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 […]
In the exhibition BEIRUTOPIA, Lebanese photographer Randa Mirza (1978) examines the dramatic changes that Beirut, the city she was born and grew up in, has undergone. In recent decades, Lebanon has been rocked by a succession of political, financial and social crises and its people have been burdened by a political elite that enriches itself […]
Photographer Lucas Foglia (1983) has transformed the world’s longest butterfly migration into a powerful metaphor for connection across international borders. For millions of years, Painted Lady butterflies have migrated between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming wildflowers. As climate change shifts when and where wildflowers bloom, these resilient butterflies increasingly rely […]
The second chapter of Extractive Imagination(s) examines the overlap between the physiological human need to maintain a body temperature of 37°C and the (social) infrastructures we’ve developed to stay warm – what we define today as architecture. In other words, how did the harvesting of resources related to our quest for heat (initially wood, peat […]
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.
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.
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.
For Dürst Britt & Mayhew’s 10-Year Anniversary exhibition we have chosen to present two works by each of our sixteen represented artists. The first being a work that has been exhibited in the gallery, at an art fair, in a museum or collaborative show, but to our utmost surprise has not found another home yet. […]
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 […]
This September and October, the collective it is part of an ensemble takes over the project space at See Lab for a five-week residency. The group will transform the space into a fluid studio for sound, music, drawings, objects, performance and everything in between. With a strong focus on process, collaboration, and experimentation, the project […]
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 […]
