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Noorderlicht Advent – Day 4
Today’s spark of winter inspiration:
New Digital Mirror essay online! 📖
Read the full essay now on our website. noorderlicht.com/updates/mach...
#noorderlichtadvent #digitaladvent #countdowntochristmas #decemberstories
Noorderlicht Advent – Day 3
Today’s spark of winter inspiration:
Together with Bits of Freedom, DeGoedeZaak, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, Noorderlicht launched the #MakeSocialsSocialAgain campaign earlier this year.
#noorderlichtadvent #digitaladvent #countdowntochristmas #decemberstories
Noorderlicht Advent – Day 2
Today’s spark of winter inspiration:
‘Pixel Perceptions’ opened in October 2024, but remained on view until mid-January 2025. This exhibition explored how AI influences our perception and visual culture, both consciously and unconsciously.
📷: AI.S.A.M
WinterWelVaart is coming! ❄️
📆 WinterWelVaart, 19–21 December
📍 Galerie Noorderlicht – Akerkhof 12, Groningen
We’re also launching a digital advent calendar in December: every day a new Noorderlicht post as we count down to Christmas!
📷: Marleen Annema
ESNS Photo is new! ✨
Noorderlicht and ESNS join forces for an annual encounter between music and image.
📅 14–17 January 2026
📍 Noorderlicht Gallery, Akerkhof 12, Groningen
Come watch, listen, and feel.
📷: Nick Helderman
📣 Noorderlicht is looking for a freelance co-curator for our pre-biennial Thinking Hands (2026) and the biennial PLAY (2027), part of our four-year cycle PLAY (2025–2028).
📅 Applications are open until 14 December.
🔗 More information via our website noorderlicht.com/en/updates/o...
During Let's Gro, Nienke Maat presents her series ‘Rauw Vermogen’ at Forum Groningen.
At the Noorderlicht Gallery, ‘Rauw Vermogen’ can now be seen in its entirety. The exhibition is open by appointment until 21 December.
👉 Book an appointment via info@noorderlicht.com
DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND – EXTENDED!
Great news: our exhibitions What Have We Done? (in collaboration with World Press Photo) and Rauw Vermogen will remain open until Sunday 26 October. This is your final chance!
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Making plans for the weekend? 👀 Visit Niemeyer in Groningen and discover two powerful photography exhibitions in one visit!
Join one of the free guided tours for extra insight:
🕝 Friday at 14:30
🕝 Saturday at 14:30
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📷: Tim van der Kuip
🎬 In Digital Mirror’s mini-series Reflections, we ask artists about their work, story and motivation. In the fourth episode, we talk to Cristina de Middel, photographer and curator of the World Press Photo anniversary exhibition What Have We Done?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvZ...
🥳 Last Saturday the exhibition ‘Van Ons, Voor Morgen’ opened at Fraeylemaborg!
📍 Fraeylemaborg, Slochteren
🕒 Opening hours:
Tue – Fri → 10:00 – 17:00
Sat & Sun → 13:00 – 17:00
👉 Plan your visit and experience the stories of Slochteren.
📷: Sabina Theijs
👀 WORKSHOP VISUAL THINKING — SEE WHAT I SEE?
📍 Niemeyer-fabriek
🗓 Zaterdag 4 oktober, 14.30 uur
⚠️ In English | Free with entrance fee | Register: educatie@noorderlicht.com
📷: Tim van der Kuip
👀 Educatieprogramma World Press Photo: Train je nieuwsblik
Hoe kijk jij naar nieuwsbeelden? Zie je wat er écht gebeurt, of wat iemand jou wil laten zien?
👉 Bekijk het aanbod: noorderlicht.com/updates/what-have-we-done-educatie
Wie moet dit écht zien? Tag een docent hieronder!
📷: Tim van der Kuip
On 27 September, ‘Van Ons, Voor Morgen’ opens at Fraeylemaborg. The concluding chapter of the multi-year collaboration between Noorderlicht and BPD Cultuurfonds.
noorderlicht.com/en/whats-on/...
👉 Will we see you there?
📷: Sebastiaan Rodenhuis
🎬 In the miniseries Reflections, part of Digital Mirror, we ask artists about their work, story, and motivation.
In this work, Thomas Nolf explores the human need for escape through aviation culture. ✈️
noorderlicht.com/en/updates/r... ✨
📹: Sixteenbynine
New Exhibition: Rauw Vermogen, New Visual Stories on Economy, Work, Land and Life
📅 September 19, 2025 – October 19, 2025
📍 Niemeyer, Paterswoldseweg 43, Groningen
The exhibition is an initiative of Noorderlicht in collaboration with Groningen Merkpartners.
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Don't miss out!
On 5 & 6 September, Future Fragments joins the Noorderlicht Biennale Machine Entanglements at the Niemeyerfabriek, Groningen. Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Check our website for the full program:
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🎬 In the miniseries Reflections, part of Digital Mirror, we ask artists about their work, story, and motivation.
Arctic Elegy is one of four works by Najjar featured in Machine Entanglements. You can see it at Museum Belvédère until September 7. 🧊
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📹: 16by9
The 70-year anniversary exhibition What Have We Done?, curated by Cristina de Middel, looks back at seven decades of World Press Photo.
🗓️ Soon on view at Noorderlicht: 19 September – 19 October 2025
📸Klaas Jan van der Weij, The Netherlands, 01 January 1994 – World Press Photo of the Year 1995
On 5 & 6 September, Future Fragments joins the Noorderlicht Biennale Machine Entanglements at the Niemeyerfabriek, Groningen. Supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Check our website for the full program:
noorderlicht.com/en/whats-on/...
Have you checked out the Noorderlicht shop yet?
A great chance to take a piece of Noorderlicht home with you, to hang on your wall, add to your bookshelf, or wear yourself!
noorderlicht-platform-voor-fotografie.myshopify.com
📷: Tim van der Kuip
📡 Radioscapes Symposium – Sunday 31 August
Every day, we move through a sea of radio signals: wifi, bluetooth, satellites, and cell towers. They shape how we communicate, travel, and live together – yet we never see them.
🌐 More info: criticalinfralab.net
📷 : Sebastiaan Rodenhuis
✨ Speciale rondleiding ✨
Wil je de tentoonstelling beleven mét extra context?
Aanstaande zondag om 14:00 uur geeft directeur Roosje Klap een exclusieve rondleiding door de Niemeyer (Paterswoldseweg 43, Groningen).
Een unieke kans om de kunstwerken te ontdekken door de ogen van de curator zelf 👀
Wat blijft er hangen na een bezoek aan Machine Entanglements?
In Opium ging Brecht van Hulten in gesprek met Roosje Klap over de Biënnale. Brecht vertelde hoe het werk van Nicolas Gourault haar raakte tijdens haar bezoek aan de Niemeyer.
👉 www.npoklassiek.nl/fragmenten/o...
📷: Tim van der Kuip
What Have We Done? 🔴
In 2025, World Press Photo marks its 70th anniversary with an exhibition titled 'What Have We Done? Unpacking Seven Decades of World Press Photo', curated by Cristina de Middel and hosted by Noorderlicht:
noorderlicht.com/en/whats-on/...
🎬In de miniserie Reflections van Digital Mirror vragen we kunstenaars naar hun werk, verhaal en motivatie. In de eerste aflevering praten we met Nina van Tuikwerd, kunstenaar en grafisch ontwerper over haar werk Ecologies of Memories.
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Wil jij ook een rondleiding door Machine Entanglements in Niemeyer?
Sluit dan dinsdag t/m zondag aan bij een rondleiding van een van onze medewerkers. Dagelijks om 14:00u, gratis en aanmelden is niet nodig.
Ga voor meer informatie naar onze website:
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Peter Tijhuis captured the Noorderlicht Biennale 2025 Machine Entanglements in a photo series that conveys the spatial experience of the exhibition across its various locations.
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🏗️ We’re ready… are you?
After months of preparation and building, it’s finally time: the Noorderlicht Biennale 2025 is kicking off!
📍 Check out all locations & events on our website noorderlicht.com/en/whats-on/...
See you there!
✨ Last weekend, a small team travelled to Vlieland for the installation and opening of Machine Entanglements at Brouwerij Fortuna.
And this was only the beginning... This weekend, the Noorderlicht Biennale 2025 really kicks off!
We hope to see you there! noorderlicht.com/zien-en-doen...
