Dead Darlings XX — In It Together
Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139.
A two-week exhibition, including over eighty artworks, happenings, a plethora of archival materials and an extended auction event. We can’t wait to share with you what has been twenty years of fun, surprises, commitment, creativity and hard work.
The title for Dead Darling’s much-anticipated 20th anniversary event, In It Together, this December at W139, serves less as an explicit theme for our upcoming auction and more as a reminder of their origins — a return to form, a rallying cry to our community and the art lovers around us. Dead Darlings XX — In It Together is a signifier of a shared experience, signalling that sense of unity, solidarity, and mutual support that, as a collective, they have always relied on, are grateful for, and wish to highlight and celebrate in this very special 20th anniversary edition of Dead Darlings.
To celebrate this milestone, not only will there be a full-length auction day that will include a show and auction of up to 80 selected artworks, ending in an old-school W139 bash, but in the weeks leading up to it, there will be panel discussions, t-shirt silk-screening sessions, and a big archival show that will include 20 years worth of Dead Darlings anecdotes, films, images, and a fabulous display of all back catalogues and publications.
Programme
Opening Dead Darlings XX — In It Together
— Friday 28 November 2025
The Auction
— Saturday 13 December 2025
84 Participating artists in alphabetical order: Ad de Jong, Adriana Joëlle Jochems, Ahmad Mallah, Andrea Imwiehe, André van Bergen, Anika Schwarzlose & Elena Khurtova, Anna Hoetjes, Annaleen Louwes, Anne Wölk, Anni Ruffin, Antoinette Nausikaä, Anuschka Blommers / Niels Schumm, Aurélien Lepetit, Barbara Rink, Charlott Markus, Coralie Vogelaar, Danielle Vorthuys, Dasha Afanaseva, Delta van Melle, Diana Al-Halabi, Emmanuelle Wilhelm, Erik Alkema, Eva Schippers, Floor Meijers, George Korsmit, Gijs Assmann, Giorgos Gripeos, Hanna Mattes, Ine Lamers, Jacopo Calonaci, James Beckett, Jan Timmers, Janneke Raaphorst, Jean-Philippe Paumier, Jessie Yingying Gong, Joep Neefjes/LPI, Johannes Schwartz, Joseph Miceli, Kai Reichert, Kandido Filgueiras, Klara Hobza, Kristine Hymøller, Leyla Sünnenwold, Lieve Hakkers, Lina Ozerkina, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Lo Yuen Ming, Lotte Reimann, Lotte van Geijn, Manshee Zheng, Marek van de Watering, Mariana Oliveira, Marianne Vierø, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Marlies Neugebauer, Masaki Komoto, Maud van der Werf, Max van Meeuwen, Mayra Sérgio, Miklos Gaál, Noam Holdengreber, Pantelis Makkas, Paulien Barbas, Peter de Boer, Popel Coumou, Rebecca Sakoun & Florian Göttke, Rob van der Nol, Roman Tkachenko, Ruth van Beek, Sema Bekirovic & Xu XueQin, Seán O’Riordan, Simon Marsiglia, Sofija Li Virta, Soji Shimizu, Sophie Schreursor, Stéphanie Baechler, Susan Kooi, Susanna Brenner, T Y Gutter, Tania Theodorou, Thomas Monses, Vita Buivid and Anna Buyvid, Yann Vissers, Yiannis Vellis.
Dead Darlings began in 2005 as a subversive, anonymous art auction in Amsterdam. It has since grown into an international platform with a mission to explore the often fraught, always complex relationship between the price and the value of an artwork, focusing on dead darlings—works an artist has created but never brought to light. Inspired by “kill your darlings,” they ask: what becomes of these ambivalent works.
