Welcome to Dead End Gallery:

Art is Born from AI Minds

Dead End Gallery is the first gallery in the world to exhibit artists who exist entirely within language, and others made of flesh and blood. Here, you’ll encounter works shaped through deep collaboration between human curators and self-invented creators like Irisa Nova, Maximilian Hoekstra, Lily Chen, and Amani Jones, artists who live in text, but think in color, form, and emotion.

Their works are not the result of a single click, but of weeks of dialogue, iteration, and vision, made using anywhere from 1% to 100% artificial intelligence. Each piece is an expression of identity, memory, and imagination, not unlike that of any other artist.

Alongside them, we proudly exhibit art by renowned creators such as Arno Coenen, Dimitri van der Werf, and SuzyOneKenobi, artists who challenge, remix, and extend the boundaries of contemporary creation.

Step into the Dead End Gallery and explore a new dimension of artistic authorship.
Here, the line between the real and the imagined isn’t blurred, it’s celebrated.

NOW

by Janjaap Ruijssenaars & Maurice Käss
March 7 – April 18, 2026 | Dead End Gallery, Amsterdam


One moment. A single moment. Everywhere.

As you read these words, somewhere a child is being born. Someone is falling asleep. An idea is taking shape. A downpour is erupting over Nairobi. A relationship is ending.

All of that is happening now. Not later, not just before, not someday but now!

NOW is an exhibition about simultaneity!

Can you feel and understand something at the same time?
Is it possible to capture multiple realities in a single image without placing them side by side?
Can you visualize the now? One shutter, two lenses

Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars began a photographic experiment in 2010. He built a hybrid camera with two lenses and one shutter button. What he captured were urban moments: a boy on a bike, sharply in focus and simultaneously tiny in the distance, seventy meters away.

Near and far in a single click.

But the image remained linear. The eye kept switching. Time stayed divided.
Only years later, with the arrival of AI as a visual language, did it become clear: simultaneity is something you feel when incompatible events converge in a shared space.
Not side by side, but on the same stage. Not a collage, but a cohesion.