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.

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.

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.

Every year, Kunstbende invites young people with a passion for art to develop their talent and show off their skills on a big stage. This year, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Gallery 3 hosts the preliminary round of Kunstbende Zuid-Holland in the Expo and Fashion categories.

The images, objects and videos in The Mind Game exhibition together document a week of online workshops that took place in May 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. In that time of isolation, the workshops, conceived by artists Charlie Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp, offered participants a space for connection and playfulness.

On the Sunday Stroll of 29 November, detour Guide Florian van Zandwijk will show us around the Lithium exhibition from his perspective as designer. How dependent are we on a fully charged battery – in our phones, and also in ourselves? And what happens to our mood when we keep on mirroring technology?

In the absence of inspiring coffee breaks and informal corridor chats, Het Nieuwe Instituut is organising a Creative Support for Designers in Lockdown workshop.

A screening of a video by Sumayya Vally will be followed by a conversation with the video maker and Wayne Modest on the restitution of African cultural heritage. This is the fourth edition of Monument, a collaboration with e-flux Architecture, to discuss how monuments have—once again—come to play a pivotal role in mobilizing and rearticulating struggles for recognition.

On International Human Rights Day (10 December), Values for Survival Cahier 2 will be launched. The cahier is the second publication of Values for Survival, the public research programme accompanying Who is We? the Dutch contribution to the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Values for Survival curator Caroline Nevejan, Jane da Mosto (of We Are Here Venice) and the cahier researchers will talk about the research and reflect on the question: How can intuition and experience be shared between people who do not know each other and cannot meet? 

The Coming South: Struggles, Epistemologies, Solidarity seeks to respond to the deepening divides that sustain the polarisation and hierarchy justifying the Global North - Global South world order. This world order is made manifest not just in global geopolitics but also in the micro-environments of urban spaces, defining formal and informal relationships that range from those between nation states to those between local communities. Generations of political militants, intellectuals and activists have engaged with these issues - issues that are only exacerbated today, during the pandemic, and in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008 which has demonstrated and worsened a number of other crises as the status quo of globalisation.

The One Minutes series so real, so very now is curated by Misha de Ridder. It is intended as an exercise in seeing: to look, to look again and to look anew. Perception is the point of departure for a series of experiments in video within the constraint of one minute.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is offering a special tour of Lithium, one of our new exhibitions, exclusively for Members.

Often found in mineral waters, lithium has been known for its healing powers for centuries. The second event in the Lithium lecture series will address the role of this chemical element in curing mental disorders and the symptoms of mental exhaustion and overwork.

Created during the Big Bang, the chemical element lithium now seems, mysteriously, to be missing from our universe. The third event in the Lithium lecture series will discuss this so-called cosmological lithium problem, one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our times. It will also examine the role of lithium in the ‘green’ transition towards renewable energy. 

The final event in the Lithium lecture series invites designers, artists and other practitioners to imagine collective and non-exploitative forms of engagement with lithium materiality. The conversation will present a variety of audiovisual strategies to counter the models of extractivism.

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).