• New intervention: Eva Rothschild - A Gated Community

  12.06.2016 – 18.09.2016

  From 12 June 2016 Irish artist Eva Rothschild will present work that responds to Sonneveld House’s status as a museum and monument. She created a series of large, geometric sculptures that will be placed throughout the house alongside a number of smaller, more discreet pieces.The larger works create an alternative architecture that questions what is possible spatially within the house and highlights the sense of control that Rothschild sees as inherent within the domestic environment. This

• Experience the observatory

  08.04.2016

  The intervention A Mental Image - Blavatsky Observatory by the Mexican artist and architect Santiago Borja offers a unique space for contemplation on the roof of Sonneveld House. Urban noise fades into the background up here above the city, where visitors to the observatory can engage with the elements in the resulting silence.

• Building the observatory

  02.02.2016 – 13.02.2016

  On the roof of Sonneveld House, the observatory is being built that Santiago Borja devoted to Helena Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society. A space for contemplation above the rumour of the city. His project A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory opens for the public on February 13 

• Lecture: Theosophy and Modernism with Santiago Borja and Marco Pasi

  11.02.2016

  Marco Pasi specialises in the history of hermetic philosophy and related currents. On 11 February, he will deliver a lecture in Sonneveld House on the connection between theosophy and modernism in relation to the intervention by Mexican architect and artist Santiago Borja in Sonneveld House. This will be followed by a talk by Borja about his work entitled A Mental Image - Blavatsky Observatory.Santiago Borja builds an observatory on the roof of Sonneveld House, which is on view from 13 February

• A Mental Image - Blavatsky Observatory by Santiago Borja

  13.02.2016 – 22.05.2016

  Het Nieuwe Instituut regularly invites a designer, architect or artist to respond to Sonneveld House, one of the best-preserved private houses built in the Dutch Functionalist style. From 13 February to 22 May this is Mexican artist and architect Santiago Borja. He built an observatory on the roof of the house, which dates from 1933, offering visitors a space for contemplation.With his work A Mental Image – Blavatsky Observatory, Borja points to the influence of Western esotericism on the

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