online catalogue
08.11 - 20.12. 2025
“Let the right to opacity, whereby diversity will best be preserved and acceptance strengthened, be a lamp watching over our poetics.”
(Édouard Glissant, Treatise on the Whole-World)
No Man’s Art Gallery presents Nocturnals, a show presenting the tangible and intangible whisperings of life that happen in the company of darkness. Both sensitive and elusive, the night's opaqueness is used as a strength rather than an aesthetic alone.
The artworks emerge as protagonists that embody the same bristling perplexities that animate the night itself. They play with cosmic distances, portals to other realms, and create space for a fluid sense of identity. Nocturnals not only highlights the tensions of the night, but celebrates their right to co-exist.
Participating artists:
Mia Chaplin
afra eisma
Benjamin Francis
Alejandro Galván
Alan Hernández
Jamal Nxedlana
Sam Samiee
Marilyn Sonneveld
Between 20 December 2025 and 11 January 2026 the gallery is only open by appointment.
Exhibition overview of Nocturnals, with Polilla (2022) by Alan Hernández and The Loom #1 (2019) by Sam Samiee, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, 2025, photo: Jonathan de Waart