Upcoming events
For an overview of prior events, see the events archive.
April 2, 2025
Book Launch: Hands On Research for Artists, Designers & Educators
What is research in art and design all about? Join Willem de Kooning Academy to discuss the interconnections of making and thinking, practice and theory, and to celebrate the publication of Hands On Research for Artists, Designers & Educators.
April 3, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
April 5, 2025 - April 6, 2025
International House Museum Days
Visit house museum Sonneveld House during the International House Museums Days and experience the house with all your senses.
April 9, 2025
Kick-off CIVICITY at Milan Design Week 2025
Join the Nieuwe Instituut and Milanese cultural agency cheFare for the kick-off event of CIVICITY, the first edition of Redesigning Design Weeks: a multi-year residency programme that invites designers to explore design events’ impact — social, environmental and cultural — on the cities where they take place.
April 10, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
April 17, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
April 17, 2025
Preview screening: Once upon a Time, a Sheet of Plywood Arrived in Venice
The preview screening of a documentary short film that follows a sheet of plywood on its journey to the Venice Architecture Biennale.
April 24, 2025
Counter-forensics: Responding to Police Violence
This Research Night will focus on the case of Sammy Baker, who was killed by the Amsterdam Police on 13 August 2020.
April 24, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
May 1, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
May 1, 2025
An Evening With: Sumayya Vally
Nieuwe Instituut invites South African architect Sumayya Vally to talk about her decolonial principles, reinterpretations of traditional paradigms and reverences for rituals and myths.
May 8, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
May 8, 2025
An Evening About: Louis Le Roy
In the 1970s, ‘ecotect’ Louis Le Roy became famous for his wild gardens. How are artists and designers building on his ideas today?
May 15, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
May 22, 2025
Book launch: Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design
How to condense the rich and varied life’s work of one of the Netherlands’ most famous graphic designers into a book?
May 22, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.
May 22, 2025
Book Presentation SO-IL In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today
Discover a new perspective on urban living at the book launch of SO-IL In Depth: Urban Domesticities Today.
May 25, 2025
Design Fair 2025
A new edition of the Design Fair – the outdoor market for tastemakers, with a wide range of unique design for every budget – will take place again this year under the Arcade of the Nieuwe Instituut.
May 29, 2025
Thursday Night Detour
Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.