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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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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...

Beyond the Nuclear Family X Eva Besnyö

Alongside vintage photographs, the exhibition Eva Besnyö – The Liberated Camera also features the project Beyond the Nuclear Family by artist and writer Mirthe Berentsen (1984). The museum is providing a temporary home for her covered wagon, with which Berentsen is building on the covered wagon journey undertaken by the Dolle Mina’s in 1972. This national tour was photographed by Besnyö at the...

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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...

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The Liberated Camera

Photographer, feminist, phenomenon: Eva Besnyö (1910–2003) changed photography forever. Together with her contemporaries, she experimented extensively with her camera: moving away from painting, focusing on reality, capturing close-ups and full of dynamism. 

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