29 Mar 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Location
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
2025 New New Babylon, photo Ksenia

New New Babylon: Visions of a Another Tomorrow

Imagining the future means looking beyond the horizon. Where are we now and where do we want to be? With New New Babylon, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag creates room for new perspectives. Are grandiose visions still relevant today? From a place of solidarity and care, makers envision the future in a different light.

Breathing and pulsing devices that can replace the human brain, a sea of children’s drawings that connects continents, and greenhouses built on container ships. In New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow, leading and emerging visual artists, designers, thinkers and activists from around the world share their perspectives. The starting point is a key work in the museum’s collection, the visionary project New Babylon (1956-74) in which Constant Nieuwenhuys conceived a society for optimum creativity and the freedom to play. Today’s makers show that his quest is far from over. New New Babylon: Visions for Another Tomorrow shows the power, the beauty and the necessity of radical thought.

1 Apr 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
Location
Online
Radio New Babylon - 7

Constant's New Babylon

A podcast by sound Justin Bennet exploring how Constant used sound in his New Babylon project. In 2020 Justin digitalised several sound tapes from the sixties from Constant’s archive. He has since developed several projects exploring and researching sound in New Babylon. In this podcast Justin analyses the recordings and how Constant used them in his work.
 

1 Apr 2025 – 31 Dec 2026
Location
Echoes App
Radio New Babylon II

Radio New Babylon

Named after the anti-capitalist visionary art project developed between 1959 and 1974 by the Dutch artist Constant, Radio New Babylon proposes a unique collection of site-specific audio pieces made by local and international artists.

The pieces can only be heard in and around the New Babylon building complex in Den Haag, The Netherlands by using the Echoes app on your phone, and headphones. Go to the Radio New Babylon website for more information!

1 Apr 2025 – 31 Dec 2026
Location
Spectrum Design, Eindhoven
Spectrum Design Accessoires 2022-2

Spectrum Accessoires Collection

The Spectrum Accessories Collection is available now! The new collection by Spectrum Design is a reissue of four classic, timeless designs from world-renowned designers Constant Nieuwenhuys, Benno Premsela and Friso Kramer in a fresh colour scheme, with art direction by Studio RENS. The collection highlights the solid value of leading design and celebrates the essence of functionality, ingenuity and attention to detail. An ode to the object.