GUD Instituut Living Room
23 September 2024 - 1 February 2025
Visit the GUD Instituut Living Room: a meeting place, melting pot and the central base for the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents programme. 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. The Living Room is an initiative by the Indonesian Gudskul and the Nieuwe Instituut.
Visitors can visit the Living Room on the deck at the Nieuwe Instituut, where it is also set to host parts of Arus Balik – Shifting Currents, the Nieuwe Instituut’s International Visitors Programme, as well as other events. Using the artworks from the previous Resituating Colonial Archives and collaborative living room-making workshops with Gudskul, the space is designed to elicit narratives of history and memory through real-life experience and social interaction.
About Arus Balik – Shifting Currents
From September 2024, Nieuwe Instituut, Museum Het Schip and Gudskul present the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents programme. Supported by DutchCulture, the Prince Claus Fund, the Marinus Plantema Foundation, Museum Arsitektur Indonesia, Berlage di Nusantara and others, this initiative aims to bring together architecture and design networks that link the regions and their diasporas, recognising architecture and design as material witnesses to colonial histories and pathways to possible shared presents. How can we rearticulate design legacies between Indonesia and the Netherlands and investigate future pathways?
