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Brand new series of photographs by Erwin Olaf on display for first time at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Latest series Palm Springs is part of double exhibition The major double exhibition of work by Erwin Olaf at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography (16 February – 12 May 2019) will include work that Erwin Olaf produced this autumn in Palm Springs (US). The series Palm Springs is part of a triptych, alongside Berlin (2012) and Shanghai (2017). The three series will be on show...
Isabella Rozendaal
Isabella Hunts What does the concept of wilderness mean to modern humans? And what does it mean to be part of the food chain in an industrialised society? Photographer and writer Isabella Rozendaal (b. 1983) has been exploring these questions since 2007, following hunters in a range of cultures. She never shies from confrontation: with death, with the human capacity for destruction, with the harsh...
Run of popular Erwin Olaf double exhibition to be extended
The 200,000th visitor to the double exhibition was given a festive reception and congratulated by Erwin Olaf himself on the afternoon of Tuesday 16 April. The success of the double exhibition has prompted the Gemeentemuseum and The Hague Museum of Photography to extend the run of both exhibitions to Sunday 16 June. Erwin Olaf is proud of this major success. ‘I didn’t see this coming. Of course you...
Grid Corrections
Artist-photographer Gerco de Ruijter (b. 1961, Vianen) has been exploring the landscape since the mid-1980s, picturing the world from unusual perspectives by attaching his camera to kites, balloons and fishing rods. In De Ruijter’s mysterious and almost abstract landscapes, the human scale competes with nature, and familiarity goes hand in hand with alienation. His photography gives the...
Marwan Bassiouni
New Ducth Views 25 May – 1 September 2019 For his series New Dutch Views photographer Marwan Bassiouni (b. 1985, Switzerland) travelled the polders, industrial estates, villages, town centres and suburbs of the Netherlands, photographing the landscape from the windows of mosques. Rugs with oriental and Islamic motifs, walls with colourful floral patterns, plus radiators, Venetian blinds and...
Gerco de Ruijter
Grid Corrections 25 May – 1 September 2019 Artist-photographer Gerco de Ruijter (b. 1961, Vianen) has been exploring the landscape since the mid-1980s, picturing the world from unusual perspectives by attaching his camera to kites, balloons and fishing rods. In De Ruijter’s mysterious and almost abstract landscapes, the human scale competes with nature, and familiarity goes hand in hand with...
Schilderswijk/The Hague
The portrait series HIPSTER/MUSLIM consists of pictures of three pairs of young men who have swapped clothes. One is a hipster (a hip, creative, urban twenty- something) and the other is a Muslim. Both have a beard.
Sudden death of artist photographer Michael Wolf
25 April 2019 Today we received the shocking news that artist photographer Michael Wolf had died suddenly at home in Cheung Chau (Hong Kong). The museum, and Dutch gallery owner Wouter van Leeuwen, wish to convey their sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to his wife Barbara and son Jasper. In 2017 The Hague Museum of Photography produced Michael Wolf’s first major retrospective, Michael Wolf...
Beyond the Borders of the GDR
German photographers and partners Ute Mahler (b. 1949) and Werner Mahler (b. 1950) look at the lives of people. Not at global stars, or at the great glamorous or dramatic moments in a human life; they observe ordinary people living their lives in sleepy suburbs and forgotten working-class neighbourhoods. Through the Mahlers’ lens, these people, these lives become extraordinary. Like the young...
Richard Learoyd
The Mystique of the Camera Obscura 5 October 2019 to 5 January 2020 How often do you take a selfie or a snapshot of someone else with your phone? In the current digital age, you can make a portrait in a fraction of a second and keep clicking endlessly until you have the perfect photograph. Photographer Richard Learoyd (Nelson, UK, 1966) makes life-size portraits with long exposure times using a...