tentoonstelling: 22 mei t/m 14 juni Openingstijden: vrijdag t/m zondag van 13 – 17.30 uur Opening: vrijdag, 22 mei -19 uur Hoogtij #85: vrijdag, 29 mei 19-23 uur
Deelnemende kunstenaars: Sander van Deurzen, Bernice Nauta, Evi Vingerling, Hanae Wilke, Vera van de Seyp, Majda Vidakovic, Fons Haagmans en Piet Nieuwenhuysen.
robe bleu, fond rouge #3 is de titel van een tentoonstelling met een focus op schilderkunst. Onder dezelfde naam vindt nu voor de derde keer een tentoonstelling plaats in de ruimte van Quartair De tentoonstelling wordt samengesteld door de kunstenaars Nies Vooijs, Annemieke Louwerens en Pietertje van Splunter en geeft om de 2 of 3 jaar jaar een update op de staat van de schilderkunst gezien vanuit Den Haag.
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robe bleu fond rouge #3
exhibition from 22 May to 14 June, 2026 Opening on Friday, May 22nd at 7PM Visiting hours: Friday through Sunday, 1PM–5:30PM Hoogtij #85: Friday, 29 May, from 7PM–11PM
Participating artists: Sander van Deurzen, Bernice Nauta, Evi Vingerling, Hanae Wilke, Vera van de Seyp, Majda Vidakovic, Fons Haagmans en Piet Nieuwenhuysen.
The title Robe bleu, fond rouge — taken from a painting by Henri Matisse — refers to the essence of painting: color, form, and paint on canvas. At the same time, it points to what cannot be captured in words. The visual takes center stage. Curated by Nies Vooijs, Annemieke Louwerens, and Pietertje van Splunter, every two to three years, the exhibition offers a current perspective on painting from The Hague.
EX-MÊKH is in 2006 ontstaan vanuit de wens tentoonstellingen te maken waarin het individuele werk een onderlinge relatie aangaat en zich verhoudt tot de plek. In Unifying Fury is recent werk te zien. De titel komt voort uit het idee van een samenwerkende energie.
EX-MÊKH viert hun 20-jarige samenwerking met een installatie die gedurende de hele tentoonstellingsperiode elke dag zal transformeren. De tentoonstelling zal worden geopend door EX-MÊKH met als speciale gast Isolde Nagel, oprichter en curator van A TRANS uit Berlijn.
Opening: vrijdag, 19 juni – 19.00 uur Periode expositie: 19 – 28 juni 2026 Openingstijden: vr-za-zo 13.00 – 17.30 uur
Doe je mee aan ‘De Fury’? Tijdens de tentoonstelling Unifying Fury maken de kunstenaars van EX-MÊKH samen met bezoekers een tijdelijke installatie in de ruimte van Quartair. Door toevoegingen zal deze sculptuur elke dag veranderen. De basis is stucloper, een kartonnen vloerbescherming die we zullen laten golven, zweven en verplaatsen. We willen zo inspiratie binnen laten stromen en de verbeelding aan het werk zetten. Met deze installatie willen we het gezamenlijk handelen vieren, waarbij met respect voor elkaar aan een gezamenlijke sculptuur wordt gewerkt samengesteld uit vele beelden en waar ruimte is voor uitwisseling en reflectie.
Meedoen kan als volgt: Inloop tijdens alle openingstijden en extra op do 25 juni vanaf 14 uur (materialen zijn aanwezig of zelf meenemen).
Op 28 juni zal tijdens de Finissage om 16 uur het moment zijn waarop ‘The Fury expands’. Op dat moment zal de installatie uiteenvallen in talloze stukken die verdeeld worden onder makers en liefhebbers.
Kunstenaarscollectief EX-MÊKH bestaat uit drie beeldend kunstenaars: Ellen Rodenberg, Kees Koomen en Maarten Schepers.
Unifying Fury features recent work by the artists of EX-MÊKH collective. EX-MÊKH was started in 2006 out of a desire to create exhibitions in which the individual works interact with one another and relate to the space.
The title Unifying Fury reflects the idea of a collaborative energy. EX-MÊKH is celebrating their 20-year collaboration with an installation that will transform every day throughout the exhibition period.
The exhibition will be opened by EX-MÊKH with special guest Isolde Nagel, founder and curator of A TRANS from Berlin.
Opening: Friday, June 19 – 7:00 PM Exhibition from June 19–28, 2026 Opening hours: Fri–Sat–Sun, from 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Will you join “The Fury”? During Unifying Fury, EX-MÊKH artists will collaborate with visitors to create a temporary installation at Quartair. This sculpture will change every day as new elements are added. The base is a cardboard floor roll that we will have undulating, floating, and shifting. In this way, we want to let inspiration flow in and set the imagination to work. With this installation, we aim to celebrate collective action, working together with respect for one another on a shared sculpture (composed of many images) while creating space for exchange and reflection.
You can participate as follows: Drop in during all opening hours and additionally on Thursday, June 25, starting at 2 PM (materials are provided or you can bring your own).
June 28, during the closing event, 4 PM will be the moment “The Fury expands”. At that moment, the installation will break apart into countless pieces that will be distributed among creators and art-enthusiasts.
The collective EX-MÊKH consists of three visual artists: Ellen Rodenberg, Kees Koomen, and Maarten Schepers.
This year’s resident of ensemble Modelo62, Germaine Sijstermans, is developing her new site-specific installation ‘Yareta’, over the period of three weeks at Quartair. Yareta is composed as an open score, making each of the quartet’s three live performances a unique experience. Central to the music is timbre, sound textures, and a continuous interplay with perception itself, for both musicians and listeners.
The installation is to visitors during opening hours, with the music playing through four speakers. Visitors are invited to wander freely through the space; listening, watching, thinking, lazing, and daydreaming. ‘Yareta’ is composed as an open score, making each of the quartet’s three live performances a unique experience.
The music is performed by Elliot Simpson (guitar), Santiago Lascurain (guitar), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Guy Vandromme (Indian harmonium), Leslee Smucker (lights).
Live concerts: Friday, April, 24th. 20:30 – free entrance Saturday, May, 2nd. 20:30 – €12,50 / students €7 Sunday May 10th. 16:00 – €12,50 / students €7
Quartair newsletter subscribers and friends get 100% discount, with code: QUARTAIR (capital letters): Get tickets to Yareta here
Installation visiting hours 13:00 – 17:00 on the following dates: April: 25, 26, 30 May: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10
Germaine Sijstermans • Photo by Joris Hilterman
Yareta is commissioned by Modelo62 and Gerliene & Sven Karssenberg-Schlijper (The Loveworms Commissions) and is supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Den Haag, and Intro in Situ.
An old spinning top that Mariska de Groot found at a flea market sparked the idea for a sound installation. Immediately fascinated by this colourful children’s toy and its humming harmonies, she delved into the history and mechanics of these ingenious spinning tops. The result is BROM, a choir of motorised, rotating, harmonium-like instruments suspended from the ceiling, creating sounds through a system of air and reeds. Each instrument is tuned differently, creating shifting interferences and rhythmic vibrations, immersing visitors in a hypnotic soundscape as they move through the space.
iii member Mariska de Groot is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of light, sound, and space. She creates immersive installations in which self-built instruments create dynamic, multisensory environments. Inspired by seemingly simple historical inventions, her work reinterprets these inventions through experimental approaches, exploring the role of technology, perception, and spatial experience.
Proximity Music is a joint exhibition programme initiated by iii and Rewire. It seeks to connect sound, architecture, and technology through intimate sensory experiences. As part of Rewire 2026, the sixth edition, titled Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum, will take place from 9 to 12 April across various locations in the centre of The Hague.
Proximity Music: The Ongoing Hum focuses on attuning to the seemingly inaudible rhythms, vibrations, and radiations that coexist in our environment. The exhibition brings together diverse instruments and compositions that stimulate new ways of perceiving our everyday surroundings: from tapping into the electricity of cyanobacteria and sensing the heartbeat of strangers to the barely audible frequencies resonating in ceramic vessels and immersion in a hypnotic humming top soundscape. Tuning into the hidden rhythms of the physical world, this exhibition transforms materials into portals by encouraging listening beyond the ears. More info: linktr.ee/proximitymusic
This exhibition is supported by Stroom Den Haag, Creative Industries Fund NL, The Municipality of The Hague, Konrad Boehmer Foundation and Cultuurfonds.
Van 13 t/m 29 maart 2026 Opening: vrijdag, 13 maart 2026, van 17.00 tot 23.00 uur (Hoogtij) 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.
Foto’s opening door Dana LaMonda, 13 maart 2026
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The KABK department of Interactive Media Design, I/M/D, presents their 3rd year’s collective works at Quartair. Open this Friday, 12 December, from 18:00 to 23:00, with installations, interactive works and performances.
Join us this Saturday, 6 December, for an afternoon centering Kenyan artists and Kenyan struggle, with an online presentation by Minoo Kyaa, Antony Adhiambo, and Davis Tafari from The Travelling Theatre, plus lino-prints, DJ sets and a fleamarket.
The Travelling Theatre is an initiative incorporating various kinds of art; performing arts, street theatre and public outreaches in promotion of mass education in the quest for social justice in Kenya. It involves a cadreship of trained social justice organizers from different social movements and progressive formations. In this regard, the Social Justice Travelling Theater, inspired by the works of Fanon on the pedagogical method of reaching the masses, galvanised by Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed and the intellectual role of the theatre of the oppressed is a towering arm in both internal study and mass work within the framework of the Kimathi Political School.
This benefit event brings forth stories of resistance and revolution told through a variety of creative practices, from street art to theatre. A one-day exhibition including DJ sets, a bake-sale, and a lino-printing workshop. All proceeds go to the construction of the Kimathi Political School, in Laikipia County, about 180 km from Nairobi City.
Saturday, December 6, from 12:00 to 19:30 at Quartair. Organized by AIN NL.
