Things are everywhere. We create them, collect them, cherish them, give them meaning, and just as easily discard them. Artists notice what we often overlook — hidden within all these objects around us: the stories, memories, societal developments, and even new artworks. In the collection exhibition The Life of Things, Voorlinden delves into the world […]
As part of Eighty Years of Freedom, Museum Beelden aan Zee presents Syrian artist Khaled Dawwa’s six-meter installation Voici mon cœur !. This fragile clay war memorial evokes Damascus in ruins, reflecting on fragility, resilience, and remembrance. Linking past and present, the work invites dialogue on freedom’s meaning and its ongoing struggle today.
The Simple things exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into the poetic visual world of Klaus Baumgärtner. Using branches, wooden blocks, newspaper clippings, pencils, erasers and tin cans, Baumgärtner achieved creative expression through the mundane. Curating the ordinary Baumgärtner worked in a tradition known as assemblage, a movement which emerged in the early 20th century in […]
Museum Beelden aan Zee stages Ryan Gander’s first Dutch solo, presenting twenty-one reinterpretations of Degas’ Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans alongside the original. Gander’s ballerinas step into contemporary life, raising questions about youth, movement, and vulnerability. A poetic dialogue across time, this exhibition reimagines classical sculpture in today’s world.
British artist Tania Kovats explores our elemental connection to water in Oceanic. Monumental concrete divers plunge into the museum floor, evoking surrender to the sea’s force. Her series Sea Marks traces horizons in rhythmic brushstrokes, uniting sky and water. The exhibition invites reflection on nature’s power, beauty, and our place within it.
Photographer and designer Arno Hammacher (1927–2017) lived and worked across Europe, capturing architecture, sculpture, and nature with political engagement and artistic precision. Museum Beelden aan Zee honors his legacy with a focused exhibition of sketches, photos, and archives from Italy to Cuba. The show reveals Hammacher’s cultivated vision and fascination with detail.
Fatima Barznge Céline Berger Annabelle Binnerts Elen Braga Penelope Cain Oana Clitan Anna Hoetjes Afra Eisma Susanne Khalil Yusef Servet Kocyigit Kwinnie Lê Metahaven De Onkruidenier Cristina Flores Pescorán Ada Maricia Patterson Oscar Santillán Miriam Sentler Jolanda Schouten Tenant of Culture Bruno Zhu Utopias and dystopias have captured the imagination for centuries. In the Textile […]
building monuments through rituals A horrific tragedy unfolded in the area of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 11 July 1995, when the Bosnian-Serb army murdered more than 8,372 Muslim men and boys. The UN Dutchbat battalion, which was charged with protecting them, did not intervene. It was the biggest act of genocide in Europe […]
This autumn, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents the first European retrospective exhibition of the American painter Lois Dodd (1927) with some 120 works, as announced in The New York Times. Dodd has been active for almost eight decades, during which time she has remained faithful to her own form and style and, at the age […]
Gillian Bolton September 6 – November 1, 2025 Painter Gillian Bolton, based in The Hague and a 2024 graduate of the Royal Academy of Art, explores rhythm, balance, and the dialogue between structure and emotion. Built from geometric forms yet never distant, the works reveal shifting surfaces and subtle color play that create a quiet […]
How much of who you are is defined by your heritage? Artist Olof Marsja draws on his Sámi heritage, Europe’s only officially recognised indigenous people. Through his sculptures, installations and a deeply poetic approach, Marsja delves into his background. He relates this complex history to contemporary times and challenges. Reconnecting with one’s heritage and identity […]
RADIUS is delighted to present BECOMING UNCOMMON SUBJECTS, an exhibition project by Werker Collective. Structured in three intersecting works for each of the three circles that shape the exhibition space of RADIUS, this exhibition displays three of the main methodologies in Werker’s practice: moving image, textile, and archive. Werker Collective operates at the intersection of […]
For ten years, Christian Marclay collected film clips in which doors open or close. In the video installation Doors (2022), he edits them so that actors appear to walk, via an apparently infinite succession of doors, from one space into the next. Each cut occurs precisely at the moment someone passes through a doorway, granting […]
Westend Projekt presents Fensterbilder, an exhibition by Arnhem-based painter Lucien Groen. On view are 25 oil paintings from his extensive Fensterbilder series, created between 2006 and 2013. The works were chosen this summer from a total of 110 paintings in Groen’s studio. Shown in The Hague for the first time, the paintings explore subtle variations […]
Mark Manders (1968) explores the quiet depths of human consciousness. The internationally acclaimed artist fixes thoughts and moments in sculptures, paintings and installations that hover between the tangible and the elusive. His oeuvre breathes a poetic tension: intimate and universal, concrete and mysterious. For his solo exhibition Mindstudy at Voorlinden, he brings together more than […]
