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18/06/2026

Imagining the Netherlands, 2026
Sam Samiee Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 18 cm

A windmill in vivid colour, both icon and invention, emerges from an imagined Netherlands. Reminiscent of Sam Samiee’s childhood drawings; innocent depictions of an idealised Dutch landscape that Samiee very early on admired and studied, for its distinctive light, flat horizons, and symbols. A fascination that he remembers when he much later ends up studying painting in the Netherlands.

On show in The Trophies, the solo show by Sam Samiee, open daily until July 26th.
Photo Jonathan de Waart.

17/06/2026

What all these people share, along with having spoken and written beautifully, is their love for love, taking love as their politics, and perhaps that’s why their writings are so beautiful, their ethics is their aesthetics.

Norman O. Brown, was perhaps the first in academicians whose Freudian Marxist views of history, having been laid out in his seminal magnum opus, Life Against Death, seemed not enough to explain why the revolution in 1979 happened in Iran, when he set a goal for himself to understand that epistemological gap in west on Iran and Islam, leading to his Challenge of Islam: the Prophetic Tradition, which perhaps was the single most influential book on me helping me graduate from my Islamophobia, while trusting his pioneering thoughts in q***rness.

Norman O. Brown, 2025
Sam Samiee
Indian ink on bamboo paper (265g)
40 x 30 cm
48.9 x 36.9 cm framed

Flowers of Sadness VI, 2026
Sam Samiee
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 20 cm

On view in The Trophies, the solo exhibition by Sam Samiee. Open daily until 26 July. Photos by Gert Jan Van Rooij & Jonathan de Waart

13/06/2026

No Man’s Art Gallery congratulates afra eisma, Levi van Gelder, Sondi en Malik Saïb-Mezghiche with their nomination for the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize, holding its award ceremony today at Monopole, Schiedam.

Margriet Schavemaker (Director of Kunstmuseum The Hague) who nominated afra eisma for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, admires the way eisma uses techniques and materials that for a long time were not considered part of high art. According to Schavemaker, “eisma turns those ‘modest’ techniques, associated with femininity, hobby crafts, and domesticity, inside out. She allows their large, brightly colored artworks to occupy a great deal of space within the traditional museum world, with its solemn galleries and white walls.”

Schavemaker also notes that the sometimes dreamlike characters, tactile softness, and exuberant richness of color can be deceptive. “On the one hand, the work invites you to linger, settle down comfortably, and touch it. At the same time, however, it contains very critical undertones.” Volkskrant introduces all nominees in their spread this weekend.

The exhibition is on view until August 2nd at Monopole.

11/06/2026

afra eisma has been shortlisted for the 2026 Volkskrant Visual Art Award, one of the Netherlands’ most respected prizes for emerging contemporary artists. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, the award recognises outstanding artists under the age of 35 who live or work in the Netherlands.

eisma joins fellow shortlisted artists Levi van Gelder, Sondi, and Malik Saïb-Mezghiche. Their work will be presented in a special exhibition at Monopole, the new art space of Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, opening Saturday 13 June - 2 August 2026.

afra eisma creates vibrant fantasy worlds where joy and serious reflection exist side by side. Their work often invites visitors to step inside. Through color, texture, and storytelling, they explore themes of connection, emotion, healing, and belonging.

warrior garment 4, 2025
Textiles, coat hanger
270 x 80 x 20 cm
Photo Jonathan de Waart

afra eisma de Volkskrant Monopole Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

08/06/2026

The Trophies, by Sam Samiee, is currently on show at No Man’s Art Gallery, Bos & Lommerweg 88, visit the show daily until July 26th.

Throughout the exhibition, painting, poetry and translation move in conversation with one another. Still lifes from Berlin are painted in Tehran. Ink works begun in Boston meet portraits completed elsewhere. Places merge into emotional and political simultaneity. In Samiee’s work, subjects and objects are not bound by the limits of the nation state, but shaped through a transnational aesthetic language. What emerges is a refusal to abandon refinement in moments of devastation. The figures and objects united by their capacity to speak beautifully amid catastrophe. Painting becomes a way of staying close to life while hell breaks loose.

Image 1-6 Jonathan de Waart
Image 7 Gert Jan Van Rooij

03/06/2026

The Trophies is shaped by an urgency and generosity toward those Sam Samiee portrays, by a sustained commitment to q***r aesthetics in times of crisis, and by adab; an aesthetics inseparable from ethics.

In two paintings Samiee pays homage to the city of Shiraz.

One carries along its surface and edges colours drawn from the city’s palette. One turns toward the city itself, an ode to the story of Abish Khatun of the Salghurid dynasty. The queen remembered in legend as having offered herself in marriage to Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, when he reached Estakhr near Shiraz. In that account, she names her mahrieh not in gold or land, but in the city itself: Shiraz. A sacrifice by seduction that led to the sparing of the city.  
Shiraz II, 2026, Sam Samiee, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 cm, photo by Gert Jan Van Rooij
Shiraz I, 2026, Sam Samiee, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 cm

The Trophies by Sam Samiee is currently on view at No Man’s Art Gallery, Bos en Lommerweg 88, open daily. For more information and other inquiries, dm or email [email protected]

30/05/2026

Last day to visit Sacro y profano, the first solo exhibition by Alan Hernández, a collaboration between No Man’s Art Gallery and Guadalajara90210. On show until Saturday 30 May, Mar Báltico 24, Nextitla, Miguel Hidalgo, 11420 CDMX.

Sacro y profano brings together the soft sculptures and wearable work of Alan Hernández, in which textile and metal working techniques inherited from his Oaxacan context shape hybrid bodies that oscillate between softness and control. Q***r dissidence operates as a structural condition: masks and costumes activate fluid and shared identities while grounding the work in collaboration, performance, and the embodied knowledge of craft.

Quetzalcoatl, 2023
Feathers, delcron, fabric, epoxy plasticine.
300 x 60 x 45 cm

Photos by Ruben Garayalan_hernandez._

26/05/2026

Join us this Friday for the festive vernissage of The Trophies by Sam Samiee, opening from 4 - 8 pm. With an opening word by Hester Alberdingk Thijm () and an artist talk at 7pm with Sam Samiee () and Sara Giannini (.selvaggia.giannini), rsvp through link in bio.

Nastaliq Might be an Uzbek Boy, 2026
Sam Samiee
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 cm

21/05/2026

For the occasion of the vernissage of The Trophies by Sam Samiee, we will host an opening programme on Friday May 29th, 4-8pm.

The programme includes an opening word by Hester Alberdingk Thijm (Director, AkzoNobel Art Foundation) at 6:30 PM, followed by an artist talk with Sam Samiee in conversation with Sara Giannini (curator, writer and educator) at 7 PM.

Join the artist talk (in English) by rsvp through link in bio (free admission)

Hester Alberdingk Thijm ()is a cultural leader known for her sharp eye, bold vision, and longstanding support of emerging artists. Since 1995, she has served as Director of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, transforming it into one of the Netherlands’ most progressive corporate art collections, now comprising more than 2,500 works, with a strong representation of women and non-Western artists selected purely on artistic quality. Photo: Friso Keuris

Sara Giannini (.selvaggia.giannini) is an Italian curator, writer, and educator based in Amsterdam. With a background in theatre studies and semiotics, Sara is particularly interested in the entanglements of language and performativity across disciplines, and in their potential as tools for rethinking dominant modes of knowledge production. Her curatorial work often unfolds through long-term, process-based, and collaborative projects spanning performance, exhibitions, publications, and pedagogy. Since 2026, she is co-director of If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, a platform dedicated to performance and performativity as forms of social and political imagination.

Sam Samiee in his studio in Tehran, 2026. By Mania Karimianpour

19/05/2026

We warmly invite you to The Trophies, the solo exhibition by Sam Samiee, opening Friday 29 May from 4 - 8pm.

The Trophies is about beauty as a form of sustenance. Created amid war, Sam Samiee turns to painting flowers, poetry and portraits of beloved thinkers. These trophies are not symbols of conquest, but of endurance, memory and resistance. Still lifes of plants and domestic interiors become gestures of tenderness against destruction, while portraits of writers, poets, and political thinkers honour those whose words and visions have sustained the artist through catastrophe. Beauty is treated not as escape but as a vital force for living: a way of preserving love, thought and imagination when the world itself seems on the verge of collapse.

The Trophies | Sam Samiee
Opening: Friday 29 May, 4-8pm
Opening word: 6.30pm by Hester Alberdingk Thijm ()
Artist talk: 7pm ( in conversation with .selvaggia.giannini)
Location: No Man’s Art Gallery, Bos en Lommerweg 88

Please RSVP to the artist talk (free admission) through link in bio.

Shiraz, 2026
Sam Samiee
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 cm

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