Currents #4 | Nathalie de Corte

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Nathalie de Corte | Elegies

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Espen Sommer Eide – The Distribution of the Audible

The sound installation The Distribution of the Audible by Espen Sommer Eide is a reflection upon the role of sound in times of unrest and uproar. How is sound distributed from the government down to the individual, and how does the unified voice of the people ecco back to the places of power? Where and how is the structure of sound distributed in society? The main part of the installation consists of a custom made public address sound system constructed of discarded public speakers from various countries and organisations. The speakers, that previously were fixed outside and inside buildings, have been made portable and battery powered so they can easily be moved and displaced to new locations. The frequency of the sound from these speakers is narrow and shrill, and purposely shaped to make a human voice cut through the noise and clamour of a crowded place.

Specially for the exhibition Undertones, organised. by Marres, the sound installation was installed in the old monastery and prison cellars of the Minderbroeders. In what used to be places of silent repentance and reflection, the artist has created a site specific sound composition.

Listen to a fragment of the sound installation here.

Graindelavoix – Maastricht Cryptonomies

Graindelavoix

Graindelavoix developed a sound installation for Undertones in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Servatius. The Graindelavoix music collective was formed by Björn Schmelzer in 2000. The company performs worldwide and is renowned for its interpretations of European musical traditions. For Marres they worked on a new composition called Maastricht Cryptonomies in The Basilica of St. Servatius, based on the oldest office chants from the Netherlands, which are dedicated to Saint Servatius. In Maastricht Cryptonomies, Graindelavoix interprets the antiphons and responsoria of Saint Servatius. The medieval legend surrounding St. Servatius tells of how the saint’s body repeatedly disappeared from the Basilica’s crypt, only to appear elsewhere to perform a miracle. Graindelavoix sees parallels between the crypt and a sound box: a hollow chamber that exudes maximum resonance. The live performance of the composition took place on 22 July 2014.

Performers: Marius Peterson (vocals), David Hernandez (vocals), Jean-Christophe Brizard (vocals), Margarida Garcia (electric bass), Manuel Mota (electric guitar), Alex Fostier (sound), Björn Schmelzer (vocals and artistic director).

Marres Movements | Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir – Improvisation for painting

Improvisation for painting

Amsterdam-based artist Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir intervened during Marres Movements with a new, site-specific iteration of her artwork Improvisation For Painting (2013), first shown at Alpineum Produzenten gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland and at The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In various rooms of the exhibition The Painted Bird, Helgadóttir’s sculptural display structures served as framing devices to isolate visual elements of Marres’ painted interior, inciting three musicians to intuitively translate those fragments through live improvisation on electric guitar, electric bass and saxophone.

Inspired by the Slow Research theme ‘Not-Knowing,’ the afternoon and evening happenings were pure improvisation: real-time encounters that invite emotional engagement and openness to the present moment as the music adds a new, fluid layer to the already-rich environment of the exhibition.

Improvisation for painting was performed by Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir, Bergur Thomas Andersen, Tumi Árnason and Indridi Ingólfsson.

Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir

Hrafnhildur Helgadóttir (IS, 1987) is an independent visual artist and one of the founding members of the London and Amsterdam-based collective HARD-CORE. A central element of Helgadóttir’s artistic practice is her exploration of the ‘display’. She often works with musicians, incorporating live performance into her artworks. Helgadóttir brings to The Painted Bird her own personal reflection on European identity from the perspective of a peripheral nation with a long history of its own, and a sometimes-complicated relationship with the European project.

Helgadóttir’s work is kindly supported by the European Pavilion. The performance was curated by Carolyn F. Strauss of Slow Research Lab , Amsterdam

Marres Movements | Christopher Tignor – Listening Walk

Marres Movements

Listening Walk

Composer and musician Christopher Tignor created for the performance series Marres Movements a walking tour. The tour began in the centre of The Painted Bird exhibition at Marres and gradually moved out of the building and into the streets, returning to the institution at the end of the experience.

The Listening Walk led participants along a carefully orchestrated route, transitioning through different physical environments as they took in the emotive and thematic contours of the music through personal headphones.  Based on the Slow Research theme ‘Intimacy,’ the experience transforms the normally solitary act of headphone-listening into a social and performative act that unfolds both physically and perceptually through a rich mix of introspection and active engagement.

Listen on SoundCloud

Christopher Tignor

A classically trained violinist since age 3, who has playing rock and roll since adolescence, Christopher Tignor (US, 1976) studied creative writing at Bard College, has an MS in computer science from NYU, and a PhD in music composition from Princeton.

This performance was curated by Carolyn F. Strauss of Slow Research Lab, Amsterdam

Marres Movements | Dario Tortorelli – Dance Improvisations

Marres Movements

Dance Improvisations

Can our bodies be invisible and present at the same time? How can we disconnect from the space we are in and at the same time give the impression that we belong? While visitors experience The Painted Bird, a dancer enters the exhibition space with the simple task of experiencing the space as entirely new and going through the motions of what in dance is called ‘training and transcending the body’: slow-motion bodies, projecting bodies, infinite bodies, traveling bodies, timeless bodies, visible and invisible bodies, transforming bodies, adapting bodies, transcending bodies.

Dario Tortorelli

Dario Tortorelli (IT, 1977) approaches dance through a process of visualization and the incorporation of images. He was trained as a classical and contemporary dancer at the Brenda Hamlyn School in Florence (IT) and the Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes (FR). He was a member of the Ballet of the Opera of Nice and Introdans (Arnhem). As a dancer, choreographer and coach he has worked with Conny Janssen Danst (Rotterdam), Ann Van den Broek (Antwerp) and The Dutch Dance Days (Maastricht), among others. Together with Fred Bax he created the DIVEinD foundation to further his research as a choreographer and maker. In Dario’s work the body takes up a central role as a concrete entity that possesses physical and intuitive knowledge, and as a philosophical concept, an entity of transformation, which he explores through his alter ego character Romeo Heart.

Marres Movements | Christopher Tignor – Along a Vanishing Plane

Along a Vanishing Plane

Brooklyn-based composer, musician and software engineer Christopher Tignor performs his solo album Along A Vanishing Plane, featuring original compositions for violin, percussion, tuning forks, and software instruments.

“This music is first and foremost about what can be done together, live in a room, to both transcend and reclaim ourselves from the noise of public living. These songs offer wordless hymns and pulsing harmonic frameworks one might use to focus their own contemporary values. I wanted time back in electronic music. I also wanted the body back; our rituals begin with the physical. All sounds originate from me kicking a drum, playing the violin, or various natural percussion sources. I built software that lets me do all this. There’s so much space in this music, it’s just essential – listening to a phrase decay in the room before proceeding.”
-Tignor about the album

Christopher Tignor

A classically trained violinist since age 3, who has playing rock and roll since adolescence, Christopher Tignor (US, 1976) studied creative writing at Bard College, has an MS in computer science from NYU, and a PhD in music composition from Princeton. His experimental, electro-acoustic compositions and performance practice offer a stimulating confluence of European classical and American popular musical traditions.

Along A Vanishing Plane is listed on Spotify and available on iTunes.

Marres Movements | Dario Tortorelli – D NO BODY 5

D NO BODY 5 #transcending

D NO BODY is a series of dance performances and installations that explore the meaning of identity. The series plays with the boundaries between body and icon, and explores the ways in which our self-images are contained and reflected in and by others. Part 5 of this series reflects on new ways of representing the abstraction of our bodies into self-images. Through his alter ego Romeo Heart Tortorelli lets us imagine how we might feel the things we see, evoking sensory experiences beyond the visual. The piece is created in collaboration with visual artists Nikki Hock and Annika Kappner.

The Dutch premiere of D NO BODY 5 will take place in October 2017 during the Dutch Dance Days Festival in Maastricht.

Dario Tortorelli

Dario Tortorelli (IT, 1977) approaches dance through a process of visualization and the incorporation of images. He was trained as a classical and contemporary dancer at the Brenda Hamlyn School in Florence (IT) and the Centre de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes (FR). He was a member of the Ballet of the Opera of Nice and Introdans (Arnhem). As a dancer, choreographer and coach he has worked with Conny Janssen Danst (Rotterdam), Ann Van den Broek (Antwerp) and The Dutch Dance Days (Maastricht), among others. Together with Fred Bax he created the DIVEinD foundation to further his research as a choreographer and maker. In Dario’s work the body takes up a central role as a concrete entity that possesses physical and intuitive knowledge, and as a philosophical concept, an entity of transformation, which he explores through his alter ego character Romeo Heart.

Deelnemende performers

Concept and choreography by Dario Tortorelli, in collaboration with Annika Kappner (visual artist), Nikki Hock (light and space artist), Nicole van den Berg, Paolo Yao Kouadio and Patrick Schmatzer (dancers), Thierry Castel (live music and composition), Judit Ruiz Onandi (rehearsal director) and Fred Bax (creative producer).

Met dank aan

The Performing Arts Fund, Rotterdam Council for Arts and Culture, The Pivot Dance Program (co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union), Dutch Dance Festival (Maastricht), The Place London (UK), Comune di Bassano del Grappa (IT), Via Zuid (Maastricht), Time Window Rotterdam and Dansateliers Rotterdam

Marres Movements | Annika Kappner – Future Petroleum

Future Petroleum

Future Petroleum by Annika Kappner is an installation performance adapted for Marres Movements to create a multi-sensorial tableau vivant that envelops the viewers. The work explored the layering of perception and the consumption of experiences offered by the fashion and entertainment industries, the corporate world and the art world. It wonders what form of energy source the vast stream of images that are created and consumed on a daily basis will eventually yield.

Future Petroleum was performed by Fina Anjou (SE), Nicola Baratto (IT), Karolien Buurman (NL), Arie de Fijter (BE), Aurélien Lepetit (FR).

Annika Kappner

Annika Kappner (DE, 1980) crafts multi-sensory experiences in the extended field of painting, by reverting principles of virtual and digital realities into the analogue realm to create glitches in perception. Prompted by her experience as an investment banker, her work targets the evolution of consciousness in relation to mental patterns and the underlying forces that shape their systemic counterparts in nature, visual arts, technology and science. She is a co-founder of the cross-modal artist collective Elephants & Volcanoes.

Future Petroleum was made possible with the support of the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts). The performance is part of Fashion Makes Sense, the 9th edition of FASHIONCLASH Festival in Maastricht (June 29 – July 2).

Kijkje in Kunst #6: Tonnie Jongen

In ‘Kijkje in Kunst’ gaan onze vloggers Marthe en Lieke op bezoek bij 6 verschillende kunstenaars die hun werk exposeren in de Limburg Biënnale. Gewapend met een camera bellen ze bij hen aan, benieuwd naar de kunstenaar achter het werk.

‘Ik hou van het grotere werk. Ik kan namelijk niet goed overweg met gepriegel, daar word ik nerveus van.’ Haar grote doek uit de serie ‘Mystique’ is 2 meter hoog en hangt in het trappenhuis bij Marres. Benieuwd naar Tonnie? Kijk dan mee!

Limburg Biënnale #1 | Open call

Are you resident of Limburg or the surrounding area and would you like to exhibit your artwork in Marres? This is your chance!

A Biënnale for everyone

From September 5 to November 15, Marres launches the first Limburg Biennale by following the tradition of the annual Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy in London. For this exhibition, the Royal Academy brings together all kinds of artists, professionals, amateurs, and hobbyists in a high-impact celebration of the arts. For the Limburg Biennale, Marres invites everyone in Limburg and the surrounding area to submit a maximum of three art works. A jury of professional artists will make a selection from these submitted works for the exhibition. The selected artists may choose to sell their works in the exhibition.

Wish to join?

The procedure is very easy. You can submit your work free of charge in an application that contains the following items:

  • Full name
  • Date of birth
  • Postal address
  • Telephone number
  • E-mail address
  • A maximum of three images per work for a maximum of three works of art
  • Short bio (max. 150 words)
  • Information about the submitted work(s), including title, year of completion, dimensions, weight, materials and price.

Please assemble this information in one PDF file and e-mail it to limburgbiennale@marres.org. Write ‘Registration for Limburg Biennale’ in the subject line.

By submitting your application, you agree to the terms and conditions below.

Terms and conditions

  • Participants must be resident in Limburg or the surrounding area.
  • Incomplete applications or applications that contain more than three works will not be processed.
  • Your application consists of one pdf file attached to your email.
  • You must be able to deliver and collect your work yourself.
  • Participants may submit a maximum of three different works of art and a maximum of three photos for each work of art.
  • A jury of professional artists will make a selection from the submitted works.
  • Marres does not offer climate control and UV-resistant glass.
  • The selected work of art may be put on sale. If the work is sold, 80% of the proceeds go to the artist and the rest goes to Marres. For artists that are under contract with galleries and wish to sell their work at Marres, other arrangements will be made.
  • Please note: there is limited space for large/heavy installations and performances.

Members of the jury; Chaim van Luit, Charlotte Lagro, Esther Janssen, Hadassah Emmerich, Joan van Barneveld, Keetje Mans, Marta Volkova en Slava Shevelenko, Mike Moonen, Sidi El Karchi, Tanja Ritterbex en Vera Gulikers

Currents #3 | Video 5

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #3 | Video 4

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #3 | Video 3

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #3 | Video 2

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #3 | Video 1

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #3 | De Curators

Marres presents the third episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. The curators Ina Hollmann, Agata Jaworska, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Sightseeing, dedicated to the many routes artists explore to reinvent the world.

With Carlos Alfonso, Darcey Bennett, Maud van den Beuken, Linde Boelen, Jan van den Bosch, Asieh Dehghani, Stef van den Dungen, Mirte van Duppen, Ivo van den Elzen, Bauke Evers, Alessandra Ghiringhelli, Mikaël Groc, Fanny Hagmeier, Anja Kempa, Eva L’Hoest, Denis Maksimov, Claudia Mann, Thomas Min, Roel Neuraij, Renan Schulze & Eline Kersten (Re-Collective), Charlotte Smet, Skye Sun and Gladys Zeevaarders.

Currents #2 | Vincent Vreeke Evelien Mattheij Hanne Haesevoets Mike Moonen

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent

development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | Thorben Eggers Tom Hallet Oliver Blumek Lydia Debeer

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators
a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | R’m Aharoni

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators
a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | Polien Boons Simon Weins Caroline Eidner

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators
a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | Jerome Daly

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators
a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | Griet Moors Laura van Biervliet Timo van Grinsven

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #2 | De curatoren

Marres Currents #2: Rumour Has It is the second episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents. With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development. In an exhibition full of stories, shapes, colours, and movement, the artists reach out to meet an audience that is also searching for new ways to grasp the world.

Currents #3 Blog Marres

Currents #3: Sightseeing

My Practice, My Politics

Man is a political animal. Whether calculated or unintentional, explicit or implicit, there is an embedded political dimension to everything we do. My Practice, My Politics will explore how art, too, is inherently political.

Through this assignment, I would like to investigate the ways in which the personal and the political intersect; how these realms come together in art, in an art practice and in the context in which art is encountered.

Within this, several dichotomies will be challenged: rational vs. emotional, subjective vs. objective, private vs. public, selfish vs. altruistic. In other words, the project will seek emerging manifestations, interfaces and exchanges between the “me” and the “others”.

My Practice, My Politics will seek to portray the way in which artists operate and position themselves on what is ultimately a political stage – the channels they use, the language and tools they employ, the aesthetics they manifest, and the audience they engage. Of particular interest is the role of subjectivity in telling political stories, the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and the real-world need for imagined alternatives.

The exhibition will seek not only to reflect upon the art scene of the immediate present, but also on the current state of political affairs. I hope that by looking at what artists are doing, we can gain insight into what is happening in politics today (and what may happen in the near future).

Simultaneously, the project will explore ways in which a curatorial practice and political expression can overlap. The intention is not to make any political statement in particular, but rather to study the ways in which political statements are being made, and to reflect upon which political statements and methods are relevant today.

This proposed direction is a starting point, which inevitably will be modified and perhaps even changed entirely. It is a hypothesis. By striving for an explicit argument (a visual or spatial essay perhaps), Marres Currents #3 will not only present emerging talents, but also will contribute to current discussions on the role of the artist in the political sphere. The presentation will formulate a position that can be discussed and deepened.

Agata Jaworska

Currents #5 | Ektor Ntourakos

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #4 | Tim Bruggeman

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Tim Bruggeman – Moment of Impact

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Ties van Dijk

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Ties van Dijk – Public Homebase

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Thomas Wachholz

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Thomas Wachholz – Untitled Billboard Maastricht

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Tessa Groenewoud

Tessa Groenewoud – Why do people keep photographs?

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Romee van Oers

Romee van Oers – Untitled

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Reinier Vrancken

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Reinier Vrancken – Where are we now? The great gig in the sky

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Ralph Collier

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Ralph Collier – The Hidden Character

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Puck Vonk

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Puck Vonk – The neologism of the female voice

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Miriam Sentler

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Miriam Sentler – Archipel

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #4 | Kiki Goossen

Marres Currents #4 Running Time
Kiki Goossen – Solar Sound

Marres presents the fourth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The curators Barbara Cueto and Bas Hendrikx present in this edition of Marres Currents the exhibition Running Time. It refers to the moment before an idea solidifies – the occasion that ignites the creative process.

Currents #5 | Henry Andersen

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Felix Breidenbach

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Alejandro Cerón

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Aurélie d’Incau

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Maria Gil Ulldemolins

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #5 | Je$uus

Marres presents the fifth episode of the annual exhibition series titled Marres Currents with work of recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Curators Evelyn Simons and Isabel Van Bos present I spy, I spy a little lie.

By re-examining the tools we use to communicate with one another, the works in this exhibition address how information and knowledge are shared today.

Currents #8 | Karen Zimmermann

Karen Zimmermann (1986, Germany) obtained her master’s degree at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne in 2020. Throughout her work, art forms including installation, video, and performance continuously influence each other. During Currents #8 Karen shows the multi-channel video installation The Mother With One Arm which simultaneously shows these cross-pollinations in action.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Eugen Wist

Eugen Wist (1989, Russia) moved from Russia to Germany at a young age: a transformative experience of melancholy and longing that abstractly finds its way in his sculptural installations. He studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Daniel Vorthuys

After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in Literature at the University of Amsterdam, Daniel Vorthuys (1990, The Netherlands) chose the relatively new master’s programme Theatre Practices at ArtEZ in Arnhem. Currents #8 displays his graduation film MALFUCTION in which he investigates different forms of the concepts of ‘failure’ and ‘disturbance’ – the opposite of ‘functioning’.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Marios Pavlou

Marios Pavlou (1989, Cyprus) studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and graduated from the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. His artwork shown during Currents #8, Last night I dreamt that water loved me, is a hybrid environment with strong visual and tactile impulses. By illuminating life-sized digital prints Marios creates an intimate setting. As if the artist would take you by the hand and join you for a walk into the sea in the middle of the night.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Hilde Onis

Throughout the various rooms of Marres parts of Hilde Onis’ (1994, The Netherlands) installation The neighbours fence is not made out of biscuits either can be found. In her work, various systems of language, recognizable objects, and physical metaphors play a refined game for one’s attention. The various works find themselves in-between installation, sculpture, and drawing. Hilde graduated at ArtEZ and successfully finished her master Fine Arts at KASK in Ghent.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Anthony Ngoya

Past, present and future flow past each other in the work of Anthony Ngoya (1995, France) who obtained both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at La Cambre in Brussels. By often working with found objects, he chooses materials that already carry explicit history.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | María Morales Arango

María Morales Arango (1993, Colombia) obtained a master’s degree in Photography from LUCA Brussels. Previously, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia. In María’s video, The Nymph’s Accident, which she exhibits at Currents #8, she speculates about an artist who accidentally catches a nymph with her camera while filming a mountain stream in northern Italy.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Nilz Källgren & Wilf Speller

Nilz Källgren’s (1989, Sweden) and Wilf Speller’s (1991, United Kingdom) video-installation still life voices various characters and entities. From the beating heart of the installation their work grows and flows through the veins of Marres into other rooms and in-between spaces.

Nilz received a master Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art London and is currently on a leave of absence from the Dutch Art Institute. Wilf graduated from the Dutch Art Institute this summer and previously obtained a master in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Puck Kroon

Words and their relation to each other and the artist, often play an important role in the work of Puck Kroon (1996, The Netherlands). Unsurprisingly, many words have been used to describe her artistic practice: artist, philosopher, researcher, archivist, reporter. Puck obtained er bachelor Fine Arts at AKV St Joost Breda. Currently she studies at the master F For Fact at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Günbike Erdemir

In the works of Günbike Erdemir (1995, Turkey), female and mystical figures, fertility, queerness and sensuality all appear as suggestive elements. Günbike studied product design at Istanbul Bilgi University, followed by a master in Autonomous Design at KASK, Ghent.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Manon Clement

Manon Clement (1997, Belgium), obtained the master’s degree Textile Design at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent. Her textile works exhibited at Currents #8 convey an interest in language and the ambiguous meaning of specific words. At Marres Manon’s artworks revolve around the different appearances of the word ‘you’.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.

Currents #8 | Helena Julian & Tim Hollander

Helena Julian (Belgium) is a curator and writer. She studied Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Antwerp. She writes for artists, institutions and magazines and teaches at the Sandberg Instituut. She was an assistant curator for If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution and organized solo exhibitions for bologna.cc.

Tim Hollander (The Netherlands) is an artist, curator, scenographer and designer. He earned his Bachelor Fine Arts at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in 2014 and in attended the residency program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht 2016-2017. He works in a variety of media including installation, sculpture, drawing and self-published books.

The eighth edition of Currents, a coproduction with Z33, titled And Me, Streams of You, brings together 14 young artists from Belgium, Germany and Southeast Netherlands in a network of stories, experiences, and viewpoints.