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Looiersgracht 60

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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.

18/06/2026

Pictured above is a specially designed Printing Plant tote bag, developed in collaboration with Studio Veronica Ditting (). The Printing Plant () tote became a fitting extension of Looiersgracht 60’s signature archival house style, featuring graphic perforations in varying scales articulated through negative space. The fair’s striking overall visual identity also appeared across printed matter and outdoor signage.

Images by Sander van Wettum.

16/06/2026

Inspired by Looiersgracht 60’s former function as a cardboard and paper factory, alongside its brief occupation as bottling plant by Die Port van Cleve, the Printing Plant Art Book Fair () was established to offer a platform for Amsterdam’s rich and diverse artistic print culture that ran in two iterations between 2018 and 2019. Over three days during Amsterdam Art Weekend, the fair presented a curated selection of artist editions, multiples, catalogues, monographs, and zines that are generally unavailable in bookstores - with a rich and diverse programme consisting of performances, institutional collaborations, installations, lectures, and informal conversations.

Images by Maarten Nauw.

10/06/2026

We are very pleased to welcome you tomorrow, Thursday 11 June at 17:00, for the opening of ‘Best Day of My Life’, the 2026 graduation exhibition of the Sandberg Institute’s Design Department ()!

This special evening will unfold through a series of programmed moments across the gallery, including performances, live streams, a publication launch, as well as drinks and bites. The exhibition remains on view through 14 June 2026, and will be accompanied by a varied public programme of activations, artistic interventions, and extended opening hours. For an overview of the full performance schedule, please visit sandberg.nl.

RSVP: Thursday 11 June at 17.00
Admission is free, but seating is limited — to reserve a spot, please email us at [email protected].

Images: Sandberg Institute’s Graphic Design Department graduation exhibition, presented at Looiersgracht 60 in 2016, ten years ago. Shot by Konstantin Guz.

08/06/2026

In 2017, Looiersgracht 60 hosted Prima Materia, an exhibition organised as part of FIBER Festival (), bringing together the work of sixteen interdisciplinary artists and designers who questioned and reimagined the relationship between technology, matter, and human experience. Drawing from the alchemical notion of ‘prima materia’, the metaphysical substance once believed to connect everything in the cosmos, the exhibition unfolded as a journey through the transmutations of 21st-century material, viewed through artistic instruments and speculative imagination.

The works on view were divided into three themes: States of Matter, which considered new ways of approaching matter; Artificial Perception, where artificial intelligence and programmed instruments brought the world into focus across multiple scales; and New Ecologies, which speculated on futures shaped by the entanglement of technology, geology, and the universe.

Images by Jessica Dreu.

05/06/2026

Join us on Thursday 11 June from 17:00 to celebrate the opening of ‘The Best Day of My Life’, the graduation presentation of the Sandberg Institute’s Design Department (). Developed as a cohort-led presentation alongside first-year students, and under the guidance of Agustina Woodgate, ‘The Best Day of My Life’ reflects on the ways design, as both a mode of inquiry and an organising principle, participates in shaping the conditions of everyday life.

Marking the culmination of two intensive years of individual inquiry within an open, collaborative atmosphere, the exhibition approaches meaning as anything but fixed - shaped not by consensus, but by plurality. With works by Adele Stroh, Asya Sukhorukova, Beatrice Cauda, Chiara Benevolo, Christine Kerres, Doris Mari Demetriadou, Giselle Dahm, John Haag, Olga Elliot, Sadie van Breemen, Sebastian Vasquez Cipriani, and Stan Wiersma.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. To RSVP for the opening, please email us at [email protected].

Image: Work by Juliette Lizotte, shot by Konstantin Guz.

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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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.

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

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

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.

Adres

Looiersgracht 60
Amsterdam
1016VT

Openingstijden

Woensdag	12:00 - 20:00
Donderdag	12:00 - 20:00
Vrijdag	12:00 - 20:00
Zaterdag	12:00 - 20:00
Zondag	12:00 - 20:00

Website

http://www.looiersgracht60.org/

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