Are you curious about the next Van Gogh exhibit in Amsterdam?
One of the great things about being a local is I am able to visit the Van Gogh museum more often and go to the temporary exhibitions, which are always different and surprising. That is the reason I love going back to this museum.
Unfortunately, exhibitions usually run relatively short and it is super hard to get tickets for the museum, so make sure, if there is something you want to see, to book as soon as you can, preferably right now.
Here is my Van Gogh Museum tips page, where I have all the information about tickets, how to book them, what to get, etc.
In this post, I list out the current exhibition and the exhibitions that are expected in the near future. Of course, no matter when you visit, you can always visit the regular collection that is always on display, but they have a separate area for temporary exhibitions, and that always gives the entire experience a different coloring.
The current Van Gogh Museum exhibition
There are currently no special exhibtions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam:
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Other upcoming exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum
Here is an overview of upcoming exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam:
1 October 2026 to 4 January 2027 – Exhibition Yoshitoshi. Master of the Moon
One hundred prints. One artist. The moon in every one of them.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) made this series at the end of his life, and this is the first time the Van Gogh Museum puts them on display. Warriors, lovers, poets, ghosts: every sheet hangs a story on a single moment of moonlight, and Yoshitoshi gets more out of a night sky than most painters get out of a whole afternoon.
Vincent owned many Japanese prints, Yoshitoshi among them. You can see what he took from them: flat blocks of color, hard outlines, and a the composition style.
16 October 2026 to 10 January 2027 – Whistler. Dandy and Disruptor
James McNeill Whistler (1834 to 1903) was a painter, printmaker, aesthete and enfant terrible. You could say he was an influencer before the word existed.
This is the first retrospective in the Netherlands devoted to this remarkable artist. Whistler believed art, like music, should above all evoke a mood. With that conviction he helped shape modern art.
Vincent van Gogh admired him. He praised Whistler’s etchings in his letters and counted him among the artists he and Theo had loved in their time.
Later this year you can see his paintings, etchings and drawings, made in cities such as Paris, Amsterdam and Venice.
12 February 2027 to 20 June 2027 – Eva Gonzalès
Edouard Manet taught only one student during his whole life, and this is her.
Eva Gonzalès (1847-1883) trained in his studio and then went her own way, which took a lot of nerve in the Paris of the 1870s. Critics wrote about her with respect. Other painters watched what she did. She died at only 36 years old, and within a generation she was sadly forgotten (as happened to so many female artists).
This is the first exhibition to bring her paintings and her pastels together in one place. The Van Gogh Museum has built the exhibition together with the Petit Palais in Paris, and the loans come from museums abroad and from private collections, so some of these works normally hang behind somebody’s front door.
I would make time for this one. I am very excited myself to go see it. Pastel is fragile and it does not travel often. It’s a unique change. Get a early weekday time slot if you can. These are small, quiet pictures, and they lose most of what makes them so attractive when you look at them over three shoulders.
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