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Eva Besnyö

Autumn 2026 The Fotomuseum Den Haag recently acquired an impressive collection of 341 photographs by Eva Besnyö (1910-2003), giving the museum the world’s largest collection of works by this iconic photographer. To celebrate this major acquisition, in the autumn of 2026 the museum will present the largest retrospective exhibition to date of Besnyö’s work. Born in Hungary, Besnyö moved in 1931 to...

Letizia Battaglia - Life, Love and Death in Sicily

4 April – 23 August 2026 Photographer, activist and politician Letizia Battaglia (Sicily, 1935–2022) captured the harsh reality of life in Sicily in the shadow of the mafia. From the early 1970s, she recorded the impact of mafia rule on the Sicilian population and the suffering it caused. In her fight against organised crime, Battaglia wielded her camera as a weapon: as a photojournalist, she...

I’m So Happy You Are Here - Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now

18 January 2025 - 5 May 2025 The influence of women within Japanese photography has been highly underestimated. This oversight is corrected in the exhibition I’m So Happy You Are Here – Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now . While the work of male Japanese photographers has received much attention in the West in recent decades, their women colleagues have remained under the radar...

Laura Hospes

In Laura Hospes’s first solo museum exhibition, we can almost touch her skin. In her work, Hospes (NL, 1994) painstakingly explores her complicated relationship with her own body. She visually dissects it in her photographs, videos, installations and performances, ruthlessly capturing every detail. She sculpts and manipulates her body by assuming contorted postures and by applying materials such...