Video interviews with makers and cultural organisations tell how the vouchers have contributed to the presentation and distribution of their projects.

Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands’ national museum for architecture, design and digital culture, is curating the cultural programme of the Dutch Pavilion at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan, which opens on 13 April.

This fourth and last newsletter features a talk between river activist Li An Phoa, founder of Drinkable Rivers, and Paramaribo-based theatre maker Tolin Alexander.

Aric Chen, General and Artistic Director of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, has announced that he will leave the organization as of 27 June 2025 to take on a new challenge.

For the Rotterdam edition of Garden Futures, the Nieuwe Instituut invited artist and designer Frank Bruggeman to adapt Formafantasma’s original exhibition design to the local setting.

As part of the Nouveau Grand Tour NL residency programme, artist Iyo Bisseck will spend three months in residence at -1 Digital Lab from April.

Part of the multi-year Redesigning Design Weeks residency programme, CIVICITY is aimed at rethinking the social and environmental impact of design events on their host cities

How can architecture resist exclusionary social norms to create spaces that nurture different ways of coexisting in everyday life?

On 17 May 2025, the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam will unveil Ma Yansong: Architecture and Emotion. This exhibition explores Ma Yansong’s ground-breaking architectural vision.

On the occasion of the exhibition Garden Futures, we have delved into the collection in search of gardens in the Netherlands in the last century.

ArkDes and Nieuwe Instituut are excited to announce Worldglimpsing: two exhibitions that shine light on the ways in which we inhabit our reality through designed worlds.

A selection of exhibitions and other projects in 2025 at the Nieuwe Instituut, the national museum for architecture, design and digital culture.