Past exhibitions
2005

Upstream Gallery will show a series of video's titled 'Blood and Guts in High School' by Laura Parnes. A series of video installations that re-imagine punk-feminist icon Kathy Acker's book of the same title. The book was written from 1978-1982 during the rise of Reagan republicanism and the emergenc...

Jen Liu (USA, 1976) examines the contemporary cultural and political frontier through its collision with old and new pop models - music, icons, pop history, computer and print graphics. What results are seemingly imaginary worlds, in which meaning is intensified through allegory, hidden motivations ...

Cristian Andersen's work is often situated in the borderland between civilisation and nature, in an urban no man's land and in deserted places at city-fringes. Andersen (1974, Denmark) combines these settings with current as well as historic symbols. The melancholic, romantic and someti...

Upstream Gallery will present a new exhibition with paintings by Daniela Wolfer and in the basement video by Pepo Salazar. Daniela Wolfer (Germany, 1972) Artist statement: TANZ Music from the speakers is talking to the crowd. Big pimpin, string tangas blinking, answering bodies. The crowd is sc...

Exhibition with objects and linoleumprints by Rob Voerman and in the basement drawings by David Haines. Rob Voerman ARTIST STATEMENT: My graphic art as well as my sculptures are a comment on the over-organised Dutch society in which danger, decay, disorder and uncertainty is systematically banned...

First solo exhibition by Marc Bijl at Upstream Gallery. The works and interventions of the Dutch artist Marc Bijl (1970) are based upon social issues and their use of symbols and rules. This can result in interventions in the public space, sculptures or installations that undermine or underline thi...

Duo exhibition with objects by Lucy Wood and photographs by Jan Kempenaers. Lucy Wood (UK) ARTISTS STATEMENT 2004: Over the last two years I have made a series of human scale traps based on small Victorian animal traps, like 'Gin' and 'Rat' traps. Produced in mirror polished stainless and mild st...