Exhibitions

Step into Bruegel's time with today's gaze. See how evil was depicted between 1450 and 1650 and discover how the moral dilemmas of the time are still relevant ...

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas' solo exhibition is a first of its kind. At the centre is the series Re-enchanting the World she made for the Venice Biennale. But there ...

Dream On is about daring to dream, even if against one's better judgment.

Bonnefanten and Kasteel Wijlre estate will join forces to present a unique and complete overview of the former private collection of the Limburg collector ...

Hidden stories about works from the Bonnefanten’s collection of old masters and their peregrinations – before, during and after World War II. A presentation ...

A bizarre battlefield through which you walk and are struck by the echoes of great and small human drama. You experience it in Folkert de Jong's installation ...

Drama 1882 is the biggest eyecatcher of the 60th Venice Biennale and is first on show at Bonnefanten from 7 January.

BLKNWS (black news) is an innovative film installation by the Los Angeles artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph.

Posters for the Planet - a competition for a better world aims to make the difference between good intentions and actual change.

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

Discover what makes you you and then zoom out again to your role in society and the footprint you leave behind in the educational exhibition INSIDE OUT.

Feast your eyes on a new world where art forms meet. Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke: Maps of the New World showcases new work by two good and long-standing ...

Meet the 3D reflection of yourself

Bonnefanten presents a spectacular pop-up pavilion at Cultura Nova with artworks by Polish Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas!

What Freedom Is To Me, by the internationally renowned artist Isaac Julien, is the biggest presentation of Julien’s work to date and his first retrospective ...

On 21, 22 and 23 June, the Bonnefanten will be appearing again at the Pinkpop festival with its well-known Bonnefanten Pop-up museum.

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

Shinkichi Tajiri: The Restless Wanderer is an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Japanese-American artist Shinkichi Tajiri. In ...

For over fifty years, Rod Summers has been receiving a large amount of postal art or mail art from all over the world on a weekly basis.

Paintings from the Bonnefanten’s collection of old masters exhibited alongside digital versions. The presentation Pixel Perfect? allows you to reflect on ...

The Maastricht Institute of Arts is presenting a considerable part of its collection of plaster casts to celebrate the academy’s 200th anniversary.

Follow the restoration process of Ferdi's Hortisculptures in Bonnefanten. Why? Keep reading!

A Room of One’s Own is an exhibition about the work and ideas of female artists spanning several generations, with most works taken from the Bonnefanten’s own ...

Piet Killaars 100 years contains an overview of sculptures and pre-studies from the Bonnefanten collection.

A special collaboration between the museum and regional art collectors shows the collection of the Bonnefanten in a different light.

Visions of Possibilities presents an extensive body of work by Afro-Dutch visual artist patricia kaersenhout (Den Helder, 1966). kaersenhout is one of the ...

Ed Templeton shows the subculture of skateboarding from 1995 to 2012 through photographs, drawings and texts. He is a photographer, artist and one of the most ...

The Bonnefanten pop-up at festival MAAS! Walk in and see the video artwork Of Men and Gods and Mud (2022) by Ali Cherri. Cherri won the prize for most ...

At Cultura Nova in the pop-up pavilion, we present the unique vampire film Nosferasta: First Bite, together with several other works of art. This exciting ...

Raul Marroquin (1948, Bogotá) is a spider in the web of Maastricht, which, in the 1970s, experienced exciting times on an artistic level. Why? Keep reading!

Bonnefanten presenteert patricia kaersenhout met Stained Stories op Pinkpop festival.

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

The Other Side of Silence is the first mid-career survey in the Netherlands by the Syrian-Armenian artist Hrair Sarkissian (born 1973, Damascus, Syria) - one ...

Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer (1636) is on view in March at Bonnefanten.

Werner Mantz: The Perfect Eye is a big and the first ever retrospective of Werner Mantz (1901, Cologne - 1983, Maastricht) and his work.

With four solo presentations by: Hadassah Emmerich, Fons Haagmans, Rik Meijers and Marleen Rothaus. In False Flat, the boundaries of painting are explored.

Bonnefanten proudly presents Melati Suryodarmo (1969, Surakarta, Indonesia) as the eleventh winner of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA).

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

Bonnefanten presents a film installation and performances by melanie bonajo (they/them) in a ...

The Derailment of the Usual is a group exhibition of works by Paul Devens, Lis Rhodes and Heba Y. Amin.

Immerse yourself in the magical solo exhibition by the French artist Laure Prouvost (Croix, 1978).

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

In a time when we are constantly bombarded with images, Perry has developed a unique visual language, demonstrating that art belongs to everybody and should ...

More than an exhibition, SKIN is a laboratory and an experimental place to explore together. This exhibition is part of ELEMENTS 2021.

A special retrospective by the artist Margaret Kilgallen (Washington, D.C., 1967 – San Francisco, 2001) is now on view in the Bonnefanten. The exhibition is ...

"Without viewers, is there any art at all?". For Eyewitnesses, we asked our visitors for their favourite works and the stories behind them. A selection of ...

Bonnefanten sets the scene for the latest exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964). De Bruyckere has been a leading light in the international ...

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

At Cultura Nova, Bonnefanten will present the impressive video installation BLKNWS by Kahlil Joseph (b. 1981, Seattle) in a special pop-up exhibition pavilion.

An exhibition that takes a new approach at the work of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and his contemporaries.

Participating artists: Kent Chan, Brian Elstak, Quinsy Gario, Ni Haifeng, Raquel van Haver, Hans van Houwelingen, Alle Jong, Kahlil Joseph, Patricia ...

The exhibition Voice Over shows a range of works that explore the political power and potential of the human voice. By guest curator Maayan Sheleff.

The series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.

With artworks by: Gerrit van Bakel, Maria Barnas, Melanie Bonajo, Paul Chan, Zackary Drucker en Rhys Ernst, Alia Farid, Zheng Guogu, Camille Henrot, Domenico ...

An exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the artist who died in 2012, in collaboration with the Province of Limburg.

With The Absence of Mark Manders it becomes visible how his special oeuvre is constantly developing: from older work that has been revised to his newest ...

The exhibition series The Studio provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work

The English artist Stanley Donwood has transformed the Bonnefanten's striking Cupola into a remarkable installation.

Temporary exhibition that offers an overview of the trajectory of Jan Hendrix

In the exhibition Bumped Body by Paloma Varga Weisz (Mannheim, Germany, 1966), we're being submerged in a new world.

Temporary exhibition about Ine Schröder who deliberately let her works disappear.

Temporary exhibition by the abstract minimalist painter Dan Walsh.

With guest contributions of R.W. Beerens, Chantal Le Doux, Andrea Éva Györi, Marianne van der Heijden ✝ and Servie Janssen ✝.

With over 400 pictures from the period 1979-2018.

The new series The Studio in the Bonnefanten provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their ...

The exhibition Slanted Squares gives a glimpse of the wide range of Marwan Rechmaoui's practice from the last two decades.

At the end of the Middle Ages, the production of woodcarving thrived in what is now the Meuse-Rhine area.

Episode #5: Old masters never die Starring Edward Lipski, Johan Tahon, Helen Verhoeven.

Unleashed: letting powerful forces run free, off their constrains, liberated and sometimes out of control. Unleashed dogs are after their prey. The liberated ...

How to unmodernize yourself and become an elf in 12 steps

In the early eighties, the orthopaedic shoemaker Jacques Defauwes and his wife Miny Defauwes-Bovens were introduced by the Limburg painter Lei Molin ...

Making Money For My Friends was a group exhibition of work by Juliaan Andeweg, Bob Eikelboom and Daniel van Straalen. The exhibition was guest curated by ...

In 2015 portrait photographer Robin de Puy (1986) travelled across America on a motorcycle.

New Suns is Kahlil Joseph's first museum solo solotentoonstelling in Europa.

The hand of Pierre Kemp: Studies, sketches, works on paper

From the collection of the Bonnefanten

Originally trained as a glass painter, Ernst Caramelle has been making his name since the early eighties with a wide-ranging oeuvre of artist's books, ...

The Bonnefanten is presenting the extensive retrospective A Pen of All Work by the American artist Raymond Pettibon.

through the eyes of: Sara Bachour & Joep Hinssen Maarten Davidse & Simon Weins Studio Oneindigheid (Charlotte Lagro, Chaim van Luit, Joep Vossebeld) Tim ...

In addition to the new installation, Donwood is presenting the thirteen-part series Paintings from A Moon Shaped Pool.

How to look at art from China: a sequel

My Stories of Painting is the first exhibition that will focus on Cai's long journey of painting in terms of two parallel paths.

The exhibition floors & walls / from ground introduces its visitors to recent developments in the work of Ton Boelhouwer (Den Haag, 1960).

Invited by the museum, the collective artist gerlach en koop are compiling a remarkable collection presentation, along with their own work and some supporting ...

Contemporary Chinese art from the Sigg collection

This exhibition features ninety drawings from artists from the southern and northern Netherlands created during the 16th and beginning of the 17th century.

The Bonnefanten focuses in his programme on artists from the Euregio with extraordinary works.

Bonnefanten @Pinkpop-up museum

This collection presentation includes work by Marlene Dumas, René Daniels, Sidi El Karchi, Gary Hume and Navid Nuur.

2016 is the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Hedge House Wijlre.

Grayson Perry (1960) is one of the most famous artists in Britain today.

Visual artist Toon Teeken (1944 Heerlen – Maastricht) has been working on his photo books for over 40 years.

Art and ceramics from Rodin to Schütte.

Between 1973 and 1997, Rossi created a body of works that breathed new life into the genre of the architectural print.

This exhibition is one of the combined projects between the Bonnefanten and the estate Kasteel Wijlre (Bonnefanten Hedge House Foundation).

Reef: A prequel

De Fromantiou's talent allowed him to portray a royal world in prestigious still lifes of game and of luxury products like flowers and fruit.