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.
‘I am clay’. This statement by the ceramicist Vilma Henkelman (1944-2023) makes it clear how much she identified with this material. Informed by feminism, Henkelman freed clay from connotations of
‘The food of one person is enough for two, the food of two is enough for four, and the food of four is enough for eight.’
This is the English translation of the saying in Arabic that Hague designer
A hundred years ago, before the building that currently houses Kunstmuseum Den Haag existed, director Hendrik van Gelder was collecting ‘world ceramics’. He was keen to show the non-western sources
