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Welcome to the press page of Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen. Press material (press releases, press image overview) from the exhibitions can be found here. The press image overview shows which images are available and can be used royalty-free (unless otherwise indicated) during the exhibition, provided that the correct captions and copyrights are included. These photographs can only be used for editorial (and non-commercial) purposes, such as a review or promotion of the exhibition. In the folders you will find high-resolution images and the caption document. Some images are temporarily exempt from copyright. This is stated in the caption document. You do, however, always have to use the correct and complete captions. We remind you of your own responsibility when publishing images. You must provide the correct captions and have the correct rights to publish images. The Cobra Museum is never the owner of the image rights of the works of art themselves, and rarely of the portraits of the artists. These lie with the artist or with the heirs of the artist, or with the photographer in question. More information about this can be obtained from Pictoright. Information about the conditions and rates: www.pictoright.nl and 020 -589 18 40 To request further press information and for interview requests, please contact us at pers@cobra-museum.nl
Museum Cobra
Museum Cobra focuses on the art and ideas of the Cobra movement. Cobra is part of the canon of art history, but the ‘spirit’ of Cobra is still very much alive. An alternative culture, based on international solidarity and creativity, is perhaps more relevant than ever in the world we live in today. Museum Cobra therefore actively links the collection and history of Cobra to contemporary artists, modern art movements and current affairs.
Wi Sranan. Surinamese Art in Flux
On November 25, 2025, Suriname will celebrate fifty years of independence. Museum Cobra is marking this historic moment with the exhibition Wi Sranan. Surinamese Art in Flux, in which 24 artists and one artist collective present their vision of freedom, identity, and heritage. From paintings and photography to fashion, performance, and installations, the works show how Surinamese art is constantly evolving and how stories from the past live on in the imagination of today.
De Cycloop
This fall, Museum Cobra presents The Cyclops – a playful, energetic exhibition that focuses on movement, collaboration, and sensory experience. Seven artists transform the museum’s Water Hall into a living system of marbles, installations, and chain reactions. The exhibition is rooted in the spirit of the Cobra movement. Artists such as Karel Appel, Constant, and Lotti van der Gaag used intuition and physicality as a counterbalance to rationality and control. For them, playfulness was not a decoration, but a necessity. The Cyclops shows how that energy still lives on today.
