The Frans Hals Museum is Haarlem’s museum of fine arts that manages the city’s art collection. Operating from two locations – HOF, which focuses on the Dutch Golden Age, and HAL, dedicated to contemporary art – the museum explores the relationship between past and present. In addition to exhibitions centred on historical and contemporary art, it also develops so-called transhistorical presentations, bringing together works from different eras in dialogue with one another.

As part of its acquisition policy for contemporary art, the museum focuses on emerging artists who critically reflect on social developments. Photography and video play a key role in this approach. The collection includes works by artists such as Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Erik van Lieshout, Guido van der Werve, and Erkka Nissinen.

Each year, the Frans Hals Museum organises several exhibitions centred on contemporary art, often in collaboration with internationally emerging artists or those who have not previously exhibited in the Netherlands. In recent years, co-producing new works has become a structural element of the museum’s programming. This enables the museum to support the development of young artists while building a thematic collection that captures key trends in contemporary art. This approach has resulted in solo exhibitions by Erkka Nissinen & Erik van Lieshout, Cécile B. Evans & Meiro Koizumi, and Kasper Bosmans & Evelyn Taocheng Wang.

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Projects supported by Ammodo
What the heart wants, Cecile B. Evans (2016-2017)
Lubaina Himid (2019)
Marianna Simnett (2019)