Travel crisscross through time at the Groninger Museum. In the new collection presentation It's About Time, the boundaries of linear time are broken. We usually imagine time and history as a straight line, but what happens when we move crisscross through it? Or in circles? Eight rooms filled with artworks from the museum's own collection invite you on a personal journey of discovery through the different faces of time.
Various curators of the Groninger Museum have been given the freedom to wander through the collection as time travelers and tell their own story. Each room thus illuminates the unique collection from a personal perspective, with themes such as nature, powerlessness, and transience taking center stage. From centuries-old artworks to contemporary creations.
It's About Time comes at a special moment: a period of transition in which the Groninger Museum prepares for a new artistic direction under the leadership of artistic director Roos Gortzak. Together with the curators, she has shifted accents here and there and added an extra room with work by David Lamelas and Bas Jan Ader – artists whose work perfectly aligns with both the time concept and the museum collection.
Experience time together
Twice daily (2:00 PM and 3:00 PM), David Lamelas' performance Time from 1970 is brought to life by visitors themselves. Following the artist Lamelas' instructions, you experience that time is more than a clock or calendar: it is something we experience, pass on, and shape together. Whatever our cultural background, skin color, gender, religion, or other characteristics may be, we share the present. In times of increasing polarization, such a connecting experience is urgently needed.