Exhibitions

A glimpse in the future, the now and history of exhibitions at the Bonnefanten.

A glimpse in the future, the now and history of exhibitions at the Bonnefanten.

Mounira Al Solh: A land as big as her skin
06.06.2025 — 11.01.2026

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.

De Weerd: mini Maas island on the forecourt
09.05.2025 — 30.11.2025

De Weerd: mini Maas island on the forecourt

De Weerd is a temporary garden on the forecourt of the Bonnefanten. Its form and planting are based on the floodplain along the River Maas.

Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS
24.01.2025 — 30.11.2025

Kahlil Joseph: BLKNWS

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

The key to Saint Servatius
11.06.2025 — 16.11.2025

The key to Saint Servatius

This presentation revolves around a mysterious detail of a 16th-century woodcarving from the vicinity of Maastricht.

Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
09.05.2025 — 28.09.2025

Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses

Nature Never Loses is artist Carl Cheng's (1942, San Francisco) first major survey exhibition in Europe.

Folkert de Jong
22.03.2024 — 07.09.2025

Folkert de Jong

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 ...

In my eyes
20.12.2024 — 24.08.2025

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.

Bonnefanten Pop-up museum: Anouk Kruithof presents Universal Tongue at Pinkpop
19.06.2025 — 22.06.2025

Bonnefanten Pop-up museum: Anouk Kruithof presents Universal Tongue at Pinkpop

The Bonnefanten Pop-up museum is, of course, once again a feature at this year’s Pinkpop festival. This time, there’s a sensational presentation of Anouk ...

Art adrift
09.12.2023 — 01.06.2025

Art adrift

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

Maintaining Its Spirit: Collection Marlies & Jo Eyck at Bonnefanten
20.09.2024 — 04.05.2025

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 ...

Dream On
07.06.2024 — 30.03.2025

Dream On

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

Wael Shawky: Drama 1882
06.01.2025 — 30.03.2025

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.

Posters for the Planet x Bonnefanten
07.02.2025 — 09.03.2025

Posters for the Planet x Bonnefanten

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

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: This is not the end of the road
08.06.2024 — 16.02.2025

Małgorzata 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 ...

Truly Wicked: The Seven Deadly Sins visualised
18.10.2024 — 12.01.2025

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 ...

The Studio #9: Sara Bachour: Presents for the Future
14.06.2024 — 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.

INSIDE OUT for all curious non-adults of 6 years and up
14.10.2023 — 05.01.2025

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.

Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke: Maps of the New World
13.04.2024 — 08.12.2024

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 ...

Celine Daemen: Songs for a Passerby
22.10.2024 — 03.11.2024

Celine Daemen: Songs for a Passerby

Meet the 3D reflection of yourself

Bonnefanten Pop-up museum x Cultura Nova
29.08.2024 — 08.09.2024

Bonnefanten Pop-up museum x Cultura Nova

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

Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me
09.03.2024 — 18.08.2024

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 ...