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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...

Flowers in the Mirror

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 to drift.

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The liberated camera

Photographer Eva Besnyö (1910 – 2003) not only bore witness to but served as a driving force behind the emancipation of photography. Together with her contemporaries, she experimented freely with a new visual language, one that moved away from painting and towards reality, with a real sense of dynamism and immediacy.

This autumn, Fotomuseum Den Haag will present one of the largest-ever...

Life, Love and Death in Sicily

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 documented the daily terror...

Eva Besnyö - The Liberated Camera

One of the largest-ever retrospective of the photographer who put a face to the 20th century 5 September 2026 – 31 January 2027 Photographer Eva Besnyö (1910 – 2003) not only bore witness to but served as a driving force behind the emancipation of photography. Together with her contemporaries, she experimented freely with a new visual language, one that moved away from painting and towards reality...