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.
This major exhibition of the work of Co Westerik (1924) is the first of its kind in 15 years, featuring not only graphic works, drawings and paintings, but also photographs with a close bearing on the
It's night
In the Period Rooms at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the sun slowly sets. The light dies and darkness moves in. Stars twinkle in the night sky, a candle burns at a window and people prepareIn 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
‘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 Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents an impressive interior created by the German painter Anton Henning (Berlin, 1964), whose spatial installations have drawn international attention. Henning has
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
Patriotism and heroism were prominent in Dutch military paintings until late in the 19th century. The exhibition Atten-SHUN! shows how the genre changed radically around 1880 under the influence of