small museum
The small museum is a tiny museum, visible only at night, housed in one of the announcement cabinets on the facade of Paradiso. Almost invisible to the public eye, amidst the busy daily life of Amsterdam and commuters racing by on the Weteringschans, the small museum sits and waits quietly for the sun to set. After sundown, city life changes gears, and Amsterdam’s vibrant nightlife comes to life. This is when the museum shines its light.
Open only from dusk till dawn, the small museum zooms in on smaller, less prominent topics and asks us to slow down in our busy, sometimes hectic lives. Artists that have previously exhibited in the Small Museum are Lernert & Sander, Our Polite Society, Machine, Charlott Markus, Gabey Tjon a Tham, Bogomir Doringer and many more.
The small museum is an initiative by Paradiso.
Artists that have exhibited in the small museum:
Lernert en Sander x De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (2015)
Tereza Ruller (2016)
Our Polite Society (2016)
Bart de Baets (2016)
Job, Joris en Marieke (2017)
Our Machine (2018)
Studio Remco van Bladel (2018)
Paul Nassenstein (2018)
Annegien van Doorn (2019)
ADRIAN & GIDI (2019)
212 Fahrenheit (2020)
Charlott Markus (2020)
Martin La Roche (2021)
Studio A Heart That Works (2021)
Kwinnie Lê (2021)
Bogomir Doringer (2023-2024)
Gabey Tjon a Tham (2024)
Heleen Blanken (2024)
Video portrait Gabey Tjon a Tham
Video by Sans Studio Amsterdam
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Podcast: small museum talk
The small museum also has a podcast! Although the small museum does not have a huge amount of space for artworks, there is endless room to talk about the artworks. In the podcast "small museum talk," curator Rosa Cherim zooms in on the stories surrounding the artworks in the museum and talks to several artists who have exhibited at the museum.
Nachtmakers:
In addition to the small museum talk podcast, the small museum created a one-time podcast series on nightmakers. This podcast series was part of the research project the Small Museum conducted in the fall of 2021 to investigate the role of art and culture in nightlife. The result of this research is a five-part podcast series and three different artworks by Bogomir Doringer, Gabey Tjon a Tham and Heleen Blanken that will be exhibited at the museum in 2023/2024.
Listen to the podcast
Contact
Founder: Jeldau Kwikkel
Curator & Conservator: Rosa Cherim
Production: Paradiso
Communications: Paradiso
Graphic Design: Sander Puhl
Weteringschans 6-8
1017 SG Amsterdam
020 626 452
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