Lives in Colour

What does it mean to live authentically in a world that does not always make room for you?

“Lives in Colour” provides an intimate glimpse into the different lives of the LGBTQIA+ community bringing together the works of three artists: Raisa Mulder, roni(a), and Nomi Mulders.

Bright rainbow colours are often a standardized language when expressing queer topics; however, ‘Lives in Colour’ takes a different approach. Working through drawings, documentary photography, and sculptural installations, the artists use darker palettes and contemplative forms to explore themes of identity, intimacy, care, safety, and belonging.

Identity is not simply something expressed but something continuously negotiated: through the body, through relationships, through the spaces we inhabit, and through the ways we are seen, or remain unseen.

“Lives in Colour” brings together three distinct artistic practices that each approach queer existence from a different perspective: self, space and body. Nomi Mulders explores the inner emotional dimension, reflecting on intimacy, vulnerability, loneliness, desire and the search for self-acceptance through figurative drawing. Raisa Mulder navigates the social dimension by sharing a documentation of the diverse meanings of safety, belonging and community, by inviting LGBTQIA+ individuals to share the spaces where they feel most at ease, while simultaneously moving queer safety from merely awareness into something tangible and actionable. roni(a) explores the physical dimension questioning how bodies are maintained, disciplined, cared for and experienced through queer, trans and neurodivergent perspectives.

Moving through the interconnected themes of self, space, and body, “Lives in Colour” follows a journey of identity, belonging, and embodiment. Together, the works suggest that queer identity is not defined by a single experience, but by an ongoing process of care, connection, vulnerability, uncertainty, resilience, and becoming.

DATES:

25 July - 2 August (3 Euro)

OPENING RECEPTION:

25 July | 18:00 - 20:30 (Free)

Performance by roni(a) | 19:00

VENUE:

NGO DEI Gallery, Westeinde 25, 2512GS The Hague, Netherland

OPENING HOURS:

14:00-19:00 | Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday closed