Fresh art from the factory floor
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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.
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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 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.
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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!
(casein, washed up coal, whale bone, seawater and gesso on canvas)
200×80 cm, 2024
See you at Quartair!
Toussaintkade 55,
The Hague
