Timeless, trailblazing, elegant and influential – the designs of Christian Dior (1905-1957) are all of these. Just after the Second World War, he established his own house in Paris, which soon became

Longread, reading time approx. 10 minutes I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like...

There is an unmistakable artistic affinity between the work of the Belgian artists Léon Spilliaert (Ostend 1881-1946 Brussels) and Dirk Braeckman (Eeklo, 1958). Although Spilliaert worked mainly with

Aline Thomassen (1964, Maastricht) presents large-scale works that transform the museum’s Projects Gallery into a collective of women, shown in all their strength and vulnerability. Thomassen is the

The Floating Sky is a site-specific response to the exhibition Monet – The Garden paintings. Mounted on inflated bicycle tubes, 526 acrylic glass mirrors drift on Berlage’s pond, reflecting the sky on...

The De Stijl movement was launched in Leiden exactly one hundred years ago. The Netherlands is poised to mark the centenary in 2017 with a year-long programme of events under the title Mondrian to...

A staff outing, a family day out or an excursion with friends? Guided tours are available for many of our exhibitions. See below for a list of possibilities. Let us tell you about some of our artworks...

Artist Bob Bonies (b. 1937, The Hague) has created a body of work that now spans six decades. Since the 1960s he has been making ‘concrete art’, abstract geometric paintings that have defined the