Fashion in Style
What fashion designers have been inspired by Piet Mondrian and De Stijl? Fashions from the museum’s own collection, including Yves Saint Laurent’s renowned 1965 Mondrian dress and creations by Marlies
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.
What fashion designers have been inspired by Piet Mondrian and De Stijl? Fashions from the museum’s own collection, including Yves Saint Laurent’s renowned 1965 Mondrian dress and creations by Marlies
For Tomas Rajlich (b. 1940), the grid is the measure of all things. Rajlich’s starting point is usually a network of horizontal and vertical lines, which he lays down and then covers with loose
Emotional vulnerability, a search for personal identity and physical change are all key characteristics of adolescence. Contemporary photographers like Paul Graham, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Struth and
The circle has always been an important starting point for Barbara Nanning (b. 1957). Her forms and structures derive from a circular motion that she allows to solidify in glass or ceramics. She has
Rinus Van de Velde (b. Leuven, 1983) is a leading figure on the Belgian contemporary art scene. His work revolves mainly around the tension between fiction and reality. For the show in the museum’s
During the second half of the 19th century, foreign artists flocked to the Netherlands. Favourite subjects were the Dutch fishing villages and their picturesque inhabitants, but the cities, provincial
How did Piet Mondrian interpret one of the most popular religious scenes in early Western art? What did the figure of Christ mean to James Ensor? This exhibition offers some unexpected angles on the
We are inclined to pass snap judgments on other people. We quickly form an opinion on the basis of their appearance or behaviour. The beautiful but discomfiting paintings of Dutch artist Ad Gerritsen