Nieuwe Instituut
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Sonneveld House

Upcoming events

For an overview of prior events, see the events archive.

Until March 29, 2025

After its success at last year’s Milan Design Week, New Store 2.0 is back! During Rotterdam Art Week, you can get your hair cut in the foyer of the Nieuwe Instituut and donate your hair clippings as a new raw material.

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

Nieuwe Instituut presents -1 Encounters: Noise Cancelling with Tonto: an evening exploring digital culture, noise and sound, featuring performances and experimental exchanges.

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 3, 2025

Take part in one of a trio of gardening workshops. With tips from experts Coöperatie STEK, Nicky Castricum or Kate Price, you can transform your backyard, balcony or community garden.

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

Willem de Kooning Academy and the Nieuwe Instituut present COMPOS(T)ING, a symposium on current trends in regenerative art and design.

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.

April 30, 2025

At FamilieFest, build houses higher than the clouds: Skyravers! Discover much more in this latest edition for the whole family!

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 3, 2025

Discover the Sonneveld House Museum not only with your eyes, but also with your senses of touch, smell and hearing.

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.

June 26, 2025

Meet Ma Yansong, the founder of MAD Architects, the practice he runs with Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. He discusses the exhibition about his work with Aric Chen, director of the Nieuwe Instituut.

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