2025 is approaching fast, and with it comes the end of an exhibition, the opening of a new one, and another year full of events highlighting today’s pioneers in art and tech. As we move forward, we also want to look back and appreciate 2024’s ups and downs.

Let’s zoom into this year’s big moments at Nxt:

10. Random International lighting up everyone’s faces

This was the year of Random International’s solo exhibition at Nxt Museum, ‘Life in a Different Resolution’, which is open until January 12, 2025.
Shout out to our robotic installation, ’15 Points’, which was uninstalled to make space for other artworks. RIP. 

9. Bringing colour and fun to the museum with the Summer Programme

Yoga and mindfulness in Nxt Stage, 3D animation workshops, music, arts, and drinks: this year, we went beyond the exhibition with our Summer Programme.

8. Slow (and Steady) Looking wins the race

Have you always wanted to be more mindful when visiting museums? So did the many people that followed our workshops on Slow Looking. Very demure. Very mindful.

7. Sparking the debate at ECHO Academy

Nxt became an agora for conversations around AI and Digitisation – supporting DEMO Foundation in the open call and selection process for ECHO Academy, and hosting their one-week Design Sprint at Nxt Lab.

6. Embracing the mesmerising world of fractals with Julius Horsthuis

The world of fractals is mathematically infinite and theoretically complex, and it needs some explanation—specifically from three key speakers who featured in our panel discussion about fractals this past July. 

5. You have changed. And so has our largest exhibition room.

From ‘Dimensional Sampling’ by Yuxi Cao, to ‘Creation’ and ‘Heaven’s Gate’ by Marco Brambilla, to ‘Foreign Nature’ by Julius Horsthuis, and ending with ‘Espectres’ by Playmodes, Nxt Stage featured the work of four different artists this year, as part of our exhibition.

4. Art lovers unite: We launched Nxt Membership Circle

Do you love getting free access to cultural events, festivals, and art fairs? We do too! This is why we created the Nxt Membership Circle. Check it out.

3. Out in the “real world”: Curated by Nxt dazzled at Amsterdam Open Air

Can’t decide between going to a museum and going to a festival? This year, we brought the museum to the festival with our first artworks, Curated by Nxt, at Amsterdam Open Air.

2. ICK Dans Amsterdam took our breath away

We couldn’t get enough of the ICK Dans Amsterdam live dance performance created in response to Random International’s artworks. Neither could you! So we decided to host it twice. Read more about it here.

1. Dasha Rush fires up our hard drives at ADE 

Dasha Rush’s ‘Hunger to Create’, featuring Spekki Webu, Matti Vilho, and Vân Anh, was a live exploration of sound and light that invited our visitors through an immersive journey.

We look forward to what’s to come in 2025.

Our fourth exhibition, ‘Still Processing‘, will open to the public February 7, 2025. Stay tuned.