KABK – Quartair

Waiting Field

Waiting Field is an exhibition of immersive video installations by four emerging artists exploring the intersection of cinema and visual art. Like a field shaped by time and subtle shifts, the exhibition reflects on waiting – as a condition, a space, and a method –where images and meanings slowly take form.

Featuring works by Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine, Kimia Khedri, Michał Kucharski, and Lyy Raitala.

Opening: Friday, 6 June from 19:00 to 23:00
Exhibition hours: from Saturday 7 June to Tuesday 10 June, 13:00-19:00 and Wednesday, 11 June, 13:00-16:00

The title Waiting Field refers to a space that is both literal and metaphorical – a place shaped by time, transformation, and anticipation. The exhibition reflects the temporal nature of video and the quiet tension of waiting: for meaning, for resolution, for something to emerge.Working in the undefined space between film and visual art, each artist approaches video not just as a storytelling device but as a sculptural, spatial, and conceptual medium. Their works explore the thresholds between reality and fiction, absence and presence, stillness and movement.

Kimia Khedri (b. 2003, Tehran, Iran) is a visual artist based in The Hague. She investigates disorientation, memory, and the invisible connections between identity and place.

Alexandra Pavlovskaya-Lokchine (born 2002 in Moscow, Russia) is a visual artist and cinematographer based in the Hague and in Paris. She captures suspended moments — foggy landscapes, deserted alleys — where time feels paused and memory lingers.

Michał Kucharski (born in 1997 in Krakow, Poland) is a visual artist based in The Hague, working primarily with videography and photography. With his work, he approaches the medium as a sculptural object, examining how narratives unfold through space and tension.

Lyy Raitala (1999) is a Finnish lens-based artist living in the Netherlands. She constructs surreal, fragmented scenes drawn from everyday life, using humor and subtle interventions to destabilize the familiar.

Together, these works form a shared terrain – a waiting field – where the moving image becomes a site of reflection, transformation, and encounter.

Graphics and poster by Lucy Gengler.

With thanks to Amarte Fonds

[seventeen frequencies] ArtScience Preview

From April 11th to 13th, 2025, the graduating class of the ArtScience Interfaculty will present [seventeen frequencies], a three day exhibition taking place at two locations, Quartair and Paradise (Groenewegje 136).

Opening hours:
Friday, April 11 from 7PM to 11PM
Saturday, April 12 from 12 to 10PM
Sunday, April 13 from 10AM to 6PM

Participating artists from ArtScience exhibiting at Quartair:
Omer van Soldt @vogonxpoetry
Laura A Dima @lauraadima
Anaïs Lossouarn @anaislossouarn
Jedrek Eltman @jedrek.eltman
Lola C. Brancovich @lolachevyy
Anne Zarske @anne.zarske
Tom de Kok @didymus.artist
Charlotte Roschka @corcarlotti
Levi Kramer

The ArtScience Interfaculty offers an interdisciplinary bachelor’s and master’s programme that fosters curiosity driven research as an approach for the making of art. The programme considers art and science as a continuum and promotes the development of new art forms and artistic languages. The ArtScience Interfaculty is embedded in both the Royal Conservatoire and The Royal Academy for Fine Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands. Read more on: interfaculty.nl

Bad Objects

Quartair presents Bad Objects, an exhibition that explores the enchanting yet unsettling nature of the doll’s house. In this show, Lore Pilzecker, Kiara Amartya, Ghazale Moqanaki, Marieke Peeters, and Ghazal Faghihi share different perspectives on the idea of the doll’s house.

Bad Objects | 11-20 October, 2024

When one thinks of a doll’s house, one might think of their personal history and origin –childhood, toys, and magic– but one could also think of the doll’s house as a representation of wealth disparity, or as a catalyst of horror. When buying a ‘real’ house is steadily becoming a disappearing reality for many, there is solace in the fantasy that the doll’s house provides in imagining our ideal world. In how it invites us to dream.

Bad Objects is organized by Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters, both graduated from the Master Artistic Research program at the KABK / Royal Academy of Art in 2023. They often work together and are currently developing an immersive theatre project entitled Garbage Mansion, to be presented at the Zaal 3 of The National Theater, The Hague, 2025.

Opening:
Friday, October 11th, 19.00 – 22.00
Performances:
Lore Pilzecker 19.30 – 19.50
Ghazal Faghihi 20.30 – 20.50

Exhibition hours: from Friday to Sunday, 13.00 – 17.30
Free entrance.

Museumnacht: Saturday, October 12th, 19.00 – 01.00
Performances:
Lore Pilzecker 19.30 – 19.50
Ghazal Faghihi 20.30 – 20.50
Lore Pilzecker 22.00 – 22.20
Ghazal Faghihi 23.00 – 23.20

Bad Objects was made possible with the generous support of Stroom Den Haag, Mondriaanfonds, Museumnacht Den Haag, and Amarte Fonds.

Acts of Publication

Upcoming Saturday, July 6th, we will be hosting a movement workshop focusing on practices of “dribble”, dodging, “esquiva”.

“Dribble” as in dodging obstacles through sudden quick movements, aims to achieve a loose body. The loose body means a body living in the present, a body ready to fight; a body that dances to handle the everyday, surviving societal and colonial violence. At the same time, it dances to write history, to celebrate memories, to shake control and colonial “peace”. On this day we will move in order to write narratives, and imagine ways of publishing knowledge through dance and orallity.

Parcela de Tierra is a movement research collective created out of the need of shared spaces for bodies displaced from their own environments. Organised by designers, activists and performace artists Elisa de la Serna and Lara Silva Santos, they invite Yadhira de León to facilitate this workshop.

Parcela de Tierra seeks to reclaim space and to question Eurocentric, institutional and repressive environments in which popular culture has little to no room to flourish. It strives to hold space and to facilitate performances based on improvisation, connection and affection. Collaboration with grassroots initiatives is an essential part of the collective’s practice, for the creation of a support network that transcends institutional borders. Check out their other events planned this week.

Saturday, July 6th
16:30 doors open
17:00-18:20 movement workshop on dodging, “esquiva”, protection, self-defense and theatrical games
18:20 break
18:40-19:30 round table discussion about the challenges of publishing and re-imagining ways to publish
19:30-20:00 cooling down and closure

Free entrance.

I/M/D Arcade for Adults

For the past semester, fourteen students in the second year of Interactive Media Design of the Royal Academy of Art / KABK, have developed works for their course ‘Client Assignment’. The client, Festival Cinekid asked the students to design interactive works relevant in an age of ‘monoculture’, that motivates the sense of extraordinary in children.

Monday, 3rd of June, from 17:30 to 21:30. Free entrance.

“Smoothed, slicked, liked, we live in a world of the greatest common denominator, ‘the age of averageness’. From film to fashion and architecture to advertising, our creative industry is dominated and defined by conventions and clichés, tested, checked, and ironed out. Every kid watches Paw Patrol, we all look like Kim Kardashian and we’re flocking to the cinema for another Despicable Me sequel. In 2024 we should focus on unique makers and stories, throw the average overboard, and celebrate being different. Critical thinking, creative freedom and a different path, just act extraordinary, because it can’t be crazy enough.”

This was the assignment brief that Cinekid gave to the I/M/D students. For the past three months, they have been designing interactive installations that motivate the extraordinary, critiques the influence of technology on our social appearance, and subverts the effect of digital influencers. Their works are showcased on the 4th of June, allowing visitors to interact with their works: ranging from avatar creators, arcade-like video games, and a wide array of instruments.

With works by: Alex Sigmars, Basia Jagiello, Beverly Lau & Ye Ni Jeong, Tianjiao “Ghost” Qiao, Jessica Abderhalden, Khushi Purohit, Mads Rosairus, Maja Mikulska, Marc Palmhoj, Milla Zeitvogel, Olesya Lakshtanova, Thijs ‘t Hart, Vedang Supatkar

Echoes of Reflection: What Remains in Light of Change

Coming Hoogtij#76, Friday December 1st, six contemporary makers from the masters Non Linear Narrative (Royal Academy of Art/KABK), will be showcasing their thesis research in a playful and open manner. In this event a myriad of complex topics regarding care, cultural identity, gender, knowledge, light and death will be explored. Despite the multiplicity of these projects, there is a cohesive undercurrent that binds all of these artistic practices together: the concept of change. All of the works deal with a change or transformation, be it in a philosophical, ideological, cultural or physical manner, that responds to and questions the way we navigate through society.

Echoes Of Reflection: What Remains in Light of Change includes works by Alessandro Caccuri, Marta Cuccurullo, Lode Dijkers, Kai Jiao, Michela Meliddo and NVDP.

Non Linear Narrative Tech Week

Workshop 16-20 January 2023

Continuing the project started in 2022, Quartair hosted the KABK masters of Non Linear Narrative Tech Week, with a workshop led by artists Martijn van Boven and Gert-Jan Prins, exploring the full sound spectrum to find relationships between bandwidths with respect to energy transfer, clock speed and environmental impact. Work sessions included deep listening practices, writing sessions, electronic circuit building, signal recording and signal transformation.

Martijn van Boven is a visual artist from Amsterdam, with a focus on experimental films and computer generated art. His work is expressed through installations, films, collaborations with composers, and cinema performances.

Gert-Jan Prins is a sound artist who focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual. While he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits.

Photos by Roel Backaert

Non Linear Narrative Tech Week 2022

How to bridge the digital realm with the physical experience? Rather than visualizing data on the screen, in this Tech Week, NLN masters focused on interpreting abstract information, social trends and ecological phenomena as alternative manifestations that included visual, audible, olfactory and even gustative experience.

Having the internet as (real-time) input, six projects were conceived, designed and coded – over the course of four days – translating bytes into dynamic installations and performative (inter)actions.

The Tech Week 2022 was hosted by Rob Bothof, Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues at Quartair, as an immersive and experimental workshop for the Non Linear Narrative masters of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), between February 7th and 11th, 2022.

Participants: Lisette Alberti, Coco Maier, Kateryna Gaidamaka, Paul Mielke; Shouyi He, Julija Panova, Alicja Konkol; Eszter Nagy, Karolina Uskakovych, Daan Veerman; Lode Dijkers & Daniel Gremme; Leonie Gores & Camille Noray; Niels Otterman, Akina López, Jeroen van den Bogaert.

Read also ‘the’Nesting ferality’, article by Karolina Uskakovych on journals.sagepub.com.

“Nesting Ferality is a performative installation that examines how feral rose-ringed parakeets are represented online and governed in Dutch cities. Expanding existing research at the interconnection of artistic practice and cultural geography, the installation incorporates and performs quantitative and qualitative data in an exhibition space. The project deploys everyday digital technologies in novel ways to reshape people’s perception and to explore how artists and geographers can collaborate to foster new environmental politics and mobilise new publics.”

Sun Kissed // Fog Off

Once again Quartair receives the KABK’s Master Artistic Research for a week of experiments in the project space. This project functions as an immersive week-long residency culminating in an exhibition over the weekend. Unfortunately we cannot open the doors to the public.

From Saturday to Sunday, March 20-21, online and by appointment (guests only, sorry, health measures!)

Xenia Klein: Cyanotype-tannin prints. Flash poems on papper

“In a world where tyrant covid grabbed its power and is still ruling our lives, we were all forced to make a standstill in one way or another. Now one year after the first lockdown, we’re getting the opportunity to work together again as a group on the cusp of Spring. It feels like a breath of fresh air. Within one week, with all the participants of the MA Masters Artistic Research of KABK, we created the project Sun Kissed // Fog Off. It works like a kaleidoscope and set of gems that share their energy wherever they are presented. We have embraced the restrictions of the pandemic, like not being able to touch or physically gather, and found a way to deal with obstructions. So we started from looking into the possibilities instead and turned those restrictions into ways of presenting the artworks in ways that fit and connect to this specific moment in time. Questions of time and space became important in creating the right relations during the collaborations and between works. What does it mean to present a sculpture in physical space and on the internet? How can they get a physical sense of the works when seeing an image of, for instance, a painting? How does the audience perceive live performance on their laptops at home? And how do we deal with time zones and having colleagues missing out on physical meetings because they cannot be in The Hague? Sun Kissed // Fog Off expands from Korea through Colombia and through the internet to all corners of the globe and digital realms.

The kaleidoscope is always in flux. Sun Kissed by that energy, we playfully say Fog Off.”

Emily Stevenhagen: ‘Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila’

Visit also kabkmar.hotglue.me

With works by: Balint Revesz, Clara Pallí, Daphne Monastirioti, Elisa Cuesta, Emily Stevenhagen, Esther Arribas, Eva Van Ooijen, Georgie Brinkman, Giath Mardini, Haevan Lee, Leos, Juliana M. Hernández, Lena Longefay, Leonie Brandner, Mazen Alashkar, Noortje Remmen, Renata Mirón, Omid Kheirabadi, Rosa van Walbeek, Xenia Klein, Serene Hui, Shardenia Felicia, and the Hypocritical Care collective

Shardenia Felicia: ‘The writing of E novela Ros – The writing of The pink soap’

Omid Kheirabadi: Wasting Art (€473 worth KFC fried chicken pieces)

A Simple Fizz – MAR/KABK at QUARTAIR

Friday, March 6th | Hoogtij#60
Opening at 19:00
Exhibition runs through the weekend March 7-8, 2020

MA Artistic Research @ Quartair
Curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist

KABK Master of Artistic Research students create an exhibition of their works in collaboration with Stockholm based curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist: the culmination of a week of curatorial experimentation.

Video installation: Park Jaehun

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Studenten van de KABK MA Artistic Research maken een tentoonstelling van hun werk, in samenwerking met de in Stockholm gevestigde curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist: het hoogtepunt van een week van curatoriële experimenten.

Participants/Deelnemende kunstenaars:
Mazen Achkar
Esther Arribas Rovira
Leonie Brandner
Georgie Brinkman
Biba Cole
Adele Dipasquale
Rebecca Dunne
Davide Ghelli Santuliana
Serene Hui
Daniel Iglesias Gonzalez
Lena Longefay
Alejandra López Martínez
Ghiath Mardini
Juliana Martinez Hernandez
Daphne MonastiriotiJaehun Park
Hugo Plagnard
Elfi Seidel
Jessie Siegel
Alkaios Spyrou
Jan Tomza-Osiecki
Annemarie Wadlow

Master Artistic Research
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten / Royal Academy of Art

Facebook event: A Simple Fizz