Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital culture

Het Nieuwe Instituut’s public programme will be manifest in the Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. Exhibitions and education programmes have been among Het Nieuwe Instituut’s regular activities since its inception, but bringing them together within a single, unified museum programme will increase the institute’s recognition. The Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture examines the designed world and how it is constantly being changed by new technologies, new ideas and shifting social priorities. Innovation – the fulcrum of all Het Nieuwe Instituut’s activities – will be expressed in both speculative explorations of the future and critical reflections on innovative movements past and present.

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Artistic interpretation of Ransomware Pollocrypt. Image: Tomorrow Bureau and Bas van de Poel.

Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection

The exhibition Malware, curated by Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero Verzier, focusses on the most infamous examples of computer viruses. These form the starting point for an exploration of questions of security, warfare and geopolitics in times of rapid technological advance.

Neuhaus

Starting in the Spring of 2019, 100 years after the foundation of Bauhaus, Het Nieuwe Instituut transforms into Neuhaus, a temporary transdisciplinary academy for more-than-human knowledge. Het Nieuwe Instituut joins the worldwide celebration of the Bauhaus centenary not by glorifying the historical achievements of this legendary school, but rather by reactivating and embodying its original spirit.

Colour planes: colour and interior studies made by students in Johan Niegeman’s class, 1940-50. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, NIEG 153

Bauhaus Lessons

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.

Sacred Hill

Is it possible to go on a pilgrimage to a virtual object? How would the lives of humans (and non-humans) be if, in the future, they found themselves in a completely virtual reality? Would they find spirituality and have religious experiences there? Under the influence of virtual drugs, visitors can enter a virtual sacred site in Sacred Hill, a VR project that is part of research project False Mirror, in which we speculate about what future (post-)human life may be like in a completely virtual world.

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Sonneveld House

Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved houses in the Dutch Functionalist style. The architects designed a total concept in which architecture, interior and furnishings are perfectly coordinated and reinforce one another.

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The New Garden

The New Garden has gradually developed into a public space with an ecological system of herbs, shrubs, birds and animals. Artist and designer Frank Bruggeman and ecological landscaper Hans Engelbrecht laid out the garden in the spring of 2015 in the grounds of Het Nieuwe Instituut. Their design is a plea for an urban green space managed on an ecological basis with space for nature to take over.

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From 31 October

Beeld uit het archief van C. Weeber. Collectie Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Open Archive

Reuse of digital collections in museums and archives produces new stories in potentially surprising, innovative forms. Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision invite makers to create new work using archive items from their digital collections. Three makers will be selected through an open call to develop ideas into three new, autonomous media works to appear at Het Nieuwe Instituut in the autumn.

From 13 ctober

Beeld: Giovanni Bellotti / Studio Ossidiana

Animal Encounters

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.

From 30 November

The Hoodie

This exhibition considers the role of a fashion garment as a socio-political carrier. The hoodie is a staple of contemporary dress, hyped as a trend and a must-have item; but elsewhere it is also a topic of moral panic, banned by certain institutions and dissected by the media as an emblem of inequality, crime or deviancy. Curated by writer and curator Lou Stoppard.

From 11 October

I See That I See What You Don't See

In a world that is always switched on, the traditional dichotomy between day and night no longer seems relevant in terms of productivity, while the experience of clear, starry skies has become a rarity. The Dutch contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano takes the complex relationships between light and dark, between seeing and not seeing, as a starting point for an exploration of their conflicting effects on humans, the Earth and other organisms. On show in Rotterdam from 5 October 2019 (official opening 12 October at 19:00).

From 26 January 2020

For the Record

For the Record investigates how contemporary video culture operates as a public space for consumerism, activism and emancipation, by exposing existing realities and by imagining alternatives. The project seeks to document and reflect upon the technologies, spatial design and forms of representation deployed in video culture and live events, and uses public programs and video production as the main research methodology.

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Bookshop and Café

Het Nieuwe Café

Het Nieuwe Café, with a terrace on the Museumpark, has an almost entirely vegetarian, seasonal and organic menu. The café is open from Tuesday to Sunday during the day and also on Thursday evenings during Thursday Night Live!

Bookshop

A specialized bookshop in the area of architecture, landscape architecture and town planning is located in Het Nieuwe Instituut’s lobby: NAI Booksellers.   

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Exhibitions

Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection

Neuhaus

Bauhaus Lessons

Sacred Hill

Around the museum

Sonneveld House

The New Garden

Coming soon

From 31 October

Open Archive

From 13 ctober

Animal Encounters

From 30 November

The Hoodie

From 11 October

I See That I See What You Don't See

From 26 January 2020

For the Record

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Exhibitions

Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection

Neuhaus

Bauhaus Lessons

Sacred Hill

Around the museum

Sonneveld House

The New Garden

Coming soon

From 31 October

Open Archive

From 13 ctober

Animal Encounters

From 30 November

The Hoodie

From 11 October

I See That I See What You Don't See

From 26 January 2020

For the Record

Bookshop and Café

Het Nieuwe Café

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