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.

Bauhaus Lessons highlights the work of teachers and students at the Bauhaus and educational institutions inspired by the German school. Bauhaus Lessons draws upon materials by Bauhaus students - or Bauhäusler– such as Lotte Stam-Beese and teachers such as Mart Stam and Johan Niegeman from the collection of Het Nieuwe Instituut.  

In Spirits in the Material World, artist Heman Chong reflects on spaces that exist in the grey, the darkness, the slippages into the netherworld. The installation is on view in Het Nieuwe Instituut from 10 October 2019 to 29 December 2019.

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.

Reuse of digital collections in museums and archives produces new stories in potentially surprising, innovative forms. For Open Archive, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision have invited makers to create new work using archive items from their digital collections. Artist Guy Königstein, filmmaker Donna Verheijden and artist/designer Oana Clitan will develop new media works based on both institutions’ online digital collections as part of the Open Archive project. They will present their work at Dutch Design Week 2019.

Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Creative Industries Fund NL jointly launch an Open Call inviting researchers and designers in the fields of architecture, urban design, and landscape to submit projects for the public parallel programme of the Dutch pavilion during the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2020.

Information related to this Open Call will be addressed by Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Creative Industries Fund NL at Tac Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week. Debra Solomon, Afaina de Jong and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer will reflect on multispecies urbanism from their own perspective, followed by a Q & A.

Thursday Night Live! will explore the relations between the 1980s culture of cyberpunk, the spread of the computer virus and its biological counterpart AIDS. With a.o. lectures from Ivan Lopez Munuera, Charles Boucher and Andrea Bagnato, a \/\/iFi + OSS/**** performance by JODI, a remote reading by Bruce Sterling and a performance by Red Light Radio. This event is part of the extended programme of Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection, curated by Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier.

With the screening of Memories Of Underdevelopment, producer, designer and Workspacer Manuel Toledo curates a film night especially for Thursday Night Live! From his fascination with architecture, culture and the creative industries, Toledo has established two international architecture film festivals in Santiago, Chile and London, UK. 

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.

After a long period of globalized outsourcing, new forms of manufacturing emerge in the Netherlands. What characterizes the locations of new manufacturing, compared to old industries? How does manufacturing relate to other urban activities such as dwelling, recycling or learning? Are we making enough room for it in current urban developments?

The Others (2001), by director Alejandro Amenábar, will be screened at Het Nieuwe Instituut on 31 October within the context of the installation Spirits in the Material World. The film is part of a horror movie programme accompanying the installation, compiled by artist Heman Chong. The film programme further consists of a screening of Dark Water (2001) on 10 October and A Ghost Story (2017) on 5 December.

A talk and small exhibition of the IDEA magazine's popular series on graphic designers in Asia region called "Yellow Pages." The main authors/designers Tetsuya Goto (OOO Projects, Japan), Min Choi (Sulki & Min, South Korea), Ingo Offermanns (Germany) and Saki Ho (Hong Kong) will give a talk about their activities and emerging graphic designers in East Asia region. * This is an English spoken edition!

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 and artist.

Comrade is a term of address, carrier of expectations, and figure of political belonging. Promising new relations of equality and solidarity, it provides liberation from the conventions of oppressive bourgeois society, liberation from expectations linked to sex and race. Comradeship is a relation of sameness, the sameness that comes from being on the same side. Anyone but not everyone can be a comrade. This lecture by professor of political science Jodi Dean will focus on the energy and enthusiasm of women comrades.

What exactly do we mean by 'open collections', and how can you reuse their materials? During the Re:Use clinic on 7 November at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Maarten Zeinstra (Open Nederland, Creative Commons Nederland) explains everything about copyright, Creative Commons, and the free use of archive materials.

The city of the future is in constant transformation and seeks creative solutions to tailor-made housing and mixed-use environments. During 'Evolutionaries' we use the radical ideas of Yona Friedman’s Spatial City as a blueprint for the challenges that today’s architects and urbanists are faced with. How can we create a contemporary urban environment that allows architecture to evolve beyond rigid structures? How do cities cope with flexibility in structures worldwide, such as China and South Africa? How can cities become more ‘elastic’ and adaptive, and why is this necessary?

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 is offering an exclusive opportunity for Members to attend the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Art on Display 1949-69 exhibition opening at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon on 8 and 9 November 2019. 

Two conversations on addressing strategies for reconstructing exhibitions and historic ways of looking at art, plus the question of how design helps us to look at and be with art. With Dirk van den Heuvel (Jaap Bakema Study Centre/Het Nieuwe Instituut), Penelope Curtis (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum), Wouter Davidts (art and architecture historian), Guus Beumer (director of Het Nieuwe Instituut) and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli (architect, designer of exhibitions and partner of OMA).

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.

The re-use of digital collections in museums and archives generates new narratives with potentially surprising and innovative forms. Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision have invited three makers to create new works based on their digital collections. Artist Guy Königstein, filmmaker Donna Verheijden and artist/designer Oana Clitan have each developed a media work that will be exhibited at Het Nieuwe Instituut from 14 November.

Giovanni Bellotti and Alessandra Covini of Studio Ossidiana talk about the Animal Encounters installation and their research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Afterwards, they discuss architecture, ecology and cross-species exchange with Dirk van den Heuvel.

Professor Francesco Casetti will read the screen in its diverse instantiations. “Screens not only display images; they define the modes of access to these images. In this, they are inherently political.”

On Thursday 14 November BNO IMG LAB will again be all about the Cross Comix Festival, taking place throughout the week in Rotterdam. This 'Indian Roots' edition is dedicated to comic-making, with screenwriter Stijn Schenk, colourist Marloes Dekkers, illustrator and writer Frits Jonker, and many others.

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.

This year's international conference of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre focuses on the years 1965 to 1989, in which welfare state arrangements were contested on both left and right, by counterculture movements and the rise of populism. While government institutions sought a proper response, urban renewal and city repair became a new field of work for architects and planners.

Esra Akcan is the keynote speaker for the Jaap Bakema Study Centre conference 2019 Architecture and Democracy 1965-1989: Urban Renewal, Populism and the Welfare State. Akcan’s research explores the concept of ‘open architecture’ through the thorough investigation of the urban renewal of Kreuzberg, Berlin’s immigrant neighbourhood, in the 1980s.

Education meeting in which people from the worlds of design and education will discuss the future of (design) education beyond human-centred design.

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.

Guy Königstein, Donna Verheijden and Oana Clitan present their installations for Open Archive. Three makers spent six months researching the open, digital collections of Het Nieuwe Instituut and Beeld en Geluid (Sound and Vision) to develop a concept for their work. They are interviewed about their work processes and the reuse of archival materials.

A Ghost Story (2017), by director David Lowery, will be screened at Het Nieuwe Instituut on 5 December within the context of the installation Spirits in the Material World. The film is part of a horror movie programme accompanying the installation, compiled by artist Heman Chong. The film programme further consisted of a screening of Dark Water (2002) on 10 October and The Others (2001) on 31 October.

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 Nevill Mitchell Martins. He will show you around from his perspective as a music enthusiast, futurist and community director.