• Work
    • Uralmash/Constructing the Future
      Palace of Culture Yekaterinburg
    • The Toorop Dynasty
    • Poste restante/Nan Goldin
    • Nicolaes Maes
    • A beautiful thing
    • Mapping Asia
    • Dutch DNA
    • Cartooning Syria
    • Impossible Journeys
    • Knitted Worlds
    • Architecture of Consequence
    • DutchDoc Award#1
    • DutchDoc Award#2
    • Metropool Festival
    • The Jungle
    • Award Ceremony Dutch Doc
    • Laval en Gauguin op Martinique
    • Canadian Inuit Art
    • Greetings from your good friend Bokito
    • All is Vanity
    • Changing of the Guard
    • Inoculate Now

Dutch DNA

The exhibition showcases a great number of national relics and tells the stories behind these objects. It also raises the question what exactly makes a relic, and what contemporary objects could be our future relics.

A divergent group of objects both in scale and kind – from Hugo de Groot’s bookcase to Van Oldenbarneveldt’s walking stick and William IV’s plait – is displayed on a long catwalk, under glass vitrines on custom-made silk fabric. The color palette – in exuberant as well as grave tones – refers to the dutch flag. As if you’re catching a glint of a waving flag from the corner of your eye.

Museum Prinsenhof Delft, in collaboration with Atelier Alkema

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