Het Nieuwe Instituut

The exhibition čekati | waiting – hidden layers showcases a photo series of 26 bus stops on the periphery of Istria, Croatia.

DISRUPT_ is a digital and physical exhibition in celebration of Pride Month 2022, bringing together 21 international artists who reflect on their queer experiences and question societal norms through their creations.

On Sunday 29 May, photographer Désirée van Hoek will give a tour of the exhibition Notes on Downtown in Gallery 3, an exhibition about the rapidly gentrifying city centre of Los Angeles.

In 2018, Downtown Los Angeles became the fastest gentrifying area in the USA. Photographer Désirée van Hoek, who works in Downtown, experienced the spectacular transformation of the old city centre up close. She recorded the process in over 135 images.

Sandro Setola’s augmented-reality artwork The (Rotterdam) Root can be seen in front of Het Nieuwe Instituut’s entrance. This three-dimensional, virtual and mobile root system floats through and above the city. In Gallery 3, Setola shows recent drawings and an animation film related to this new work.

Myvillages, an international artist collective which supports cultural production in rural areas, presents The Rural School of Economics in Gallery 3. In this exhibition, the inhabitants of three villages – two in Russian, one in Belarus – create photos, images and objects that reveal how they see and shape their environment.

In Crypto Bending, curator and artist Leonel Piccardo unites a group of queer BIPOC artists in an exhibition at the intersection of traditional printing techniques and augmented reality (AR) that capitalises on the new realm of NFTs.

Current Obsessions invites four of the participating artists of the exhibition GEM Z: The Farthest from Earth We've Ever Been, currently on display in Gallery 3 By You in Het Nieuwe Instituut. In addition to the GEM Z artists, Grammy nominated filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang will join the talk. Huang was one of the tutors of the programme and will shed a light on his multidisciplinary practice in which he crafts hybrid worlds rooted in Sinofuturist folklore, mysticism and spiritual realism.

What happens when master’s students from Sandberg Instituut spend an intensive week in close contact with the collection and spaces of Het Nieuwe Instituut? 

Temporarily on show in Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Gallery 3 is the futuristic Variable Stiffness chaise longue.

Visitors to Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Gallery 3 are invited to lose themselves in a new exhibition by design collective Morph.Love that explores disorientation as an eternal state of becoming.

A new generation of designers from the Transformation Design department at the Willem de Kooning Academy invite you to reflect on your way of thinking. Their projects embrace the essential issues of our ever-changing times and show their personal urgencies and fascinations. Are you open to join them?

This year, Gallery 3 at Het Nieuwe Instituut will host the preliminary round of Kunstbende Zuid-Holland in the Expo category for exhibited work and in the Fashion category.

New graduates of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture and landscape architecture once again display their design talent. This year, Het Nieuwe Instituut has opened up its 6th floor for the Archiprix 2021 exhibition.

In Gallery 3 By You, the Rare collective presents Raw, an exhibition exploring the creative process. In this related TNL! online event, three practitioners present their own vision of the singular moments, actions and ideas of the creative process, identifying values that usually remain hidden.

With this exhibition, the collective Rare moves away from perfectly finished images, detailed plans and coherent ideas, instead focusing our attention on simple drawings, quick notes, models and the variety of different analytical methods used in academia to convey ideas. 

Design Academy Eindhoven presents Moving in Stasis. This unfolding exhibition and public programme revisits and recasts the academy’s master’s graduation projects from 2020.

The images, objects and videos in The Mind Game exhibition together document a week of online workshops that took place in May 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. In that time of isolation, the workshops, conceived by artists Charlie Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp, offered participants a space for connection and playfulness.

What Do Landscapes Say? explores how art and critical artistic research might inform the development of diverse urban environments by looking at landscapes.

Archiprix invites all architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture master’s programmes worldwide to select their best graduation project and submit it for consideration. This format enables Archiprix to give a picture of the state of the art of design education.