THE HAGUE.- During the Museum Night The Hague Stroom Den Haag inaugurated a solo exhibition by Hans van Houwelingen, one of the leading contemporary artists explicitly engaged in the field of art and public space. His thought-provoking designs and proposals reflect a novel, and markedly critical, view on the contemporary monument. Within walking distance of the center of Dutch political power, Van Houwelingen addresses the way we think about art, public space and the power structures that impact both. A variety of assumptions and strategies that define the way we conceptualize or relate to monuments come under scrutiny in the work and texts of Hans van Houwelingen. The artist deconstructs the hypocrisy, fallacies and political control in today’s culture of remembrance – the inflation and hidden agendas of gestures of commemoration in public space. His recent proposal for a ‘National Monument to the Guest