On September 6th, we are unveiling our second Open Letter 2024, the poignant “YOUR SILENCE IS REPRESSION AT WORK” by Zeloot (Eline van Dam). The letter will stay on view in our storefront window for four weeks and is accessible any time.
Eline van Dam: “When we choose to stay silent in the face of injustice, we’re actively bolstering a system that thrives on control and repression. This silence is a way to protect our own privileges and avoid conflicts while letting the worst excesses of power to continue unchecked. The suffering in Palestine is not an isolated tragedy; it’s intricately tied to the global power structures that also oppress us. Our silence doesn’t just ignore this suffering, it hides our complicity and undermines our humanity. To dismantle these corrupt systems, we must face the harsh truth that our comfort comes at the expense of others. Silence is not neutral; it actively supports injustice and blocks the urgent changes we desperately need. As Naomi Klein points out: “The more we censor ourselves, the more we allow the powers that be to censor us, creating a self-perpetuating cycle of oppression.” ”
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.
Eline van Dam, also known as Zeloot (born in 1974), studied painting at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After her studies, she travelled and organized events within the underground scene in The Hague. She began designing and screen-printing posters and flyers for independent venues, which eventually led to the creation of Helbaard (2004-2008), a project she ran with Manuel Padding. They organized concerts, film screenings, and other cultural events, with self-produced posters that were spread worldwide by performing artists. This experience shaped her graphic style, characterized by bold colours and clear, flat designs.
Over time, Zeloot was increasingly approached as an editorial illustrator by major newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Le Monde, and Die Zeit. In this role, she focuses on translating content or emotions into images that enhance a message without being purely narrative or copying reality. Being mostly inspired by the Polish, Cuban and Japanese poster designs of the 60/70 s, in addition to her work as an illustrator, she continues to create posters for cultural projects and expressions of political discomfort when possible.
We kindly thank Stroom Den Haag, Gemeente Den Haag and the Mondriaan Fund for supporting this programme.
Photo: Open Letter 2024 “Your Silence is Repression at Work” by Zeloot (Eline van Dam), taken by Steven Maybury.
Typographic Night XIII — with Bahman Eslami, Rose Nordin, and Omid Nemalhabib
Typographic Night #13 is coming up, on Friday 6 September 2024, from 18:00! Free entrance as always.
In this special edition of Typographic Night, we welcome three designers working with the Perso-Arabic (Persian & Arabic) script and its relatives. The type design field has long been dominated by the Latin alphabet, leading to most tools being standardized for its production. However, there is much to explore in the non-Latin type design world, where the familiar grids and rules no longer apply. Our designers will showcase how they embrace different aspects of the Perso-Arabic scripts in their practice, offering new insights that we might overlook in our daily design landscape. Co-curated with Trang Hà and Paulina Trzeciak, this session will feature:
Bahman Eslami, a designer who specialises in Arabic Type Design and Typography. His interest in typeface design was sparked by the lack of quality Arabic typefaces during his graphic design studies. This led him to create a typeface for his thesis, later recognised by the Association Typographique Internationale as one of the best typefaces of the decade in 2011 and published by Typotheque. He has designed Arabic companions for renowned Latin typefaces, including Fedra, Kohinoor, and the award-winning Harir. In his studio, Bahman Design, he currently focuses on designing custom typefaces.
Rose Nordin, an artist and graphic designer working with expanded notions of publishing, considering the book as a portal, letterforms as talismans and publishing as ritual knowledge production. Through publication and type design, flag making, installation and metalwork, Rose is interested in printed and material language for governance and devotion. Rose is currently based in London and is peer artist at Metroland Studios.
Omid Nemalhabib, a graphic designer with a focus on multilingual typography, visual concepts, and identity design. He is the co-founder of Studio Melli, an independent graphic design practice based in Iran and the Netherlands. He aims to discover the deep connection between visual culture, graphic design, and type design by incorporating personal narrative and a contemporary approach to experimenting with letterforms. His goal is to develop meaningful and flexible typographic systems by studying the interaction between analog techniques, tools, and digital technology.
We kindly thank Pictoright Fonds for supporting this programme!
Photo by Steven Maybury
COLLABORATIVE REVISIONS – workshop by Elisa Piazzi and Inna Kochkina
Page Not Found is happy to host the “COLLABORATIVE REVISIONS: Reshaping Universal Rights” workshop by Elisa Piazzi and Inna Kochkina. The workshop explores the concept of universality and language within the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Grounded in Elisa’s extensive research on universal rights and Inna’s methodological approach as a research-based typographer, this workshop is part of a collaborative project where the artists engage with the local community to collectively reimagine the document.
During the workshop, participants will discuss and rewrite parts of the Declaration of Human Rights and collaboratively shape letterforms using cyanotype printing. We would like to invite individuals from housing-insecure and immigrant/migrant communities to participate.
All materials are provided. The session is in English.
Photo: still life from previous workshop by Elisa Piazzi and Inna Kochkina
Read our archives, listen to our stories — Transplantation workshop met Fayo Said
In het kader van de tentoonstelling THE TRANSPLANTATION LIBRARY — READING HALL wordt een educatief programma van workshops georganiseerd. De workshops hebben als doel om de archiefpraktijk van de Afrikaanse diaspora op een zachte manier te omarmen en ermee te werken.
Zondag 14 juli is de tweede workshop “Read Our Archives, Listen to Our Stories” bij Page Not Found, geleid door Fayo Said op uitnodiging van Transplantation. Deze workshop richt zich op deelnemers met een immigrantenachtergrond uit Afrika, West-Indië, Zuid-Amerika, Azië en het Mondiale Zuiden. Via oefeningen van Transplantation activeren deelnemers hun diasporische familiearchieven met gevoeligheid, creativiteit, poëzie en politiek. De workshop stimuleert het herlezen van persoonlijke archieven, creatief werken, diep luisteren en het opbouwen van een collectieve geschiedenis uit intieme herinneringen.
Fayo Said is een kunstenaar en onderzoeker uit Nederland en Oromia, Ethiopië. In haar onderzoek en artistieke praktijk is ze geïnteresseerd in Afrikaanse en Afro-diasporische archieven en materiële + visuele cultuur, vooral in de context van de Hoorn van Afrika.
De tentoonstelling THE TRANSPLANTATION LIBRARY — READING HALL, en het bijbehorende educatieve programma, zijn samengesteld door Transplantation.
Zondag 14 juli, 14:30 – 17:30
Voertaal : Nederlands, GRATIS toegang, met registratie vooraf
Mee te nemen: Deelnemers wordt gevraagd één of meerdere foto’s mee te nemen uit hun eigen familiealbum.
Page Not Found dankt het Mondriaan Fonds, Stroom Den Haag en Gemeente Den Haag voor de ondersteuning van dit programma.
OPEN LETTERS 2024
Page Not Found now welcomes submissions to Open Letters 2024! Deadline July 17, 2024!
Open Letters is an open call for artists and writers in The Hague to occupy our storefront with messages of urgency and vulnerability.This project was inspired by the short essay ”The Year I Stopped Making Art” written by the artist Paul Maheke on March 18, 2020, as a reflection and an outcry for solidarity in the current global situation and art world. The essay lists the many unacknowledged inequalities facing artists who do not belong to the privileged ethnicity, gender, or class, and whose practice is threatened in consequence to disappear silently.“The Year I Stopped Making Art” was the first Letter published in our storefront and was followed by many Letters by The Hague artists.
The selected Open Letters are published in one of the front windows of Page Not Found’s space using vinyl lettering, which can vary in size, color, and font type. Textual and graphical contributions are welcome. However, the execution does not need to be limited to just that — we invite artists to share their message in additional ways that seem fitting to the cause.
– The authors of the selected proposals will receive a fee of €500,00.
– Our team will take care of installing the Open Letters on the window.
– Each Open Letter is displayed for four weeks.
– The first Open Letter will be unveiled in August 2024
Find the submission form as well as additional information, by clicking this link
Page Not Found kindly thanks The Mondriaan Fund, Gemeente Den Haag as well as Stroom Den Haag for supporting this project.
*Uitgesteld* — GRATIS WORKSHOP VOOR KINDEREN — “ZOALS THUIS” met Iriée Zamblé
Vanwege het lage aantal aanmeldingen is deze workshop helaas uitgesteld tot een latere datum. Blijf op de hoogte voor nieuwe data!
In het kader van de tentoonstelling THE TRANSPLANTATION LIBRARY— READING HALL wordt een educatief programma van workshops georganiseerd. De workshops hebben als doel om de archiefpraktijk van de Afrikaanse diaspora op een zachte manier te omarmen en ermee te werken.
Woensdag 10 juli is de eerste workshop “Comme à la maison” (Zoals thuis) bij Page Not Found, onder leiding van kunstenaar Iriée Zamblé, speciaal uitgenodigd door Transplantation. De workshop zal zich richten op het begrip “thuis” en is bedoelt voor basisschool kinderen. Tijdens de workshop zullen de kinderen samen met de kunstenaar een eigen zine ontwerpen met verschillende disciplines. Denk aan tekenen, printen en collage. Wij beginnen om 14:00, GRATIS toegang. Om in te schrijven: register@page-not-found.nl
De tentoonstelling THE TRANSPLANTATION LIBRARY— READING HALL, en het bijbehorende educatieve programma, zijn samengesteld door Transplantation.
Page Not Found dankt het Mondriaan Fonds, Stroom Den Haag en Gemeente Den Haag voor de ondersteuning van dit programma.
Afbeelding: Bart de Baets, tekeningen van Iriée Zamblé uit de serie “Auntie era”
Typographic Night XII — with Yamuna Forzani, Edward Dżułaj and Soyun Park
We are delighted to invite you to the Typographic Night XII, taking place on Friday 21 June, from 18:00!
If you’re curious about the possibilities of graphic design, join us for a live session with three talented designers, who will show you what your text can become. Co-curated with Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak, this session will host:
Edward Dżułaj, a type designer born into a Polish-Ukrainian family, currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands. Having completed his Graphic Design (BA) and TypeMedia (MA) studies at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, he worked on various type foundries projects. In this capacity, he had the opportunity to contribute to developing system operating fonts for clients such as Microsoft. In 2023, he founded July Type Foundry. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member at the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague (KABK), teaching graphic and type design.
Yamuna Forzani is a multidisciplinary artist and queer activist whose practice centres around a desire to build her queer utopia that celebrates her community, making them part of and inspiration of her creative outputs. Yamuna’s work takes form through textile, she explores the medium in collaboration with other design, artistic and social initiatives – often involving, organising events, dance performances, embedding fashion and costume, public art and versatile installations
Soyun Park is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and educator from South Korea living in The Hague, The Netherlands. She’s also a founder of a community-based studio for bonding technology, RGBdog. She has exhibited and performed at media art festivals, cultural venues and film festivals including for example Rewire Festival (NL),
Nederland Fotomuseum (NL), Ars Electronica (AT), CT Festival (DE), Jeonju International Film Festival (KR) and ill workspace (NL).
We kindly thank Pictoright Fonds for supporting this programme!
Photo: Typographic Night no.12 by Steven Maybury.
BOOK LAUNCH: Notes on Happiness — by Alex Farrar
Please feel welcome to join us for the launch of “Notes on Happiness” by Alex Farrar on Saturday, 15th of June.
BOOK LAUNCH: Ghost Town — with Ola Vasiljeva and Robert Milne
Please join us on Wednesday, June 12 for the launch of Ola Vasiljeva’s new publication GHOST TOWN! Designed by Robert Milne, published by Vleeshal and Roma Publications, this book is the most comprehensive overview of Ola Vasiljeva’s practice between 2008 and 2023. Ola, who is no other than our artistic director, will discuss with Robert and the editor Roos Gortzak on how this beautiful opus came to be, over fermented bread drink served from her glass bags.
The book is available for purchase at Page Not Found and is distributed by Idea Books
Launch of Support
Please join us on Friday 7 June from 6–10pm for the launch of issue #2 of the KABK school newspaper, ‘Support’. The KABK school newspaper is a student-initiated, self-organised publishing project. This year, it opened an office after hours in the academy’s library once a week. Everybody was invited to this office to make and write the newspaper together.
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🩵Look at this Beauty! We are open today 1-6pm, come by!
The Queer Arab Glossary, edited by @ustaz_marwan and published by @saqibooks is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang.
This bold guide captures the lexicon of the queer Arab community in all its differences, quirks and felicities. Featuring fascinating facts and anecdotes, it contains more than 300 terms in both English and Arabic, ranging from the humorous to the harrowing, serious to tongue-in-cheek, pejorative to endearing. Here, leading queer Arab artists, academics, activists and writers offer insightful essays situating this groundbreaking glossary in a modern social and political context.
🩵Look at this Beauty! We are open today 1-6pm, come by!
The Queer Arab Glossary, edited by @ustaz_marwan and published by @saqibooks is the first published collection of Arabic LGBTQ+ slang.
This bold guide captures the lexicon of the queer Arab community in all its differences, quirks and felicities. Featuring fascinating facts and anecdotes, it contains more than 300 terms in both English and Arabic, ranging from the humorous to the harrowing, serious to tongue-in-cheek, pejorative to endearing. Here, leading queer Arab artists, academics, activists and writers offer insightful essays situating this groundbreaking glossary in a modern social and political context....
⚡A big thank you to Rewire Festival for a beautiful collaboration! 🎶
We had the pleasure of hosting 10 events from their context programme, 2 of which we curated, ranging from intimate listening sessions and thoughtful lectures to inspiring book launches.
Thank you to all the artists, speakers, visitors and volunteers who brought such attention, care, and curiosity into the space. We’re grateful to have been part of a programme that values deep listening, collective reflection, and sonic exploration.
Special thanks to curator @katiatruijen and host @mayomi_basnayaka for making everything run flawlessly! ⏳
📷 : the photographers of Rewire: Baroeg Mulder, Joris van den Einden, Rogier Boogaard.
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00.
⚡A big thank you to Rewire Festival for a beautiful collaboration! 🎶
We had the pleasure of hosting 10 events from their context programme, 2 of which we curated, ranging from intimate listening sessions and thoughtful lectures to inspiring book launches.
Thank you to all the artists, speakers, visitors and volunteers who brought such attention, care, and curiosity into the space. We’re grateful to have been part of a programme that values deep listening, collective reflection, and sonic exploration.
Special thanks to curator @katiatruijen and host @mayomi_basnayaka for making everything run flawlessly! ⏳
📷 : the photographers of Rewire: Baroeg Mulder, Joris van den Einden, Rogier Boogaard.
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00.
🎶 Sounds that carry histories. FLEE is an independent publishing house, record label, and curatorial platform founded by Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo, and Carl Åhnebrink. Through sound, books, and research, @fleeproject documents and reinterprets hybrid cultural phenomena—tracing the echoes of globalisation from critical and poetic perspectives.
Explore their stunning transmedia projects:
🎣 Leva Leva — fishermen’s chants from the Portuguese coast
⛰ Athos — sacred soundscapes from Greece's Holy Mountain
🌊 Nahma — Gulf polyphonies and pearl diver songs
Each project blends rare archival recordings, contemporary compositions, and beautifully designed books that centre lived experience, memory, and sonic heritage.
Available in our bookshop!
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00. 🐣 This Easter weekend (Sat. + Sun.) we are closed 🌷
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🎶 Sounds that carry histories. FLEE is an independent publishing house, record label, and curatorial platform founded by Olivier Duport, Alan Marzo, and Carl Åhnebrink. Through sound, books, and research, @fleeproject documents and reinterprets hybrid cultural phenomena—tracing the echoes of globalisation from critical and poetic perspectives.
Explore their stunning transmedia projects:
🎣 Leva Leva — fishermen’s chants from the Portuguese coast
⛰ Athos — sacred soundscapes from Greece's Holy Mountain
🌊 Nahma — Gulf polyphonies and pearl diver songs
Each project blends rare archival recordings, contemporary compositions, and beautifully designed books that centre lived experience, memory, and sonic heritage.
Available in our bookshop!
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00. 🐣 This Easter weekend (Sat. + Sun.) we are closed 🌷
✍️ Looking back with warmth on Writing Together, a workshop held during Grace Ndiritu’s exhibition The Compassionate Rebels.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this intimate session of reflection, dialogue, and collective writing. Your presence and openness made the space feel generous and grounding.
💌 And a special thanks to Fayo Said for guiding the group with care and depth.
Writing Together was part of A Season of Peace Building, a series of workshops accompanying the exhibition and revisiting themes from Grace’s book Being Together, republished by Page Not Found.
📷 : @ievamaslinskaite
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00. 🐣 This Easter weekend (Sat. + Sun.) we are closed 🌷
✍️ Looking back with warmth on Writing Together, a workshop held during Grace Ndiritu’s exhibition The Compassionate Rebels.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this intimate session of reflection, dialogue, and collective writing. Your presence and openness made the space feel generous and grounding.
💌 And a special thanks to Fayo Said for guiding the group with care and depth.
Writing Together was part of A Season of Peace Building, a series of workshops accompanying the exhibition and revisiting themes from Grace’s book Being Together, republished by Page Not Found.
📷 : @ievamaslinskaite
Page Not Found is a Centre for Artistic Publishing in The Hague. We are open Wednesday – Sunday, 13:00 – 18:00. 🐣 This Easter weekend (Sat. + Sun.) we are closed 🌷
🐣 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.
🐣 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.
