2026 – Quartair

Tekenen = Spelen

Van 13 t/m 29 maart 2026 
Opening: vrijdag, 13 maart 2026, van 17.00 tot 23.00 uur (Hoog t ij)
Openingstijden: donderdag t/m zondag van 13.00-17.00 uur
Finissage & kunstenaarsgesprek: zondag, 29 maart 2026, 14.00–16.00 uur 

Van 13 t/m 29 maart 2026 verandert de Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars (NKvT) onze projectruimte in een vrije speelruimte voor tekenen en onderzoek. Onder de titel Tekenen = Spelen werken kunstenaars samen in een open laboratorium, waarin het proces belangrijker is dan het eindresultaat. Experimenteren, falen en opnieuw beginnen krijgen hier volop ruimte.

De tentoonstelling opent feestelijk op vrijdag 13 maart van 17.00 tot 19.00 uur, met aansluitend Hoogtij. Op zondag 29 maart van 14.00 tot 16.00 uur vindt een afsluitend publiek gesprek plaats, waarin de kunstenaars reflecteren op de samenwerkingen en de nieuwe ontdekkingen die tijdens de werkperiode zijn ontstaan.

Quartair is opgedeeld in vier werkzones, waarin groepjes het thema vrijheid vanuit verschillende invalshoeken onderzoeken: in materiaal, in denken, in ruimte en als inhoudelijk concept. Bezoekers zijn getuige van een voortdurend veranderende tentoonstelling, waarin samenwerking, dialoog en experiment centraal staan.

Zoete Broodjes 
In de achterruimte is de groepsexpositie Zoete Broodjes te zien: kleine tekeningen in het formaat van kadetjes en broden, om direct mee te nemen, geïnspireerd op de geschiedenis van de Haagsche Broodfabriek waarin Quartair is gevestigd.

Over de NKvT 
De Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars verenigt kunstenaars die autonome tekenkunst als kern van hun werk zien. Sinds 1947 maakt de NKvT de ontwikkeling van tekenkunst zichtbaar en biedt een platform voor ontmoeting, onderzoek en uitwisseling. Meer informatie: www.nvkt.nl

Tekenen = Spelen is een uitnodiging om vrijheid niet alleen te bekijken, maar ook te ervaren: als bezoeker, als maker en als mens.

Kunstenaars 
Hanna de Haan, Yvonne van de Griendt, Inez Ishizaki, Ben van der Wel, Lisanne Sloots, Natascha Waeyen, Selma Dronkers, Nanou Jacobs, Anna Rudolf, Zela Odessa Palmer, Laurens Heidendael, Yvonne van den Herik, Marijke Vijfhuizen, Tom Heerschop, Anne Verhoijsen, Emma van Drongelen, Liesje van den Berk, Sandra Mackus, Wilma Laarakker, Herman Fontein, Egbarta Veenhuizen, Janneke Tangelder, Ingeborg Oderwald, Bernadette Beunk, Georg Bohle, Matthijs van Zessen, Thérèse Zoekende.

Tekenen = Spelen (“Drawing = Playing”) is an invitation not only to observe freedom, but also to experience it: as a visitor, as a creator, and as a human being.

March 13–29, 2026
Opening: Friday, March 13, from 5Pm to 11PM (during Hootgij #84)
Exhibition hours: Thursday through Sunday, 1:00-5:00 PM
Finisage & artist talk: Sunday, March 29, 2:00–4:00 PM

organized by NKvT (the Dutch Circle of Drawing Artists)

Participating artists: Hanna de Haan, Yvonne van de Griendt, Inez Ishizaki, Ben van der Wel, Lisanne Sloots, Natascha Waeyen, Selma Dronkers, Nanou Jacobs, Anna Rudolf, Zela Odessa Palmer, Laurens Heidendael, Yvonne van den Herik, Marijke Vijfhuizen, Tom Heerschop, Anne Verhoijsen, Emma van Drongelen, Liesje van den Berk, Sandra Mackus, Wilma Laarakker, Herman Fontein, Egbarta Veenhuizen, Janneke Tangelder, Ingeborg Oderwald, Bernadette Beunk, Georg Bohle, Matthijs van Zessen, Thérèse Zoekende.

Quartair project space will transform into a playground for drawing, freedom, and research. The artists collaborate as in an open laboratory, where the process is more important than the end result.

Van Damascus naar Den Haag

Tijdens Van Damascus naar Den Haag organiseren we een driedaagse workshop met Syrische kunstenaars en deelnemers met een Syrische achtergrond. Beeldende kunst, video art, muziek en schilderkunst komen samen in een gezamenlijk creatieproces.

Gedurende drie dagen werken de deelnemers samen aan één collectieve installatie rond het thema rechtvaardige transitie. Het werk wordt gevoed door poëzie, korte films en groepsgesprekken. Deze momenten van uitwisseling en reflectie vormen de inspiratiebron voor de artistieke ontwikkeling van de installatie.

De workshop biedt ruimte voor ontmoeting, verbeelding en gedeelde verhalen. Kunst wordt hier gebruikt als middel om ervaringen te delen, vragen te stellen en samen na te denken over toekomst, herinnering en rechtvaardigheid.

Op 8 maart wordt de gezamenlijke installatie gepresenteerd aan het publiek. Na de iftar, om 19.00 uur, openen we de expositie met live muziek en optredens. Het resultaat is een moment van samenzijn, waarin kunst, cultuur en dialoog samenkomen.

During “From Damascus to The Hague,” we are organizing a three-day workshop with Syrian artists and participants with a Syrian background. Visual art, video art, music, and painting will come together in a collaborative creative process.

Over these three days, the participants will collaborate on a single collective installation around the theme of just transition. The work will be informed by poetry, short films, and group discussions. These moments of exchange and reflection will inspire the installation’s artistic development.

The workshop offers a space for encounters, imagination, and shared stories. Art will be used as a means to share experiences, ask questions, and reflect together on the future, memory, and justice.

The collaborative installation will be presented to the public on March 8th. After the iftar, at 7:00 PM, we will open the exhibition with live music and performances. The result is a moment of togetherness, where art, culture, and dialogue converge.

Nine Dragon Heads | Crossing Currents

Exhibition 22-28 Feb 2026

Opening Sunday, Feb 22nd
15:00 opening with performances

Presentations Monday, Feb 23rd
15:00 Lecture by critic Rhee Gyeong-Mo
16:00 Artists talks

Exhibition hours: Thursday through Saturday, 13:00-17:00

Crossing Currents presents a dynamic survey of Korean contemporary art that reflects the country’s rapid cultural transformations and its expanding role in global artistic discourse.
Bringing together artists whose practices span from installation, performance, video, photography, to post-material experimentation, the exhibition explores how Korean artists navigate themes of identity, mobility, ecology, and technological change while engaging in dialogue with European and global contexts.
Nine Dragon Heads is a Korean contemporary art nomadic platform cooperating with Quartair for over 15 years.

The exhibition positions Korea not as a remote cultural sphere but as an active participant in the transnational flow of ideas—resonating strongly with Quartair’s long-standing interest in international exchange as an experimental artistic practice.

Participating artists:
Pang Hyo-Sung (performance), Jang Gyeong-Churl (photo), Lee Hyo-im (panting), Lee Ae-Kyeong (painting), Vania Oh (object), Kim Young-Jin (Video), Kim Kyeol-Soo (installation), Kwon Ki-Ja (object), Kwon Ki-Chul (drawing), Pak Kyong-OK (painting), Park Si-Hyun (installation), Bahk Young-Hoon (video), Noh Jung-Ha (Video) Ran Hwang (object), Lee Young-Ae (drawing), Park Seung-Jae (painting), Lara Goo (object), Yemi Kim (animation), Nam Myung-Ok (video), Nam Hyun-Joo (painting).

This event is supported by AAW (Asian Artworks) and MOON Gallery 101.

The Environmental Art Symposium Nine Dragon Heads was initiated in South Korea by Park, Byoung-Uk in response to the destruction of an important historical site in 1995, and has evolved from the specific eco-political motivation into an open, interdisciplinary nomadic platform where an association of artists from around the world implement individual and collaborative art projects related to humanitarian, political, environmental and cultural issues.

The origins of Nine Dragon Heads are part of a distinct continuum of artistic development in Korea, beginning in the 1980s and 90s with a small group of artists (contemporaries of Park) who wanted to consider artistic and philosophical problems outside of traditional Korean art forms and who were motivated to remain under the radar of the military regime and government control in place at that time. In that political environment a significant thread of South Korea’s contemporary art development took place in off-site projects, held within rural mountainous areas and remote natural sites.

During thirty years of activity Nine Dragon Heads has evolved out of its specific locality and historical background to investigate a broader range of transitional environmental, economic and political situations. A further important step for Nine Dragon Heads began in 2006 when it became actively nomadic. It was a natural progression for the project to begin to engage with other specific localities and their eco-political histories by traveling.

Working in locations with transitional characteristics that may be environmentally, economically and/or politically troubled, on important cultural, historical and geopolitical routes has become a particular feature of working within Nine Dragon Heads. It is noteworthy that Nine Dragon Heads is an inherently flexible model capable of responding perceptively and with focused spontaneity to the inevitably unexpected contextual conditions which occur within the immediate surroundings of each location the group is engaging with artistically.

Nine Dragon Heads has worked on locations throughout the South Korean Peninsula and its islands, including the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and Joint Security Area (JSA) between the North and South of Korea. Other areas recently engaged include Bosnia/Herzegovina, the South Caucasus; Georgia, and Central Asian locations; Uzbekistan, Turkey, China, Tibet and Mongolia. Past projects have also taken place in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.

ESC 2035 (I): the world paused.

Opening Friday, January 9, from 5–8 PM
Exhibition from 9 to 24 January 2026
Open hours Thursday through Saturday, 14:00–18:00

What happens when the systems we build keep running, but we are no longer there? The first chapter of the ESC 2035 trilogy explores a world in suspension. Featuring works by 8 artists, the exhibition captures a weather report of a future where technology is a landscape of dust, signals, and fossilized interfaces.

Building on the themes of ESC 2034, this chapter looks at the residue we leave behind — from sound circuits to neon warmth — asking what remains when presence is absent.

… the world paused.

Nobody’s here, but something still is. The systems haven’t shut down completely: screens, wiring, dust, and light still translate motion, heat, and air into tone.

Participating artists: Francesco Zedde, Junya Li, Laury Hooghuis, Maria Esteve Trull, S. Mercure, TJ (Tianju) Chen, Tobias Krämer, Todd Clare

This is the second show curated by 0–1.gallery at Quartair. 0–1 is a nomadic contemporary art platform that moves how it needs to — tech-aware, a bit restless, and always asking why. Since 2017, 0–1 has been shaped by artists who keep things in motion, not there for fixed ideas. There are no walls, no permanent fixtures, but a stubborn curiosity, and the need to explore issues that matter. Read more on: 0–1.gallery.

Head image: work by Junya Li