Stroom Den Haag
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06/02/2026 • 03/05/2026
Positions: Unearthing- Roger Anis, Marie Civikov, Priyageetha Dia en Ben Yau
Stroom Den Haag presents the exhibition ‘Positions: Unearthing’, an anniversary edition in which four artists from The Hague – Roger Anis, Marie Civikov, Priyageetha Dia, Ben Yau – bring to light hidden stories, memories, and perspectives that have long remained invisible.
With a human and investigative approach, the artists delve into personal archives and forgotten history that is in danger of disappearing. What the artists uncover connects individual experiences with broader social narratives that still resonate today.
Priyageetha Dia uses AI-generated images and sounds to give a voice back to plantation workers who have disappeared from collective memory. Ben Yau reconstructs the events surrounding the Batang Kali massacre (1948) based on declassified documents and testimonies. Roger Anis focuses on local, ritualistic approaches surrounding the Nile to reveal new perspectives on resistance, solidarity, and ecological care, while Marie Civikov transforms her grandmother’s legacy into a source from which new family stories emerge.
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About Stroom Den Haag
Stroom Den Haag (an independent foundation founded in 1990) is an art center with a wide range of activities. Starting from the visual arts, architecture, urban planning and design the program focuses on the urban environment.Stroom’s policy is not committed to any particular movement. The centre is open to everyone with stimulating ideas or a need for information regarding art and the urban environment. It aims at being a hospitable and stimulating platform. Starting from this mentality Stroom, in collaboration with other institutions, wants to contribute to the permanent development of the reflection on the city and the part that can be played by the visual arts in this context.
