Aby Fulani

"Every age has its great loss – for modernism, it was the coherence of the self; for postmodernism, the stability of master narratives – and now, in the 21st century, there is an increasing pressure on the notion of a shared reality."

Mugshots.com, N8, from the series Obscurity, 2016

Mugshots.com, N, from the series Obscurity, 2016

Mugshots.com, N2, from the series Obscurity, 2016

”There is a new way of understanding our times.. a new wave of realism, a new wave of artists who are engaged in political issues. “Evidential Realism” is the realism of today… “

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

Paolo Cirio: Artist of the Post-Panopticon Era

Mooncake, Foam Café, Amsterdam

Spread from Chinees-Indisch Stickeralbum

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

Chinese versie

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

Dialect, 2020-2023

Dialect, 2023, Courtesy of LooseJoints

Installation view of Dialect

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Ask The Artist: Felipe Romero Beltrán

A still from Wild Encounters, 2023

"At a certain point I lost track of you. 
They make a desolation and call it peace. 
when you left even the stones were buried: 
the defenceless would have no weapons." 

"When the ibex rubs itself against the rocks, 
who collects its fallen fleece from the slopes? 
O Weaver whose seems perfectly vanished, 
who weighs the hairs on the jeweller’s balance?"

"If only somehow you could have been mine, 
what would not have been possible in the world?" 

‘In the lake the arms of temples and mosques are locked in each other’s reflections.  
Have you soaked saffron to pour on them when they are found like this  
centuries later in this country  
I have stitched to your shadow?’ 

How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounter. About the work of Hira Nabi

Foam presenteert met trots de solotentoonstelling 

een tentoonstelling die bezoekers uitnodigt om te reflecteren op de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Kenmerkend voor Hoàng’s werk zijn haar interdisciplinaire samenwerkingen met wetenschappers en technologen, waarmee ze aantoont dat technologie zowel gebruikt kan worden om de natuur beter te begrijpen als om de mens van de natuur te vervreemden. 

Scent from Heaven, Still from the Film No. 3, 2023

Foam

A new best life, 2021

A scan from the Photo album of the artist's late aunt.

Made in Rice, backstage from the left video, 2021.

Lidar-Mesh from the experiment, 2024

Hiền Hoàng - Garden of Entanglement

Mario Klingemann, The Butcher’s Son, 2017, Giclee printon paper, 80x57cm

Helena Sarin, AI Candy Store, 2018, Fine art print on paper, 20x20cm

David Young, (b38, 4016,16) from Learning Nature series, 2018, Fine art print on paper, 30x30 cm

Harold Cohen, Arnolfini Series, 1983, Plotter drawing, 60x80cm

Obvious, Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, 2018, Inkjet print on canvas, 70x70cm

Roope Rainisto, Emergent Culture from Excessize series, 2022

Spread from Morehshin Allahyari's portfolio in Foam Magazine #66

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From Innovation to Art: The History of AI Images

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

Doelstelling van Foam (uit statuten)

Vergoeding voor kunstenaars

Beloningsbeleid

Beknopt verslag van uitgevoerde activiteiten en beleid

Financiële verantwoording in de vorm van een balans en de staat van baten en lasten

ANBI publicatieplicht 2024

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Objectives & articles of association

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

Jaclyn Wright

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Opening Foam Talent | London, 2019

We can't live – without each other, 2019

Ka 2phisi yaka e pinky II, 2013, Her Story series

Tell the Trees to Smile

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun/See Daylight

The Act of Sitting

Malign Influences/The Holy Mountains

Face As Mask II, 2018

Koraal Tabak, 2016

Foam Talent Call 2023 is closed

Geselecteerd worden als Foam Talent plaatst je in de schijnwerpers van de internationale fotografiewereld.

Foam Talent Call

Dialect, 2020

Internationaal befaamde fotografieprijs die wordt toegekend aan kunstenaars wiens creatieve visie tot de huidige tijd spreekt en een belangrijke

Foam Paul Huf Award

Een vaste tentoonstellingsruimte in het museum die zich uitsluitend richt op vernieuwend werk van jong talent uit binnen- en buitenland.

Foam 3h

Tentoonstellingsreeks over vernieuwende kunst, gemaakt door visuele makers met baanbrekend gebruik van fotografie.

Next Level

Foam 3h: Karolina Wojtas We can't live – without each other, 2022

Stipendium ingesteld ter nagedachtenis aan Florentine Riem Vis met als doel jonge fotografische talenten te ondersteunen.

Florentine Riem Vis Stipendium 

Opening de Meervaart 

Ontwikkelingsprogramma voor jongeren dat zich richt op aanstormend talent binnen verschillende culturele huizen in Amsterdam.

Foam Forward

Talent programma's

Tones of the Ecotone, 2025

bij Foam 3h

Bekijk het werk van Finn Maätita and Jerrold Saija

Een tweejaarlijkse beurs voor drie veelbelovende opkomende fotografen op artistiek gebied.

recommended Olympus Fellowship

Foam was een van de oprichters van Unseen Amsterdam, de plek waar vele gerenommeerde galeries wereldwijd het werk van kunstenaars tonen.

Unseen Photo Fair

Your Foam, 2021

Het Your Foam team bestaat uit MBO studenten vanuit verschillende opleidingen.

Your Foam

Foam Lab was een culturele stage voor jonge professionals die passende werkervaring bood binnen het museum.

Foam Lab

Eerdere initiatieven

 Foam Magazine #65: Talent, 2024

Front cover: Faceless, 2023. Image from the series (Inter)Faces of Predictions

in Foam Magazine

Ontdek Foam Talent

Talent

Next Level 2024

Paolo Cirio

Eerder bij Next Level

Over Ammodo Art

alle talentprogramma's

Meer programma's

Opening Foam Talent, 2022

The Photographers' Gallery

Musée de l'Elysée

Jeu de Paume

Fotomuseum Winterthur & Fotostiftung Schweiz

Musée de la Photographie

Photography Forum Frankfurt

FORMA

FoMu

Fotografiska

Pink Ladies and Pear, 2012

Opening of recommended Olympus Fellowship at Foam

Deborah, from the series Week– End, 2009

Ontdek als eerste Foam-activiteiten en partnerinstituten. Je kan ook een lidmaatschap cadeau doen.

word lid van Foam

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Doneer

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Partner institutes

Gemaakt door Clément Lambelet in 2016. De kunstwerken zijn houten lichtbakken (wit) met plexiglas en duratrans, beide tentoongesteld op 200 x 105 cm.

Maldoror #6, 2014

Foam is supported by the VriendenLoterij, Foam Members, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the VandenEnde Foundation and the City of Amsterdam.

In 2021 Foam receives additional support from the Mondriaan Fund and Kickstart Cultuurfonds

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Ontwikkelingen in beeldherkenningssystemen leiden tot steeds meer geautomatiseerde vormen van bewaking en persoonsidentificatie, maar hoe betrouwbaar zijn deze nieuwe systemen? Clément Lambelet zoekt naar de mazen in dit snel ontwikkelende ‘algoritmische ecosysteem’. Het middelpunt van de serie 

 is een variatie op een gravure van de Bijbelse figuren Adam en Eva uit 1504 gemaakt door de Duitse Renaissance-kunstenaar Albrecht Dürer. Dürer was ervan overtuigd dat de ideale verhoudingen van het menselijk lichaam met mathematische formules konden worden benaderd. Voor zijn interpretatie gebruikte Lambelet een bodyscanner, zoals ook gebruikt wordt op vliegvelden. Met zijn werk bevraagt Lambelet het tot cijfers reduceren van het menselijk lichaam door aan te tonen dat algoritmes functioneel bevooroordeeld kunnen zijn. 

Adam & Eve from the series Collateral Visions, 2016-2017

Adam and Eve, 2016

Gemaakt door Wang Juyan in 2015-2017. Het kunstwerk bestaat uit vier prints op Hahnemühle barietpapier (mat), gemonteerd op aluminium platen, elk weergegeven op 250 x 150 cm.

 toont een in mist gehuld berglandschap in grijs- en zwarttinten, bestaande uit vier panelen. Het landschap van Wang Juyan doet denken aan de traditionele Chinese schilderkunst, 

, maar kwam feitelijk tot stand door middel van een ingewikkeld technisch proces. Tijdens zijn vele vluchten tussen Londen en Beijing maakte Juyan honderden luchtfoto’s van Chinese bergketens. Met behulp van digitale technieken combineerde hij de beelden die hij gedurende een periode van twee jaar maakte tot een fictief landschap van steile bergen, dalen en rivieren. Zo magische als het beeld zelf is, zo serieus is de onderliggende boodschap. De collage refereert aan de politieke lading van het landschap in zowel oosterse als westerse geschiedenis – zoals traditionele Chinese rolschilderijen, propagandistische muurschilderingen, cartografie, of surveillancemateriaal dat vanuit vliegtuigen of drones wordt geschoten. De titel van de serie verwijst naar George Orwells invloedrijke roman 1984 (plus 101 jaar) en de permanente angst om voortdurend door de autoriteiten in de gaten te worden gehouden. 

No 8. from the series Project 2085, 2015-2017

, Bruno Zhu transformed the Foam 3h space, which is also a library, into another reading room – albeit a two-dimensional one.

Foam: 3h Bruno Zhu - New Arrivals, 2015

visible in

 He filled the area with photographs of carpets, bookshelves, lamps, and phonebooks. As no actual reading could be done, Zhu rendered the room into a symbolic space that referenced the idea of reading.

Zhu light-heartedly explores his fascination for photography’s ambivalent nature as a symbol and an object in and of itself. One might be tempted to qualify Zhu’s work as post-digital, because of the influence of the technology and the Internet, but the artist insists not to be tied to one style. “Things are getting more awkward, more humorous, more visceral and more urgent, so why rely on a label to box all these things up?” His peculiar work invites the viewer into a world of brightness and positivity.

New Arrivals

Employing a technique that combines photography with installation art, Onorato & Krebs maintain a balance in their photographs on the edges of reality and fiction, without using any image editing software. 

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych), from the series Light of Other Days, 2011

more from the series

Their process of altering the visual product before instead of after the image is captured opens a new world of meanings and possibilities. In 

 the illusion of a fictional galaxy takes us far beyond the confines of the studio.

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych) from the series 

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych)

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych), from the series Light of Other Days, 2011

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych) from the series 

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych)

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Chastity Belt, 2019, On Rape

Hidden Realities: A conversation between Laia Abril and Carmen Winant

Hidden Realities with Laia Abril and Carmen Winant

From the Archive: Shenasnameh by Amak Mahmoodian

What selected artists receive

Meet the Foam Talents, 2022

from the series Quarantine Blues

From the series Family Album

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

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Fortune in My Thirties from the series Interfaces of Predictions, 2023

Discover the work of Foam Talent 2024-2025

Installation

Paolo Cirio
Artist of the Post-Panopticon Era

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Ask The Artist:
Felipe Romero Beltrán

How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounters
About the work of Hira Nabi

Hiền Hoàng
Garden of Entanglement

From Innovation to Art:
The History of AI images

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

Objectives & articles of association

Jaclyn Wright

FAQ

Talent

Next Level

Partner institutes

Adam and Eve, 2016

No 8.

New Arrivals

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

Hiền Hoàng - Garden of Entanglement

Hidden Realities: A conversation between Laia Abril and Carmen Winant

From the Archive: Shenasnameh by Amak Mahmoodian

Foam Talent Call

Foam Talent 2024 | Frankfurt

From the Archive: Ramos by Julio Bittencourt

Announcement Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2024

Installation

Paolo CirioArtist of the Post-Panopticon Era

In Search of Perfect OrangeAbout the work of Benjamin Li

Ask The Artist: Felipe Romero Beltrán

How to Love a Tree: Wild EncountersAbout the work of Hira Nabi

Hiền Hoàng Garden of Entanglement

From Innovation to Art: The History of AI images

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

Objectives & articles of association

Jaclyn Wright

FAQ

Talent

Next Level

Partner institutes

Adam and Eve, 2016

No 8.

New Arrivals

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

Hiền Hoàng - Garden of Entanglement

Hidden Realities: A conversation between Laia Abril and Carmen Winant

From the Archive: Shenasnameh by Amak Mahmoodian

Foam Talent Call

Foam Talent 2024 | Frankfurt

From the Archive: Ramos by Julio Bittencourt

Announcement Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2024

Paolo Cirio
Artist of the Post-Panopticon Era

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Ask The Artist:
Felipe Romero Beltrán

How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounters
About the work of Hira Nabi

Hiền Hoàng
Garden of Entanglement

From Innovation to Art:
The History of AI images