Search results

The Female Body - Portraits from the Collection

11 October 2025 – 22 March 2026 A self-portrait by a woman is often much more than an image of her body. It can also be a powerful tool to address social issues. In the exhibition The Female Body – Portraits from the Collection, the Fotomuseum Den Haag shows works from the collection by female makers who work with the photographic self-portrait in various ways. The exhibition shows intuitively how...

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...

Farren van Wyk - Mixedness is my Mythology

4 April – 23 August 2026 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 black South African mother and a white Dutch father, Van Wyk was classified as ‘coloured’. From the age of six she grew...

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...

Ruben Lundgren - Flowers in the Mirror

4 April – 23 August 2026 As a 21-year-old photography student, Ruben Lundgren (The Netherlands, 1983) travelled to China and decided to stay. From the struggle with his queer identity, he developed a lasting fascination with the medium of photography and the tension between image and reality. The facade that he allowed to fall turned out to be a metaphor for the country in which he allows himself...

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...

Chris Killip - Retrospective

With his empathetic, but above all honest documentary eye, Chris Killip (UK, 1946-2020) is regarded as one of the most influential post-war British photographers. He spent long periods in the North of England in the 1970s and 1980s, a turbulent period for this region, with one large factory after another being forced to close, leading to massive unemployment and poverty. Killip captured the impact...

Boris Mikhailov

Ukrainian Diary 30 March - 18 August 2024 Ukrainian Diary is the largest retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the Ukrainian photographer and artist Boris Mikhailov (1938). Since the 1960s, Mikhailov has been one of the few artists to create a compelling picture of the tumultuous changes in his country. He deliberately employs ‘bad photography’ – the conscious avoidance of...

Rob Hornstra - Ordinary People

9 December 2023 - 17 March 2024 In the retrospective exhibition Ordinary People , Fotomuseum Den Haag offers a fresh look at the work of Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra (1975). Over the last twenty years, Hornstra has created a human portrait of his own time by photographing people in their everyday situations, with a focus on Russia and Europe. Everywhere he goes, he looks for everyday scenes...

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...