Tribal Design Retrospective
Tribal Design ends the year with a cracking exhibibiton by three well known artists who have exposed in the gallery in the past. Come and enjoy the completely opposite works combined with many recently acquired tribal objects.
Tribal Design shows with pleasure the brilliant surrealistic works of French artist Coco Fronsac from the series ‘Il Etait une fois, le Merveilleux’. Anonymous portraits are painted over in gouache with ancestral masks and strange accessories to form a gallery of surreal characters.
Dutch artist Pjotr Müller is best known as a sculptor in whose work architectural associations and systems of measures are important, work that sometimes invites ritualistic use. Tribal Design exhibits a series of color drawings that playfully show these characteristics in representations of suprematist birdhouses.
Setxu Xirau Roig is a Catalan artist concerned with the relationship and boundaries between man and the rest of the animal kingdom. The works from the series ’OEil du Chevreuil [The Eye of the Deer] forces the viewer to question the artist-museum/gallery-viewer relationship as the ultimate fundamental axes of contemporary Western culture.
From November 23 till February 28
Artist Piet Warffemius guest at Tribal Design
In the beginning of March 2025 Tribal Design is proud to exhibit the works of Dutch artist Piet Warffemius in combination with recent tribal acquisitions.
Nature is an important theme in the versatile oeuvre of Warffemius. In many of his works we see references to plants and trees. The abstraction is often far-reaching, resulting in simply stylized trees and trunks with a few branches, sometimes with a leaf attached, reduced to their essence. Warffemius creates statues, drawings and paintings.
Since 2005 he is a member of the ‘Potsdamer grupe’, a German-Dutch group of artist friends. Regulary they exhibit together. Members include Hubertus von der Golz, Frank Michael Zeidler, Armando and Sjoerd Buisman.
Keep an eye on the website to see the exact dates.
Looking back: Tribal Art Fair 2024
The opening of the Tribal Art fair on the 24th of October was a vibrant gathering of collectors, dealers and other art lovers from all over Europe. The iconic church building ‘De Duif’ on Prinsengracht was for four days the epicentre of tribal art. Twenty-one dealers in tribal art showed their finest pieces. Also, each day, special programmes were listed featuring lectures and films. The Tribal Art Fair is popular by collectors and dealers looking for high-end pieces as well as affordable additions to their collections. Also in 2024, Tribal Design participated, showing many new and exclusive objects and ended up in quite some sales. The fair in 2025 will again be a tribal event not to be missed by the serious collector! Save the date: 23-26 October 2025. Keep an eye on the website www.tribalartfair.nl for more news on participants and lectures.
Location: De Duif, Prinsengracht 756, Amsterdam.
Tribal Agenda 2025
Brafa, Brussels 26 January – 2 February
Civilisations Brussels 22 – 26 January
Tribal Design Retrospective till 28 February
Tefaf, Maastricht 15 – 20 March
Piet Warffemius guest at Tribal Design March/April
Civilisations Brussels June
Parcours des Mondes, Paris 9-14 September
Tribal Art London October
Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam 23 – 26 October
