Art Exhibition | Performance | Workshop: Humanity in Times of Tension

• Date: 11 June - 26 June
• Location: Amare, Kunstenplein

Humanity in Times of Tension is a bold and hopeful exhibition that explores how people respond to crises with courage, creativity, and solidarity. Through powerful art, storytelling, and interactive experiences, it highlights voices of resistance, resilience, and imagination in the face of injustice. As a highlight event of the Just Peace Festival 2025, the exhibition takes place before and during the NATO summit. It invites visitors, especially younger generations, to reflect, connect and consider how we can build a more just and compassionate world, even in challenging times.

Step into stories of resistance, resilience, and the power of community

In today’s world, where conflict, inequality, and climate challenges affect so many lives, it can feel hard to stay hopeful. Humanity in Times of Tension is an exhibition that makes room for that hope. Not by ignoring the problems we face, but by looking at them honestly through art, stories, and shared experiences.

Part of the Just Peace Festival 2025 that takes place before and during the NATO summit, this exhibition aims to bring together artists, young people and the people of The Hague to explore how we respond to a world under stress. It highlights powerful stories: from people standing up to injustice, to communities showing strength during times of division. Together, these voices spark an important conversation about the choices we make when facing inequality and hardship.

This is not an exhibition about giving up but about hope, courage, and connection. It shows how ordinary people speak out, protect each other, imagine better futures, and take action.

The exhibition includes photography, paintings, installations, multimedia experiences and interactive spaces. It is designed to inspire young people in particular, whose ideas and energy are key to building a fairer, more peaceful world, and to show that our future is in our hands.

At its core, this exhibition is a call to action. It challenges us to rethink what peace really means. Something we actively build by standing up for human dignity, listening to others, and finding common ground.

Humanity in Times of Tension is a space for reflection, connection, and new ideas. It reminds us that even though the world can feel divided, our shared humanity can bring us together.

Each visitor is invited to consider their own role. Each one of us can contribute by doing what we can in our own school, street, neighbourhood or workplace to contribute to a peaceful future.

Artists: A.G., Abel Bellido Córdova, Astrig Agopian, Chun Yao Lin, Edison Ng, Francesca Menghini, Gizem Üstüner, Jens Galschiøt, Loretta Lau, Lumli Lumlong, Missy Hyper, Patrick Amadon, Peter Mammes, Rienke Enghardt, Ricker Choi, Rita Gaspar, Sam Fuller, Visual Rebellion Collective, vawongsir, Yves Kulondwa, Yuen Ming Lo, Irina Rammos, Penelope Rammos, Evangelos Kalogeropoulos, Jacky Chan. 

Featuring Artists Open Amare: Bas van Koolwijk, Zoro Feigl

Participant organisation: ART WORKS Projects, Atelier Evangelos, Justice and Peace, Myanmar Peace Museum, Plant Fictions

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