Musica Sacra in Bonnefanten
From 18 to 20 September, Maastricht will host the 44th edition of Musica Sacra. This year, the festival explores the theme of Ecstasy. Bonnefanten is also one of the festival’s venues.
19.09.2026, 15:30 – 17:30
The Big Build
Take part in creating a unique, life-sized cardboard building to be constructed on the Vrijthof square. Register now for De Groete Bouw (The Big Build).
07.09.2026 – 13.09.2026
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The Studio #11: Malina Suliman
In The Studio #11, Bonnefanten is presenting Malina Suliman, a visual artist in exile, who sees her work as an instrument of social and political criticism.
13.06.2026 – 06.09.2026
Bitches Brew
Three pioneers in figurative painting, three solo exhibitions, one raw, colourful and magical dialogue.
14.02.2026 – 06.09.2026
Bonnefanten Pop-up Museum x Cultura Nova
Bonnefanten presents a free Pop-up Museum at Cultura Nova featuring work by artist Malina Suliman, currently on view in The Studio #11 at Bonnefanten.
28.08.2026 – 06.09.2026
Malina Suliman: Walking in the Sea
Malina Suliman blurs the boundaries of borders, together with the audience, in this performance.
06.09.2026, 14:00 – 17:00
Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS
BLKNWS (Black News) is a two-channel "news" film installation by the Los Angeles artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph.
19.03.2026 – 30.08.2026
Duologue: Art from the past and present, face to face
Five artworks from the Old Masters Collection enter into dialogue with their contemporary counterparts. The artworks in Duologue have a lot to tell each other.
10.03.2026 – 23.08.2026
Intermezzo
Artworks from our storage that have never been shown in Bonnefanten or haven’t been on display for a long time.
20.12.2025 – 21.08.2026
Bonnefanten pop-up museum: RAVE CAVE at Pinkpop
The Bonnefanten pop-up museum is back at Pinkpop festival this year. Inside our pavilion we present RAVE CAVE, an energetic dive into dance culture featuring three video works by three influential artists.
19.06.2026 – 21.06.2026
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Four times Two: half a century of art from the collection
This exhibition establishes new connections between contemporary art from the Collection Bonnefanten and invites visitors to do the same.
08.11.2025 – 14.06.2026
The Studio #10: Eline Kersten
Food for thought on the theme of climate. That’s what Eline Kersten (1994, Maastricht – Switzerland) gives us in the tenth edition of The Studio. Because what impact does it have on us when our environment disappears or changes at top speed?
06.12.2025 – 03.05.2026
melanie bonajo: Thank you for hurting me, I really needed that
This intimate collection presentation brings together five self-portraits from the photo series of the same name. They are about connection and loneliness.
27.09.2025 – 08.03.2026
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The key to Saint Servatius
This presentation revolves around a mysterious detail of a 16th-century woodcarving from the vicinity of Maastricht.
12.06.2025 – 22.02.2026
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Mounira Al Solh: A land as big as her skin
In her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands, Mounira Al Solh (Beirut, 1978) proves that hope, culture and stories know no bounds.
07.09.2025 – 11.01.2026
Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
Nature Never Loses is artist Carl Cheng's (1942, San Francisco) first major survey exhibition in Europe.
10.05.2025 – 28.09.2025
In my eyes
When two people look at the same artwork, they each see something different. What our eyes see is coloured by our experiences.
21.12.2024 – 21.09.2025
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Bonnefanten Pop-up museum x Cultura Nova
Bonnefanten’s exciting Pop-up pavilion at Cultura Nova, featuring the work of the versatile artist Mounira Al Solh
29.08.2025 – 07.09.2025
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Pop-up museum: Anouk Kruithof, Universal Tongue at Pinkpop
The Bonnefanten Pop-up museum is, once again a feature at this year’s Pinkpop festival. This time, there’s a sensational presentation of Anouk Kruithof’s Universal Tongue.
20.06.2025 – 22.06.2025
Art adrift
Hidden stories about works from the Bonnefanten’s collection of old masters and their peregrinations – before, during and after World War II.
09.12.2023 – 01.06.2025
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Maintaining Its Spirit: Collection Marlies & Jo Eyck at Bonnefanten
Bonnefanten and Kasteel Wijlre estate will join forces to present a unique and complete overview of the former private collection of the Limburg collector couple, Marlies & Jo Eyck.
21.09.2024 – 04.05.2025
Wael Shawky: Drama 1882
Drama 1882 is the biggest eyecatcher of the 60th Venice Biennale and is first on show at Bonnefanten from 7 January 2025.
07.01.2025 – 30.03.2025
Dream On
Dream On is about daring to dream, even if against one's better judgment.
08.06.2024 – 30.03.2025
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In Memoriam David Lynch (1946 - 2025)
In memory of director and visual artist David Lynch who died 15 January, Bonnefanten is showing two of his artworks until the end of March 2025.
29.01.2025 – 25.03.2025
Malgorzata Mirga-Tas: This is not the end of the road
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 will also be works by her that have not been shown before and made especially for this exhibition.
08.06.2024 – 16.02.2025
Truly Wicked: The Seven Deadly Sins visualised
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 today.
19.10.2024 – 12.01.2025
INSIDE OUT for all curious non-adults of 6 years and up
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.
14.10.2023 – 05.01.2025
The Studio #9: Sara Bachour: Presents for the future
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.
15.06.2024 – 05.01.2025
Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke: Maps of the New World
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 British artists, who continue to inspire each other.
13.04.2024 – 08.12.2024
Celine Daemen: Songs for a Passerby
Meet the 3D reflection of yourself. You can experience and see this award-winning virtual reality opera
23.10.2024 – 03.11.2024
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Bonnefanten Pop-up museum x Cultura Nova 2024
Bonnefanten presents a spectacular pop-up pavilion at Cultura Nova with artworks by Polish Roma artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas!
30.08.2024 – 08.09.2024
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Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me
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 in a Dutch museum.
09.03.2024 – 18.08.2024
Pop-up museum: Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke at Pinkpop
On 21, 22 and 23 June 2024, the Bonnefanten will be appearing again at the Pinkpop festival with its well-known Bonnefanten Pop-up museum.
21.06.2024 – 23.06.2024
The Studio #8: Caroline Sarneel
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.
17.06.2023 – 09.06.2024
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Shinkichi Tajiri: The Restless Wanderer
The Restless Wanderer is an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Japanese-American artist Shinkichi Tajiri. In tribute to their grandfather and his body of work, grandchildren Tanéa and Shakuru Tajiri have curated the exhibition.
02.12.2023 – 12.05.2024
EVERYTHING THAT CAME IN GOT AN ANSWER, the VEC archive of Rod Summers
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.
01.07.2023 – 01.04.2024
Pixel Perfect?
Paintings from the Bonnefanten’s collection of old masters exhibited alongside digital versions. The presentation Pixel Perfect? allows you to reflect on whether digital reproductions enhance the art experience or in fact jeopardise it.
02.03.2024 – 10.03.2024
Between Art and Copy
The Maastricht Institute of Arts is presenting a considerable part of its collection of plaster casts to celebrate the academy’s 200th anniversary.
11.02.2023 – 25.02.2024
Restoring Ferdi
Bonnefanten Museum manages six of Ferdi’s approximately fifteen Hortisculptures. Follow the restoration process here.
20.04.2022 – 28.01.2024
Piet Killaars 100 years
Piet Killaars 100 years contains an overview of sculptures and pre-studies from the Bonnefanten collection.
02.11.2023 – 21.01.2024
A Room of One's Own
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 collection. This exhibition also features guest artists Carol Rhodes, Lydia Schouten and Marijke Stultiens.
11.02.2023 – 21.01.2024
Pas de deux
A special collaboration between the museum and regional art collectors shows the collection of the Bonnefanten in a different light.
02.09.2023 – 03.12.2023
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patricia kaersenhout: Visions of Possibilities
Visions of Possibilities presents an extensive body of work by Afro-Dutch visual artist patricia kaersenhout (Den Helder, 1966). kaersenhout is one of the leading artists exploring the lingering legacies of slavery and colonialism within and beyond the Dutch context.
10.06.2023 – 05.11.2023
Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed
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 influential skateboarders of all time.
15.04.2023 – 17.09.2023
Pinkpop-up museum: patricia kaersenhouts Stained Stories
Bonnefanten presents patricia kaersenhout with Stained Stories at Pinkpop festival.
16.06.2023 – 18.06.2023
The Studio #7 - Minne Kersten
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.
10.12.2022 – 11.06.2023
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
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 of today's leading conceptual artists working with photography. In The Other Side of Silence, Sarkissian reveals the muted wounds behind scenes of conflict, which are often realised in his signature life-sized photographs.
29.11.2022 – 14.05.2023
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Standard Bearer on Tour
Rembrandt's The Standard Bearer (1636) is on view in March at Bonnefanten.
02.03.2023 – 30.03.2023
Werner Mantz: The Perfect Eye
Werner Mantz: The Perfect Eye is a big and the first ever retrospective of Werner Mantz (1901, Cologne - 1983, Maastricht) and his work.
25.09.2022 – 26.02.2023
Beating Around the Bush #7: False Flat
With four solo presentations by: Hadassah Emmerich, Fons Haagmans, Rik Meijers and Marleen Rothaus. In False Flat, the boundaries of painting are explored.
23.01.2022 – 08.01.2023
Melati Suryodarmo: I am a Ghost in My Own House
Bonnefanten proudly presents Melati Suryodarmo (1969, Surakarta, Indonesia) as the eleventh winner of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA).
12.06.2022 – 30.10.2022
The Studio #6: Gladys Zeevaarders & Sophie Johns
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.
03.07.2022 – 09.10.2022
Bonnefanten Pop-up museum x Cultura Nova
Bonnefanten presents a film installation and performances by melanie bonajo (they/them) in a special Pop-up Museum at Cultura Nova Festival.
26.08.2022 – 04.09.2022
The Derailment of the Usual
The Derailment of the Usual is a group exhibition of works by Paul Devens, Lis Rhodes and Heba Y. Amin.
20.02.2022 – 28.08.2022
Laure Prouvost: Deep See Blue Surronding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre
Immerse yourself in the magical solo exhibition by the French artist Laure Prouvost (Croix, 1978).
14.11.2021 – 15.05.2022
The Studio #5: Antoine Berghs
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.
22.09.2021 – 24.04.2022
Grayson Perry: We Shall Catch it on the Beaches
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 not be an elitist affair.
27.11.2021 – 20.03.2022
Margaret Kilgallen: That's where the beauty is
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 organized by the Aspen Art Museum. Curated by Courtenay Finn.
18.05.2021 – 05.12.2021
Eyewitnesses
"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 these favourites can now be seen in the museum.
04.07.2021 – 14.11.2021
Berlinde de Bruyckere: Engelenkeel
Bonnefanten sets the scene for the latest exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964). De Bruyckere has been a leading light in the international contemporary art world for many years already.
10.02.2021 – 03.10.2021
SAY IT LOUD
Participating artists: Kent Chan, Brian Elstak, Quinsy Gario, Ni Haifeng, Raquel van Haver, Hans van Houwelingen, Alle Jong, Kahlil Joseph, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kerry James Marshall, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Otobong Nkanga, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Juul Sadée, Henry Taylor, Kim Zwarts.
29.09.2020 – 18.09.2021
The Studio #4: Floor Martens
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.
10.02.2021 – 05.09.2021
Brueghel and contemporaries: art as covert resistance?
An exhibition that takes a new approach at the work of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and his contemporaries.
02.03.2021 – 04.07.2021
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Voice Over
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.
20.10.2020 – 21.03.2021
The Studio #3: Kent Chan
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.
29.09.2020 – 24.01.2021
Ger Lataster: fragments from his life and oeuvre
An exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the artist who died in 2012, in collaboration with the Province of Limburg.
09.09.2020 – 03.01.2021
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Beating around the bush #6: Scenes from the Anthropocene
With artworks from: Gerrit van Bakel, Maria Barnas, Melanie Bonajo, Paul Chan, Zackary Drucker en Rhys Ernst, Alia Farid, Zheng Guogu, Camille Henrot, Domenico di Michelino, Danaë Moons, ...
06.03.2020 – 03.01.2021
The Absence of Mark Manders
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 creations. The exhibition therefore constitutes both an overview of Manders' work and a new step in his artist process.
04.02.2020 – 23.08.2020
The Studio #2: Morena Bamberger, Ethereality
The exhibition series The Studio provides a stage for small scale solo presentations on which artists may present recent developments in their work.
26.11.2019 – 30.06.2020
Stanley Donwood: Optical Glade
The English artist Stanley Donwood has transformed the Bonnefanten's striking Cupola into a remarkable installation.
06.06.2017 – 30.04.2020
Jan Hendrix: Tierra Firme
In Tierra Firme (meaning 'mainland'), Hendrix refers to sighting the coastline; a mythical allusion to colonialism and to a revision of natural history. The exhibition thus gives a reflection of the role played by engravings and drawings in the representation of the first phase of globalisation.
26.11.2019 – 26.04.2020
Paloma Varga Weisz: Bumped Body
In the exhibition Bumped Body by Paloma Varga Weisz (Mannheim, Germany, 1966), we're being submerged in a new world.
06.10.2019 – 02.02.2020
Beating Time: Collection presentation contemporary art
With guest contributions of R.W. Beerens, Chantal Le Doux, Andrea Éva Györi, Marianne van der Heijden ✝ and Servie Janssen ✝.
25.01.2019 – 05.01.2020
A Posthumous Collaboration Ine Schroder and her Archive
Temporary exhibition about Ine Schröder who deliberately let her works disappear.
15.01.2019 – 05.01.2020
Dan Walsh: Pressing Matter
Temporary exhibition by the abstract minimalist painter Dan Walsh.
25.01.2019 – 05.01.2020
Andy Summers: A Certain Strangeness
The Bonnefanten Museum presents an extensive exhibition of photographic work by Andy Summers, featuring more than 400 photographs from the period 1979–2018.
07.06.2019 – 27.10.2019
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The Studio #1: Charlotte Lagro
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 work. The first artist in this series is Charlotte Lagro (1989, Maastricht), who exhibits a snapshot of her studio practice in her first solo museum presentation called The Fifth Gate.
14.06.2019 – 20.10.2019
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Marwan Rechmaoui: Slanted Squeres
The exhibition Slanted Squares gives a glimpse of the wide range of Marwan Rechmaoui's practice from the last two decades.
24.05.2019 – 08.09.2019
Meester van Elsloo: From lonely hand to collection of masters
At the end of the Middle Ages, the production of woodcarving thrived in what is now the Meuse-Rhine area.
22.02.2019 – 16.06.2019
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David Lynch - Someone is in my House
The Bonnefanten presents the extensive retrospective *Someone Is in My House* by American artist David Lynch.
30.11.2018 – 28.03.2019
Beating around the Bush #5: Old masters never die
Episode #5: Old masters never die Starring Edward Lipski, Johan Tahon, Helen Verhoeven.
26.01.2018 – 02.12.2018
Hans lemmens and Roger Ballen: Unleashed
Unleashed: letting powerful forces run free, off their constrains, liberated and sometimes out of control. Unleashed dogs are after their prey. The liberated human mind reveals a hidden territory, the artist brings us to uncharted zones.
01.06.2018 – 02.12.2018
The Death of Melanie Bonajo
How to unmodernize yourself and become an elf in 12 steps.
20.04.2018 – 28.10.2018
Joan van Barneveld: MIRROR / STAGE
The Bonnefanten focuses in his programme on artists from the Euregio with extraordinary works.
15.04.2016 – 02.10.2016
Marta Volkova & Slava Shevelenko: The Altai Files
Een bijzonder project van het Russische kunstenaarsduo Marta Volkova en Slava Shevelenkodat draait om het ontstaan en het functioneren van collectieve mythologie.
01.07.2016 – 04.09.2016
Collection presentation Contemporary Art
This collection presentation includes work by Marlene Dumas, René Daniels, Sidi El Karchi, Gary Hume and Navid Nuur.
01.07.2016 – 04.09.2016
Navid Nuur: LUBE LOVE
Bonnefanten @Pinkpop-up museum
01.07.2016 – 04.09.2016
Hedge House Wijlre Kim Zwarts: Composition Trouvées
As part of the artist-in-residence programme of the Brussels centre for contemporary photography, Contretype, the Maastricht photographer Kim Zwarts (1955) researched the genius loci of the peristyle of the Palais de Justice in Brussels, in autumn 2014.
24.03.2016 – 03.07.2016
Grayson Perry: Hold Your Beliefs Lightly (Solo exhibition)
With this Grayson Perry exhibition, the Bonnefantenmuseum is taking a new step in a direction that stands out in the Dutch museum landscape for the distinctive accents and priorities chosen by the museum.
26.02.2016 – 05.06.2016
Toon Teeken: Photo books 1968-2015 & Recent Work
Visual artist Toon Teeken (1944 Heerlen – Maastricht) has been working on his photo books for over 40 years.
04.04.2015 – 27.03.2016
CERAMIX Art and ceramics from Rodin to Schütte
Under the title CERAMIX, the Bonnefanten (Maastricht – NL), Cité de la céramique (Sèvres – F) and la Maison Rouge (Paris – F) are presenting a mega exhibition about the use of ceramics by artists of the 20th and 21st century.
16.10.2015 – 31.01.2016
Stephen Wilks: Bottle River (Vessels)
This exhibition is one of the combined projects between the Bonnefanten and the estate Kasteel Wijlre (Bonnefanten Hedge House Foundation).
20.09.2015 – 15.11.2015
Aldo Rossi: La finestra del poeta / The window of the poet Prints 1973-1997
Between 1973 and 1997, Rossi created a body of works that breathed new life into the genre of the architectural print.
26.06.2015 – 15.11.2015
How to look at art from China
Reef: A prequel
12.07.2015 – 20.09.2015
Henri de Fromantiou: Royal illusions
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.
06.03.2015 – 28.06.2015