Het Nieuwe Instituut

A spatial installation by Studio Ossidiana explores how architecture might mediate between all sorts of creatures, making room for a variety of encounters and setting the stage for interactions between humans and non-humans. The installation is an environment occupied by drawings, diagrams and architectural models – creature-like objects – that address issues of proximity, scale and cross-species politics.

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.

Interview with Charm La’Donna (choreographer for a.o. Rosalía, Kendrick Lamar and Pharell Williams) on the role of choreography in music videos and live concerts. 

Live radio and video broadcast with conversations and performances on music video as collaborative space for consumerism, activism and emancipation.

Visionary films in which Nkiru and Nance question concepts from past and present, and provide an alternative for (future) scenarios.

The evening with Stefanie Hessler and Armin Linke will mark the launch of a new publication Prospecting Ocean, unmasking the entanglement of industry, politics, culture and economics at the frontier of ocean excavation.

The Emperor's clothes. Say yes to the dress. Or a Rotterdam 'Pakkie Deftig'. An evening full of fabrics made from plants, clay or enhanced with technology, smart slow fashion and colourful catwalks. 

During IFFR the audience is invited to attend and participate in Spirit Strategies, a series of public ritual performances in the installation G/D Thyself. On 31 January with with visual and performance artist Nash Caldera.

During IFFR the audience is invited to attend and participate in Spirit Strategies, a series of public ritual performances in the installation G/D Thyself. On 1 February with performing artists OTION (Guillermo Blinker) and Giovanni Maisto Ferreira.

In this lecture and discussion illustrated by film clips, Pet Wu talks about the stereotyping of Asian characters in cinema.

Discover Het Nieuwe Instituut's exhibition(s) during a Sunday Stroll with Bas van der Kruk. He will show you around from his perspective as a performer, writer, artist and creative advisor.

Visitors receive free admission from 5 to 9 February 2020 on presentation of their ticket for Art Rotterdam. The free audio tour allows visitors to experience how modern the Sonneveld family’s home was for its time. 

The collection of artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) at Het Nieuwe Instituut consists mainly of colour designs, architectural drawings and photo-mechanical reproductions on tracing paper. This important collection is being examined, conserved and, if necessary, restored to preserve it for the future. During Art Rotterdam, project leader Elza van den Berg and curator Eline de Graaf of Het Nieuwe Instituut discuss the ongoing research and restoration project. 

The theme of the Thursday Night Live! programme on 6 February is ‘disruption as a methodology’. Cultural institutions are once again drafting their annual culture plans and subsidies are being awarded. By working together, Concrete Blossom and Het Nieuwe Instituut are developing a blueprint for inclusivity. To achieve this, Concrete Blossom employs disruption. But what exactly does this mean, in particular in an institutional context?

The collection of artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) at Het Nieuwe Instituut consists mainly of colour designs, architectural drawings and photo-mechanical reproductions on tracing paper. This important collection is being examined, conserved and, if necessary, restored to preserve it for the future. During Art Rotterdam, project leader Elza van den Berg and curator Eline de Graaf of Het Nieuwe Instituut discuss the ongoing research and restoration project. 

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’s International Clinic Lecture on Wednesday 12 February focuses on cultural entrepreneurship in an international context.

Build, build, build is the much-heard mantra to meet the urgent demand for housing in the Netherlands. But as the number of small households and constructions costs continue to rise, the question is: what will we build in the coming years? Does compact housing offer a solution?

Social geographer Leo van den Berg and architect Madeleine Steigenga discuss the 'everyday heritage of reconstruction' with the audience, moderated by Dirk van den Heuvel. They reflect on the multifaceted architecture of the first two decades after World War II, the current conditions of dwellings from that period, and their future resilience in a changing streetscape. Finally, they ask what possible lessons contemporary housing projects can learn from the example of the many Irenestraten in the Netherlands. 

Exploring the entanglement of bodies and technologies that constitutes urbanity.

In the first edition of The Hoodie Unravelled we address an important (and for many an uncomfortable) subject - the politics of the hoodie. Who has the right to wear a hoodie, and who earns money from it? In this conversation we focus on the paradoxical relationship between streetwear and trendsetting on the one hand, and criminalisation and regulation on the other. Explore the relationship between the hoodie, ethnic profiling, police violence, and the criminalisation of young people of colour.

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.

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 the immersive workshop Zoönomic Futures, the Swedish cross-media artist and researcher Janna Holmstedt will talk about Multispecies Communication. Afterwards Anna van Leeuwen and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer share thoughts with her about it. 

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.

40 years ago in 1980, the American architect and historian Dolores Hayden, published an article with great impact on the debate about design, building, living and gender main stream. What happened with her ideas? Can we still use them or are they outdated? What new thoughts on building with the notion ‘inclusiveness’ are practiced today? Do different generations have other thoughts and solutions? How would a non-sexist city look like, are there any examples?

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.

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.

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 intelleigences. 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.