{"id":87568,"date":"2026-07-28T00:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=87568"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:20:22","slug":"house-marseille-wunderkind-martine-gutierrez-keizersgracht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/huis-marseille-wunderkind-martine-gutierrez-keizersgracht\/","title":{"rendered":"Huis Marseille delves into Martine Gutierrez\u2019s childhood photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

In *Wunderkind*, Martine Gutierrez delves into her own childhood. No fictional characters or studio sets\u2014just photographs and self-portraits dating back to her childhood. Through themes such as performance and play, she demonstrates how identity is formed and expressed, and how art and personal transformation intertwine. The exhibition runs through October 18, 2026, at Huis Marseille, located at Keizersgracht 401.<\/h2>\n

Since 1999, Huis Marseille has been entirely dedicated to photography as an art form, making it the first museum in the Netherlands to take that approach. The museum regularly updates its program: following Gutierrez, works by Andrzej Steinbach and Maya In\u00e8s Touam, among others, are scheduled, and later this year, the first-ever European museum exhibition dedicated to photographer Adolphe de Meyer. Gutierrez\u2019s work fits into this tradition: photography not as a document, but as a means of exploring who you are.<\/p>\n

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Her youth experiences add another layer to the series: you see not only who she is now, but also traces of who she used to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What makes the exhibition special is the location where it is on display. Huis Marseille is housed in two connected 17th-century canal-side buildings dating from 1665. Marble fireplaces and 18th-century ceiling frescoes have been preserved, including a ceiling painting by Jacob de Wit from 1730 in the garden room. A Louis XIV-style room, with a red interior from the early 18th century, stands alongside Gutierrez\u2019s contemporary work: two centuries meeting on the same wall.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is built around self-portraits in which Gutierrez takes on a different guise each time. Performance and play recur throughout, not as lighthearted elements but as serious tools for exploring personal transformation. Her early work adds an extra layer to the series: you see not only who she is now, but also traces of who she was before she began reshaping herself, layer by layer, role by role.<\/p>\n

The museum features fourteen exhibition spaces spread across five floors, along with a photography library, a specialty photo book store, and a canal-side garden with a gazebo where visitors can enjoy a cup of coffee on a stone bench. As you walk through the rooms, you\u2019ll see old and new constantly coming together: the red Louis XIV interior from the early 18th century alongside a self-portrait that\u2019s less than a year old. That is precisely why Wunderkind demonstrates how you can reinvent yourself time and again, amid 17th-century marble fireplaces and a ceiling by Jacob de Wit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In *Wunderkind*, Martine Gutierrez delves into her own childhood. Self-portraits and themes such as performance and play form the basis of an exploration of how identity is constructed. The exhibition runs through October 18, 2026, at Huis Marseille, located at Keizersgracht 401, in a building that has at least as much of a story to tell as the artwork itself.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":87573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Huis Marseille","rank_math_title":"Huis Marseille | Wunderkind expositie Martine Gutierrez","rank_math_description":"Huis Marseille toont Wunderkind, zelfportretten van Martine Gutierrez over jeugd en identiteit, in een 17e-eeuws grachtenpand aan de Keizersgracht."},"categories":[19],"tags":[10923],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-87568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","tag-tentoonstellingen-amsterdam","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[87574],"fotograaf":"Huis Marseille \u00b7 Google \u00b7 huismarseille.nl","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Jeugdfoto's en performance onderzoeken identiteit, in twee verbonden 17e-eeuwse grachtenpanden","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"start_datum":null,"eind_datum":null,"cord_A":"4.8851147","cord_B":"52.3676324","introductie_tekst":"In Wunderkind graaft Martine Gutierrez terug naar haar eigen jeugd. Zelfportretten en thema's als performance en spel vormen de basis van een onderzoek naar hoe identiteit wordt opgebouwd. De tentoonstelling loopt tot 18 oktober 2026 in Huis Marseille aan de Keizersgracht 401, in een pand dat minstens zoveel verhaal heeft als het werk zelf.","rubriek":"Evenement","locatie_event":"","naam_locatie":"Huis Marseille","adres":"Keizersgracht 401","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/huismarseille.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87575,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions\/87575"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87568"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=87568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}