Until 26 August 2023

Droog30. Design or Non-design?

Visit Droog30, an installation about one of the most talked-about of all design labels. In this installation, we see the stories behind Droog’s striking furniture, home accessories, lighting and other products, and feel its impact.

Until 21 October 2023

Water Cities Rotterdam. By Kunlé Adeyemi

The Water Cities Rotterdam exhibition is your chance to see impressive floating pavilions by architect Kunlé Adeyemi on the ponds of the Nieuwe Instituut in Museumpark, Rotterdam.

8 June 2023 - 7 June 2023

Design Day

Join us as we welcome contemporary makers, design practitioners and archivists to share innovative projects and conversations on the field of (Dutch) design and design heritage.

8 June 2023

Thursday Night Detour with Bas

Explore the museum building and its surroundings with Detour Guide Bas van der Kruk.

9 June 2023

Rotterdam Pride - Queer Art Workshop with Marco Lambooij

Rotterdam Pride hosts this art workshop with Marco Lambooij, who guides participants in depicting their queer identity.

9 June 2023

Rotterdam Pride - Pride Talk: Sexy Queer

Rotterdam Pride hosts a panel discussion on self-image, self-esteem, sex positivity and how to happily combine being queer and feeling sexy.

31 May 2023

Nieuwe Instituut presents Out of Joint, the Dutch Pavilion for the London Design Biennale 

Alongside its role as the Artistic Director for the 2023 London Design Biennale, the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam presents Out of Joint for the Dutch Pavilion entry. Commissioned in collaboration with the Dutch Embassy in London. The London Design Biennale takes place from 1 to 25 June at Somerset House in London.

24 May 2023

UNESCO appoints The Digital City as Memory of the World

De Digitale Stad ('the digital city', DDS), featured in Designing the Social exhibition, has been added to the international register UNESCO Memory of the World.

17 May 2023

The Dutch Pavilion presents Plumbing the System at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

The pavilion, commissioned by the Nieuwe Instituut, will transform into a testing ground that explores alternative systems for future-oriented, regenerative economies–while attempting to enact change on a micro scale, on the pavilion itself. (20 May - 26 November 2023)

16 May 2023

Designing by Flows — Jan Jongert on Plumbing the System

Jan Jongert, curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale, outlines how different streams shape the ‘metabolism’ of our buildings and cities.

Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture

The Agency for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture connects design fields with questions from the outside world, both regional and international.

Disclosing Architecture

Disclosing Architecture is the Nieuwe Instituut’s six-year initiative to increase the visibility and continued accessibility of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning.

Disclosing Futures Rethinking Heritage

Heritage innovates. It does this partly through technological progress, but mainly by questioning current practice.

Network Archives Design and Digital Culture

Design and digital culture contribute significantly to the way Dutch society defines, manifests and develops itself. A well-preserved, open and accessible archive is therefore a precondition for the design discipline in order to meet the task assigned to it by Dutch culture and society

Until 24 June 2023

London Design Biennale

Nieuwe Instituut is acting as both overall artistic director and commissioner of the Dutch pavilion at the fourth edition of the London Design Biennale, which takes place from 1 to 25 June 2023 in monumental Somerset House.

Until 2 October 2023

Garden Futures

The exhibition Garden Futures, the first to explore the history and future of the modern garden, is on show from 25 March to 3 October at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.