Het Nieuwe Instituut

Discover The Hoodie exhibit in an online tour. The detour team of Het Nieuwe Instituut made this tour especially for families. They tell you about their favourite pieces in the exhibition, ask questions and discuss details that interest them.

Het Nieuwe Instituut's production location turns visitors into digital designers. In Make a Move (Bureau Nou & Herkauw) you design your own digital protest outfit. Plastic soup, bullies and melting polar caps: there’s plenty to take a stand against!

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. 

A new look at the work of Nelly and Theo van Doesburg is possible thanks to the restoration of their architecture archive. The exhibition recognises Nelly as a key figure in the consolidation of the reputation of Van Doesburg and De Stijl. The magnificent focus of the exhibition will be on the couple’s most striking joint project: their studio-house in the Parisian suburb of Meudon. 

Hermine Giefing-Elzas loved travelling with her husband Abraham Elzas (architect of the Lekstraat Synagogue in Amsterdam and – with Marcel Breuer – designer of De Bijenkorf department store in Rotterdam). Their holiday snaps, invariably featuring Hermine, take us on tour with them. We don’t know a lot about their trips, but the photos reveal how extensively they travelled in the second half of the 20th century. Now, we are inviting you to help us – from your home – to find out where Hermine is.

In this week’s edition of Live from G/D THYSELF, The Ummah Chroma’s installation in Het Nieuwe Instituut is open to our communities as a ritual space for them to perform their own spirit strategies.

Performer, writer and artist Bas van der Kruk hosts the Sunday Scroll on 31 May on Facebook Live. This digital detour is an exploration of the design of identity.

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 this week’s edition of Live from G/D THYSELF, The Ummah Chroma’s installation in Het Nieuwe Instituut is open to our communities as a ritual space for them to perform their own spirit strategies.

Music videos often expose the realities of local communities, circulating them across platforms and borders. Under lockdown and self-isolation, music video formats have actually enabled forms of solidarity and collectivity across different countries. This online event will look at how local realities and changing notions of public space are represented in music videos. Speakers will also reflect on how fans and communities, held together by music, are responding to the current situation, and what modes of collaboration are emerging during social distancing.  

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.

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.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is offering an exclusive three day trip to attend La Biennale di Venezia from Wednesday 26 until Friday 28 August 2020.