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With Andrรฉ de Jong and His Theater, The Merchant House (TMH) is pleased to present new works by the distinguished Dutch artist Andrรฉ de Jong (b. 1947). His fifth major exhibition at TMH, it reflects one of the most prolific periods of his careerโwhich has encompassed drawing as well as photography, sculpture, and land artโand poses the question: What is it about drawing, above all, that has continued to fascinate Andrรฉ de Jong for over five decades?
Art from War to War: Chasing Butterflies on the Verge of a Cliff, which opened on May 29, 2026 at Beck & Eggeling gallery, marks the first public presentation of selected works from the private collection of Kyiv-born collector Valeria Rodnianski. The exhibition features works by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Irina Nakhova, A.R. Penck and other influential artists whose careers emerged amid the political and cultural upheavals of postwar Europe and the Soviet sphere.
What happens when a painting refuses to stay within its frame? This summer, The Merchant House transforms its historic Amsterdam canal house into a conversation between art, architecture, and domestic space. In Fragments, works by Pino Pinelli, Elsa Tomkowiak, Zhu Hong, Sylvie Bonnot, and Andrรฉ Stempfel spill across walls, challenge traditional materials, and blur the boundaries between gallery and home. From oversized painted zip bags to photographic spiders enlarged to unsettling beauty, the exhibition invites visitors to piece together their own connections across a series of striking visual encounters.
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, world-renowned artist Mateo Blanco presents Silver Falls Flag (2026), a textile work that offers a quietly powerful meditation on one of the nationโs most enduring symbols. Unveiled at a moment of reflection, the work departs from the fixed geometry of the American flag and instead imagines it in motionโits stars no longer suspended in stillness, but descending, dissolving, and flowing as if carried by water. In Blancoโs hands, the flag becomes a cascade of silver threads, evoking waterfalls and the continuous rhythms of the natural world.
In Pepper Indulging โ Alluvial Voice, Neo Jiapu Gao turns a vast geopolitical story into something intimate and quietly unsettling. By spending two days and one night with the Zhang familyโfirst-generation migrants relocated after the Three Gorges ProjectโGao captures moments that feel almost ordinary: harvesting peppercorns, tending a garden, preparing for sleep. Yet beneath these scenes runs a deeper current of displacement, language barriers, and lingering memory. Through layered imagery, shifting dialects, and the persistent presence of a Sichuan pepper plant carried from their former home, Gao reveals how migration reshapes not only landscapes but the textures of everyday life. What begins as a portrait of a single family slowly unfolds into a meditation on what it means to be uprootedโand what fragments of home can survive the journey.
At a moment when cultural institutions worldwide struggle to define their purpose, Ma Weidu stands as a rare figureโpart scholar, part craftsmanโquietly reshaping what it means to care for the past. From founding Chinaโs first private museum to rescuing stray cats who became unlikely cultural icons, his journey reveals how one personโs integrity can transform an entire heritage landscape. His story is not only about collecting antiquities, but about restoring warmth, responsibility, and meaning to a rapidly changing worldโan invitation to step inside a life where culture becomes a way of being.
Step inside a centuries-old church where the walls glow, breathe, and transform before your eyes. In Inscriptions, Mexican artist Said Dokins turns sacred architecture into a living laboratory, blending invisible ink, bioluminescent pigments, and colonies of bacteria to question how memory, power, and presence are written into the urban landscape. Each pieceโwhether a luminous photograph traced in darkness or a petri dish of living microorganismsโinvites viewers to witness writing as a biological and political act. In this fusion of art, science, and resistance, the cityโs erased histories pulse back to life beneath the light.
Discover the remarkable story behind Sir Basil Gouldโs historic collectionโfeaturing exclusive artworks, rare photographs, and personal artifacts from Tibetโs most pivotal moments. From Krishna Kanwalโs evocative watercolors capturing the enthronement of the young Dalai Lama to Gouldโs intimate archive of images and memorabilia, this auction offers a rare glimpse into a transformative chapter of Tibetan history. Uncover the full story of this extraordinary sale and the figures who shaped itโan event that achieved nearly a million pounds in just one day.
For years, Edric Beck has cultivated a practice that defies convention and invites contemplation. He is a sculptor of silence, a craftsman of frequencyโa jeweler turned mosaicist whose art is less about ornament and more about offering. His pieces are not produced; they are revealedโslowly, deliberatelyโthrough a process as meditative as it is exacting. To encounter Edricโs work is to enter a different rhythm, one where beauty is born of stillness and form arises from deep listening. He is not here to make a statement. He is here to create presence. And in that presence, something profound begins to unfold.
Beneath the Louvreโs iconic pyramid, a hidden world of contemporary expression pulses with color, tension, and introspection. From heart-shaped imprints to purple pools of desire, a new generation of artists is transforming the Carrousel du Louvre into a sensory battlegroundโwhere memory, identity, and illusion collide. What unfolds isnโt just an art fair, but a visceral dialogue between cultures, mediums, and moments suspended in glass, shadow, and skin. Dive into the installations redefining how we see and feel in a world constantly shifting beneath our feet.
