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OPEN LETTER — Balázs Milánik

From Wednesday 6 November | 24/7

Throughout November, Page Not Found’s storefront will show the fourth instalment of the Open Letter of 2024: “Typographic Resistance” by Balázs Milánik.

In his Open Letter, Balázs addresses the heavy censorship on social media surrounding the genocide in Gaza. Pro-Palestine content is often blocked by algorithms detecting specific keywords. To bypass this censorship, users engage in “typographic resistance” by altering characters in words like “Palestine.” Through this work, Balázs highlights both the potential of digital activism and the absurdity of these restrictive measures. As a recent Royal Academy of Art graduate in The Hague and originally from Hungary,Milánik’s practice bridges cultural landscapes, using graphic art to explore his heritage and environment.

Open Letters is an urban intervention project launched by Page Not Found in March 2021. It is designed as an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability. Open Letters was inspired by the short essay The Year I Stopped Making Art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity,”written by the artist Paul Maheke in April 2020 as a reflection and call for solidarity in response to the current global situation and art world.

We kindly thank Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag and Mondriaan Fonds for supporting this programme

Image: Open Letter “Typographic Resistance” by Balázs Milánik, realised by Attachment Issues.

Vanaf woensdag 6 november 24/7

De hele maand november toont de winkelpui van Page Not Found de vierde editie van de Open Brief van 2024: “Typographic Resistance” van Balázs Milánik.

In zijn Open Letter gaat Balázs in op de zware censuur op sociale media rondom de genocide in Gaza. Pro-Palestijnse inhoud wordt vaak geblokkeerd door algoritmes die specifieke trefwoorden detecteren. Om deze censuur te omzeilen, doen gebruikers aan “typografisch verzet” door karakters in woorden als “Palestina” te veranderen. Met dit werk benadrukt Balázs zowel het potentieel van digitaal activisme als de absurditeit van deze beperkende maatregelen. Milánik is onlangs afgestudeerd aan de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag en komt oorspronkelijk uit Hongarije. Zijn werk slaat een brug tussen culturele landschappen, waarbij hij grafische kunst gebruikt om zijn erfgoed en omgeving te verkennen.

Open Letters is een stedelijk interventieproject gelanceerd door Page Not Found in maart 2021. Het is ontworpen als een open oproep voor kunstenaars en schrijvers in Den Haag om onze winkelpui te bezetten met boodschappen van urgentie en kwetsbaarheid. Open Letters is geïnspireerd op het korte essay “The Year I Stopped Making Art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity,” geschreven door kunstenaar Paul Maheke in april 2020 als een reflectie en oproep tot solidariteit in reactie op de huidige wereldwijde situatie en kunstwereld.

Wij danken Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag en Mondriaan Fonds voor het ondersteunen van dit programma.

Beeld: Open Letter “Typographic Resistance” door Balázs Milánik, gerealiseerd door Attachment Issues.

SPREADING THE WORD — Lara Dautun in conversation with Tabea Nixdorff and Setareh Noorani

Cover of Book "Amplifying"

Friday 18 October, from 16:00 | Free entrance


We’re delighted to invite you to the first public talk of Lara Dautun’s residency at Page Not Found. Lara invited Tabea Nixdorff and Setareh Noorani to discuss their recent publication, Amplifying, within the series Archival Textures.

The book Amplifying, co-edited by Tabea and Setareh, brings together written manifestations that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherlands. Amplifying means giving credit to, mentioning, over and over, and supporting the circulation of sources and authors that are formative for our thinking and practices. It also means putting in the “extra effort” to seek out voices that are not immediately within reach as their recognition has been compromised by structural forces of oppression. In the early 1980s, the political term “black” (“zwart” in Dutch) was introduced in the Netherlands to build alliances between women from different diasporic communities, who were faced with racism in their everyday lives.

The publication series Archival Textures was founded in 2023 in Arnhem, the Netherlands, by Tabea Nixdorff, and was funded by a year long grant by Stimuleringsfonds. Together with a network of researchers, artists, designers, translators, poets, archivists and activists (most of whom have hyphenated roles and practices)—building on new and ongoing collaborations—the first season of books has been created and is being published this summer, 2024. In that sense, Archival Textures operates as an artist-initiated project, an intergenerational network, and a publisher.

✻ Lara Dautun, a recent graphic design graduate from KABK, thrives on bricolage, blending texts, images, code, and ideas. She loves collaborating to explore how alternative design, publishing, and archiving practices can drive emancipatory change. Her recent work focuses on feminist and lesbian publishing, and she champions subjectivity, open-source tools, and intersectional feminism.

✻ Tabea Nixdorff is an artist, typographer and researcher. Her artistic practice involves (self)publishing, writing, sound and language based performances, collaborative learning and social gatherings. Often working with/in archives, or libraries, Tabea’s works delve into micro-histories while touching upon broader themes such as omissions and distortions in historical narratives, embodied knowledges, queer belonging and a feminist poetics of error.

Tabea studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US; and Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, the Netherlands. In 2019, her essay Fehler lesen. Korrektur als Textproduktion [“Reading Errata. Correction as Textual Production”] was published by Spector Books Leipzig. Her artist’s books are held in several public collections, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; the Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, US; the Newberry Library, Chicago, US; and at the Weserburg Centre for Artists’ Publications, Bremen, Germany. Tabea has done performative readings, often collaboratively, in various places, such as the GfzK – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, diffrakt – centre for theoretical periphery, Berlin, and Perdu, Amsterdam. From 2021 to 2023, her installation Feminist Design Strategies was on view at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, for which she conducted extensive research in queer and feminist Dutch archives and organized community-building gatherings. In 2023, Tabea founded the publication series Archival Textures.

✻ Setareh Noorani is an architect, researcher and curator at Nieuwe Instituut, and an independent artist.

Setareh Noorani’s current (curatorial) research at the Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL) focuses on the paradigm-shifting notions of decoloniality, feminisms, queer ecologies, non-institutional and collective representations in contemporary architecture, its heritage and future scenarios. She leads the projects Collecting Otherwise and Modernisms Along the Indian Ocean, co-initiated the Open Call Hidden Histories (with Creative Industries Fund NL), co-curated the exhibition Designing the Netherlands (2023), co-led the project and exhibited space Feminist Design Strategies (2021 – 2023), and has been part of Appropriation as Collective Resistance. Noorani co-edited the book ‘Women in Architecture’ (nai010, 2023), and has been published in Footprint Journal, and Radical Housing Journal, amongst others. Setareh Noorani received the Museum Talent Prize 2021, awarded by the Dutch Ministry of Culture and Science and the Mondriaan Fund. Currently, she is involved in the selection committee of the yearly Nieuwe Instituut Call for Fellows, with 2023’s co-curated theme titled Tool Shed. Recently, Noorani was part of the curatorial team of the London Design Biënnale 2023, and involved in the selection committee of the 2022 Tilting Axis Fellowship. Noorani holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Architecture (TU Delft, cum laude).

In her artistic pursuits, Noorani researches processes of public resistance and (collective) navigations of diasporic trauma. This is expressed in the disruption and dislocation of archives, and the uncovering of counter-archives, through spatial research and (self-)publishing, for example in her residencies at Voorheen De Gemeente (2022 – ), Biënnale Gelderland (2022), DSGN-IN at The Black Archives (2021-2022), SHELTER IN PLACE/SHELTER IN SOLIDARITY (2021) at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (together with graphic designer Matt Plezier, as SMET, supported by the Creative Industries Fund Netherlands).

Lara’s residency is made possible thanks to the Makersregeling by the Gemeente Den Haag.

Image: Cover of Amplifying, published by Archival Textures

Mini exhibition – Page of Possibilities & De Vrolijkheid, with works by children of the AZC Katwijk.

Each year we host our Page of Possibilities workshops for children— free and accessible creative sessions inspired by child-lead learning, which introduce children to the world of artistic publications.

This year Page Not Found united forces with Stichting de Vrolijkheid and artists Fatemeh Heidari and Zahar Bondar to provide workshops for children at the Asylum Seeker Centre in Katwijk (AZC Katwijk).

To kick off this workshop season and to pay tribute to the people who have been putting their heart into introducing art to these children, we are presenting a mini exhibition with the works of participants and young residents at the AZC Katwijk, that were created in the past years with De Vrolijkheid. The exhibition is on view on October 12th and October 13th, 1- 6pm, free entrance.

The exhibition features sculptural works, drawings, paintings and books which were created by children during the workshops lead by the Hague based artist Natascha van Nooijen Kooij. One of the projects was the Art Game, for which the young artists created lifesize mobile figures, which acted both as characters as well as their imaginary homebase. United in a self-built geodome, the Art Game resulted in a performance with dance, music and moving artworks.

Clay objects were created during the art sessions lead by Fatemeh Heidari and Samieh Shahcheraghi, where children explored what makes a memory special. The participants were invited to share stories connected to meaningful objects, from natural elements like trees and rivers to personal belongings such as a favorite toy, a book, or a cup. Drawn sketches were transformed into clay, and put on small tiles. Children then painted their objects, bringing their memories to life in vibrant colors.

The exhibition also features ceramic and textile elements created by Zahar Bondar especially for this occasion. A theatrical set-design is by Ola Vasiljeva.

De Vrolijkheid foundation organizes creative workshops and activities at the asylum seekers’ centers across the Netherlands. They have been doing this for more than 20 years together with and for the youth who live in these centers.

Heartfelt thank you to the team of de Vrolijkheid in Katwijk: Natascha van Nooijen Kooij, Karen Wuertz, Ingeborg Dennesen, as well as Fatemeh Heidari  and Zahar Bondar. The Page of Possibilities programme is made possible thanks to the financial support of  Gemeente Den Haag and the Mondriaan Fonds.

BOOK LAUNCH: Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None — by Leonie Brandner

Pages of "Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None" courtesy of Leonie Brandner and Onomatopee

Thursday 24 October 2024, from 18:00 | Free entrance


We are happy to invite you to the launch of “Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None”, an exploration into the fascinating world of the mandragora plant.

The mandragora plant is one of the best-recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context historically depicted as a half-human-half-plant-creature. The mandragora was, is and continues to be haunted by stories. Could its many stories hold a key for luring our minds off paths that have been sufficiently trodden down? What if the mandragora holds the potential for new orders and world-making; for a cosmopoeisis of mandragoras?

“Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None” explores the medicinal and magical mandragora plant, and the many stories that grew around it across history. Artist Leonie Brandner’s writing moves from the beginning of recorded storytelling to ancient Egyptian and Greek mythology, tracing the lines the mandragora has left behind in medicinal books, folklore and eventually the impact the plant had in the hunt on so-called witches in the Middle Ages. Gently weaving her perception and encounters with the plant through her rigorous historical research, Leonie Brandner creates a kaleidoscopical image of human-plant-imaginations across time.

“Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None” (2024) is published by Onomatopee.

Image: pages of “Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None” courtesy of Leonie Brandner and Onomatopee

SPREADING THE WORD — with Lara Dautun and Rietlanden Women’s Office

Impression of The Feminist Amateur Library workshop at Page Not Found by Lara Dautun © Steven Maybury

SPREADING THE WORD — with Lara Dautun and Rietlanden Women’s Office

Saturday 19 October, from 16:00 | Free entrance


We’re excited to invite you to a public talk as part of Lara Dautun’s residency project, “The Feminist Amateur Library”. The session blends reading, discussion, and collective knowledge, creating room for re-imagining and negotiating dynamic herstories.

Come be part of the conversation!

Lara Dautun, a recent graphic design graduate from KABK, thrives on bricolage, blending texts, images, code, and ideas. She loves collaborating to explore how alternative design, publishing, and archiving practices can drive emancipatory change. Her recent work focuses on feminist and lesbian publishing, and she champions subjectivity, open-source tools, and intersectional feminism.

Graphic designers Elisabeth Rafstedt and Johanna Ehde, known as Rietlanden Women’s Office, investigate collaborative graphic design. Their printed publication series MsHeresies focuses on research into collaborative graphic design practices, circling around the ornament not just as a decorative element, but as a manifestation of specific social relations.

Lara’s residency is made possible thanks to the Makersregeling by the Gemeente Den Haag.

Image: impression of The Feminist Amateur Library workshop at Page Not Found by Lara Dautun © Steven Maybury

BOOK LAUNCH: The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends — by Rasmus Myrup and Sabo Day

Pages of "The Völva's Bestiary of Best Friends" courtesy of Rasmus Myrup, Sabo Day and Coda Press

Thursday 17 October 2024, from 18:00 | Free entrance


After two rescheduled dates (thanks to a broken knee), we’re thrilled to finally invite you to dive into Rasmus Myrup’s latest publication — with the brilliant designer Sabo Day by his side. Come hang out at Page Not Found for a lively conversation between Rasmus and Sabo, tied to Rasmus’ previous exhibition Salon des Refusés at our dear neighbours, 1646.

In “The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” we are introduced to characters from Danish folklore, Scandinavian history and Norse mythology. Making their first appearance as a series of sculptures by Myrup, the characters from this Bestiary are all seen through the lens of a Seeress — The Völva. She knows everything her folkloric friends have been through and will endure in the future. It’s a heavy burden: the workaholism of The Bog Lady, failed attempts by The Elven Girls to end the Patriarchy, Freya’s sob story, the sexual frustrations of The Stream Man and Hild’s inability to stop the war between her lover and her dad. In Myrup’s world, they have befriended each other across multiple spheres of fiction — if they don’t know each other, they at least know of each other.

Rasmus Myrup (1991) is a Danish visual artist based in Copenhagen. He graduated from Funen Art Academy (DK) in 2018. His works represent a synthesis of perspectives large and small. Basing his work on the history of evolution and our connection to the natural world, Myrup investigates the big arc of humanity’s natural roots in the context of personal human emotions and relations. He works primarily with sculptural installations and drawing, using empathy as a means to transcend time, species and worlds in order to explore human existence. In Myrup’s art, everything from dinosaurs to Neanderthals or trees can generate new insights into death, sex and power.

Sabo Day is an Amsterdam-based studio for art direction and visual communication, in the field of contemporary art and culture. Soft yet bold, solemn yet trivial. A trick. A façade. A shadow. A sign. An anthem. A jingle. A rose. A cliché.

“The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” (2023) is published by Coda Press.

Image: pages of “The Völva’s Bestiary of Best Friends” courtesy of Rasmus Myrup, Sabo Day and Coda Press.

OPEN LETTER — Dans Jirgensons

Teaser for "Archival Queries" by Dans Jirgensons

From Wednesday 2 October | 24/7

Throughout October, Page Not Found’s storefront will show our third Open Letter of 2024: “Archival Queries” by Dans Jirgensons.

Dans Jirgensons: “The Letter asks two questions about conservation: what is the motivation and what drives the actions? This encourages the passer-by to reflect on their own ways and reasoning, as well as those of others, including individuals and institutions. Questioning why and what we archive, preserve, seek to possess, remember and forget, contain or contain is a relevant contemplation, especially now that we are navigating a world with an abundance of digital and physical data. These acts of preservation become essential for shaping our identities, histories and individual as well as collective memories.”

A recent graduate from the graphic design department at KABK, Dans focuses on examining and reflecting on human behaviour and navigation. His work often explores and experiments with graphic design elements that appear aged, anonymous, and ambiguous. For his graduation project, he delved into the topic of archives and archiving, investigating various methods, with a particular focus on personal archives, decay, urgency, indexing, and shareable archives. In addition to personal projects, Dans works freelance, primarily in printed matter, web design, and visual identities.

Open Letters is an urban intervention project launched by Page Not Found in March 2021. It is designed as an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability. Open Letters was inspired by the short essay “The Year I Stopped Making Art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity,” written by the artist Paul Maheke in April 2020 as a reflection and call for solidarity in response to the current global situation and art world.

We kindly thank Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag and the Mondriaan Fund for supporting this programme.

Image: teaser for “Archival Queries” by Dans Jirgensons

OPEN LETTER — Alcide Breaux & Akash Sheshadri

In August we unveil our first Open Letter of 2024, the gripping “Checking In…” by Alcide Breaux & Akash Sheshadri. The letter will stay on view in our storefront window for four weeks and is accessible at any time.

Their letter expands on a previous text from Extra Intra Reader 3: Swallowed Like a Whole (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2024). It recounts the story of Student X’s wheelchair, purchased after a sudden loss of mobility, and later reclaimed by the academy upon the student’s graduation. The text chronicles 54 months of disputes over the wheelchair’s use and accessibility issues.

Their proposal includes email “receipts” highlighting the experience of trauma and loss of agency, arranged like labels in a manual. The wheelchair’s controller armrest is used symbolically, reflecting the global consolidation of disability experiences under the ♿ symbol.

Open Letters is an urban intervention project launched by Page Not Found in March 2021. It is designed as an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability. Open Letters was inspired by the short essay “The Year I Stopped Making Art. Why the art world should assist artists beyond representation; in solidarity,” written by the artist Paul Maheke in April 2020 as a reflection and call for solidarity in response to the current global situation and art world.

We kindly thank Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag and the Mondriaan Fund for supporting this programme.

Photo: Open Letter “Checking In…” by Alcide Breaux & Akash Sheshadri, by Page Not Found

KINO NIGHT — with Charlotte Moth

Scene from the artist film "Filmic Sketches" by Charlotte Moth

Friday 27 September, from 19:00 ongoing until 23:00 | Free entrance.

As part of Hoogtij #78, Page Not Found presents a Kino Night featuring a film and publishing work by Charlotte Moth. The film, Filmic Sketches, blends footage from locations referenced in archival material displayed in the exhibition Choreography of the Image at Tate Britain’s Archive Gallery, running from May 2015 to May 2016.

These locations include the ‘Palais de danse’ in St Ives, the Cornish coastline, and a studio/living space – in this case, Moth’s own. Designed as a series of thought experiments, the film explores how staging sculptural objects in front of the camera can act as an extension of the eye.

Alongside the screening, we are presenting a selection of artist books by Moth, one of which is “Travelogue” — an extensive monograph on Charlotte Moth’s work. The publication contains one of Moth’s key texts regarding Travelogue, her ongoing collection of analogue photographs which she began taking in 1999 and to which she has continued to add new images throughout her extensive research. “As a collection, it reveals a personal circulation and movement through my visiting places,” she writes. “My photographic collection functions as a hidden aspect of my practice”. In her exhibitions, Moth’s Travelogue photographs appear in meticulously crafted displays which “create specific spaces and contexts for the encounter of an image”.

Charlotte Moth (1978) is a British artist who uses principally the mediums of photography, video and sculpture, often using these works to create sculptural or architectural installations. She lives and works in Paris. In 2015, Moth was invited by Tate Britain to create a work. Inspired by a photograph by Barbara Hepworth’s, One Form (Single Form), 1937, she created an archival display to interrogate the way images are choreographed. Using ten vitrines, Moth presented images from the Tate’s archives from the years 1930 to 1960 to create ‘thought constellations’. Each vitrine treats a different element necessary to stage images of artworks: Image, Light, Book, Nature, Studio, Film, Imagination, Magic and Play.

Kino Nights is a program series at Page Not Found, tailored to present the works by artists, whose practice encompasses film or video productions as well as publishing. Film, video and other moving images are screened alongside a carefully curated selection of publications and other printed matter by the artist. The diversity of practices of the contributors often escapes disciplinary categorization, therefore making this series particularly layered and immersive.

Photo: Still of “Filmic Sketches” by Charlotte Moth (2015), courtesy of Charlotte Moth and Galerie Marcelle Alix

MAR Book Launch — “Excuses 2&4” and “Lucky Draw 9”

Book "Excuses-2and4"

Please join us on Thursday 12 September, from 19:00 to the launch of not one, but two publications by the Master Artistic Research (MAR) of KABK.

Every year, Page Not Found is delighted to launch the new publications of MA Artistic Research. This coming Thursday, we will gather to celebrate “Excuses 2&4” by recent year one students, and “Lucky Draw 9”, by the 2024 graduating class.

Teachers Astrid Korporaal and Jasper Coppes will introduce each book and how it came to be made, and our writers will read from their contributions. The evening will be co-hosted by Janice McNab, Head of the MA Artistic Research.

These new editions will be available to purchase after the event, and there will be free drinks and snacks. You’re very welcome to join!

Free entrance.

Photo: page from “Excuses 2&4”, courtesy of MA Artistic Research KABK

🐣 Closed this Easter weekend — both Saturday and Sunday 🌸 Hop by today or Friday to browse and pick up your favourite book finds 🐰 We’ll be back on Wednesday. Enjoy the long weekend!

Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Today and Friday, 13:00 – 18:00.

#easterweekend #openinghours #denhaag #artisticpublishing

🐣 Closed this Easter weekend — both Saturday and Sunday 🌸 Hop by today or Friday to browse and pick up your favourite book finds 🐰 We’ll be back on Wednesday. Enjoy the long weekend!

Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Today and Friday, 13:00 – 18:00.

#easterweekend #openinghours #denhaag #artisticpublishing
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