As part of Amsterdam Art Week 2025, Gallery Vriend van Bavink is proud to present Aldo van den Broek‘s third solo exhibition at the gallery: Punctum (KISS, RIDE, REPEAT.) The exhibition will open during Gallery Night on Thursday 22 May between 17:00 and 21:00.
In his new paintings, Aldo van den Broek (1985) incorporates current themes interwoven with personal experiences. His work raises questions about ethics, power and identity, and explores the tension between control and chaos. People, objects, and architectural fragments that emerge from his layered compositions invite viewers to reflect: what remains when systems fail, and where can one find solace and contemplation?
Van den Broek’s approach is intuitive and transformative. His work carries a strong personal and emotional charge while also exploring universal cycles of decay and renewal. He constructs his work from visibly timeworn materials such as cardboard, wood, metal, and textiles. What was once trash or a scrap of cardboard becomes a mountain landscape, a building, a portrait. His process plays with chance, distortion, and repetition—no image is ever final. At the heart of the exhibition there is Van den Broek’s interpretation of Die Toteninsel (The Isle of the Dead), a work that fascinates him endlessly. In his hands, this piece gains a new sense of urgency in the context of our current times.
Aldo van den Broek is an artist who travels the world, with his base in Amsterdam. In recent years, he has worked and exhibited internationally from Berlin, London, Tbilisi, Tokyo, and Siberia to Mexico. His works are rooted in personal experiences but resonate on a universal level. Time and again, he poses the question: what remains after the collapse? That is where Van den Broek’s work begins.
Visit Gallery Vriend van Bavink and admire Aldo van den Broek’s paintings during or after Art Week.
