Beloved Waters

Beloved Waters invites you to reflect and dream together about new ways of living— with water, one another, and the earth.

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Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9  
Date: 23 May - 17 August 2025
Opening: Friday 23 May 2025 at 18:00 hrs

Stroom Den Haag proudly presents the group exhibition Beloved Waters. Five artists – Amanda Piña, Ameneh Solati, Kevin Osepa, Seaweed Etcetera, Zahra Malkani– present new work that focuses on water as a living being. The participants  foreground this living element as a bearer of idiosyncratic stories, memories, conflict, and hope. Beloved Waters opens up space for a different view of water: as a site of ritual, mourning, and healing. 
 
Artists: Amanda Piña, Ameneh Solati, Kevin Osepa, Seaweed Etcetera and Zahra Malkani

The Netherlands has a long-standing tradition of water governance and management—an expertise closely tied to the nescessity to control of nature, and an approach deeply entangled with a colonial past and its associated value systems. In Beloved Waters, the artists call into question this prevailing view of water. 

Informed by diverse cultural backgrounds, the artists give voice to alternative perspectives,  forms of knowledge, and values. Drawing on stories from diasporic communities and indigenous cosmologies, they express these influences in new works created for Beloved Waters. The exhibition also features a spatial intervention by artist Johannes Equizi, who evokes associations with an ‘underwater world’ within the exhibition space. 

The artists in Beloved Waters invite visitors to reflect and dream together about new ways of living— with water, with one another, and with the earth. 

About the program Networks of Embodiment
Beloved Waters is part of the Networks of Embodiment programme. Through exhibitions, public programmes, and educational formats, it explores alternative and speculative forms of knowledge from the perspective of marginalised voices. 

Networks of Embodiment addresses themes such as ecology and knowledge production, drawing inspiration from indigenous worldviews.  

An extensive program of activities for the public, including guided tours and artist talks will be offered in conjunction with the exhibition. Keep an eye on our website and socials for more information. 

The exhibition Beloved Waters has been made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fund.