Minimal Art
In 1968 the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag became the first European museum ever to hold an exhibition of Minimal Art, a new American movement based on the use of simple geometrical shapes. The exhibition
Kunstmuseum Den Haag has a treasure chamber of over 160.000 pieces of art. Here we work on making the highlights from this collection available online.
In 1968 the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag became the first European museum ever to hold an exhibition of Minimal Art, a new American movement based on the use of simple geometrical shapes. The exhibition
20 May - 17 September 2023
After twenty-six attempts, Olivier van Herpt (1989) finally succeeded in creating an asymmetrical object more than a metre high, formally perfect and 3D-printed from pure
Jorinde Voigt works methodically and with mathematical precision, filling the paper with pencil patterns drawn with broad gestures; arrows, figures, words and lines form a dynamic composition that
Van Gogh, Monet, Isaac Israels, Van Dongen, Jongkind, Breitner: a roll call of major artists whose works often come with the label ‘Provenance: Ivo Bouwman’. Bouwman is a Hague art dealer and
Impressive skeletal structures that move independently, powered by the wind: artist Theo Jansen’s (b. 1948) strandbeesten, or beach animals, can regularly be seen wandering along the Dutch coast
Shortly after U. was born he started taking photographs. The distinguishing feature of his pictures was their frog perspective – no surprise, as U. lay mainly on his back. We learn this in the first
Two intensely yellow aluminium walls and floor, and a brightly coloured metal stand: the latest work of Ton Boelhouwer (The Hague, 1960) could be a minimalist theatre décor. Unsurprisingly, Boelhouwer
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita grew up in the closed world of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community. He trained at the city’s school of applied arts and state teachers’ training college.
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