KM21 is a museum for contemporary visual art in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

in the

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. The museum was established in 2002 as part of the

Kunstmuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

. In KM21 work by artists from The Hague, the Netherlands and international contemporaries can be admired at the same time. A wide diversity of disciplines is on show: installations, video installations, painting and sculpture, multimedia, performance, film, photography, drawing, digital art, design, etc. In addition to exhibitions, activities such as lectures, discussions, performances, film screenings and book presentations also take place. The museum is located beside the

and also houses the

Fotomuseum Den Haag The Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague Museum of Photography) is a museum in the field of photography in The Hague. The museum was founded in 2002 as part of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and works closely with the Print Room of the Leiden University Librar ...

(The Hague Museum of Photography).

History

KM21 was set up in 2002 by the

under the name Gem, Contemporary Art, shortly GEM, to represent the contemporary visual art department of that museum. It was located in the renovated Schamhart Wing next to the Kunstmuseum, and shares this building with The Hague Museum of Photography. In 2016 the GEM and the Museum of Photography traded placed to give more room to the Museum of Photography.

Exhibitions

The opening exhibition in 2002 was about the American artist

Raymond Pettibon Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn, June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for ...

. It offered an "overwhelming amount of drawing... partly framed and partly pinned directly to the wall." It was described as "a sinister body of work, in which serial killers, dictators, baseball players, movie stars and comic book heroes play the leading roles."Sandra Smallenburg.
Musea ambitieus van start
" 14 december 2002, (quotes translated). In the year 2021 the museum has organized exhibitions of artists such as the South African painter

Lisa Brice Lisa Brice (born 1968) is a South African painter and visual artist from Cape Town. She lives in London and cites some of her influences as her experiences growing up in South Africa during a time of political upheaval, and from time spent li ...

, the Groningen artist Alida Pott (1888-1931).Toef Jaeger.
Natuur in strepen: Het werk van de Groningse kunstenares Alida Pott was jaren lang weggestopt. Nu is er een retrospectief
" ''NRC Handelsblad,'' 1 juli 2021. and the Scottish-born contemporary visual artist Caroline Walker

References

External links

Official website
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