 In 1988 the art curator Poul ter Hofstede in cooperation with the Groninger Museum published a retrospective on the gallery with a chronological listing of the exhibitions.In the year 2000 Waalkens was awarded the Benno Premsela Prize by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts for his stimulating attitude towards artists.In the new millennium the son and former PvdA member of parliament Harm Evert Waalkens continued the gallery, and by 2014 his daughter Merel and her husband continued the tradition.