Anne Geene - Out of the Ordinary
Discover how Dutch artist Anne Geene transforms the everyday into the extraordinary, and delight in her ability to make the unseen visible and to elevate the ordinary.
In this striking exhibition, Geene shares her perspective of nature in The Hague. She explores the natural surroundings of the museum, from its monumental garden to the nearby Scheveningen coastline: locations that are indispensable to her work and life, as they were to the Mesdags.
While Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten captured Scheveningen in oils or watercolour, Geene brings a contemporary, investigative perspective to her depictions of the beach.
Anne Geene constantly plays with the human urge to create order, bending the natural elements to her will; from the shells and mussels she found on Scheveningen beach to the magnolia leaves from the museum garden.