Friday and Saturday 12–24h
Sunday 12–22h
Art is our first language. Throughout the year, Het HEM presents a range of temporary art programmes as well as more permanent art installations.
May 7 – 25
There is always music to listen to at Het HEM, with programmes focused on experimental ways to create, present and experience music in the building through listening sessions, live shows, and musical artis-in-residence initiatives.
Come by for a drink and a bite, wine and dine at one of our restaurants Zanini, Bois or get a sandwich at Bakery Solinger,. With good wether we suggest you settle down on our sunny terrace on the Costa del Zaano.
Het HEM loves books. During your visit, come lose yourself in the library's rich selection or discover new favourites in the SANZ Shop.
Situated in a former munitions factory, Het HEM is a new home for contemporary culture.
The building's industrial design and our experimental art programme bring ambience and meaning to every event.
Scenography CHAPTER 5IVE
In close collaboration with the curator, the design agency Diogo Passarinho Studio developed a scenography that transforms the exhibition space of Het HEM into an agricultural production landscape, where works of art interlock like plots of land. The light – designed by Theatermachine – moves with the time of day and season. During the day the sun plays with the artworks, in the evenings a cool moonlight shines through the space.
Two spatial portals – a sand dune and an irrigation system – divide the essayistic exhibition into three chapters. The first part shows artworks that depict the deep experience of time and the ancestral links with the slow landscape (as with Agnes Waruguru and Agnes Denes); the middle part points us to practices with which we strengthen our connection with nature (such as the training modules of de Onkruidenier or the techniques of beavers that we discover through the drawings of Suzanne Husky); in the last part, technologies of the present and near future determine how we see the landscape and become part of it (think of the works by Gerard Ortín Castellví and Ian Cheng). The visitor moves between two opposing positions – to recall Charles C. Mann's metaphor once again - between the conservative prophet on the one hand and the progressive sorcerer on the other (see also Rieke Vos’ essay in this Zine).