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

“Imagine the life of Frida Kahlo yoked to the eye of Edvard Munch, and you’ll begin to get the measure of this oeuvre…” (The Independent, London, 2003)

This spring the Gemeentemuseum presents the

From 2021 GEM museum of contemporary art in The Hague will be known as KM21. KM refers to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and 21 to the art of the twenty-first century. The new name will make the museum more...

B.C. Epker (b. Harlingen,1968) produces intriguing drawings and woodcuts which lead the viewer to reflect on the contemporary situation. They tend to be landscapes featuring one or more human figures

Jan Toorop (1858 – 1928) ranks alongside Van Gogh and Mondrian as one of the most important Dutch artists of the period around 1900. All three took their bearings from the latest international

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

Jungerman has produced a number of new pieces specially for Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s Projects Gallery.

 

23 November 2019 to 22 March 2020

‘Meticulous, varied and intense work of great quality. Work that stays with you’: the glowing assessment in the jury report for the Ouborg Prize 2019. They refer