Art Fair
September 25-28, 2025
Museum Belvédère is organizing the sixth edition of Art Noord, in collaboration with 17 participating galleries and art dealers. Art Noord is the only art fair in a museum in the Netherlands. Art Noord is the platform where modern and contemporary art from the north and other parts of the Netherlands are displayed in a museum atmosphere and offered for sale.
September 25 to 28, 2025
The sixth edition of the only museum art fair in the Netherlands! Art Noord is an accessible art fair with 16 participating galleries and art dealers where modern and contemporary art from the north and other parts of the Netherlands is shown and offered for sale in a museum atmosphere. Afslag BLV, the branch of Museum Belvédère, once again shows a selection of works by young artists.
Four-day art fair in Museum Belvédère,
Thursday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Entrance:
Adult: €20
Entrance with Museum Card €6.00
Rembrandt card/ICOM: €6
CJP/students/up to 18 years: €10
Up to 17 years old: free
Friends Museum Belvédère: free
All entrance tickets are valid for all four days of the fair!
Art Noord
offers a platform for art from the north.
Art Noord
is organized with Frisian, Groningen and Drenthe galleries in both museum wings, but also has participants from other parts of the country.
The permanent collection will then temporarily not be on display!
Art Noord
draws full attention to the northern quality offering, ranging from regional, national to international, from painting to photography.
Art Noord
wants to stimulate interest in art and entice people to meet, look and buy.
Want to buy tickets for Art Noord? Choose September in the online calendar and select your desired date: Tickets
Participating galleries and art dealers:
Galerie Autrevue, Heerenveen
Galerie Getekend, Heerenveen
Kunstlokaal Nº8, Jubbega
Kunsthandel De Vries, Leeuwarden
Galerie De Roos van Tudor, Leeuwarden
Galerie De Vis, Harlingen
Galerie LYTS, Woudsend
Galerie Kunsthandel Richard ter Borg, Groningen
Kunsthandel Peter ter Braak, Groningen
Klinkhamer Keramiek, Groningen
Collectie Harms Rolde, Nooitgedacht
CREMAN & DE ROOIJ, Olst | Den Haag
Kunstruimte Wagemans, Alkmaar
Galerie Franzis Engels, Amsterdam
RUEB Modern and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
BLEND Projects, Haarlem
Frank Welkenhuysen Galerie & Kunsthandel, Zeist | Eindhoven
thursday, friday, saturday from 3 p.m
during the art fair
From thursday september 25 until saturday september 27 this swinging music band will play hits from their repertoire from Gipsy Jazz, Bossas, Jazz standards to Bohemian in the Museum Café of Museum Belvédère.
Saint Germain dès Pres consists of members:
Pieter Knorr – violin
Adriaan van Rumpt – rhythm guitar
Christian Kloosterman – double bass
Fall
First solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Sámal Joensen-Mikines: Painter of the Faroe Islands
October 11, 2025 – January 18, 2026
Exhibition of the work of Samal Joensen Mikines (1906-1979), born on the Faroe Islands. The artist worked mainly on the island of Mykines – where he was famous – and was inspired by his immediate surroundings: the sea, the rugged hilly landscape, the cold hills and small fishing villages. His work is somewhere between impressionistic and expressionistic and focuses mainly on light and space. During his life Mikines contemplated alternately on the islands and in Denmark, where he considered gold as one of the important cards of his generation.
The exhibition at the Museum Belvédère derides small landscapes and sea paintings that have similarities with the work of Northern Dutch landscape painters who are represented in the museum's collection.
A Dutch monograph will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Director Han Steenbruggen traveled to the Faroe Islands
From May 7 to 10, 2025, a delegation of approximately twenty Frisian representatives visited the Faroe Islands. Led by King's Commissioner Arno Brok, the trip focused on studying the successful language and cultural policy of the archipelago, where approximately 60,000 people speak the Faroese language. The delegation included aldermen and representatives from the Frisian cultural sector, including the Fryske Akademy and the Afûk Foundation.
Director Han Steenbruggen represented Museum Belvédère during the trip:
"The further north we went, the more everything around us became atomized, and shapes were reduced to vague planes and veils of color. Further on, a pale sun suddenly broke open the sky, casting a beam of light across the sea to the island on the other side. Screened greens, blues, and ochres. Mikines' paintings are hidden in every view here."
Spring 2026
February 14 – June 7, 2026
A wide selection of never-before-seen monumental harbor scenes painted on ship packaging material by Jan Roos (1951), one of the most important Frisian painters and a permanent fixture at Museum Belvédère. Since the 1980s, Roos has been expressing his impressions of the shipyards and the harbor of Harlingen with broad, expressive painting gestures. In the open air – often in all weathers – he sets up his compositions, and then completes them in the studio.
Expected in Afslag BLV annex of Museum Belvédère
September 7 – November 16, 2025
The solo exhibition by visual artist Victor van Loon (born 1978) features work from the 2014–2019 period, consisting of mixed-media drawings; primarily pencil and dry pastel, sometimes with cuts in the paper. The predictions, painstakingly and patiently created layer by layer, contain landscape spaces reminiscent of mountainous structures. Corrosion, underlying tension, and transformation are key themes. Van Loon's work is a layered and submerged "innerscape."
Victor van Loon is both a visual artist and a musician. Since graduating from the Minerva Academy in 2004, he has maintained a practical practice in which drawing, installation, and music complement each other. He lives and works in Groningen.
November 30 – Februari 15, 2026
The solo exhibition of visual artist Joyce Zwerver (born 1990) features monumental installations and sculptural collages. Site-specific work plays a key role in these works. Inside, outside, in the landscape, or with the landscape; the artist visually approaches the location in a search for usable forms, lines, dimensions, and proportions. Sometimes the artist seeks a contrast, sometimes a poetic coherence. Simplicity, tactility, materiality, and harmony are the guiding principles.
Joyce Zwerver studied at the Minerva Academy and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. She lives and works in Groningen.
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