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 invite children aged 8 to 12 to join the 

 this winter. Inspired by Viviane Sassen’s exhibition, participants will get hands-on with the camera and learn to see art and colour in a new way. To complete the festive experience, there will be plenty of time to enjoy hot chocolate and Christmas bread.

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Kerstvakantie: Workshop Collage Maken

Foam Talent Runner-up: Ali Zaraay 

Foam Talent Runner-up: Radha Rathi

Foam Talent Runner-up: Harlan Bozeman

Mooncake, Foam Café, Amsterdam

Spread from Chinees-Indisch Stickeralbum

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

Chinese version

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

. A group exhibition showcasing work of an extraordinary new wave of image-makers shaping the future of photography. This year’s exhibition features the work of 15 extraordinary artists, chosen from nearly 3,000 submissions from 107 countries.  

Through the use of powerful visual language, their works often connect to a notion of belonging; the search for a safe space, whether found within the home, family, community, or a sense of place, is an underlying thread that surfaces in different ways.

 From intimate portraits to sweeping visual narratives, each piece invites you to see the world through a new lens.

Alongside the Foam Talent group exhibition in Amsterdam, the selected artists’ work will be presented across multiple Foam platforms, offering international visibility: through a travelling presentation at the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt, a dedicated issue of Foam Magazine, and features on our digital platform.

A Lion's Watermelon (بطيخة أسد), 2022

Wenhao 2025

The Beach Park 2025

A house with no roof #17

Shutter and Grenade 2024

#1 2025

My father's wallet

The Doom of Chiron 2022

Farren 2024

Untitled 2025

13.homeless

301 Chinese boy on duty

The quiet sound of war A sound that cant be turned off

The Zuljanah is ready 2018

Foam Talent 2026

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

From the series I Do Miss Hospital Visit

Shwe Wutt Hmon

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 

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

From the series Blaze Orange / High Visibility

Jaclyn Wright

Annegret Soltau, With Myself, 1975/2022

On Our Radar: Annegret Soltau

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba. Courtesy the artist

On Our Radar: Thato Toeba

Photography Workshop: Mounir Raji - Home 

Kids workshop: Stories of Martin Parr in sign language

Get ready for a kids workshop full of fun, creativity, and colour during the May holidays!

In this workshop, children explore the playful and colourful world of photographer Martin Parr. With a camera in hand, they go on a little adventure in and around the museum, looking for funny, colourful, and unusual moments on the streets of Amsterdam. They learn to look at the world through the lens of Martin Parr.

After taking photos, all the pictures are brought together into one big group collage. With the help of AI, the collage becomes a unique colouring page that children can bring to life with colour and their own imagination. 

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

Opening Blommers & Schumm

Our mission

Communion

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Pink Ladies and Pear, 2012

as a Foam Member

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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

On Thursday, 15 January, Foam presents a special evening with 

 who have been invited to develop a dance performance in dialogue with the exhibition by 

In their practice, Lunatics and Poets explore how gestures, movements and objects acquire meaning. Their approach resonates with recurring themes within the oeuvre of Blommers & Schumm, including desire, transformation and the shifting boundaries of fashion.

Performance by Lunatics and Poets

Breath and Sway: Ode to Blommers en Schumm

Get Surreal voortgezet onderwijs, 2024

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Voortgezet Onderwijs - Workshop - GET (SUR)REAL!

 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".

collage

Collage

Christmas Holiday: Fashion Photography Workshop

Ali Zaraay
An Archive on the Move

Radha Rathi
Songs of the Sky

Harlan Bozeman
Failure to Appear

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Foam Talent 2026

Establishing Eden by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Studio Visit: Khashayar Javanmardi

Shwe Wutt Hmon

On the Dutch choreography of water

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

Xin Li

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

With Myself by Annegret Soltau

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba

Kids workshop:
Quirky Portraits

About

Dance Performance Breath and Sway: A Tribute to Blommers and Schumm

GET (SUR)REAL!

Xin Li

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

collage

Collage

Christmas Holiday: Fashion Photography Workshop

Ali ZaraayAn Archive on the Move

Radha RathiSongs of the Sky

Harlan BozemanFailure to Appear

In Search of Perfect OrangeAbout the work of Benjamin Li

Foam Talent 2026

Establishing Eden by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Studio Visit: Khashayar Javanmardi

Shwe Wutt Hmon

On the Dutch choreography of water

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

Xin Li

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

With Myself by Annegret Soltau

Hlala Nami by Thato Toeba

Kids workshop:Quirky Portraits

About

Dance Performance Breath and Sway: A Tribute to Blommers and Schumm

GET (SUR)REAL!

Xin Li

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Sander Coers

Jaclyn Wright

Ali Zaraay
An Archive on the Move

Radha Rathi
Songs of the Sky

Harlan Bozeman
Failure to Appear

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Kids workshop:
Quirky Portraits