Nieuwe Instituut
Nieuwe Instituut

Sonneveld House

Upcoming events

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

February 26, 2025

Create until you can’t go on during FamilieFest: Designeritus! From your own future racing vehicle for the Amazing Space Race to your unique chair-for-a-thing for the Thingy-Chair Challenge.

February 27, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

February 27, 2025

An Evening With: Hassan Hajjaj

Nieuwe Instituut and DAR Cultural Agency invite artist and photographer Hassan Hajjaj to talk about his practice, his North African roots and the influence of London’s music scene on his work.

March 1, 2025 - March 2, 2025

Museumnacht010 2025: Future Visions

Manifest the future during Museumnacht010 at the Nieuwe Instituut! What is your green, digital, urban, inspiring or imaginative dream for the future?

March 6, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

March 8, 2025

Fashion and Textiles Writing Session at the National Archives

Join us for a collective writing session at the National Archives on International Women’s Day (8 March 2025), and add your knowledge about movements, projects and designs.

March 13, 2025

Learn how to give your projects an international profile while taking a unique position that resonates with different cultures and promotes sustainable practices and relationships.

March 13, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

March 20, 2025

The fifth and final Queer Salon explores the past and future of queer spaces and places. Discover how they have changed, and what this means for freedom and inspiration.

March 20, 2025

During the Circular Economy Week, Rachid Naas and Joline Jolink talk about innovation in the fashion industry. Designer Iris Veentjer presents biodegradable underwear, including elasticity, designed especially for the New Store.

March 20, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

March 23, 2025

Create your own secret garden stories and imaginations in a workshop by theatre maker Naomi Tuininga in the exhibition Garden Futures.

March 27, 2025 - 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.

March 27, 2025

Thursday Night Detour

Join the free Thursday Night Detour with a surprise Detour Guide and explore the museum from inside and out.

March 27, 2025

Nieuwe Instituut and music festival Rewire invite you to an evening exploring shared and personal coming-of-age experiences through music.

March 27, 2025

Book Launch Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies

Niels Schrader and Ramon Amaro present in conversation with Marina Otero Verzier and Delany Boutkan their new book Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies.

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

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 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 24, 2025

Counter-Investigations: Responding to Police Violence

With the research groups Forensic Architecture (FA) and Forensis, we discuss the case of Sammy Baker, who died as a result of police violence.

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

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 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.

Nieuwsbrief

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