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Dutch More or Less. Photo Aad Hoogendoorn

Until 30 May 2026

Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture

Dutch, More or Less is a presentation of more than 30 years of Dutch design. It brings together the ideas, themes and projects that have placed Dutch designers at the forefront of international design.

Until 1 February 2025

GUD Instituut Living Room

The deck is designed to resemble an Indonesian ‘ruang tamu’ or living room. Stories are told from the Indonesian diaspora, about hospitality and collective comfort.

Nature of Hope, the 11th edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2024.

Until 12 October 2024

IABR 2024: Nature of Hope

In 2024, the Nieuwe Instituut will be the main venue for the 11th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). What are the building blocks of an emphatically hopeful way of (architectural) thinking, designing and building that can serve all life on the planet?

Until 10 November 2024

Washi Futurism

The exhibition Washi Futurism is an immersive journey into the beauty, craftsmanship, and local material culture behind the handmade Japanese paper Sekishu Washi.

Until 11 January 2025

Built Homecoming: The House of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck

The house of architects Aldo and Hannie van Eyck in Loenen aan de Vecht is filled to the brim with the books, films, photographs, drawings and works of art that they collected over half a century. A modest part of this collection will be on display at the Research Centre.

Ongoing

Sonneveld House

Sonneveld House is one of the best-preserved homes in the functionalist Nieuwe Bouwen style. In this museum house, you can see how a well-off Rotterdam family lived in the 1930s.

-1

Part laboratory, part exhibition space, -1 responds to the urgent need to address critical issues in digital culture, from the rapid advancement of AI and the reemergence of do-it-yourself technology to the inclusion of more diverse and alternative voices in computing.

De Nieuwe Tuin, 2023. Foto Petra van der Ree

The New Garden

The New Garden has been part of the outdoor space of the Nieuwe Instituut since 2015. Ecological management and creating a high level of biodiversity are the starting points for its design.

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Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design and Digital Culture

GUD Instituut Living Room

IABR 2024: Nature of Hope

Washi Futurism

Built Homecoming: The House of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck

Ongoing

Sonneveld House

-1

The New Garden