Schilderij Speelgoedétalage (1942) van Aad de Haas met een surrealistische verzameling speelgoedfiguren en maskers rond een centraal, popachtig figuur in geel, tegen een warme roodbruine achtergrond.

Ina van Zyl and Aad de Haas on view together at SCHUNCK

Aad De Haas, Speelgoedétalage, 1942, Olieverf Op Doek, 50 X 64 Cm, Collectie Schunck, Gemeente Heerlen. Verworven Met Steun Van Het Mondriaan Fonds

A special part of the exhibition Ina van Zyl: Where Are You From is its dialogue with Aad de Haas. Ina van Zyl personally selected fifteen works by De Haas, drawn from the SCHUNCK collection and from loans.

First major survey exhibition of Ina van Zyl in the Netherlands

From 16 June 2026, SCHUNCK Museum in the Glaspaleis in Heerlen presents Ina van Zyl: Where Are You From. For the first time in the Netherlands, this exhibition offers a substantial overview of nearly thirty years of work by Ina van Zyl (1971), from her early South African comics to her recent paintings.

Ina van Zyl has been part of the Dutch national collection landscape for decades. Her work is held in the collections of the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centraal Museum, Dordrechts Museum, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and SCHUNCK, which owns two of her works. Yet until now, there has been no exhibition bringing together the full scope of her artistic development. In Heerlen, that trajectory is presented in its entirety for the first time.

Van Zyl is known for her extreme close-ups of skin, toes, flowers, and everyday objects. What appears almost abstract from a distance reveals itself, on closer inspection, to be a body, a piece of fruit, or a flower. Her work moves between beauty and discomfort, inviting sustained and attentive looking.

Ina & Aad: a dialogue between generations

A special element of the exhibition is its dialogue with Aad de Haas. Ina van Zyl personally selected fifteen works by De Haas from the SCHUNCK collection and from loans.

Van Zyl feels a strong affinity with his work, both thematically - through ideas of desire, origin, portraiture, and landscape - and in his use of colour. The early work of De Haas, in particular, shows a surprising connection to her own palette. Accompanying her selection is a personal text in which Van Zyl shares her perspective on De Haas’s work. In this way, the exhibition brings two generations of artists into conversation with one another.

More exhibitions in the Glaspaleis

Several presentations by artists from Limburg are on view at the same time.

In the display window, Gladys Zeevaarders (Mein Freund, der Baum) presents new works exploring the relationship between humans, animals, and nature.

In the Atrium, Charlotte Koenen (Afterimage) presents an installation centred on nineteenth-century washhouses.

In the staircase, Romy Finke et al. present STAIRCASE: a new collection commission offering a different perspective on the city and on the role of the collection as a tool for public reflection.

Programme accompanying the exhibition

SCHUNCK is organising an extensive public programme around the exhibition. Themes such as corporeality, stillness, and the boundary between beauty and discomfort return in guided tours and activities throughout the museum galleries.

Visitors can take part in yoga sessions among the paintings, a mindfulness tour, a day of silence, and a Silent Reading Party. The programme also includes a new edition of Frictions Festival and a film programme in collaboration with Filmhuis De Spiegel.