Exhibitions
Explore the upcoming, current, and past exhibitions at the Ambassade Art Gallery. We offer a diverse program of exhibitions, showcasing both established and emerging artists. Keep an eye on our schedule for the latest updates.
2026
Solo Exhibition 'Look in to the Light' by Lux Vortex
Ambassade Art Gallery presents Look into the Light, the first solo exhibition of Lux Vortex, a duo known for their distinctive light sculptures.
We warmly welcome you to the Opening Reception on Saturday 7 March, 2 – 6 pm
7 March – 14 march 2026
Lux Vortex
From 28 March 2026
Logan Hicks
Logan Hicks 'New Eyes / Old Hands'
For his latest exhibition, internationally acclaimed stencil artist Logan Hicks returns to Amsterdam with ‘New Eyes / Old Hands’, new work that reflects a long-standing dialogue between the artist and the city that has shaped his practice over many years.
Having returned to the city throughout his career, Hicks has developed a deep connection to its layered architecture, historic streets and enduring relationship with flowers. In New Eyes / Old Hands, he revisits these influences with a renewed perspective, combining the curiosity of discovery with the technical mastery he has honed over decades.
Hicks is known for his painstaking multilayer stencil process, which blurs the lines between painting, printmaking and photography. Each piece is built through multiple layers of stencils, requiring precision, patience and an almost meditative commitment to craft. The works on view draw from Amsterdam’s historic façades and floral legacy, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens where past and present coexist in tension and harmony, with color and light in the tradition of the Old Masters.
We warmly welcome you to the Opening Reception on 28 March. More details to follow soon.
Starting Saturday, December 6th, the solo exhibition PERCEPTIONS
by realist painter Alberto de Flavis opens at the Ambassade Art Gallery. This exhibition invites the public to experience painting as an act of transformation, where observation evolves into emotion and reality becomes a dialogue with perception.
Known for his mastery of oil painting, De Flavis elevates everyday objects such as flowers, fruit, vases, and cutlery into poetic meditations on beauty and simplicity. His works are not mere representations, but translations of experience, shaped by light, color, and texture to reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary. Each brushstroke is a conscious choice, creating compositions that extend beyond their physical subjects and offer a glimpse into the artist’s inner response to the world.
PERCEPTIONS explores the tension between accuracy and interpretation, inviting viewers to slow down, look more closely, and rediscover wonder in the familiar. Through subtle contrasts and quiet dialogues between nature and human craftsmanship, De Flavis challenges us to consider how what we see shapes what we feel. In this exhibition, perception is not passive; it is active, multi-layered, and deeply personal.
Dates:
06-12-2025 until 01-03-2026
2025
Ambassade Art Gallery proudly presents RESUME, RESTART, RENEW — an exhibition that marks both the reopening of our main space on Herengracht 319 and the launch of our new gallery at Oude Spiegelstraat 7.
This thoughtfully curated show features a bold selection of contemporary works by an international group of artists, many of whom are based in the Netherlands:
Handiedan, Ard Doko, Nils Westergard, Lukasz Wisekid, Alberto de Flavis, Sidney Waerts, Nikke Naeme, Collin van der Sluijs, Niels Shoe Meulman, Hyland Mather, Pico Okada, Anna Taratiel, Chad Hasegawa, and Tony van Amsterdam.
From expressive abstractions to meticulously crafted still lifes, the exhibition showcases a rich mix of paintings, prints, and collectible pieces. It brings together longstanding collaborators and newly welcomed voices — reflecting the gallery’s ongoing commitment to artistic growth and creative exchange.
RESUME, RESTART, RENEW embodies the fresh, forward-looking spirit that defines this exciting new chapter for Ambassade Art Gallery.
NOW ON VIEW – SUMMER 2025
RESUME, RESTART, RENEW
2023
15 May 2023 – 23 June 2023
Theo Wolvecamp
A special sales exhibition of works on paper by Theo Wolvecamp from the collection of the Ambassade Hotel.
Theo Wolvecamp (1925-1992) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist who was part of the CoBrA movement.
Artists mainly from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands formed the international avant-garde movement CoBrA from 1948 to 1951. (CoBrA is an acronym of the capitals where the founders came from: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam).
The artists wanted to work in a free and spontaneous way; pure, intuitive, uninhibited and free of academic rules.
Theo Wolvecamp was not as prominent as other CoBrA artists such as Karel Appel and Corneille but he was greatly admired by his fellow artists. Theo Wolvecamp is also called the “silent force of CoBrA” and his work is the common thread in the CoBrA collection of the Ambassade Hotel.
‘Seven “Dam” Years’
“In the past seven years, a lot of things have happened. Not only for us as artists, but these years also happened to be some of the most changing and significant to impact our lives.
Seven years of friendship, seven years of learning the craft, seven years of living in Amsterdam.
This exhibition is the result of these past seven years. The result of what we’ve learned, felt, tasted, touched, smelt, and sometimes what has gone beyond our senses.
Behind each painting there is a story; a scenario that explains a part of who we are and what we have gone through.
It is the opportunity for everyone else to see our story and come along this trip with us through our works.
Have fun and fasten your seatbelts!“
27 January 2023 – 30 April 2023
Alberto de Flavis & Lukasz Wise
2022
4 November 2022 – 10 January 2023
Sidney Waerts
FALL – Sidney Waerts (1976)
With his new exhibition FALL, Sidney Waerts shows the change he has undergone in recent years.
After the hustle and bustle of the city, a shift is taking place for Waerts. He chooses the silence and clarity that nature brings him. This inner journey is partly inspired by Sumi-e, the Japanese painting technique in which simplicity and spontaneity are guiding principles. Acrylic paint and Oriental ink create new possibilities for him. He also adds gold as an extra layer, symbolizing light and spiritual growth. This gives this series for Waerts a warmer and more optimistic character than his previous series.
´As a child I was always busy creating my own world,´ says Waerts. ´In the outdoors, I feel that freedom to shape my inner world. That corresponds to the search for my own essence. For example, when you can embrace the transience of autumn, you see that this period is connected to the growth of something new. It is a continuous flow of moving energy.´
The Ambassade Hotel and gallery curator Chinny Bond invite you to “INTO THE LIGHT”, an exhibition of works by Tony van Amsterdam.
Tony van Amsterdam is an Amsterdam based artist from New York City that has shown his multidisciplinary works internationally. He is the creator of Authentic Illuminated Concepts, an eco friendly art concept company that makes functional art using LED lighting and mixed media.
5 August 2022 – 9 October 2022
Tony van Amsterdam
20 May 2022 – 25 July 2022
Hyland Mather
The Ambassade Hotel and art gallery curator Chinny Bond invite you to “IN THE DISTANCE”, an exhibition of works by Hyland Mather. “Primarily in my work I’m interested in balance. Aesthetic balance, conceptual balance, physical balance. Like many other artists I have several ongoing bodies of work. I am an assemblage artist working on my ‘Lost Object’ and ‘Modus Volito’ series of sculptures and installations created from reclaimed or ‘lost’ materials.” – Hyland Mather
The Ambassade Hotel and Eugénie Brands invite you for the exhibition of a large selection of gouaches by Eugène Brands. “A painting has to come into being. I don’t create it. I am an antenna. The form is not predetermined or contemplated. I begin by painting thin areas of color or observing what is happening with the paint and then I act on that. The creation of a painting is an almost autonomous event. It requires a medium. That is the painter.” – Eugène Brands
9 April 2022 – 30 April 2022