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Page Not Found now welcomes submissions to Open Letters: an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our large storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability.

Open Letters gives artists room to publicly reflect on current times, despite the current restrictions and the lockdown of art spaces. Open Letters will be published in the front window of Page Not Found’s project space using vinyl lettering, which can vary in size, color and font type – however, the execution does not need to stay limited to just that and we invite artists to share their message in additional ways that seem fitting to the cause.

The published work will be given the audience of passersby of the lively Boekhorststraat. Artists will receive a fee of €500 and production will be taken care of by the team of Page Not Found. The next presentation will be unveiled in June 2021. Each presentation will last five weeks.

Deadline: 15 May, 2021

Only artists and writers who live or work in The Hague are invited to apply. Submissions will be reviewed by Page Not Found team and the selected artist/writer will be notified by the end of May 2021.

This open call is made possible thanks to the generous support by Stroom Den Haag, Mondriaan Fund and Gemeente Den Haag.

Page Not Found is delighted to invite you to an online talk by artist Marianne Vierø.

This event marks the fifth instalment of our Tangible Photography program, which started at the beginning of 2020 and was postponed due to the pandemic. The dematerialization of the image created for some artists with a photographic practice a desire for tangibility, that is: for a materiality accessible by touch. Publishing appears in this context as a natural strategy to answer this desire and to reinstate the photographic image in its materiality. This program presents a large selection of publishing practices to show the diversity of their approaches.

Marianne Vierø works with installation, sculpture and print. Driven by equal parts intuition and analysis she investigates existing premises in our systems of understanding. Taking inspiration from the structures of language her practice involves a continuous process of translation that places her work in a constant state of becoming. In her talk Marianne Vierø will tap into recent and current projects to consider objects, methods and gestures through the lens of transformation. She will also share her thoughts on a forthcoming publication co-published by Page Not Found.

Marianne Vierø studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2008-2009; and at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D) in 2007. Selected solo exhibitions include ‘Figure Bold’ at Rita Urso Gallery, Milan (IT); ‘Dunk’ and ‘Great Transformation’ at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (NL); and ‘Zeppelin Bend’ at PAKT, Amsterdam (NL). Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Starts at 18:00. Reserve your free ticket here.

Page Not Found is delighted to invite you to an online artist talk by artist, photographer and filmmaker Chloe Dewe Mathews.

This event marks the fourth instalment of our Tangible Photography program, which started at the beginning of 2020 and was postponed due to the pandemic. The dematerialization of the image created for some artists with a photographic practice a desire for tangibility, that is: for a materiality accessible by touch. Publishing appears in this context as a natural strategy to answer this desire and to reinstate the photographic image in its materiality. This program presents a large selection of publishing practices to show the diversity of their approaches.

Chloe Dewe Mathews makes work in the documentary tradition. Her practice explores the human relationship to landscape and the ways in which photography can project the past onto the present, allowing for time to be expanded and contracted and multiple narratives to be explored side by side.  In a talk for Page Not Found, she will discuss her bookworks, including “In Search of Frankenstein” and “Thames Log”.

Chloe Dewe Mathews is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Her work is internationally recognised, exhibiting at Tate Modern, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; as well as being published widely in newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, New Yorker, Financial Times and Le Monde. She is the recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and her work is held in public collections such as the British Council Art Collection, the National Galleries of Scotland and the Irish State Art Collection.  Thames Log is her fourth monograph, following Shot at Dawn(Ivorypress, 2014), Caspian: the Elements (Aperture / Peabody Press, 2018) and In Search of Frankenstein (Kodoji Press, 2018).

Starts at 18:00. Reserve your free ticket here.

Page Not Found and the Master Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, are delighted to invite you to the launch of their Special Issue #14, entitled “I Don’t Know Where We’re Going, But — A Local Network City Quest”.

The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by the Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong in the sixties. With only six issues, the Times became one of the most exciting and playful magazines of that decade, thanks to its multilingual, transdisciplinary, and cross-cultural exuberance. The never-realised seventh issue, destined to explore the game of Pinball and its female player, is the starting point of our collaboration with XPUB and artist Lídia Pereira. During the course of this semester, the first year Master students were tasked with imagining what the seventh issue could be if it were produced today, under the guidance of Lídia and the XPUB staff. You can discover their works by finding the hotspots they installed throughout The Hague. You are invited to start your psychogeographical exploration of this distributed publication at Page Not Found, on Friday 2 April, from 12:00.

This Special Issue was created by Kendal Beynon, Martin Foucaut, Camilo García A., Clara Gradel, Nami Kim, Euna Lee, Jacopo Lega, Federico Poni, Louisa Teichmann, and Floor van Meeuwen.

We wholeheartedly thank Jacqueline de Jong for her kind interest and support in this collaboration.

Time slots of 15 minutes are available for the start of the quest at Page Not Found, after which you can continue to roam through The Hague for as long as you like until 18:00. Register for your slot here.

This is a free event.

We are delighted to unveil Paul Maheke’s work ‘The Year I Stopped Making Art’, installed in our front window for the duration of a month. 

Paul Maheke’s short essay ‘The year I stopped making art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity.’, published on the 18th of March 2020, is an outcry for solidarity in the art world during the pandemic and beyond. In the essay Maheke channels voices of urgency from precarious figures who practice their art without structural support, ranging from the witch to the single parent to those struggling with mental health issues.

Paul Maheke (1985, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France) is an artist and performer based in London, whose work explores tensions between hyper-visibility and invisibility and between presence and absence. He is interested in the ways in which history, memory and identity are formed and stored in the body as an archive, and develops new and ‘personal’ understandings of the present and the past. 

Paul Maheke’s short essay inspired our upcoming open call project ‘Open Letters’, which we will be launching soon. Messages of urgency and vulnerability will be published through Open Letters, occupying our storefront window in vinyl lettering. Open Letters gives artists room to publicly reflect on current times, despite widespread covid restrictions and the lockdown of art spaces. 

To view Paul Maheke’s work no reservation is needed, as it is visible from the street – pass by whenever you want!

Page Not Found, together with The Balcony, is delighted to invite you to an online artist talk by artist and photographer Tatjana Erpen.

This event marks the third instalment of our Tangible Photography program, which started at the beginning of 2020 and was postponed due to the pandemic. The dematerialization of the image created for some artists with a photographic practice a desire for tangibility, that is: for a materiality accessible by touch. Publishing appears in this context as a natural strategy to answer this desire and to reinstate the photographic image in its materiality. This program presents a large selection of publishing practices to show the diversity of their approaches.

Upon the finissage of the “Days of our Lives” exhibition curated by artist-run space The Balcony, we are excited to invite Tatjana Erpen to introduce her practice and to expand on her unique approach to publishing.

Tatjana Erpen (1980) lives and works in Lucerne, CH. Erpen’s practice is based on in-depth research at the interface between history, documentation and memory. In doing so, she dares to look at the supposedly unspectacular in order to create sublime content-related complexity with simple means. Her recent publication “Empty fire in my phone” (2019) assembles images, which are characterised by a magical ambivalence, caught in limbo between present and memory. Through pictorial-poetic condensations Erpen succeeds in awakening associations. Photographically captured objects and spaces are alienated and reinterpreted by means of manual screen printing. 

The Balcony is an artist-initiative based in The Hague run by Arthur Cordier and Valentino Russo. The duo organizes exhibitions in two locations, a vitrine space and a project space.

Starts at 18:00. Reserve your free ticket here.

Page Not Found celebrates the beautiful theses from the twelve Master Artistic Research graduates by awarding this year a prize for excellence in publishing.

Congratulations to Annemarie Wadlow for winning the first Page Not Found Thesis Award with “Women Looking at Women Looking at Women.”

Our award celebrates the thesis which integrates most strongly its own dissemination. The jury pays attention to how the analog or digital publication echoes the thesis’ original research, how its text is embodied, and the related design decisions.
The jury was impressed by how Annemarie’s publication supports the core intent of her thesis: reinstate female artists that misogynistic art history left behind, and advocate collective work. Publishing, that is: making public, is a form most suited to bringing back what was censored, and turns Annemarie’s publication into a gesture well beyond academic requirements. Her intent is strengthened by the decision that almost every aspect of her publication, texts, type fonts and paper, be produced and designed by women, and their contributions, acknowledged on the very first pages. The see-through quality of pages pointedly reminds us that works never exists alone, but in community — a sisterhood that Annemarie brilliantly celebrates!

Page Not Found has invited artists to occupy the current surreal intermission with a soundtrack loosely based on literature, spoken word, poetry, storytelling.

We are very happy with this week’s Intermission by Stellar Om Source.
“Oh Mon Frère” appears on the rare 7inch, which accompanies “Algia Naturalis” publication. “Algia Naturalis” is a collection of poems, meditating on the mental furniture of plants and their ability to grief. Sounds and words were collected in the woods during the residency at Het Vijfde Seizoen. The book, including the record are available at Page Not Found.

Please visit our Soundcloud to listen

Stellar OM Source is the project of Christelle Gualdi, a French-Italian music producer, DJ and architect born in Paris and based in Belgium. Active for more than a decade, Christelle’s acclaimed 2013 album Joy One Mile and Nite Glo (2015), both on the boundary-pushing New-York label RVNG Intl firmly established her as an artist to watch out for. Both releases settled her musical direction. She creates enveloping environments, given shape by the rush of live performance and bring elements of techno, house and new-wave in a unique musical palette, marking out her signature of emotive uplifting melodies and contagious, bassline-centered grooves.

Page Not Found has invited artists to occupy the current surreal intermission with a soundtrack loosely based on literature, spoken word, poetry, storytelling.

This week’s contributor to Page Not Found’s Intermission Channel is Hanne Lippard with “Lostisms” (2011).

Please visit our Soundcloud to listen

Over the past years, Hanne Lippard (born 1984 in Milton Keynes, GB) has focused herself on the production of language solely through the usage of the voice. Her practice stems from design by which she utilizes the voice as a way to convey the discrepancy between content and form.