'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
- with music inspired by Sepultura's War for Territory, specially arranged for this event by Boudewijn Ruigrok
Would you like to participate in this special arrangement of War for Territory? Then register before 12 September via: boudewijn@collectiefklapstuk.nl

On Sunday, September 21, 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, 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 struggle. 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 likes to combine materials and crafts. She studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy, the Sandberg Institute and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Her work has been exhibited at Museum De Pont, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Kröller-Müller Museum, Museum Het Domein (Sittard), and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, among others.

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.

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With thanks to Amare and the Municipality of The Hague.