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Lucas Foglia - Constant Bloom

17 May - 28 Sep 2025 Photographer Lucas Foglia 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...

Mixedness is my Mythology

In her first solo museum exhibition, South African-Dutch photographer Farren van Wyk explores South Africa’s and the Netherlands’ complex historical relationship of migration, ethnicity, colonialism and apartheid. Born in the last year of apartheid to a South African mother and a Dutch father, Van Wyk was classified as ‘coloured’. From the age of six she grew up in the Netherlands, surrounded by...

Museum closed due to the installation of exhibitions

From September 29 through October 10, the museum will be closed due to the installation of two new exhibitions: Generasi 3.0 – The Stories We Carry and I'll Be Your Mirror – Female Self-Portraits from the Collection. We look forward to welcoming you back from October 11 onwards!

KM21, the museum with which we share our building, will remain open during this period. There, you can visit the...

Women’s Self-Portraits from the Collection

A self-portrait by a woman is often much more than just an image of her face or body. It can be a powerful tool for addressing social issues, experimenting with photographic techniques or exploring her relationship with herself. In the exhibition I’ll Be Your Mirror – Women’s Self-Portraits from the Collection, the museum presents works from the collection by female artists who explore different...

She Makes a Difference

In celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the founding of UNESCO, the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO and the Fotomuseum Den Haag have joined forces to shine a spotlight on women who are making a difference. From miller’s wives to professors, each has a unique, personal commitment to peace, equality and fostering connections.

Photographer Carla van de Puttelaar, renowned for her...

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Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid

Emergency Telephone Booth With Bust Of Stalin, 1986 An old, grey, Dutch alarm cell accommodates a bronze bust of former Russian dictator Joseph Stalin (1878-1953). The bust stands on a pedestal swathed in red fabric. Beside it is a lamp and a herring hangs immediately under Stalin’s nose. The sculpture is the work of Vitaly Komar (b. 1943) & Alexander Melamid (b. 1945), Russian artists who now...

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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...