Art Nouveau Festival
23 Aug - 24 Aug
Festivals
The Art Nouveau Festival, the festival about The Hague around the year 1900. This year, the 7th edition will take place on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August 2025.
What is the Art Nouveau Festival?
This three-day event features various activities that highlight Art Nouveau in The Hague and the period around 1900.
The Hague around 1900 was bursting at the seams and overflowing with new insights and modern inspiration, which was expressed in all art forms: literature, music, visual arts, theatre and architecture. The Hague can also be called the Dutch capital of Art Nouveau.
Programme 2025
This year's programme includes:
- Vegetarian dinners at restaurant Hagedis
- Fashion show
- Theatre performance about Oscar Wilde
- An inspiring programme about educational innovation around 1900
- Lecture about artist and designer Chris Lebeau
- Tasty cocktail tasting
- And, of course, plenty of opportunities to walk, cycle, sail or get creative during workshops
What is Art Nouveau?
Art Nouveau (or Jugendstil) is an attractive and international art movement that responded to the typical 19th-century neo-styles. It emerged around 1890 and lasted until the outbreak of the First World War. Art Nouveau artists had a great love for graceful, flowing lines.
Natural forms, such as plants, flowers and animals, were their main source of inspiration. But flowing, mainly female body shapes were also a favourite. The flowing lines of Art Nouveau can be seen in all art forms: architecture, painting, design and applied art.