Categories: Activity

At the end of November, Alejandro Galván will begin painting a chronicle of Mexico at Marres, viewed from the perspective of the working-class neighborhood Neza in the State of Mexico. The work, titled Vultures & Fireflies, will fill the entire house and will have its festive opening on March 15, 2025. In the months leading up to the opening, a series of sneak previews and events will take place around the artwork.

Keep an eye on our website and socials for the full program surrounding Vultures & Fireflies! The Friday Night Opening is completely free to attend, but we highly appreciate an RSVP.

Date:
Friday night 14 February 2025

Time:
6-9PM

Location:
Marres, Maastricht

The exhibition runs from March 13 to August 31, 2025.

With the supervision of Anna Elffers, students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University are currently conducting research at Marres. Their aim is to analyze both our digital and in-person audiences and to suggest  a digitalization strategy that effectively serves both groups. They will dive into the system that accounts for visitors and they will conduct interviews with members of the staff. Conclusions will be presented at the end of November. 

Students from the Visual Communication Department of the Maastricht Institute of Arts presented their photo and video work, using Marres’ house and Arturo Kameya’s Opaque Spirits exhibition as a source of inspiration.

As part of the orientation trips organized by the Mondriaan Fund, representatives of cultural institutions from Central America visited the Netherlands to meet with local curators, artists, and institutions and to explore future collaborations.

During their visit, they met artists Arturo Kameya and Claudia Martínez Garay in their studios in Amsterdam and visited the exhibition Opaque Spirits at Marres.

For four weeks, the students of primary school Sint Aloysius in Maastricht participated in the project The Invisible Collection.

Children described their favorite artwork, sharing their feelings when they see or smell it, what they fantasize about, and what they think about it. The project teaches children to reflect on their own perceptions and the experiences of others. Teachers can use this story archive to explore themes such as identity, culture, society, language, and history in their own way.

Following an audio story about the ‘cockroach world’ by Peruvian artist Arturo Kameya, featured in the exhibition Opaque Spirits, the students created their own stories and crafted models of their fantasy worlds using various materials.

Until Sunday 12 May, their creations will be exhibited in the ice house at the back of the Marres garden. Visitors can also listen to their recorded stories for The Invisible Collection. Our city garden and the ice house are free to visit for everyone. Children under 18 always get free entrance to the exhibition.

Are you interested in an educational project at your school? Please send an email to education@marres.org.

During the thematic meeting on Citizenship & Cultural Education organized by Pit Cultuurwijzer in Heerlen, the education department of Marres, as a cultural partner, provided a sub-session on this theme.

Our education program, including the Erasmus+ SensesSquared project, was discussed. The workshop “Catching Your Eye” from our Training the Senses series also served as inspiration. Puppeteers and magicians are masters at directing attention. They show you how to use techniques to steer perception. At the same time, you become aware of how you focus or distribute your attention.

The education program Extended is a joint project of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academy, where young people work in teams for four months on a social art project. In Extended, young people explore how to use or experience their senses in a different way. In doing so, they are helped by curators, scientists, artists and communication heroes so that the cultural sector is discovered from different sides.

The group of young people that started in February 2024 will explore the themes of culture and identity. In the past weeks, they received a sound massage workshop from Hans Van Regenmortel of Musica Impulscentrum (BE), walked the scent walk In search of Lost Time by Sanne Vaassen, participated in workshops by Cemre Kara in which they learned to visualize scent and walked through the exhibition Opaque Spirits using various visible thinking assignments and sensory mapping. In the last two weeks, the youth are working on ideas for their final project, for which they already held a presentation during Museum Night on April 19 at the Jan van Eyck Academy.

Students from Broeklandcollege in Hoensbroek participated in the workshop series Extended_VMBO, a 3-week program inspired by Extended’s research on new sustainable materials for fashion and design.

The aim of these lessons is to expose young people to contemporary culture and issues by engaging with them in a practical manner and developing their own ideas.

The workshop series begins with a sensory introduction to sustainable materials. Students touch, smell, and identify wool, hemp, cotton, paper pulp, and polyester. They explore the uses of the materials and the processing steps they undergo.

On May 23, they visit the exhibition Opaque Spirits by artist Arturo Kameya. During an interactive tour, students gather inspiration for their own design object through sketching. They are inspired by the methods of artists Yi-Jing and Vincent Dassi. Old paper is pulped with water. Then the pulp is sieved and mixed with a sustainable adhesive. This creates a malleable material with which the young people create their own designs.

In the subsequent meetings at school, the young people work on the practical implementation of their design and focus on the concept.

Then, during an evaluation session, students reflect on the production process, their own design, and the connection between sustainability and design.

Are you also interested in an Extended project at school? Then send an email to education@marres.org.

Maastricht bursts with culture! As part of the Rondje Cultuur (Culture Tour) program, students of the Bernard Lievegoed College in Maastricht visited the exhibition Opaque Spirits at Marres.

In consultation with their teacher, students will visit one or more cultural institutions. On-site, they will answer a set of questions using a viewing guide that clearly outlines what visitors can do, experience, or encounter at the respective institution.

The Rondje Cultuur project is organized by Kunst uit het Vuistje.

Museum Week: from 30 March until 5 April

Do you have a Museum Card? Then you can visit museums unlimitedly throughout the whole year. During the Museum Week, you get the opportunity to lend your card to someone else. In this manner, a greater number of individuals can familiarize themselves with the unique offerings available in museums. Who will you lend your card to?

The Museum Card is also available at the reception of Marres. More information about the Museum Week can be found at museum.nl.

During the Museum Week, you can visit the unique exhibition “Opaque Spirits” by Arturo Kameya in collaboration with Claudia Martínez Garay. On view through May 26th, 2024.

Young people from Broeklandcollege in Hoensbroek participate in the workshop series Extended_VMBO, a 6-week program inspired by Extended’s research on new sustainable materials for fashion and design.

The aim of these lessons is to expose young people to contemporary culture and issues by engaging with them in a practical manner and developing their own ideas.

The workshop series begins with a sensory introduction to sustainable materials. Students touch, smell, and identify wool, hemp, cotton, paper pulp, and polyester. They explore the uses of the materials and the processing steps they undergo.

On May 23, they visit the exhibition Opaque Spirits by artist Arturo Kameya. During an interactive tour, students gather inspiration for their own design object through sketching. They are inspired by the methods of artists Yi-Jing and Vincent Dassi. Old paper is pulped with water. Then the pulp is sieved and mixed with a sustainable adhesive. This creates a malleable material with which the young people create their own designs.

In the subsequent meetings at school, the young people work on the practical implementation of their design and focus on the concept.

Then, during an evaluation session, students reflect on the production process, their own design, and the connection between sustainability and design.

The project takes place weekly on May 16, May 23, May 30, June 6, June 13, and June 20, 2024.

Are you also interested in an Extended project at school? Then send an email to education@marres.org.

The Social Hub Maastricht (formerly The Student Hotel) is a hotel where travellers, locals and students get together to learn, stay, work and play.

Together with a number of interested participants, The Social Hub visited the exhibition Opaque Spirits by Arturo Kameya.

Under the name onderzoek-ateliers (research workshops), ARTWARE regularly collaborates with students from the Maastricht Institute of Arts and the Maastricht Academy of Architecture (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences). The collaboration with these students leads to educational situations that focus the research workshops on a debate beyond art.

On March 12, participants of the research workshops visited the exhibition Opaque Spirits by Arturo Kameya.

Students from the University College UCCL in Leuven visit the Opaque Spirits exhibition and get educational inspiration during a workshop provided by Marres.

On March 5, students from the Bachelor Fine Art and Design in Education Maastricht (FADE) visited Marres to gather inspiration.

Marres offers an education program for-and together with-schools at all learning levels. Central to these projects is the training of perception. In interactive programs at school or at Marres, pupils, schoolchildren and students discover what sensory knowledge comes from experiencing contemporary art.

Teachers can visit with classes but students can also visit independently. In addition, Marres brings projects to schools. Together with schools, Marres also develops tailor-made programs. Marres does not limit itself to art alone, but also involves other disciplines such as languages, philosophy, geography, history and chemistry.

On 7 March 2024, the enchanting exhibition Opaque Spirits by Peruvian artist Arturo Kameya kicked off with an immersive tour for staff and volunteers.

Students from Broeklandcollege in Hoensbroek participated in the Extended VMBO workshop series, a program inspired by Extended’s research into new sustainable materials for fashion and design.

The aim of these classes is to bring young people into contact with contemporary culture and issues by engaging with them in a practical way and developing their own ideas.

The workshop series started with a sensory introduction to sustainable materials. The students felt, smelled and named wool, hemp, cotton, paper pulp and polyester. They explored what the materials are used for and what processing steps the materials undergo.

During an interactive guided tour of the exhibition in Marres, the students sketch and gain inspiration for their own design object. They are inspired by the working methods of artist Yi-Jing and Vincent Dassi. Old paper is made into pulp with water. The pulp is then sieved and mixed with a durable glue. A workable material is created with which the youngsters create their own design.

In subsequent meetings at school, the youth worked on the practical implementation of their design and focused on the concept. Among other things, they created a desk lamp, drumsticks, a crown, pen holder and frisbee out of paper pulp, and from wool they prick-felted a bracelet, dog hat and a neptune trident, among others.

During an evaluation moment, students reflected on the creation process, their own design and the connection of sustainability and design.

Interested in an Extended project at school? Mail to educatie@marres.org

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended the opening of the intriguing exhibition “Opaque Spirits” by Arturo Kameya on 9 March. We really enjoyed your company and enthusiastic reactions!

The exhibition is made in collaboration with Claudia Martínez Garay.

“Opaque Spirits” will be on view through May 26th, 2024. A must-see!

Date

Saturday 9 March 2024

Time

5PM

Location

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht, NL

All Marres openings are free, you don’t need a reservation or ticket.

Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academy collaborate on the education program Extended: the youth program of both institutes, where participants between the age of 14 – 21 years, 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?

Last term, the Extended group worked on a project about food and love.

A new group will start in Feb. 2024. Want to join? Send an email to anneke.haane@marres.org. After registering, you will receive an invitation to come meet Extended.

Locations: Marres, House for Contemporary Culture and the Jan van Eyck Academy.

Prior to the Friends preview and the opening, artists Jinju Lee and James Webb gave our valuable volunteers an interesting tour of the Goodbye to Love exhibition.

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture is open on Boxing Day from 12 to 5 PM.

Visit the exhibition Goodbye to Love during the Christmas holidays. Kiss or hug under the mistletoe and take the polaroid home as a memento, share your stories of love and enjoy each other’s company.

Marres Kitchen is open on Boxing Day between 12 to 5 PM and 6 to 11 PM.

To reserve a table, call +31 (0) 6 13 33 35 83

Marres Kitchen will be closed from 30 December 2023 to 8 January 2024

Happy holidays!

Queer Art Club from Maastricht explored the ‘Goodbye to Love’ exhibition at Marres with a guided tour.

With the iconic piece ‘Goodbye to Love I – Light of Illusion’ of Korean artist Hyesoo Park in mind, they continued the visit with an origami workshop.

Publication by means of performance

On January 27 & 28, Marres, VIA ZUID, De Brakke Grond, Dansateliers and FASHIONCLASH present performance festival Rooms. A weekend in which young makers and established talents fill the rooms of Marres with theater, visual art, dance, fashion and music.

During Rooms, six people will have the chance to create their own handwritten book led by artist David Maroto. In a participatory performance, he will dictate the original, English manuscript of his work Not All of Me Will Die to a group of participants who will each write it down by hand. Thus, the ‘oral novella’, which reflects on memory, writing and the desire for posterity, will be distributed in unique handwritten copies.

The performance will take place on Saturday, January 27, 2024 from 10:00-15:00.

Would you like to participate? Send us an email with the subject ‘David Maroto’ to: reserveringen@marres.org. Please include your name and contact info. You also get free access to the rest of Rooms Saturday.

A new group of Extended will start 30 September 2023.

Extended meets every Saturday between 12:00-14:00 from September 30, 2023 through January 20, 2024 (excluding school vacations).

Locations: Marres, House for Contemporary Culture and the Jan van Eyck Academy.

With love, Marres would like to invite you to the festive opening of the exhibition Goodbye to Love: Conversation of all those whose lips are sealed.

Date

Saturday 30 September

Time

5PM

Location

Marres, Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht

Featuring works by Hyesoo Park, Jinju Lee and James Webb, the exhibition Goodbye to Love addresses the ways in which we have become lost in our worlds, drifting with our memories, searching for anchors, dealing with loneliness and aching for comfort.

We hope to welcome you then!