Unveiling of 'A Coffined Cry Cries Out in the Crowd' by Eylem Aladogan
soon to be seen at The Sculpture Gallery
Date: Sunday, 21 September, 2025
Location: Spuiplein, The Hague
program starts at 15:00 hrs, including:
- Music inspired by Sepultura's War for Territory, specially arranged for this event by Boudewijn Ruigrok
Would you like to participate and sing along in the choir? Please register before 12 September via: boudewijn@collectiefklapstuk.nl
On Sunday, 21 September, 2025, the Sculpture Gallery in the center of The Hague will be enriched with a new work of art: A Coffined Cry Cries Out in the Crowd by artist Eylem Aladogan. With her new sculpture, created especially for The Sculpture Gallery on commission from Stroom Den Haag, Aladogan gives shape to existential pain and inner strength; a human cry as the ultimate form of resistance. “I wanted to create an image of pain so deep that you would want to scream it out to the ‘sleeping world’ around you. Not a literal human figure, but the imprint of pain, the echo of a cry, captured in form and material.”
Willpower and resistance are recurring themes in Eylem Aladogan's oeuvre. The title of the sculpture - A Coffined Cry Cries Out in the Crowd - is inspired by protest songs and the work of artist William Blake, in which she recognizes the feeling of surrender and radicalism. The new work expresses the question of how to translate pain into a concrete and tangible image. The unveiling will take place during a public program on the Spuiplein in The Hague with a musical arrangement by Boudewijn Ruigrok.
Eylem Aladogan (Tiel, 1975) is a versatile artist who enjoys combining materials and crafts. She studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. She has received a number of awards, including the Stimulation Prize from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the ABN AMRO Art Award and the Volkskrant Visual Arts Prize. From 2014 to 2023, she was head of the Ceramics Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her work has been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Museum Het Domein, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and De Pont Museum in Tilburg.
For 35 years, Stroom Den Haag has been developing a permanent and growing exhibition of sculptures in public spaces in the city center. The Sculpture Gallery was started in 1990 based on an idea by P. Struycken and shows a cross-section of Dutch sculpture. With new commissions every year, it offers a platform to both established names and young talent.
More information about outdoor art in The Hague: click here
The artwork was realised with the support of the City of The Hague. The unveiling program is being organised in collaboration with Stichting Klapstuk and Stichting Spuiplein.