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23/05/2026

3 EXHIBITIONS OPENING TODAY! Be welcome from 17.00 - 19.30hrs! We’ll also serve some aperol spritz🍹☀️

Upstream Gallery is proud to present three solo exhibitions opening today:

Armen Eloyan presents his first solo exhibition devoted entirely to landscape painting, city paintings AMSTERDAM , which emerged from a period he spent in Amsterdam. Read more .

In her second solo show with the gallery, ‘Silence Third Wave Feminist. A Misandrist Is Talking’, Marijke De Roover communicates radical feminist theories across a range of media. Read more .

In the private viewing space, Dirk Paesmans presents his first solo show with the gallery: POKE-PLAY-ETC. Read more .

city paintings AMSTERDAM | Armen Eloyan
Silence, Third Wave Feminist. A Woman Who Noticed Men Kinda Suck Is About to Speak | Marijke De Roover
POKE-PLAY-ETC | Dirk Paesmans
OPENING: 23 May - 17.00 - 19.30hrs
Kloveniersburgwal 95, Amsterdam

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21/05/2026

Jan Robert Leegte has worked with the internet as an artistic medium since 1997, placing him among the pioneers of net art. Scrollbars, selection marquees, Google Maps interfaces, raw code — the overlooked grammar of digital life, treated as material in its own right. In 2002, before post-internet became a movement, he was already bringing the logic of digital infrastructure into physical gallery space. We’re proud to present work this June at as part of Zero 10, Art Basel’s curated initiative for art of the digital era.

Jan Robert Leegte
Art Basel | Zero 10
Presented by OFFICE IMPART and Upstream Gallery.

15/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
Dirk Paesman’s first solo exhibition opens 23 May in our private viewing space! Be welcome from 17.00 - 19.30 hrs.

Upstream Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Dirk Paesmans at the gallery POKE-PLAY-ETC.

Simultaneously, on 23 May, exhibitions by Marijke De Roover and Armen Eloyan will open their doors. Stay tuned.

POKE-PLAY-ETC | Dirk Paesmans
23 May - 27 June 2026
OPENING: 23 May, 17.00-19.30hrs.
Kloveniersburgwal 95, Amsterdam

14/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
Armen Eloyan’s new solo exhibition opens 23 May! Be welcome from 17.00 - 19.30hrs.

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present city paintings AMSTERDAM, a solo exhibition of new work by Armen Eloyan. Eloyan is known for heavily impastoed canvases that blend cartoon imagery, abstraction, and personal narrative. This exhibition marks his first solo show dedicated entirely to landscape painting, a body of work that emerged from a recent period spent in Amsterdam.

Drawing on a visual vocabulary shaped by American and Western European popular culture, from cartoons and comics to the painterly lineage of Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, and Paul McCarthy, Eloyan’s work moves between abstraction and figuration. His practice uses the language of caricature to probe the absurdities of modern life, consumerism, and alienation, while remaining grounded in the physical, gestural pleasures of the medium itself.

Armen Eloyan (1966, Armenia) lives and works in Switzerland. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in 2004–2005. Solo exhibitions include Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (CH); Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London (UK); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR); and Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR). His work is held in collections including M HKA, Antwerp (BE); Kunstmuseum Den Haag (NL); Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT); Deutsche Bank Collection, London (UK); and the Olbricht Collection, Berlin (DE)

Simultenously, on 23 May, exhibitions by Marijke De Roover and Dirk Paesmans will also open their Doors. Stay tuned.

city paintings AMSTERDAM | Armen Eloyan
23 May - 11 July 2026
OPENING: 23 May, 17.00 - 19.30hrs
Kloveniersburgwal 95, Amsterdam
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11/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
Marijke De Roover’s new solo exhibition opens 23 May!
Be welcome from 17.00 - 19.30hrs.

Upstream Gallery is pleased to present Silence, Third Wave Feminist. A Misandrist Is Speaking, a new solo exhibition by Marijke De Roover.

You walk in and the title is already doing the work. Not subtle, not coy, just sitting there like a dare. Who is supposed to be silent, who gets to speak, and why does it feel so blunt it almost loops back into embarrassment. You try to locate the misandrist, the third wave feminist, and immediately you are caught. No outside position. You are already in it.
Read more information .

Simultaneously, on 23 May, exhibitions by Armen Eloyan and Dirk Paesmans will also open their doors. Stay tuned.

Image: Silence, Third Wave Feminist. A Woman Who Noticed Men Kinda Suck Is About to Speak, 2025 by Marijkde De Roover.

Silence, Third Wave Feminist. A Woman Who Noticed Men Kinda Suck Is About to Speak | Marijke De Roover
23 May - 11 July 2026
OPENING: 23 May - 17.00 - 19.30hrs
Kloveniersburgwal 95, Amsterdam

01/05/2026

FINAL WEEKS of group exhibition CONTENT MACHINES – Jouissance, curated by Constant Dullaart > The exhibition runs until 9 May.

CONTENT MACHINES – Jouissance excavates an ongoing confrontation with automated production, tracing a lineage from cybernetic experiments and automatic art through early network provocations, algorithmic feeds, to today’s generative AI slop. As McKenzie Wark observes, we now labor within “a mode of production based on information that has itself become a commodity.” Featuring works by Sam Lavigne, Tega Brain, Dirk Paesmans, Eva and Franco Mattes, Silvia Dal Dosso, Jonas Lund, Minang Cho and Constant Dullaart, the exhibition reveals how artists have consistently exposed the infrastructure of content machines, from early web absurdism to contemporary algorithmic critique and AI-generated detritus.
Read more detailed information .

ARTISTS
Sam Lavigne, Tega Brain, Dirk Paesmans (JODI), Eva and Franco Mattes, Silvia Dal Dosso (Clusterduck), Jonas Lund, Minang Cho and Constant Dullaart

CURATOR
Constant Dullaart

23/03/2026

COMING UP: . The 27th edition of the fair will run from 26 - 29 March, and is located at Rotterdam Ahoy.

With works by Frank Ammerlaan (), Kévin Bray (bray_kevin), Alicia Framis (), David Haines (), Jen Liu (), Lucas Lugarinho (lugarinhol), Amol K Patil (), Noor Nuyten (), Ronald Ophuis (), Joseph Thabang Palframan (.palfra), Rafaël Rozendaal () and Dennis Rudolph ().

Besides a booth presentation, Upstream Gallery is proud to be selected for the section Projections at the fair with CLUB (2025), a film by David Haines.

Art Rotterdam 2025 | 26 - 29 March
Rotterdam Ahoy | Rotterdam
Upstream Gallery | Booth G01

19/03/2026

We are pleased to announce that the has acquired several important early works on paper by Marinus Boezem. These pieces are a significant addition to the museum’s existing collection of his work.

One of the acquired works is the collage If you’d like to see this photo in colors, burn it, Marinus Boezem (1967-69). This work is a black and white picture postcard bearing the instruction: ‘If you’d like to see this photo in colors, burn it.’ Boezem’s thumb is pictured life-sized in the left corner, as if holding the card, while the right side depicts a curling sheet of paper going up in flames. In 1969 the card was sent by mail to 200 persons as an artwork. The recipient is involved as a co-actor in the creation of the intended artwork, by holding it in the spot where Boezem’s thumb is pictured and then lighting it on fire. By this intervention, the black and white photograph of the flames is temporarily transformed into the colour of real flames. At the same time, the realization of the artwork means its destruction.

Another version of this work is on view in the exhibition Mail art 1964 - 1996, from 20 March - 18 April 2026 at Upstream Gallery.

13/03/2026

OPENING FRIDAY 20 MARCH: Marinus Boezem - Mail Art (1964–1996), on view in the gallery’s private viewing space, simultaneously with the group exhibition in the main space.

Brought together for the first time, this presentation surveys a body of historical works by Boezem that can be classified as mail art, an artistic movement that emerged in the 1960s centered on the exchange of small-scale works through the postal service. Boezem, celebrated for his radical immaterial, conceptual and Arte Povera works, regularly used the postal service to distribute his art and ideas. Sending art directly into the world, to institutions, artists or art professionals, was itself a conceptual gesture entirely in keeping with his practice. The works gathered here span more than three decades and include an exhibition invitation, proposals for artworks and weather reports, among others. All works bear the playful sensibility so characteristic of Boezem’s work.

Image: If You’d Like to See This Photo in Colors, Burn It, Marinus Boezem, 1967-1969

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07/02/2026

Already a week ago our BYOB clubnight ‘Syntropy’ in collaboration with Het Salon and Glitch404 took place! 📽️💥🪩🕺🏽

We’ve had a very good evening filled with luminous projects and community spirit! ✨

Much thanks to all the participating artists and .salon.ateliers + for making it all happen!

Till’ next time!
Can’t wait? You can always organize a BYOB yourself!

BYOB is an open-source exhibition concept created by Rafaël Rozendaal . The idea is simple: Find a venue, invite as many media artists and ask them to bring their own beamer to show their work.

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