Lara Schnitger, 'This princess saves herself', 2021

Lara Schnitger, 'This princess saves herself', 2021
Location: Grote Marktstraat (in front of the Bijenkorf)
Unveiled: Wednesday 22 June 2022, 17:00 hrs

As of Saturday 23 October 2022 the city of The Hague is the home of a powerful statement on solidarity and female empowerment: This princess saves herself by Lara Schnitger.

Lara Schnitger
Lara Schnitger uses textiles as a form of expression. In her work she uses the evocative power of the material and symbols from everyday life, she gives them political meaning and transforms them into outspoken feminist statements. She often builds both suggestive, intimate sculptures and architectural installations in which texts also play an important role. Like much of her work her new bronze sculpture This princess saves herself is both humorous and politically charged.
"... Princesses in fairy tales are always saved by a prince. This Princess takes care of herself! She doesn't need a man. It's time we changed those old-fashioned fairy tales!!!," Schnitger said, of course also referring to the Dutch princesses.

More about Lara Schnitger
Lara Schnitger (1969, lives and works in Los Angeles) studied at the Kitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art, Japan; Ateliers 63, Amsterdam; Academie Vyvarni Umeni, Prague and The Royal Academy of Art The Hague. Her work is shown internationally in a.o. Kunsthaus Dresden; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Museum Het Domein, Sittard; Kunstwerke, Berlin; the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Power Plant, Toronto; and the Royal Academy in London. It was featured at the Liverpool Biennial in 1999 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2002. In 2019 she was approached to design public art works for The Chelsea Highline and Hudson Yards, and in 2018 for Sydney Laneway Projects. Lar Schnitger also had a solo exhibition at Stroom Den Haag in 2005: My other car is a broom in 2005).
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An exhibition of work by Lara Schnitger opens at Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam on Friday 15 October, 17:00-19:00.
www.annetgelink.com

The Sculpture Gallery
The Sculpture Gallery in The Hague was conceived and designed by P. Struycken. Due to its permanent character and annual new commissions, it is a unique example of art in the public space: since the early 1990s it has shown a cross-section of Dutch sculpture art. Curator of The Sculpture Gallery is André Kruysen; project manager on behalf of Stroom is Vincent de Boer, advisor and supervisor of art in public space.