Kunstmuseum Den Haag 2022/2023

24 September 2022 – 5 March 2023

Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895 – 1972) was regarded as ‘le maître’ among couturiers. “Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us”, Christian Dior once said. The Spanish designer was known as a strict taskmaster who regarded his work as a religion. His complex, sculptural designs worked best in black, one of his favourite colours.  

In autumn 2022 Kunstmuseum Den Haag will present an ode to his designs in black with its fashion exhibition Balenciaga in Black. Over 100 masterpieces from the collections of Palais Galliera and Maison Balenciaga have already been set aside in Paris, ready to steal the show at Kunstmuseum Den Haag from 24 September 2022. This will be the first time that such a large selection of Balenciaga’s work has been shown in the Netherlands.

This exhibition has been organized in association with Palais Galliera, musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris and Paris Musées, and was realised thanks to cooperation and exceptional loans from Archives Balenciaga, Paris.

The exhibition is sponsored by Blockbusterfonds, Nationale-Nederlanden and De Bijenkorf.

15 October 2022 – 15 January 2023
 
This autumn Kunstmuseum Den Haag will be staging a retrospective of the work of artistic duo Anni and Josef Albers, featuring over 200 artworks – paintings, photographs, furniture, drawings and textile. The couple met at the Bauhaus in 1922 when they were both teaching there. There, they developed a lifelong personal and professional relationship. After fleeing Germany in 1933 they continued to make art and teach in the United States.  
The exhibition will show how Anni Albers evolved into a true pioneer of modern textile art, and Josef underwent a process of artistic development that culminated in his world-famous Homage to the Square series comprising hundreds of colour studies in a square format. Although Anni and Josef worked with different materials, the exhibition will show how much they influenced each other, sharing the same sense of colour, rhythm and form that reflects the principles of the Bauhaus – such as respect for the material and for experimentation. The impact of the work and teaching of the Albers on the development of modern art cannot be overstated.

The exhibition is being created in close collaboration with the The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

12 November 2022 ­– 12 February 2023
 
Over the past thirty years Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965) has created a versatile body of work combining elements of politics, art history and queer and pop culture with exploration of the human condition. The American painter and sculptor is regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Kunstmuseum Den Haag will show a large selection of Eisenman’s paintings and drawings, alongside work by internationally renowned modern artists like Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and Käthe Kollwitz.
 
The exhibition is a collaboration between Nicole Eisenman, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

It promises to be an incredibly beautiful year in Fotomuseum Den Haag and KM21. See the program on the website of Fotomuseum Den Haag en KM21.