What if you could smell, hear, and feel an artwork — not just see it? Join us for a special book launch filled with live music, scent, and a multisensory experience. CARADT researcher Eva Fotiadi will present the freshly printed (and scented!) publication Exhibiting for Multiple Senses, published by Valiz. Alongside her, Vincent Bijlo and Caro Verbeek will offer a multisensory experience, and give presentations on how to engage with museums through all the senses.
Book Launch at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Date & Time: 9 November 2025, 14:30–16:00 followed by drinks
Location: Kunstmuseum The Hague, Auditorium.
Address: Stadhouderslaan 41, 2517 HV Den Haag
Language: English
Accessibility https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/bezoek/toegankelijkheid
Participants
- Eva Fotiadi, art historian, editor and author Exhibiting for Multiple Senses
- Caro Verbeek, art historian, curator, author Exhibiting for Multiple Senses
- Vincent Bijlo, cabaretier, theatre maker, writer, radio and podcasts maker
Entrance for the book launch free, reservation required. For reservations contact marieke@valiz.nl
About ‘Exhibiting for Multiple Senses’
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses looks into artistic and curatorial projects that emphasize the multisensory character of the human body in the encounter with artworks. For some time now, numerous contemporary artists and curators have moved beyond the primacy of the visual in the experience of art exhibitions. The book discusses this shift by bringing together experimental exhibitions, curatorial theory, artistic and museum research and disability activism. A central intention is to demonstrate resonances between curatorial theory and practice, on the one hand, and disability art activism on the other.
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses shares famous and lesser-known examples of experimental exhibitions as well as of artists’ projects linked to exhibitions. By mobilising the senses of touch, smell, taste, and hearing, as well as applications of multimodal technologies, these examples explore abilities and possibilities of the complex and diverse sensory apparatus that is the human body.
Organizing Partners Book Launch
- Valiz Books and Cultural Projects
- Kunstmuseum Den Haag
- Avans Center of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT)
Publication supported by: Mondriaan Fonds, CARADT , Cultuurfonds, De Gijselaar-Hintzen Fonds
Design by: Lotte Lara Schröder https://termsofcircumstance.org/
Bios of the Participants
Eva Fotiadi (PhD) is a researcher at CARADT and a lecturer at St. Joost School of Art & Design. Her current research explores multisensory experiences in art exhibitions, with a particular focus on creative access and disability art activism. This work extends her earlier studies on participatory art practices and exhibition histories. Her writings have been published in English, Greek, Dutch, German, Russian, Polish, and Arabic.
Caro Verbeek is a curator at Kunstmuseum Den Haag and an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam specialized in the senses and embodiment as (artistic) tools. She teaches sensory courses within academia and art academies with an emphasis on smell and touch, and she has developed the multisensory tour ‘Clapping to the Beat of Piet’ on rhythm in Mondrian’s work and abstract art.
Vincent Bijlo is a well-known Dutch cabaretier and theatermaker, the author of books and columns, and a maker of radio programs and podcasts. https://vincentbijlo.com/
