Categories: City garden

Quiet x Marres sponsored dinner

Marres Kitchen
Photo: Sasha Ruland

Uncover the meaning of art!

Purchase a ticket for the sponsor dinner and support the collaboration between Quiet Maastricht and Marres, House for Contemporary Culture. Thanks to your contribution, Marres can continue developing art and cultural programs that actively engage, inspire, and truly reach people. Members of Quiet Maastricht are given the opportunity to participate again and experience activities that many take for granted, but that often remain out of reach for them. With your support, we can help make hidden poverty visible and break through the stigma of shame.

We warmly welcome you to a special evening featuring a presentation by Ralf Embrechts, founder of Quiet Nederland, speed tours of the Limburg Biennial exhibition, and of course a delicious dinner prepared by Marres Kitchen.

Date:

Monday, 6 July, 2026

Time:

4:30PM Doors open
5:00PM Start program
8:30PM End

Entrance:

Purchase your ticket via the button below for €145 (incl. 21% VAT) and download the invoice immediately after your purchase.

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht


Tickets sponsordiner

Partners / thanks to:

Quiet Maastricht

Marres Garden Festival 2026

The Marres Garden Festival takes place on June 12 and 13 in Maastricht’s largest public city garden. Explore workshops, performances, and moments of connection in the heart of the city.

Moss
Nature-conscious workshop and sensory tent

by Anneke Wubbolts

Free entrance

Discover the magic of moss! As appreciation for nature wanes, so does the willingness to take climate action; the Moss project explores this through a sensory installation of moss that promotes tranquility, mindfulness, and respect for nature, followed by a workshop in which participants use natural, biodegradable materials to create temporary artworks that return to the earth, thereby strengthening the relationship between humans and nature.

While studying visual communication in Maastricht, Anneke Wubbolts learned to look at art, creators, and the world around her in a new way. After graduating, she founded her own company, studio KEANS. In her work, she combines various media and techniques to make social themes accessible and stimulate dialogue. Through this, she aims to spark awareness and forge new connections.

Date:

Friday, 12 June, 2026

Project Moss will also be on display on June 13!

Time:

5:30—8PM

Entrance:

Free

Language:

Dutch

Group size:

20 persons

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!

Free tickets
Marres’ garden around 1950

Hidden Stories of the Garden
Guided tour on history and green heritage

by Angelina Valleau

Discover the hidden layers of Marres’s urban garden and join us in exploring its history, value, and future, gaining practical knowledge and insights along the way.

Angelina Valleau (1971) is an expert in built heritage and its sustainability, with a growing specialization in green heritage: an often-overlooked aspect of historic preservation. Drawing on her “Green Heritage” program at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, she focuses on analyzing, evaluating, and future-proofing historic gardens and landscapes.

Date:

Saturday, 13 June, 2026

Time:

10—11AM

Entrance:

Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra

Language:

Dutch

Group size:

20 persons

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!

Day pass for Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Wilgenvrouwen garden in Sibbe

The Willow Women Project (Wilgenvrouwen)
Alchemical & Cyclical Garden workshop, including a group lunch

by Pleun Moons and Beatrice Pittman

Explore how a garden can function as a living workplace, where the relationship between art, spirituality, and natural cycles is brought to life through artistic inquiry, daily care, and self-sustaining practices.
At lunchtime, we’ll enjoy a plant-based meal together.

Pleun Moons draws inspiration from her collaboration with her garden, which centers on the relationship between humans and the earth. Her practice combines physical labor with more contemplative methods, resulting in a variety of forms such as paintings, dinners, and harvest festivals. She works cyclically: what grows is processed and returns as the foundation for new work. In this way, she develops a sustainable, ever-evolving practice.

Beatrice Pittman sees the bringing together of people, objects, and rituals as a form of “weaving.” This gives rise to interactive situations in which people and their surroundings enter into dialogue with one another. Her work is exploratory and experiential, with a focus on physicality and encounter. She draws on ancient crafts and rituals and works as a spaceholder: she creates and maintains a setting in which exchange and shared experience take center stage.

Date:

Saturday, 13 June, 2026

Time:

11AM—3:30PM

Entree:

Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra

Language:

Dutch

Group size

20 persons

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!

Day pass for Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Julia van de Kar
Ananya Samyt

Performance Plantelectra Orchestra / in roots connected

by Julia van de Kar and Ananya Samyt

Experience an intimate performance in which plants use technology to produce sound, effectively becoming musicians themselves. In a small, immersive setting, a performer moves among the plants and interacts with them, while their rhythms and vibrations become audible to the audience. Get closer to nature, which takes center stage here as a living presence.

Julia van de Kar is a theater artist, performer, and educator who graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts. She works intuitively and physically, focusing on voice and movement as universal forms of communication. Her performances exist in the space between the visible and the hidden, creating opportunities for connection and reflection. She also develops participatory workshops and works as a museum educator.

Ananya Samyt is a performer and sound artist who works at the intersection of nature and technology. Using modular synthesizers and biosensors, she translates electrical signals from plants into sound, with the plants acting as active creators. Her work often emerges in collaboration with musicians and invites a new way of listening, where nature and electronics converge.

Date:

Saturday, 13 June, 2026

Tijd:

3:30—5PM

Entrance:

Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra

Language:

Dutch/English

Group size:

20 personen

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!

Day pass for Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Hans Engelbrecht 

Throughout the day, ecological gardener Hans van Engelbrecht will be on hand to answer a wide range of questions about the flora and fauna in the Marres garden, which he knows like the back of his hand.

Hans Engelbrecht is the owner of the company De Groene Stap. He skillfully weaves together cultural history, ecology, and the surrounding environment. This results in a connection between gardens and landscaped spaces where nature and natural processes take center stage. In Maastricht, his projects include the Marres city garden, the Sphinxpark, and the Garden of Mercy.

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Information

The workshops will take place regardless of the weather, so please dress appropriately!

Questions? Email receptie@marres.org

Partners / thanks to

Marres receives ongoing support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the City of Maastricht.

Marres would also like to thank Hans Engelbrecht, the ecological gardener and designer of the city garden, our volunteer Thuur, and everything that grows and blooms in the garden.

Storytelling Night, Marres x Queer Art Club

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Marres and Queer Art Club are hosting a storytelling evening on Friday evening, 10 October 2025.

We invite you to gather around a campfire in Marres’ intimate city garden and listen to stories with “queer” as the theme.

With:
Marc Boas
Pia Breuer
Brunei Deneumostier
Frida Roper

Date:

Friday, 10 October 2025

Time:

inloop vanaf 18:00
storytelling: 18:30—20:30

Location:

Marres garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free admission
Please reserve a spot via reserveringen@marres.org. There’s a maximum of 50 visitors. The event is in English.

Partners / With thanks to:

Made possible by Cultuurmakers Maastricht

Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.

Neighborhood Gathering & Fruit Harvest

After a fun and successful edition in April, Marres will host another neighborhood gathering. Come join us in the Marres city garden. Everyone is welcome – neighbours, friends, and passers-by.

At around 1,000 m², the Marres garden is the largest public city garden in Maastricht. It features a vegetable patch, herb beds, and several fruit trees.

Together we’ll pick ripe figs (maybe even some apples!) and enjoy the fruit, drinks, and summery vibes. You’re welcome to take your harvest home with you.

Date:

Friday, 29 August 2025

Time:

Picking: 4:30—5:30PM
Drinks until 7:30PM

Location:

Marres City Garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Entry is free. We appreciate your RSVP at reserveringen@marres.org.



Closing presentation Extended

Risoprint Workshop at the Jan van Eyck Academie

Extended invites you to the presentation of their final project on Saturday, June 21st.

Over the past few months, Extended has been working with the theme of dreams, which served as the inspiration for their final project on lullabies. During the final presentation, we invite you to share your own lullabies with us, so we can listen to them together. Maybe, in doing so, we can escape our nightmares.

Date: 21 June 2025
Time: 12—2PM
Location: Marres City Garden, Maastricht

The educational program Extended is a collaborative project by Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, in which young people work together for four months on a socially engaged art project.

Read more about the Extended youth program

Marres Garden program

The garden of Marres is, at around 1,000 square meters, the largest public city garden in Maastricht. In August, Marres invites you to take part in workshops exploring all the beauty this hidden piece of nature has to offer.

Drawing workshop De Verborgen Taal van de Tuin (The Hidden Language of the Garden)

by Gladys Zeevaarders
Marres x Kasteel Wijlre Estate

How can you capture the essence of a place in a drawing? And how much space do we actually include when we draw a scene? In this special drawing workshop, we’ll dive into the garden of Marres and uncover its hidden language—a language of shapes, memories, and wonder.

You’ll receive a handmade field guide as your starting point, inviting you to set off on an adventurous pencil journey through the garden. This field guide will serve as the foundation for a personal archive we’ll build together, filled with sketches, mementos, and stories.

We’ll use this collection to question and explore the space and to create a visual narrative without words—told entirely through shapes and images. Inspired by old botanical illustrations, you’ll combine your own sketches with fragments of photos and stories from the past and present of the Marres garden.

With a variety of drawing materials and visual examples, Gladys will show how wordless visual stories can come to life. Explore books on forgotten plants to help shape a unique, personal interpretation of this walled garden.

This workshop is an invitation to slow down, to feel, and to connect deeply with the nature around us through drawing.

Date:

Saturday 23 August 2025

Times:

You can sign up for one of the two workshops:
12—2PM (Fully booked)
3—5PM (Last tickets!)

Admission:

€5,00 per person

Language:

Dutch

Group size:

Maximum of 12 persons per workshop

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Materials included:

  • Handmade field guide printed with Riso
  • A4 Arches 640gsm paper for the visual narrative
  • Various pencils and drawing materials
  • Collage paper
  • Botanical books (reference material)

Tickets
Photos: Gladys Zeevaarders

Linocut workshop

by Elisa Verkoelen
Fully booked!
 

The garden of Marres was the source of inspiration for the linocut that Elisa Verkoelen created a few years ago. “In the Marres garden, I saw how light and shadow alternated, and how the garden was made up of layers.”

On Sunday, August 24, 2025, she will lead a linocut workshop. Discover the Marres garden in a new way: work with negative space and let shadows and shapes tell new stories, which you will then translate into blind drawings and black-and-white linocuts.

No prior experience with linocutting is necessary to participate in the workshop. It is recommended to wear clothing that can get dirty.

Date:

Sunday 24 August 2025

Time:

You can sign up for one of the two workshops:
12—2PM (Fully booked)
3—5PM (Fully booked)

Admission:

€5,00 per person

Language:

Dutch

Group size:

Maximum of 8 persons per workshop

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Materials included

Tickets

Information

The workshops will take place in all weather conditions—please dress and equip yourself accordingly! 

Questions? Email receptie@marres.org

Would you also like to visit Vultures & Fireflies? You can with a valid admission ticket.

Museum Card holders, ICOM members, children under 18, students of the Maastricht Institute of Arts / Jan van Eyck Academy / Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts / Maastricht Conservatory, and Friends of Marres always receive free admission.

Partners / thanks

Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.

In addition, Marres thanks Hans Engelbrecht, our volunteer Thuur, as well as everything that grows and flourishes in the garden.

National Outdoor Play Day

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

National Outdoor Play Day at Marres! 

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the whole country turns into one big playground — and Marres is joining in! Come play outside in our delightful city garden.

Make your own witch’s brew, smell fragrant flowers, taste fresh elderflower, and search for all the colors of the rainbow.

Let your senses be stimulated and your imagination run wild! Be sure to wear old clothes, because getting dirty is not just allowed — it’s a must!

Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: The city garden of Marres in Maastricht
The garden is free to enter

For parents, there’s the option to visit the Vultures & Fireflies exhibition, enjoy reading a book in the garden, or relax at Marres Kitchen.

Read more about the Marres city garden

Partners / Thanks to:

The National Outdoor Play Day is an initiative by Jantje Beton. Jantje Beton is the leading charity that, since 1968, has been working together with children to create more and better play spaces and increase opportunities for play.

Workshop Studio SUFI

Photo: FOCUSS 22

Friday Night Openings

We’re so glad you’d like to join! Unfortunately, this workshop is already fully booked.

On Friday evening, July 4, Dutch designer and tailor Sophie Nelissen—the creative mind behind Studio SUFI—will lead a workshop. Inspired by the Marres garden, you’ll create a fabric bookmark and learn how to use local flowers to print or dye the fabric.

Sophie is a passionate researcher who works with locally sourced materials such as sheep’s wool and natural dye plants, creating designs that tell a story of sustainability and craftsmanship.

Date:

Friday, 4 July, 2025

Time:

Start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Raeesah’s Hatha Yoga in the garden

Friday Night Opening

FULLY BOOKED

Roll out your yoga mat in Maastricht’s city garden and join this yoga session.

Raeesah teaches Hatha yoga with a focus on creating classes that are inclusive and accessible to all levels. Her main goal is to ensure that participants leave the session feeling better – mentally, physically, and/or spiritually. In addition, she collaborates with people from across Maastricht to make her classes more accessible to a wider community.

Bring your own mat!

Date

Friday, 23 May, 2025

Time:

start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht