Since April 2017 the Kunstmuseum Den Haag has been participating in a research project concerning plastic artefacts in museum collections in the Netherlands. Every collection of contemporary art and...

In the course of his long career, Jan van der Zee (1898-1988) produced a vast body of work, extremely varied in both style and medium. His oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, lithos, woodcuts, lino

Little Red Riding Hood – it’s a story we all know by heart. Generations have grown up with it and, even today, anyone over the age of four can tell you the tale of the sweet little girl in the red

This summer, the projects room of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be the setting for the first museum solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Michael Kirkham (b. Blackpool, UK, 1971). Kirkham

After the success of the exhibitions Kandinsky & Der Blaue Reiter and Haute Couture it is the turn of gems from the collection to dazzle, amaze and open the eyes of the visitor. Famous names jostle

Like some latter-day Leonardo da Vinci, Georges Vantongerloo focused in his work on the relationship between the human body and the cosmos. In the art world there is much loose talk of achieving a

The Minimal = More exhibition held at the Gemeentemuseum earlier this year included a 2002 work entitled Coded Language, Hardliner by German artist Frank Gerritz (b. Hamburg, 1964). Gerritz is a

We are familiar with the clichés surrounding the emergence of Impressionism. The Impressionists are believed to have broken radically with tradition, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to their