Stroom Den Haag

  • 23/05/2025 • 17/08/2025

    Beloved Waters - Amanda Piña, Ameneh Solati, Kevin Osepa, Seaweed Etcetera and Zahra Malkani

    Beloved Waters invites you to reflect and dream together about new ways of living— with water, one another, and the earth.

    Stroom Den Haag proudly presents the group exhibition Beloved Waters. Five artists – Amanda Piña, Ameneh Solati, Kevin Osepa, Seaweed Etcetera, Zahra Malkani– present new work that focuses on water as a living being. The participants foreground this living element as a bearer of idiosyncratic stories, memories, conflict, and hope. Beloved Waters opens up space for a different view of water: as a site of ritual, mourning, and healing. 

    The Netherlands has a long-standing tradition of water governance and management—an expertise closely tied to the necessity to control of nature, and an approach deeply entangled with a colonial past and its associated value systems. In Beloved Waters, the artists call into question this prevailing view of water. 

    Informed by diverse cultural backgrounds, the artists give voice to alternative perspectives, forms of knowledge, and values. Drawing on stories from diasporic communities and indigenous cosmologies, they express these influences in new works created for Beloved Waters. The exhibition also features a spatial intervention by artist Johannes Equizi, who evokes associations with an ‘underwater world’ within the exhibition space. 

    The artists in Beloved Waters invite visitors to reflect and dream together about new ways of living— with water, with one another, and with the earth.

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.


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