MADART FOUNDATION Open daily 10:00–18:00
Gallery 4: paintings by Loutje Hoekstra above work by the sixteen makers of ECHO on the gallery floor Gallery 2: faceted volumes from Aad Kruiswijk's MineralisM series on the floor, dot paintings by Rogier Bosschaart on the wall Gallery 3: a woven work by Sandra Keja Planken

SEASON 02 · NOW SHOWING

GROUND

NIO House Amsterdam, fourth floor  ·  3 July – 30 September 2026

Enter the season

17 – 19 September 2026

The whole building opens for GLUE Amsterdam

Eight floors, thirty makers, free to walk in, 10:00 – 18:00.

The programme, hour by hour → Find your way through the building →

33makers curated 132works in the register 3seasons programmed 8levels in the house 100%of every sale to the maker

We curate the makers the system overlooked, and give them a room in Amsterdam.

We finance the exhibition. The maker keeps 100% of every sale. No exclusive contract, no fee to take part — a room, an audience, and a fair deal.

The system that overlooks these makers is not broken by accident. Funds finance what institutions already show. Galleries show what already sells. Somewhere between the two, a whole category of serious work falls through — not because it isn't good enough, but because it doesn't fit the boxes the system was built around.

01The makersAll 33 →

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02ExhibitionsAll →

03EventsOpenings and evenings

04The placeThe building →

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NIO House Amsterdam

A national monument on the corner of the Leidsestraat and the Keizersgracht. Built in 1891 for the New York Life Insurance Company — at 26 metres the tallest private building in the city, its facade still carrying the letters NY and the eagle of its first owner.

Metz & Co moved in during 1908 and furnished Amsterdam's interiors from here for over a century, bringing Rietveld, Bauhaus and Liberty of London to the city. In 1933 Gerrit Rietveld crowned the roof with a glass dome, built as an exhibition room. Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe showed their furniture there for the first time in the Netherlands. It is still there.

Metz & Co left in 2012. Abercrombie & Fitch occupied the building until the end of 2022, and in 2024 it reopened as NIO House Amsterdam, restored by MVRDV.

The fourth floor is ours for the length of each season. It is not a rented hall dressed for an evening; it is a gallery floor that has meant something for three months before anyone walks in. That is the difference a maker feels, and a visitor feels it too.