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.