Due to renovations of the DCR building, from May 2024 until March 2026, Nest temporarily moved to The Hague's Laakkwartier. As Nest in Laak, we presented a programme series centred around art and listening. At the start of 2026, Nest moved back to this space at the De Constant Rebecqueplein.

In this high, dark warehouse space, we were neighbours to restaurant and club Laak, where exuberant dancing, social connection, and club culture take centre stage. This industrial venue offered a special opportunity to programme in an immersive and interdisciplinary way. Through a series of exhibitions, Nest explored the art of listening and radical attentiveness.

What does it mean to truly listen in a time of sensory overload and constant distraction? Using large-scale installations of sound and visuals that changed every few weeks, artists investigated the distinction between hearing and listening. Listening was approached not just as a physical act but as something one can do with all the senses – a means of connecting with the world and with each other. In solo and duo exhibitions, artists took over the space of Nest in Laak to question our relationship with nature, freedom of expression, pop culture, or representation in society. The exhibitions are also accessible during the club nights of club Laak.

Next to exhibitions by, amongst others, Henk Schut, Nikita Gale, Elsemarijn Bruys & Loma Doom and Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Nest hosted three weekenders, that combined performance, club nights, art and music in one experience.

View the programme of Nest in Laak below.