Are you curious about other people and cultures? Have you always wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes at a cultural institution? Join Extended and sign up for the new workshop series Collectivity!
Collectivity
Are you up for something different on Saturdays? EXTENDED, the youth collective of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, is kicking off a new edition on October 25 — and you can join in!
Together with other young people, you’ll get to work directly with artists, dive into their creative worlds, and discover what really goes on behind the scenes of a cultural institution. Each week you’ll explore themes like migration, diaspora, and community (linked to the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes at Marres), while trying out workshops, visiting exhibitions, and building towards your very own project that will be shown during Museumnacht 2026.
Oh, and yes — you’ll also earn some money while doing it. Every Saturday from 12:00 to 14:00, you’ll be part of a group that’s curious, creative, and ready to experiment.
Because of the big interest in this edition, all Extended spots are currently filled — but we’d be happy to add you to the waiting list.
Past projects:
The very first EXTENDED WEEKEND EDITION
Ready to dive headfirst into three days of art, culture, and creativity? This unique weekend brings you together with other young creatives and art professionals to explore the world of performance, visual arts, and experiment.
What to expect?
• Inspiring workshops led by amazing artists (like performer and dancer Amparo González Sola)
• Guidance from a professional coach
• Teaming up on one collective final project
• Exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Marres & the Jan van Eyck Academie
• A final presentation on Sunday – your time to shine!
Whether you’re already creating or just curious about the art world – this is your chance to make, explore, and express yourself.
Date: September 19–21, 2025
Location: Marres & Jan van Eyck Academie – Maastricht
👉 The registration deadline has passed, but soon you’ll be able to sign up for the next edition: Collectivity, which starts on October 25, 2025.
Weekend Edition Program
Amparo González Sola
The first workshop will be led by choreographer Amparo González Sola. She works at the intersection of dance and attentive listening. Her practice includes performance and participatory experiments shaped by feminist activism, migration, and a continuous search for reciprocity. Gestures are central to González Sola’s practice: she approaches them as portals to memory and as connections between bodies, shaped by context, passed down through generations, and always relational. Her performance stems from a sense of distance in a world where an endless stream of images reaches us through the media, threatening to numb our capacity to feel. By focusing on small gestures, González Sola invites us to reconsider dynamics of distance and proximity, and to reflect on what it means to bear witness.
Simone Gisela Weber
On Saturday you are invited to join the Movement and Performance Workshop with Simone Gisela Weber, a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist based in Maastricht. Simone studied dance, art, and choreography in Berlin, Helsinki, and Amsterdam. Her work takes many forms—from video and installation to stage performances, projects for young audiences, and research workshops. She explores long-term questions around class, ecology, and our relationships with the more-than-human world. Right now, she is researching pagan carnival traditions as a post-human concept. The aim is to (re)discover your body as a storyteller—expressing ideas beyond words, meaning, and logic. Please wear sneakers and comfortable clothes that allow you to move freely.
Luca Conte
The second workshop on Saturday is led by transdisciplinary artist Luca Conte. His workshop will revolve around Solve et Coagula, a research project that creates a sensory experience to nurture ecological awareness within a shared space. Using food as both medium and catalyst, produce is transformed and savored, fostering a sense of abundance. At its core lies an alchemical process—a quiet, ongoing exploration of transformation: of matter, of meaning, and of self.
What is Extended?
Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie collaborate on the education program Extended: the youth program of both institutes, where you work on a social art project for four months under professional guidance. At Extended, you research in a team how to make young people use or experience their senses in a different way. How can you make people hear, feel, smell, see or taste something to make them think?
Marres researches the senses in contemporary culture. Extended offers you an unique look behind the scenes through your own project. With the knowledge and assistance of curators, scientists, artists and communication heroes, you’ll discover contemporary culture from different sides.
Customized education programs
Marres develops customized programs for educational institutions, companies and organizations and regularly supervises interns. Curious about the possibilities? Please contact us to discuss the possibilities.
What’s new?
Curious what Marres’ education team is up to? Check out all the projects and read the latest news in the education blog.
Support
Extended introduces teenagers and young adults from different backgrounds to contemporary art and the urgent societal topics on its agenda, such as sustainability and inclusivity. Focusing on one topic or discipline, the young researchers will investigate how they can translate their knowledge to their peers. The programme is carried out twice a year and each time runs for four months.
Marres and Jan van Eyck Academie work together with different schools and organizations to make this project a success;
– LVO – Stichting Limburg Voortgezet Onderwijs
– Cultuurbegeleiders PABO Sittard
– Stichting SIEN
– Kumulus
– Het Kunstcarroussel
– Maastricht University
– Zuyd Hogeschool
– Bernard Lievegoed College
– United World College
Thank you to the Municipality of Maastricht for the support in realising this programme.
