Museum Night

Museum Night is part of the exhibition Big DaDa

During this art manifestation, Arti transforms into a futuristic laboratory — a kaleidoscopic journey through multimedia, interactive installations, performances, and films. In addition to Museum Night, the program features Club Dada every Friday, an Art-Hack Symposium, and an artist talk.

In response to the absurdity of the present, Big DaDa explores the role of art in a world driven by data and algorithms — examining how artists engage with the digital reality of social media, bots, and subversive information networks built on assumptions.

ARTISTS
Alicia Framis (NL|ES), Martinus Suijkerbuijk (NL), Kexin Hao (NL|CN), Katarina Petrovic (SRB|NL), Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen (NL), Jan Zuiderveld (NL), Dang-Vu Dang (NL), Igor Schiller (SRB), Roos Groothuizen (NL), Jeroen van Loon (NL), Float (NL), Li-Yi Fan (TW), Pip Greenaway (NL)

PERFORMERS
Younes van den Broeck (aka Spitler) (BE), Dang-Vu Dang (NL), Splitter Splatter (NL), Coralie Vogelaar (NL), Kraftgalli (IS), Maarten Vinkenoog (NL), Ester Natzijl (NL), Leatitia de Veth (NL), Dame DaDa (NL) Diana Burkot – Pussy Riot (RU), 

CURATORS
Arjen Lancel & Eva Gonggrijp

www.bigdada.nl
www.artscienceforum.nl

ARTISTS – THE BIG DADAISTS – Exhibition in the Upper Halls

Li Yi-Fan, representing Taiwan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, presents What’s Your Favorite Primitive — a digital self-duel in which he uses his own software to expose the emotional charge and absurdity of the digital age.

At the other end of the spectrum, emerging artist Pip Greenaway shows Too Much to Swallow, an immersive audiovisual installation in which a consumer slowly morphs into a chewing-gum monster — a grotesque vision of consumer culture that leaves a lasting impression.

Roos Groothuizen creates Dopamine Arcade, a karaoke bar using algorithmic seduction mechanisms where visitors perform songs against a backdrop of live news footage.

Poetry and alienation resonate in Lukács & Broersen’s digital animation film The Lions Court, installed in Arti’s monumental staircase, where singing lions seize power in a post-apocalyptic Dutch Parliament.

Đăng-Vũ Đặng transforms his history as the child of Vietnamese boat refugees into a tactile experience in his food lab, preparing a live, edible installation that exposes intergenerational trauma and diaspora.

Jeroen van Loon holds up an ironic mirror with his compilation of fail videos, in which his robot reveals a painfully human clumsiness.

Float presents humorous kinetic sketches — tender, poetic objects drawn from everyday life.

Igor Schiller turns family archives into melancholic dreamscapes, attempting to heal Serbia’s troubled past.

Alicia Framis and Jan Zuiderveld question the relationship between humans and machines: from a holographic marriage to an interactive AI robot that reacts to both visitors and the exhibition itself — with the voice and attitude of David Attenborough.

Katarina Petrović poses the question: Can an algorithm lie? in her project Negative Bible.

Martinus Suijkerbuijk creates speculative landscapes within game engines — installations where biosphere and technosphere intertwine.

This manifestation is made possible with the support of
AFK, Fonds 21, Creative Industries Fund NL, Cultuurfonds Landelijk, Mondriaan Fonds