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Extended: Collectivity

Are you up for something different on Saturdays? EXTENDED, the youth collective of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, is kicking off a new edition on October 25 — and you can join in!

Together with other young people, you’ll get to work directly with artists, dive into their creative worlds, and discover what really goes on behind the scenes of a cultural institution. Each week you’ll explore themes like migration, diaspora, and community (linked to the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes at Marres), while trying out workshops, visiting exhibitions, and building towards your very own project that will be shown during Museumnacht 2026.

Oh, and yes — you’ll also earn some money while doing it. Every Saturday from 12:00 to 14:00, you’ll be part of a group that’s curious, creative, and ready to experiment.

Sound like your thing? Sign up before 20 October 2025 — we’d love to have you on board!

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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 Academ ie, in which young people work together for four months on a socially engaged art project.

Extended: Adventures in Slumberland

Extended started with the four-month art project Adventures in Slumberland on 15 March 2025 with a new group of members.

In this new workshop series, Extended takes young people on a creative journey of discovery. They’ll explore the magical, beautiful—and sometimes scary—world of dreams and nightmares. Dreams are more than just weird stories in your head. They let you imagine other worlds, escape the chaos of everyday life, and they can even help you come up with fresh ideas. What if you could use your imagination to actually change something?

In the spring of 2025, Extended dives deep into the world of dreams. These workshops are inspired by Mexican artist Alejandro Galván, whose exhibition Vultures & Fireflies creates a colorful dream world. His art blends stories from his neighborhood with myths, comics, and gaming culture—where fantasy and reality merge.

With the help of artists, a coach, and the facilities of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie, you’ll have the chance to create and shape your own dream world.

Extended exhibition ‘mind and matter’

Extended would love to invite you to the exhibition mind and matter, which the Extended members had the pleasure of creating and curating. They have made artworks that relate to themes of memory, the body and soul, the intangible and the physical. Putting into practice everything we have seen, studied, and encountered over the last couple of weeks, the exhibition is a beautiful memoir of our experiences during the Extended program.

mind and matter
Saturday 25 January
12:00 – 14:00
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

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The educational program Extended is a joint initiative of Marres and Jan van Eyck Academie. Thanks to Cultuurmakers Maastricht.