Photo exhibition 2026
Joep Hijwegen
Sundowners
Location
Schlossgutplatz
Guided tour
Thursday, May 14, 2026, 13.30
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 12.30
In English
Sundowners
This series, Sundowners, explores the mental disorientation that arises at dusk—both as a clinical phenomenon and as a broader cultural mood. Starting with the anxiety that initially drew him to photography, Joep Hijwegen explores the sunset as a metaphor for a pre-apocalyptic world: a society acutely aware of its own instability, teetering between realization and collapse. The work reflects ongoing crises and economic decay, yet avoids tragedy. Instead, it observes urban dwellers as lucid, drifting figures—lost, attentive, and human—finding a strange beauty and dignity in the act of falling.
Joep Hijwegen
Joep Hijwegen (1994) is a Dutch photographer working within an expressionist approach to street photography. His images utilize saturated colors, extensive layering, and strong textures to explore the modern metropolis. Hijwegen captures psychological states rather than individual moments, creating dense urban worlds where perception is intense and connection fragile. His focus on color and form allows his work to become a kind of colorful, impressionistic Rorschach test, inviting—or perhaps even compelling—viewers to travel to this place and see how they themselves would find their place within it.
Website: joephijwegen.com
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