In this striking exhibition, Geene shares her perspective of nature in The Hague. She explores the natural surroundings of the museum, from its monumental garden to the nearby Scheveningen coastline: locations that are indispensable to her work and life, as they were to the Mesdags.
While Hendrik Willem Mesdag and Sientje Mesdag-van Houten captured Scheveningen in oils or watercolour, Geene brings a contemporary, investigative perspective to her depictions of the beach.
Anne Geene constantly plays with the human urge to create order, bending the natural elements to her will; from the shells and mussels she found on Scheveningen beach to the magnolia leaves from the museum garden.