DOUBLE EXPOSURE(S)/ STUTTERS – solo exhibition by Dominique Hurth
We’re delighted to open Dominique Hurth’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. In 2014, Hurth encountered four boxes of cyanotype prints by Thomas W. Smillie, the first custodian and curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of photography. In her artist book Stutters (Printed Matter, 2021), Hurth builds on several years’ research to rework the original cyanotypes into visual montage, sequencing images that provide a record of Museum life as it documents a ‘national’ collection in the making.
For her exhibition at Page Not Found, Hurth has developed a new installation that expands from her research and the material that created Stutters. The title refers to the photographic process of superimposition of two or more exposures on one image, and serves as a metaphor for the artist: as a way of looking at the history of the institution through the subjects of the photographs, and at the same time at the institution historicising its own history through the infrastructure of the archives.
Dominique Hurth’s exhibition is the first instalment of Mal d’Archive, the new public programme of Page Not Found, exploring the space between artistic, archival and publishing practices. This programme will span over several years and encompass events, exhibitions, workshops and residencies.
Dominique Hurth (1985, France) is a visual artist working with installations, sculptures and editions. Her work has been exhibited i.a. Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Fundacio Tapies, Barcelona; Memorial of Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart) and is part of several collections. She is the recipient of several awards and residencies such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2016-17) and Prize of the Berliner Senate / Governing Mayor of Berlin at ISCP, New York (2014).
DOUBLE EXPOSURE(S)/ STUTTERS opens on March 8, 7 pm. The exhibition is on view until May 8, free entrance. Made possible with the financial support of the Mondriaan Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag.
We are looking for volunteers!
We are currently looking for volunteers to support our team in versatile range of projects at Page Not Found: from stewarding at events to helping with exhibition production and build-up, workshops for children and more. We are interested in hearing from individuals who would like to get involved – particularly if you have specific skills you would like to share. Page Not Found provides a volunteer compensation fee, trainings for our team and we offer 20% discount on the books. Our space is wheelchair accessible. If interested, please contact us at hr@page-not-found.nl
Page Not Found is a contemporary visual arts organisation in The Hague, committed to the exploration and celebration of artistic publishing as an inclusive and transformative medium. As an organisation, we are committed to providing a dynamic and inclusive space that celebrates the richness of artistic publishing.
Our mission is to introduce this versatile practice to a broader audience, offering a unique tool to transcend institutional, commercial, and normative boundaries.
Photo: our dear volunteers in 2023
PRINT A ZINE FOR FREE
Come print a zine for free at Page Not Found!
Publishers for Palestine is a global solidarity collective of more than 400 publishers who stand for justice, freedom of expression, and the power of the written word in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The collective offers free reading materials on their website.
We can print a zine for you on demand at Page Not Found for free!
Due to limited resources, we can currently print two zines per person. Please ask our volunteer for help.
We are open Wednesday through Sunday, 1-6pm!
Announcing The NEU Commission recipients
Initiated by Page Not Found in 2022, The NEU Commission intends to support the emergence of alternative voices within contemporary art. A particular group currently under-represented in Europe is composed of art students with limited financial means, who are required to provide a guarantee for their visa, and to pay high Non-EU tuition fees. These requirements are an economical barrier to the participation of this group in art and knowledge production in The Netherlands, removing from the expected polyphony of contemporary art voices from radically different backgrounds.
The selection jury consisted of Jean-Michel Mabruki Mussa, Riad Salameh and Yara Said of Salwa Foundation . The selection was designed to take in consideration urgent financial needs as well as various unique circumstances that the applicants were facing, besides their writing talent. Page Not Found had received 77 submissions. After careful consideration and a rigorous evaluation process, the jury selected: Alcide Breaux (US), Olamiju Fajemisin (NG/UK), Sohrab Mostafavi Kashani (IR) and Flavia Barbosa Pinheiro (BR). Ana Mikadze (GE) is the recipient of the special Prologue category. ️
The winning four art students are commissioned to each write an essay, which will be published later this year. The selected writers receive a financial compensation of €2000 and €1000 (Prologue Category).
We kindly thank all the applicants! Our sincere congratulations to the recipients and heartfelt gratitude for the commitment of the jury members. The next edition of NEU Commission is planned for 2025.
Typographic Night X— with Basia Strzeżek, Delphine Lejeune and Daytona Mess
We’re delighted to invite to our first Typographic Nights in 2024!
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 by Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak, this session will host:
• Basia Strzeżek is a graphic designer from Poland, currently residing in Amsterdam. She flirts with multidisciplinary art while staying vocal about her never-ending exploration of ‘the amateur’ in conversation. In her design work, she plays with the subversive potential of the mundane, crafting fleeting textural sensations and imperfect imageries often full of pocket-sized ornamental gestures. Having recently completed her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, she is also involved with an occasional publishing house called « Stopka.”
• Delphine Lejeune is a visual designer and material researcher working experimentally across 2D and 3D printed surfaces. Her curiosities lie within designed objects, and how they critically shape our social behaviours. Her source material is often found, digital images that she extrapolates into objects through layers of reformatting, delineating the boundaries between digital and physical representations.
• Anne-Dauphine Borione, alias Daytona Mess, is a 29-year-old type designer from Paris, France. She is currently studying for the TypeMedia Master degree program at the KABK, The Hague. After a bachelor in Fine Arts at the Central Saint Martins, London, in 2016, and a Master degree in Typography and Graphic Design from the École de Communication Visuelle, Paris, in 2020, she is now focusing her design practice almost exclusively on type, infused by her conceptual fine arts background. She is particularly fond of experimentation, largely in the field of extreme display type, but also has a knack for sharing her process and documenting it extensively. Her complex, open source typeface Lithops, inspired by brains affected by Alzheimer’s and by lithops succulents, has received a Type Designers Club award in 2023.
Join us on Friday, February 9 from 18:00, free entry!
We kindly thank Pictoright Fonds and Gemeente Den Haag for supporting this programme!
Image above: joyful crowd during a Typographic Night at Page Not Found (2022)
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall — book presentation
Please join us on Thursday, December 7 from 18:00 for the book presentation ” To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall ” with Niloufar Nematollahi and Katayoon Berzgalar.
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall is a collection of translated essays by feminists in Iran that attempts to imagine beyond walls of oppression by navigating the intersections of writing and the everyday becomings of a feminist revolution. The book includes writings of Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, the journalists who were arrested in September 2022 after covering the news of Jina Amini’s murder. Niloofar and Elaheh are still in Tehran’s notorious Even prison today. To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall also includes an essay on the experience of arrest and detention at Evin prison told from the perspective of an anonymous writer who was incarcerated following the Jina Uprising which started about a year ago. These pieces together with two essays by Elaheh and Niloofar’s friend and editor-in-chief of the feminist platform Harass Watch, Ghoncheh Ghavami, are brought together and translated into English for the first time in the Other Side of the Concrete Wall.
About the book’s publishers:To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall was seed-funded by BAK and published by Jina Collective. Jina Collective is a Netherlands-based feminist, leftist, anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, and pro-LQBTQ+ activist group that emerged from the Jina Uprising.
Fragment from the book:
“Subsequent visits to the prison yard got better with time. During each visit, our eyes would well up with tears, but we felt more peace and even played games such as ‘Walnut; cracked!’. We rolled up our sleeves to get some vitamin D from the half-dead autumn sun, stretched our bodies, and walked slightly faster to get some exercise. But most of the time we were singing. Singing was one of those glorious, spiritual moments. Roaring and soaring, feeling like flying away from that place. This forbidden voice came out of the forbidden body and could pass through the forbidden walls. Singing was freedom for us. We saw how the tones and voices break the shackles of prejudice and dogmatism and live on in freedom. And what a show! What an empowerment! What a pleasure! We clapped for ourselves; We were staring at the security cameras, laughing out loud, and hugging each other tightly. We were armed with the power of singing together, demonstrating life in the name of those who were struck by death and silence.”
Kino Night — BRUD/Aditya Mandayam
Kino Nights is program series at Page Not Found, tailored to present the works by the 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 makes this series particularly layered and immersive.
For this session of Kino Night taking place during Hoogtij #75 on December 1, it is our honour to screen “Self-Portrait at the Auto-da-Fé” (2013) by BRUD/Aditya Mandayam alongside a compilation of printed matter around the artist’s practice.
Aditya Mandayam, also known as BRUD (1983-2019) was an Indian artist, filmmaker, writer and musician. Combining avant-garde performance with his studies in Carnatic classical singing, Mandayam’s operatic oeuvre was a gesamtkunstwerk of sculpture, theater, cinema, music, light, text, sound, and image. Mandayam co-run the tape label MUTO focusing on experimental approaches to surround sound. A former resident of the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Mandayam had exhibited widely, including CAC, Vilnius, MHKA, Antwerp, kim?, Riga, Art in General, New York, Schloss Solitude, National Museum of Bolivia, National Gallery, Zimbabwe, XII Baltic Triennial, Kunstverein Münich, and FUTURA, Prague.
Felix Salut —a graphic designer with a strong interest in typography;
Trang Ha — a designer and artists bridging her interest in gastronomy and multi-media interventions.
Typographic Nights are a space for graphic designers and the public to gather around understandings and misunderstandings of the graphic design process. Audience members are asked to bring texts which they would like to see transformed into visual works. The invited designers and typographers will materialise these texts into beautiful printed matter on the spot, demonstrating their skills and knowledge. Works will be printed the same night, ready to take home.
On November 8, 2023 we are unveiling Trang Quỳnh Lê’s open letter “PROPERTY DECLARATION FORM”, installed in our storefront window at Boekhorststraat 128.
The PROPERTY DECLARATION FORM was made inspired by a poem of a friend who helped Trang Quỳnh Lê pack 40kg luggage (United Arab Emirate checked baggage limit). This is all Trang brought with her when moving to the Netherlands for study. After two years, the property proliferated itself and formed five private islands. Five private islands are all Trang is familiar with.
With many Vietnamese migrants leaving their homeland in the hope of a better life, once gone may never return. This project is important for Trang to reflect on her journey, her struggles and her happiness when deciding between leaving or staying.
Trang’s letter will be accompanied by the presentation of her publication related to this project, during the finissage. The date will be announced soon.
Trang Quỳnh Lê’s Open Letter is on view and accessible any time from the street until Dec 10, 2023.
Page Not Found kindly thanks Stroom Den Haag for supporting this project.
MAR Book Launch 2023 with Görkem Yalım, Becket MWN, Rietlanden Women’s Office
Please join us on Wednesday 15 November, from 19:00, to launch not one, but two publications by the Master Artistic Research (KABK)!
“(extruding yourself through the open shape of your mouth)” will be presented by the first year students, their guiding tutors Görkem Yalım and Becket MWN, and its designers Rietlanden Women’s Office.
A discussion between the second year students and guest designer Paul Gangloff will introduce their publishing endeavor “So what are the Books? Are they you know book books? What is this? This is a mirror, this was a seed.”
The evening will be additionally accompanied by a short presentation by MAR alumni Noor Remmen & Emily Stevenhagen, drinks, and readings!
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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.
