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Vote yourself!
In the exhibition you can vote for the poster you think is best. Look here for the results (Dutch).
Our questions are:
1. What would you like to see on an election poster?
2. What do you think is the best German poster?
3. What do you think is the best Dutch poster?
Interview
Read a short interview with Titus Yocarini, director of the Museum voor Communicatie and co-curator of the exhibition, here.
Photos of the exhibition
ARP, 1925 (Historical Documentation Centre for Dutch Protestantism)
CDU, 1957 (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung)
'Trots op Nederland', 2007
View here more Dutch election posters
View here more German election posters
News
26.06.2010 The voter seduced? during the Museumnight The Hague 2010
20.05.2010 Debate 'No votes, no party' postponed
04.05.2010 First votes counted
27.04.2010 Opening 'The voter seduced?'
10.02.2010 Lecture on election posters
Location
Museum for Communication
Address: Zeestraat 82, The Hague
Open: tuesday - friday; 10.00 - 17.00 hrs
saturday, sunday; 12.00 - 17.00 hrs
Admision: www.muscom.nl
Debate
Location: Museum of Communication
Date, time and programme will be announced soon
Assembly and realisation
Museum of Communication
Foundation Design Den Haag
Thanks to
Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn)
Archiv für Christlich-Demokratische Politik / Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V (Sankt Augustin)
Archiv für Christlich-Soziale Politik / Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (München)
Bundesarchiv (Koblenz)
Collectie Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsterdam)
DKP (Wuppertal)
Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen (Groningen)
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit / Archiv des Liberalismus (Gummersbach)
Gemeentearchief Rotterdam
GroenLinks (Utrecht)
Historisch Documentatiecentrum voor het Nederlands Protestantisme (1800-heden) / Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
NAGO (Utrecht)
Stiftung Haus der Geschichte (Bonn)
Thonik (Amsterdam)
Trialon (Berlin)
Trots op Nederland (The Hague)
www.gruene.de
The voter seduced?
The voter seduced?
Election Posters NL/DE
Exhibition
Museum for Communication, The Hague
Saturday 24 April until Friday 31 December
With election posters we quickly think of party leaders looking at us seductively, election list numbers that don’t say anything and sentimental slogans like ‘Fighting for the vulnerable’. Much less often we see still interesting images full of symbolism, such as artist Albert Hahn’s warriors from the 1920s, or the daringly naked woman in a field as featured by the PSP in 1971.
Partly due to the introduction of television in the 1950s and the Internet in the 1990s, the role of the election poster has shifted from that of the main means of communication for the party programme and the party’s identity, to that of a sign showing that you’re there. This exhibition shows which images Dutch and German politics have put out on the streets since 1918. Which poster seduced you? Vote yourself!