Line-up
Exhibition: The Architect & The Housewife: Cleaning the House, Building the Future
The Groninger Museum's building was designed entirely by men. Its collection tells a similar story: only an estimated 2% of the works are by women and non-binary artists. The Architect & The Housewife confronts that imbalance head-on. Taking its title from a publication by artist Frances Stark, the exhibition sets considers the character of 'the architect' and 'the housewife' as a field of tension, asking who is the one who designs, and the one who maintains; who gets to imagine the future and who is left to clean up after the revolution. Twenty international artists respond, among them Zaha Hadid, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vivian Suter, Frances Stark, Sol Calero, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Adam Linder, and Evelyn Taocheng. Architects, sculptors, filmmakers, choreographers, and textile artists work side by side, each approaching the same question from a different discipline. This is a fitting echo and homage to the museum's own postmodern, multi-hand design. The result is not a single argument but a collective one, gathering distinct practices into a shared, unresolved conversation.
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Exhibition: Playing House. Een kunstbiënnale met kinderen en jongeren
Children are not only the audience of this biennial, but also its co-creators. For its third edition, held once again at the Groninger Museum, the biennial invites artists who treat collaboration with children and young people not as an add-on, but as the core of their practice. Among them: Afra Eisma, Sophie Serber, Petrit Halilaj, Lina Lapelytė, Ola Vasiljeva, Eva Kot'átková, and Mercedes Azpilicueta. Together, they dismantle inherited roles handed down by school, media, and family, asking what disobedience makes possible and what role imagination plays in reshaping how we live. Much of what's here is not made for children to look at, but with them, shaped hand in hand rather than handed down. Where children co-author the work, that collaboration comes with no fixed script, and 3 the museum treats its unpredictability as the exhibition's engine rather than its risk. Elsewhere, artists work to amplify and preserve children's perspectives and voices in more representational form. Artists working in performance, textile, sculpture, and installation move freely across each other's territory, the way children instinctively cross the line between playing and building.
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Exhibition: Nieuw Licht 1: Ani Schulze — The Convent of Pleasure
The Convent of Pleasure is a multi-part soap opera by artist Ani Schulze, conceived as an ongoing series and loosely based on Margaret Cavendish's 1668 comedy of the same name. In Cavendish's play, a group of women decides not to marry and instead found their own community without men — the ‘convent’ of the title. Since 2023, Schulze has filmed episodes of her version in cities including Paris, Porto, and Buenos Aires. For Nieuw Licht 1, the Groninger Museum has commissioned the latest episode. It was filmed on location at the museum. The exhibition presents this new episode alongside the first and seventh episodes in the series, and the museum is acquiring all three as a single body of work. The exhibition connects to the Groninger Museum's collection through Schulze's research into De Ploeg, the Groningen artists' group, and in particular its member Alida Pott. Two parallels link the two projects: like the women in Cavendish's convent, De Ploeg built a self-governed artistic community on its own terms. And Pott's own work, her handmade puppets and watercolours, including Xantippe (c. 1920–1925), already explored identity as something performed and constructed, which is the same territory Schulze's soap opera format works in today.
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Exhibition: Matthew Lutz-Kinoy & Natsuko Uchino. Keramikos Carrier Bag
With Keramikos Carrier Bag, the Groninger Museum celebrates a major new acquisition: Keramikos 2, a collection of more than 300 ceramic dinnerware pieces and tablecloths by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino. The two artists have worked together since 2010, when Lutz-Kinoy was artist-inresidence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. Keramikos 2 is their sixth collaborative series. The exhibition takes its title from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which argues that humanity's first tool was not a weapon but a container: something to gather and carry. Lutz-Kinoy and Uchino apply that idea to the table. For them, the plate is a carrier bag too, a stage for gathering, sharing, and carrying meaning.
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Exhibition: New light – De Ploeg
Discover the striking works of De Ploeg in an all-new exhibition. Witness the versatility and passion for experimentation that characterised the artists’ society. Follow the story through seven rooms, from the group’s founding and early successes to the impact of the international avant-garde and De Ploeg’s position in Groningen’s postwar cultural life.
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DJ Katayoun
Katayoun is an Amsterdam-based DJ, selector, cultural researcher, and curator with a focus on reviving the rich 20th-century sonic histories of Iran and the wider region. Her visionary DJ-archival practice creates immersive listening experiences that connect music, storytelling, and research while uncovering overlooked narratives. Her acclaimed radio shows Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond (2018–present) and Sonic Imaginaries (2024–present) have garnered international attention and praise. Female Vocalists from Iran and Beyond revives female singers from Iran across eras and genres, situating them within broader regional and global musical contexts. Sonic Imaginaries extends these explorations by connecting Iran’s sonic heritage to traditions such as Latin music, jazz fusion, and funk, creating layered journeys of deep listening, storytelling, and world-building.
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Brik Tu-Tok
Brik Tu-Tok is the freaky, high-energy DIY universe of musicians Linde Carrijn and Maxim Storms. The band moves as a phenomenon in the Belgian underground, where they cultivate a distinctive form of anti-pop: playfully disruptive, aesthetically unruly, and detached from conventions. Their musical trip is a grotesque collage of catchy synth riffs, weird samples, raw old-school beats, and off-the-hook lyrics. A Brik Tu-Tok performance is a high-energy party; a poetically disrupted catwalk; bold and salty. In recent years, Brik Tu-Tok has played on various stages in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, with highlights such as Waking Life Festival (PT), Fusion Festival (DE), Chauffer Dans le Noirceur (FR), OLT Rivierenhof, and AB (BE). Their latest album, ‘NO BLUSH’, was released in October 2025.