Join us for the opening of TEC ART 2026: Learn to Love the Bomb on Thursday March 26 from 18.00 to 23.00 at Nieuwe Instituut and Museumpark Rotterdam.

Find the timetable and details about this year’s theme below.

Please RSVP by clicking here and reserving a free ticket!

Timetable Thursday 26 March

• 18.00 Walk-in @ Nieuwe Instituut
• 18.20 Word of welcome: TEC ART curator Sanneke Huisman and PLANETART director Guido Bertling
• 18.30 Screening: Afterlives (2025) by Kevin B. Lee
• 20:00 Keynote talk: Karim Ben Khelifa about his work In 36.000 ways
• 20.30 Xpo open + drinks: Learn to Love the Bomb @ Museumpark Rotterdam
• 23.00 Evening ends

In Afterlives (2025), Kevin B. Lee follows the unexpected journey of a single film image as it travels across the internet, reappearing in new contexts and acquiring new meanings along the way. What begins as a moment from a commercial film becomes a case study in how images are extracted, remixed, and weaponized within online ecosystems. Combining essayistic narration, screen captures, and investigative storytelling, the work reveals how digital circulation can transform cinematic fragments into tools of propaganda, conspiracy, or collective imagination. Afterlives unfolds like a forensic analysis of the contemporary image economy, tracing the second lives that images lead once they escape their original frame.

Cannot make it on Thursday, March 26? You can visit TEC ART for free until Sunday, March 29 - check the opening times.