1 November 2023 to 24 March 2024
Photo credit: Gerrit Schreurs
In the major exhibition Just Like Escher, Escher in The Palace shows how contemporary artists and designers such as Damien Hirst, Iris van Herpen, Chris Ofili and Carlijn Kingma challenge Escher’s ideas. Impossible objects, masterful metamorphoses and absurdist architecture. In Just Like Escher, Escher in The Palace brings to life famous themes associated with Escher through contemporary art. Thirty-six artists, both national and international, illustrate how current and challenging Escher’s themes remain, and how his work lives on and evolves in contemporary culture. Each work is a surprising response to Escher’s work. Sometimes Escher is literally chosen as a point of reference, sometimes the creator shares Escher’s fascination with certain themes but gives them an entirely unique twist. So the similarities between Escher and contemporary artists can be both conscious and unconscious, but the interplay always creates new perspectives.
The participating artists are Damien Hirst, Iris van Herpen, Chris Ofili, Alexander McQueen, Jan Taminiau, Carlijn Kingma, Hans Op de Beeck, Ruri Matsumoto, Levi van Veluw, Koos Breukel, Maria Roosen, Studio Lennarts & De Bruijn, Jan van der Ploeg, Popel Coumou, Stéphane Couturier, Sigrid Calon, Nazif Lopulissa, Renato Nicolodi, AFARAI, Satijn Panyigay, Marwan Bassiouni, Anton Bakker, Susanna Inglada, Hansje van Halem, Henri Jacobs, Ishraq Zraikat, Helena van der Kraan, Sybren Renema, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Louisa Boyd, Studio Wae, Jelle Korevaar, Raquel Maulwurf, Stefan Bleekrode, Dora Lionstone and Annemarie Petri.
Photo credit: John Graham