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Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 12-6 pm or by appointment
Van Ostadestraat 43A Amsterdam, 1072 SN info@workingtitle.gallery +31618989815
Instagram: @Workingtitlegallery
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Melting and Molding (Bending and Folding)
03.04.2026 - 06.06.2026
Fabiola Burgos Labra, Marija Rinkevičiūtė and Ulrike Rehm.
On Friday 3 April, from 18:00 to 21:00, the exhibition Melting and Molding opens at Working Title. This exhibition presents the work of three artists: Fabiola Burgos Labra, Ulrike Rehm, and Marija Rinkevičiūtė.
They explore the boundaries of painting and sculpture. Rehm and Rinkevičiūtė create encaustics using a technique in which hot wax is applied layer by layer with different pigments. It resembles painting, yet in Rinkevičiūtė’s works the underlying medium, linen, plaster, cardboard, or wood, is often curled, folded, and only partially visible, while in Rehm’s wax paintings her fingerprints sometimes remain in the surface. Fabiola Burgos Labra crochets around the soft bodies of fruit and vegetables. As they decay, the fruit paints the textile from within. This time the fruits hang, like digüeñes, an edible mushroom from Southern Chile, on copper pipes.
All of them draw on poetry in their working methods. For example, Burgos Labra’s work Tengo a mi cargo 16 gatos, yo cuido solo a uno que se llama Pedro consists of a branch assembled from various small sticks she collected during a walk in Ghent. Just like the branch, the title of the work was carefully composed. Burgos Labra shuffled cut-out snippets of words until she arrived at the title which, translated from Spanish, reads: “I am responsible for sixteen cats, but I take care for only one named Pedro.” This is an example of a shared approach in which an unexpected combinations of different media are made, while the final result is carefully composed.
The Importance of Soil
06.02.2026 - 22.03.2026
Müge Yilmaz and Sophie Steengracht
On Friday 6 February, from 17:00 – 20:00 The Importance of Soil opens at Working Title, a duo exhibition featuring work by Müge Yilmaz and Sophie Steengracht.
Ecofeminism lies at the heart of the exhibition; the idea that the position of women and the state of our ecology are interconnected. In recent history, this connection has been divided by hierarchical and dualistic thinking. Both Steengracht and Yilmaz resist such dualistic and simplistic oppositions such as mind/matter, reason/intuition, human/animal, man/woman. They reject the Western worldview that humans are above other beings. Instead, both artists recognize the connection and affect that all beings have on each other.
Fruiting Bodies and Other Things We Have in Common
21.11.2025 - 18.01.2026
Jacopo dal Bello, Fabiola Burgos Labra and Matthias Odin
In this exhibition three emerging artists share a focus on assemblages made primarily from “everyday” objects, emphasising both materiality and its temporality, while approaching it from their own perspectives: Fabiola Burgos Labra (b. 1984, Chile) explores the ephemeral by mummifying fruits, Jacopo Dal Bello’s (b. 1989, Italy) work is influenced by digital culture and archiving and Matthias Odin (b. 1995, France) creates works from souvenirs of spontaneous encounters. The artists employ found objects or transient materials that recall readymades or Arte Povera, reflecting on contemporary consumerist culture.
In the Fold
02.10.2025 - 08.11.2025
Dion Rosina, Nathan Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders
To mark the beginning of this new chapter, artist Dion Rosina has co-curated the exhibition, presenting his work alongside that of Nathan Joshua Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders. While their practices vary in style and even span different periods, the works are connected by the theme of sampling and fragmentation, both visual: through collage and assemblage, and conceptual: in their reflections on fractured identities and histories.
Working Title
opening
02.10.2025
opening
02.10.2025
We are pleased to announce that this October, we will open our doors as a contemporary art gallery at Van Ostadestraat 43A, Amsterdam. With this new space comes a new name: Working Title.
A working title is a provisional name given to a project during its development phase. The name Working Title refers to the ongoing dialogue between art and its viewers. Whereas meaning was once believed to reside solely within the work, since the New Museology, the meaning attributed to art is not static but exists in a constant state of flux, always evolving and subject to reinterpretation.
Working Title is housed in a monumental former school gym with a rich history, including a period of being squatted, before it was legalized. In line with this heritage, and with its own name, the gallery programme hosts around six exhibitions per year, maintaining the space’s temporary character. Working Title focuses on multidisciplinary works and installations, facilitates the careers of emerging and research-driven artists and offers room for experimentation and development.
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