Rijksakademie – Optimised Fables about a Good Life

Exhibitions, performances, talks and other activities from residents and alumni outside the Rijksakademie.

126 activities

Australia
- Sat 14 Mar 2026 – Sun 14 Jun 2026
Multiple venues, Sydney
- Mounira Al Solh
- Tuan Mami
group show
Rememories
Biennale of Sydney
Australia
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Thu 2 Apr 2026
Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield
- Yin-Ju Chen
group show
Knowing otherwise
Belgium
- Wed 22 Jan 2025 – Sun 3 Jan 2027
M HKA, Antwerpen
- Ayman Ramadan
- Otobong Nkanga
group show
The Situation is Fluid
Belgium
- Sat 21 Feb 2026 – Sat 25 Apr 2026
Fred&Ferry, Antwerpen
- Krystel Geerts
solo show
Imprints
Belgium
- Fri 31 Oct 2025 – Sun 29 Mar 2026
Netwerk, Aalst
- Pauline Curnier Jardin
solo show
Dress to Kill
Belgium
- Sat 31 Jan 2026 – Thu 12 Mar 2026
Belgian Gallery, Brussel
- Xavier Noiret-Thomé
group show
IDIOS
Belgium
- Sat 29 Nov 2025 – Sun 8 Mar 2026
S.M.A.K., Ghent
- Fernando Sánchez Castillo
group show
Resistance. The Power of the Image
Belgium
- Fri 23 Jan 2026 – Sun 1 Mar 2026
Emergent, Veurne
- Adam Leech
solo show
Zingen!!
Belgium
- Sat 17 Jan 2026 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Hopstraat Gallery, Antwerpen
- Berend Strik
group show
An eye on Polaroids
Switzerland
- Sat 7 Mar 2026 – Sun 18 Apr 2027
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
- Marc Bauer
solo show
Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing
Switzerland
- Fri 3 Apr 2026 – Sun 23 Aug 2026
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA), Lausanne
- Otobong Nkanga
solo show
I dreamt of you in colours
Switzerland
- Fri 6 Feb 2026 – Sun 2 Aug 2026
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (MCBA), Lausanne
- Marina Xenofontos
solo show
Play Life
Switzerland
- Fri 13 Feb 2026 – Sun 19 Apr 2026
Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen
- Sonia Kacem
solo show
A Doll’s House
Switzerland
- Tue 20 Jan 2026 – Sun 22 Mar 2026
Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy
- Sonia Kacem
- Ryan Gander
group show
Stitches
A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories
China
- Thu 6 Nov 2025 – Sun 26 Apr 2026
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
- Peng Zuqiang
solo show
Short-Term Histories
China
- Sat 8 Nov 2025 – Tue 31 Mar 2026
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
- Lisa Oppenheim
- Ho Tzu Nyen
group show
Does the flower have the bee?
15th Shanghai Biennale
Czechia
- Thu 20 Nov 2025 – Thu 19 Feb 2026
Telegraph, Olomouc
- Paulina Olowska
group show
Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)
Germany
- Thu 11 Sep 2025 – Mon 31 Aug 2026
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
- Nora Turato
site-specific work
they filled me up with words
Germany
- Fri 11 Jul 2025 – Mon 17 Aug 2026
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
- Monira Al Qadiri
solo show
Hero
Germany
- Sun 23 Jun 2024 – Fri 31 Jul 2026
Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
- Paulina Olowska
- Olga Balema
group show
Body Measurements
KölnSkulptur #11
Germany
- Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Fri 31 Jul 2026
Lothringer 13 Halle, München
- Mikołaj Sobczak
group show
Antifascism: Now
Germany
- Sat 21 Mar 2026 – Sun 14 Jun 2026
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
- Yael Bartana
solo show
We are here!
Germany
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sun 24 May 2026
Museum Agewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
- Otobong Nkanga
group show
Wool. Silk. Resistance
Germany
- Sat 21 Feb 2026 – Sun 10 May 2026
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
- Hsu Che-Yu
duo show
Entombed
Germany
- Sat 6 Sep 2025 – Sun 10 May 2026
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
- Julika Rudelius
solo show
The Emperor’s New Mall
Germany
- Sat 14 Mar 2026 – Sun 3 May 2026
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
- Shaun Motsi
group show
Memory is a strange bell
Germany
- Fri 24 Oct 2025 – Sun 26 Apr 2026
Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Hamburg
- Ana María Gómez López
- Em'kal Eyongakpa
group show
Into the unseen
Germany
- Sat 20 Sep 2025 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
- Guido van der Werve
group show
Cold as Ice
Germany
- Wed 28 Jan 2026 – Sun 1 Mar 2026
Haus for Media Art oldenburg, Oldenburg
- Susanne Kriemann
group show
Die Stifterin, der Nationalsozialismus und das Haus
Germany
- Sat 17 Jan 2026 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
- Zuzanna Bartoszek
group show
Pension ABC
Germany
- Sun 14 Sep 2025 – Wed 25 Feb 2026
KINDL, Berlin
- Cihad Caner
solo show
Demonst(e)rating the Untamable Monster
Germany
- Sat 29 Nov 2025 – Sun 22 Feb 2026
Kunstpalais, Erlangen
- melanie bonajo
solo show
Echo Organs
Denmark
- Thu 13 Nov 2025 – Mon 6 Apr 2026
ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj
- Monira Al Qadiri
solo show
Chameleon
Spain
- Fri 12 Dec 2025 – Fri 13 Mar 2026
LA BIBI + REUS CITY, Palma
- Alexandra Hunts
group show
Panorama #9
Finland
- Tue 14 Oct 2025 – Sun 5 Apr 2026
Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna
- Pilvi Takala
group show
Strike a Pose
Scenes from our Collections
Finland
- Sat 27 Sep 2025 – Sun 1 Mar 2026
Pori Art Museum, Pori
- melanie bonajo
solo show
Night Soil
France
- Sat 14 Feb 2026 – Sun 19 Jul 2026
Le Plateau, Paris
- Ryan Gander
- Gaëlle Choisne
group show
Le Syndrome de Bonnard
or the impermanence of artworks
France
- Fri 10 Oct 2025 – Sun 22 Feb 2026
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
- Otobong Nkanga
solo show
I dreamt of you in colours
United Kingdom
- Sat 7 Mar 2026 – Sat 30 May 2026
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
- Amol K Patil
solo show
The dead don't go until we do
United Kingdom
- Sat 28 Feb 2026 – Sun 24 May 2026
Arnolfini, Bristol
- Mounira Al Solh
solo show
A land as big as her skin
United Kingdom
- Fri 13 Feb 2026 – Sat 11 Apr 2026
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
- Bahar Noorizadeh
solo show
The Debtor's Portal
United Kingdom
- Sat 14 Feb 2026 – Sat 11 Apr 2026
Phoenix Gallery, Exeter
- Eugene Macki
group show
Things Fall
United Kingdom
- Fri 24 Oct 2025 – Fri 6 Mar 2026
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
- Anawana Haloba
- Sawangwongse Yawnghwe
group show
Artes Mundi 11
Greece
- Fri 16 May 2025 – Sun 15 Feb 2026
EMΣT, Athens
- Rossella Biscotti
- David Claerbout
- Jakup Ferri
- Janis Rafa
group show
Why Look at Animals?
A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
India
- Fri 12 Dec 2025 – Tue 31 Mar 2026
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi
- Abul Hisham
- Otobong Nkanga
group show
For the time being
Italy
- Wed 26 Nov 2025 – Sun 8 Mar 2026
MAXXI, Rome
- Rosa Barba
solo show
Frame Time Open
Liechtenstein
- Sun 3 May 2026 – Sun 22 Nov 2026
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
- Mercedes Azpilicueta
solo show
CaccHho CucchhA
An exhibition for children and adults
Luxembourg
- Sat 18 Oct 2025 – Sun 22 Feb 2026
Konschthal Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette
- David Claerbout
solo show
Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years
Netherlands
- Fri 7 Feb 2025 – Mon 24 Dec 2029
Hortus botanicus, Leiden
- Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen
- Elspeth Diederix
group show
Plants & Planets
Netherlands
- Sat 14 Nov 2026 – Sun 30 May 2027
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
solo show
Susanne Khalil Yusef
Netherlands
- Fri 13 Feb 2026 – Sun 3 Jan 2027
Wereldmuseum, Leiden
- Dicky Takndare
group show
Time for Papua
Netherlands
- Sat 31 Jan 2026 – Sun 20 Sep 2026
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- Selma Selman
- Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
- Miloš Trakilović
Make some noise
Desire. Stage. Change
Netherlands
- Sat 11 Oct 2025 – Sun 6 Sep 2026
Rotterdam
- Riet Wijnen
- Ima-Abasi Okon
solo show
Riet Wijnen: Suitcase Economy
Tools for Conviviality #3
Netherlands
- Sat 14 Mar 2026 – Sun 23 Aug 2026
Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre
- Giorgio Andreotta Calò
solo show
Catasterism
Netherlands
- Fri 30 Jan 2026 – Tue 30 Jun 2026
Shimmer, Rotterdam
- Pam Virada
group show
Ageless, Ageless
Netherlands
- Sat 24 Jan 2026 – Sun 14 Jun 2026
Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
- melanie bonajo
- Tyna Adebowale
- Pauline Curnier Jardin
- Fiona Tan
group show
Grey!
Art on Aging
Netherlands
- Sat 7 Feb 2026 – Sun 7 Jun 2026
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
- Yasmijn Karhof
group show
Awakening in blue
Netherlands
- Thu 26 Feb 2026 – Mon 1 Jun 2026
Huis van het boek, Den Haag
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
- Müge Yılmaz
group show
Apocalyps, vrees en hoop
Netherlands
- Sun 21 Sep 2025 – Sun 31 May 2026
Monopole, Schiedam
- Guido van der Werve
group show
Silence & The Presence of Everything
Netherlands
- Sat 8 Jun 2024 – Sun 31 May 2026
Textielmuseum, Tilburg
- Susanne Khalil Yusef
- Roger Cremers
group show
Secrets of Making #4
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Residents & Alumni Activities

Rememories

Knowing otherwise

The Situation is Fluid

Imprints

Dress to Kill

IDIOS

Resistance. The Power of the Image

Zingen!!

An eye on Polaroids

Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing

I dreamt of you in colours

Play Life

A Doll’s House

Stitches

Short-Term Histories

Does the flower have the bee?

Za Pultem (Behind the Counter)

they filled me up with words

Hero

Body Measurements

Antifascism: Now

We are here!

Wool. Silk. Resistance

Entombed

The Emperor’s New Mall

Memory is a strange bell

Into the unseen

Cold as Ice

Die Stifterin, der Nationalsozialismus und das Haus

Pension ABC

Demonst(e)rating the Untamable Monster

Echo Organs

Chameleon

Panorama #9

Strike a Pose

Night Soil

Le Syndrome de Bonnard

I dreamt of you in colours

The dead don't go until we do

A land as big as her skin

The Debtor's Portal

Things Fall

Artes Mundi 11

Why Look at Animals?

For the time being

Frame Time Open

CaccHho CucchhA

Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years

Plants & Planets

Susanne Khalil Yusef

Time for Papua

Make some noise

Riet Wijnen: Suitcase Economy

Catasterism

Ageless, Ageless

Grey!

Awakening in blue

Apocalyps, vrees en hoop

Silence & The Presence of Everything

Secrets of Making #4