The Great Filter - Closing Event

Artist Peter Mammes is back in The Hague with an artist talk and Q&A session on 29 May 2026 at NGO DEI, to conclude his solo exhibition. Join us for the closing event of "The Great Filter"!

The exhibition takes its title from the scientific idea that intelligent civilizations may reach a critical threshold they fail to survive. Mammes uses this concept as a lens through which to consider humanity’s position at a time of accelerating technological power, ecological instability, and renewed global conflict.

Presented in The Hague, a city closely associated with diplomacy, international law, and the prevention of conflict, the exhibition resonates with urgent contemporary questions about survival, responsibility, and the forces humanity has set in motion. Rather than offering answers, The Great Filter invites viewers to reflect on whether our species can navigate the thresholds it has created.

If you are interested in knowing more about the artist and the idea behind his amazing works, don't miss out on the artist talk and exhibition closing event on 29 May

“The Great Filter is the idea that most intelligent civilizations destroy themselves before they can spread into the universe. I’m interested in the possibility that humanity may be approaching that moment — and what that means for the fragile systems that sustain life.”
— Peter Mammes

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Peter Mammes is a London-based artist whose figurative works bring together pattern, technology, ecology, and human vulnerability. His practice creates visual harmonies in which rhythm, symmetry, and image structure become a way of thinking through the future of civilization.

TICKETS
Free entrance

DATE
29.05.2026

TIME
19:00-23:00

VENUE
NGO DEI, Westeinde 25, 2512GS, The Hague, Netherlands