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From 27 – 29 March (preview 26 March), the Mondriaan Fund is organising a new edition of Prospects during Art Rotterdam in Rotterdam Ahoy. The exhibition shows the work of 92 starting artists. All artists received a financial contribution within the Artist Start grant of the Mondriaan Fund. The 14th edition of Prospects is curated by curator Johan Gustavsson in collaboration with curator Daphne Verberg.
The Mondriaan Fund organises the Prospects exhibition each year to give the visibility of starting artists an extra boost. The proximity of Art Rotterdam gives art professionals and collectors, but also a broad group of interested parties, the opportunity to become acquainted with the work of these promising artists. The range varies from photography to installations, from video to painting, and from performance to sculpture. Gustavsson and Verberg about the exhibition:
“Prospects 2026 highlights a new wave of artists who address today’s changing world with imagination, rigour, and great energy. This 14th edition of Prospects, participants take on urgent questions from reshaping collective memory to examining new relationships between technology, ecology and the human body. Their works show that experimentation and care can go hand in hand, offering glimpses of alternative futures that are both challenging and full of possibilities. We are honoured to introduce this diverse group of talents, whose practices reflect the richness and momentum of contemporary art in the Netherlands.”
Pietà
The campaign image for this edition is the work Pietà (2025) by Prospects participant Pippilotta Yerna. For Yerna, family forms the starting point of all her work: each project emerges from a new question or observation within this theme. The photographic triptych she presents at Prospects features her great-aunt as its central figure, a woman who was special and progressive to Yerna and who lived to the age of 101. The triptych functions as a contemporary canonization and is an ode to Yerna’s great-aunt as well as to life itself.
NN Award
For the tenth time, during the upcoming edition of Art Rotterdam, the prestigious NN Art Award will be presented. Prospects artist Kyra Nijskens has been nominated. The winner of the NN Art Award will be announced during the festive evening in Kunsthal Rotterdam on Friday, March 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM.
Press preview
The press preview is on Thursday March 26 at 10.30-11.00 am (entrance 10:15 am). RSVP via arabella@coebergh.nl (Art Rotterdam). The opening of Prospects by Mondriaan Fund interim director Eva Postema is the same day at 5:00 pm. For questions about Prospects, please contact Oekje van Asten via oekje.vanasten@mondriaanfonds.nl.
Presentation of the Artist Start research
HKU and HTH Research conducted a study, commissioned by the Mondriaan Fund, into the career development of artists who received the Artist Start grant or one of its predecessors at the beginning of their artistic careers. The results will be presented on 27 March at Ahoy. More information will follow.
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