Past exhibitions
2024

On Saturday, November 9th, artist Alicia Framis married the AI hologram Ailex at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, wearing a wedding dress by Dutch couturier Jan Taminiau. Alicia Framis is the first woman to ever marry a hologram. In honor of this momentum, Upstream Gallery opened a special presen...

taboo don’t make art on the internet, that will never work don’t show websites in museums, they belong online don’t make gallery objects, you’re a web artist don’t write poetry, you’re not a poet don’t use blockchain, that’s for investors don&rs...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the work of artist Hoos Blotkamp (1943 - 2014) in its private viewing space. This presentation coincides with the opening of Manual, an exhibition by Rafael Rozendaal. Hoos Blotkamp has been a prominent figure in the Dutch cultural landscape. She was curator at ...

Group exhibition with: Marc Bijl, Marinus Boezem, Alicia Framis, Sarah Friend, David Haines, Entropy8Zuper! (Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn), Marijke De Roover and Rafaël Rozendaal Upstream Gallery is proud to present the group exhibition Alone Together, featuring works by artis...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Wanderer by Daichi Takagi in the gallery's private viewing space, opening during Amsterdam Art Week 2024. Takagi is an artist based in Kanagawa, Japan. His work often explores the interplay between abstract and figurative painting. When Takagi s...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present Frank Ammerlaan's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery: Guardians. Guardians, once revealed in cycles of light and darkness, are now but a faint astral reminder dimmed by the glowing tide of our cities. The paradoxical nature of perception becomes ev...

Upstream Gallery is proud to present Hello, world!, the inaugural solo exhibition of Joan Heemskerk with the gallery. Joan Heemskerk is a Dutch contemporary artist, who in recent years has cultivated an artistic practice centred around the internet, with a current focus on exploring the...

Upstream Gallery proudly presents the new Upstream Focus exhibition with new JPEG artworks by Jan Robert Leegte. Jan Robert Leegte is one of the first Dutch artists to make work on and about the Internet since the 1990s. As an artist, Leegte explores the position of the new materials put forward by...

Upstream Gallery presenteert met trots een nieuwe solotentoonstelling van Ronald Ophuis. In ANTIDOTE toont hij recente schilderijen en een aantal niet eerder getoonde, vroegere werken op papier. Deze werken hebben een gemeenschappelijke focus op levensonderwerpen zoals het gevoel van ergens thui...

During his solo exhibition ANTIDOTE, Ronald Ophuis invited Joseph Palframan to showcase his most recent work in Upstream's private viewing space.  Joseph Palframan is a young painter, born in Namibia and now residing in Leuven (Belgium). Ophuis holds a deep admiration for his work, both concep...