Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A two-week exhibition, including over eighty artworks, happenings, a plethora of archival materials and an extended auction event. We can\u2019t wait to share with you what has been twenty years of fun, surprises, commitment, creativity and hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title for Dead Darling\u2019s much-anticipated 20th anniversary event, In It Together<\/em>, this December at W139, serves less as an explicit theme for our upcoming auction and more as a reminder of their origins \u2014 a return to form, a rallying cry to our community and the art lovers around us. Dead Darlings XX \u2014 In It Together<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Programme<\/strong> Dead Darlings x PUB Radio: In It Together!<\/a> 84 Participating artists in alphabetical order: Ad de Jong, Adriana Jo\u00eblle Jochems, Ahmad Mallah, Andrea Imwiehe, Andr\u00e9 van Bergen, Anika Schwarzlose & Elena Khurtova, Anna Hoetjes, Annaleen Louwes, Anne W\u00f6lk, Anni Ruffin, Antoinette Nausika\u00e4, Anuschka Blommers \/ Niels Schumm, Aur\u00e9lien 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 Hym\u00f8ller, Leyla S\u00fcnnenwold, Lieve Hakkers, Lina Ozerkina, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Lo Yuen Ming, Lotte Reimann, Lotte van Geijn, Manshee Zheng, Marek van de Watering, Mariana Oliveira, Marianne Vier\u00f8, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Marlies Neugebauer, Masaki Komoto, Maud van der Werf, Max van Meeuwen, Mayra S\u00e9rgio, Miklos Ga\u00e1l, Noam Holdengreber, Pantelis Makkas, Paulien Barbas, Peter de Boer, Popel Coumou, Rebecca Sakoun & Florian G\u00f6ttke, Rob van der Nol, Roman Tkachenko, Ruth van Beek, Sem\u00e2 Bekirovi\u0107 & Xu XueQin, Se\u00e1n O\u2019Riordan, Simon Marsiglia, Sofija Li Virta, Soji Shimizu, Sophie Schreurs, St\u00e9phanie Baechler, Susan Kooi, Susanna Brenner, T Y Gutter, Tania Theodorou, Thomas Monses, Vita Buivid and Anna Buyvid, Yann Vissers, Yiannis Vellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dead Darlings<\/strong> 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<\/em>\u2014works an artist has created but never brought to light. Inspired by \u201ckill your darlings,\u201d they ask: what becomes of these ambivalent works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photos by Jessie Yingying Gong<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colophon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dead Darlings: Tania Theodorou, Lina Ozerkina, Hanna Mattes, and Jessie Yingying Gong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At W139, we work collectively and intersectionally on exhibitions\u2014guided and led by the initiating artists that we invite. This exhibition has been developed by the artistic team, with Margarita Osipian leading the process, together with Tomas Adolfs, Andr\u00e9 Avel\u00e3s, Dana Claasen, Levi van Gelder, Dil Ghale, Geer van der Klugt, Monica Liu, Emily Read, Claudio Ritfeld, Jesse Vorswijk, and Annette Wolfsberger.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visual identity: Lina Ozerkina, Friends Make Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auction helping hands: Sohrab Bayat, Zo\u00e9 Boissin-Peras, Jacob Dwyer, Lydia Markaki, Joseph Miceli, Jime Muhlethaler, Marianna Oliviera, Ro P\u00e9rez Gayo, Anni Ruffin, Kyle Tryhorn, Charlott Weise, Bin Zhu<\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibition is generously supported by: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Mondriaan Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n 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. 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Opening Dead Darlings XX \u2014 In It Together<\/a>
\u2014 Friday 28 November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Sunday 7 December 2025
You can listen to the full broadcast here!<\/a>
Dead Darlings Auction<\/a>
\u2014 Saturday 13 December 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n