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July 2 – October 11 2026 | Tuesday – Sunday | 11.00 – 18.00 Welcome to Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don't need a backyard, I share a park). For Sonsbeek 2026, no ticket is required – the park is open and free for everyone to enjoy. By purchasing a Visitor Guide, you support…

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Plan your visit

July 2 – October 11 2026 | Tuesday – Sunday | 11.00 – 18.00 Welcome to Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don't need a backyard, I share a park). For Sonsbeek 2026, no ticket is required – the park is open and free for everyone to enjoy. By purchasing a Visitor Guide, you support…

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Plan your visit

July 2 – October 11 2026 | Tuesday – Sunday | 11.00 – 18.00 Welcome to Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don't need a backyard, I share a park). For Sonsbeek 2026, no ticket is required – the park is open and free for everyone to enjoy. By purchasing a Visitor Guide, you support…

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Artists

MEET THE ARTISTS OF SONSBEEK 2026

Sonsbeek 2026 will take place in Sonsbeek Park, at partner institutions, and at various locations throughout Arnhem, transforming the city into a platform for new and existing works by eighteen artists from the Netherlands and abroad. The exhibition features twelve commissioned works, including site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances that broaden our perspective on art in public spaces. 

Mounira Al Solh
Loesje
Fanja Bouts
Femke Herregraven
Alvaro Barrington
Puppies Puppies
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Jota Mombaça
Sahej Rahal
Afaina de Jong
nasa4nasa
Larry Achiampong
Esma Yiğitoğlu
On Kawara
Forensic Architecture
Anne Mie van Kerckhoven
Ipeh Nur
Jumana Manna

Guided tours

GUIDED TOURS

Would you like to experience Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don't need a backyard, I share a park) with a tour guide? Our experienced tour guides will take you through the exhibition in Sonsbeek Park, and they are excited to tell you more about the artworks and this edition’s theme: Memory as a Living Action. You can buy tickets for the weekly tours on Saturday at 2 pm, or book a group tour. 

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Venues

Park Sonsbeek


Since 1949, Park Sonsbeek has been the beating heart of Sonsbeek. With its rolling lawns, historic buildings, streams, and mature trees, this historic landscape park is not only a green oasis within the city, but also a place where nature, history, and contemporary art come together. For Sonsbeek 2026, the park once again provides the setting for a series of site-specific artworks that invite visitors to experience the landscape in new ways. Works by Mounira Al Solh, Loe ...

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Programme

DISCOVER THE PUBLIC PROGRAM

Discover the Sonsbeek 2026 program. In addition to the exhibitions in Sonsbeek Park and in the city center of Arnhem, an extensive public program will take place over the 100 days of the edition. Enrich your visit with weekly tours led by our guides, collaborations with partner institutions, films, talks, and workshops.

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Sonsbeek 2026 Closing Weekend

Sonsbeek 2026 Closing Weekend

10 October – 11 October 2026

On October 10 and 11, Sonsbeek 2026: Ik hoef geen tuin, ik deel een park (I don’t need a backyard, I share a park) closes after 100 days with a full weekend of music, performances, poetry, Artist Spotlight talks and film screenings in Park Sonsbeek, at partner locations, and in the city center of Ar…

Sonsbeek 2026 Spiraling Out

Sonsbeek 2026 Spiraling Out

11 October 2026, 14.00hr – 18.00hr, City Hall, Arnhem

On Sunday 11 October, Sonsbeek 2026 wraps up at Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s Mystic Hexagram. After hundred days of volunteers and gardeners taking care of the 32.940 flowers and herbs in Van Kerckhoven’s galactic design, the Milky Way spirals out. Everyone is invited to take the plants home, carrying …

Sonsbeek 2026 children's artwork 'Verhalen op de Bleek'

Sonsbeek 2026 children's artwork 'Verhalen op de Bleek'

22 September – 11 October 2026, Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem

Verhalen op de Bleek (press to listen – only in Dutch):– Doek 1, de Wijzer groep 6Verhalen van: Angeline, Chiel and JoepDoek 2, de Wijzer groep 7Verhalen van: Doreen, Menno and Margje– Doek 3, de Sterrenkring GazellenVerhalen van: Jeanne, Bernadette and Yvonne– Doek 4, de Sterrenkring Tijgers Verhal…

Artist Spotlight Talk: Ipeh Nur

Artist Spotlight Talk: Ipeh Nur

11 October 2026, 10.30hr – 11.30hr, Museum Bronbeek, Arnhem

Ipeh Nur is an artist based in Yogyakarta whose work draws on personal experience, daily life, memory, resilience, and history. Working mainly in drawing and painting, she also uses batik, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, and murals. At Omstand, she is presenting Seperti Laut Y…

Artist Spotlight Talk: Larry Achiampong

Artist Spotlight Talk: Larry Achiampong

11 October 2026, noon – 13.00hr, Museum Bronbeek, Arnhem

Larry Achiampong is a British-born, Ghanaian artist who lives and works between Essex and London. His projects employ film, still imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance, objects, sound, and game design to engage with ideas surrounding class, gender, cross-cultural, and digital identity…

Sound walk by Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure: ‘Sound has no edge, like the start of every end’

Sound walk by Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure: ‘Sound has no edge, like the start of every end’

10 October 2026, 14.00hr – 14.20hr, Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem

The composer and theater maker Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, a friend and collaborator of Korakrit Arunanondchai, has been invited to create a soundwalk that extends his sculptural installation into other senses and areas of the park.Like a haunting story slowly unfolding, the soundwalk carries Arunan…

Evening viewing of Esma Yiğitoğlu’s work at Museumnacht

Evening viewing of Esma Yiğitoğlu’s work at Museumnacht

10 October 2026, 20.00hr – 23.59hr

As part of Museumnacht, Museum Arnhem opens its doors in the evening for a special visit to the work of Esma Yiğitoğlu. This is a unique opportunity to experience her sculptures in the Koepelzaal in a very different atmosphere than during the day.Esma Yiğitoğlu was a Turkish-Dutch artist (b. 1944, Z…

Curatorial statement

Curatorial vision for Sonsbeek 2026: Memory as Living Action

CURATORIAL STATEMENT: MEMORY AS LIVING ACTION

For its thirteenth edition, Sonsbeek 2026 reimagines public art through the lens of ‘memory as living action.’ Initiated in 1949 to revive a war-torn Arnhem, the exhibition has always championed freedom beyond institutional walls. Seventy-five years later, it reaffirms culture’s power to foster renewal and collective responsibility. This year, eighteen artists from the Netherlands and abroad explore how memory is made through speaking, listening, coexistence, and shaping conditions for a shared future.

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Collection

COLLECTION: ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
1949-2021, Park Sonsbeek and other locations, Arnhem

In Park Sonsbeek and the surrounding area, exhibitions have been held with some regularity since 1949. Of the hundreds of artworks that were displayed during the various editions of Sonsbeek up to and including 2021, dozens have found a permanent place in Arnhem. From this collection, 20 are currently documented on our website.

Jennifer Tee, Louie Cordero, Naamloozz & Remco Visser, Sivanski, Sivanski, Nel Klaassen, Rémy Zaugg, Gijs Jacobs van den Hof, Piet Slegers, Ossip Zadkine, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Christina Assmann, Peter Santino, Gabriel Kuri, Henrietta Lehtonen, Johan Creten, Michel François, Hans van Houwelingen, Alain Séchas, François Pompon

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Get involved

Under the banner Get Involved we invite everyone to become part of Sonsbeek 2026 — as a visitor, a supporter, a volunteer, a contributor to the archive, or through the Sonsbeek Art Club. Together we continue to build on Sonsbeek’s rich history and make the 2026 edition a unique experience rooted in the city and its communities. By getting involved, you not only connect with art and artists, but also with the community that carries Sonsbeek forward.

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Get involved

Under the banner Get Involved we invite everyone to become part of Sonsbeek 2026 — as a visitor, a supporter, a volunteer, a contributor to the archive, or through the Sonsbeek Art Club. Together we continue to build on Sonsbeek’s rich history and make the 2026 edition a unique experience rooted in the city and its communities. By getting involved, you not only connect with art and artists, but also with the community that carries Sonsbeek forward.

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