
DUNE at Stedelijk Museum: Please Touch
Our interactive landscape DUNE will transform the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In this white cube you are encouraged to "please touch" the hundreds of interactive lights. From May 16 till September 2013.

Our interactive landscape DUNE will transform the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In this white cube you are encouraged to "please touch" the hundreds of interactive lights. From May 16 till September 2013.

Roosegaarde's high-tech art in the beautiful monumental Residency in Paris. See the photo impression here.

Artist Daan Roosegaarde worked with choreographer Stephan Groegler on this new opera with soprano Julia Migenes. Touring in 2013, watch the premiere in Switzerland here.

Dutch television VPRO made this inspiring Tegenlicht documentary about the sustainable innovation of Dutch society, with a special appearance of DUNE. Watch the Tegenlicht episode here.

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Our special DUNE X is exhibited at the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney till 16 September. See the movie of the first visitors interacting.

Exhibited in an old dark mine tunnel the artwork will shine its interactive lights at the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney. Opening on 27 June, Sydney AU.

Titled 'All our relations', the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney will exhibit Roosegaarde's awarded large-scale interactive DUNE in the raw setting of the old mining tunnel Dog Leg. From 27 June till 16 September, Sydney AU.

Free on 27 March 19.00, Tongji University Shanghai.

Titled “All our relations”, the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney will exhibit Roosegaarde's awarded large-scale interactive DUNE in the raw setting of the old mining tunnel Dog Leg. From 27 June till 16 September, Sydney.

about 'Dune' and his love for escalators. Read the complete interview here.



Our new award which recognizes the most influential designs in Asia, including our interactive 'Dune'.

Daan Roosegaarde is invited to present his lecture 'Interactive Landscapes' at the Guangzhou Design Week 2011. Hear more about our interactive designs this Friday 9 December at 11.30, including special English/ Mandarin translation.

From 9 to 12 December Studio Roosegaarde will exhibit its interactive designs 'Dune' and 'Intimacy' at the Design Week in Guangzhou, CN.

Cover article with Daan Roosegaarde in this new Chinese magazine by Tongji University.

The exhibition 'Decode: Digital Design Sensations' showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design; including our interactive 'Dune'. From November 18 till March 10, 2012 at Design Museum Holon, Israel.

Given the fact that our 'Dune' has travelled to so many different places, including the Tate Modern in London, Hong Kong and Beijing, the installation will be shown at STRP Festival this year inside a shipping container. In transit, just like Daan Roosegaarde.

for its interactive design 'Dune'. Thank you all!


Studio Roosegaarde won the Innovation Practice Award 2011 for its part in the exhibition 'Dutch Design Thinking' in Shanghai. Big thanks to all our partners and audience for this great achievement in China.



Our interactive 'Dune' and 'Lotus' will be exhibited as exclusive part of the 'Dutch Design Thinking' exhibition at the Shanghai Creative Industry Week 2011. Experience it yourself 26 October- 1 November, Red Town, Shanghai.

This week Studio Roosegaarde won the commission for an interactive light design in the parcs of Shanghai.
The coming months the design will be developed by Daan Roosegaarde and his team, including sessions with Philips Asia and lectures at the Tongji University in Shanghai.



Our interactive 'Dune' and 'Intimacy' will be exhibited in Beijing, including a lecture by artist Daan Roosegaarde. The artworks will than travel further to other Asian cities. But first: 'Liberation of Light' Beijing Design Week, 28/09 till 03/10, Beijing CN.
about 'Decode, Digital Design Sensations' in Moscow at Garage Center for Contemporary Culture.

over 50.000 visitors already in this exhibition by Victoria & Albert museum and onedotzero in Moscow. Watch here the Russian documentary with artist Daan Roosegaarde.
about his ‘Dune’ at ‘Decode, Digital Design Sensation’ at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow RU.

Artist portrait at exhibition 'Decode' at Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow RU.
hundreds of people in queue, children mimicking Dune's sounds.


about our interactive artworks and innovative ecologies.

Maintenance of our artworks is important, therefore we created a SMS function for our public 'Dune 4.2' which keeps us updated about it's interactions via text messages.

Today: interview with artist Daan Roosegaarde in national newspaper NRC Next.


at 'Decode' Digital Design Sensations at CAFA Art Museum 19/10-19/11 Beijng CN.





via NAi Publishers

till 30/01/2011

19/10-19/11 at CAFA Art Museum, CN

'Dune' by Daan Roosegaarde at Lower Bay (also known as 'The Matrix' station) Nuit Blanche 2010 Toronto.

Including our Dune and Flow.

Your gateway to a second nature.

Our 'Dune' will illuminate the Lower Bay dowtown Toronto, an abandoned metro station specially opened for this exhibition. As part of Nuit Blanche the city of Toronto will transform into one gigantic exhibition from sunset to sunrise. 'Dune' at Nuit Blanche, 2/10 Toronto CA.


at Elektra, Montreal CA.

Thanks to our knowledge in sustainable technologies we made our public artwork 'Dune' in such a way that 60 meter artwork only needs 60 WATT.


This year our interactive artwork Dune is exhibited in this 'postmodern container cave' at the entrance of 2010 Winter Cultural Olympics in Vancouver; as Dutch entry amongst works by artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Janet Cardiff. In conjunction to the events, Daan Roosegaarde will also be a participant in the CODE Dialogues symposium at the Emily Carr University. CODE Live, February 4-21, Vancouver, CA.


at exhibition 'Decode' Digital Design Sensations.


'Onze Lieve Vrouwe Toren' for Lumineus Amersfoort.
Every Thursday till Sunday in December.

'DUNE' AT VICTORIA ALBERT MUSEUM
The much anticipated 'Decode: Digital Design Sensations' has opened at the Victoria Albert Museum in London. Both our classic interactive artworks Dune and Flow 5.0 are part of this exhibition which showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design. December 8 till April 11, London.



City Hall, Hong Kong.


Situated alongside the historic river Maas and spanning 60 meters, Dune 4.2 is an unique installation composed of hundreds of human interactive LED lights.
You are very welcome at the opening which includes a special dance performance and publication about the evolution of 'Dune'. Thursday October 29 at 7pm, Watertorenweg 200, ‘De Esch’ in Rotterdam.

10 modules including electronics, industrial plugs, fibers and LEDs.

Greetings from Split in Croatia where our interactive 'Dune' is infiltrating the building of the International Festival of New Film. While people walk by and touch, the landscape is becoming alive and lights up with cricket sounds. International Festival of New Film Split, 13-20 September, Split Croatia.

Exhibition in the city of Louisville for artwithoutwalls.

For IDEA Festival in Louisville, USA.

at night, Amsterdam NL

Interview with Roosegaarde in Trendbook for the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven NL.

Cover article about Dune.
Dune' in Denmark for Innovationlab, Aalborg Denmark.

Exhibition with Theo Jansen and others.

29th of August till 10th of October, Riga (Latvia)

Exhibition in the old castle near the sea in Italy.

'Dune' & special book launch '4D-Social' by Lucy Bullivant.

Article about Daan Roosegaarde and his artworks in Architecture Technology & Design, CN.


At Studio Roosegaarde we like to make our sculptures selfsufficient and intelligent. This is why we developed this solarpower unit for charging up our sculptures during exhibitions. We especially like the idea of powering an artificial landscape such as Dune via a natural energy source; creating a nice hyper, techno loop.

present projects that broaden our current understanding of architecture; including our 'Dune' and 'Liquid Space'.

Grote Kerk, The Hague, September 21-22, 2007

We are familiar with the multi purpose of artwork Dune but this surprised even our imagination. This fresh couple decided to have their wedding photos taken in our interactive landscape; and so it happened. Call it kitsch, call it love, for us it is a new, beautiful level of human interaction.


Greetings from Athens where a new Dune is installed in an old gasfactory for the new media show Synch 2007. Intervening with the existing building and blocking up several entrances a teasy yet sensual interaction becomes almost inevitable. Just the way we like it.

Cover article 4D-Social for Architectural Design (Wiley Publishers) including article 'Alice in Technoland' by Lucy Bullivant.




For Rotterdam 2007 City of Architecture Studio Roosegaarde is currently developing interactive landscape Dune 4.1. It will react to the sounds and motion of the people walking by in the pedestrian Maastunnel, Rotterdam NL.

IdN, an international design magazine from Hong Kong, just published an article about Dune 4.0. Part of this publication is a DVD including the movie of Dune 4.0.


NRC Next published an interview by Maartje Duin with Daan Roosegaarde about Dune 4.0. The article talks about Dune's futuristic potentials of individuality in public space. Published a few hours before the launch of Dune 4.0 it was perfect timing.

Yes, Dune 4.0 is ready and shall be waiting for your presence. This interactive landscape will be exhibited from the 22th of November at Montevideo, Amsterdam. Also featured as a part of this exhibition is a lecture evening on December 15th called 'The body as interface'. More specs at www.montevideo.nl.

Studio Roosegaarde is currently building Dune 4.0. Hundreds of fibers are being made for this interactive fusion of nature and technology. Although time is not our best friend it promises to become an amazing piece of work.

It's nice when things are getting together; hundreds of these transparant elements are ready to be used for the interactive landscape Dune 4.0 in Montevideo. The offical launch will be announced soon; stay tuned for more information.

A new publication is just released by TU Delft. Game, Set and Match II is a book about computergames, advanced geometries and digital technologies; including the article 'Liquid constructions' by Daan Roosegaarde.