Collage

 nodigen kinderen van 8 t/m 12 jaar uit om deze winter deel te nemen aan de 

Geïnspireerd door de tentoonstelling van Viviane Sassen gaan de deelnemers zelf aan de slag met de camera en leren ze om op een nieuwe manier naar kunst en kleur te kijken. Om de feestelijke ervaring compleet te maken, is er voldoende tijd om te genieten van warme chocolademelk en kerstbrood.

Foam

Kerstvakantie: Workshop Collage Maken

Mooncake, Foam Café, Amsterdam

Spread from Chinees-Indisch Stickeralbum

Cahier for Benjamin Li's In Search of Perfect Orange - Chinese Version

Chinese versie

Liz Johnson Artur - of life of love of sex of movement of hope, 2021

In Search of Perfect Orange. About the work of Benjamin Li

From the Archive:  Establishing Eden by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Khashayar's home studio in Lausanne, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

Khashayar's home studio in Lausanne, 2025

Archival material: digitising negatives from The Caspian

From the series The Caspian by Khashayar Javanmardi

Studio Visit: Khashayar Javanmardi

Photography Workshop: Mounir Raji - Home 

Kids workshop: Stories of Martin Parr in sign language

Maak je klaar voor een kinderworkshop vol plezier, creativiteit en kleur in de meivakantie!

In deze workshop ontdekken kinderen de speelse en kleurrijke wereld van fotograaf Martin Parr. Met een camera in de hand gaan ze op avontuur in en rondom het museum, op zoek naar grappige, kleurrijke en bijzondere momenten in de straten van Amsterdam. Zo leren ze kijken naar de wereld door de lens van Martin Parr.

Na het fotograferen worden alle foto’s samengebracht in één grote groepscollage. Met behulp van AI wordt deze collage omgezet in een unieke kleurplaat, die de kinderen tot leven brengen met kleur en hun eigen fantasie.

New Brighton England Great Britain 1985

Benidorm Spain 1997 From Autoportrait series © Collection Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

Benidorm Spain 1997 From Autoportrait series

The Flicker Phase, 1950

Kids workshop: Quirky Portraits

Pretend There Is Water

The New Waterworks

Pretend There Is Water (2026)

De jongens op de palen

In Conversation: Bebe Blanco Agterberg and Mirjam Kooiman 

From the series I Do Miss Hospital Visit

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Family 2023

Test of Time: Family by Sabrina Tirvengadum

Students of Tsinghua University showing their prestige with an a4 white paper.

Xin Li

From the series POST, 2023

Sander Coers

Annegret Soltau, With Myself, 1975/2022

On Our Radar: Annegret Soltau

From the series Blaze Orange / High Visibility

Jaclyn Wright

 presenteert Foam een speciale avond met 

, die zijn uitgenodigd om een dansvoorstelling te ontwikkelen 

In hun praktijk onderzoeken Lunatics and Poets de manier waarop gebaren, bewegingen en objecten betekenis krijgen. Deze benadering raakt aan terugkerende thema’s in het oeuvre van Blommers & Schumm, waaronder verlangen, transformatie en de grenzen van mode.

Performance by Lunatics and Poets

Breath and Sway: Ode to Blommers en Schumm

 keert op donderdag 12 februari terug naar Foam voor een speciale avond ter ere van haar boek 

. Dit fotoboek is de eerste monografie over het werk van Van Rij. Het dompelt de lezer onder in haar gehele oeuvre en brengt haar zwart-wit- en kleurenfotografie, evenals de collages die ze sinds 2018 heeft gemaakt, samen. Het boek schetst haar reis van haar begin als fotografe tot haar meest recente werk.

Het evenement in de galerie van Foam begint met een gesprek tussen de fotografe en 

, creatief strateeg, curator en medeoprichter van 

, over Van Rijs carrière en boek. Van Marle is een goede vriendin van Van Rij en naast hun persoonlijke band voeren ze een voortdurende dialoog over artistieke processen en de kunstwereld - een gesprek dat ze tijdens het evenement bij Foam zullen voortzetten.

Na het gesprek is er gelegenheid om het boek door Sarah van Rij te laten signeren.

Atlas of Echoes

Foam Editions

Booktalk + signing Sarah van Rij

Sluit aan bij een exclusieve rondleiding met kunstenaars Blommers & Schumm door de tentoonstelling 

 Tijdens deze speciale gelegenheid zullen de fotografen de verhalen achter de foto's delen en zo een uniek inzicht geven in het maakproces van de surrealistische foto’s.

The Desk for Mac Guffin 2020

Everyday objects for Baron Magazine, 2012

Artist Tours: Blommers & Schumm on Mid-Air

Foam neemt je mee in het eigenzinnige archief van het Nederlandse duo Blommers & Schumm en biedt een diepgaande terugblik op ruim 25 jaar speels en prikkelend beeldexperiment.

De tentoonstelling toont hoogtepunten uit hun indrukwekkende carrière, waaronder iconische foto's die verschenen in toonaangevende publicaties als Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman, Dazed & Confused, Self Service, Purple, AnOther Magazine en The New York Times Magazine. 

Josefine wearing Bless, Styling Georgia Pendlebury for Exhibition magazine 2018

Blommers & Schumm

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba. Courtesy the artist

On Our Radar: Thato Toeba

Opening Blommers & Schumm

Onze missie

Communion

Description

Pink Ladies and Pear, 2012

als lid van Foam

Ontdek nog meer

authenticity (2 CHAINZ) from the series BLACK SNAFU, 2022

Louis Vuitton Jeff Koons Rubens Bag, 2020

"Mohlokomedi wa Tora", Scene 2, 2018 

From the series Home Leaving One for Another

Killa from the series Madre

Dialect, 2020

In a sandstone mine 1 from the series This isn't Divide and Conquer

Wait from the series We Didn't Choose to be Born Here, 2022

Foam Magazine

Opening of Tyler Mitchell, photo by Almicheal Fraay

About

Depredations, from the photobook Radiations of War, 2025, by Yana Kononova. Courtesy the artist.

Test of Time: Daria Tuminas

 is the well-known Photoshop selection tool of the same name. For Xin Li, the tool is much more than a handy feature to edit images. It becomes a means to draw parallels with societal control and censorship during the COVID lockdowns in China.  

The magic wand tool selects areas of images based on colour and hue—allowing smart selection and quick manipulation of images. Enforced with machine learning, it nowadays easily predicts which objects a user would like to see selected. Xin Li uses the tool to distort images, obscuring their original meaning behind layers of other images, often of other artworks.  

For Xin Li, this process symbolises the mechanisms of hiding and revealing facts and fake news, regulating the flow of information and controlling the dominant narrative. Metaphorically captured in the overwhelming fusion of shapes and colours, the visually explosive works tempt the viewer to look what lies beneath the apparent chaos. 

Stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, Shwe Wutt Hmon was unable to visit the hospital for her regular check-ups and scans, necessary because of a life-long health issue. Coming to terms with this limitation, she started scanning her body, as well as flowers and medical records, by herself with an ordinary at-home scanner, creating a variety of abstract self-portraits. 

 that emerged from these experiments, reveal a poetic and symbolic documentation of the ongoing assault of medical procedures and operations on her body. Hmon’s image-making practice strongly ties together process and concept: the withering flowers symbolise the decay of the body and dark colours reflect somber emotions experienced right before scheduled operations.  

Another dimension was added when she moved from Myanmar to Thailand in 2022. Printing her work on local Saa paper, the works received an almost skin-like texture. Again, restrictions–this time due to the delicate paper type–required her to improvise, causing her to print the works small scale at home. The final accumulated process turned out to present a healing capacity: by carefully printing, cutting and sewing her works together, Shwe ultimately was also mending herself.

How does a photograph shape our understanding of the past? 

 is a series of A.I.-generated images, combined with archival images, questioning the construction of memory and masculinity through our image culture. 

In an attempt to grasp the full story of his deceased grandfather and his Indonesian heritage, Sander Coers turned to the artificial intelligence programme 

Feeding archival family photos into its system, he asked the programme to describe them, specifically listing their technical details such as dominant colour tones and type of camera, film and lens. Altering these descriptions allowed Sander to prompt the programme to create new images, yet maintain the exact visual look and feel of the family snapshots. Finally, by blending multiple A.I.-generated images together with the originals, he created a surprisingly intimate, genuine, yet completely fictional family album. 

The way the photos are cropped stands out. Coers used an element of collaging when assembling the final images, in order to emphasise the constructed nature of the photographs, and ultimately, the constructed nature of one’s memory, too. 

 alludes to the ‘afterlife’ of his grandfather, through the photo albums he left behind, as well as to the realm of post-photography: a space where images can be generated without the use of a camera.  

Adobe Stock image

Image from the series POST, 2023

From the series POST

The West Desert, located on the western shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah (USA), is the ancestral home of the indigenous Goshute people. Though officially public lands, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, this area is largely used for various privatised or military purposes, ranging from mining operations, testing grounds for weapons and improvised gun ranges.  

, Jaclyn Wright visited these cluttered sites, full of discarded targets and shattered clay pigeons. The bullet-holed remains, which she collected, photographed and filmed, are pieced together into performative installations, that reflect on the colonisation of ancient lands by bureaucratic systems.  

By inserting herself into the scene, wearing a skintight bodysuit made out of orange clay pigeons, Wright comments on the hyper-masculine culture of land dominance and cowboy fantasies. The synthetic orange colour becomes symbolic: used to enhance visibility, it signifies the strong opposition and rejection of its natural environment. 

Untitled (BLM arrows I)

From the series High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

Antelope Island (Utah) Buffalo Hunt photograph collection, Digital MSSC782, No. 6, Altered

L. Clyde Anderson photograph collection (1910- 1959), P0158, Box 1, Folder 27, Altered

Charles James Neal photograph collection (1900 - 1920s), P0694, Box 1, Folder 4, Altered

The West Desert is located on the western side of the Great Salt Lake [UT, United States]. Historically, this area has been documented through photography and land surveys, supporting the violent exploitation of the landscape. 

Archives, II

Untitled (grid)

Nearly one-third of the West Desert's 7.7 million acres are used as biological and chemical weapons testing grounds. The remaining areas of the West Desert are open to various uses, including improvised gun ranges.

Collected Targets

Collected Targets, from the series High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

L. Clyde Anderson photograph collection (1910- 1959), P0158, Box 1, Folder 6, Altered

Stansbury Island, the second largest island in the Great Salt Lake, echoes with gunfire and is littered with bullet holes, clay pigeons and improvised targets. The Bureau of Land Management refers to this detritus as "trigger trash".

Found Clay Pigeons

Archives, V

After encountering the powerful texts of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon on the fight against colonial injustice, a series of questions emerged inside Issam Larkat’s mind. Who was Frantz Fanon and how did he become a crucial figure in the liberation of Algeria, as well as the broader movement of decolonialisation? How relevant are his words after seventy years? And, which questions would Fanon have asked in today’s society? 

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was an important figure in the global struggle against colonialism during the 1950s, also known under the adopted Islamic name Omar Ibrahim, and recognised for his publications 

(1961). Born on the Caribbean island Martinique, under French colonial rule, Fanon educated as a psychiatrist in France. After the Algerian Revolution in 1954, he joined the National Liberation Front and continued to fight for the freedom of many African nations, including Algeria, until his death in 1961.

Inspired by the profound legacy of Fanon’s visionary ideas, Issam Larkat’s series 

pays a tribute to his thinking by using a distinct style that combines photographs, archival images and hand-made drawings. Larkat cleverly translates his questions into critical collages that depart from his own experience in Algeria, yet simultaneously speak to the universal struggle against injustice and (neo-)colonialism, connecting the shared identities of Algerian, African and Arab people. 

Collage

Collage

Kerstvakantie: Workshop modefotografie

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Establishing Eden by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Studio Visit: Khashayar Javanmardi

Meivakantie kids workshop:
Speelse portretten

On the Dutch choreography of water

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Which images will stand the test of time, and why?

Xin Li

Sander Coers

With Myself by Annegret Soltau

Jaclyn Wright

Dansvoorstelling Breath en Sway: Ode aan Blommers en Schumm

Boekbespreking & signeersessie
Sarah van Rij - Atlas of Echoes

Artist Tour:
Blommers & Schumm over Mid-Air

Blommers & Schumm Mid-Air

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba

About

Test of Time: Depredations by Yana Kononova

Xin Li

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

Issam Larkat

Collage

Collage

Kerstvakantie: Workshop modefotografie

In Search of Perfect OrangeAbout the work of Benjamin Li

Establishing Eden by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Studio Visit: Khashayar Javanmardi

Meivakantie kids workshop:Speelse portretten

On the Dutch choreography of water

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Which images will stand the test of time, and why?

Xin Li

Sander Coers

With Myself by Annegret Soltau

Jaclyn Wright

Dansvoorstelling Breath en Sway: Ode aan Blommers en Schumm

Boekbespreking & signeersessie Sarah van Rij - Atlas of Echoes

Artist Tour:Blommers & Schumm over Mid-Air

Blommers & Schumm Mid-Air

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba

About

Test of Time: Depredations by Yana Kononova

Xin Li

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

Issam Larkat

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Meivakantie kids workshop:
Speelse portretten

Boekbespreking & signeersessie
Sarah van Rij - Atlas of Echoes

Artist Tour:
Blommers & Schumm over Mid-Air