To Touch The Sun by 1st year students Master Photography and Society

The first-year students in conversation with the Dutch journalistic platform De Correspondent, invite you to join our exhibition from 9 to 14 June 2025. It will take place at Paradise, which is a collaboration venue between West Den Haag and KABK.

This crisis centers around competing — and often conflicting — priorities, including housing, energy transition, water management, recreation, economic development, public health, nature conservation, and biodiversity. While these tensions may remain largely invisible to the broader public, their urgenc is becoming increasingly undeniable.

Through varied visual languages and artistic strategies, the participating artists explore and interrogate these unseen pressures. The works reflect on the multiple dimensions of the crisis, offering alternative perspectives, subtle provocations, and space for dialogue.

Our collective work invites viewers to engage with the critical questions shaping the physical, social, and political landscapes of the Netherlands today — and to consider what role art can play in illuminating the unseen.

To Touch The Sun will feature a range of photographic, video, artistic works and installations by fifteen international image-makers from eleven countries including: Alberto Vidal Bernedo, Elena Krukonyte, Eva Chapkin, Fenna Jensma, Joanna Demarco, Julie de Ruijter, Khalil Döring, Mirko Pirisi, Marta Karkosa, Matteo Montaldo, Nadia Sheikh, Nikos Kapetanios, Odysseas Tsompanoglou, Raisa Durandi and Sara Ito.

This project is an outcome of the MAPS1 Studio3 unit guided by Andrea Stultiens, Josta van Boxmeer, Bebe Agterberg, Jonathan Tang, Theo Baart, Dirk-Jan Visser, Jana Romanova and Ola Lanko.

Read more about the project in this booklet: