Nocturna is a kunsthalle that keeps night hours. Four rooms, a projection hall and a walled garden open when the city's museums close, and stay open while you still want to look.
Get a pass See the seasonOctober – December 2026
The rooms are open on every other night as well. These are the ones that change them: a film, two bodies on the floor, a garden of glass, a walk with the lights off.
Photographs from earlier seasons
Midnight screening · Projection Hall
DetailsPerformance by Ruben Hale · The Long Hall
BookInstallation opening · Amber Hall
BookAerial performance · The Red Room
BookTorch-lit late view · The Stone Corridor
BookDance · The Long Hall
BookThe building was a printing house. Its four rooms keep their own light after dark, and every visit walks through all of them.
Plan a visit
In residence this winter
Each resident has a key to the building and a room after closing. Each one chooses a Friday film and opens the studio for one evening.
Ines Varga
Photographer · long exposures of empty rooms
Tomas Reyl
Light artist · the Red Room this season
Oumar Diallo
Painter · portraits by lamplight
Lev Aranda
Filmmaker · Headlights, 16 October
Ruben Hale
Choreographer · Floorwork, 24 October
Midnight screening
Friday 16 October
A film by Lev Aranda
2026 · 92 minutes
Projection Hall
Ground floor
Doors 23:30
Film at 00:00
A woman walks the same country road every night until a car stops. Shot entirely by headlight, with no other lamp on set.
Free with the Night Pass
€9 at the door
Around the world
On the last Friday of each month the same film starts at midnight in eight partner halls, one time zone after another, following the night west around the world.
Next relay: Friday 30 October, starting in Auckland at 11:00 Rotterdam time.
Notes from the night staff, the residents and the visitors who stay until closing.
Curator's note · 8 min
In low light the eye gives up on detail and starts reading shapes. Our curator on why some work only shows itself late, and why we never light a painting brighter than a candle in the next room.
Ask for the note
Every night the last lamp is switched off by hand. A short portrait of the person who does it.
Ask for it
What the rooms look like at six, when the shutters open and the paintings get their daylight back.
Ask for itTickets and passes
Entry is free before 22:00. After that, come for a night or carry the Night Pass and stop thinking about tickets until spring.
€14a visit
€12a month
€40a month
Anything else: ask at the door, or write to us before the evening.
Yes, Thursday to Sunday. Last entry is at 01:30; the rooms close at 02:00 and the garden bar ten minutes earlier.
Seats are free with the Night Pass and €9 at the door. The hall holds ninety people; pass holders can reserve until Thursday noon.
All four rooms and the hall are step-free, with a lift to the first floor. The light stays low, so ask at the door for a hand torch.
Before 22:00, with an adult. After that the rooms are for visitors aged sixteen and over.
Yes, without flash. The Red Room asks for no photographs while its installation is running.