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Feb
17
to Apr 6

Bring on the Dancing Horses | Group Show

 


Arto Vanhasselt | Bin Koh | Hend Samir | Josefin Arnell
Krystel Geerts | Mia Chaplin | Sakir Khader | Tobias Thaens

Graphic design: Ayumi White

Festive Opening: Tuesday 17th February
Time: 5PM - 8PM
7PM 'Kyrie Ignis Divine Eleison' a Reading Performance by Bin Koh
Location: NMAG, Bos en Lommerweg 88

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, No Man’s Art Gallery welcomes the Year of the Fire Horse by opening Bring on the Dancing Horses, a group exhibition with works by Arto Vanhasselt, Bin Koh, Hend Samir, Josefin Arnell, Krystel Geerts, Mia Chaplin, Sakir Khader and Tobias Thaens.

The artists are invited to reflect on a moment defined by passage and transformation. Through the symbol of the horse, they bring fragility, softness and poetry into focus. Bring on the Dancing Horses moves in a rhythm between motion and stillness, where fragility does not oppose strength but exists alongside it. As our moon opens a new cycle, the exhibition proposes attentiveness, reflection and softness as ways of moving forward, leaving us with a space to imagine tomorrow.

Long before language was fixed or history recorded, full-bodied horses appeared in early cave paintings (such as Lascaux c. 15.000 BCE). They were painted strong and alive, their spiritual qualities still present. These images are an attempt to imagine continuity, carrying meaning across uncertainty and time, left for the next passerby to discover.
In a present that feels increasingly broken, hope persists in the artist’s urge to create. Rather than asserting permanence, dominance or heroic scale, the works gathered here approach presence as something vulnerable, temporary and relational. Across the exhibition, monumentality is quietly undone: a photograph holds a life soon to be lost; a gate stands hollowed rather than fortified; a horse emerges through recognition rather than construction; care reveals its proximity to desire and control.

In Bring on the Dancing Horses monumentality resides in works that resist spectacle and remain open, unfinished and perhaps hold us in a moment suspended.

The exhibition runs until April 6th 2026.

Photos Jonathan de Waart

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Feb
21
to Sep 20

Fundatie Forward | Buhlebezwe Siwani

Buhlebezwe Siwani, Isikhumbuzo (A reminder), 2021 (Detail), preem soap, varnish, wood, lacquer, polystyrene, 110 x 140 x 140 cm. Photo_ Neeltje de Vries

We are proud to announce that Buhlebezwe Siwani will present her first solo exhibition in a Dutch museum at Museum de Fundatie.

This exhibition is part of the Fundatie Forward programme, a series of first solo museum exhibitions by contemporary artists who live and work in the Netherlands. Through this exciting new series, Museum de Fundatie strives to create a platform and produce momentum for the artists.


Please find further information here.

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Mar
7
to May 3

Warmoes Biënnale | Buhlebezwe Siwani

We are honoured to announce that Buhlebezwe Siwani is a part of Museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder’s first edition of Warmoes Biënnale. The event will take place in nineteen different locations throughout Amsterdam city center for two months, bringing the city together with contemporary art.

In her work, Buhlebezwe Siwani explores themes such as meaning and tolerance, in the historical context of Catholicism.

More information about the event and her work can be accessed here.

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Mar
27
to Mar 29

Prospects, Rotterdam Ahoy | Mondriaan fonds

We are excited to share that Benjamin Francis will be amongst the 92 artists exhibiting their work at the 14th edition of Prospects, presented by Mondriaan Fonds, which will take place at Rotterdam Ahoy alongside Art Rotterdam 2026.

This year’s edition of Prospects is curated by Johan Gustavsson and Daphne Verberg, shedding light on a new wave of artists who address today's changing world with imagination, rigour, and great energy.

More information here.

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May
9
to Nov 22

61st Venice Biennale | Mexican Pavillion

The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico and the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL) announce that the RojoNegro Collective, made up of María Sosa and Noé Martínez, has been commissioned to represent Mexico at the 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, which will take place from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

After a process of analysis and deliberation, the proposal by RojoNegro, titled Actos invisibles para sostener el universo, curated by Jessica Berlanga Taylor, was selected for its conceptual framework and its ability to articulate sensitive, situated, and critical visions. The proposal addresses urgent topics such as ancestral memory, epistemic justice, decolonization, and relational ecology, drawing on indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant cosmogonies not as external references, but as living matrices of thought that shape their forms of creation, connection, and imagination.

RojoNegro is an artist duo consisting of María Sosa (1985) and Noé Martínez (1986), whose practice interweaves ancestral memory, the languages of the body, and ritual technologies from a decolonial perspective. Through installation, performance, sound, and the use of organic materials, their work summons situated forms of knowledge that question processes of colonization and their persistent effects on bodies, territories, and contemporary worldviews.

The project will dialogue with In Minor Keys (Modo Menor), the curatorial proposal of the 61st edition, developed from the vision of the late curator Koyo Kouoh, which conceives the exhibition as a collective score created with artists whose work merge organically with society.

RojoNegro, Retrato de Sombra I, 2024. Oil and acrylic on paper, 208 x 110 cm. Image courtesy of the artists.

María Sosa graduated from the Universidad Michoacán de San Nicolas de Hidalgo. Sosa’s practice stems from her research about our shared colonial past and how it constitutes contemporary social dynamics as an epistemicide of prehispanic worlds, racism, sexism, and the invisibility of multiple nonwesterner’s ways of life in the American continent. Sosa’s work is nourished by her research of prehispanic art, anthropology, the methodology of Ecología de Saberes and the exploration of production techniques of ritual prehispanic and contemporary objects.

Noé Martínez is a visual artist and filmmaker who graduated from Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (“La Esmeralda”) in Mexico City. His work functions as a case study that emerges from personal history, making use of ethnographic methodologies and research of the various histories of indigenous communities of the American continent.

RojoNegro’s recent solo exhibitions include: Debut Solo Exhibition, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), upcoming; Volví a ser vasija, volví a ser animal a ser planta, volví a ser tiempo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan (MX), 2024; Tepalcates de sueños, commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York in Mexico City (MX), 2022; and El encuentro de los tepalcates, an offsite project with a performance and presentation video commissioned by the Swiss Institute of New York (USA), 2021.

Their group exhibitions and projects include: Commission for Stuart Collection of UCSD University of San Diego (USA), upcoming; Fantastic Creatures, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo (NL), upcoming; Transmisión Ancestral, Plataforma, Guadalajara, Jalisco (MX), 2024; Cordillera, Galería Extra, Guatemala City (GU), 2024; Las estrellas me iluminan al revés, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), 2022; and their participation in the Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice (IT), 2016.

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May
9
to Nov 22

61st Venice Biennale | Buhlebezwe Siwani

Buhlebezwe Siwani will participate in the 61st International Art Exhibition of the La Biennale di Venezia, presented in the Giardini and Arsenale from 9 May to 22 November 2026.

Titled In Minor Keys, this edition was conceived by the late curator Koyo Kouoh and will be realised by the curatorial team she assembled, faithfully carrying forward her vision, from the artists and theoretical framework to the exhibition design and catalogue she began shaping last year.

In Minor Keys marks a powerful return to the sensory, affective, and subjective dimensions of art. Buhlebezwe Siwani’s participation is both an honor and a responsibility within a project that foregrounds subtle registers of perception, intimacy, and resonance.

The exhibition is realised with the curatorial team assembled by Kouoh, including advisors Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Rasha Salti; editor-in-chief Siddhartha Mitter; and assistant Rory Tsapayi.

Buhlebezwe Siwani, by Koos Breukel

Buhlebezwe Siwani is a visual artist that lives and works between Cape Town and Amsterdam. She completed her BAFA at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg in 2011 and her MFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2015. Siwani works with performance, photography, sculpture, and installation. Siwani’s work interrogates the patriarchal framing of the Black female body and Black female experience within the South African context. As a Sangoma, a spiritual healer that works within the space of the death and the living, Siwani focused her artistic prac- tice into rituality and the relationship between Christianity and African spirituality.

Each of her projects deals with the relationship between ancestral rituals and mod- ern life, touching social and political topics, such as the female body, Black commu- nities, histories of colonisation and the paradoxes of our contemporary society, all seen through the filter of the artist’s own biography and experience.

Buhlebezwe Siwani is shortlisted for the Prix de Rome (2025), was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize (2024) and was the winner of the 2021 Standard Bank Young Artists Awards in the category of Visual Arts.

Solo exhibitions include: Intsomi, No Man’s Art Gallery (2025); ulwela amaza, Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (2025); iYeza, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2023); Amanzi angena endlini, Madragoa, Lisbon (2022); Impilo Inegama, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); Dedisa ubumnyama, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns (2021), group exhibitions include: Good Mom/Bad Mom, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2025); Manifesto 15 (2024); 14th Gwangju Bienni- al, Gwangju (2023); Chrysalis, The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2023); A Clearing in the Forest, TATE Modern, London (2022).

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