Herenstraat 67
2282 BR Rijswijk
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070-3903617
Except for two cellars, the museum is completely wheelchair accessible.
Tuesday to Sunday: 11 AM - 17 PM
Closed on Easter Sunday, King's Day, Christmas and New Year's Eve/Day.
regular |
€14,00 |
student |
€7,50 |
<18 |
free |
Museumkaart |
valid |
Rembrandtpas |
valid |
ICOM card |
valid |
group ticket |
€10 p.p. |
premium Biennial |
€5,00 |
Utopias and dystopias have captured the imagination for centuries. In the Textile Biennial 2025. Interwoven Futures, twenty (inter)national artists explore ideal worlds and warning doom scenarios through innovative and inspiring textile artworks. From delicately woven to strikingly colourful, this versatile exhibition presents a colourful array of works about the social and ecological challenges we face.
Monumentally woven carpets, refined embroidered traditional fabrics, textile sculptures and intimate video works depict new futures, different world views and our own position in them. Both figurative and abstract, a wide range of textile materials and techniques can be seen: wool, silk, cotton, jacquard, macramé, embroidered, woven, tufted, digitally printed and hand-painted.
Oana Clitan, for example, shows a hand-tufted, dystopian version of a future that is shaped by both idealism and strict control. Can the state use art to convey a utopian ideology and create myths about urban environments, she wonders.
Artist collective De Onkruidenier rather seeks to connect with nature and speculates through textile uniforms about the possibilities for a new type of human who has adapted to a salty living environment due to rising sea levels.
Céline Berger meanwhile weaves together personal archival photographs of the commune in which she grew up with the labour-intensive macramé technique that she learned there. The fabrics raise questions about preached ideals and the lived experience of this alternative way of life.
The Textile Biennial 2025 in Museum Rijswijk shows a wide selection of well-known artists and young talent, who present their imaginary stories, myths, rituals and fantasies about the world to us from different cultures. Full of colour, criticism, humour and seduction!
Short interviews with the artists of the Textile Biennale 2025. Interwoven Futures