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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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The Stories We Carry

 How do you deal with a family history that is tightly interwoven with our colonial past? In the exhibition Generasi 3.0 - The Stories We Carry, nine photographers, artists and makers delve into their family histories, which are rooted in the former Dutch East Indies. The search for a better understanding of their origins transcends their individual journeys. Their stories contribute to a broader...

Enter the Cube

The Hague-based artist Marleen Sleeuwits plays tricks with our vision. How do we perceive a space? What do we actually see? And what information do our brains fill in? In the new exhibition Enter the Cube, Sleeuwits establishes a dialogue with the work of the famous American Minimalist artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). The work of both artists investigates the boundaries of perspective and how we...

I’ll Be Your Mirror – Women’s Self-Portraits from the Collection

11 October 2025 – 22 March 2026 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...

Generasi 3.0 – The Stories We Carry

11 October 2025 - 22 March 2026 How do you deal with a family history that is tightly interwoven with our colonial past? In the exhibition Generasi 3.0 – The Stories We Carry, nine photographers, artists and makers delve into their family histories, which are rooted in the former Dutch East Indies. The search for a better understanding of their origins transcends their individual journeys. Their...

Ruben Lundgren - Flowers in the Mirror

4 April – 23 August 2026 In Flowers in the Mirror, photographer and curator Ruben Lundgren (Netherlands, 1983) reflects on twenty years of living and working in China, which he first visited at twenty-one as a photography student. Learning Mandarin and acquainting himself with the culture coincided with his search for an openly queer identity. Photography offers him the opportunity to explore the...

Letizia Battaglia - Life, Love and Death in Sicily

4 April – 23 August 2026 From the early 1970s the Sicilian photojournalist, activist and politician Letizia Battaglia (Palermo 1935 – Cefalù 2022) captured the harsh reality of daily life in and around Palermo, a city plagued by extreme mafia violence, corruption and political power games. Battaglia used photography to highlight injustices: the the mafia’s victims, the traces of violence in public...

Farren van Wyk - Mixedness is my Mythology

4 April – 23 August 2026 From 4 April 2026, the Fotomuseum Den Haag presents Mixedness is My Mythology , the first solo museum exhibition of the South African Dutch photographer Farren van Wyk (1993). In her work, Van Wyk explores the complex historical and personal relationship between South Africa and the Netherlands, reflecting on themes such as migration, ethnicity, colonialism and apartheid...

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...