Museumnacht010 2026: A Fungi Night OutMuseumnacht010 2026: A Fungi Night Out

Experience the immersive performance a y a t o r i, a piece inspired by the Japanese string game “ayatori”. This 20-25 minute non-verbal performance, created by Charlotte Puebla Coenen, Hinako Yukimoto and Annakha Flos, invites you to wander through a large-scale, interactive yarn installation where you become part of a living scenography. Dancers and participants move inside the threads to explore how movement, material and space can transform into poetic and playful landscapes.

Descend into the basement of the Nieuwe Instituut for two unique experiences at -1 Digital Lab. The interactive fortune-telling of Saddle of Omens (Kaan Korkmaz, 2024) blends traditional wisdom with modern technology. Take a seat on a sensor-equipped saddle that collects data, transformed into a personalized fortune revealed through a VR headset.

What’s a Fungi Night Out without a musical trip down memory lane? The Nostalgia Media Player has a collection of coming of age classics from the 80s, 90s and 00s ready to play. From tracks that defined musical eras to songs that take you back to your first love and first heartbreak.

Stimulate all your senses at the Nieuwe Café and transform your mushroom-themed museum visit into an adventure. The Rotterdam duo The Low-G Court (Klapsalon and Doo-Bop) will take you on a psychofunkadelic musical journey during A Fung(ki)i Night Out. They’ll spin an all-vinyl set full of mind-expanding tunes and grooving tracks that will leave a lasting impression on your ears until late into the night.

Analogue VJ Co2RO (the spatial designer and lighting artist Marco Broeders) will install his rare projectors, lamps, lenses and slides in the café for an adventurous accompanying light show: high walls, a higher consciousness and higher spheres. To complete the psychedelic mushroom experience, order a fungus-inspired cocktail at the bar in the Nieuwe Café!

Step into Mush-Room 1 for a calming, more-than-human audiovisual experience. Nicholas Thayer, a sound artist, producer and composer, previously DJed at the opening of the FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition. During an in-depth conversation in the auditorium that evening, he provided artistic intermezzos, making music with a houseplant. This time, he is connecting his modular synthesizers and custom-built instruments to mushrooms. Expect a live ambient AV set: Thayer adapts existing compositions to create extended sound and visual experiences, drawing inspiration from the world of fungi and mushrooms for his cross-species voyages of discovery.

Join us to create a living, growing, glow-in-the-dark artwork, and explore a world in which fungi grow, glow and collaborate. Taking inspiration from the FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut, this event celebrates the unconventional power of fungi: creatures that collaborate on their own terms, ignore boundaries and create new life in unexpected places. Every mushroom tells a story and every glow contributes to the whole. Just as fungi form a vast underground network, we will connect with each other tonight.

Drop into the Mycelium Nail Salon during A Fungi Night Out! The nail technician Clawed in Half Nails will be creating quick, minimal designs inspired by fungal structures and patterns from the FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition. You can choose a fungus-inspired design on the spot to give your nails a fungal accent.

Please note: this programme element is subject to availability and a small fee applies.

Imagine a shop that doesn’t harm the environment, but that actually helps to preserve it. With New Store, our test location for regenerative design and shopping, we take a fresh look at how the shop of the future could function. In the pop-up museum shop of the Nieuwe Instituut, you will find a wide range of products, all created in collaboration with local designers.

In the foyer of the Nieuwe Instituut, NAi Booksellers will be on hand to answer all book-related needs in the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscaping and design. Browse through a carefully curated selection of books related to the evening’s theme, A Fungi Night Out, in connection with our FUNGI: Anarchist Designers exhibition. Joost Degenkamp and his team will be available to answer your questions, provide inspiration and offer advice.