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Vultures & Fireflies: Saturday Sneak peaks
Artist Talk Alejandro Galván
Vultures & Fireflies
This November, the artist Alejandro Galván will commence a chronicle of Mexico, painted from the perspective of one of the largest working class suburbs in Mexico State. The work, titled Vultures & Fireflies, will fill the entire house Marres and will see its grand opening on March 15, 2025. In the months prior, there will be a series of sneak previews and events surrounding the work.
Artist talk
To start, we are giving you the special opportunity to meet the artist and learn about his artistic process during an artist talk on Friday, December 13. Alejandro will be presenting himself and there will be an opportunity to personally ask him questions about his work. This is also a special moment to witness the construction of the exhibition from the very beginning, so you can come back to see how it progresses at one of the later sneak previews. These will happen every Saturday starting February 1st.
RSVP here for the artist talk and keep an eye on our website and socials for the full program surrounding Vultures & Fireflies! You can attend the artist talk completely free of charge, but registration through RSVP is greatly appreciated.
Date:
Friday, 13 December, 2024
Time:
7:00 – 8:30PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
Language:
Spanish – English
In April 2025, a second artist talk will take place, offered in Spanish and Dutch.
The exhibition runs from March 13 to August 31, 2025, but for a sneak preview into the artistic process, Marres will open every Saturday starting in February!
Read more about Alejandro Galváns Vultures & FirefliesSenseSquared: An Education for the Future MANIFESTO
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Catch a glimpse of a new paradigm for education. SenseSquareds second international conference introduces teachers, school leaders, artists and policymakers to a different view of education.
The SenseSquared MANIFESTO sheds light on how education may need to transform itself to meet the challenges of the future.
The SenseSquared collective suggests that
- the arts may offer the kind of education that our societies need.
- the arts may form the glue that connect diversity with inclusion, inclusion with understanding
- the arts offer a wealth of approaches towards an education based on the way we relate to each other and the world
Sensesquared MANIFESTO
Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November
9.30AM – 5PM
Erasmus University College Campus Kanal
Slotstraat/Rue de la Serrure 28
Brussels
Opening Limburg Biënnale 2024
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
With great pleasure, Odapark and Marres invite you to the festive opening of the Limburg Biënnale 2024!
Every two years, the Limburg Biënnale connects the professional and amateur arts in a special group exhibition with works selected through an open call. It highlights anyone who feels like an artist, from starting hobbyists to established professionals. This year, our jury of 18 professional artists reviewed an impressive 3,000 submitted works and made their selections. The selection will be on show at Odapark and Marres from June 29th through August 25th, 2024.
This is the third edition of the Limburg Biënnale and the first that we are organizing in collaboration. We therefore welcome you at both our locations, in Venray and Maastricht.
Date
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Location & time
Odapark
Merseloseweg 117, Venray
2:00PM (walk-in from 1:30PM, open till 5:00PM)
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
5PM
Currents 11 – Opening
Show your Talent (Toon je Talent)
On May 29, Kaleidoscope is organizing a Show Your Talent (Toon je Talent) market at Centre Céramique. Marres will also be present here from 3-4PM. Schools who want to get acquainted with the education department of Marres and subscribe to our cultural offer for next year, can visit our info stand. Here you can learn all about our sensory roadmap, the soft round blanket and The Invisible Collection.
Elements 2024
ELEMENTS 2024:
an unique Euregional cultural program
After the first successful edition of ELEMENTS in 2021, 11 Euregional art and culture institutions joined again. This network celebrates, together with its visitors, the diversity and quality of contemporary art and puts the Euregion Meuse-Rhine in a cultural spotlight. In between Sittard and Liège and from Hasselt to Aachen ELEMENTS 2024 presents a month full of actual, divers and groundbreaking exhibitions and activities. A feast for the senses.
In ELEMENTS all elements of art experience will be presented: creation, science, experience, cocreation and talent development. The paricipating institutions will organize extra activities, beneath their rechtbuigend and presentations, such as performances, lectures, tours, free eveneng visits, workshops and open studios.
ELEMENTS 2024 takes place from Thursday May 23th – Sunday June 23th.
Participating art museums and art institutions in 2024:
- Bonnefanten, Maastricht
- Bureau Europa, Maastricht
- Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard
- Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
- Jester, Genk
- Kasteel Wijlre estate
- Ludwig Forum, Aix-la-Chapelle
- Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
- SCHUNCK, Heerlen
- Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt
- Espace 251 Nord, Liège
Some highlighted elements:
- Friday May 24, Marres Maastricht: tour in English, Spanish and Maastricht dialect in Opaque Spirits van Arturo Kameya (final weekend!)
- Friday May 24, Espace 251 Nord/la Comète Liège: first day of Hybrides/renversements
- Saturday May 25, Jester Genk: opening exhibition and tour Impossible Songs of Mikołaj Sobczak
- Saturday May 25, Ludwig Forum Aachen: opening and tour in German by the curator of Terrestrial Perspectives
- Z33, Hasselt: exhibition Een sprong in het onbekende.
- Friday June 7, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Bonnefanten Free Friday and opening solo exhibition This is not the end of the road of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
- Sunday June 9, Het Nieuwe Domein Sittard-Geleen, free tour in Between Graveyard and Museum’s Sphere
- Wednesday June 12, Bureau Europa Maastricht: last week Woensdag 12 juni In Vitro, the many lives of glass
- Sunday June 16, Kasteel Wijlre Estate, Wijlre: ELEMENTS garden program with tours and workshops and a lecture by botanic philosopher Norbert Peeters
- Friday June 21 – Sunday June 23, Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht: Open Studios
- Schunck Heerlen: exhibition Alevtina Kakhidze: Windows, signs of peace
Elements at Marres
Friday Night Opening
Visit Marres on May 24th! Especially for this Friday Night, Marres organizes guided tours in three different languages: Spanish, English, and in Maastricht dialect.
Enthusiastic guides will take you through the wonderful exhibition Opaque Spirits by the Peruvian artist Arturo Kameya.
From 5:00 PM onwards, you pay €5.00*, including a drink. You can also experience Opaque Spirits on your own if you like, without a guided tour.
Guided tour programs:
Mestreechs
7:00-7:30 PM
English
7:30-8:00 PM
Español
8:00-8:30 PM
There is no extra charge for the language tours, but we kindly request a reservation via reserveringen@marres.org. Group reservations are welcome!
We would love to expand our new guided tour program. Are you or do you know someone who would like to guide visitors through the various exhibitions at Marres in one or more languages? Then we would love to hear from you via info@marres.org!
*Icom and museum card holders, students from Maastricht art schools, and children under 18 always visit Marres for free.
Elements at Marres
Sign yourself and your colleagues in education up for the Training the Senses Symposium!
On June 4, 5 and 6 from 4-7pm, Marres and the six European partners of the Erasmus+ SensesSquared project will organise the Training the Senses Symposium: a three-day program filled with workshops and trainings teaching you to enrich your teaching practice by implementing sensory and embodied learning.
Training the Senses Symposium will take place at Marres and aims to get primary and secondary school teachers, pedagogy students, and educational workers from the arts and culture sector to creatively think about teaching practices by way of sensory trainings.
Participants are free to choose their own schedule, meaning that you can attend single workshops on different days, or follow a full day program. All workshops are exclusively taught in ENGLISH and participation is completely FREE OF CHARGE.
For the press
Rooms Reprise
Last January, Marres, VIA ZUID, de Brakke Grond, Dansateliers and FASHIONCLASH presented the performance festival Rooms.
This summer, Merette van Hijfte & Pleuni Veen will give a reprise of their performance PAL in the ice house at Marres.
They will present the visual poem PAL, which gives shape to the moment when we exchange freedom for safety. In doing so, they respond to the various meanings of the adverb, which refers to the original, Dutch expression “pal staan”, and its figurative meaning “to be immobile” or “to stand firm.”
Saturday, August 10, 2024
1:00PM – 3:00PM – 5:00PM
Performers
Pleuni Veen
As a mathematics student, Pleuni Veen (1994, NL) is intrigued by the balance between the certain yet indeterminate nature of the world, and between the understandable and the intangible. Contact, friction and wonder are central to her work.
MeretteVan Hijfte
MeretteVan Hijfte (1994, NL) is a playful performer and energetic maker, who is not afraid to act from her intuition and impulses, making her work explosive and gritty. Following her graduation at the Mime School, she has been active as an actress, a filmmaker and member of the Collective BAMBAMBAM.
Museum Night 2025
Katja Heitmann – Motus Mori RELIQUIEM
From October 5 to 10, Marres, Bureau Europa and de Nederlandse Dansdagen present the performance Motus Mori RELIQUIEM by German choreographer Katja Heitmann. Motus Mori RELIQUIEM is dedicated to human movement and will take place in the main hall of Bureau Europa in Maastricht.
What moves humankind? In Motus Mori RELIQUIEM, you experience other people’s motions in the most direct and touching way possible: through your body. You put yourself in the shoes of the archive’s many donors and incorporate their personal “movement relics” into your motion repertoire. Heitmann calls this “kinetic empathy”.
In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. Up to now more than 1900 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer creates new artworks. People from Maastricht and surrounding areas also donated their movement to Motus Mori in 2019. This year, the choreographer returns to the city with RELIQUIEM.
Katja Heitmann is fascinated by the human attempt to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. As movement goes and vanishes, we are at the same time epi-central master of our own life and just a spark in eternity.
With RELIQUIEM, Katja Heitmann takes her archive research to the next level; creating a collective shared movement heritage to secure it for the future. The archive will be transferred to ‘everyone’. After all: doesn’t every human being want to keep moving, for eternity?
Dates and times
October 5 and 6, 2024:
10:30AM, 12:00PM, 2:30PM, and 4:00PM
October 7, 8, 9 and 10, 2024:
1:00PM and 7:00PM
Location
Bureau Europa
Boschstraat 9
6211 AS Maastricht
bureau-europa.nl
‘My mother died 12 years ago, my father last year. There is nothing left of them, no material belongings, no house, no will or farewell letter. Sometimes I manage to make a hand gesture that I recognize from my mother. Or my father’s shoulder-head-pupil-chin combination, a gesture that indicated he was struggling. Sometimes I see an older man walking down the street and suddenly I think it’s him. His tired body going on and on, back arched, shoulders hunched forward, while his head tried to look up. Often I wish I had observed them more closely, so I could keep their movement heritage alive.’
– Katja Heitmann
Background
For several years, Katja Heitmann has been working to create an archive for human movement. This is a question that is often raised in dance, since the discipline has no standardized notation. The body of a dancer, it is often said, is the archive of dance. But the same question also applies to the world outside dance. Our archives and museums collect portraits, objects, and writings but not the gestures and movements of important people. In our homes, we also save letters, objects, and photographs of our loved ones, but we lose the poses, movements, and reflexes that make them instantly recognizable. Katja Heitmann and her team make that loss tangible by collecting and preserving human movements.
In 2019, de Heitmann presented her project Museum Motus Mori at Marres. In this project, she created a museum of dying physical movement with ten dancers. For six weeks, five hours a day, the dancers and the choreographer took on the remarkable challenge of sensitizing visitors to the deep humanity hidden within the body. They developed a choreography for belly fat, a dance of the belly button and rib cage, the anatomy of a sigh…
Motion interviews
As a source, the choreographer used movement interviews. Every day people were invited to these interviews in which they told how they stood, sat or slept, whether they shared traits with family members, whether they had ever had an injury or accident that changed their physicality or movements. The dancers analyzed these traits and learned to embody them. Heitmann focused primarily on capturing involuntary human behaviors. She became fascinated by unconscious, sometimes transmitted movements, which are very awkward or make life difficult or arduous, but at the same time give a deep insight into human identity. The audience who witnessed this living archive saw a prolonged performance of human movements, including their own and those of their loved ones.
Biography Katja Heitmann
Katja Heitmann (1987, Germany) operates on the interface between dance and visual arts, performance and installation. In her visual-choreographic work, she investigates what moves people in the present era. In doing so, she always questions what it means to have a body, often in relation to rapidly advancing technology. In Homo Avatar (2016), she was inspired by the countless digital alter egos roaming the Internet. In Siri Loves Me (2017), a work she made with 50 young dancers, she wondered if technological advances and the surveillance that comes with them were going to hinder free movement. In Pandora’s DropBox (2018), she presented a disturbing image of the perfect man in a perfect world. Starting in 2019, Heitmann worked on various forms of her extensive Motus Mori project, an ode to the forgotten and even extinct movement. In 2016 Katja won the Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen (Dutch Dance Days Award), in 2020 she was awarded the Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs, the largest performing arts award in the Netherlands.
Press about Katja Heitmann
NRC
“In Museum Motus Mori, Heitmann collects, describes, archives and exhibits the minute movements we all make every day that immediately disappear again – the beauty and fragility of dance in one thoughtful concept.”
De Theaterkrant
‘Heitmann has a mission! Undeniably. In Motus Mori, she gives the body back to a society that is in danger of losing sight of its value. Art could not be more urgent. But beyond urgency, Reliquiem is also very moving. After all, the body is transient and confronts us with finiteness.”
De Standaard:
“It’s kinetic empathy at its best.”
De Volkskrant (Anette Embrechts)
“I recognized my ‘translated’ tics and gestures, whispers mixed with those of Pavel, Monika, Tosca and Herr Stamm. Highly original.”
The New York Times:
“Turning the gestures of everyday life into art.”
Museumtijdschrift (Edo Dijksterhuis):
“Museum Motus Mori is a kinetic portrait of all of us. And the way it takes shape, through the body rather than the mind, is more direct, effective and poignant than any video, photograph or text can ever be.”
For the press
For press requests, visual materials and interviews, please contact communicatie@marres.org.
Partners / thanks to
Motus Mori RELIQUIEM in Maastricht is a collaboration of Marres, Bureau Europa and de Nederlandse Dansdagen.
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Friday Night Opening
Visit Marres on May 24th! Especially for this Friday Night, Marres organizes guided tours in three different languages: Spanish, English, and in Maastricht dialect.
Enthusiastic guides will take you through the wonderful exhibition Opaque Spirits by the Peruvian artist Arturo Kameya.
From 5:00 PM onwards, you pay €5.00*, including a drink. You can also experience Opaque Spirits on your own if you like, without a guided tour.
Guided tour programs:
Mestreechs
7:00-7:30 PM
English
7:30-8:00 PM
Español
8:00-8:30 PM
There is no extra charge for the language tours, but we kindly request a reservation via reserveringen@marres.org. Group reservations are welcome!
We would love to expand our new guided tour program. Are you or do you know someone who would like to guide visitors through the various exhibitions at Marres in one or more languages? Then we would love to hear from you via info@marres.org!
*Icom and museum card holders, students from Maastricht art schools, and children under 18 always visit Marres for free.
Rooms Performance Festival 2025
Mark your calendar! The Rooms Performance Festival returns on the last weekend of January 2025.
Expect vibrant theater, edgy dance, a culinary performance, kinetic textiles, intimate activism, and much more. Your day pass grants access to a full day with six performances.
Line-up:
Sofie Kramer
Ahmed El Gendy
Amparo González Sola
Tabor Idema
Samah Hijawi
Jasmine Karimova & Johannes Offerhaus
Partners:
Marres, Via Zuid, de Brakke Grond, Dansateliers, FASHIONCLASH and MU
As a Rooms visitor, you’ll also get an exclusive first preview of the exhibition Vultures & Fireflies, opening this spring. At the end of 2024, Mexican artist Alejandro Galván will begin a painted chronicle of Mexico throughout the house Marres, portraying the perspective of Nezahualcóyotl: one of the largest working class suburbs in the Valley of Mexico.
Date: 25 & 26 January 2025
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Keep an eye on this website and our socials for any Rooms updates. Follow @marres_maastricht
The Rooms program is the same on both Saturday and Sunday. A day pass gives you access to a full day with five performances. Marres Kitchen will be open until 6PM, serving drinks and delicious food. Important:
Admission for Ages 12 and Up
Our festival is specially designed for an older audience, and the performances are not suitable for children under 12. Young people aged 12 to 18 are very welcome and enjoy free admission.
Sofie Kramer
totem
In this ecstatic pole dance performance, the pole becomes a sacred object, a gateway to another world where ancient wisdom lies hidden. The static steel object is brought to life and imbued with ritualistic qualities, playing with the clichés of pole dancing and the audience’s expectations. A futu-feminist journey that raises questions about our connection to technology and explores the relationship between control and intuition.
Sofie Kramer (1990, the Netherlands) is a theater maker, performer, writer, and pole dancer. She interned at Orkater, attended dance workshops with Nicole Beutler and Peeping Tom, and collaborated with choreographers such as Guilherme Miotto and Jens van Daele. Starting this year, she is supported by ViaZuid and Podium Bloos.
Concept, choreography and dance: Sofie Kramer
Composition, sound design, instrument design: Mári Mákó
Costume: Batuhan Demir
Audio operator and technical consultancy: Francesco DiMaggio
Dramaturgy: Joske Koning
Supported by: Via Zuid, Cultuurfonds, Amarte, United Cowboys
Ahmed El Gendy
i feel you like the moon feels the earth
Over the course of the project Zero Encounters, Ahmed spent a full 24 hours in silence with six different strangers. Allowing each stranger to lead the day as Ahmed quietly accompanied them, their relationship evolved through proximity and time rather than verbal exchange. i feel you like the moon feels the earth captures this intimate journey from memory – of simply being together, holding space as one.
Ahmed El Gendy (1987, Cairo) (they/he) is an Egyptian-Dutch artist who explores themes of agency, togetherness, and entanglement. Their work, which spans video, text, and performance, has previously been presented at Mediterranea Biennale (Italy) and at Festifreak International Festival for Independent Cinema (Argentina).
Performance: Ahmed El Gendy, Clotilde Cappelletti, Estéfano Romani
Advisor: Miguel A. Melgares
Amparo González Sola
Distances
Delving into the complexities of empathy and shared experience, Distances questions how we can resonate with the others’ experience—even when separated by great literal and figurative distances. Through choreography, the performance shapes the space between the performers and spectators, revealing the hidden burdens each carries. By focusing on gestures, the work invites us to reconsider the dynamics of gaze, distance, and closeness as we reflect on what it means to bear witness.
Amparo González Sola’s (1984, Argentina) (she/her) work spans dance, choreography, and participative projects, and is distinctly influenced by feminist activism and her experience of migration. Her earlier works include The conspiracy of forms(2023) and If every rock is a hole (2022), presented at the SPRING Performing Arts Festival, and the participative projectExploring Reciprocity (2019-2023). Starting 2025, she will be associate artist with Dansateliers.
Distances is part of the work While taking shape, which will premiere in May 2025 at SPRING Performing Arts Festival.
Concept: Amparo González Sola
Performers and choreography: Rita Bifulco, Alina Ruiz Folini, Amparo González Sola
Sound design: Nahuel Cano
Production: Dansateliers
Coproduction: SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Dansateliers, Frascati Producties
Supported by: BAU AIR, Greenhouse, Rooms Performance Festival, workspacebrussels (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT)
Tabor Idema
Backspace
Tabor has lived with a 42-degree curvature of the spine since they were fourteen, which resulted from a period of intense tension accumulating in their body. In Backspace, they explore the ways one can endure trauma, as well as digging into the past hoping to heal the present. What happens when space is given to past tensions? What hidden pain surfaces? The body listens and remains open to everything it has carried for so long.
Tabor Idema (1999, Netherlands) (they/them) creates personal, provocative performances in an honest search for openness. Their simple yet sharp visual language adapts to the architecture of the spaces in which they perform. Locations become collaborators with whom they create poetic slapstick.
Technician: Diane Mahin
Samah Hijawi
The Moon in Your Mouth
As we witness the violent erasure of some of the world’s oldest cultures, Samah asks: beyond human loss, what communities of plants and other beings are also disappearing? What traditions of kinship are being erased, and what stories from the past might still be retold for the future?
Samah Hijawi is a multimedia artist who is currently exploring ancient and contemporary food cosmologies. Drawing on her research in ancient cosmologies and farming practices, she explores what we can learn from the past to shape a future rich with interconnected relationships. Samah invites us to eat olives and embody Saturn in a single bite, following the shifting faces of the Gods above and below.
Production: Kunstenwerkplaats
Partners: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, C-Takt, KAAP, Kaaitheater, Monty and VierNulVier
Supported by De Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Jasmine Karimova &
Johannes Offerhaus
AIR 1 – 135 m3 of sound
AIR 1 is a performative installation piece by Jasmine Karimova and Johannes Offerhaus. In this duo’s debut collaboration, their respective mediums are fused into one. The work investigates the literal finitude of air. Air that is shared and exchanged between the audience, performers, space and the organ. A performance where the audience’s desire to listen, experience, and engage will ultimately lead them to make a conscious, impactful decision…
Jasmine Karimova (1998) is a Tajik-Australian composer and performer based in the Netherlands, pursuing a master’s in composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As an organist, her work explores the duality of power and fragility, blending voice and instrument. She has opened the International Organ Symposium in Amsterdam for three consecutive years. Karimova performed at venues like Muziekgebouw and Moscow’s Olympic Stadium, and collaborated with ensembles such as the Nederlands Kamerorkest. Recent interdisciplinary projects include the short film FIFU, children’s piece Mia en de Leeuw, and multimedia creation The Whale.
ZELT is a design studio founded by Johannes Offerhaus (1993, Nederland). The studio conceptualizes, designs and builds constructs kinetic textile spaces and structures that unfold into pavilions, tents and architectural form. Their creations encompass intimate spaces within everyday life as well as scenography for performances and film. ZELT has also collaborated extensively in the performing arts, designing sets and costumes for productions such as Papillon (Philharmonie Luxembourg) and dance film La Nostra Terra. Offerhaus began his career in fashion, focusing on kinetic couture pieces before transitioning into larger kinetic installations. His autonomous work earned him the Frans Molenaar Couture Award and a Dutch Design Award.
Press
For press requests, imagery and interview requests, please contact communicatie@marres.org
Partners
Partners Rooms 2025:
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Dansateliers
De Brakke Grond
Via Zuid
FASHIONCLASH
MU
With the courtesy of Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Extended presentation
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Over the past four months, the members of Extended (aged 14-21) have creatively explored their sensory experience regarding culture and identity.
During Museum Night on Friday evening, April 19th, they will present their project at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
The educational program Extended is a collaborative project between Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, where young people work in teams for four months on a socially engaged art project.
Roundtable talk “Stichting Met je hart”
Making art accessible to the elderly, Marres’ education department organized another roundtable talk on May 2nd together with Stichting Met je hart.
Stichting Met je hart develops special tours, workshops, roundtable talks, and participatory activities at Marres to lower the threshold for lonely elderly individuals, people living in poverty, and asylum seekers and regularly cooperates with Marres.
The roundtable talks are organised in collaboration with Cultuurmakers Maastricht.
Alejandro Galván – Vultures & Fireflies
Chronicle of Mexico
At the end of November 2024, the artist Alejandro Galván (Mexico, 1990) will commence a painted chronicle of Mexico from the perspective of one of the largest working class suburbs. The artist resides in Nezahualcóyotl, at the outskirts of Mexico City, a place in which political neglect and violence issues have configured the social panorama. His often highly detailed paintings blend realism with mythology, narrating his experiences growing up in this environment, and depicting the corruption of the Mexican state and police. His influences are drawn from comic books, television and heavy metal, sources that set him apart from the prevailing, more minimalist and conceptual style in Mexican contemporary art.
Lucid dream
The artist, holding Mexican politics and corruption responsible for the widespread violence and injustice in society, will paint the entire house of Marres in an attempt, as he writes, to outline a lucid dream of Mexican society. In doing so, he poses the following questions: How can we incorporate the most unique chapters of our history into a global narrative? How can we realize that our traumas and sufferings are shared, and that perhaps solving and overcoming global issues is a path that must be collectively trodden? With his work, Alejandro Galván aims to demonstrate that he and his fellow residents of Nezahualcóyotl are not ‘marginalized’ or ‘forgotten,’ but simply belong to a group of people with an unheard story. A story that shares fundamental similarities with the tales of people from other countries, cities, villages, or even times. The reason Galván paints is that he does not want any story to be lost.
Integral installation
Vultures & Fireflies will be on show from Mar 13 to Aug 31, 2025. To create his monumental exhibition, the artist will already start working in Marres from November onwards. Leading up to the grand opening on March 15, several events will take place where visitors can get a glimpse into the making process. The work will see its completion in June 2025, which will be celebrated with a second opening.
Keep an eye on this website and our socials for updates regarding this monumental project of Alejandro Galván at Marres. Follow us at @marres_maastricht
Special opening hours and days
The exhibition runs from March 13 to August 31, 2025, but for a sneak preview into the artistic process, Marres will open every Saturday starting in February.
Artist Talk with Alejandro Galván
Date: Friday night 13 December 2024
Time: 7-8:30PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Language: Spanish/English
(In April 2025, a second artist talk will take place, offered in Spanish and Dutch.)
The event is free of charge, but an RSVP through reserveringen@marres.org is very much appreciated.
Sneak Previews
Special sneak preview during the Friday Night Opening on Valentine’s Day
Date: Friday, 14 February, 2025
Time: 5-8PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Sneak peeks every Saturday from February 2025
(1 Feb – 8 Feb – 15 Feb – 22 Feb – 1 Mar – 8 Mar 2025)
Time: 12-5PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Festive opening
Date: Saturday 15 March
Time: 5PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Artist statement
Artist Alejandro Galván talks about his work, Nezahualcóyotl, political neglect and corruption of the Mexican state, and telling unheard stories.
This film contains images of disaster and war situations that may be disturbing to (young) viewers.
Press
Partners / thanks to
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Thanks to No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam
FASHIONCLASH @ Marres 2024
The 16th edition of the international and interdisciplinary FASHIONCLASH Festival will take place from 15 – 17 November 2024 in Maastricht. Marres will be one of the venues where you can discover work by a new generation of designers and performing artists from all over the world.
Exposition
Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia, Esra Westerburgen, Valentijn Schmitz, buccia, Arva Bustin, Iza van den Baar, UNCOMMON RAGE
Performance
Boris Kollar, laila claessen, X Amarte: WEEF.collective X Roumans, Manka Menga x Katharina Spitz, Naza Løtus x The Nightmare Disorder
The three-day program with an exhibition, performances, talks, workshops and fashion film screenings, showcases projects that explore, contextualize and celebrate contemporary fashion culture. During the festival the work of more than 100 designers, artists and makers from more than 30 different countries can be seen.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is all about discovering, stimulating and co-shaping current developments in fashion and opening up these developments to a wide audience. Participants of the festival belong to a generation of designers and artists who explore and question the boundaries of their discipline. With their works they move between the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design and visual arts.
Field trip Rotterdam
On February 2, 2024, the Marres team visited a number of art institutions in Rotterdam.
Thank you for the warm welcome and the inspiring tours!
Tent
What is is, what it means and what I would like it to be
Justice beyond revenge. Recalling Louk Hulsman.
Kunstinstituut Melly
My Oma
Sijben Rosa: Bewaard
MaMA
Arriving Not Yet
Art Rotterdam
Overview Rotterdam
Training the Senses Symposium
On June 4, 5 and 6 from 4-7pm, Marres and the six European partners of the Erasmus+ SensesSquared project organised the Training the Senses Symposium: a three-day program filled with workshops and trainings teaching you to enrich your teaching practice by implementing sensory and embodied learning.
Training the Senses Symposium took place at Marres and aimed to get primary and secondary school teachers, pedagogy students, and educational workers from the arts and culture sector to creatively think about teaching practices by way of sensory trainings.
Workshop schedule
16:00 – 16:15 Welcome & introduction
16:15 – 17:30 Workshop round 1
17:35 – 18:50 Workshop round 2
19:00 Closing in the garden
Each day offered two workshops highlighting different aspects of sensory education. On day 1, you could experience what sound massage can do to the body and learn how to use ethnography as an alternative method of noting down learning outcomes. On day 2, you could work with voice and listening exercises that help students connect with themselves and their environment. Day 3 will focus on different forms of artistic research as an enrichment method for education.
Participants were free to choose their own schedule, meaning that you could attend single workshops on different days, or follow a full day program. All workshops were exclusively taught in English and participation was completely free of charge.
Symposium overview
Participating European partners
Exclusive preview “Opaque Spirits” for Friends of Marres
Before every official opening, the Friends of Marres get an exclusive preview.
Date
Saturday 9 March 2024
Time
4PM
Location
Marres
By becoming Friend of Marres, you directly support young makers in Limburg. Your contribution makes it possible for them to continue to create and grow in their artistic practice. It enables them to experiment, innovate and inspire the art world with fresh perspectives. In addition, you contribute to the preservation of Marres as one of the few remaining places for contemporary art in Limburg.
Extended end presentation
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Can you evoke memories simply by smelling a work of art? And imagine not only looking at art, but also tasting it to become one with it.
All this and more was on the menu of the sensory experience developed over the past four months by the Extended youth (ages 14-21). On January 6, they presented their projects in the house of Marres, concluding this season of Extended.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
12 – 2 PM
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98
6211 RT Maastricht
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.
Overview
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Photo: Rob van Hoorn
Evening opening
On December 15th, Marres will hold a special evening opening. Bring your date, because every 2nd ticket is free between 5 and 9 PM!
Visit the heartwarming exhibition Goodbye to Love together and have your picture taken under the mistletoe.
Whether your love is international, queer, secret or platonic, everyone is welcome for a warm evening out.
Friday, December 15
Open from 12 to 9 PM
Overview evening opening
Museum Night Maastricht 2024
Let’s open up! Museum Night took place on 19 April 2024. Marres is one of the 14 different venues across the city that opens their doors until late at night each year.
Exhibition Opaque Spirits
During a very busy Museum Night visitors could discover the intriguing exhibition Opaque Spirits by Peruvian artist Arturo Kameya (Lima, 1984). A tiled bathhouse that functions as a restaurant, a multi-armed beer fountain, and a large upstairs room with mechanical fish: Kameya has transformed the house of Marres into a ghost hotel. Every room represents a debt owed by the state to the people of Peru. The rooms are inhabited by ghosts who have come to collect these debts.
Youth program Extended
The members of Extended presented their end project ‘The Scent of Heritage’ at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Performance PACHAMAMA
(or: how some of you unexpectedly became a potato…)
During Museum Night visitors could see the performance of Uruguayan artist, dancer and performer Amalia Herrera and Dutch artist, performer and director Woody Richardson Laurens.
Mark your calendars for the next edition of Museum Night: 11 April 2025.
Overview Museumnacht 2024
Photo: Romy Finke
FASHIONCLASH @ Marres
FASHIONCLASH @ Marres with work by designers and artists Roumans, UGO WOATZI, TIM VAN DER PLAS and André Konings.
The 15th edition of the international and interdisciplinary FASHIONCLASH Festival will take place from 17 – 19 November 2023 in Maastricht. The garden of Marres is also one of the venues where you can discover work by a new generation of designers and performing artists from all over the world.
Admission to the garden is FREE.
The three-day program with an exhibition, performances, talks, workshops and fashion film screenings, showcases projects that explore, contextualize and celebrate contemporary fashion culture. During the festival the work of more than 100 designers, artists and makers from more than 30 different countries can be seen.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is all about discovering, stimulating and co-shaping current developments in fashion and opening up these developments to a wide audience. Participants of the festival belong to a generation of designers and artists who explore and question the boundaries of their discipline. With their works they move between the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design and visual arts.
Overview FASHIONCLASH 2023
Photo: Mitch van Schijndel
Photo: Mitch van Schijndel
Rooms Performance Festival 2024
Music / Composer: Vanessa Lann, 9×13 Orange Drummer Beat!, performed by: NeoFanfare 9×13
cover photo: © Sanne Peper
Marres, VIA ZUID, de Brakke Grond, Dansateliers and FASHIONCLASH proudly present performance festival Rooms.
Young makers and established talents offered performance, theater, visual arts, dance, fashion and music. A weekend during which fragile dresses brought colorful stained glass to life, where conductor’s bodies turned into living scores, manuscripts got dictated and a shoe merchant brought you along into absurdist power relations.
Line up:
buren
Merette van Hijfte & Pleuni Veen
Kinga Jaczewska
Mauricio Limon
David Maroto
Genevieve Murphy
Ika Schwander in collaboration with Fran Hayes
27 & 28 January 2024
01 – 06 PM
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Regular: € 40,00
Student: € 20,00
Day passes are not available anymore.
A ticket provides full access to all performances on either of the two days. The program of Rooms remains the same on both Saturday and Sunday, with the exception of David Maroto’s performance, which will take place on Saturday. With a valid day pass, you get to see the entire line up. For a break, you can visit the Marres Kitchen restaurant or relax in our public city garden.
The next edition of Rooms is scheduled for January 25-26, 2025, we hope to see you again!
Line up
buren presents the prelude of their work shoe/farm, which will premiere in February of 2024. Departing from their respective backgrounds, a farm in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and a shoe store along the Belgian coast, Melissa Mabesoone and Oshin Albrecht merge the worlds ‘farm’ and ‘shoe’. They step into their ancestors’ shoes and play with the habits, customs, sayings and vocabulary connected to farm life and shoe sales. In doing so, they link their experiences to broader social issues surrounding production processes, working conditions and consumerism.
Mabesoone (Knokke, 1988) and Albrecht’s (Bruges, 1986) two-woman collective buren bring critical, absurdist sketches about community, domesticity, gender, (art) history and neoliberalism. Their work has been shown on many international stages, amongst which at Centrale Fies (Italy), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Portugal), Szene (Salzburg) and within the discursive program Feminist School. The collective published a graphic novel titled STW, your favorite station! and became resident artist at Kaaitheater in 2023.
concept by buren (Oshin Albrecht & Melissa Mabesoone)
created with: Oshin Albrecht, Melissa Mabesoone, Benjamin Cools, Benne Dousselaere, Vera Martins, Famke Dhont, Margaux Janssens
produced by: au bureau
co-productie: Kaaitheater, Kunstencentrum BUDA, workspacebrussels, C-takt, KAAP, de Brakke Grond, Theaterfestival Boulevard, Playground festival (STUK, Museum M), apap-FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Marres
Pleuni Veen and Merette van Hijfte present the visual poem PAL, which gives shape to the moment when we exchange freedom for safety. In doing so, they respond to the various meanings of the adverb, which refers to the original, Dutch expression “pal staan,” and its figurative meaning “to be immobile” or “to stand firm.”
As a mathematics student, Veen (1994, NL) is intrigued by the balance between the certain yet indeterminate nature of the world, and between the understandable and the intangible. Contact, friction and wonder are central to her work.
Van Hijfte (1994, NL) is a playful performer and energetic maker, who is not afraid to act from her intuition and impulses, making her work explosive and gritty. Following her graduation at the Mime School, she has been active as an actress, a filmmaker and member of the Collective BAMBAMBAM.
Credits camera: Samuel van Keeken
Muziek: Rint Mennes
Kinga Jaczewska (Poland, 1991) is a dancer and choreographer whose work focusses on what is often rendered invisible or commonly escapes our attention. Accordingly, her Rooms performance Raw and Tender, which she has made in collaboration with Agnese Forlani and composer Raphael Malfliet, looks at the functionality and corporality of motherhood – at the contradictions which it consists of. It comes as a response to Jaczewska’s earlier poem mothers.
Jaczewska’s previous works encompassed performance, video, installation, text and photography, and have been presented in theater spaces including Kunstcentrum Nona (Mechelen) and Magdalenazaal (Brugge), as well as at the Kunsthal Antwerp. In 2021, she was awarded de PrixFintroPrijs in the category of theater and dance.
Agnese Forlani (1997) is an Italian dancer and textile maker who is currently completing her Master’s degree in dance. In her artistic practice, she experiments with costume, scenography and materiality in dialogue with the dancing body.
Photo: Diego Franssens
In 2022, Mauricio Limón de León launched Les petits pois sont verts… Les petits poissons rouges; a collection of stained-glass haute couture dresses in collaboration with Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof. In Rooms, the collection is presented in the performance Flowing Sands Slogans. Here, the dresses are shown in a collaboration with Mahoalli Nassourou, Justine Olguín, Laia Vancells Pi and Manu Sol Mateo, performing a choreography of fluid geometries to music composed by Alejandro Contreras Pascual and Limón de León. Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s short television play Quad (1981), Flowing Sand Slogans takes Beckett’s sequence of movements as its primary structure. A meeting between four characters culminates in a disjointed catwalk performance of mechanized movements.
Previous shows by Limón de León (Mexico City, 1979) presented include A gigantic broom to uncover compelling narratives (Rotterdam, 2020), El primero que ria (Paris, 2023) and his current exhibition Memoria ciega at Museo Cabañas (Guadalajara), curated by Victor Palacios. He is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), Pequod.CO (Mexico) and Wild- Palms (Düsseldorf).
Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof is Director of Museum Kranenburgh, a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bergen. She was founder and director of Amsterdam Art|Weekend, worked for the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, and has developed art programs for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Prince Claus Fund, ArtHub Asia and others.
Vancells Pi (Blanes, 1993) completed her formal dance training at Codarts Rotterdam, before joining the Tanz Luzerner Theater company, Habemus Corpus and the companies of Roberto G. Alonso and Mari Rovira Crea. She currently works freelance, performing with the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and at festivals across Europe.
Transdisciplinary artist Sol Mateo Rivas Álvarez (Mexico City, 1989) takes his own sexuality as a starting point for his artistic explorations of gender stereotypes, beauty and morality. His works have been shown internationally, most recently at Temporada Alta International Theater Festival (Peru) and at the Centre National du Costume et de la Scène (France).
Nassourou (Mexico City, 1983) works at the intersection of performance, theater, film and still photography. She directed and presented the monologue Medea Redux in 2013 and is a part of the international collective Entre Minas. As a performer, she has collaborated with Barbara Foulkes (Arg- Mex), Pablo Helguera (Mex-USA), and Maj Britsen (Germany) among others.
Lepke Olguin Oaxaca (Mexico City, 1999) attended Paul Valery University in Montpellier, studying Anthropology from 2019 to 2021. Interested in dance, performance, music and spectacle, she currently works freelance, performing in collaboration with cabaret collective Las Suculentas, Manu Sol Mateo, and Limón de León for his show Les petits pois sont verts… Les petits poissons rouges.
David Maroto’s performance is titled after his most recent novella Not All of Me Will Die. This novella exists as an original manuscript in which the author reflects on memory, writing and the desire for posterity. In the performance, Maroto publishes the novella by dictating its contents to a group of participants who each write their own copy by hand. In this way, Maroto distributes his ‘oral novella’ in handwritten unique copies.
Maroto (Spain, 1976) is a visual artist who obtained a PhD from the Edinburgh College of Art for his research The Artist’s Novel: The Novel as a Medium in the Visual Arts. This is the first in-depth study into the artist’s novel as a phenomenon and follows from Maroto and Joanna Zielińska’s project The Book Lovers; a collection and bibliography of artists’ novels that they started in 2011. Maroto’s autonomous work has been shown at Kanal Centre Pompidou (Brussels), EFA Project Space (New York), and Vigil Gonzales Gallery (Buenos Aires) amongst others.
This performance will only take place on Saturday January 27, 2024.
An initiative of Technology Driven Art, a research group within the art schools Zuyd in collaboration with Out of Sight VZW and Marres.
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Genevieve Murphy’s Rooms performance Somewhere Someone Is Conducting Right Now views the body as a score. Four conductors, each in a room of their own, depend on fading music and memory as they orchestrate a self-chosen piece in partial silence. This not only draws attention to the individuality of each conductor, but also to music genre and environment. The spaces in between the rooms where different works merge become sonic spaces of their own. When all conduct together and all is heard in synchronicity, the house of Marres will sing.
Murphy (Scotland, 1988) graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Glasgow, the Birmingham Conservatoire for music and The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. In her work, she combines performance and visual art with contemporary classical music, to deal with subjects of psychology and disability. Her compositions have been performed in concert halls and art galleries, amongst which het Concertgebouw, het Muziekgebouw, W139, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), La Fenice (Venice), Old Fruitmarket (Glasgow) and Theatre Spektakel (Zurich). Murphy was awarded an Honorary Membership of The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2019.
Ed Liebrecht graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, where he was awarded the Fred Southall Prize for his final performance. He is committed to bringing ideological variety in his work that merges diverse influences. His upcoming projects include a jazz orchestra collaboration with Oxford University Orchestra, a return to the Haydn Chamber Orchestra for the Walton Violin Concerto.
Composer and conductor Ezequiel Menalled (Buoneos Aires, 1980) received his Bachelor and Master degrees in conducting from the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. He works with various genres, with or without the use of electronics and other technological media, and ranging from solos to large ensembles. In 2003 he founded the Dutch Ensemble Modelo62, and has since served as its artistic director.
Libia Hernandez’ (Cuba, 1965) rejects the idea that classical music is predominantly for a small elite, and looks to cultivate new listeners and an ever-widening group of people to experience classical music as current, necessary and irreplaceable – an enduring force that bridges cultures and continents. In 2024 Hernandez will conduct a new opera written by Monique Krüs, Piratenkoningin at the Nederlandse Reisopera.
Basque conductor and violinist Mirari Etxeberria Guerrero (Andoain, 1998) is the founder, artistic director and principal conductor of Pamplona’s Youth Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Violin and a Master’s degree in Musical Investigation, and is currently finishing her formal training at the Amsterdam Conservatory. As assistant conductor, she has previously worked with Juanjo Mena, Martin Sieghart and Ryan Bancroft.
Composer: Vanessa Lann
Piece: 9×13 Orange Drummer Beat!
Performed by: NeoFanfare 9×13
Composer: Tan Dun
Piece: Circle with Four Trios, Conductor and Audience (1992)
Performed by: Nieuwe Ensemble
Composer: Beethoven
Piece: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 – “Choral”: 2. Molto vivace
Performed by: Royal Concertgebouw Orkest
Composer: Luciano Berio
Piece: Sinfonia for 8 Voices and Orchestra: III. in Ruhig Fließender Bewegung
Performed by: Electric Phoenix and Royal Concertgebouw Orkest
Ika Schwander and Fran Hayes present Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us. With references to the nymph Daphne and the poet Sappho, the work explores the transformation from human to tree and from life to death. It creates an environment where sensory stimuli are rare and the audience has room to breathe. In this space, questions surface that are normally lost. What might drive someone to trade human existence for something else?
Schwander (Luxembourg, 1999) graduated from the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2023 with her work è vero, è vero, è vero; a co-production with VIA ZUID and Festival Cement. She makes visual performances and prefers to work in border areas where different mediums meet. Her work explores themes including trauma, care, religion, ecology and death.
Hayes (Dorchester, 1999) is a multimedia artist based in London whose practice explores the relationships that form in the spaces between the digital and the physical, Hayes’ practice mixes science-fiction influences with references to current issues such as ecological breakdown and the consequences of capitalism and to everyday occurrences. The works range from 3D modelling and animating to ceramics and writing.
Festival overview
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Press
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Partners/thanks to
Partners Rooms:
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Dansateliers
De Brakke Grond
FASHIONCLASH
VIA ZUID
Courtesy of Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Rooms Performance festival
In the weekend of September 4 and 5 of 2021, Marres launched performance festival Rooms. Rooms presents new work by young makers and established talents. In the homely chambers of Marres, exiting theatre, dreamy films, intimate dance pieces and extraordinary visual arts alternate. Behind the doors of the rooms, ten makers take you on a two-day expedition to unexplored worlds.
Overview
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Photo: © Sanne Peper
Program
Sa: 12.00 & 3 pm / Sun:3 pm (balzaal)
Kiem is a stream of thoughts, trying to catch up with itself in fits and starts. A failed reflection on scale, context, language and people.
Sa: 1.30 pm / Sun:1.30 & 4.30 pm (balzaal)
In GOT 2 4 GET, Koning tries to not divide herself and the world into one ‘I’ and millions ‘others’. She surrenders. In a ritual incantation with the audience on her side, she defies gravity and sings away thoughts with one goal: to be allowed to dissolve into a greater whole.
Sa: 12.45 & 3.45 pm / Sun:2.15 (schouwkamer)
Treat thy neighbour as thyself is a stream of consciousness exploring the discomfort of speaking your mind. A woman sits on a chair that for some reason has been put onto a platform. She has something to say and she will need to figure out how to do this. She might be addressing someone specifically. Sometimes the stage tries to highlight her words, other times it seems to contradict or even interrupt her.
Sa: 4.15 pm / Sun:12.00 pm (balzaal)
In this personal solo, in which Levi navigates in between dance and storytelling, memory and farewell are the central themes. She brings to life a multi-faceted and almost, but not quite, gossipy portrait of intimacy and distance within a family. She invites you to reflect on your own family history and the farewell of previous generations. The performance challenges you to open up to notions such as impermanence, memory and past.
Sun:12.00 & 3.00 pm (tuinkamer)
Two bodies in a perpetual embracement; skin to skin, bones entangle and muscles interweave each other in one persisting movement. Since the global pandemic outbreak in 2020, our approach to physical contact has changed radically. Embracing each other has become a scarce physical act, solely allowed in private. In presence of an embracement highlights the importance of the simple but vital act of an embracement.
Sa: every 15 minutes between 12.30 – 1.30 & 2.00 – 3.00 & 3.30 – 4.15 / Sun: every 15 minutes between 12.45 – 1.30 & 2.00 – 3.00 & 3.30 – 4.30 (filmkamer)
The photographic story Flipping The Bird takes you to the dunes; the starting point of a quest to make contact with flora and fauna. The film ends in an explosion; a plea to break free from your solid ground and to choose a new direction. Flipping The Bird is a beautiful and compact work of art, in which language and image constantly reinforce each other.
Sa: 2.15 / Sun:12.45 & 3.45 (schouwkamer)
In Ik ben gestolen, Schouten tries to share something about the subject she initially tried to avoid: the unconditional love of a child for his parent. This monologue is a letter to her father. She demands of him, longs for him, loves him and looks back on him. In a sober setting, her words and her presence on the floor, which she uses as an instrument, are central. By telling her personal story she hopes to touch the universal.
Sa: 1.30 & 4.30 pm / Sun: 12 pm (tuinkamer)
Ten of Swords is a slow pace exploration on the transitional moment from life to death. A space, scarcely decorated with sound, tools and creatures, invites you to inhabit and examine a last breath.
Sa + Sun: continuously 12 – 5 pm (voorkamer)
From his son in Lomé in Togo, Teeken (1944) received a photo depicting his son’s wife, mother-in-law, their two children and his family-in-law. The composition of the photo inspired him to create the motif for a painting: the tousled rhythm of their heads and limbs around the cluttered coffee table within the closed shape of the heavy sofa.
Sa: 12.00 & 1.30 & 3.00 & 4.15 pm / Sun: 12.00 & 1.30 & 3.00 & 4.30 pm (tussenkamer)
In these 24 gouaches, Teeken (1944) investigates the chaos and order of his kitchen table. Every day he sees this round table, often things piled on top of it. The visual poetry of circular objects, such as cups, plates and glasses. against other, almost shapeless, items like a transparent plastic bag: the complexity, disorder and at the same time a certain arrangement fascinate him.
Sa: continuously 12.30 – 13.30, 2 – 3 & 3.30 – 4.15 pm / Sun: continuously 12.30 – 1.30, 2 – 3 & 3.30 – 4.30 pm (room 7a)
Wilsons’s film is an inverted dream in which we disappear. She has been spinning around her own axis for too long and the earth, less and less solid, opens up. What happens at the ends of the circle? Wilsons’s work creates an open space for imagination and magic.
Sa + Sun: continuous 1.00 – 16.00 pm (garden)
Listen to stories about art works from all over the world with The Invisible Collection in the beautiful garden of Marres. Afterwards, together with your family and friends, you’ll learn how to imagine these beautiful stories in a workshop.
Museumnacht Maastricht 2023
Táctica Sintáctica:
Touching with your eyes, seeing with your hands
All of Maastricht will be under the spell of Museumnacht Maastricht on Friday 14 April 2023. During this extraordinary art night out, you can witness the city transform and the world of art come to life with a once-in-a-night-time programme. Enjoy with one single ticket extraordinary art exhibitions, breathtaking performances, exciting cross-overs, video-art, workshops, tours, live music, and more. It’s almost an art in itself to be able to take it all in.
The exhibition Táctica Sintáctica by artist Diego Bianchi and curator Mariano Mayer subverts museum rules in order to provide a prominent space to the body: Art works are scattered in the rooms, some partly hidden, others can only be viewed when visitors are willing to squat, climb or kneel down. A true playground for visitors with the works of David Hockney, Julia Spínola, Dan Flavin, Dora García, Jimmie Durham and Joachim Koester, and many others. During Museum Night, visitors will be presented with a playful training for the body. The radical question is: what does the body want?
Extended, the youth department of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academy, takes visitors through their research on body experience, identity and ecology.
Museumnacht photos
Rooms 02 Performance Festival
In the weekend of 10 and 11 June, the second edition of ROOMS Performance Festival took place.
In ROOMS young makers and established talents take you on an expedition to unexplored worlds with dazzling dance pieces, mysterious theater, experimental jazz and dreamy films.
Biographies
Led by Amsterdam-based choreographer and performer Miri Lee (South Korea, 1975), Collectief Imprography is an independent artist platform focusing on advanced levels of impromptu performance forms. Since 2018, Lee has been organizing the Co-Session Series, fostering a close collaborative scheme among its professional dancers and musicians from various artistic backgrounds.
Judith Engelen (Belgium, 1995) makes physical and associative performances in which she combines fast technology with slow literature. In addition, her work always has a strong connection to psychoanalysis and biology. Abel Enklaar (the Netherlands, 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the intersection of technology, identity and environment through performances and installations. Their work explores the impact of technology on our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Enklaar has presented their work at festivals and venues around the world.
Nina Marte Wilson (1998, the Netherlands) graduated as a performer and visual artist from the Institute of Performing Arts, Maastricht in 2022. During her studies, Wilson started to replace the stage with other landscapes and herself with objects and elements. Starting from a theatrical background she moves towards other media, including film, photography, animation, installation and food. In a playful and inventive way, Wilson creates a ritual in which the spectator is offered the silence and space to become absorbed in the moment. Everything shown, is born out of situations or landscapes she puts herself in. Working intuitively, she grounds, get bogged down, collects and listens, overwhelming and sincere, with the softest touch.
With a signature of rooted groove in combination with well-tempered outbursts, drummer Sun-Mi Hong (South Korea, 1990) has placed herself strongly in the Dutch jazz scene. By approaching the moment in a meditative fashion, Hong achieves the ability to bring something entirely original to the band stand. Known for his distinct trumpet tone, out-of-the-box creativity and diversity of projects, Alistair Payne (Scotland, 1995) is a prominent name amongst the new wave of Dutch jazz.
The work of Arno Schuitemaker (the Netherlands, 1976) arises from existential questions and is an ongoing quest for the mystery of our bodies and ourselves. Hyperphysical and immersive, they receive praise for the depth created at the crossroads of the intimate and the universal. In his performances, sensory experience is prioritized over narrative. Schuitemaker has shown his work at renowned venues and contemporary performing arts festivals in over 25 countries.
Alesya Dobysh (Russia, 1989) and Marina Pravkina (Russia, 1986) met 15 years ago being a part of the Moscow urban dance scene. During that period they mastered footwork oriented club styles, such as House dance and UK Jazz Fusion, self-studied fundamentals of contemporary dance and actively participated in a “battle” dance scene. In developing their choreographic material, they draw inspiration from the abstraction and deconstruction of footwork patterns. To explore their interdependence, performers construct rules and play obscure games, finding new ways to complement each other’s physicality and its limitations.
Overview
(Photo: © Sanne Peper)
Rooms 2024
Please save the date for the third edition of Rooms, scheduled for 27 and 28 January 2024, we hope to see you again then! Keep an eye on our website and social media.
Press about Rooms 02
Press
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