Strangely Familiar
Aldo Bakker
24 October – 23 December 2026

Looiersgracht 60 is pleased to share that forthcoming October, we will present Strangely Familiar, a major solo show by Dutch artist and designer Aldo Bakker.

The exhibition marks a decisive new chapter in the development of his longstanding oeuvre, ten years after his solo exhibition Containing Content held at Looiersgracht 60 in 2015.

Rather than resolving problems, as design is so often expected to do, Bakker’s extensive oeuvre defies categorical associations and established conventions. While Containing Content centred on five pouring vessels that operated as individual protagonists within the expansive space, uncovering the tension between function and form, Strangely Familiar both builds upon and departs from its initial inquiry. Moving beyond the intimate presence of these vessels, a new body of work that is increasingly large in scale will take over the former factory floors, presented publicly for the very first time.

More than ten years after Containing Content, this renewed collaboration brings Bakker back to Looiersgracht 60 in a setting that is both familiar and newly transformed.

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