Research Logs

sharing ephemeral snippets of ongoing research at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Research logs were called to life to share

more research, more informally, with more people about the research currently taking place in and around the Stedelijk Museum. Follow curators while they prepare for their upcoming exhibitions, plunge into the unabridged words of the artists that were clipped to make museum wall texts, and discover what is being developed by the brains behind the museum library…

Collection and Exhibition Research

On Plastic Disembodiment

by Simon Baier
July 29, 2025/by Stedelijk

Entangled with Sheep

by Victor Nieuwenhuizen
May 13, 2025/by Stedelijk

Vasily Chekrygin and the Devils of Avant-garde

by Katerina Sidorova
February 24, 2025/by Stedelijk

Uncovering the Mysteries of the Photography Collection: Robert Lebeck

by Janne van den Bergh in collaboration with Ana Carreres Llopis
January 16, 2025/by Stedelijk

The Don Quixote Sculpture Hall

by Tijmen Ter Keurs
January 7, 2025/by Stedelijk

A Close Friendship: Anneke van der Feer and Antonia van den Hoogen-Berlijn

by Isabella Legebeke
November 6, 2024/by Stedelijk

Threads of Resistance: Angela Su’s Hair Embroidery

by Chi-Chia Pao
October 14, 2024/by Stedelijk

Speaking Back to an Incomplete Archive

by Paula Carcamo
September 5, 2024/by Stedelijk

Glitching the Museum

by Alicia Derksen
August 9, 2024/by Stedelijk

Rethinking collections: from a vitrine in use to a museum object

by Rosemarie Kramer
July 18, 2024/by Stedelijk

In the studio with Ana Lupas

by Leontine Coelewij
April 25, 2024/by Stedelijk

To become an Abstraction

by Katerina Sidorova
March 26, 2024/by Stedelijk

Tell Me a Story

by Michelle Adler
March 6, 2024/by Stedelijk

Action Reaction Abstraction: New Primary Education Program

by Lisa Jacobs
February 28, 2024/by Stedelijk

Michel de Klerk and Liesbeth van der Pol

by Ingeborg de Roode
December 6, 2023/by Stedelijk

A nineteenth-century metal rocking chair

by Ingeborg de Roode and Stedelijk conservators
September 27, 2023/by Stedelijk

Ava and Gabriel: An Exegesis

by Edward Akintola Hubbard
July 19, 2023/by Stedelijk

Война [War]: futurist publishing as a reflection on wartime reality

by Katerina Sidorova
June 27, 2023/by Stedelijk

Fallen Leaves

as a literary style and research methodology in the work of Vasily Rozanov by Katerina Sidorova
June 21, 2023/by Stedelijk

Keith Haring: Notes on Paper

by India Jeffes
June 6, 2023/by Stedelijk

Expressive Decoration and Rational Rivets: An Ink Set by Eduard Cuypers

by Kylièn Bergh and Ingeborg de Roode
May 19, 2023/by Stedelijk

Geometry Turning Into “Modernity”?

by Ginger van den Akker
May 16, 2023/by Stedelijk

Video Club: Social Dance

by Loulou Oudshoorn
May 2, 2023/by Stedelijk

Lines of Sight #1: Almaty, Kazakhstan

by Robbie Schweiger
December 1, 2022/by Stedelijk

Yto Barrada: The Mothership in Tangier

by Leontine Coelewij
October 14, 2022/by Stedelijk

Video Club: Glued to the Tube: Picturing Violence in Mass Media

by Janneke Schrage
August 25, 2022/by Stedelijk

How to Inspire Sustainable Practices

by Ab Stevels
August 24, 2022/by Stedelijk

A Step-by-Step Guide to Applied Environmental Design

by Ab Stevels
August 24, 2022/by Stedelijk

Designing for the Circular Economy

by Ab Stevels
August 24, 2022/by Stedelijk

Sustainable or greenwashing?

by Ab Stevels
August 22, 2022/by Stedelijk

Exploring Our Backyard

By Veronica León
May 20, 2022/by Stedelijk

Race, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis

What Artists and Designers Can Do. Ekow Eshun interviewed by Amanda Pinatih
May 18, 2022/by Stedelijk

Looking at Art through Cultural Analysis: Mieke Bal

by Britte Sloothaak
March 9, 2022/by Stedelijk

Made in Harrania?

by Amanda Pinatih
February 18, 2022/by Stedelijk Studies

Christine Sun Kim, IOU 4 USA, 2021

by Fabienne Chiang
January 12, 2022/by Stedelijk

Picasso and the Art of Children

by Amélie Martelle​
January 7, 2022/by Stedelijk

Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen, 12 interventions for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

by Danica Pinteric
January 5, 2022/by Stedelijk

Michele Rizzo, Rest, 2021

by Danica Pinteric
December 9, 2021/by Stedelijk

An interview with Ali Selim

Log #6 by Amélie Martelle​
September 14, 2021/by Stedelijk Studies

Visitors of the Wissa Wassef Centre

Log #5 by Amélie Martelle​
September 1, 2021/by Stedelijk

Diving into the Stadsarchief Amsterdam

Log #4 by Amélie Martelle​
August 15, 2021/by Stedelijk

Serendipity

Log #3 by Amanda Pinatih
August 1, 2021/by Stedelijk

The tapestries IRL

Log #2 by Amanda Pinatih
July 19, 2021/by Stedelijk

Meeting the Collection

Log #1 by Amanda Pinatih
July 5, 2021/by Stedelijk

In the artist’s words: Barricade

by Esiri Erheriene-Essi
July 1, 2021/by Stedelijk

In the artist’s words: The dream of a 1000 shipwrecks

by Patricia Kaersenhout
July 1, 2021/by Stedelijk