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Gallery 3

Pop-up exhibitions

Pop-up exhibitions

Current Obsession. GEMZ - Unpacked, 2023.

Until 28 January 2024

GEMZ: Unpacked

GEMZ: Unpacked

GEMZ: Unpacked showcases the results of the eponymous talent development programme by Current Obsession, a magazine and platform dedicated to contemporary adornment. The presented works fuse design, art and adornment, and were specifically developed for this exhibition.

Past pop-up exhibitions

27 July 2023 - 22 October 2023

Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures

Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures

This exhibition explores persistent mechanisms of exploitation, suppression and discrimination deeply rooted within infrastructural and architectural systems — both historical and present.

8 February 2023 - 27 April 2023

Baby Blow Up

Baby Blow Up

Does a fashion brand have to produce wearable clothing in order to create its own convincing world? In the Baby Blow Up project, fashion designer and artist Irene Ha experiments with an alternative design practice. As Baby Reni, she works on an interdisciplinary kind of fashion, producing nothing you can wear.

8 February 2023 - 27 April 2023

Into the Pile

Into the Pile

Designer Charlotte van Alfen has 66,000 photos on her phone. In the six years she's had the phone, she has never attempted to organise, categorise or delete these images, and every week she adds 140 new photos. Through her work Into the Pile, she saw a chance to discover the origin of this urge to hoard photos.

8 February 2023 - 27 April 2023

Radio Umwelt: How to Be(come) an Intra-Species Radio

Radio Umwelt: How to Be(come) an Intra-Species Radio

In search of more-than-human communication, designer Sander Blomsma takes us into the world of electromagnetic waves. In Radio Umwelt, he translates material and immaterial reality into perceptible sound using special antennas and audio equipment. Can we humans improve the way we relate to other species by literally becoming receivers?

8 February 2023 - 27 April 2023

(Un)Private Life

(Un)Private Life

Now that physical walls, doors and borders offer no protection against the virtual privacy violations enabled by technology, what role can architecture still play in protecting privacy? Architect Arghavan Khaefi uses architectural resources to restore the privacy that we have lost in present times, especially in the digital domain.

8 February 2023 - 27 April 2023

Wish I Were Here

Wish I Were Here

Can we bring lost places back to life? In her project Wish I Were Here, theatre maker and social designer Thyrza Coenraad explores the feelings evoked by the current housing crisis using theatrical storytelling techniques. Whereas traditional architectural archives mainly record the material characteristics and economic value of a home with photos, videos and texts, Coenraad prefers to emphasise the emotions, memories and experiences of (past) residents.

10 May 2023 - 14 June 2023

Weaving Worlds

Weaving Worlds

How do we get to know the world, and how do we locate ourselves within it? For spatial practitioners these are crucial questions that guide the way we produce knowledge, and the kinds of practices we value in our work.

A text grows on the screen, the text reads Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space

6 July 2023 - 12 July 2023

Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space

Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space

'Anything that is alive cannot be in the gallery space', on view from 6 to 12 July, features the graduation works of 10 designers from the Master Interior Architecture: Research + Design program at the Piet Zwart Institute.