Layered Realities: Photography & Collage

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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.

Dive into the stories behind the artworks

Sign up now for the Curator's Tour with curator Fiepke van Niel.

Participation is free in combination with your museum admission or your Museum Card.

Saturday, September 19th
2 PM – 3 PM

Fotomuseum Hilversum shows work by Paulo Chicareli following sudden death

Welcome to the House of the Forgotten Ones (2025) by Paulo Chicareli (1993–2026) will be on display at Fotomuseum Hilversum starting August 28 as part of the exhibition.

Paulo was scheduled to participate in the group exhibition but passed away suddenly in the run-up to the opening. Together with his family and friends in Brazil, friends in the Netherlands, and the KABK, Fotomuseum Hilversum has realized his installation nonetheless. The notes, instructions, and documentation Paulo left behind served as the starting point for this.

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)

• Paulo Chicareli (BR/NL)

• 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).