Het Nieuwe Instituut

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.

What happens to the idea of ​​value when an everyday consumable becomes an object to take care of, even when you don’t own it? In May 2021, designer Elisa van Joolen and Het Nieuwe Instituut will present the EVJ: the institute's first official museum bag, made from recycled melted plastic from disposable carrier bags. Users never own the EVJ, but take care of it for a time. Prospective borrowers can complete and sign a loan agreement via the website, in which they agree to adopt an EVJ bag for six months.

The work of five multidisciplinary artists and designers can be seen in Gallery 3 from 22 May to 4 July as part of Art Rotterdam.

Together with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the International Institute of Social History, Het Nieuwe Instituut is organising the second edition of Open Archive, a programme in which three makers search for new stories in open, digital heritage collections, with the aim of making a new media work. From 3 June, Jessica de Abreu, Femke Dekker and Michiel Huijben will present their works, which share the theme of ‘activism and archives’.

From 5 June, a unique asset to the National Collection goes on public display: an interior model by architect and artist Theo van Doesburg. The design, from 1926, is for Café Aubette, one of De Stijl's most important architectural projects. 

New graduates of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture and landscape architecture once again display their design talent. This year, Het Nieuwe Instituut has opened up its 6th floor for the Archiprix 2021 exhibition.

During Rotterdam Architecture Month (RAM), MVRDV and Het Nieuwe Instituut will present a sneak preview of the autumn exhibition MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio, exploring the architecture office’s archive. 

What is the difference between an artistic and an academic interpretation of archival materials? What is the relationship between artistic freedom and creative reuse? How ‘open’ should a collection be? What role does research play in making art? And does art influence the working methods of institutional archives? We will discuss these and other questions about the creative reuse of heritage materials during the Open Archive symposium.

With the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning as a point of departure, theatre and radio producer Naomi Steijger visits the Vreewijk neighbourhood in Rotterdam and talks to designers, archive experts and residents about greenery in this garden suburb. First in a series of podcasts under the name Green in the City.

Travelling Academy curators Erik Wong and Sophie Krier try to materialise the idea of the ‘pluriverse’ with Jay Jordan and Isa Frémeaux and Camila Marambio in this action-packed TNL! Afterwards, they dive into the topic of water in İstanbul with Nur Horsananlı, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Eva Pfannes (OOZE) and Li An Phoa. The conversation focuses on the plea that Yaşar Adnan Adanalı made in the recently published Thirst Walk & Talk: free drinkable tap water for all İstanbulites. What is needed to make this happen?

In collaboration with artist Giovanni Maisto Ferreira and Kunstinstituut Melly, Het Nieuwe Instituut presents a two-part event around Touch’M, Ferreira’s short film. In the first part, an episode of De Kunstavond Radio, Kunstinstituut Melly talks to Ferreira about his work, his process and how he maintains his well-being and mental health. After the talk, Touch’M will be officially premiered.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 27 June at 2pm, when Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Het Nieuwe Instituut invites you to join a special Members Tour of Gallery 3 by Art Rotterdam. The tours will be led by the exhibiting artists and designers - Lili Lu, Bas Ruis, Ciro Miguel, Lorena Solis Bravo and Jaasir Linger.

On Saturday 3 July 2021, Het Nieuwe Instituut is organising an opening programme to launch two new exhibitions: Temporary House of Home and Designing the Social.

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

With a multifaceted Temporary House of Home, from July 2021 Het Nieuwe Instituut will explore how our thinking about domestic interiors and design has evolved over the past decades. Because each room offers its own perspective, the house forms a spatial collage of possible interpretations of what a home can be – from safe haven to home workplace, from financial investment to haunted house, and from site of seduction to a means of control or punishment. Different perspectives on the role and functioning of the interior are set against design history and past and contemporary examples. The Temporary House also offers various answers to the question of what “design” entails beyond the furniture and interior objects with which it is usually associated.

Designing the Social  is an exhibition exploring 100 years of socially driven, idiosyncratic ideas about living together. Sometimes out of idealism, often out of pure necessity, alternative design strategies were developed in the pursuit of an equal society. Designers, researchers and curators select and (re)interpret pieces from heritage collections and archives in order to tell an assortment of stories about a century of social design.

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Be one of the first to explore Designing the Social with detour guide Bas van der Kruk! The tour takes place during the exhibition’s opening weekend, on 4 July at 2pm. Based on his perspective as a performer, writer, artist, and creative advisor, Bas’s guided detours usually focus on text and movement. 

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

During Art Rotterdam, from 30 June to 4 July, five artists will give guided tours through their exhibition Gallery 3 By Art Rotterdam in Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Since March 2020, the world has become a slower, quieter and more deliberate place, prompting a reevaluation of our priorities, rhythms and ways of living. This Design Dialogue features a talk by Ligia Nobre - architect, curator and current Het Nieuwe Instituut fellow (as a member of the collective O grupo inteiro). The talk is linked to her essay contribution to a new Valiz publication, the Slow Spatial Reader.

The latest in The One Minutes Series is Mind-body-problem. Artist duo Sander Breure & Witte van Hulzen have selected videos that depict the relationship between the soul and the body – whether as a metaphor, a problem or even a bad joke. Mind-body-problem asks the age-old question: how can matter ever come to life?

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 11 July at 2pm, when Asha Capella will lead us through Lithium. This exhibition, imagined as a spa retreat, invites visitors to experience the states of exhaustion and revitalisation that characterise today’s 24/7 economy. Asha will focus on our own batteries: what recharges us, and what drains us? 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 13 June at 2pm, when detour guide Erik Peters will explore the Lithium spa with us. Together, we will investigate the parallels between bodily and planetary exhaustion, speculate about alternative energy sources and imagine how the extremes of the future might look.  

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 25 July at 2pm, when Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 1 August at 2pm, when Asha Capella will lead us through Lithium. This exhibition, imagined as a spa retreat, invites visitors to experience the states of exhaustion and revitalisation that characterise today’s 24/7 economy. Asha will focus on our own batteries: what recharges us, and what drains us? 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 8 August (2pm) when we will explore Designing the Social with detour guide Bas van der Kruk. Based on his perspective as a performer, writer, artist, and creative advisor, Bas’s guided detours usually focus on text and movement. 

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 27 June at 2pm, when Joëlle Hoogendoorn will show us around Sonneveld House. From her perspective as an artist and teacher, she will focus on the house’s interior design, especially the use of colour, form and style.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 22 August at 2pm, when detour guide Erik Peters will explore the Lithium spa with us. Together, we will investigate the parallels between bodily and planetary exhaustion, speculate about alternative energy sources and imagine how the extremes of the future might look.  

Studio Wild’s Forbidden Garden of Europe, at Spazio Punch in Giudecca, Venice, will cultivate a garden of ‘invasive alien plant species’. These plants represent the 35 species to be eradicated from European soil in line with the EU legislative act of 2016.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 29 August (2pm) when we will explore Designing the Social with detour guide Bas van der Kruk. Based on his perspective as a performer, writer, artist, and creative advisor, Bas’s guided detours usually focus on text and movement.

In the third episode of the talkshow STATEMENTS, a collaboration between Shay Kreuger and Het Nieuwe Instituut, Shay talks to her guests about current issues.