The Solar Biennale

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Rotterdam
The Solar Biennale

The world’s first Solar Biennale explores solar futures built on the power of design.

24/04/2026

SOLAR PUNK: NO LIGHT NO LIFE AND SOLAR RITUAL: A GIFT FOR THE SUN

In an inspiring collaboration between and first-year students explored what it means to live with the sun differently.

Through a speculative movement rooted in solar gravity, the project No Light No Life by Aart Schillings & Hongyang Zhangpoints makes a simple but urgent case: our wellbeing depends on natural light, and it is time we started designing our lives around it.

Solar Ritual by Cho Yeain & Ileana Rutigliano goes a step further, asking not just whether we are connected to the sun, but what kind of relationship we actually have with it. One based on extraction and efficiency, or one based on care and reciprocity?

22/04/2026

SOLAR PUNK: SUN TEMPLE AND BODY FRIDGE LAB

In an inspiring collaboration between and first-year students explored what it means to live with the sun differently.

Set in 2100, Body Fridge Lab by Diana Kusyová & Yu-Hsuan Ko frames cooling as a social issue. When heat becomes extreme, staying comfortable becomes a privilege. Through DIY wearables and their circulation as online trends, the project exposes how extreme heat transforms comfort into a commodity, touching on social hierarchy, consumerism, and the fashion industry.

Set in 2070, Sun Temple by .na.mente and approaches the same future from a more intimate angle. What happens to human connection and daily life when the light we depend on forces us indoors? The installation sits with that loss, of sunlight, of each other, of something we never thought to protect.

20/04/2026

SOLARPUNK X KABK THE HAGUE

In a project led by in collaboration with and curator the students of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, explored what the sun means in our everyday lives. How do our bodies, cities, and systems shape our relationship with it? And what could it mean to live with the sun differently?

Through speculative and deeply personal projects, these students reimagined our relationship with the sun as a force to be understood, respected, and lived with.

Their work was presented at a space historically dedicated to scientific observation, a perfect setting for reimagining what the sun can mean to us ☀️

More on the individual projects soon.

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