Among New Faces
From 24 May 2025, the Fries Museum will present the exhibition Beyond the Horizon. In this exhibition, artists from the museum’s collection explore themes like the sea, tides, forests, and specific landscapes such as the Arctic, the Wadden Sea, and the rainforests of Suriname. Their starting point is a connection—whether physical, spiritual, speculative, or critical—with nature and other forms of life.
One of the works on view is The People That Is Missing by Cristina Lucas (Spain, 1973). In this video installation, Lucas addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: human-induced climate change. The title of the work is based on a quote by artist Paul Klee (1879–1940), who believed it was the artist’s role to create a collective future—one that includes forgotten voices, alternative histories, and possible new ways of living together.
This open call draws inspiration from that idea. With Among New Faces, we invite artists to submit works that speculate, imagine, recall, or invent possible communities—either present-day or future.
Which communities are missing from our collective memory? What might a future community look like—here in Fryslân, or far beyond?
The Museumnacht exhibition invites both imagination and revision: from the social realm to the world of myths and fantasy.
Submissions may reflect on art as a site of gathering, as a starting point, a sense of loss, or a space of potential. At the same time, the work can also critically examine what we usually define as “our community.”
What if the community we think we know—or believe we belong to—is merely a story we keep telling one another?
Museumnacht FRL
On Saturday 27 September 2025, museums across Fryslân will open their doors for Museumnacht FRL—the only province-wide museum night in the Netherlands. Once again, museums and cultural institutions will join forces to inspire younger audiences to explore culture and museums in new ways. In addition to the unique experience of visiting a museum at night, a rich program of music, performances, talks, and storytelling will take place in museums across the region.
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