An exhibition of North Korean paintings in Goes the Netherlands.
The Maria Magdalena church, build in 1450, is the perfect stage to show these paintings.
The exhibition was called: "HAPPY IN NORTH KOREA".

In the Maria Magdalena Church are hanging more than fifty paintings from North Korean professional painters, created in the period 1960 – 2010.
All pieces are made by order of the State and originally intended for domestic use in public buildings and hotels.
Propaganda packaged as art, with which the exhibition has an unmistakable political colored character.
A unique window on a closed country.
Art in North Korea is not optional and is always at the service of the leader, which benefits from an idealized image of North Korea.
The regime uses these handsome painted Socialist-realist art to create an utopian North Korea.
Essential is the glorification of the system in images with the subject the family, agriculture and industry, war and confrontation, with enemies such as the USA and Japan.
The visitor gets on the basis of this work a unique glimpse into the closed North Korea.
To see for the first time
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All exhibited paintings are out of the collection of the collector Ronald de Groen.
The lyrics are part of the exhibition.
Koen de Ceuster in the Kim utopia. Painted art of North Korea, wbooks, 2015.