Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) was inspired by classical antiquity and nature. Myths and metamorphoses are central to his work. Museum JAN in Amstelveen is devoting an exhibition to this Russian-French artist this coming summer and autumn, who enjoys international fame as the creator of the war memorial ‘The Destroyed City’ in Rotterdam. In addition to a select group of

sculptures that are typical of Zadkine’s view of art and artistry, a lesser-known part of his work can also be seen in Amstelveen. With his expressive gouaches, lithographs and etchings, Zadkine demonstrated an exceptional dual talent.

A wide selection of works by Koen Vermeule (Goes, 1965) will be on show at Museum JAN in spring 2025. Paintings and gouaches - many of them never shown before - that depict his world, his perception, his view of the environment and the people in it. The images originate in unspectacular, everyday life. The urban landscapes are often pointed observations of our own time and contemporary human behaviour, while his landscapes are characterised by silence and timelessness. However, the works have nothing mundane about them: they carry something universal and enduring, and also often something intangible. ‘Ultimately, I want to say something about themes such as love, desire, life, death, contemplation, the passage of time. Music and the art of others, which I carry with me, also play a role in this,’ says Vermeule.

Museum JAN in Amstelveen presents the first museum solo exhibition by artist Boris de Beijer (1986). De Beijer graduated from the Rietveld Academy as a jewellery designer. Since then, he has led an interdisciplinary practice in which his work manoeuvres between the functional and the autonomous. His main focus is on the craft. De Beijer likes mastering new techniques and working with various materials. Especially for Museum JAN, he created new work, partly in collaboration with glass blowers from Amsterdam's Van Tetterode Glass Studio.

The exhibition Otto B. de Kat and Contemporaries - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Wim Oepts, Kees Verwey a.o. provides an overview of the highlights of De Kat's works. A selection of works by contemporaries who also tried to capture "the soul of things" places his oeuvre in a broader perspective. Paintings by artists like Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Johan Buning, and Kees Verwey show that while De Kat had his own unique identity, he was also part of a larger movement. While Dutch avant-gardists were in a permanent state of revolution, the work of De Kat and his followers formed an equally strong and constant undercurrent. Detached from time and place, this art possesses a universal eloquence that continues to inspire and move present-day viewers.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of versatile artist Anton Heyboer (1924-2005). The graphic artist, painter and draughtsman became a living legend because of his eccentric lifestyle with five wives. To celebrate this anniversary, Museum JAN presents the exhibition Anton Heyboer, which includes never-before-seen photo collages focusing on Heyboer's life with his wives.

In the photographs of Lonneke van der Palen (1985), everyday objects are the protagonists: from a cutlery holder, an unripe pepper and a clothes peg to a bottle of sunscreen or body parts in close-up. Her photographs are rooted in reality but are never documentary. Van der Palen chooses her subjects carefully, and rearranges, enlarges, adds or removes and filters out the noise. She reduces the visible world to a cleaned-up essence. This results in compositions in which form, colour and light are deliberately related. Although everything is staged, her images present a very realistic feel.

With the anniversary exhibition The Bigger Picture, Museum JAN in Amstelveen celebrates the 70th birthday of creative artist Tjalf Sparnaay. More than 60 works from various museum and private collections provide a special overview of his oeuvre: from his initial illustrations for postcards to his latest food painting WasteScape, which will be exhibited publicly for the first time. At Museum JAN, Sparnaay - internationally known and acclaimed for his iconic oil paintings of fried eggs and flattened Coke cans - showcases the grandeur of small things. His hyper-realistic style enchants the viewer, who is instantly convinced of the power of his imagination. However, Sparnaay also shows that the photographic, objective approach to his subjects, definitely involves some kind of personal inspiration.

From 14 February to 16 June 2024, Museum JAN presents an exhibition of the work of fashion designer and artist Lisa Konno (1992). For this first solo exhibition, Konno is creating new work in which she combines Japanese porcelain with textiles. In this work, Konno reflects on ideals of beauty in both Japan and the Netherlands and asks the question: when is a quest for beauty a liberating form of self-expression, and when does it turn into a form of oppression? A confusing boundary explored in a video installation and a series of objects that stand somewhere in between garment and sculpture.

Museum JAN shows an overview of the work of Jantien Jongsma (1965). A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, she became a master of storytelling using various techniques on paper. Her colourful work features a combination of embroidery patterns, painting techniques and pencilwork, in which the focus is on the cycle of life.

Ted Noten is celebrating his 30th anniversary as a jewellery designer/artist this year. In honour of this, his work will be on display at Museum JAN from 4 October 2023 to 4 February 2024. Noten questions the function of jewellery including associated themes like value, originality, and status. These themes are also apparent in his installations and performances, as well as in emerging and established fellow artists featured in this exhibition.

Bernard Heesen (1958) is one of the most important and influential glass artists in the Netherlands. This year he turns 65. To celebrate this occasion, the Museum of Glass Art in Amstelveen, Museum JAN, is hosting a festive exhibition of Heesen's own work and that of Nienke Sikkema (1988) and Josja Caecilia Schepman (1980). In addition to showcasing masterpieces from Heesen's oeuvre, Museum JAN will display recent, previously unexhibited work from all three artists.

Van Hövell tot Westerflier is a master of photographic stillness and natural light. Her portraits and still lifes are reminiscent of famous Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer and Clara Peeters, while her cityscapes invoke memories of the photography of George Hendrik Breitner and Jacob Olie. 'Painting with a Lens' is a technique she masters like no one else. She creates unique photographic images that transform the present into the past. On the occasion of her 70th birthday, her body of work, which occupies a unique position within contemporary Dutch photography, will be shown in its full breadth for the first time.

In the exhibition Piet Paris and others - Illustrations, glass art, fashion in Museum JAN, work of fashion illustrator Piet Paris will be shown. Piet Paris, pseudonym of Pieter 't Hoen (born 1962), responds to Museum JAN's unique glass art collection with new work. His drawings are placed in dialogue with fashion designs by leading fashion designers like Viktor & Rolf, Claes Iversen, Spijkers & Spijkers and Benchellal. Glass, drawings and fashion are displayed side by side, showing the basic principles behind each of Piet Paris' drawings: form, colour and symmetry.

To mark the centenary of the birth of Sam Francis (1923-1994), Museum JAN pays tribute to this American painter. The exhibition Homage to Sam Francis, showing from 3 February until 21 May 2023, features a selection of Francis' work from our own collection, complemented by special loans from art collector and Francis enthusiast Nico Delaive. Francis is often associated with abstract expressionism, a post-war American painting movement, but developed a style of his own after his introduction to European and Oriental (modern) art. Francis became known for his paintings featuring expressive colours in a 'controlled chaos' of spots, drops, lines and strokes.

In honour of the UN International Year of Glass, Museum JAN presents the exhibition Barbara Nanning – Moving Stillness. The exhibition features the most recent work of glass artist Barbara Nanning (1957). In her three-dimensional sculptures, she always combines tradition and innovation.

Wim Oepts and the painters of the sunny South offers a comprehensive overview of the works of artist Wim Oepts (1904-1988) and his Dutch contemporaries. Oepts is a popular painter, known for his abstracted colourful landscapes. In the sun-drenched south of France, he found inspiration for his typical paintings full of contrasting colours.

Museum JAN and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art are showcasing the art treasures of the Municipality of Amstelveen in the exhibition Collected for Amstelveen – the municipal art collection. Over the past seventy years, the municipality has assembled a leading collection of visual arts. This versatile collection is now presented to the public for the first time and is free of charge for all residents of Amstelveen.

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Saskia Boelsums – Love for landscapes is a retrospective exhibition on view from 1 July. This exhibition shows picturesque landscapes, photographed and edited by artist Saskia Boelsums (1960, Amstelveen).

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Hovers' designs surprise by their disarming simplicity and the balance between functionality and aesthetics. His works are characterised by basic structures and industrial forms. He designs and makes furniture, lighting, toys, objects and miniatures and is probably best known for his ArcheToys, a series of miniature vehicles. All his works are a result of extensive reduction processes. By leaving a lot out, you get to the essence; what remains must be enough to leave room for the imagination,' says Hovers.

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You can look over the artist's shoulder - online or at one and a half metres - and watch the creation of Jan Verschoor's new works. What are the creative processes behind his (bronze) sculptures? How does he refine his plaster moulds to perfection? Museum JAN will offer the public a unique insight into the artist's creative process and resulting works of art.

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The exhibition Sam Drukker - Onderweg will show paintings and drawings by artist Sam Drukker made between 2010 and 2021. In his work, he captures people in all their various facets. Uncertainty, strength, beauty and old age can be seen in paintings in which the people portrayed seem to be on the move; sometimes deliberately and sometimes uprooted, with a destination as yet unknown.

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New works by the three artists nominated for the 'Bernardine de Neeve Award 2021' can be seen in Museum JAN. The three contenders are Jenny Ritzenhoff, Judith Roux and Nataliya Vladychko.

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Museum JAN celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. For this occasion, we are organising the anniversary exhibition Sparkling Glass - 30 years Museum JAN: an overview of the extraordinary glass collection. A true celebration of diversity in technique, form, and colour.

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The emerging experimental art and design duo Rive Roshan strive to enchant their audience with installations and objects that challenge you to reimagine the world from a new perspective. For Museum JAN they create three site-specific spatial experiences in which glass plays a surprising role.

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The exhibition ‘Inspired by Jan Jansen's shoes - 60 years of shoes and Dutch Design’ (in Dutch ‘Op de leest van Jan Jansen - 60 jaar schoenen & Dutch Design’) will show six decades of iconic work by shoe designer Jan Jansen together with the work of Dutch designers.

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The surrealistic artist Hans Kanters (1947) marvels the audience with his dream landscapes filled with fantastic creatures, painted with great precision and craftsmanship. The self-taught artist became popular for his painted fantasies in the early 1970s. Not inhibited by fashions, traditions, or dogma’s, he chose his own path from the start. Dream landscapes. Visions. Delusions. All of them depict scenes that are hard to believe, although they are still credible. The exhibition at Museum JAN in Amstelveen is the first retrospective dedicated to the works of Hans Kanters.

Workshop for children - December 23 (canceled)

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Thom van Rijckevorsel (1977) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2019, after having worked in advertising for more than fifteen years. He makes videos, drawings, sculptures, and installations in which he investigates the relationship between the constructed image and reality. How do you even get a grip on a world in which physical and digital reality, matter and image, fact and fiction are increasingly blending into each other?

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Jan Cremer (1940) has been painting his adventurous life with words and brushes for around 65 years. From March 13, a large selection of monumental seascapes that Cremer painted over the past decade will be exhibited in Museum JAN. Never before have these works been brought together in an exhibition. "Cremer Noordwaarts 2010-2020" combines these recent canvases with his photos of trips to places like Mongolia and Greenland.

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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) is one of the best known artists in American pop art. Lichtenstein made strong enlargements on canvas and paper from images from comic books, advertisements and famous modern paintings. The world famous "Crying Girl" and "Still life with Picasso" are examples of this. The bright colors and the dot grid in his works refer to the commercial printing technique of his time. The exhibition consists of graphics from almost all of Lichtenstein's career, from the 1960s to his Reflection Series from the 1990s.

The exhibition of Tjalf Sparnaay’s ‘Delicious Paintings’ has been extended until March 1, 2020. The internationally recognized artist marvels the audience with his hyper-realistic paintings of extremely enlarged foodstuffs such as a fried egg or a crispy salad sandwich. The paintings stun and amaze the observer by their extreme precision and craftsmanship. Sparnaay also shows new photographs that – after being exhibited in the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery in New York in 2017 – can now be seen in the Netherlands for the first time. The exhibition offers a broad overview of Tjalf Sparnaay’s surprising oeuvre, which is characterized by his original way of looking at everyday things.