Looiersgracht 60

Looiersgracht 60 Looiersgracht 60 is a non-profit exhibition centre for art, design and architecture. http://www.looiersgracht60.org/

Looiersgracht 60 is a non-profit exhibition centre for art, design and architecture located along its namesake canal in Amsterdam's gallery district. Previously a cardboard and bottling plant built in 1850, the space has been repurposed to facilitate a dynamic programme focusing on projects that defy traditional categorisation.

We are pleased to invite you to The Best Day of My Life, the graduation exhibition of the Sandberg Institute’s Design De...
28/05/2026

We are pleased to invite you to The Best Day of My Life, the graduation exhibition of the Sandberg Institute’s Design Department (), hosted by Looiersgracht 60 from 11–14 June 2026, opening on Thursday 11 June from 17:00

For more than a decade, Looiersgracht 60 has offered Sandberg Institute student cohorts a public context at decisive moments within their programmes. This June, we are delighted to welcome the institute back with ‘The Best Day of My Life’. Rather than proposing a single, universally legible account of what fulfilment might be, this group exhibition foregrounds the heterogeneity of experience and sensibilities as the necessary means through which shared imaginaries form.

Developed as a cohort-led presentation with first-year students, under the guidance of Agustina Woodgate, twelve distinct practices emerge side by side guided by a shared horizon — exposing the ways design, as both a mode of inquiry and an organizing principle, participates in shaping the condition of everyday life. Accompanying the presentation is a varied public programme of student-led interventions, including special performances, live streams, a workshop, a book launch, and a closing ceremony.

To RSVP for the opening please email [email protected].

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In the autumn of 2019, we presented our first collaboration with for the exhibition Decoders-Recorders, a dual solo sho...
26/05/2026

In the autumn of 2019, we presented our first collaboration with for the exhibition Decoders-Recorders, a dual solo show by Steffani Jemison () and Samson Young. With works presented in several spaces throughout the gallery, each artist investigated distinct forms of notation and coded abstraction as ways of articulating what often remains unheard within contemporary social and political life.

Trained as a classical composer, Young’s practice spans drawing, video, performance, and installation, often exploring the geopolitical underpinnings of sound and linguistics. Born and based in Hong Kong, he takes a particular interest in borders, binaries, and the lingering distinctions between “east” and “west” that continue to shape post-colonial life. For Decoders-Recorders, Young presented works including ‘Muted Chorus’, part of his ongoing Muted Situation series, alongside large-scale drawings and collages. Across these works, acts of muting, obscuring, and recoding became ways of approaching what remains unheard, marginalised, or otherwise difficult to express.

Images by LNDW Studio.

In the autumn of 2019, we presented our first collaboration with for the exhibition Decoders-Recorders, a dual solo sho...
23/05/2026

In the autumn of 2019, we presented our first collaboration with for the exhibition Decoders-Recorders, a dual solo show by New York–based artist Steffani Jemison () and Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young. Situating their practices side by side, the exhibition demonstrated the distinct approaches each artist takes in embracing acts of coding, hiding, and abstraction in order to articulate suppressed social histories as well as contemporary predicaments.

Born and based in the United States, Jemison’s practice draws on physical expression, coded gesture, and the histories of Black life in America, considering alternative forms of language as strategies of resistance, survival, and self-definition. For Decoders-Recorders, the artist presented a selection of new and existing drawings on clear film and other surfaces, drawing from slave narratives, constructed languages, alternative alphabets — these works proposed opacity as a political strategy, and intentional obscurity as a way of reclaiming subjectivity and power.

Images by LNDW Studio

For the second public moment of Public Research Residency II, Looiersgracht 60 welcomed the launch of A Gestural History...
21/05/2026

For the second public moment of Public Research Residency II, Looiersgracht 60 welcomed the launch of A Gestural History of the Young Worker by Werker Collective (.collective), a long-developed artist publication that followed from the installation of the same name. Produced over four years in collaboration with Spector Books, the publication brought together archival images of the body at work, a contextual appendix, and a text by Georgy Mamedov, extending the collective’s ongoing inquiry into the glorification of certain bodies and the oppression of others.

Accompanying the launch was A Gestural History of the Young Worker, Print Punch (2023), a special edition of prints developed on site at Looiersgracht 60. Drawing from archival images first produced as part of the earlier installation, the work unfolded through acts of printing and perforation, transforming source material into a new site-specific form. Alongside this presentation, Werker also opened a conversation around alternative economic models for collaborative art practice, considering questions of fair remuneration, redistribution, and the wider ecology within which artists, collaborators, and art spaces operate.

Images by LNDW Studio

For Public Research Residency II, Amsterdam-based Werker Collective (.collective) revisited and expanded upon their 2019...
18/05/2026

For Public Research Residency II, Amsterdam-based Werker Collective (.collective) revisited and expanded upon their 2019 installation A Gestural History of the Young Worker. Originally developed for the 5th Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Russia in collaboration with activist and curator Georgy Mamedov. Following the censorship the work encountered during its initial presentation, Werker returned to the project during their time in residence at Looiersgracht 60. Shown above, ‘A Gestural History of the Young Worker, Condition Report’ (2023) unfolded as a disassembled version of the earlier installation, its separated elements referring to the act of compiling a condition report—an assessment made after an artwork has been exhibited or transported into a new space.

Originally launched in 2022, Looiersgracht 60’s Public Research Residency Programme was conceived to foster public engagement across all stages of the artistic process, situating research practice as a matter of public interest.

Images by LNDW Studio.

Looiersgracht 60 was pleased to present the graduation exhibition of the Sandberg Institute’s Fine Arts Masters program ...
15/05/2026

Looiersgracht 60 was pleased to present the graduation exhibition of the Sandberg Institute’s Fine Arts Masters program in the summer of 2018. Titled ‘Festival of Choices’, the exhibition, which brought together the works of graduating students under one roof for the first time, showcased the culmination of two years of intensive study, structured around three core modules: Language, Image, and Play/Object. The programme conceptually explored the ways artistic practices can expand well beyond traditional disciplines, showcasing works by Johanna Arco, Loidys Carnero, Philip Coyne, Timo Demollin, Philip Ortelli, Alice dos Reis, Mai Spring, Tatsuhiko Togashi and Mong-Hsuan Tsai.

Images shot by Sander van Wettum.

Last month, Looiersgracht 60 was pleased to host the book launch of ‘LB 41: OFFICE WINHOV — National Holocaust Museum’ b...
12/05/2026

Last month, Looiersgracht 60 was pleased to host the book launch of ‘LB 41: OFFICE WINHOV — National Holocaust Museum’ by Portugal-based architecture publisher AMAG (), dedicated to Office Winhov’s () award winning design for the National Holocaust Museum ().

Marking the forty-first title in the LONG BOOKS COLLECTION, the publication was introduced through a public conversation with Uri Gilad, co-founder of the practice, Chief Curator Annemiek Gringold, and journalist Tracy Metz (). The publication pays close attention to the site’s initial architectural drawings, where existing buildings, new programme, and embedded histories are read together—approaching the museum not as a static vessel of the past, but as an active site through which remembrance is continually made present. The design has since been recognised with the BNA Best Building of the Year 2025, Amsterdam Architecture Prize 2025, ARC Awards 2024, and Archello Awards 2024 (Museum Building of the Year).

LB 41 is available for purchase via ’s website. Cover image courtesy of AMAG.

Miriam Sentler () is a visual artist and researcher whose work focuses on the continuous changing of environments, often...
07/05/2026

Miriam Sentler () is a visual artist and researcher whose work focuses on the continuous changing of environments, often attending to the cultural and environmental legacy of fossil fuel industries and the contemporary landscape. For the sixth edition of Looiersgracht 60’s Archive Event Series, presented in October 2022, Sentler brought together three recent projects, each proposing alternative artistic methods of archiving endangered species in landscapes exploited for fossil fuel extraction.

Titled The Chase, works on view included ‘The Chase’ (2020), a sound piece preserving the rare birdsong of Germany’s Hambacher Forst; Cairban – A Contemporary Shark Hunt (2021), a performance and installation documenting Sentler’s search for the oil-producing basking shark; and The Forest Underground (2022), a newly developed soundscape from recordings made in the coal mines of Genk, which debuted at Looiersgracht 60. Across the installation, methods such as translating birdsong into sheet music or tracing the basking shark as both industrial resource and sea-monster emerged as ways of engaging precarious landscapes and questioning the archive as an (im)possible instrument of the chase.

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Suspended directly from the edges of the gallery’s industrial, storied interior and composed of delicate, fine string, S...
04/05/2026

Suspended directly from the edges of the gallery’s industrial, storied interior and composed of delicate, fine string, Skylight Installation (2024) by German–New Zealander artist Sophie Rowley (.rowley) greeted visitors at the entrance to her solo exhibition Repetition is a Form of Change. Cascading softly from the ceiling and illuminated by natural light, the work unfolded as one of two installations Rowley developed during her participation in Looiersgracht 60’s Public Research Residency III in the summer of 2024, in the months leading up to the exhibition.

We are also pleased to share that Sophie Rowley’s work is currently on display at MUK Malte Uekermann Kunsthandel, in the exhibition titled ‘Yarn Paintings & Sculpture’ on view until 5 June.

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In the summer of 2024, Looiersgracht 60 invited artist Sophie Rowley (.rowley) for the third iteration of the Public Res...
30/04/2026

In the summer of 2024, Looiersgracht 60 invited artist Sophie Rowley (.rowley) for the third iteration of the Public Research Residency. Over the course of four weeks throughout the month of August, the artist expanded on an already-existing large body of work, titled ‘Repetition is a Form of Change’. Engaged in both personal and critical modes of inquiry Rowley focused on further developing a central research concern within her practice, emphasizing repetition as an embodied process with a transformative capacity to unsettle fixed ways of seeing, doing, and being. During her time in residence, the artist produced two new site-specific installations titled Thread Sculpture (2024) and Skylight Installation (2024). The works gave form to the contrasting states of ravelling and unravelling that underpin Rowley’s work.

Images by LNDW Studio

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