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 […]
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 […]
