Press

14 Jan 2026: Van Abbemuseum to Redefine the Collection Display: A New Perspective on Time

10 Dec 2025: With sound, performance and bold expression, the exhibition Make Some Noise: Desire. Stage. Change. encourages movement and change

4 Nov 2025: Children to Open Dream City During GLOW 2025 at the Van Abbemuseum

22 Oct 2025: Van Abbemuseum acquires Tenderlymilitant.exe by Anna Zoe Hamm

21 Oct 2025: Queen Máxima visits Van Abbemuseum ahead of Dutch Design Week 2025 opening

14 Oct 2025: Monet masterpiece in dialogue with icons from the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven collection

10 Sept 2025: Van Abbemuseum embraces movement, sound and performance in the final edition of its exhibition series Positions

26 Aug 2025: Grand design exhibition shows forward and connecting power of design

12 June 2025: Miriam van der Lubbe guest curator design exhibition Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven

20 May 2025: Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo guest curator at Van Abbemuseum & Van der Valk Hotel Eindhoven

12 May 2025: Artists on the meaning of 'home' in the Van Abbemuseum

6 May 2025: The Van Abbemuseum Appoints Defne Ayas as New Director Starting September 2025

17 April 2025: New exhibition by Ima-Abasi Okon in Van Abbemuseum

25 March 2025: Tulips as an encouragement of solidarity in new Van Abbemuseum exhibition

18 March 2025: Students become artists at the Van Abbemuseum

12 March 2025: A night in the Van Abbemuseum

12 Feb 2025: Plan for green connection between Van Abbemuseum and the city

5 Feb 2025: Van Abbemuseum presents special pop-up exhibition on art and climate

6 Jan 2025: Part of Van Abbemuseum temporarily closed in spring 2025

16 Dec 2024: Van Abbemuseum and Archipel strengthen collaboration with art project for residents

10 Dec 2024: Eindhovenaren residents chose new artwork for the city!

8 Dec 2024: Van Abbemuseum releases podcast on HipHop's influence on the city of Eindhoven

5 Nov 2024: In the exhibition Art is a Verb, five solos show the activating power of art

31 Oct 2024: Congolese art collective in dialogue with the Van Abbemuseum's collection (and history)

9 Oct 2024: World-famous Eindhoven fashion designer picks artworks for Van der Valk Eindhoven display

7 Oct 2024: Eindhoven residents will soon choose a new word of art for the Van Abbemuseum

3 Sept 2024: Van Abbemuseum ushers in new cultural season with groundbreaking exhibitions

15 July 2024:  Exhibition Eindhoven: a HipHop story shows the influence of this subculture on the city's identity

30 May 2024: Director Charles Esche bids farewell to the Van Abbemuseum at the end of 2024

30 May 2024: Director Charles Esche bids farewell to the Van Abbemuseum at the end of 2024 [short press release]

8 April 2024: Group exhibition Soils explores a renewed connection with our soil

3 April 2024: Op zoek naar gemeenschappelijke gronden in scholierenproject 'Radically Mine!' 2024 (Dutch only)

24 January 2024: Colonial past of the Van Abbemuseum revealed in the exhibition Hidden Connections

16 October 2023: Sung Hwan Kim dwars visitors into his dreamlike film environments

29 August 2023: A new cultural season at the Van Abbemuseum!

8 August 2023: Exhibition The space between us reveals how design shapes and guides our relationships

2 August 2023: Van Abbemuseum and Eindhoven Museum purchase exceptional works by artist Jan Toorop

16 May 2023: Kabakov Cabinet gives unique insight into the oeuvre of artist couple

17 April 2023: The exhibition Positions #7: Everything worthwhile is done with other people teaches us that collectively we achieve more than on our own

1 December 2022: Van Abbemuseum acquires personal design collection of Lidewij Edelkoort

14 October 2022: Rewinding Internationalism: Scenes from the 90s, today

15 September 2022: Statement second binding opinion of the Restitutions Committee, return of the Kandinsky painting

23 August 2022: Exhibitions 2022 2023, new cultural seasoon with art and design

18 August 2022: Van Abbemuseum is enriching its collection with Edelkoort design collection

1 June 2022: Richard Bell’s first European solo exhibition opens at the Van Abbemuseum

10 March 2022: A Lasting Truth Is Change: A collection inspiring change 

17 November 2021: Extensive exhibition of works by León Ferrari and Gülsün Karamustafa a first in the Netherlands

24 August 2021: Four museums jointly purchase work by Patricia Kaersenhout

16 August 2021: Exhibitions and projects season 2021-2022 

12 August 2021: Delinking and Relinking, major multi-sensory collection display

28 November 2020: Positions #6: Bodywork

25 August 2020: An Exciting New Season. Exhibitions 2020 - 2021

Victor Sonna. 1525: Personal quest leads to solo exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum.

26 May 2020: First large-scale exhibition by Yael Davids

16 December 2019: Van Abbemuseum appoints new Exhibitions Curator

20 November 2019: Positions #5: Telling Untold Stories

20 October 2019: DRIFT x Van Abbemuseum @ DDW 2019

Open Archief - Het Nieuwe Instituut & Beeld en Geluid

3 September2019: Exhibition Highlights 2019 / 2020

1 September 2019: GEO—DESIGN: Junk. All That Is Solid Melts into Trash

6 June 2019: Eyewitnesses of Conflict. Goya, Beuys, Dumas

25 April 2019: First major solo exhibition of The Otolith Group

12 December 2018: Statement Decreto 349 Van Abbemuseum

19 November 2018: Positions #4. Gluklya, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti 

15 November 2018: Annie Fletcher. Annie Fletcher, Chief Curator of the Van Abbemuseum, appointed Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art

5 November 2018: Josefin Arnell. Josefin Arnell’s THE TICK on show at Van Abbemuseum. 

31 October 2018: GLOW 2018. ...in the dark: Van Abbemuseum and TAC playing with shadows for GLOW 2018

2 October 2018: GEO-DESIGN. Van Abbemuseum and Design Academy Eindhoven present GEO-DESIGN: Alibaba. From here to your home 

28 May 2018: Finalists Theodora Niemeijer Prize 2018 announced. Isabelle Andriessen, Josefin Arnell, and Joy Mariama Smith.

1 May 2018: Graphite Knots. Gam Bodenhausen realises monumental drawing in Het Oog of the Van Abbemuseum.

14 March 2018: Many of the works from the Van Abbemuseum Lissitzky collection to be exhibited in the Pompidou Centre in Paris

10 November 2017: Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective

28 September 2017: Dutch Design Week 2017 at Van Abbemuseum (a.o. Beyond Generations)

20 April 2017: Etcétera winner Artistic Strategies in Psychiatry project

6 March 2017: Qiu Zhijie: Journeys without Arrivals

12 December 2016: Victor Goppe: Making Books

16 November 2016: Positions #3: Rossella Biscotti, Duncan Campbell, Maryam Jafri, Natasja Kensmil

29 October 2016: GLOW Special: A Place Beyond Belief

DDW: Broken White with Design Academy Eindhoven

22 April 2016: RED! Utopian Visions from the Soviet Union 1930-1941

2 March 2016: The 1980's. Today's Beginnings?

14 January 2016: Anna Staritsky, 1908-1981. Works on paper

13 January 2016: Praneet Soi - Srinagar

11 January 2016: Theodora Niemeijer Prize 2016

10 November 2015: Positions #2:Anna Boghiguian, Chia-Wei Hsu, Nástio Mosquito and Sarah Pierce

26 Oktober 2015: Robot enables museum visit

5 October 2015: DDW @ Van Abbemuseum: Thing Nothing (with Design Academy Eindhoven) and DDW Music

25 September 2015: Marie Lexmond - Yellow Interior in 11.620 Parts 

8 September 2015: Li Mu - A Man, A Village, A Museum. 19.09-2015 – 10.01.2016

1 May 2015: A Republic of Art

18 February 2015: A dynamic weekend in the Van Abbemuseum. Opening Marcel Broodthaers and new project in The Collection Now

26 January 2015: Forward! Ahmet Ögüt. 07.03.2015 - 14.06.2015