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Looiersgracht 60

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Amsterdam
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.

05/10/2026

In the summer of 2024, Looiersgracht 60 welcomed artist and designer Sophie Rowley (SOPHIE ROWLEY) for the third edition of our Public Research Residency. Over the course of four weeks, Rowley transformed the former factory space into her own studio as she further developed a large body of work titled ‘Repetition is a Form of Change’.

Rooted in deconstruction, layering, and unlayering, Rowley’s practice explores the spatial and sculptural potential of thread. Through sustained, repetitive gestures, her work considers how processes of ravelling and unravelling might unsettle ways of seeing, doing, and being. During the residency, this inquiry took shape in two new site-specific installations, Thread Sculpture (2024) and Skylight Installation (2024). Held ahead of her major solo exhibition at Looiersgracht 60, the residency offered a space to slow down, reflect, experiment, and create, foregrounding the making process as a matter of public interest, through two open studio moments.

Images by LNDW Studio

01/10/2026

We are pleased to share that this October, Looiersgracht 60 will present ‘Strangely Familiar’, a major solo exhibition by Dutch artist and designer Aldo Bakker (), opening 24 October from 16:00 - 19:00.

The exhibition marks a decisive new chapter in Bakker’s artistic practice, following his solo exhibition ‘Containing Content’ held at Looiersgracht 60 in 2015. While the latter centred on his fascination with pouring vessels and his ability to free familiar objects from established conventions, ‘Strangely Familiar’ will showcase objects that fully enter into their own terms, moving beyond questions of functionality. Displayed publicly for the first time, this new sculptural body of work will take over the gallery’s former factory floors, as Bakker explores line, mass, texture and colour in new ways.

The show runs from October 25 -December 23, 2026 and is interwoven with an engaging public programme. Information will be announced soon.

To RSVP for the opening, kindly email [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming you.

Communication Image by Studio Veronica Ditting

29/09/2026

We are pleased to share that coming October, we will present ‘Strangely Familiar’, a major solo exhibition by Dutch artist and designer Aldo Bakker () opening on 24 October between 16:00 - 19:00.

The exhibition marks a decisive new chapter in his artistic practice, following his solo exhibition ‘Containing Content’ held at Looiersgracht 60 in 2015. While the latter centred on his fascination with pouring vessels and his ability to free familiar objects from established conventions, ‘Strangely Familiar’ will present objects that fully enter into their own terms, moving beyond questions of functionality. Presented publicly for the first time, this new sculptural body of work will take over the gallery’s former factory floors, as Bakker explores line, mass, texture and colour in new ways.

The show runs from October 25 - December 23, 2026 and is interwoven with an engaging public programme. Information will be announced soon.

To RSVP for the opening, kindly email [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming you!

Communication Image by Studio Veronica Ditting

27/09/2026

We look back at Public Research Residency IV, which welcomed Amsterdam-based artist Romy Yedidia (Romy Yedidia) to Looiersgracht 60 throughout August 2026 to develop ‘Impossible Bouquet’, exploring the cultural conflation of Woman and Nature through the image of the flower alongside her own experiences of pregnancy and the postpartum body.

During her four weeks in residence, this research developed into a series of new works. Among them, ‘Putting Food on the Table (Part One)’ (2026) emerged from Yedidia’s daily recording of herself pumping breast milk while away from her baby. Across 28 days, more than ten hours of footage accumulated transformed an often unseen form of maternal labour into part of the artistic process. In ‘Putting Food on the Table (Part Two)’ (2026), the milk produced during was preserved in 28 breast milk bags and presented inside a freezer on a pedestal.

The residency opened its doors to the public through an open studio weekend, and concluded with a finissage and conversation between Yedidia and art historian and PhD candidate Anna Lawrence.

Images by LNDW Studio

21/09/2026

Mining the archive, we came across this image taken during Looiersgracht 60’s transformation into an exhibition space in 2013. Rooted in a history of manufacturing and labour, traces of the former factory remain embedded throughout its interior; on its walls and structural details. Rather than concealing these remnants, the transformation allowed them to remain part of the space’s identity. Working with architect Moriko Kira (Moriko Kira), the building was carefully adapted through a series of minimal interventions that allowed its past to remain visible. In the atrium, a white floor was poured at a distance of 5–10 cm from the original walls and load-bearing columns, preventing direct contact between old and new materials while maintaining a clear distinction between the building’s past and its new use. This approach continues to inform Looiersgracht 60 today, where traces of the building’s factory past often enter into dialogue with contemporary artistic production and site-specific inquiry.

Images by Christian Richter.

17/09/2026

We are pleased to announce that coming October, we will present ‘Strangely Familiar’, a major solo exhibition by Dutch artist and designer Aldo Bakker (), opening on 24 October, between 16:00 - 19:00.

The exhibition marks a decisive new chapter in his artistic practice, following his solo exhibition ‘Containing Content’ held at Looiersgracht 60 in 2015. While the latter centred on his fascination with pouring vessels and his ability to free familiar objects from established conventions, ‘Strangely Familiar’ will present objects that fully enter into their own terms, moving beyond questions of functionality. Rather than resolving problems, as design is so often expected to do, Bakker’s extensive oeuvre defies categorical associations and established conventions. Presented publicly for the first time, this new sculptural body of work will take over the gallery’s former factory floors, as Bakker explores line, mass, texture and colour in new ways.

The show runs from October 25 -December 23, 2026 and is interwoven with an engaging public programme. Information will be announced soon.

To RSVP for the opening, kindly email [email protected]. We look forward to welcoming you all!

Communication Image by Studio Veronica Ditting

16/09/2026

Anika Schwarzlose (Anika Schwarzlose) and Elena Khurtova (Elena Khurtova) presented their installation ‘Residue’ at Looiersgracht 60 during the 30th edition of the Sonic Acts Biennial in 2024 (Sonic Acts). Investigating the environmental repercussions of the former weapons factory at the Hembrug terrain, the artists employed soil chromatography to bring contaminated soil — an archive in itself — into dialogue with archival imagery from the site through a large-scale textile installation. By bringing these parallel archives together, ‘Residue’ reflected on the traces industrial production leaves behind.

Images by Pieter Kers.

10/09/2026

Radical Reversibility (Radical Reversibility) is a research-based arts platform interested in the interplay between image, viewer and perception. Founded in 2017 by artists Martine Stig, Elodie Hiryczuk and Sjoerd van Oevelen, and curator/editor Frank van der Stok, curator and writer Taco Hidde Bakker and image editor Isabelle van Hemert. The practice functions as a network and laboratory where artists, writers, curators and academics contextualise their own work within new disciplines and engage in discourses both within and beyond the arts, through public events, exhibitions and publications.

Over the years, Radical Reversibility has presented several exhibitions and research-based projects at Looiersgracht 60, starting with ‘Seeing without a Seer’ (2018), a group exhibition and symposium exploring alternative ways of looking, thinking and image-making. Three years later, we co-presented ‘From Seeing to Acting’ (2021), a group exhibition exploring the simultaneous and reversible relationship between perception and action. In the summer of 2022, the collaboration expanded into the first iteration of Looiersgracht 60’s Public Research Residency Programme, where Amsterdam-based artists Doina Kraal () and Roger Cremers (Roger Cremers) were welcomed as inaugural residents to develop their collaborative project, ‘Spiritus – Archiving the (Un)imaginable’ (2022)

Images: Installation shots, ‘From Seeing to Acting’ (2021) by Sonia Mangiapane

06/09/2026

In Plastic Objects (2017), Julien Manaira (Julien Manaira) explored chance and accident as active parts of the relationship between maker and material. The work drew attention to the often hidden processes through which form comes into being. Rather than fixing the epoxy resin into a predetermined shape, the moulding frame allowed the material to settle in response to the conditions of the process. In this way, the final form emerged gradually through making, leaving space for chance, material behaviour, and time itself to shape the outcome.

Presented as part of the Sandberg Institute’s (Sandberg Instituut) 2017 graduation exhibition, the work emerged from the temporary programme Materialisation in Art + Design. Developed over two years of artistic research, the programme centred artistic production itself, investigating how materials act, transform, and generate form through process.

Image by Iris Box.

01/09/2026

Join us this Thursday, 3 September, for an engaging Artist Talk and Finissage with artist Romy Yedidia (Romy Yedidia) and art historian and PhD candidate Anna Lawrence, marking the culmination of Public Research Residency IV: Impossible Bouquet.

The conversation will consider how floral imagery has circulated across art history and contemporary visual culture, quietly shaping ideals of beauty, youth and femininity. Bringing together Lawrence’s research into the seventeenth-century Dutch flower painter Maria van Oosterwijck and Yedidia’s investigation into the flower as an idealised image of nature coded as feminine, the discussion will trace how such visual and material languages are constructed, internalised and reproduced. Together, they will ask what it means to encounter flowers not only as aesthetic objects, but as cultural technologies through which ideas of femininity are continually formed and sustained.

Doors open 17:30. The begins at 18:00, and will be followed by Q&A and drinks. To RSVP, click the email button in our bio, or send us a direct message.

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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

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