east wing

Jan Mankes - Kraai op Berkenboom (1913), particuliere collectie

Jan Mankes

expressions of spiritual life

January 25 to August 24, 2025

The largest Mankes exhibition ever, spread over two museums. Together with Museum Arnhem we are showing Mankes like never before.

In 2025, Museum Arnhem and Museum Belvédère will present an exhibition diptych around the oeuvre of Jan Mankes (1889-1920). The artist lived and worked in Friesland from 1909 to 1915 and settled in Eerbeek, Gelderland, in the last years of his life. The two exhibitions in Arnhem and Oranjewoud provide a representative overview of one of the most special artists working at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Mankes occupies a unique place within Dutch painting. His empathy creates the dreamy and lived-in work that has made him so popular. He is seen as an important key figure between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his affinity with the Tachtigers, symbolism and magical realism is special

Jan Mankes - Bomenrij (1915), Collectie Museum More, fotograaf: Peter Cox

Museum Arnhem 

In its exhibition, Museum Arnhem emphasizes an overview of Mankes' work and relates it to work by contemporaries; artists who inspired him and artists who in turn found inspiration in his work.

The focus of the exhibition is on meaning and tranquility in troubled times.

Museum Belvédère

Museum Belvédère mainly focuses on the work that Mankes made in 1909-1915, the period in which he lived in the Frisian village of De Knipe and drew inspiration from the area where Museum Belvédère is located.

This double exhibition will take place in both museums from January 25 to August 24, 2025.

Sabine Liedtke

June 28 – September 21

Sabine Liedtke (Drachten 1971) graduated from Academie Minerva in Groningen. Liedtke makes drawings on different sizes and types of paper. In her work she zooms in on details from nature. Isolating the subject from the environment or repeating shapes is a way for her to engage better. She carefully chooses figurative and abstract shapes as visual language. Her drawings are built up by repetitively drawing lines or dots. Representing reality is a means, but ultimately it is about the feeling that the work evokes.

De Deelen – Christiaan Kuitwaard & Bruno van Dijck 

June 28 – September 21

North of Heerenveen lies the nature reserve De Deelen. It is an interplay of open water, swamp forests and narrow grasslands created by peat extraction for peat production. In 2023/24 Bruno Van Dijck and Christiaan Kuitwaard went there together to paint. Their impressions of De Deelen can be seen in the exhibition.

Oscar Voch – whispers

Past exhibition January 25 – June 22, 2025

Complementary to the Jan Mankes exhibition, whispers is on dislay, with work by a contemporary kindred spirit of Jan Mankes: the Dutch artist Oscar Voch (1962). In his digital photographic work, the artist shows related tranquil images and subdued still lifes, filled with the same timelessness.

Voch's photo works are based on graphics, painting and photography. With the help of the computer, he combines images made by hand and with the camera into digital works of art with their own poetic atmosphere, filled with mystery and melancholy. His photo works are usually the result of many preliminary studies and endless searches for stillness, expressiveness and mood. A monograph will be published to accompany the exhibition.