hoogtij – Quartair

Fresh art from the factory floor

EN
Toasted is raw, fresh, and full of energy, straight from the factory floor. Art, fashion, and music merge into a sensory experience. With installations and performance by both emerging and established talents.

NL
Toasted is rauw, fris en vol energie, direct van de fabrieksvloer. Hier smelten kunst, mode en muziek samen tot een zintuigprikkelende ervaring. Met installaties, mode en performance van opkomend talent én gevestigde kunstenaars.

Opening 26 September 2025, during Hoogtij #82, from 19:00 to 23:00
Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, from 13:00 to 17:00
Finissage 11 October 2025, during MusemNacht Den Haag

Participating artists / kunstenaars:
Marlies Adriaanse, Lau Breukhoven-KROES, Blanka de Bruyne, Marc Claeijs, Oliver Doe, June Gibbs, Mekhlla Harrison, Dana laMonda, Astrid Nobel, Jessy Rahman, Zeger Reyers, Mike Rijnierse, Pietertje van Splunter, Mariska Streefland, Thom Vink.

June Gibbs has made her work ‘More or Less’ into an installation for Toasted at Quartair

June Gibbs investigates the norms and perceptions that confine us. By giving room for recognition, humor, and reflection, she tries to navigate a world full of contradictions: “I intend to provoke a tension that triggers reflection and wonder. Either by subtle gestures, or straight forward moves, I playfully explore the abstract and the recognizable to expose the forces that shape our expectations and opinions.” For Toasted, her work ‘More or Less’ will take the form of an installation presenting parts of the 2025 graduation project.

Oliver Doe: Something More, Something Else, coloured pencil drawings on cotton rag paper

Oliver Doe’s drawings stem from an interest in the asterisk within queer language use. This typographical symbol often appears as a marker of ‘something more’ or ‘something else’ beyond the language that we can see. This can be used as a mode of queering, particularly within gendered expressions (eg. Queer*, Man*, Woman*), but appears most notably with the use of “Trans*”, implying a set of meanings beyond the simplicity of this foundational word. As we expand the categories, these layers begin to overlap and their meanings expand into something new, something queer, something that defies concrete, universal meaning. “My research has been focused on linguistic abstraction as a performative mode that can (de)construct the possibilities of queer identities, communicating beyond language as we expect it. This work focuses particularly on paralanguages – movement, colour, gesture, tone – on ways in which they are abstracted through time and context to defy understanding and entangle their meanings as they overlap with the verbal.”
Visit also: Oliver Doe

Museumnacht Den Haag 2025

For the Museum Night / MuseumNacht Den Haag, on October 11th, 2025, we have prepared a lively program of performances and a DJ set.

Rhythm of Flour, KROES

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Rhythm of Flour is a performance and interactive sound installation by Lau Breukhoven, also known as KROES. Inspired by Quartair’s history as a former bread factory, it explores themes of rhythm arising from repetition and slow change, in two performances. Expect DIY electronics and a fresh perspective on sound art.

NL
Rhythm of Flour is een performance-element en interactieve geluidsinstallatie van Lau Breukhoven, ookwel KROES. Geïnspireerd door de geschiedenis van Quartair als voormalig broodfabriek exploreert het in twee performances thema’s van ritmes voorkomend uit herhaling en langzame veranderingen. Verwacht doe-het-zelf electronica en een frisse blik binnen de geluidskunst.

DJ set

🎶 We close the Museum night with DJ Yan Sun and his eclectic vinyl collection invoking Afro, Exotica, Cumbia, Brazilian, Funk, Disco, Ska and Reggae spirits.
Join us!

header image: *De walvissen komen de botten van hun voorouders halen*, Astrid Nobel
(casein, washed up coal, whale bone, seawater and gesso on canvas)
200×80 cm, 2024

Visitor strikes a pose in front of Marc Claeijs’ works; photo by Dana laMonda, 26 September 2025

See you at Quartair!
Toussaintkade 55,
The Hague

For the 73rd edition of Hoogtij we present Weird Angles, an evening with works by Gerco de Ruijter, Thom Vink, and a collaboration with Radio Tonka, bringing DJs Margarita, dsrpturs, 4/4 en Robber. Doors open at 19.00. Free entrance.

Besides screening the film ‘Grid Corrections XL’ by Gerco de Ruijter (2018), Quartair artist Thom Vink shows a new photo installation, while Radio Tonka presents an audio-visual performance by Zethera Elektrika at 19.30, 21.00 & 22.30.

RadioTonka is live from Quartair from 23:00 to 03:00 AM on Den Haag FM.

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RadioTonka is The Hague’s underground radio station, since 1994. Next to a diverse night broadcast program on DenHaag FM, RadioTonka functions as a roaming stage and platform, supporting djs and musicians, with a focus on new talent, experimentation and artistic growth.

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Sinds 1994 is RadioTonka het alternatieve radiostation van Den Haag. Naast decdagelijkse nachtradio programmering op DenHaag FM, fungeert RadioTonka als een nomadisch podium en platform ter ondersteuning van dj’s en muzikanten, toegespitst op nieuw talent, experiment en artistieke groei.

Zethera Elektrika presents a new koncept of reality that tackles the kore fundamental problems of the universe that we are konfronted, preventing us from kreating a utopia that lies within reach of us all.

Zethera Elektrika reveals the true nature of the divine force that lies at the essence of our being and shapes our realities, and guides all that lives and is blessed with the power of konsiousness.

About ‘Grid Corrections XL’ by Gerco de Ruijter (2018)

After the US Civil War in 1785 president Thomas Jefferson established a grid-system in order to allocate the North American West. This so called “Thomas Jefferson Grid” was made by superimposing a rectangular grid on the earth surface, drawn from exact square miles.
Since a round earth does not lend itself to a repeating network of equal-sized squares, the checkerboard of roads is fractionally shifted.
Take a square piece of paper, wrap it around an orange and observe the tapering folds in the paper, If you want to cover the earth with checkerboards, you can only do so if you outsmart the folds in the paper. The system has to be corrected in order to continue as though nothing has been corrected.

The north-south boundaries in the grid are on the lines of longitude, which converge to the north. The roads that follow these boundaries must dogleg every twenty-four miles to counter the diminishing distances: It is easy to see in Google Earth how these repeated corrections have produced fascinating crossroads: T-Junctions, straight or curved, and always inventive.

Gerco de Ruijter collected hundreds of these corrections and created this stop-motion film as a dazzling way of how humanity has tried to exert control over the earth. Nature may seem stronger than humanity, but at the same time humans constantly manage to overcome nature with their boundless inventiveness.

Grid Corrections (The Book) was published by nai010:
nai010.com/nl/publicaties/gerco-de-ruijter-grid-corrections/240707

The film was made possible with the generous support of the Mondrian Fund, Amsterdam.

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