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Oliver Boberg

The Hague Museum of Photography is the first museum in the Netherlands ever to stage an exhibition of work by German artist Oliver Boberg (b. Herten, 1965). Boberg’s serene photographs and short films bear witness to an everyday reality which seems to be all around us, but is at the same time difficult to place. Boberg photographs ‘non places’ which are part of our collective memory: archetypal...

G.P. Fieret - 80 jaar

Artist, poet and photographer Gerard P. Fieret (b. The Hague, 1924) has turned eighty this year. In honour of the occasion, the Hague Museum of Photography is organizing a major retrospective of his photographic works. Despite his ceaseless production of drawings and poetry, it is the thousands of photographs that he produced between 1960 and 1980 that form the jewel in Fieret’s artistic crown...

Marrie Bot

In this exhibition, Marrie Bot (1946) presents a selection of colour photos from her new book Geliefden – Timeless Love. They portray pairs of older lovers and focus on the erotic side of the home lives of ordinary people aged between 50 and 85. Bot shows that the way they enjoy their love and sexual attraction is not odd or unpleasant, but entirely natural. At the same time, she shows there is...

'Kindred Spirits'

This autumn, celebrated Hungarian author Péter Nádas (b. 1942) is to be guest curator at the Hague Museum of Photography. The museum has invited him to devise an exhibition throwing light on the development of modern Hungarian photography from the First World War era to the end of the 1960s. In addition to a line-up of famous names like Robert Capa, Brassaï, André Kertész, Martin Munkacsi and Eva...

Twins

Mary Ellen Mark (1940) can safely be said to be one of the most important photographers in the world today. In 2004 she won the World Press Award in the Arts and Entertainment Story category for her series Twins. Mark created this series using the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. She set up a studio in a tent at the fairgrounds of the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. Every August thousands of twins...

Donation by Wally Elenbaas

The photographic collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has been enriched this year by a donation of over sixty photographs by 93-year-old Rotterdam artist-photographer Wally Elenbaas. In gratitude for the artist’s donation, the Hague Museum of Photography is organising an exhibition focusing on the new acquisitions. They will be shown in combination with a large number of contemporaneous...

Desiree Dolron

Desiree Dolron (b.1963) is well-known both for her penetrating travel reportages and for her staged photographs. She is internationally reputed to be one of the most successful Dutch photographers in the world today. Both the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London have recently purchased work by her. The Hague Museum of Photography is about to present the first...

The Liberation of The Hague

Helena van der Kraan

To mark the occasion of her 65th birthday, the Hague Museum of Photography is holding the first ever major retrospective of work by Rotterdam artist and photographer Helena van der Kraan. Her photographic oeuvre, spanning a period of over 35 years, consists mainly of portraits, still lifes and documentary pictures of everyday life. In a world full of visual bombast, Van der Kraan’s work is an...

Ruud van der Peijl

‘King of Style’ Ruud van der Peijl is about to launch his photographic career with his installation Rude. Portraits of State at the Hague Museum of Photography: formal studio portraits of Dutch celebrities, up-and-coming personalities and people close to the photographer’s heart. The exhibition is all about watching and being watched, glamour and decadence, myth and masks, heaven and hell. With a...