Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography Art isn’t created in a white cube, so why view it in one?
•Amsterdam’s 1st Photography Museum
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Huis Marseille has been offering a varied exhibition program in which photography's rich history and diverse uses are given consideration. The museum provides a view of the 'landscape' taking shape in photography; it presents photographers, artists and forms of photography which do justice to visual quality and which can be counted among the medium's major, but also lesser known, highlights. This

stands in contrast to the profusion of photography as a mass medium. The unique structure of this house plays a significant role. Each of the fourteen exhibition spaces has its own specific character. The building still has the atmosphere of a 'gentleman's residence', but its rooms have now become galleries. A sense of warmth and intimacy has remained. Huis Marseille strives to make the visitor feel welcome in these home-like surroundings.

From Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century photographs of adolescent textile workers to images of the moon, smoke, flowers, an...
05/09/2026

From Lewis Hine’s early 20th-century photographs of adolescent textile workers to images of the moon, smoke, flowers, and patterned fabrics, Lisa Oppenheim explores the photographic image through appropriation, pattern, repetition, and handmade processes.

Spine revisits Hine’s photographs from the Library of Congress archive. Oppenheim repurposed images depicting adolescent textile workers, primarily young women whose bodies were affected by the damaging conditions of textile manufacturing.

While Billowing brings together works made without a camera, using digital negatives and photograms. With references to early artistic photography and the rich surfaces of her prints, Oppenheim’s work is a homage to the handmade print.

📷 Lisa Oppenheim — Spine & Billowing
📚 Now available at the Photography Library
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

In 1991-92, Jens Olof Lasthein walked Stockholm’s Drottninggatan, photographing people as they passed. The Soviet Union ...
04/09/2026

In 1991-92, Jens Olof Lasthein walked Stockholm’s Drottninggatan, photographing people as they passed. The Soviet Union was collapsing, war was spreading through Yugoslavia, and Sweden was shaken by racist violence.

34 years later, the images feel strikingly familiar. In a world marked by war, political division, attacks on human rights and a growing climate crisis, people still move through their own small worlds, carrying their worries with them. Lasthein’s photographs remind us how individual lives continue within the turbulence of history.

📷 Jens Olof Lasthein — Weltschmerz
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

02/09/2026

Join us this Sunday! Mermaid Gutierrez will be back in Amsterdam this weekend ✨

During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.

Using a single tripod and simple in-camera editing tools, Martine transformed her backyard into an expansive set. In the lead, as the film’s ingénue, she cast her nanny as Julia, ‘a beautiful but not giving girl sent on a journey by a nymph named Gabrielle’. On screen, Martine plays Gabrielle, in addition to every supporting character, including Gazelda, a hostile landowner, and Luffa, a wise wizard.

Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Sunday 6 September 2026 — 13:30 / 15:00
💬 Language: English
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

31/08/2026

How do I keep ending up here? Welcome to the home for art photography. The bookstore is open and free to visit every day of the week ☔

29/08/2026

Join us! Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother

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On Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutierrez will attend a special screening of her film The Search for True Beauty. After the screening she will engage in conversation with her mother, who has played an important role in nurturing Martine’s creativity from an early age and whose influence can be felt in various ways throughout the exhibition Wunderkind.

During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.

📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Sunday 6 September 2026 — 13:30 / 15:00
💬 Language: English
Including drinks in the Bookstore
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Join us! The making of a Wunderkind, with Martine Gutierrez and her motherOn Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutie...
24/08/2026

Join us! The making of a Wunderkind, with Martine Gutierrez and her mother

On Sunday 6 September the artist Martine Gutierrez will attend a special screening of her film The Search for True Beauty. After the screening she will engage in conversation with her mother, who has played an important role in nurturing Martine’s creativity from an early age and whose influence can be felt in various ways throughout the exhibition Wunderkind.

During this special event, mother and daughter will revisit the making of The Search for True Beauty, a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped her childhood: a world of play, transformation and self-invention that continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today.

Film screening and conversation between Martine Gutierrez and her mother
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
📆 Sunday 6 September 2026 — 13:30 / 15:00
💬 Language: English
Including drinks in the Bookstore
✅ Limited capacity, tickets via link in bio

Images
Martine Gutierrez for Numéro by Gijs van de Veerdonk
Installation close-ups at the exhibition Wunderkind by Eddo Hartmann
© Martine Gutierrez. Dress Up 11, 2026
© Martine Gutierrez. The Search for True Beauty (film snippet), 1999
© Martine Gutierrez. The Creation, 2026

Coming soon! Adolphe de Meyer’s recently rediscovered collection of photographs of VeniceHuis Marseille presents The Sub...
22/08/2026

Coming soon! Adolphe de Meyer’s recently rediscovered collection of photographs of Venice

Huis Marseille presents The Substance of a Venetian Dream, the first ever European museum exhibition devoted to the photographer Adolphe de Meyer (1868–1946). This follows the remarkable discovery in 2019 in the municipal library of Tours: a series of 75 photographs documenting his life and photographic work in Venice.

This collection is being displayed in its entirety for the first time, and offers an exceptional glimpse into his personal and artistic world.

🎞️ Adolphe de Meyer — The Substance of a Venetian Dream
🕊️ Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
✨ Opening 24 October, 2026

Images:
Attributed to Gertrude Käsebier, Adolphe de Meyer posing on a balcony, Palazzo Balbi-Valier, 1905,
courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Attributed to Adolphe de Meyer, View of the garden from the Palazzo Balbi-Valier (side view of the Palazzo
Contarini Dal Zaffo, also know as Contarini Polignac), ca. 1904–1908, courtesy of the Bibliothèque
municipale de Tours
Adolphede Meyer, Olga de Meyer reading the paper in the garden of the Palazzo Balbi-Valier, ca. 1905, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, Self-portrait at the piano, ca. 1904–1905, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, View of the Palazzo Barbaro from the window of the
Palazzo Balbi-Valier’s salotto, ca. 1904–1908, courtesy of the Bibliothèque municipale de Tours
Adolphe de Meyer, Portrait of Olga de Meyer, Palazzo Balbi-Valier’s garden, ca. 1904-1908, courtesy of the
Bibliothèque municipale de Tours

In 1959, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park ...
20/08/2026

In 1959, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park that had become New York’s best-known outdoor meeting place for q***r men. Designed as a picturesque woodland in the nineteenth century, by the late 1960s it had grown wild, a hidden, half-forgotten place of chance encounters in the middle of the city.

For a little over a year, Tress returned again and again, recording the everyday choreography of cruising and creating what is now recognized as the earliest known photographic record of outdoor cruising in a natural setting.

Long unseen, The Ramble is now considered a vital piece of New York’s q***r history, part ethnography, part fantasy. More than fifty years later, it stands alongside a new generation of q***r landscape projects that share its quiet focus on how bodies, longing, and hidden places shape each other.

The Ramble is the first publication of this remarkable archive: an early portrait of a hidden world, a city’s wild corner, and an artist searching for himself among the trees.

📷 Arthur Tress — The Ramble, NYC 1969
📚 Available at the Photography Bookstore
📍 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

19/08/2026

We’ve got stickers! The Photography Bookstore at Huis Marseille is free to visit every day 📚

Before we know who we are, we play with who we could be.For any child, understanding the mystery of existence is a homec...
17/08/2026

Before we know who we are, we play with who we could be.

For any child, understanding the mystery of existence is a homecoming. To find oneself is the answer that must first be put to question: ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Why are we here?’.

For children like Martine, whose differences were expected to fit rigid cultural norms, toys became avatars. They offered an imaginative refuge and a space to explore individuality, opening paths to self-permission through play.

Martine’s toys stage a set of origin stories she grew up with, yet she invites visitors to join the play, using her creations as a springboard to imagine worlds of their own.

⭐️ Martine Gutierrez — Wunderkind
🪄 Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
🫧 On view until 18 October, 2026

Close-up installation images © Martine Gutierrez
from the series Mother of Dolls (2026)

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