Hong Kong–born artist Kacey Wong returns to The Hague for an exhibition at NGO DEI. Kacey Wong’s Artist Exhibition: Tales of Resistance – Allegory & Myth will offer profound reflections on conflict, exile, and imagination, exploring how humor, allegory, and myth serve as tools of resistance in an era of authoritarian expansion. Through installation art, photography, and satirical works, Wong examines how laughter, absurdity, and satire can be transformed into powerful acts of resistance.
During the opening night, the artist will construct a small fortune-telling temple inside the gallery and offer us a live performance titled “Living Deity”.
Artist: Kacey Wong is a Hong Kong–born political artist and activist. Now living in exile in Taiwan and formerly a visual arts professor in Hong Kong, Wong draws on his personal experiences of political upheaval and displacement.
Kacey Wong’s Artist Talk: Tales of Resistance – Allegory & Myth
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Hong Kong–born artist Kacey Wong returns to The Hague for a public talk at Leiden University!
He will discuss the aesthetics of protest and how visual language emerges under censorship, authoritarian pressure, and political displacement. From Hong Kong to Taiwan and Ukraine, he explores how imagination can become a form of resistance and survival, weaving together three narrative threads: the 2019 anti-extradition movement in Hong Kong, Taiwan’s ongoing vigilance against authoritarian threats, and apocalyptic visions of a post-apocalyptic world shaped by conflict and displacement.
In the spring, when tulips bloom across the Netherlands, we created a temporary bookstore called daydream bookshop. The Hague, the country’s only major seaside city, is known for its elegant atmosphere and its role as a political and financial center. Within this structured and multicultural environment, we chose the everyday space of a bookstore to approach what may seem like a vast subject. This is the first time Taiwan, as the initiating organizer, has brought together disability arts organizations from five European countries for an exhibition within Europe. Yet we are not driven by scale, nor do we seek spectacle.
A bookstore carries ideas, histories, and futures. It holds many ways of seeing the world. Here, one may encounter new perspectives, including different understandings of disability.
In collaboration with the independent bookstore Nowhere Bookstore in The Hague, artworks are placed among the shelves. We are curious whether artists from different cultural backgrounds, responding to their lived experiences, can create resonances beyond language, borders, and physical difference.
──────────────────── daydream bookshop Euro-Asian Disability Arts Touring Exhibition ──────────────────── location｜Nowhere Bookstore, Piet Heinstraat 42, The Hague dates｜March 14 – April 5, 2026 closed｜Mondays and Tuesdays 10:00–17:00 (weekends until 18:00) opening event｜March 14, sat. 2pm Live Performance
The opening afternoon will also feature live DJ sets by local artists, creating a relaxed atmosphere where visitors can experience the artworks while moving through the space.
Joe Eagan Comedy Productions brings stand-up comedians to The Hague, guesting Branoul approximately 10 times per year with shows entirely in ENGLISH. Always a fun mix of pro headliner comics, local talents, stars of tomorrow and stars of yesterday. Note: Each show has approx 3-4 different comedians and a lovely MC host from Canada, Ireland or the UK guiding you through the evening. The line-up per show is published on our Facebook events page.
Dates: Sat Feb 21, Fri March 13, Sat March 28, Sat April 18, Sat May 23, Sat June 13
Time: Two showtimes to choose from each date at 19,00 & 21,00
That is the premise of For Love of the World – Digital Revolt, on March 21, 2026, in Delft. The festival is a collaboration between Studium Generale TU Delft and Theater de Veste and features the internationally renowned writer and artist James Bridle as keynote speaker.
What do a university of technology, love, and a digital revolt have in common?
Love As Resistance
We live in a digital economy where attention is traded, emotions are magnified, and algorithms determine what we see. We check our phones dozens of times a day. Platforms are designed to captivate us. Polarization generates engagement. Engagement generates data. Data generates profit.
The system hasn’t broken down—this is the system.
James Bridle: Beyond Technological Fatalism
James Bridle is one of the most influential international voices on technology, ecology, and intelligence. In their books, “New Dark Age” and “Ways of Being,” they question our idea of progress and invite a broader view of knowledge and coexistence—including non-human perspectives. Their essays have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Wired, and The Atlantic. Their work has been exhibited and awarded worldwide. In Delft, Bridle explores how we can move beyond technological fatalism and design technology based on reciprocity and care rather than control.
The Third Edition of the For Love of the World Festival
For Love of the World is the only festival taking place in the Month of Philosophy where philosophy, art, technology, and activism converge. Lectures, performances, and collaborative experiments transform the audience into participants.
Students Working on a Festival for the Future
What stands out is the broad involvement of TU Delft students. Study associations, design collectives, cultural and art initiatives within TU Delft are developing program components, building installations, and organizing discussions. The festival aims to foster intergenerational conversations with students and the general public.
Many Voices
In addition to Bridle, speakers include: Payal Arora – On how global desire is used as resistance to technological control George van Hal – On the pitch-black worldviews of tech bros, and how things can be done differently Derek Lomas – On digital systems that promote well-being Maaike van der Horst – On love, desire, and technology
Love Over Power
Love is a design principle: a way to build digital infrastructure that empowers people rather than exhausts them. What does this mean for a university of technology, where the world of tomorrow is being designed? What does this mean for our society—what values do we program into the world we build?
Together, our speakers put a fundamental question back into the people’s hands and minds. That question: if technology shapes our world, do we dare to redesign it—from love rather than power?
DRIFT. Dune to Dogger Bank is a deeply affecting exhibition in which twenty-two contemporary artists unite past, present and future in order to explore a single, urgent question: what is our relationship to the dune landscape and the North Sea? The artists drew inspiration from the ideals of Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten. In 1881, this artist couple used their famous Panorama of Scheveningen to call attention to the fragile nature of the coastal landscape and the preservation of the Seinpostduin. Now, some 145 years later, as sea levels rise and biodiversity dwindles, the call to protect our seas and coastlines has become even more urgent.
New perspectives
Together with co-curator Embassy of the North Sea, the museum asked artists, researchers and makers to devise new panoramas, perspectives and prospects concerning the relationship between humans and the North Sea and dune landscape. Partly informed by dialogues with ecologists and other experts, their work renders the ecological processes and changes in the landscape both visible and tangible while also exploring potential future scenarios. The works on display vary from impressive installations and sculptures to interactive pieces that ask you to listen, feel and experience for yourself. And so, 145 years after Mesdag created the Panorama of Scheveningen, visitors of all ages are once again invited to explore the North Sea landscape, from the crests of the dunes to the undersea world of the Dogger Bank.
Commissioned works
DRIFT brings together works by twenty-two artists and includes a mix of new and innovative art that was created especially for this exhibition, as well as existing work that has been re-examined and is now being presented in this context for the first time. Artists such as Suzette Bousema, Valerie van Leersum, Xandra van der Eijk and Frank Bloem render ecological processes tangible through air, colour, sound and scent, while Jonat Deelstra focuses on the North Sea seabed and the question of how art can contribute to ecological recovery. Paintings by Anke Roder, Linhuei Chen, Daan Koens and others draw connections between landscapes, memories and visions of the future. Landscape architect Thijs de Zeeuw brings the Dogger Bank to tangible life through a participative and educational approach, while Folkert de Jong looks to mythical gods of nature to give voice to the sea and dunes. New work by MUST and Harpo ’t Hart & Sami Hammana addresses the political debate surrounding the Dogger Bank as well. The exhibition also includes work by Anne Jesuina presented in art institute Stroom Den Haag, a few minutes’ walk from the museum.
Minke Schat, director of Museum Panorama Mesdag:
‘With DRIFT, we are aligning ourselves with the tradition of Hendrik Willem and Sientje Mesdag, whose work contributed to a new appreciation of the dune landscape and who – as activists committed to nature conservation – were truly ahead of their time. DRIFT opens with a letter to the municipality of The Hague written by Hendrik Willem Mesdag in protest of plans to level the Seinpostduin, the tallest dune in Scheveningen at the time. His letter extends the historical context to the present day, linking it to current issues. It also underscores the museum’s role as a place where art, landscape and societal themes come together and provide potential food for thought.’
Embassy of the North Sea’s Thijs Middeldorp:
‘Hendrik Willem Mesdag expressed his love for the sea with the words: “The sea is mine.” Today, we ask ourselves: who really owns the sea? First and foremost, the North Sea and vital marine nurseries like the Dogger Bank belong to themselves, separate from human interests – don’t they? These questions yield new stories, exciting images and surprising perspectives, all of which come together in this exhibition.’
Public events
An extensive programme of public events will run concurrent to the exhibition, offering added depth through lectures and expert panels with guests such as Arita Baaijens, Peter Kuipers Munneke and Auke Florian. Other activities include creative workshops with Suzette Bousema and a Beach Clean-up with public participation. Remarkably, a portion of the programme takes place outside the museum, with culture walks through Meijendel led by a museum guide, a biologist and singer and ambassador Tim Knol. The full programme will be available on the museum website as of 21th March.
Museum Panorama Mesdag is an icon in The Hague – and the Panorama of Scheveningen is its undisputed crown jewel. In addition to the largest painting in the Netherlands, the museum also has an impressive collection of other works by artists (and married couple) Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten on display. This, plus a rotating array of temporary exhibitions that forge connections between past and present mean there is always something new to see.
We are especially honored to welcome our own club member, Dr. Sarah Joan Moran, as our featured lecturer.
The Court Beguinages were a remarkable network of semi-monastic Catholic women’s communities that flourished in the cities of the Low Countries from the thirteenth through the twentieth century. Their members, known as Beguines, played vital social and religious roles while becoming significant patrons of art and architecture. They built expansive complexes and filled them with paintings, sculptures, prints, textiles, and other devotional and decorative works.
In this richly illustrated lecture, Dr. Moran will explore the historical importance of these communities and reveal how the Beguines used buildings and images to foster devotional practice, shape collective identities, raise funds, and negotiate relationships with male authorities.
The talk is presented in conjunction with the forthcoming publication of Dr. Moran’s new book, Unconventional Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages, to be published this spring by Routledge.
Dr. Moran received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University in 2010. Her research on early modern women’s religious communities has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the European Research Council, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, among others. She previously served as Associate Professor of Art History in Utrecht and now works as a developmental academic editor.
Please join us for what promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking evening. Refreshments will be served, offering time for conversation and community before the lecture.
Registration for the lecture is open to both members and non-members.
