Groninger Museum Night

Get to know the woman behind the Marilyn Monroe myth! For even a hundred years after her birth, Marilyn possesses an undeniable and timeless appeal. What makes today's stars—Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, and Rihanna—still inspired by her? The exhibition Marilyn explores this question and gives visitors the rare opportunity to see clothing, personal belongings, letters, photographs, and film footage up close. In short, an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the Hollywood icon.

For the next six months, GRID is a guest at the University Museum with the exhibition Puin Hoop: A Reprint of the 80s. In this exhibition, you will wander through the city of Groningen of 40 years ago - still full of graffiti and squats. A city full of young people hanging out on the long-demolished steps of City Hall. A city where you could go to V&D and McDonald's for the first time, and where cars and city buses still drove in places where they haven't been allowed for years. A time that, at first glance, differs enormously from our own. But is that actually true?

In the weekend of the Groninger Museum Night, the Groninger Museum opens its new artistic program. This program is inspired by the iconic architecture of the Groninger Museum and rooted in its diverse collection. The museum returns to the path it embarked on around 1990, when high-profile international art was central to collecting and exhibiting. Back to the future!

Musician and teacher Olaf Vos introduces you to the beautiful Groninger language with a crash course! Not a boring theoretical lesson, but a flashy, interactive show with music, poetry, games, and a healthy dose of humor. Olaf teaches you Groninger words and phrases that are indispensable in the Groninger nightlife, with special attention to ‘the woman’.

As technology increasingly seems to be thinking, deciding and acting, the lens-media exhibition Thinking Hands asks what the body actually still knows. What remains of the knowledge that cannot be digitised, that cannot be conveyed via a screen, and that arises solely from the interaction between hand and material?

Step into the world of Koster&Knoef, where music and video art come together in an audiovisual installation. In their project, Sigrid Koster and Jochem Knoef explore themes such as identity, technologization, uprooting, and the tension between the individual and the collective. The result is an experimental experience in which music, folk tales, landscape, and technology converge.