You still have one week to visit the exhibition Best of Graduates in the ‘Tweede Kamer’ (the House of Representatives of the Netherlands), featuring the works of eight young artists: Sophie Engels, Joseph Thabang Palframann, Shifra Osorio Whewell, Stephanie Rizaj, Marcos Kueh, Alexander Jermilov, Sveske Ourø, and Maikel Deekman.⁠
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The exhibition is in collaboration with the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation. It includes works from the “Best of Graduates” of the past four years. Every year the foundation brings together the work of the most talented young artists graduated from Dutch art academies.⁠
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To read more about how the exhibition came about go to the link
https://bit.ly/3ZcPQyO
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Best of Graduates, curated by Radek Vana⁠
November 24, 2022 - January 13, 2023⁠
Tweede Kamer, Den Haag⁠
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📸 Photos by

07/01/2023

Final week: Muntean/Rosenblum at Albertina Museum!⁠

The Albertina Museum presents two Austria-based artist duos who have each developed their own, unmistakable styles over many years of collaboration. Hauenschild/Ritter have been producing their monumental drawings together since 1989. Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum have collaborated in the creation of their artworks since 1992. ⁠

These two collectives now feature in a two-part retrospective at the AlbertinaMuseum in which major works by each are brought together. This is the last week to visit the impressive exhibition in Vienna!⁠

Click the link for more information⁠ https://bit.ly/3Iwrl9P

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Practical information⁠:⁠
Two Artist Collectives in Austria | Muntean/Rosenblum⁠
Until January 15, 2023⁠
Albertina Museum, Vienna

06/01/2023

Last week to visit 'Mirages' by Lieven Hendriks at CODA Museum in Apeldoorn!⁠

Nails in the wall, a fogged-up mirror or a dusty car someone has seemingly carelessly brushed their finger over. Visual artist Lieven Hendriks takes everyday things as the subject and starting point of his work. He uses his technical virtuosity to make the viewer think about the way we are used to looking at paintings. And although his images seem crystal clear at first, they actually make us doubt them because of the lack of clarity. ⁠

Until 15 January 2023, CODA Museum presents Mirages, a retrospective exhibition of work made by Lieven Hendriks over the past twenty years.⁠

Click on the following link for more information https://bit.ly/3jZ47PL

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Practical information:⁠
'Mirages' | Lieven Hendriks⁠
Until January 15, 2023⁠
CODA, Apeldoorn

05/01/2023

🌸🌷🌺⁠ We are proud to present the exhibition Botanical Body Bliss of Hadassah Emmerich, her first solo show at our gallery. ⁠
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For the exhibition Emmerich created new paintings, vinyl collages and a mural design. She will mount an immersive show in which the visitor steps into a colorful erotic jungle. ⁠As in her recent exhibitions at Bonnefanten and Kunsthal Kade, an ornamental fusion world is presented through the work, in which body parts and plant motifs merge into new species. Botanical Body Bliss by Hadassah Emmerich is running from January 28 through March 5, 2023.⁠

On Saturday January 28th, 2023 we will be welcoming you to the official opening of the exhibition. During the opening, Mirjam Westen (Former Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum Arnhem) will tell us more about the works of Hadassah Emmerich, who had one of her first solo exhibitions at Museum Arnhem in 2003.⁠

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Official Opening:⁠
Hadassah Emmerich | Botanical Body Bliss⁠
Date: January 28, 2023⁠
Time: 12:00 - 6:00 PM⁠
Opening Speech by Mirjam Westen: 3:00 PM

04/01/2023

🥰 Welcoming the extraordinary artist Hadassah Emmerich to the Galerie Ron Mandos family.⁠
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Galerie Ron Mandos is pleased to announce the representation of Brussels-based artist Hadassah Emmerich (NL, 1974). New paintings and a new mural will be presented in her upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on Saturday January 28th, 2023.⁠
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Over the past decades, Emmerich has gained recognition for her colorful paintings and murals that excite the senses. Abstracted and fragmented female nudes blend with lush shapes of plants or tropical fruits. Vibrant colors are subtly interwoven with muted tones, and on closer inspection it is not so clear whether the abstracted women's bodies are an innocent celebration of sensuality, or an involuntary objectification. Emmerich depicts the paradox of simultaneous attraction and repulsion, intimacy and cool detachment, seduction and critique. In this way, she succeeds in making the act of looking truly provocative.⁠

Discover the work and the studio of the artist via the following link: https://bit.ly/3WQfBmF

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Practical information:⁠
'Botanical Body Bliss' | Hadassah Emmerich⁠
January 28 - March 5, 2023⁠
Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam⁠

📸 Photo by: Teri Romkey

01/01/2023

Happy New Year! 🎆🎇⁠

Whilst white lilies represent purity and impermanence, these two koi fish – known to have the ability to swim upstream – represent courage and perseverance. Both components relate to water, which in Op de Beeck’s visual language stands both literally and figuratively for “reflection”: reflective meditation, contemplation and rumination.⁠
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Did you also reflect on the past year and go into the new year full of good new year resolutions? Galerie Ron Mandos wishes you a wonderful 2023. May it be a year full of joy and artsy moments!⁠

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Featured artwork:⁠
Hans Op de Beeck⁠
Two Fish (pond), 2022⁠
Black-and-white watercolour on Arches paper in wooden frames⁠
81 x 100 cm

31/12/2022

Erwin Olaf in Tableau with Arthur Japin and Michiel van Erp 💐⁠

In Tableau Magazine Erwin Olaf goes in conversation with writer Arthur Japin and director Michiel van Erp. Three luminaries with a similar track record, each in their own profession. For some time now, they have been linked by Japin's book 'A Beautiful Imperfection', which is currently being filmed.⁠

Japin's book encouraged Erwin Olaf. 'I had read it and immediately saw a film before me. And I still wanted to make a feature film at the time. I wanted to raise the bar a bit. Photography, I mastered that, but film that's something new. It is technically very challenging, you work in a group. It really is a different profession. This book greatly triggered the desire to make a film. Also because of the theme of Galatea - use your defects - that plays a role throughout my career. That veiledness is also in 'Chessmen', for instance, and in 'Blacks'. There are many series in which I show people without heads, without identities.'⁠

Click the following link for the article: https://bit.ly/3voP2cI
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Featured Artworks:⁠
1. A Beautiful Imperfection, Portrait of Galathée, 2022⁠
2. A Beautiful Imperfection, Portrait of Jamieson, 2022⁠
3. A Beautiful Imperfection, Still Life, 2022⁠
4. A Beautiful Imperfection, Portrait of Casanova, 2022

30/12/2022

Want to know more about 'The Secret Place'? 🛶⁠

Want to know more about 'The Secret Place'? 🛶⁠
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We are excited to present a new Art in Focus Video with Hans Op de Beeck. Here the artist talks about his watercolor 'The Secret Place' which is featured in the exhibition 'Works on Paper', now on view at Galerie Ron Mandos.⁠
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In 'The Secret Place' (2022), we see a young girl in a rowboat. Her determined, cryptic gaze speaks volumes as she floats towards a dark place: a densely wooded labyrinth of bare tree trunks. Each boat, canoe, or raft in Op de Beeck’s work is a motif he associates with both decisiveness and surrender to fate.⁠
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Hans Op de Beeck | Works on Paper⁠
November 26 - January 15, 20223⁠
Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam⁠
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🎥 Video by

29/12/2022

A Selection of Exhibitions of our Artists around the Globe!

Currently, many of our artists are featured in museum exhibitions around the world. Hereby we would like to give you a selection of some of these impressive exhibitions.

A selection of exhibitions:
1.Daniel Arsham: 'Relics in the landscape'
Yorkshire sculpture park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
The exhibition is running through December 31, 2023.

2. Isaac Julien: 'Baltimore'
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, USA
The exhibition is running through April 9, 2023.

3. Esiri Erheriene-Essi & Eniwaye Oluwaseyi:
'When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting'
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa
The exhibition is running through September 3, 2023.

4. Erwin Olaf & Hans Op de Beeck: 'Inspired by Steichen'
MNHA, Luxembourg
The exhibition is running through June 11, 2023.

5. Ron van der Ende: 'SASH: An artwork for Kralingen'
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Permanently on view.