THE HAGUE.- London Calling
Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David hockney, Paula Rego and more
14 February to 7 June 2026

From 14 February 14, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents the major group exhibition London Calling in partnership with Tate. It brings together highlights of postwar figurative painting from Britain for the first time in the Netherlands, featuring works by, among others, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Paula Rego. London is what unites them: as a crossroads of ideas and a snapshot of the times.

For this survey of the so-called ‘School of London’, Tate is lending around forty-five exceptional works by these artists and painters who are less well-known outside Britain such as Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj and Leon Kossoff. Featuring almost seventy works, the exhibition demonstrates how key figures in postwar British painting remained devoted to depicting the human figure, and thus the human condition.

But it also questions the canon of British figurative painting by going off the beaten path. It brings together a cross-section of modern British painting from London but also examines parallel movements and artists who used oil on canvas to depict the world around them – in the same city and in the same period – but who have been given less exposure within the conventional narrative.

Can Love Be A Photograph.
40 years of Inez & Vinoodh
21 March to 6 September 2026

In 2026, internationally renowned photographers Inez van Lamsweerde (NL, 1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (NL, 1961) will celebrate forty years of working together. To celebrate this special anniversary, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag has invited the Dutch-born duo for a major retrospective, reflecting on four decades of artistic partnership.

Base Line - Music Meets Art
24 April 2026 to 14 February 2027

A feast for the eyes and ears! In the spring of 2026, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag will be making some noise. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Conservatoire, the exhibition Base Line - Music Meets Art brings together the worlds of sound and vision. After a gap of many years, the Kunstmuseum is once again displaying – and playing – part of its remarkable collection of musical instruments. Some very special objects, such as a crystal flute, will be heard once again.

Japanese prints depicting musicians, forgotten women composers back in the spotlight, musical notes you can smell and feel, visual artists showing how their work is influenced by music: in a rich public programme, musicians and communities from The Hague contribute to events that transcend national borders and time periods.

Fashion Galore
75 Year of the Costume Collection
4 July 2026 to 3 January 2027

In 2026, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag is celebrating seventy-five years of its fashion and costume collection with the exhibition Fashion Galore . What began as the Dutch Costume Museum has grown into the largest fashion and costume collection in the Netherlands, with more than fifty thousand garments and accessories. From seventeenth-century showpieces to the latest looks fresh off the catwalk, the collection continues to evolve and offers inspiration, knowledge and expertise.

Fashion is for everyone! And it can tell a thousand stories. But how we look at museum pieces can change. Items that were considered threadbare or ‘worthless’ when they entered the collection are now seen as masterpieces thanks to new stories, perspectives or thorough restoration. This exhibition puts the fashion collection in the spotlight but also takes a fresh look at the collection highlights and the work behind the scenes. Who wouldn’t want to peek inside the open storage facility or witness a restoration up close as a ‘dress detective’?

Fashion Galore looks both to the past and the future, providing surprises with co-creations, new acquisitions and items that have never been shown before. A feast for the eyes! And an abundance of fashion and extraordinary stories, with pieces by designers such as Coco Chanel, Fong-Leng, Alexander McQueen, Jan Taminiau, Vivienne Westwood, Hanifa, Kenneth Ize, and many others.

Marlow Moss
A Suitcase Full of Sketches
13 December 2025 to 10 May 2026

The Kunstmuseum Den Haag recently acquired a suitcase containing more than a hundred preliminary studies by Marlow Moss (1889-1958). From 13 December, the museum presents a selection of these sketches together with three paintings by Moss from the museum’s collection that are being reunited after several years of travelling. Like other abstract geometric artists of her generation – including Piet Mondrian – Moss sought a perfect harmony of planes and lines, in which the material world is left behind. This intimate display focuses on the sketches, which demonstrate Moss’s versatility as an artist.

Mix & Match
New perspectives on the collection
From January 24, 2026

What is the connection between the use of blue during the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague and Theo van Doesburg’s Composition IX? Who is the woman in Piet Mondrian’s Portrait of a Woman and what role did she play in the creative process?

In 2026, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag is launching Mix & Match, a new programme in which we invite artists and makers with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise to reflect critically on our collection from the perspective of their own practice. Fresh perspectives raise new questions and lead to surprising interpretations, which is precisely what the museum wants to make space for.

Rather than adopting a fixed format, Mix & Match will embrace everything from classic exhibitions to community-driven programming. For the first edition, which opens on 24 January, we have invited artist Barbara Visser, followed later in the year by Antonis Pittas and Kamalia Talhaoui.

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Friday Night/Date Night
From 2026

In the course of 2026, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag will introduce Friday Night/Date Night: a new public programme designed to foster encounters, creativity and exchange. Each edition will tie in with a current exhibition or theme at the museum and will be developed in partnership with Hague-based artists from the worlds of art, music, fashion, film, dance and theatre. With Friday Night/Date Night, the Kunstmuseum is creating accessible and inspiring evenings for young people, where art becomes an opportunity to come together and discover new perspectives.

New perspectives:

Special programs around Women's Day, Keti Koti, and Queer Month

Next year, the Kunstmuseum will be using a number of international holidays as an opportunity to bring new stories and perspectives to life, together with creators, communities, and platforms. On International Women's Day, you can look forward to inspiring talks, workshops, and guided tours. In the weekend leading up to Keti Koti, performances and workshops will shed new light on our collection, the building, and our colonial history. In June, during Queer Month, the museum will devote an entire weekend to queering the collection. What can you expect? Queer artists and platforms will develop a surprising program that invites you to view our exhibitions with a fresh, curious eye.

Rosalind Nashashibi
Stones
29 November 2025 to 17 May 2026

From 29 November 2025, KM21 presents Stones: the first solo museum exhibition in the Netherlands of the Palestinian British artist Rosalind Nashashibi (1973). Her work explores collective history, power structures and modes of coexistence. Nashashibi captures everyday intimate moments in a highly personal way. The exhibition features a selection of recent and new paintings together with the film Electrical Gaza, in which the artist imagines Gaza as an almost mythical and timeless place between dream and reality.