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Installation view of Season 02 — GROUND

SEASON 02

GROUND

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

SEASON 023 July – 30 September 2026NIO House Amsterdam, fourth floor

The common ground shared by maker, Foundation and visitor alike. Not a stage built on favour. A foundation built on conviction.

GROUND asks what a practice stands on. Not the finished position, but what lies underneath it: a material, a body, a discipline held long enough to become a floor.

The season puts that question twice in the same room. In Gallery 2, Rogier Bosschaart's dot paintings hold the wall while Aad Kruiswijk's robot-cut volumes hold the floor — accumulation against constraint, both arriving at a form neither of them chose. Gallery 4 repeats the figure: Loutje Hoekstra's body prints on the walls, and beneath them the thirteen makers of ECHO working a single stream of residual aluminium. Two rooms stand alone. Anne van Borselen, born in 1937 and still casting, has Gallery 1. Sandra Keja Planken has Gallery 3, where weaving and passementerie are slowed down until the technique becomes the subject.

Arno Hoogland holds the Gallery Lounge, where the floor begins. His panels are the only work here that faces forward rather than down; everything past them is excavation. Six makers and a collective, one floor, and no agreement between them about what the ground is made of.

02The makers19

01 Aad Kruiswijk Fourth floor — Gallery 2 · on the floor Aad Kruiswijk works at the intersection of art, technology and nature. With… 8 works 02 Anne van Borselen Fourth floor — Gallery 1 Anne van Borselen (b. 1937, Surabaya) brings a rare physical dynamism to her… 13 works 03 Arno Hoogland Fourth floor — Gallery Lounge Arno Hoogland is a designer shaped by futurism — artifacts arriving from… 10 works 04 Billie-Jo Krul Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor A Dutch-Canadian photographer using the camera for emotional archaeology.… 3 works 05 Coen Beeksma Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Furniture design and material research, with a focus on honest construction.… 1 work 06 Cynthia & Kevin Kars-Boom Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Colour, rhythm and material reduced to their essence. Where most of ECHO… 1 work 07 Erwin Woldring Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor A craftsman known for handmade electric guitars. He contributes the two most… 2 works 08 Frank Penders Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Material research and spatial presence, combining aluminium with local… 2 works 09 Frederik Wasseur Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor An aluminium expert welder at Nedal, he knows the material from the inside.… 1 work 10 Jan Willem van Elten Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Economy of means: as much as possible with as little as necessary. REST is… 1 work 11 Jeroen van Veluw Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Designs for permanence, shaped by an interest in animism and by growing up in… 2 works 12 Loutje Hoekstra Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the walls Loutje Hoekstra (1994) is an Amsterdam-based artist with a background in … 9 works 13 Maaike Rabbinge Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Works from the conviction that what already exists carries its own design… 3 works 14 Marc Th. van der Voorn Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Designs flexible connections that shift with whatever residual aluminium is… 1 work 15 Ritsert Mans Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Explores how materials are experienced once removed from their original… 2 works 16 Rogier Bosschaart Fourth floor — Gallery 2 · on the walls Rogier Bosschaart builds his paintings from thousands of meticulously placed… 5 works 17 Sandra Keja Planken Fourth floor — Gallery 3 Sandra Keja Planken works at the intersection of textile, glass and immersive… 8 works 18 Sophie Wantia Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Graphic and playful pattern, driven by textile and colour. She used aluminium… 1 work 19 Zowa Rindt Fourth floor — Gallery 4 · on the floor Designs without unnecessary additions: no superfluous components, no finish… 1 work

03Alongside

GLUE Amsterdam 2026 · 17 – 19 September 2026

Three days, eight floors, one route. GROUND stays open throughout; Maison d'Artiste opens the sixth and seventh floors alongside it.

Full programme and opening hours