Museum Belvédère

The landscape peeks back

At Museum Belvédère, a quiet yet charged exploration unfolds—one that examines how technology shapes and distorts our view of nature. Here, on the edge of the wooded Oranjewoud, the perspective shifts from control to reflection: artists make visible how systems—from cameras to climate models—frame, question, or even reconfigure our relationship with the natural world.

Some works reveal how technology allows us to see what once remained hidden: a collapsing glacier, a slowly shifting season, a landscape recording itself. Others show how images emerge without human intervention—or within the constraints of an outdated digital device. Through the lens of these artists, what we see is recorded, but also how we see—and which values underpin that act of seeing.

Museum Belvédère thus becomes a space where time, memory, and technology converge. A place where nature is not romanticized but taken seriously—as a player, a memory, and a co-creator of image. Machine Entanglements shows how the landscape itself, like the image, is shaped by both aesthetic and systemic forces—between care and depletion, between stillness and change.

Featuring works by: Clint Baclawski, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Hyeseon Jeong & Seongmin Yuk, Anouk Kruithof, Thomas Kuijpers, Victor Mendez, Michael Najjar, Mizuho Nishioka, misha de ridder, Gjert Rognli, Sabrina Ratté, Nicolás Rupcich, Julieta Tarraubella, Stijn Terpstra

Museum Belvédère – Heerenveen-Oranjewoud, Friesland
Oranje Nassaulaan 12, 8448 MT Oranjewoud

Open: 10:00–17:00 (closed on Mondays)
Entry fee: €14,00 · students €7,00·  free with Museumkaart

From the parking lot, walk through the park to reach the museum building. From Heerenveen Station, it’s a 15-minute bike ride or 10 minutes by taxi. No direct bus service.