In the first exhibition of the new season, three artists join forces for a space-filling installation in the gallery and at the new art fair NAP+. Artists: Tim Breukers, Niko Riedinger and Tom Volkaert.

The fifth edition of the Van Ostade Biennale opens on Saturday May 25 from 14.00 - 18.00 hrs. In our shared shared space, Galerie Fleur & Wouter and GoMulan Gallery present a living exhibition with work by Lonneke van der Palen and Sophie Steengracht. The exhibition is constantly in motion, through an evolving mural and changing placement of the works.

Inspiration is a strange phenomenon. It sometimes comes when you least expect it. Artist Johan Kleinjan (1974) has recently been under the spell of favourite animals (mainly dogs and cats) sent to him by his girlfriend from the website verhuisdieren.nl. He decided to make the animals and the unusual interiors of their soon-to-be ex-bosses the subject of a new series of drawings, which will be on display in our project space.

Castlemania is a shared project between Galerie Fleur & Wouter and No Limits! Art Castle. One exhibition at two locations, created in collaboration with co-curator Simon Marsiglia. For the chapter in our gallery Open the Gates!, the gallery transforms into the interior of a castle of the future with contributions from a large number of artists: 

As an artist-anthropologist, Kyra Sacks (NL, 1989) explores drawing as a method of inquiry in research. She observes and draws 'out there’ in the world, in the midst of reality. The works shown at the Gallery draw inspiration from her field sketches and notes which she gathered over the span of a year during projects in The Gambia, Chile, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands.

On February 10 from 12.00 - 18.00 we open the first solo exhibition by Erik Mattijssen in the gallery: Paper Moon. We hope to see you then, the exhibition runs until March 3. You will encounter few people in Erik Mattijssen's (NL, 1957) oeuvre, which has now spanned forty years. But as a derivative, portrayed as a doll, they are there, and in this exhibition they play a leading role.

We are proud to present the work of Fransix Tenda Lomba (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1984). His practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture and animated video. These works tell divergent, yet deeply intertwined, stories about the inter-human bond through the production and consumption of raw materials like cocoa – personal commentaries on the collective memories of post-colonial societies and the bittersweet reality that the pleasure of chocolate is fraught with suffering.

We are proud to present Mirjam Vreeswijk’s Gorinchem, NL, 1997) first solo exhibition within the Gallery: The Curtain Rises.

On a stage, as if it were a presentation in a cultural history museum, we show a collection of wondrous objects. Artists Dodi Espinosa, Warre Mulder, Sharon van Overmeiren, Carmen Schabracq and Saar Scheerlings make sculptures that refer in different ways to cultural expressions and stories of the past and present, from around the world. Sometimes they look at these sources of inspiration from a distance, sometimes they are actually experienced. Always they result in unique works with their own story, but which are also free for the viewer's interpretation.

During Amsterdam Art Week, Galerie Fleur & Wouter is showing a solo exhibition with Natacha Mankowski (Paris, 1986). Her new painting series Milos shows evanescent shades of titanium buff, off-white, pale pink, warm and violet gray and play with sulfuric tones of golden green and lemon yellow. Together those pale but acid nuances recall the rocky coast and volcanic past of the Greek Island of Milos. 

From March 11, Galerie Fleur & Wouter is showing a solo exhibition of work by Isa van Lier (Amsterdam, 1996). In the installation Sowing Seeds she invites you into her imaginative world of abundance and silence.

In this solo exhibition, Saar Scheerlings (NL, 1990) takes us into her world. Her signature sculptures, talismans and collages are set in a room-filling installation, draped over the existing gallery space like a canvas and turning our relationship to space on its head.

In Painter's Painters, we exhibit three painters who are exploring the medium and pushing its boundaries in different ways. Three artists known for inspiring other painters through their particular way of painting. Artists Mirjam Vreeswijk, Isa van Lier and Natacha Mankowski give you a glimpse of a new kind of painting.

Artist Dodi Espinosa (Mexico City, 1985) makes his entrance into the gallery in this duo exhibition with Carmen Schabracq (Amsterdam, 1988). Both artists have strong ties with Mexico and a fascination for tradition, craft, and which materials are considered noble and which poor.

A worm cupboard, a hypnotic sea monster in an awkward glass aquarium and photos of Koos Buster's girlfriend in ceramic frames: a selection from The Big Everyone Works With Everyone Show. For this exhibition, befriended artists Anemoon Fokkinga, Koos Buster, Jan Hoek and Gert Wessels created new works of art together. They challenged each other to work in new media and to explore the boundaries between design and art. The result is a total work of art that immerses you in a world where the strange is celebrated and where the pleasure of making splashes out.

In the exhibition Unfamiliar Passions we present work by Leo Maher (UK, 1998) and Mai van Oers (NL, 1953). The artists, very different in background and age find a common interest in legends, folk tales and (art)history. Both artists create multilayered narratives based on their own lifes and experiences, such as gay culture and an upbringing among the nuns. The works on show invite you to dive into these stories and discover their endless references.

During this exhibition visual artist and anthropologist Kyra Sacks presents her research into the 'new' word solastalgia. A wistful or melancholic feeling caused when we are confronted with landscapes or areas that have changed irrevocably. In the gallery, Kyra will show an installation that reflects her visual research into her own landscape pain and that of others. Although made in different contexts, the images carry a tranquil free-fall within them. We see landscapes slipping through our fingers and people wading through them by touch.

In this duo exhibition, we showcase two artists with a fascination for the hidden meanings of objects. In the monstrously shiny artworks of Naomi Gilon, objects come to life to represent our inner demons. Mirjam Vreeswijk uses collages of objects to create paintings that, like optical illusions, play with the conscious and subconscious. The materiality of objects also binds the artists: from the fascination with tuning cars or in a quest to catch the perfect structure in paint.

Bas Kosters and Johan Kleinjan have a great admiration for each others work. They chose Wild as a theme only to find out that they are not that wild anymore and that the wild is hard to find in this day and age. With great humour, they both give their view of the world in this exhibition, in a visual language that is a world in itself.

For many, summer is a carefree and nostalgic period with lots of freedom and time for reflection. The reference in the title of this exhibition to the song Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams shows the great expectations for this summer. The Summer of '21 was to become the Summer of Love, but now threatens to become just another summer at home. From 30 July, the gallery is the setting for five artists to give their view on the Summer of '21. Expectations, reality and the longing for the past will all be addressed

In 2019, artist Mai van Oers (1953) was part of the jury of the Special Award, a four-yearly prize for Outsider Art. Mai has a great love for these artists, who have little or no contact with the mainstream art world. She is amazed at how the world of "Insider art" and that of Outsider Art remain separate. Together with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, the idea arose to exhibit her work alongside her favourite participants of the Special Award. For Galerie Fleur & Wouter, the exhibition is a way to introduce this special art to their young audience.

On Friday 16 April we open the second edition of the Van Ostade Biennale, this time with the theme landscapes. In this joint exhibition by GoMulan Gallery and Galerie Fleur & Wouter, four artists show their desire for extraordinary landscapes and nature. With this exhibition we celebrate the collaboration between our galleries, which share their gallery space at the Van Ostadestraat 43a.

In the exhibition Extravaganza special personalities, artists and rituals are shown. Photographs of activist, transsexual sex workers made by Jan Hoek and Duran Lantink hang opposite the explicit paintings of the flamboyant diva Eleonora Stol. On the floor we show an installation with different masks, for which Carmen Schabracq draws inspiration from cultures all over the world.

We are proud to present the duo presentation Sight by Sight with work by Johan Kleinjan, a well-known name in the gallery, and newcomer Saar Scheerlings. The work of Johan and Saar shows that cultural objects are not fixed forms but are subject to constant change.

Solo Exhibition by Lonneke van der Palen: Please Return to the Highlighted Route. The series originates at unexpected moments, when photographer Lonneke van der Palen deviates from her route and the navigation goes crazy.