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Speaking of Photography

27 MAY - 22 OCTOBER 2023 Simon Ophof collected photographs for much of his life. In January 2022, just before he died, he donated his photography collection to the Fotomuseum Den Haag (part of the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag). This gift contains more than 800 prints, varying from anonymous 19th-century photographs to works by the most famous photographers past and present. To celebrate...

Xiaoxiao Xu

27 MEI T/M 22 OKTOBER 2023 Photographer Xiaoxiao Xu’s journey along the Great Wall of China has resulted in two projects: Shooting the Tiger (2014) and Watering My Horse by a Spring at the Foot of the Long Wall (2017-2018). The 25,000 km road trip was part of Xu’s exploration of the country of her birth. Her compassion for the people she met around the wall and the stories she tells about them...

School

8 APRIL T/M 6 AUGUST 2023 The exhibition School: In Love, Bored & Overslept is a photographic journey through 150 years of education and a trip down memory lane back to everyone’s own school days. To zoom in on what makes this period of our lives so unforgettable, this exhibition brings together 150 years of photographs of schools. Despite criticism of the state of Dutch education, the photographs...

Strike a Pose

Mondrian and Photography 14 Jan - 21 May 2023 Piet Mondrian was keenly aware that photography is a powerful means of presenting yourself. It is striking that, in the numerous professional photographs taken of him throughout his career, he always seems to be posing. For example, he was once photographed in his studio in Amsterdam in a pensive pose, sitting on his bed, reading a book. In this...