Friction and Connection: #3 Wolkenvijver - Carel Visser

Date: Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Location: Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Stroom Den Haag, in collaboration with the Reinwardt Academy, is organizing a series of sessions titled Friction and Connection. Conversations about Art in Public Space in which we apply the “emotion networking” method to various artworks in The Hague’s public space. Using this method, we explore the interplay of interests and emotions surrounding five specific artworks and engage in dialogue with various stakeholders. We examine how emotion networking can help map urban changes and what specific role artworks play in this process.

This meeting will focus on Carel Visser’s Wolkenvijver (Cloud Pond)(1985). The artwork - created at the time through the government’s percentage scheme - is located precisely at the corner of the Museon and Johan de Wittlaan. Visser’s work - also known as the Environmental Artwork with Six Sculptures - stands at a location where the Atlantic Wall ran during World War II. The conversation, featuring representatives from the Kunstmuseum, the neighbourhood, the Hague Bunker Association, and a soil expert, will focus on themes such as ownership and maintenance.

Below is a video-impression of the session. You can view other impressions of Friction and Connection on our YouTube channel.

#1 - sessie Monument van de menselijke vergissing - Marijke de Goey
#2 - sessie And Life Is Over There - Femmy Otten
#3 - sessie Wolkenvijver - Carel Visser
#4 - sessie Rasp - Jan Snoeck

Are you curious about a particular session and/or would you like to have your say about a particular work of art? Please contact Vincent de Boer at vboer@stroom.nl.

This project is being realized in collaboration with the Reinwardt Academy and with thanks to the City of The Hague.

Want to know more about outdoor art in The Hague? Click here.