Public Programme

Our calendar of events, project presentations, talks & readings.

presentation
The Space That Listens
Public Presentation of the Spatial Sound Course
- Sun, 29 Mar 2026, 14.30 – Sun, 29 Mar 2026, 17.00

Book Launch
The Best You Can Is Good Enough (Maradona and Father)
Maurice van Es in conversation with Tijs Goldschmidt and Mercedes Azpilicueta
- Tue, 10 Feb 2026, 19.00 – Tue, 10 Feb 2026, 21.00
screening and talk
Library Nights #4
Polina Medvedeva, Andreas Kühne and Katía Truijen
- Thu, 8 Jan 2026, 19.00 – Thu, 8 Jan 2026, 21.00
VIVA VIVA
Art Book Fair
- Sat, 13 Dec 2025, 11.00 – Sat, 13 Dec 2025, 20.00
Presentation
Manuals, Tools, Transmissions
Tech Fellowship Programme 2025
- Wed, 26 Nov 2025, 13.30 – Wed, 26 Nov 2025, 18.00
talk
Incorporations
Michael Stevenson, Tomasz Skibicki, Filippo Tocchi, Rin Suemitsu
- Thu, 13 Nov 2025, 19.00 – Thu, 13 Nov 2025, 21.00
Palestine Cinema Days
- Sat 1 Nov 2025 – Mon 3 Nov 2025
Museumnacht
- Sat, 1 Nov 2025, 19.00 – Sat, 1 Nov 2025, 23.59
- Sun, 2 Nov 2025, 0.00 – Sun, 2 Nov 2025, 2.00
Moving Through Matter — metaphors, tactics, and imaginaries of space
Building Beyond Cycle 4
- Fri, 17 Oct 2025, 16.30 – Fri, 17 Oct 2025, 21.00
film & talk
We Betrayed the Horses
Janis Rafa
- Mon, 29 Sep 2025, 17.30 – Mon, 29 Sep 2025, 18.30
talk
Senses of Waste
Michael Marder in conversation with Maksud Ali Mondal
- Mon, 22 Sep 2025, 17.30 – Mon, 22 Sep 2025, 18.30
talk
Meiro Koizumi
- Thu, 4 Sep 2025, 17.30 – Thu, 4 Sep 2025, 18.30
Talk
How lumbung Is Rice Academy?
a conversation with damdam, a collective of collectives
- Tue, 26 Aug 2025, 17.30 – Tue, 26 Aug 2025, 18.30
Compilation Programme
Six Minutes
Rijksakademie X Eye on Art
- Tue, 17 Jun 2025, 19.00 – Tue, 17 Jun 2025, 21.00
record release
Hond Geworden
Bert Scholten with M. Klein, Lang Lee / Donghwan Kam
- Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 19.00 – Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 21.00
Workshop
On Falling
Adam Russell-Jones and Nora Aurrekoetxea Etxebarria
- Thu 1 May 2025 – Sat 3 May 2025
Book presentation
Today is not possible
Marike Schuurman
- Tue, 15 Apr 2025, 19.00 – Tue, 15 Apr 2025, 21.00
Listening session
Walls got ears
- Mon, 7 Apr 2025, 19.00 – Mon, 7 Apr 2025, 21.00
keynote
Achronie is political
Dora García
- Mon, 24 Mar 2025, 19.00 – Mon, 24 Mar 2025, 21.00
Screening
Lourdes TV
A film by Paulien Oltheten
- Wed, 5 Mar 2025, 19.00 – Wed, 5 Mar 2025, 21.00
event
Breaking even!
Art Book Fair
- Sat, 14 Dec 2024, 11.00 – Sat, 14 Dec 2024, 20.00
Presentation
Working Practice
Tech Fellowship Programme 2024
- Tue, 26 Nov 2024, 16.00 – Tue, 26 Nov 2024, 19.00
- Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 16.00 – Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 19.00
Talk
Rabbit-ducks unveiled
A sneak peek at the postartistic theory and practice
- Wed, 13 Nov 2024, 19.00 – Wed, 13 Nov 2024, 21.00
Keynote
Where is art going?
A talk by Gerardo Mosquera
- Tue, 29 Oct 2024, 19.00 – Tue, 29 Oct 2024, 21.00
Talk
Taylor Le Melle and Derica Shields
- Wed, 31 Jul 2024, 19.00 – Wed, 31 Jul 2024, 21.00
film screening
rehearse, replay, repeat
A screening of time-based work by Rijksakademie residents
- Thu, 11 Jul 2024, 14.00 – Thu, 11 Jul 2024, 17.00
- Fri, 19 Jul 2024, 16.00 – Fri, 19 Jul 2024, 18.00
workshop
Abrazar la Palabra
Medicine and Cultural Healing
- Thu, 2 May 2024, 10.00 – Thu, 2 May 2024, 17.00
- Thu, 9 May 2024, 10.00 – Thu, 9 May 2024, 17.00
Film and talk
On Realms of Speculative Future and Alternate History
- Thu, 11 Apr 2024, 19.00 – Thu, 11 Apr 2024, 21.00
Film and talk
The Journey of the Hyena
- Thu, 4 Apr 2024, 19.00 – Thu, 4 Apr 2024, 21.00
- Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 19.00 – Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 21.00
- Sat, 6 Apr 2024, 11.00 – Sat, 6 Apr 2024, 19.00
film and talk
Complexifying Restitution
Notes to Self
- Thu, 7 Mar 2024, 19.00 – Thu, 7 Mar 2024, 21.00
Open Call
Scoring the archives
Masterclass with Tarek Atoui
- Mon, 4 Mar 2024, 18.00 – Mon, 4 Mar 2024, 22.00
forum and film programme
(Unseen) War and Conflict
- Wed, 21 Feb 2024, 19.00 – Wed, 21 Feb 2024, 21.00
- Thu, 22 Feb 2024, 19.00 – Thu, 22 Feb 2024, 21.00
talk
Tero Nauha
Short residency presentation
- Thu, 15 Feb 2024, 19.00 – Thu, 15 Feb 2024, 21.00
book presentation
CUPP (Collective Un Prati a Patu)
- Wed, 17 Jan 2024, 19.00 – Wed, 17 Jan 2024, 21.00
Concert
A History of Musical Pitch – Seamus Cater
- Mon, 18 Dec 2023, 19.00 – Mon, 18 Dec 2023, 21.00
book presentation
A Rock Turns into a Frog
- Thu, 14 Dec 2023, 19.00 – Thu, 14 Dec 2023, 21.00
book launch
Objections
Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
- Thu, 7 Dec 2023, 19.00 – Thu, 7 Dec 2023, 21.00
book launch
Silent Whale Letters
A Long-Distance Correspondence on All Frequencies
- Wed, 29 Nov 2023, 18.00 – Wed, 29 Nov 2023, 20.00
Collective conversation
Rematriation Rehearsals
On a Mesoamerican Skull Displayed in Leiden
- Tue, 7 Nov 2023, 18.00 – Tue, 7 Nov 2023, 20.00
Resonant with Your Signs
NIAS x Rijksakademie
- Fri, 30 Jun 2023, 13.00 – Fri, 30 Jun 2023, 14.30
Keynote
Ukraine’s Struggle For Culture: Russian Colonial War and European Decolonisation
Vasyl Cherepanyn
- Mon, 24 Apr 2023, 20.00 – Mon, 24 Apr 2023, 21.30
Film (without a film) Talk
FREETIME
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Erin Gleeson, and Pablo de Ocampo with May Adadol Ingawanij
- Thu, 16 Mar 2023, 19.30 – Thu, 16 Mar 2023, 21.30
Workshops
Art in the Age of the Metaverse
- Fri 10 Mar 2023 – Sun 12 Mar 2023
book talk
Diego Garcia: A Novel
Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams and Taylor Le Melle
- Fri, 17 Feb 2023, 17.00 – Fri, 17 Feb 2023, 18.30
book presentation
Cook or Hoop
Donghwan Kam
- Fri, 10 Feb 2023, 16.00 – Fri, 10 Feb 2023, 19.00
Film screening
The Edge of Daybreak
Taiki Sakpisit
- Thu, 26 Jan 2023, 19.30 – Thu, 26 Jan 2023, 22.00
Book Talk
Field Essays: Q. Meanderings in worlds of mourning
Rolando Vázquez, Saodat Ismailova and Sophie Krier
- Sat, 21 Jan 2023, 15.00 – Sat, 21 Jan 2023, 17.30
Book Presentation
How to Make Sculpture Move
Ruta Butkute & Emily Kocken
- Thu, 1 Dec 2022, 17.00 – Thu, 1 Dec 2022, 18.00
Performance night
Hot Mesh aka Cold in Church release event
- Sat, 26 Nov 2022, 17.30 – Sat, 26 Nov 2022, 21.30
Talk
Artistic Ecologies
New Compasses and Tools
- Thu, 24 Nov 2022, 17.00 – Thu, 24 Nov 2022, 18.00
Book launch / performance
Old Habits Die Hard
FELIX BURGER
- Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 17.00 – Thu, 17 Nov 2022, 18.00
Symposium
Beyonding Urbanity
- Wed, 26 Oct 2022, 12.30 – Wed, 26 Oct 2022, 18.30
Rijksakademie Open Studios 2022
- Sat 14 May 2022 – Sun 22 May 2022
AC/KADEMIE 6
From the Global South with Love
- Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 16.00 – Wed, 6 Apr 2022, 17.30
S/CARE PACKAGES: Crises of Care of Self, Community, World
Film Screening and Q&A with Jon McKenzie
- Tue, 5 Apr 2022, 17.00 – Tue, 5 Apr 2022, 18.30
Ac/kademie 4
Art as Social Practice
- Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 16.00 – Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 17.30
Red Door Project
- Fri 1 Oct 2021 – Fri 31 Dec 2021
Live from the Rijks
150 Years of Artistic Practice
- Thu 23 Sep 2021 – Sat 27 Nov 2021
Ac/kademie 2
North Sea Tales
- Wed, 27 Oct 2021, 16.00 – Wed, 27 Oct 2021, 17.00
A bundle of silences (1871)
commemorating 150 years of the Paris Commune
- Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 15.00 – Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 17.00
Open Studios 2021
44 artists show their work during 11 days and reveal what has flourished in the studios over the last 18 months
- Thu 17 Jun 2021 – Sun 27 Jun 2021
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Public Programme

Upcoming

The Space That Listens

Archive

The Best You Can Is Good Enough (Maradona and Father)

Library Nights #4

VIVA VIVA

Manuals, Tools, Transmissions

Incorporations

Palestine Cinema Days

Museumnacht

Moving Through Matter — metaphors, tactics, and imaginaries of space

We Betrayed the Horses

Senses of Waste

Meiro Koizumi

How lumbung Is Rice Academy?

Six Minutes

Hond Geworden

On Falling

Today is not possible

Walls got ears

Achronie is political

Lourdes TV

Breaking even!

Working Practice

Rabbit-ducks unveiled

Where is art going?

Taylor Le Melle and Derica Shields

rehearse, replay, repeat

Abrazar la Palabra

On Realms of Speculative Future and Alternate History

The Journey of the Hyena

Complexifying Restitution

Scoring the archives

(Unseen) War and Conflict

Tero Nauha

CUPP (Collective Un Prati a Patu)

A History of Musical Pitch – Seamus Cater

A Rock Turns into a Frog

Objections

Silent Whale Letters

Rematriation Rehearsals

Resonant with Your Signs

Ukraine’s Struggle For Culture: Russian Colonial War and European Decolonisation

FREETIME

Art in the Age of the Metaverse

Diego Garcia: A Novel

Cook or Hoop

The Edge of Daybreak

Field Essays: Q. Meanderings in worlds of mourning

How to Make Sculpture Move

Hot Mesh aka Cold in Church release event

Artistic Ecologies

Old Habits Die Hard

Beyonding Urbanity

Rijksakademie Open Studios 2022

AC/KADEMIE 6

S/CARE PACKAGES: Crises of Care of Self, Community, World

Ac/kademie 4

Red Door Project

Live from the Rijks

Ac/kademie 2

A bundle of silences (1871)

Open Studios 2021