Keep an eye out for Igor Schiller. Rooted in the rich traditions of his Balkan upbringing, Schiller explores themes of cultural identity, memory, and how childhood shaped his worldview. Revisiting his early years through his family archive, he blends fictional and subjective elements to create elaborate cinematic sets, saturated with strangeness and gloom, yet contrasted with tenderness and warmth. He views toys, lullabies, games, and other remnants of childhood as historical artefacts that reflect the socio-political climate. We will welcome him into our space this autumn. Stay tuned!
Discover the dye-pigment qualities of various plants that grow around us. Textile designer Lucila Kenny has been researching dyeing with natural colors for years.
The masterclass is a special collaboration between Catharina Maria Hof and Das Leben am Haverkamp. The masterclass can be seen as a two-part series: in Zeeland we work with natural dyes derived from plants, and in The Hague we extract natural dyes from the city’s organic waste. It is not required to attend both masterclasses, but it is highly recommended.
BEUTE. A typo that stuck. A folder named in haste, in which Baby Reni collects beauty campaign images. Missing the ‘’A’’, the ‘’Y’’ replaced for an ‘’E’’, landing somewhere more honest. In German, Beute means loot, prey, a haul. Something taken. Something won.
What’s left speaks is an immersive sound installation by Felix Bell, Gaia D’Arrigo and Nuno Lobo that imagines speakers as chimeric creatures emerging from the remnants of a post-human environment. The installation creates a speculative environment which invites you to discover how these creatures exist, communicate, and connect.
This essay is written in response to the exhibition What’s left speaks by Felix Bell, Gaia D’Arrigo and Nuno Lobo. The article is copublished by Mister Motley and Das Leben am Haverkamp. Three times a year they invite a writer to reflect on the theme, background and making process of an exhibition at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
This fall, the facade of Das Leben am Haverkamp transforms again into an outdoor cinema. Every two weeks, a new experimental triptych will light up the windows! Screening daily from 17:00—23:00h.
On October 11th during Museumnacht, artist Luca Tichelman brings her playful energy to MY ALL • A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE, turning the exhibition into a lively, one-night-only experience. Sip on a mythical drink before diving into a mask workshop and a guided tour through the exhibition. This event is part of Museumnacht Den Haag and only accessible with a Museumnacht ticket.
Come one, come all! Join us for a cosy afternoon drawing workshop with Nice Flaps where we will discover and re-discover the upcoming exhibition, MY ALL • A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE by Luca Tichelman.
MY ALL • A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE is a self-portrait by artist Luca Tichelman. In this existentialist video installation that borders on puppetry, we meet the character Luca, a holographic miniature of the artist herself. In a humorous monologue, she guides the viewer through the exhibition space, which has been transformed into an archive.
This essay is written in response to the exhibition MY ALL • A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE by artist Luca Tichelman. The article is copublished by Mister Motley and Das Leben am Haverkamp. Three times a year they invite a writer to reflect on the theme, background and making process of an exhibition at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
We are grateful to announce our new supervisory board, appointed through last year’s open vacancy process. Their experience and commitment will provide valuable guidance for the future of our organization.
Submit your film, moving image or animation for the third edition of Das Leben am Haverkamp’s window screening! In November and December we will transform the facade of our studio into an open air cinema. Every two weeks, a new experimental triptych will light up the windows, and you could be part of it! We’re looking for fresh voices in the fields of animation, visual art, digital fashion, and costume design.
Shana de Villiers invites you to enter the bedroom of Frankie, a shapeshifting creature-character that some would call: monster. Frankie is both fragment and whole; you and me. Through this intimate and theatrical installation, Shana explores queer post-colonial identity and shame. Despite the stratification of being, shame is a thing we all carry.
This essay was written in response to the exhibition I am Frankie, and you still love me. by artist Shana de Villiers. The article is copublished by Mister Motley and Das Leben am Haverkamp. Three times a year they invite a writer to reflect on the theme, background and making process of an exhibition at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
In collaboration with DJ YoungWoman and performer Arno Verbruggen, MAISON the FAUX investigates paganism. GLAMPUSS is an immersive installation that gives new meaning to false gods and forgotten rituals.
This essay was written in response to the exhibition GLAMPUSS by design studio MAISON the FAUX. The article is copublished by Mister Motley and Das Leben am Haverkamp. Three times a year they invite a writer to reflect on the theme, background and making process of the exhibition at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
In November and December Das Leben am Haverkamp transforms the facade of their studio into an open air cinema. Every year they welcome a new generation of image makers in the field of animation, fine art, fashion and costume design and beyond to be part of this screening.
Invasions, pandemics and increasingly rising temperatures. The idea of an apocalypse no longer seems far-fetched. Tapping into this widespread fear, new markets have emerged, offering exclusive survival gadgets and so called doomsday bunkers: luxurious private shelters – equipped with swimming pools and self-sufficient food and water supplies.
This essay was written in response to the exhibition Whatever remains unchanged is already dead by Diana Gheorghiu with Jill Verweijen and Linnéa Gerrits. The article is copublished by Mister Motley and Das Leben am Haverkamp. Three times a year they invite a writer to reflect on the theme, background and making process of the exhibition at Das Leben am Haverkamp.
Submit your film, moving image or animation for the second edition of Das Leben am Haverkamp’s window screening! In November and December we will transform the facade of our studio into an open air cinema. We welcome a new generation of image makers in the field of animation, fine art, fashion and costume design and beyond to be part of this program.
On the 5th of June we will screen the documentary The Kingmaker in the context of the exhibition Diamonds in Diapers by Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia. Join us for the screening followed by a Q&A with Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia.
Das Leben am Haverkamp is op zoek naar vier nieuwe leden voor de Raad van Toezicht! Wil je in deze rol een bijdrage leveren aan een bijzonder platform voor mode en aanverwante disciplines? Draag je kunst en cultuur een warm hart toe? In dat geval nodigen we je uit om op deze vacature te reageren.
An essay by Sifra Coulet about the exhibition Diapers in Diamonds. In collaboration with Mister Motley.
A dead serious dress-up play. I keep thinking about that when I see photos of the Diamonds in Diapers collection by artist and fashion designer Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts at the Textile and Fashion department with this collection. During his current working period at the Hague collective Das Leben am Haverkamp, he is given the opportunity to further develop the work. Prior to the exhibition, I delve into his graduation work and sources of inspiration.
Diamonds in Diapers is an exhibition by the Filipino-Dutch artist Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia (1990). The work is an extravagant couture fashion collection inspired by the controversial Imelda Marcos, the influential former first lady who used her wealth and beauty as populist tools to engage in politics in the Philippines; Jose Marie’s country of origin. “I have to look beautiful so that the poor will have a star to look at from their slums.” as said by Imelda Marcos in the documentary The Kingmaker.
For the occasion of Rewire festival, Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda invited a multitude of musicians, dancers and artists to perform in the context of their exhibition A Staged Slumber. You are welcome to join three days full of experimental performances and live acts by Amanda Payne, Currently Zoë, Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, Ian Skirvin, jochemjochemjochem, Johu Myllylä, Liam McCall, Lotte van Gelder and menu menu. Expect slippery compositions, spoken opera and experimental recorders!
Friday 8 March we open a brand new exhibition A Staged Slumber by Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda. The project is developped during an artist in residency at our space. The new work is commissioned by Das Leben am Haverkamp and Rewire as part of a long-term collaboration between the two platforms, facilitating space for experimental crossovers between fashion, performance art and music.
In the dark streets of The Hague, the window of the Das Leben am Haverkamp studio will transform into an open air cinema! Every two weeks a new experimental triptych will be shown, presenting a new generation of image makers. Ranging from experimental film, to animation, to virtual fashion, the presented works explore the body and the act of dressing up as vehicles for change. Through speculative beings, they investigate the politics of the costumed body. Now on show: Using one’s feet has become an option for last resort by Tra My Nguyen.
In the dark streets of The Hague, the window of the Das Leben am Haverkamp studio will transform into an open air cinema! Every two weeks a new experimental triptych will be shown, presenting a new generation of image makers. Ranging from experimental film, to animation, to virtual fashion, the presented works explore the body and the act of dressing up as vehicles for change. Through speculative beings, they investigate the politics of the costumed body. Now on show: Starting with a hush by Benjamin Pompe.
In the dark streets of The Hague, the window of the Das Leben am Haverkamp studio will transform into an open air cinema! Every two weeks a new experimental triptych will be shown, presenting a new generation of image makers. Ranging from experimental film, to animation, to virtual fashion, the presented works explore the body and the act of dressing up as vehicles for change. Through speculative beings, they investigate the politics of the costumed body. Now on show: Love at first bytes by Felizitas Hoffmann and Theresa Hoffmann.
In the dark streets of The Hague, the window of the Das Leben am Haverkamp studio will transform into an open air cinema! Every two weeks a new experimental triptych will be shown, presenting a new generation of image makers. Ranging from experimental film, to animation, to virtual fashion, the presented works explore the body and the act of dressing up as vehicles for change. Through speculative beings, they investigate the politics of the costumed body. Now on show: NOBU, BABA & HENK by Lisa Konno & Sarah Blok
You feel the eyes resting on you, the stares from the side, ever so slightly turning heads while passing by. Judging? Approving? Disapproving? Gazing at you. This exhibition examines The Side Eye; a sidelong glance expressing disapproval or contempt.
In November and December we will transform the façade of our studio into an open air cinema. We welcome a new generation of image makers in the field of animation, fine art, fashion and costume design and beyond to be part of this program! Submit your film, moving image or animation for the Das Leben am Haverkamp open air screening!
A text by Toni Brell, in collaboration with Warehouse.
Philipp Schueller weaves an intricate tapestry, combining an array of threads that cannot easily be untangled. By seamlessly blending elements of fashion, marine biology, pop-culture, astrology, and kitsch, while reflecting on notions of care, he creates a rich and complex texture that speaks to the interconnect - edness of all things living and artificial. Threading the needle of interspecies relations, Schueller invites us to consider our place in the web of life and the significance of our connections to the non-human world.
On June 2, Pauline Oosterhoff will give a lecture. Together with Matt Steinglass (Europe correspondent, The Economist) she will facilitate a dialogue with Vietnamese and Dutch-Vietnamese (nail) artists, entrepreneurs and policymakers about the charged dynamics between nails and migration.
In the last weekend of May and the first weekend of June, our project space transforms into a nail salon. This interactive installation, Nails, is a work by artist and social scientist Pauline Oosterhoff, who has built the nail salon together with Vietnamese and Dutch-Vietnamese nail artists Lê Đinh Đức, Ngọc Đào, Nguyễn Minh Thư (Ming-Shih Juan), Nhung Bùi Hồng and Trần Thi Thanh Hương. The exhibition shows the charged dynamics between the beauty industry and migration flows.
During Rewire Festival, Bodil Ouédraogo presents Framed Intimacy: a visual installation that combines sculpture, movement, video, and music composed by Bram Owusu.
Das Leben am Haverkamp and Warehouse have invited Philipp Schueller to expand his exploration into the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. With these explorations, that often take the shape of visual narratives and fashion, Schueller aspires to forge greater empathy with nature and its creatures.
We had the pleasure of organizing a masterclass for the Textile and Fashion department of the Royal Academy of Art. Together, the students made twenty scarecrows, that found their way to the vast field of Kamperland, Zeeland.
Clinking coins clatter against a figure and with every gust of wind, the faces rotate on their axis. A giant hand tries to grab the wind. Another creature reflects the sunlight like a disco ball in an abandoned club. CD disks with unknown content, sparkle like they are blinking at you. Twenty scarecrows loom up in the vast field of Kamperland - the wide sparsely populated and flat landscape of rural Zeeland.
As an experiment of collective making, Das Leben am Haverkamp invites Ton Zwerver to create a series of body related sculptures. Using the collective’s work, unfinished prototypes and left-over materials, Zwerver creates cinematic scenes as part of his ongoing series Sculptural Situations. These moving images are now on show in the exhibition Trying to get grip on the situation.
During Rewire Festival Das Leben am Haverkamp proudly presents HUM (an/other) – an interactive audiovisual installation by Angelo Custódio. Addressing the body’s vulnerability from a crip/queer perspective, the work fuses image, sound and vibration into an intimate experience.
Through a series of four exhibitions, the members of Das Leben am Haverkamp challenge their individual artistic identities. Every week, the collective presents a “solo exhibition”, in which they will playfully impersonate one of the other members by creating a work of art mimicking his or her working method, artistic intentions and aesthetics.
You are cordially invited to our very first exhibition where we proudly give the floor to the great initiative by Anouk Beckers, JOIN Collective Clothes.
