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The Canary and the Hammer - Lisa Barnard

31 August 2024 - 5 January 2025 Gold is ubiquitous in modern life and a potent symbol of value, beauty, purity, greed and political power. In the Canary and the Hammer, Lisa Barnard (UK, 1967) details our reverence for gold, its role in humanity’s ruthless pursuit of progress and its stark reminder of the global west’s determination to accumulate wealth. Prompted by the financial crisis of 2008...

Women on the Front Line

Photography from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus 19 augustus - 26 november 2023 The exhibition Women on the Front Line – Photography from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus rejects the notion that war photography is a man’s business. It highlights the work of eight female photographers who bravely stood their ground in dangerous, male-dominated situations on the front lines, from the Spanish Civil...

Speaking of Photography

27 MAY - 22 OCTOBER 2023 Simon Ophof collected photographs for much of his life. In January 2022, just before he died, he donated his photography collection to the Fotomuseum Den Haag (part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag). This gift contains more than 800 prints, varying from anonymous 19th-century photographs to works by the most famous photographers past and present. To celebrate...

Xiaoxiao Xu

27 MEI T/M 22 OKTOBER 2023 Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them...