Het Nieuwe Instituut

Art on Display 1949-69 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is the result of a partnership between Het Nieuwe Instituut/Jaap Bakema Study Centre and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The exhibition investigates the relation between art, architecture and public by focusing on art exhibitions designed by architects. Art on Display 1949-69 will be on show in Lisbon until March 2020, after which it will get a follow-up at Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Het Nieuwe Instituut presents Automated Landscapes. Time, Cycles, Automata at the 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen from 12 December 2019 to March 2020.

Het Nieuwe Instituut and the International New Town Institute (INTI) present Dalang Fever 3. How Data Can Empower a Migrant Society, the Dutch contribution to the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture opening on 21 December 2019 in Shenzhen, curated by Linda Vlassenrood.

Sacred Beings is a themed programme exploring contemporary non-Western queer culture, curated by IFFR’s first Young Curator. Darunee Terdtoontaveedej. At the heart of this multidisciplinary programme is an installation that brings together the documentary photography by New Zealand-based academic Sharyn Davies, the portraits shot by Thai photographer Watsamon Tri-yasakda and a short film by Thai artist and filmmaker Sarnt Utamachote.

No time for losers 'cause we are the champions... From lacing up our own shoes to graduating from university, and from tidying our room to staging our first show, we reap the rewards. But why is it that our triumphs are always celebrated, while our less successful endeavours are ignored?

Worlds in which the impossible becomes possible. Worlds where you can feel and experience what is not there. What does it mean to be human in virtual reality? From narrative experiments to virtual documentaries, how do these VR productions come about? 

Zoönomic Futures is an immersive training programme aimed at developing a practical ethics for a society that is no longer human-centric. Context for this training is formed by extrapolating the zoöp concept 40 years into the future.

As part of Zoönomic Futures - an immersive workshop on ethics for a society that is no longer human-centric - Swedish cross-media artist and researcher Janna Holmstedt reflects on Multispecies Communication.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Asha Capella. She will show you around from her perspective as a culinary and creative advisor.

Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Lebanon, Switzerland and Israel are some of the recent contexts in which Inside Outside created its characteristic inside, outside, and in-between environments. 

This night we will launch Young NVTL, a new initiative from the professional organisation for landscape architecture intended for young professionals. Besides presenting our plans, Young NVTL offers you the chance to take the stage and share your opinion on the future of landscape architecture. 

In the second edition of this in-depth series, we delve into the process of garment-making. What are the meanings of the fabrics a designer chooses to use, and what role does sustainability play in the clothing industry today? Angelica Falkeling, one of the contributors to The Hoodie exhibition, joins other local Rotterdam designers in a discussion on investigating and processing these questions.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work (Signs, 1980). This essay, by American architect and architecture historian Dolores Hayden, became a major influence on feminist thinking about design, construction, living and gender. In it, Hayden argues that architectural design and urban planning limit women's position in society, and investigates radical alternatives that could faciliate a more equal role.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Martin Snip. He will show you around from his perspective as a performer, actor and presenter. 

Together with Friso Wijnen (Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in France) and country advisor Lisa Grob (DutchCulture), we would like to inform you about all the possibilities France offers to your international design practice, during the International Clinic on March 5th 2020.

In this first event of Monument, a series organised in collaboration with e-flux Architecture, Mabel O. Wilson will discuss spaces of America’s commemorative landscape and the necessity to make visible the history of lynching and its legacy in mass incarceration through public commemoration. In the wake of rising nationalisms, critiques of globalism, and ongoing emancipatory struggles around the world, this series will investigate how monuments have come to play an increasingly significant and contested role in the constitution of identities, be they national, ethnic, communal, or other. In conversation with Mitchell Esajas from The Black Archives, Wilson will reflect on reification in the Dutch context. 

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Shahaila Winklaar. She will show you around from her perspective as an artist and lawyer.

In the second chapter of the series, writer and art critic Elisabeth Lebovici will discuss the collective struggles in relationship to art and activism during the AIDS era, addressed in her book ‘Ce que le sida m'a fait. Art et Activisme à la fin du XXe siècle’ [What AIDS has done to me. Art and Activism at the end of the 20th C.]. Curator Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez will speak about her research into collective activist and artistic practices in the second wave of French feminism, that culminated in the exhibition ‘Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France (1970s-1980s)’, currently on show at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

David Adjaye will engage in a conversation with Nikolaus Hirsch about the restitution of African cultural heritage in the context of his own architectural work. This event is the second edition of Monument, a series organised in collaboration with e-flux Architecture to investigate how monuments have come to play an increasingly significant and contested role in the constitution of identities, be they national, ethnic, communal, or other.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Joëlle Hoogendoorn. She will show you around from her perspective as an artist and art teacher.

 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.

Migrants are an often unheard and ignored group in Chinese society. Dalang Fever 3 develops a methodology in which data on the questions and needs of migrants can be better incorporated in design processes in rapidly changing urban areas such as the Dalang neighbourhood in Shenzhen. How can this data research lead to a sharper formulation of the relevant design questions and solutions?

The concepts of diversity and inclusiveness have come to the fore in recent years, yet we have seen little or no structural change in the staffing of cultural institutions. We do, however, see an increasing number of cultural institutions attempting to attract new target groups (IE young audiences with migrant backgrounds) by means of countless, but always only temporary, innovations. What are the implications of this? Whose lived experiences are put in the spotlight, and who benefits from them?

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Shahaila Winklaar. She will show you around from her perspective as an artist and lawyer.

Bot Club investigates the possibilities of Garri Kasparov's Centaur model as a metaphor for healthy working relations between humans and artificial intelligences. Human-AI relations are complicated and often downright disfunctional. At this Bot Club the aim is to bring the myths, technologies and politics of human-AI relations closer together - from a position of mutual respect, yet aware of each other's shortcomings. 

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Asha Capella. She will show you around from her perspective as a culinary and creative advisor.

To conclude The Hoodie Unravelled series, we investigate what makes the hoodie a timeless classic together with renowned high-fashion streetwear designers. What is involved in redesigning, reinterpreting and reinventing the hoodie, and what is needed to keep new designs interesting and innovative?

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Joëlle Hoogendoorn. She will show you around from her perspective as an artist and art teacher.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

 The symposium will ask how to view and trace the impact and historical interconnections of technologies, social ideals, and legal and computational protocols that have managed humans, their time, their labor, and their behavior.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Pia Canales. She will show you around from her perspective as a professional observer and hyper-curious art lover.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Florian van Zandwijk. He will show you around from his perspective as a designer.

Het Nieuwe Instituut is offering an exclusive three day trip to attend La Biennale di Venezia from Wednesday 20 until Friday 22 May 2020.