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Nu Reality: The Living Gallery

Step Inside Art with VR

What if you could do more than just look at a work of art. What if you could move through it? The Living Gallery, a VR program by Nu:Reality, invites you to experience art in a fully immersive way.

With a VR headset, you quite literally step inside paintings and journey through the imagination of artists such as Caravaggio, Edvard Munch, and Henri Matisse. Worlds unfold around you and respond to your presence, as color, movement, and emotion become almost tangible.

Alongside these artistic journeys, the program also demonstrates how VR can tell intimate, human stories, adding a new dimension to the way we experience both art and one another.

The VR program will be on view from April 30 through June 24, 2026, at seven locations across the Netherlands.

Creation of the Worlds (30 mins)

An immersive VR journey into the visionary universe of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Creation of the Worlds invites viewers to step inside his paintings and become part of their unfolding.

Moving through cycles such as Creation, The City, and The Deluge, the experience blends art, music, and myth into a poetic exploration of creation, destruction, and rebirth where the viewer becomes both witness and co-creator of evolving worlds.

Caravaggio, In Tenebris (9 mins)

The experience is an imaginary journey through a maze of narrow streets – an intimate labyrinth leading from the gilded splendor of a Roman palace to the dark backstreets where Caravaggio sought adventure and ultimately met his downfall. Along this nocturnal walk, we encounter his paintings as his life unfolds in vivid, striking close-ups.

 

Nu:Reality is a Virtual Reality (VR) platform connecting storytelling, technology, publicity, education, research, and innovation in the immersive arts industry

An unprecedented platform created in partnership between Cassette and Diversion cinema, Nu:Reality is the first of its kind to offer a truly accessible stage for high-quality artistic VR experiences. By integrating VR into the daily programming offered at movie theaters, Nu:Reality fosters a collective journey into the captivating and boundless world of VR.

Nu Reality: The Living Gallery

Step Inside Art with VR

What if you could do more than just look at a work of art. What if you could move through it? The Living Gallery, a VR program by Nu:Reality, invites you to experience art in a fully immersive way.

With a VR headset, you quite literally step inside paintings and journey through the imagination of artists such as Caravaggio, Edvard Munch, and Henri Matisse. Worlds unfold around you and respond to your presence, as color, movement, and emotion become almost tangible.

Alongside these artistic journeys, the program also demonstrates how VR can tell intimate, human stories, adding a new dimension to the way we experience both art and one another.

The VR program will be on view from April 30 through June 24, 2026, at seven locations across the Netherlands.

Creation of the Worlds (30 mins)

An immersive VR journey into the visionary universe of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Creation of the Worlds invites viewers to step inside his paintings and become part of their unfolding.

Moving through cycles such as Creation, The City, and The Deluge, the experience blends art, music, and myth into a poetic exploration of creation, destruction, and rebirth where the viewer becomes both witness and co-creator of evolving worlds.

Caravaggio, In Tenebris (9 mins)

The experience is an imaginary journey through a maze of narrow streets – an intimate labyrinth leading from the gilded splendor of a Roman palace to the dark backstreets where Caravaggio sought adventure and ultimately met his downfall. Along this nocturnal walk, we encounter his paintings as his life unfolds in vivid, striking close-ups.

 

Nu:Reality is a Virtual Reality (VR) platform connecting storytelling, technology, publicity, education, research, and innovation in the immersive arts industry

An unprecedented platform created in partnership between Cassette and Diversion cinema, Nu:Reality is the first of its kind to offer a truly accessible stage for high-quality artistic VR experiences. By integrating VR into the daily programming offered at movie theaters, Nu:Reality fosters a collective journey into the captivating and boundless world of VR.

a s a *sold out*

A fully immersive and mind-bending experience that brings you to a harmonious state

For one day only, we are offering asa.

Asa is an experience realised by the bundled power of artists. Culinary artist Asako Kato views food as an intimate yet impermanent form of art. Three photographers, Elmer Driessen, Kumi Oguro and Alex Salinas have captured Asa’s unique plant-based sushi with their artistries. As a result, her sushi is imbued with each artist’s spirit and endowed with eternity, resulting in a surreal and serene world. A scrumptious world where you can soak yourself in harmony, detached from everyday life.

Programme

Asa will take place in The Red Space @droog. Each slot lasts 1 hour and exclusively accompanies 6 guests. In this intimate setting, you will be guided by Asako to enjoy the art works with a glass of premium sake, followed by 4 pieces of delicious sushi made in front of you. A small gift that brings you a reminiscence of this experience is included. Please come enjoy the world of relish and reflection, and complete this chapter with us.

Each session accompanies 6 guests and starts at the following hour:

15:00 – 15:55

16:00 – 16:55

17:00 – 17:55

18:00 – 18:55

Please make sure to be there 10 minutes in advance.

About Asako Kato

Asako Kato is a culinary artist originally from Tokyo, Japan. Five years ago, she initiated her vegan sushi dream called ASA Vegan Sushi, with love and respect to Japanese sushi heritage and vegetables. She has been largely inspired by the philosophy of Shojin Ryori, a cuisine of Japanese Buddhist monks, translated as food of devotion, and the art of one the most refined and minimalistic cuisines, sushi. She has been creating her own world of plant-based sushi to offer the sensorial experience of harmony and appreciation, shedding a new light on vegetables.

Private Dinner @droog

In May 2022, during the lockdown, Asako Kato organised a private dinner event in @droog’s previous One and Only Bedroom. Only a couple of people had the pleasure to experience the Japanese culinary journey as it should be: in an intimate setting, with the chef herself at the table to explain the philosophy behind each dish as well as the crockeries she brought from Japan.

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credits

Top picture: Kumi Oguro, Private Dinner: Leonardo Grassi and Flyer: Elmer Driessen