Sheida Soleimani at Fotomuseum Hilversum
21 May - 18 October 2026 Institutional exhibitions
Press release

 

Layered Realities: Photography & Collage, Hilversum, Netherlands

 

Fotomuseum Hilversum presents the exhibition Layered Realities: Photography & Collage, a group exhibition featuring work by sixteen contemporary artists from the Netherlands and abroad who work with collage. The exhibition features work by both established names and emerging makers, several of whom are being presented in the Netherlands for the first time.

 

With Layered Realities, the museum shows how artists today use photography and collage as a visual language to explore current themes such as identity, (family) history, and the role of imagery in a world where we are flooded with visual information every day.

 

Collage als contemporary visual language

Collage emerged in the early twentieth century as a reaction to political and social unrest. For example, artists used images from newspapers and magazines to criticize politics, modern life, and ideas about gender. Collage became a way to protest and break down existing notions.

 

In Layered Realities, artists show how collage is still used today to explore new perspectives on important issues and propose alternative future scenarios. They do so in various forms, from video and installations to spatial work and textiles, always with photography as the basis.

 

Participating artists:  

  • Samaa Abu Allaban (PS/FR)

  • Mercedes Azpilicueta (AR/NL)

  • Ruth van Beek (NL)

  • Sara Bezovšek (SI)

  • Cortis & Sonderegger (CH)

  • Frido Evers (NL/NO)

  • Noémie Goudal (FR)

  • Camille Lévêque & Lucie Khahoutian (FR/AM)

  • Neo Matloga (ZA/NL)

  • Jaya Pelupessy (NL)

  • Sheida Soleimani (US)

  • Thato Toeba (LS/ZA/NL)

  • Justin Ugochukwu (NL)

  • Guanyu Xu (CN/US)

  • Michael Young (US). 

 

Sheida Soleimani, Magistrate, 2024. Archival pigment print, 152.4 x 101.6 cm. © Sheida Soleimani. Courtesy the artist and Edel Assanti.

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