Het Nieuwe Instituut

A guided meditation created by artist Annika Kappner invites the visitor to explore the (bio) diversity and complexity of The New Garden.

Inspired by G/D THYSELF, writers, poets and designers will send you a series of reflections, stories and spirit strategies by post - a way to reflect in community, albeit remotely. 

Set Stage Screen: Realities of Postproduction investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and emancipation, by exposing existing realities and by imagining alternatives.

In the institute’s entrance hall, a diptych, composed of photographs from the National Collection for  Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning, is on show at the invitation of Unlocked/Reconnected, inspired by the concept of home in the time of the pandemic.

In each edition (this is the 40th), Archiprix presents the most talented graduates from Dutch institutions offering master’s programmes in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and (in this and the previous edition) interior architecture. These are the designers that will literally shape the future, in the Netherlands and beyond.

Archiprix invites all architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture master’s programmes worldwide to select their best graduation project and submit it for consideration. This format enables Archiprix to give a picture of the state of the art of design education.

Inspired by G/D THYSELF, writers, poets and designers send you a series of reflections, stories and spirit strategies by post or email  – a way to reflect in community, albeit remotely. 

Het Nieuwe Instituut’s production location turns visitors into digital designers. In Long Live the Future! families design the world in the year 2520. And if you’re a designer of the future, anything is possible.

In Sonneveld House, Gijs Bakker and K. Schippers present combinations of jewellery and poetry which they have selected especially for the occasion from their extensive oeuvres. The result is a setting in which visitors can make new connections and entertain alternative interpretations.

Inspired by G/D THYSELF, writers, poets and designers send you a series of reflections, stories and spirit strategies by post or email  – a way to reflect in community, albeit remotely. 

What role could rituals take in designing a new society? Join us on 16 August at 2pm to explore this question, and the installation G/D THYSELF, with designer, researcher and musician Erik Peters.

As part of the closing event for The Ummah Chroma’s installation, G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children, a special programme of short films will be screened on Saturday 22 August, followed by live Q&As with the makers.

Join us on Saturday 22 August for an evening of performances as part of the closing event for the installation, G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy On Raising Free Black Children, by international artists’ collective The Ummah Chroma.

For this Sunday Stroll, Asha Capella shows us around G/D THYSELF: A Spirit Strategy on Raising Free Black Children. The tour focuses on rituals, both as elements of the installation, and as an influence on our own lives. 

During the closing event of The Hoodie exhibition, the focus is on the collaboration between Het Nieuwe Instituut and Concrete Blossom. A panel discussion explores how the collaboration came about, the forms it has taken and how the institute works with existing and new public groups. Finally, it looks at the basis for future cooperations.

This week (30 August, 2pm), the Sunday Stroll is all about shapes, colours and music. Move through Het Nieuwe Instituut and, together with performer and artist Bas van der Kruk, and become inspired by design elements found in the exhibition Atelier Nelly and Theo van Doesburg. 

What Do Landscapes Say? explores how art and critical artistic research might inform the development of diverse urban environments by looking at landscapes.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is offering an exclusive three day trip to attend La Biennale di Venezia from Wednesday 19 until Friday 21 May 2021 (to be confirmed).