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.

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.

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.

Driven by a persistent fascination with clothing, Hansol Kim’s research-led and personal approach reconfigures the definition of wearability. His sculptural objects occupy the intersection of garments and furniture. They contest the typical features of each field, asking to be considered as a completely new category of their own.

Join us for a Sunday Stroll on 28 February, when Asha Capella leads 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? 

Het Nieuwe Instituut invites designers, researchers, archive managers and policy-makers to exchange ideas about Dutch designed-landscape heritage. Valuable archival pieces are currently being lost because the Netherlands lacks a national policy and an obvious home for these materials. So what is a workable solution that fits the present time and the available resources? And how can we work towards a National Collection of Garden and Landscape Architecture?

Solar power is one of the great hopes of the so-called clean energy transition to renewables. This TNL! Design Dialogues event brings together solar designers Marjan van Aubel and Pauline van Dongen and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Anastasía Kubrak and Guus Beumer to talk about making the transition a reality.

Curated by Salim Bayri, The One Minutes series for March/April 2021 is on the theme of Comfort and Vision. In one-minute videos, 21 artists and filmmakers explore how feelings of comfort affect what we see.

Levi Silvanie performs his songs among the works on show at Het Nieuwe Instituut in this exclusive mini-concert.

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. 

As of 1 January 2021, Het Nieuwe Instituut is a heritage institution. To underline this role, the institute is developing a multi-year exhibition: The Design of the Social, based partly on the architecture collection. This event offers a behind-the-scenes look at the research, and a chance to join the discussion.

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).