Hans Ulrich Obrist x Aric Chen

Aric Chen, Het Nieuwe Instituut’s General and Artistic Director, talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of London’s Serpentine Galleries, about the evolving role of culture and cultural institutions in tackling the urgent issues of our time.

Cultural institutions are sites of research, presentation, debate and propagation. Can they also shift to generate new structural and systemic initiatives and, through enacted speculations, become social testing grounds?

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Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, London, which has embedded environmental and ecological concerns across its programmes and activities and research around ecology and climate change. He is Senior Artistic Advisor at LUMA Arles and author of The Interview Project, an extensive ongoing project of interviews: so far, some 2000 hours of interviews have been recorded. He is also co-editor of the Cahiers d’Art review. He recently edited the book 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth.

Aric Chen

Aric Chen is the General and Artistic Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut since May 2021. Born and raised in the United States, now based in Rotterdam, Aric Chen is a curator, professor, writer and creative director. Previously, Chen served as Professor and founding Director of the Curatorial Lab at the College of Design & Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai. He also served as Curatorial Director of the Design Miami fairs in Basel, Switzerland, and Miami Beach, USA.

The Podium

The striking pink installation, The Podium, with its imposing external staircase, was designed by architects MVRDV and is an extension of the institute’s exhibition MVRDVHNI: The Living Archive of a Studio. Open from 1 June to 17 August, The Podium offers a unique opportunity to experience architecture, the city, Museum Park and the institute from a completely new perspective. See it on top of Het Nieuwe Instituut!