Jan Dibbets 1966-1976 – Toward Another Photography
On Friday 23 January 2026 H’ART Museums presents the exhibition Jan Dibbets 1966-1976 – Toward Another Photography. This is the first major solo exhibition devoted to Jan Dibbets (1941) in Amsterdam since 1972. It focuses on a pivotal decade during which the artist shifted from painting to photography as his primary medium.
CJP/ Student: €15
Uitpas: €13.50
Free for: Youth up to 17 years, Museum Pass, VriendenLoterij VIP-KAART, I amsterdam City Card, Go City, Stadspas & ICOM.
Members of H'ART Museum always enjoy free entrance and do not need to reserve a time slot.
Using documents and archival material, the exhibition places Dibbets and his work within the international context of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a period in which conceptual art, arte povera, and Land Art developed internationally within a few years. Dibbets was not only involved on three of these movements, but was often at their forefront.
From his first perspective corrections in 1967 to the color studies of the mid-1970s, Jan Dibbets 1966-1976 – Toward Another Photography focuses on works in which the artist examines the use of the photographic apparatus and thereby radically changed photography as an art form.
The exhibition also offers the opportunity to revisit Dibbets’s work that is not based on photography, some of which has rarely been shown: cinematographic and sound works, installations, and sculptures created during these decisive years.
The exhibition, curated by Erik Verhagen, is made possible in part by the Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds.
