Fever Dream

This exhibition is open to visit the entire weekend.

Wheelchair Accessible 

Fever Dream
Merging human and animal

In fairy tales, legends, and popular culture, animals often symbolize humans and are attributed with human characteristics. The exhibition ‘Fever Dream’ focuses on the relationship between humans and animals. Contemporary artists show how humans and animals merge: intense, colorful, imaginative, and often with an ominous edge.

The starting point of the exhibition is the new, never-before-seen video artwork Beast and Feast by Prix de Rome-nominated artist Josefin Arnell. In Beast and Feast, a policewoman searches for the perfect police horse. The psychological torment she experiences during this search becomes terrifyingly real: the woman transforms into her ideal horse.

The Frans Hals Museum combines Beast and Feast with a unique mix of contemporary art that explores the relationship between humans and animals. From the malevolent fairy tale The Bird Game by Marianna Simnett and the socially critical flying elephant by Dena Yago from the rich collection of the Frans Hals Museum, to the imaginative sculptures by Mamali Shafahi and the dreamy paintings by Donglai Meng, as well as exceptional works by Jeroen Eisinga, Jana Euler, Valentina Gal, Hadrien Gérenton, Juliana Huxtable & Hannah Black, Marc Mulders, Markus Selg, and Luuk Wilmering. With this imaginative journey of an exhibition, the Frans Hals Museum invites visitors to dream with their eyes open.

Please note that some images may be perceived as shocking.