Groningen
Groninger Museum
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- New Light – De Ploeg is a completely revamped exhibition of works by the De Ploeg collective from the Groninger Museum’s collection. You’ll discover a fresh and in-depth perspective on the renowned artists’ society that was founded in Groningen in 1918 and left a lasting mark on Dutch art history. You’ll get to know the De Ploeg artists’ surprising versatility and passion for experimentation during the period 1918–1930. They produced not only expressionist paintings but also graphic design, applied art, and collaborative projects with writers, musicians and architects. The show’s focus on the work’s origins and context brings alive the artists’ original drive to deliver ‘the shock of the new’. Renewed format, surprising stories Whereas the previous exhibition highlighted the paintings as masterworks, the Groninger Museum is now starting the story at the beginning, recalling the artists’ socioeconomic backgrounds, their education at the Minerva Art Academy, the influence of the international avant-garde, and De Ploeg’s role in society. The show also looks closely at how the artists experimented with materials and methods and at lesser-known aspects of their work such as applied art and collaborative projects. The new, chronologically ordered exhibition occupies seven rooms in the De Lucchi Pavilion. Each gallery tells a different part of the story, from the group’s founding and early successes to Jan Wiegers’ influential encounter with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Switzerland; from the artists’ multidisciplinary work to their quest for abstraction and constructivism; and, finally, De Ploeg’s postwar position in museums, collections, and Groningen’s art world. You’ll see work by artists including Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Jan Altink, Alida Pott, Johan Dijkstra, George Martens, Jan van der Zee, Wobbe Alkema, Job Hansen and Jan Wiegers.Description
New Light – De Ploeg
Until 31 Dec 2028
- De broers Jake en Dinos Chapman hebben iets met McDonalds. Op allerlei manieren komen verwijzingen naar de hamburgergigant in hun werk voor, zoals ook bij Unholy McTrinity, deze kleine beeldengroep die verwijst naar het bijbelse Golgotha. In plaats van Jezus hangt hier Ronald McDonald aan het kruis, geflankeerd door de personificaties van twee kernproducten van het fastfoodbedrijf, Hamburglar en McCheesus, vooral bekend van de happy meals waar ze soms bij geleverd worden. De Chapmans laten graag hun publiek in verwarring achter. Is het beeld met Ronald McDonald als Jezus aan het kruis een maatschappijanalyse, waarbij de McDonalds-figuurtjes de bezielende verbeelding zijn van wat onze samenleving tegenwoordig bindt: alsmaar meer produceren en consumeren? Of is het ook een symbool voor het failliet van het kapitalisme dat, hoewel bijna religieuze vormen aannemend, uiteindelijk slechts geestelijke leegheid met zich meebrengt?Description
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Until 31 Dec 2028
Recent past exhibitions
- Travel crisscross through time at the Groninger Museum. In the new collection presentation It's About Time , the boundaries of linear time are broken. We usually imagine time and history as a straight line, but what happens when we move crisscross through it? Or in circles? Seven rooms filled with artworks from the museum's own collection invite you on a personal journey of discovery through the different faces of time. Various curators of the Groninger Museum have been given the freedom to wander through the collection as time travelers and tell their own story. Each room thus illuminates the unique collection from a personal perspective, with themes such as nature, powerlessness, and transience taking center stage. From centuries-old artworks to contemporary creations. It's About Time comes at a special moment: a period of transition in which the Groninger Museum prepares for a new artistic direction under the leadership of artistic director Roos Gortzak. Together with the curators, she has shifted accents here and there and added an extra room with work by David Lamelas and Bas Jan Ader – artists whose work perfectly aligns with both the time concept and the museum collection.Description
It's About Time
Ended 10 May 2026
- Hiphop is veelzijdig, grensverleggend en constant in ontwikkeling. Het is zonder twijfel één van de meest invloedrijke culturele bewegingen van de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw. Hiphop is luid, stoer en uitgesproken – en ook een bron van culturele rijkdom en creatief verzet, ontstaan uit de noodzaak om een eigen plek op te eisen, ongelijkheid aan te vechten en onrecht te ontmaskeren, ofwel speak truth to power. Je associeert hiphop misschien vooral met muziek en mode, maar Hip Hop Is neemt de beeldende kunst als vertrekpunt. De kunstwerken in deze tentoonstelling – van fotografie, schilder- en beeldhouwkunst tot graffiti – laten zien hoe hiphop de beeldende kunst heeft beïnvloed en verrijkt, van de straat tot de museumzaal.Description
Hip Hop Is
Ended 10 May 2026
- Museum aan de A is a guest at the Groninger Museum with its own exhibition. Who Writes History? takes you along in the development of the future Museum aan de A about the history of Groningen and its people. In Who Writes History? you will see important pieces from Groningen as well as unique objects that tell very personal stories. For the new museum, Museum aan de A developed an installation in which a robotic arm writes history – based on historical facts combined with live input from current data. This remarkable installation can already be seen in the exhibition at the Groninger Museum. It raises the question: Who writes the history of Groningen? Blueprint Museum aan de A currently exists only as a blueprint. The building on the Brugstraat in Groningen is closed and awaiting a major renovation. The medieval buildings will be made more sustainable and more accessible. In the renovated museum, a new permanent exhibition will present the history of Groningen, always in connection with current affairs. The future museum will tell the story of both the city and the province of Groningen. The temporary exhibition invites you to think along about what should be shown in the new Museum aan de A. Which stories deserve to be told – and how? And who is actually telling the story? Who Writes History? is developed by Museum aan de A in collaboration with the Groninger Museum and the Groninger Archives. More than 70 percent of the exhibited works come from the collection of the Groninger Museum. For the exhibition design and technology, Museum aan de A collaborates with Tapart, Paul&Albert, Studio Louter and OPERA Amsterdam.Description
Who Writes History?
Ended 6 Apr 2026