Exhibitions and Activities

Starting Saturday 16 April 2022, Museum Kranenburgh will exhibit Leo Gestel on Mallorca, a unique overview of the spectacular and colourful work that painter Leo Gestel created during his stay on Mallorca in 1914. Gestel spent four months on the Spanish island and, mesmerised by the landscape, rapidly produced a large number of sketches and paintings. The series of works represents an experimental high point in modern Dutch art, but has never before been brought together in an exhibition.

From Saturday 16 April 2022, Museum Kranenburgh presents Twist, a solo exhibition of studio and travel photography by photographer Bastiaan Woudt. Twist is the first museum exhibition by Woudt, who grew up in Bergen. In recent years, he has enjoyed international success with his iconic and timeless black-and-white portraits. Woudt’s solo exhibition perfectly fits Kranenburgh’s commitment to supporting exceptional Bergen-based talent whose work is engaging and has an accomplished relevance to international developments.

From 16 April, Museum Kranenburgh presents A Bergen Diary, a solo exhibition of new work by Indian artist Praneet Soi. His installation features work made during his 2021 stay as artist-in-residence at Bergen’s Lucebert House. Soi spent his time in Bergen intensively exploring the green surroundings of dunes and forests.

In Museum Kranenburgh, you can get creative with friends and family at the Let's play Galapagos! exhibition. In the Tuinzaal, graphic designer Felix Salut invites visitors to play the Galapagos Game and give free rein to their imagination.

Natura artis magistra: nature is the teacher of the arts. Natural processes are essential to the work of herman de vries (Alkmaar, 1931). Indeed, nature is the life’s primal source; our understanding of reality derives from its inherent processes and phenomena. Sentiently experiencing them brings us to the essence of human existence. Seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting are sensory experiences and induce consiousness.

herman de vries’s vegetation works present us artefacts from nature. He collects, organises and exhibits them as they appear to him.

The layered title of the new exhibition - Treasures of volunteers - in historical museum Het Sterkenhuis arouses curiosity. The museum of course has treasures being the volunteers who ensure that the museum runs. For this exhibition, the volunteers have been asked which of the museum's treasures they envisage and what makes them tick. Both are thus put in the spotlight.

Opposition, similarity, contrast... This theme can be widely interpreted as is immediately apparent in the very diverse work of the participating artists. Great contrasts in colour or black and white, transparent or opaque. Small contrasts with shades of grey. In the exhibition, various interpretations and angles are addressed: light and dark, day and night, land and water, history and current affairs.