Opening: Memento. Photography, interrupted

Developments

Displaying the works in both an unconventional and monumental way, Huis Marseille is presenting over a hundred contemporary photographic highlights from its rich collection, offering insight into a quarter-century of collection policy. The exhibition shows that the collection has not only closely reflected developments in photography and visual culture, but also developments in society itself, particularly over the last five years.

Opening

The museum is open on the opening day from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The official opening starts at 5:00 PM and is accessible with the Netherlands Museum Pass.

A rich collection

Over the last two and a half decades Huis Marseille, Amsterdam’s first photography museum, has acquired over eight hundred works of contemporary photography. This rich collection includes work by numerous internationally prominent photographers, such as Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Andres Serrano, Deana Lawson, Viviane Sassen, and Jean-Luc Mylayne, but it also gives generous space to less familiar names. Recent acquisitions, for instance, include photographs by Jamie Hawkesworth, Nhu Xuan Hua, and Tyler Mitchell – work created at the intersection of fashion and art. The Huis Marseille collection is of an exceptionally high quality; to see other works of this standard by Deana Lawson, Joanna Piotrowska, or Zanele Muholi, for instance, you would have to travel abroad.