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GRONDLAB x FESTIVALHUIS
Go along with Grondlab and Festivalhuis on the watercycle journey: feel and see how water moves through distant and familiar landscapes, from mountains to ocean

DELT▲TUNE x Rosie's
DELT▲TUNE grows an experimental electronic installation in the raw galleryspace of Rosie's, all sense will be served. Continous event.


muZIEum x ArtEZ muziektheater
Step into the dark and let your senses show the way. The muZIEum and ArtEZ their strengths for a unique musical theater experience in pitch darkness.


Hidde Loek x Hankyul Jeong
What does taste sound like? Hidde Loek and Hankyul Jeong translate the five basic tastes into a multisensory experience designed to bring people together.


BIBLIOTHEEK MARIËNBURG x CULTUUR OP DE CAMPUS FT. VASIM CIRCUS SPACE
During Kunstnacht, Mariënburg Library and Cultuur op de Campus turn things upside down. Or rather: on unicycles, tightropes, and juggling balls.


Valkhof Museum x Introdans
Introdans and Valkhof Museum present an interactive dance workshop and the ballet The Mirror during Kunstnacht 2026.


EXPO BART x 171PROJECT.SPACE x SIMONE SCHUFFELEN & SIEM DE BOER
For one night Expo Bart disappears through the backdoor of the greasy fastfood joint. Follow us to a world between ecstasy, the everyday, carnival, and fasting.


POST x Elky Rosa Gerritsen
Elky Rosa Gerritsen takes you through her research on ballast in her performance Palimpsest at POST. Which ballast do you wear without having chosen it?


LINDENBERG x KERIM SAFA
IDLE is a audiovisual work that invites you to step into a shared, slow-running pulse, shaped by early computer graphics, sound and human presence.


Hubert x Proces Verbaal
This one is for the datists, the online nomads, the scroll whisperers, the cloud seekers, the dystopian doom thinkers, the algorithmic self-help guides





Domestic Balloons
Domestic Balloons represents bodies that don't quite fit into where they are. A question about ethics and aesthetics.


Macroplastics - Vera Meulendijks
With the Macroplastics installation, Vera Meulendijks transforms seemingly small plastic residual forms from our contemporary life into monumental sculptures


155 op LUX Open Air
AT 155 (one-five-five) WE SERVE YOU “COOL DANCE, THICK UNDER SAUCE WITH ARTISTIC QUALITY, PLUS A SIXPACK MONSTER ENERGY PLEASE.”


Witte Raaf x Meneer Otis
Tijdens de kunstnacht 2026 d(w)alen we af in de middeleeuwse keldergewelven van de Witte Raaf voor een avond met storytelling & comedy.


POST x Elky Rosa Gerritsen
Elky Rosa Gerritsen takes you through her research on ballast in her performance Palimpsest at POST. Which ballast do you wear without having chosen it?


Extrapool x Poederdoos 'Crowning the Queen of the Underground'
Poederdoos and Extrapool join forces for the first ever edition of drag talent show De Poederdoos Spelen Crowning the Queen of the Underground.


LINDENBERG x THEATER OOSTPOOL
Regisseur Florian Myjer en castleden geven een preview van The Drama, de nieuwe voorstelling van Theater Oostpool over de Nederlandse klassenmaatschappij.




Wereldlab x Hubungan x Stevenskerk @ Veerpoorttrappen
A performance according to "Sapa Punja? Moluccan stories from Nijmegen" on the Veerpoorttrappen. Feel the experience in all the fibers of your body,


Witte Raaf x Meneer Otis
Tijdens de kunstnacht 2026 d(w)alen we af in de middeleeuwse keldergewelven van de Witte Raaf voor een avond met storytelling & comedy.


POST x Elky Rosa Gerritsen
Elky Rosa Gerritsen takes you through her research on ballast in her performance Palimpsest at POST. Which ballast do you wear without having chosen it?


LINDENBERG x THEATER OOSTPOOL
Regisseur Florian Myjer en castleden geven een preview van The Drama, de nieuwe voorstelling van Theater Oostpool over de Nederlandse klassenmaatschappij.


Extrapool x Poederdoos 'Crowning the Queen of the Underground'
Poederdoos and Extrapool join forces for the first ever edition of drag talent show De Poederdoos Spelen Crowning the Queen of the Underground.


Witte Raaf x Meneer Otis
Tijdens de kunstnacht 2026 d(w)alen we af in de middeleeuwse keldergewelven van de Witte Raaf voor een avond met storytelling & comedy.


LINDENBERG x THEATER OOSTPOOL
Regisseur Florian Myjer en castleden geven een preview van The Drama, de nieuwe voorstelling van Theater Oostpool over de Nederlandse klassenmaatschappij.


POST x Elky Rosa Gerritsen
Elky Rosa Gerritsen takes you through her research on ballast in her performance Palimpsest at POST. Which ballast do you wear without having chosen it?


Extrapool x Poederdoos 'Crowning the Queen of the Underground'
Poederdoos and Extrapool join forces for the first ever edition of drag talent show De Poederdoos Spelen Crowning the Queen of the Underground.


Extrapool x Poederdoos 'Crowning the Queen of the Underground'
Poederdoos and Extrapool join forces for the first ever edition of drag talent show De Poederdoos Spelen Crowning the Queen of the Underground.


POST x Elky Rosa Gerritsen
Elky Rosa Gerritsen takes you through her research on ballast in her performance Palimpsest at POST. Which ballast do you wear without having chosen it?


















