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Gluren bij de Buren

Sunday, 28 June, gardens across the entire municipality will transform into sunny open-air stages. Local performing artists will perform behind the neighbors’ fence, the lawn becomes the stage, and the garden furniture turns into the grandstand!

There is no need to buy a ticket. But you can support the performers and the festival with a voluntary donation.

John & Maarten at Marres

John & Maarten found each other through their shared love of music. Together, they perform singer-songwriter songs in Dutch, Limburgish, and English, with Maarten accompanying John’s deep, rich vocals on guitar and piano. The repertoire ranges from Laat me and Streets of London to Wonderful Tonight. Something for everyone!

Date:

Sunday, 28 Jun, 2026

Time:

1PM / 2:30PM / 4PM

Location:

At the back of the Marres city garden, by the ice house
Capucijnenstraat 98, 6211 RT Maastricht
Entrance through the main entrance of Marres

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Storytelling Night: Marres x PREMIUM Maastricht University

Storytelling Night: Lost in Translation
Marres x PREMIUM Maastricht University

Join us on June 2nd at the Marres city garden for an intimate evening of storytelling, reflection and collective listening centered around the theme “Lost in Translation”. 

Through personal stories shared in a warm and welcoming atmosphere, this storytelling night invites guests to gather, slow down, and experience the power of shared narratives and community.

Date: Tuesday 2 June, 2026
Time: Doors open at 19:00
Event starts at 19:30 and ends at 21:30
Location: Marres city garden
(Check in at the reception, accessible through the front door of Marres)

The evening will include a series of live stories, moments of conversation, and small snacks and drinks.

The event is free to attend, but capacity is limited, so registration is required to reserve your spot. The event will be fully in English.

Open mic for storytelling will also be available. We’d love to welcome you there!

Register for Storytelling Night Read more about the Marres city garden

Storytellers:

Vladyslava Sylenok

Vladyslava (Vlada) Sylenok is a person who discovered one day through the feedback of other creatives that the notes she types in her iPhone are, apparently, quite poetic. 

Since then, she has come to an agreement with her inner critic that she is, in fact, artistic, and has written around 15 to 20 poems, 5 to 7 texts, and 2 or 3 short stories.

The stories and texts, however, have been untouched for a while, waiting for their time to be edited and eventually post on Substack. Precise wording and short-form writing come most naturally to her — possibly because of some presence of neurodivergent traits.

Currently, she is searching for her style and voice whilst thinking, speaking, and writing in four languages. Her art comes from navigating life on the border between her post-Soviet upbringing, contemporary Ukrainian culture still in the making, and the Western world she once longed for, and the one that suddenly fell upon her four years ago.

Lavinia Gennari

Lavinia Gennari is a third year student at Maastricht University where she majored in sociology, literature, and gender studies. Apart from her studies, she is really passionate about writing, poems in particular.

Dorus Mokkink

Someone on a path which unfolds as I take the steps. Lover of life, the arts, silence, nature and fire. 

Speaker

Hello, I am a twenty-three year old, Persian Iranian, Dutch born, woman, studying Psychology at the UM. And truthfully, I have felt lost in translation my whole life. In my short story I’ll touch on my current understanding of it, considering the state of our world :,)

Oumaima Belkhdar

Oumaima Belkhdar is a spoken word artist and writer who creates experimental, genre-defying work. Her absurdist writing often explores alternative realities and focuses on the gray area between social positions and identity. Recurring themes in her work include time travel, mental health, (post)colonialism, and internet culture.

Oumaima is a former resident at deBuren and the National Theatre of Greece, has performed on a variety of stages, and has published work in, among others, De Revisor. She is currently working on her first two theatre pieces and a novel.

Partners / Thanks to:

Opening Limburg Biënnale 2026

Opening Limburg Biënnale at Marres
Photo: Rob van Hoorn

With great pleasure, Odapark and Marres invite you to the festive opening of the Limburg Biënnale 2026!

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 20 professional artists reviewed an impressive 2,500 submitted works and made their selections. The selection will be on show at Odapark and Marres from 27 June through 23 August, 2026. 

This is the fourth edition of the Limburg Biënnale and the second that we are organizing in collaboration. We therefore welcome you at both our locations, in Venray and Maastricht.

Date

Saturday, 27 June 27, 2026

Location & time

Odapark
Merseloseweg 117, Venray
2PM (walk-in from 1:30PM, open till 5PM)

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
5PM (7:30 PM doors close, 8PM exhibition closes)

Free entrance, no need to reserve a ticket. Everybody is welcome!

Read more about the Limburg Biënnale 2026

Matteo Marangoni – Chorusing Symbionts

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

In the month of July, Chorusing Symbionts can be seen in the city garden of Marres. The work consists of a group of small sound creatures hidden in the greenery, creating spatial electronic music that invites listeners to pay close attention to their surroundings. They blend so seamlessly into the landscape that it feels as though they have always belonged there. As you listen, you experience how technology and nature merge into a new form of music.

Chorusing Symbionts is a project exploring whether music can bridge the worlds of humans, robots, and animals. It does so within the field of ecoacoustics, which studies how sound functions in nature. The project draws inspiration from emerging ideas in artificial intelligence and bioacoustics, particularly how animals communicate through sound. It envisions a future where new artificial beings coexist naturally with real animals, akin to a form of embodied, sensory science fiction.

At the heart of this project lies a key question: Can we use the current focus on artificial intelligence (which often centers only on human intelligence) to develop a broader understanding of intelligence? And can we learn from nature how different species coexist peacefully, thereby contributing to a more balanced relationship between humans and the biosphere?

Date:

1—31 July 2026
closed on Mondays

Time:

12PM—10PM

Entrance:

The city garden is freely accessible through the gate of Marres Kitchen.

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht


Questions & Feedback

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Workshop

In connection with the Chorusing Symbionts project, which will be on display in July, Matteo Marangoni led a workshop. In Marres’ garden, he explored how people can share and interact with different life forms—plants, animals, and humans—through sound and music.

Free entrance

Date:

17 July 2026

Time:

Walk in from 5PM, start 5:30PM

Visit the exhibition Limburg Biënnale between12-8PM, free entrance from 5PM.

Location:

Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht

Matteo Marangoni

Matteo Marangoni is an artist specializing in sonic rituals, DIY media, and applied utopianism. His artistic practice focuses on exploring the relationship between humans and things, nature, and technology. Together with Dieter Vandoren he created Komorebi: a swarm of artificial creatures that generate music in response to the shadows of trees moving in the wind. He is eager to explore how artificial intelligence can facilitate connections with other forms of intelligence on our planet. Marangoni is a co-founder of the instrument inventors initiative (iii) in The Hague.

matteomarangoni.com
Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Partners / thanks to

TEAM Chorusing Symbionts

  • Mihalis Shammas (3D-design)
  • Luuk Meints and Ionela Pop (3D design and digital fabrication)
  • Matthijs Munnik en Daan Johan (electronics)
  • Ahnjili ZhuParris (machine learning)
  • Riccardo Marogna (DSP)
  • Stephan Olde (IoT, code development)
  • Erfan Abdi (videography)

Chorusing Symbionts builds upon previous work developed with Dieter Vandoren 

PARTNERS

  • TU Delft
  • Crossing Parallels
  • Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden
  • Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
  • Leiden University
  • Days of Art & Science, Leiden
  • iii, The Hague, 
  • Zuiderparktheatre, The Hague
  • Zone2Source, Amsterdam 
  • Marres, Maastricht
  • STUK, Leuven
  • Serralves, Porto

FONDSEN
Municipality of The Hague
Creative Industries Fund NL
Performing Arts Fund NL

National Outdoor Play Day

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

National Outdoor Play Day at Marres! 

On Wednesday, June 11, 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 10, 2026
Time: 12—4PM
Location: The city garden of Marres in Maastricht
Free entrance

Parents can enjoy 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.

Free admission with ‘Boekenweekgeschenk’

Photo: Noor Roodenrijs

Finished your book? Head to the museum! On Sunday 22 March, the final day of the Dutch Book Week, the ‘Boekenweekgeschenk’ Piaggio by Hendrik Groen serves as your ticket to over 200 museums across the Netherlands. You’ll receive the Boekenweekgeschenk as a gift when you spend at least €17.50 on Dutch-language books during Book Week. Simply show the book on 22 March at Marres or any participating museum to gain free entry or bring a guest for free.

Come by and visit the exhibition Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes: a large-scale exhibition project that immerses you in a powerful and inspiring story about collectivity, diaspora, and cultural identity.

Date: Sunday 22 March
Time: 12:00—17:00
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Free admission upon presentation of the Boekenweekgeschenk

Read more about Porous Grounds, Sacred Codes


 

– One book grants admission to one person.
– A digital Boekenweekgeschenk on an eReader or in the Kobo app on a phone also counts as a physical copy.

Behind the scenes tour with Leopold Emmen (part 2)

Free entrance

In November, Marres will host the recordings for The House Where We Used To Live by filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen (Leopold Emmen). Their installations explore the boundary between film and space: not a conventional screen, but an experience that physically surrounds you.

Part 1: 7 November 2025

On Friday, 7 November, Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen will give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of their film project at Marres, just before filming kicks off the following week. As a visitor, you will take part in the first test takes!

Part 2: 14 November 2025

Then, on Friday, 14 November, once the cameras have stopped rolling, you can explore the set yourself while they share the stories and insights from the shoot.

Leopold Emmen explore the different characteristics of a house and its inhabitants, and how external forces can put people’s lives under pressure. The film tells the story of two women living together in a house, until one day a large group of strangers enters and decides to live there as well. The work will be on view at Marres in 2027.

Date:

Part 1: Friday evening 7 November 2025
Part 2: Friday evening 14 November 2025

Time:

doors open 5:30PM
start 6PM
Marres closes at 8PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht

Free admission, but capacity is limited. Email reserveringen@marres.org to reserve a spot. Please mention your preferred date!

NEWS
Nanouk Leopold’s latest film, Whitetail, recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.



Foto’s: Rob van Hoorn

Kinderdag Festival Celebrate YOU!

The Children’s Museum Directors Stanske, Mohammad, Sophie and Emre
Photo: Hannah Lipowsky

SOLD OUT!

The Children’s Day Festival is OSCAM’s annual kids’ celebration, all about creativity and self-expression. This year, three locations are participating: Marres in Maastricht, HipHopHuis in Rotterdam, and OSCAM in Amsterdam.

During the festival, children have the freedom to follow their own creative path. They can take part in a wide range of workshops and activities, such as a hip-hop dance workshop by Oxygen, storytime with books from Centre Céramique, crocheting with Maasstitch, crafts, building forts, comic drawing, a poetry workshop, and of course, tasty snacks and drinks!

The Children’s Day Festival is also co-organized by the Children’s Museum directors, who, together with a youth coach, help design and run parts of the program. This gives children a unique opportunity to get involved in the museum world, take the lead, and have a special experience shaping an art festival.

Date:

Sunday 7 December 2025

Time:

12:00—16:00

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free entrance


Children’s Day is specially for kids. Parents are welcome, but unfortunately cannot take part in the workshops. Fewer adults = more space and more fun for the kids!

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Partners / Thanks:

Partners: OSCAM, Amsterdam and HipHopHuis, Rotterdam

Thanks you to Centre Céramique, Maasstitch, Oxygen Academy of Dance, Lee Janssen, Lola Coenders

Behind the scenes tour with Leopold Emmen (part 1)

Free entrance

In November, Marres will host the recordings for The House Where We Used To Live by filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen (Leopold Emmen). Their installations explore the boundary between film and space: not a conventional screen, but an experience that physically surrounds you.

Part 1: 7 November 2025

On Friday, 7 November, Nanouk Leopold and Daan Emmen will give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of their film project at Marres, just before filming kicks off the following week. As a visitor, you will take part in the first test takes!

Part 2: 14 November 2025

Then, on Friday, 14 November, once the cameras have stopped rolling, you can explore the set yourself while they share the stories and insights from the shoot.

Leopold Emmen explore the different characteristics of a house and its inhabitants, and how external forces can put people’s lives under pressure. The film tells the story of two women living together in a house, until one day a large group of strangers enters and decides to live there as well. The work will be on view at Marres in 2027.

Date:

Part 1: Friday evening 7 November 2025
Part 2: Friday evening 14 November 2025

Time:

doors open 5:30PM
start 6PM
Marres closes at 8PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht

Free admission, but capacity is limited. Email reserveringen@marres.org to reserve a spot. Please mention your preferred date.

NEWS
Nanouk Leopold’s latest film, Whitetail, recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.



Photos: Rob van Hoorn