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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...

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Eva Besnyö

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 Amsterdam...

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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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...