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Klaus Baumgärtner

Sequence 15 September 2018 t/m 3 February2019 Artist Klaus Baumgärtner was fascinated by ‘things’: a flight of stairs, a manhole cover or a cup of coffee. He changed nothing, but photographed objects and phenomena just as he found them. He let the beauty and meaning of ‘the thing’ in its own familiar environment speak for themselves. Baumgärtner’s way of looking at and recording the world is...

Erwin Olaf

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography are to honour one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers, Erwin Olaf (b. 1959), with a double exhibition. Olaf, whose recent portraits of the royal family drew widespread admiration, will turn sixty this year – a good moment to stage a major retrospective. The Hague Museum of Photography will focus on Olaf’s love of his craft and...

Lauren Greenfield

Generation Wealth 15 September 2018 to 3 February 2019 What are you really like? And what do gold handbags, gleaming sports cars, glittering jewellery, luxury villas and ‘killer bodies’ have to do with it? For some people, these things are so important to their identity that they go so far as to hire a flashy car in order to show it off on Instagram, in imitation of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton...