Vilma Henkelman
‘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
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
This small presentation will combine the work of pointillists like Toorop, Signac and Van Rysselberghe with that of 18th-century glass engravers Greenwood, Wolff and Schoumans and 17th-century
Recently, Kunstmuseum Den Haag received a large donation of ceramic objects by artist Harm Kamerlingh Onnes from a private collector. With his whimsical visual idiom, the artist’s ceramic objects
Less than five centimetres in diameter, yet quite unique: a lidded jar made of imperial Chinese glass. This world heritage in miniature, which is frequently used in books and articles as an example of
In Chinese culture mountains have provided a source of inspiration for thousands of years. The contemporary work of Dutch ceramicist Babs Haenen, who celebrates her 75th birthday this year, is
Kunstmuseum Den Haag’s new visual identity includes a striking ‘K’ that is in keeping with the Hague typographic tradition. It has been designed by Peter Bil’ak, who drew inspiration from the museum’s