MUSEUMNACHT 2026

MUSEUMNACHT

Rogue Boutiques & Pirate Myths

During Museumnacht, Arti et Amicitiae presents two exhibitions in which installation, performance and imagination converge. Expect eccentric boutiques, shifting identities, pirate myths, music and radical acts of imagination.

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Wellness, Wigs and Weapons

In Wellness, Wigs and Weapons, the exhibition space is transformed into a series of uncanny boutiques. Wellness, wigs and weapons are brought together in unexpected ways, blurring the boundaries between human, object and environment.

Health and Sanity Check

During Museumnacht, Bein van Vilsteren and Marianne Theunissen present Health and Sanity Check. In this interactive performance, they engage in dialogue with the dozens of objects, furnishings, merchandise and wigs that populate the exhibition. Are they mentally sound? Do they use the bathroom? Can merchandise ever really be clean? How do wigs feel when placed next to weapons? And what is the price of wellness?

Van Vilsteren and Theunissen use a scoring system that bears an unsettling resemblance to the world around us.

Interactive performance — 30 minutes

Start times: 20:00 and 22:00

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Sails of Anarchy

Sails of Anarchy is a theatrical musical performance by Amsterdam-based art-rock collective Cold in Church, presented as part of their exhibition of the same name.

Combining multichannel sound, painting, kinetic light and costume, the performance expands the fictional world of their concept album Convent into an immersive spatial installation. It also marks the release of the album.

The title is taken from the closing track of Convent, in which a speculative vessel transforms and embarks on a mythical voyage. Through immersive sound and theatrical interventions, the performance brings maritime histories into dialogue with the present, drawing on pirate mythology and radical imagination.

Cold in Church Programme

19:00–20:00 — First CIC set: poetry reading
21:00–23:00 — Second CIC set + choir
23:00–00:00 — Ambient improvisations
00:00–02:00 — Set by Metaterme

 
This event is accessible only with a Museumnacht ticket. Are you an Arti-member and want to drop by? Please send us an email.