The Grey Space x Museumnacht
Museumnacht Den Haag is a collaborative effort involving the Stichting Haagse Museumnacht, Donkergroen creators, and various museums and cultural institutions in The Hague, Scheveningen, and Voorburg. This annual event offers a unique opportunity to explore all the participating museums using a single entrance ticket. Upon presenting your e-ticket at the designated information points (to be announced soon), you will be provided with a wristband granting you access to all the participating museums and the entire program of events.
Program
Discover an extraordinary program featuring ‘Focus’, an innovative sound installation by Gabriel Paiuk exploring ambiguous materiality of the audible, immersive works by Rotterdam-based crew HipSick, and an exclusive interactive installation by Open Space resident, Ildikó Horváth. As the night progresses, head down to our basement from 00.00 until 02.00, and dance to the sounds of The Grey Space’s DJs.
Open Space: Ildikó Horváth – centreOFFgravity
In the Fall of 2023, artist Ildikó Horváth participates in the Open Space residency program at The Grey Space in the Middle. During her stay, Horváth works on her project center OFF gravity, in which she uses ceramics and sound to investigate the way humans interact with their environment. During Museum Night, visit the ongoing interactive installation in which sound is made ‘bodily’. Or one of the performances where a live sound composition is created by setting ceramic objects in motion.
Focus
We are used to seeing focus in its optical manifestation. But what happens in the realm of sound? Do we tune our hearing into our auditory environment in a similar way as we do with our eyes in the visual realm? Focus is a sound installation by Gabriel Paiuk, exploring ambiguous materiality of the audible. Wander through space and hear the transformations. From the representation of a space to a seemingly tactile sensation and from the substance of memory to an intimate presence.
Funeral Ecstasy; The Paradise
HipSick is a Rotterdam-based crew operating at the intersection of performance and installation art. Their work blends movement, objects, light art and sound. For Museum Night they present new work exploring the boundaries and contrasts of and between these disciplines. From dark and light, heat and cold, movement and stillness, verbal and non-verbal, sound and silence. The audience reflects on the impermanence of every moment, to come to the realization that beauty is hidden in every moment of life.
Practical Info
This event is only accessible with a Museumnacht wristband. More than 30 museums and cultural institutions will open their doors for the Museumnacht visitors, all accessible with a single ticket.