July

Programme Sonsbeek 2026

2 July 2026, 15:00 – 22:00

Official Opening Sonsbeek 2026

2 July 2026, 16:00 – 16:30

‘the long language (Spiral)’ – Jota Mombaça with the ArtEZ student choir

2 July 2026, 20:00 – 20:30

‘Promises’ – nasa4nasa

3 July 2026, 10:30 – 11:00

‘Promises’ – nasa4nasa (#2)

3 July 2026, 11:00 – 12:30

3 July 2026, 13:00 – 14:30

3 July 2026, 16:00 – 17:00

Artist Spotlight: Talk nasa4nasa & Jota Mombaça (EN)

3 July 2026, 19:00 – 22:00

Special opening at POST

4 July 2026, 11:00 – 13:00

Artist Spotlight: Morning Viewing and Conversation on the Work of Esma Yiğitoğlu

4 July 2026, 14:00 – 16:00

Artist Spotlight: Procession & Tabbouleh Picnic: ‘And Europa Fled to the Sea, a Procession of Leaving and Arriving’ by Mounira Al Solh

4 July 2026, 17:00 – 22:00

Special opening at Omstand

Opening/preview

5 July 2026, 10:00 – 11:30

Artist Spotlight: Family Walk with Fanja Bouts: Deep Mapping

5 July 2026, 12:00 – 13:00

Writing Workshop with Loesje

5 July 2026, 14:00 – 15:00

Artist Spotlight Talk: Afaina de Jong

11 July 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

18 July 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

22 July 2026, 16:00 – 17:30

Artist Spotlight: Walk with Loesje

23 July 2026, 14:30 – 17:00

Join the archive: Bring your photographs

25 July 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

Curatorial Tour through Park Sonsbeek (NL) by Berber Meindertsma

25 July 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

August

1 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

Darkness Reframed - Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus film programme

5 August 2026, 19:00 – 21:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Citizen X Revisited

7 August 2026, 21:30

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: West Beirut (rooftop cinema)

8 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

14 August 2026, 21:00 – 23:30

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Persepolis: Animating resistance (rooftop cinema)

15 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

21 August 2026, 17:00 – 19:00

CANCELED - Listening Session with Afaina de Jong and Innavisions

22 August 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

Curatorial Tour through Park Sonsbeek (EN) by Christina Li

22 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

26 August 2026, 11:00 – 17:00

‘Pressing matters’ Loesje writing + screen printing workshop in collaboration with Plaatsmaken

26 August 2026, 19:00 – 21:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Memories talking back

29 August 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

Sonsbeek kunstprojecten x Kunstproeverij Immerloopark: Kleiworkshop bij Wijkdag Rijkerswoerd

29 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

29 August 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Artist Spotlight Walk with Femke Herregraven

September

2 September 2026, 16:00 – 17:00

Deep Mapping walk with Beitske Bouwman

5 September 2026

Sonsbeek 2026 x Hartwig Proxy: The Curved Times of Memory (What Would I Do in Orbit)? Day 1

5 September 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

6 September 2026

Sonsbeek 2026 x Hartwig Proxy: The Curved Times of Memory (What Would I Do in Orbit)? Day 2

6 September 2026, 11:30 – 12:15

Artist Spotlight: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and poster launch

6 September 2026, 16:00 – 16:30

‘The long language (Spiral)’ – Jota Mombaça with the ArtEZ student choir

9 September 2026, 21:00 – 23:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Excavating darkness: a sensorial (dis)orientation in four parts hosted by ArtEZ (rooftop cinema)

10 September 2026, 18:00 – 22:00

Special screening and Q&A of The Last Responders by Forensic Architecture and Earshot

11 September 2026, 11:00

Special screening of The Last Responders by Forensic Architecture and Earshot

11 September 2026, 14:00 – 18:00

Sonsbeek 2026: Sites of Memory, a symposium organized by Radboud Universiteit and Sonsbeek 2026, and presented in partnership with Rozet

12 September 2026, 12:00 – 14:00

Curatorial Tour through Park Sonsbeek (EN) by Amira Gad

12 September 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

17 September 2026, 14:30 – 17:00

Join the archive

18 September 2026, 21:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Good Bye, Lenin! (rooftop cinema)

19 September 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

19 September 2026, 15:00 – 17:00

Join the archive

22 September 2026

Sonsbeek 2026 children's artwork 'Verhalen op de Bleek'

23 September 2026, 19:00 – 21:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Propaganda in reverse

26 September 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

30 September 2026, 19:00 – 21:00

Sonsbeek 2026 x Focus: Cultural myths

October

1 October 2026, 14:30 – 17:00

Join the archive

1 October 2026, 17:00 – 19:00

Listening Session and Conversation with Afaina de Jong

3 October 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

3 October 2026, 15:00

Join the archive

10 October 2026

Sonsbeek 2026 Closing Weekend

10 October 2026, 12:00 – 13:00

Family workshop with Fanja Bouts

10 October 2026, 14:00 – 15:30

Guided Tours through Park Sonsbeek

10 October 2026, 14:00 – 14:20

Sound walk by Soraya Lutanga Bonaventure: ‘Sound has no edge, like the start of every end’

10 October 2026, 15:00 – 15:20

Sound walk by Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure: ‘Sound has no edge, like the start of every end’

10 October 2026, 16:00 – 17:30

Poetry walk with Çağlar Köseoğlu

10 October 2026, 20:00

Evening viewing of Esma Yiğitoğlu’s work at Museumnacht

11 October 2026, 10:30 – 11:30

Artist Spotlight Talk about Ipeh Nur

Filmvertoning, Talk

11 October 2026, 10:30 – 13:00

Cultural Sunday at Museum Bronbeek

Filmvertoning, Talk

11 October 2026, 12:00 – 13:00

Artist Spotlight Talk: Larry Achiampong

Filmvertoning, Talk

11 October 2026, 14:00 – 18:00

Sonsbeek 2026 Spiraling Out