The Ouborg Prize 2005
The Ouborg Prize is awarded in alternate years to a Hague artist producing work of both local and national importance. Named after Hague artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956), it is the City of The Hague’s
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.
The Ouborg Prize is awarded in alternate years to a Hague artist producing work of both local and national importance. Named after Hague artist Pieter Ouborg (1893-1956), it is the City of The Hague’s
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
This winter the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is exhibiting around 90 of Emo Verkerk’s paintings and sculptures.
Among the most important artists working in the Netherlands in recent years, Verkerk began
‘Done! Straight in the shop with it. (…) A hundred and fifty guilders.’ In his yard, at the home he built with his own hands, among his five wives, a man wearing white make-up frantically commits an
Painting was rediscovered in the exhilarating 1980s. Maarten Ploeg (1958 – 2004) caused a sensation as an artist and musician at the time. He was awarded the Royal Prize for Painting in 1982, and in
A new art for a new, improved society. That is what many artists and designers were seeking around 1900. After a century of styles that literally quoted the past, a new form language emerged, based on