global Imaginations remains online

5 October 2015

The exhitibion Global Imaginations (27 June- October 2015) is over, but on the website globalimaginations.com the theme of the exhibition continues to live on. Moreover, everybody is welcome to submit essays for the online publication until the end of 2015.

global imaginations: in short

Museum De Lakenhal invited twenty leading contemporary artists from all over the world to share their vision on today’s globalized world. To do so, they exhibited new or existing work that has been inspired by the extensive collections of Leiden’s many museums. The result was a fascinating reflection of actual themes and developments in the world that surrounds us. The exhibition - which includes room-filling installations, video projections, sculptures and more – was hosted in De Meelfabriek in Leiden, an abandoned and imposing industrial complex on the edge of the city.

online publication

The editors invite interested people to send in essays related to the themes highlighted by the exhibition. Essays (in English and Dutch) can be a maximum of 1,500 words in length and should be sent in before 1 January 2016 to project manager Manon Braat via m.braat@lakenhal.nl. All submissions will be judged by the curator team behind Global Imaginations. The best entries will be incorporated into the exhibition’s online publication.