Exhibitions
Ammodo is supporting the Rijksmuseum in the realization of major exhibitions (2019 – 2024) to bring masterpieces from all over the world to the Netherlands. The exhibitions Rembrandt – Velázquez (2019), Caravaggio – Bernini (2020), Forget me not (2021) and Vermeer (2023) came about with support by Ammodo.
Outstanding international loans
Thanks to the outstanding loans made possible by Ammodo, Dutch and international exhibition-goers can experience paintings, sculpture and other artistic treasures rarely or never before shown in the Netherlands. In this way, Ammodo supports not only the Rijksmuseum but also the development of art and culture throughout the country.
The Rijksmuseum plays a pivotal role in the collection and display of masterpieces of art. Ammodo is a strong supporter of these efforts and is eager to contribute.
Juliette de Wijkerslooth, Director of Ammodo
Rembrandt – Velázquez. Dutch and Spanish Masters
In a spectacular conclusion to the Rembrandt Year in 2019, the Rijksmuseum presented Rembrandt – Velázquez, an exhibition featuring some of the finest works by famed 17th-century masters of Holland and Spain. No fewer than 16 major paintings from the Museo Nacional Del Prado briefly exchanged their usual home in Madrid for Amsterdam, thus for the first time uniting masterpieces by Diego Velázquez, Francesco Zurbarán and Giuseppe de Ribera with Dutch icons Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals.
Caravaggio – Bernini. Baroque in Rome
Tracing the emergence of the European Baroque in Rome, this exhibition’s main protagonists were the painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) and the sculptor Bernini (1598-1680). It included more than seventy masterpieces by these two artists and their contemporaries, loaned by museums and private collections around the world. From Bernini’s early and rarely shown Bacchus to Caravaggio’s captivating Narcissus, the exhibition illustrated how this revolution in western art arose in Rome and eventually left its mark across all of Europe.
Ammodo and the Rijksmuseum have an established partnership, previously mounting the successful exhibitions Late Rembrandt and Hercules Segers in 2014 and 2016. Ammodo is a non-profit organization that initiates and supports projects for the advancement of art, science and scholarship.