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01/17/2026 - 02/14/2026
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Hazenstraat 26
1016 SP Amsterdam
"Out with the old, in with the new" is an adage that the gallery scene often lives by. To celebrate the start of the new year, 'Salon Amsterdam' does something new by showing something old. Eleven friendly galleries team up and each exhibit art from their archives. Together, we turn the Hazenstraat area into a publicly accessible depot full of artworks ready to be (re)discovered.
The focus on anything that's new makes sense: artists want to show what they have just created, and visitors want to see what is happening right now. But what happens to the artworks after they've had their moment, their spot in the exhibition or on the wall of an art fair? When they disappear into storage, they might lose the public's attention, but they certainly don't lose their value.
The title 'Salon Amsterdam' refers to the 18th- and 19th-century Parisian art salons, where the walls would be filled with artworks from floor to ceiling. Our joint exhibition aims to recreate this overwhelming experience of the richness of art. The participating galleries have delved into their storages (and collections) and showcase a wide selection of classic, iconic, almost forgotten and newly relevant artworks from their exhibition history.
Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen
Hazenstraat 26
1016 SP Amsterdam
"Out with the old, in with the new" is an adage that the gallery scene often lives by. To celebrate the start of the new year, 'Salon Amsterdam' does something new by showing something old. Eleven friendly galleries team up and each exhibit art from their archives. Together, we turn the Hazenstraat area into a publicly accessible depot full of artworks ready to be (re)discovered.
The focus on anything that's new makes sense: artists want to show what they have just created, and visitors want to see what is happening right now. But what happens to the artworks after they've had their moment, their spot in the exhibition or on the wall of an art fair? When they disappear into storage, they might lose the public's attention, but they certainly don't lose their value.
The title 'Salon Amsterdam' refers to the 18th- and 19th-century Parisian art salons, where the walls would be filled with artworks from floor to ceiling. Our joint exhibition aims to recreate this overwhelming experience of the richness of art. The participating galleries have delved into their storages (and collections) and showcase a wide selection of classic, iconic, almost forgotten and newly relevant artworks from their exhibition history.