Nieuwe Instituut

Fungi – better known as moulds or mushrooms – satisfy many human needs. We have long eaten mushrooms, for example, and used penicillin to fight bacteria. Today, fungi are being embraced as a new, on-trend material in the worlds of design and architecture. Providing a counterbalance to this human-centred approach is FUNGI: Anarchist Designers. This exhibition, curated by anthropologist Anna Tsing and architect and artist Feifei Zhou (terriStories), presents fungi as independent organisms that thrive in unique, multi-species environments and in the ruins of capitalism.

With Another Island, researcher and audiovisual artist Janilda Bartolomeu presents a film installation that depicts the dreams of the Cape Verdean diaspora. Through this piece, Bartolomeu offers a personal and poetic reflection on the shared heritage and potential future of the Cape Verdean archipelago and its diaspora communities in Rotterdam and Dakar.

-1 Digital Lab: Part laboratory, part exhibition space, -1 Digital Lab 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.