UNTIL 30 AUG | Rotterdam artist Teuntje Fleur has transformed the Kunsthal Auditorium into a colourful fantasy forest with The Grand Summer Hut. The interactive summer installation invites visitors to wander, play, build and pause inside the museum until 30 August.
Image: Teuntje Fleur, The Grand Summer Hut, 2026.
The Auditorium stairs are now filled with bright sculptures, unusual viewing boxes and playful geometric shapes. Rather than asking you to observe everything from a respectful museum distance, the installation encourages you to explore and contribute to the landscape yourself.
A fantasy forest to explore
Colourful sculptures form a forest across the Auditorium, creating pathways you can wander through at your own pace. Curious viewing boxes reveal small discoveries along the route, adding an element of searching and finding to the experience.
Visitors can also use felt shapes to assemble their own sculptures for the fantasy forest. Circles, triangles and squares can be combined into new figures, allowing the installation to keep changing as different people add their ideas.
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A hut outside everyday life
At the centre stands a large hut where you can read, play with other visitors or simply take a break. It provides a quieter space within the installation, with imagination, relaxation and spending time together taking priority.
The idea comes from huts Teuntje Fleur built during her childhood. She remembers them as places detached from everyday life, where time seemed to move differently and she could spend hours drawing or disappearing into her imagination.
Explore Teuntje Fleur’s colourful and interactive Grand Summer Hut at Kunsthal Rotterdam, open until 30 August 2026.
Teuntje Fleur’s colourful world
Teuntje Fleur is a Rotterdam-based graphic artist known for compositions built from primary colours, playful patterns and recognisable geometric shapes. Her work explores how design and imagination can reconnect adults and children with a sense of curiosity.
In The Grand Summer Hut, simple forms become plants, characters and parts of an invented landscape. The installation remains accessible and playful, but also asks what happens when you allow yourself the time to look again and make something without worrying too much about getting it right.
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Kunsthal Summer Party
The Grand Summer Hut is part of the Kunsthal Summer Party on Friday 17 July from 15:30 to 20:00. The programme includes workshops, food, drinks and music by DJ Git Hyper at the renovated Kunsthal Café.
You can also visit the Kunsthal’s current exhibitions during the party, including Helen Levitt. City at Play and Flowers Forever. Tickets for the Summer Party are available through the Kunsthal website.
Visit The Grand Summer Hut
The Grand Summer Hut runs from 4 July to 30 August 2026. Participation is included with a valid Kunsthal admission ticket, while visitors aged 18 and under can enter the Kunsthal free of charge.
Kunsthal Rotterdam is open from Tuesday to Sunday between 10:00 and 17:00. Current admission information, tickets and the complete summer programme are available at https://www.kunsthal.nl/.
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How to get there
Kunsthal Rotterdam is located in Museumpark, near the Natural History Museum, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and Het Park. Eendrachtsplein and Leuvehaven metro stations are within walking distance, while several trams stop along Westzeedijk.
The museum is also easy to reach by bicycle from Rotterdam Centraal, Witte de Withstraat and the Erasmus Bridge.
