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Behind the scenes with Leopold Emmen (part 2)

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.

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. 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:

Friday evening 7 November 2025
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 reservations@marres.org to reserve a spot.

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



Daan Emmen and Nanouk Leopold

Free Friday Night Fall Program

This fall, Marres is open ONLY on Fridays with a special program and free admission. Bring your friends, family, or date for a cultural start to your night out.

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Storytelling Night
Marres x Queer Art Club

10 October 2025

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 evening, 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.

Beginner’s Crochet workshop by Maasstitch

17 October 2025

This workshop is fully booked!

In October, Maasstitch will host a beginner’s crochet workshop at Marres. Maasstitch is a Maastricht-based craft club focused on crochet and knitting, centered around coming together, creating, sharing, and relaxing with like-minded makers. The group meets regularly to crochet, chat, and inspire one another—whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned pro. Open to all ages!

Date:

Friday evening, 17 October 2025

Time:

5PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 


Photo: Nena van Kleef
Photo: Lars Kjær Dideriksen

Performance: Terms & Conditions van Ingrid Berger Myhre 

31 October 2025

Spoken language is always accompanied by gestures. We emphasize our words or soften them, we extend their meaning or brush it off. The silent contract between language and movement is the subject of the engaging performance titled Terms & Conditions by Ingrid Berger Myhre. 

Etymology is the part of linguistics that deals with where words come from. It looks at the connections between concepts and meanings, and how these have changed over time depending on context and use. Etymology can be seen as a kind of map of the movement and relationships of words, both formally and semantically. We use this as a framework to think about how language moves choreographically. Using game structures and choreographic assignments we will explore the literal and metaphorical, embodied cognition, associative trains of thought, related meaning, formal shifts and puns.

Date:

Friday evening, October 31, 2025.
Limited capacity!

Time:

Entry with reservation 5:30, start 6PM
Marres closes at 8PM

Location:

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht

Tickets Ingrid Berger Myhre – Terms & Conditions (gratis toegang)


Behind the scenes with Leopold Emmen

7 & 14 November 2025

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.

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. 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:

Friday evening 7 November 2025
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 reservations@marres.org to reserve a spot.



Daan Emmen en Nanouk Leopold

Beginner’s Sashiko workshop by Textile Textiel

21 November 2025

This workshop is fully booked!

This workshop is a hands-on class where participants learn the traditional Japanese stitching technique called Sashiko, which means “little stabs” in Japanese. Historically used to mend, patch, or strengthen worn clothing—especially workwear. Over time, it evolved into a beautiful form of textile art known for its white geometric patterns stitched onto indigo fabric.

The workshop will be led by Becky Doonan, a freelance textile conservator and seamstress with a strong background in textile crafts and dressmaking. Her work covers a broad spectrum, from creating made-to-measure garments and conserving antique textiles, to teaching textile craft workshops and giving sewing lessons. She has a longstanding fascination with traditional textile craft techniques, which she explores through activities such as embroidery, weaving, and other handicrafts.

Bring your own jeans!

Date:

Friday evening, 21 November 2025

Time:

5—7:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht




Pinch Pot Workshop by Farbod Ceramics

28 November 2025

This workshop is fully booked!

Create your own pinch pot during a workshop led by Farbod Nael.

Farbod Nael is a ceramic artist and designer based in Maastricht. Rooted in the slow, tactile rhythm of working with clay, Farbod combines ancient techniques with contemporary storytelling. Through hand-building, slip casting, and wheel-throwing, they explore themes of diaspora, identity, and collective memory—shaping vessels not just as functional objects, but as carriers of emotion, culture, and care.

Through their project Farbod Ceramics, they create small-batch collections and lead community-based workshops that center healing, heritage, and queer joy.

Your pot will need about 2.5 weeks to dry—pick it up before the holidays and gift someone a unique, handmade present!

Date:

Friday evening 28 November 2025

Time:

5—7:30PM

Location:

Marres, Maastricht




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.

Beginner’s Crochet workshop by Maasstitch 

Photo: Nena van Kleef

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULLY BOOKED!

In October, Maasstitch will host a beginner’s crochet workshop at Marres. Maasstitch is a Maastricht-based craft club focused on crochet and knitting, centered around coming together, creating, sharing, and relaxing with like-minded makers. The group meets regularly to crochet, chat, and inspire one another—whether you’re a total beginner or a seasoned pro. Open to all ages!

Date:

Friday, 17 October 2025

Time:

5PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 



Didianne Leusink – Performance ‘Verdwalen tussen lichaam en materiaal’ (Lost Between Body and Material)

Image from the performance: The Day I Started to Disappear (2023)

In this 30-minute performance, Leusink wears a large ceramic vase upside down on her shoulders, obscuring her vision and muffling sound. At the same time, a soundscape plays, featuring recordings from workshops — captured while shaping raw materials and found objects — as well as sounds from walks through various landscapes.

The result is an interplay of natural and crafted rhythms and materials. With this, Leusink questions the materiality of living and non-living forms — what we are made of, what we move through, and everything that exists in between. The garden of Marres, with all its human and non-human life forms, becomes a temporary stage where artist, environment, and materials improvise together.

Didianne Leusink (1996, Netherlands) is a visual artist whose work explores the human impact on nature. Her practice often emerges from organic materials and artisanal craftsmanship. She works with raw elements such as crushed stone, plants, and ash, as well as handmade glass djembes, ceramic vases, and painted curtains — objects that have been given a recognizable form.

Date:

Friday 22 August 2025

Time:

6:30PM

Location:

Marres (garden)
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free entrance
Claim you spot via reserveringen@marres.org


Storytelling Night, Marres x Limestone

Photo: Rob van Hoorn


Following a successful try-out in March, Marres and Limestone Books are teaming up once again for a storytelling evening on September 5, 2025.

Join us around the campfire in the intimate city garden of Marres to listen to summer-themed stories. Fact or fiction, each story aims to bring people together through the power of oral history.

Come listen to:

Işıl Çakmak
An artist and architect, currently studying MA Interior Architecture in Maastricht.

LDH
The pseudonym of Lars den Hertog, working across painting, poetry, and performance.

Michiel Terpelle / Jizz Taco
Drag queen, artistic researcher, and typographer in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy with Bebe Books. Her practice uses drag as a method and queerness as a lived code, merging publishing, performance, and typography into acts of ritual, spellwork, and resistance.

Rossy Liu
Book artist and freelance visual designer. Co-founder of the collective To Be Cooked, with which she initiated the culinary project Food Untold (DDW 2024), exploring cultural meaning in design through food and storytelling.

and Mariah Issa.

Would you also like to share your summer-themed story that evening? Mail us at educatie@marres.org

Date:

Friday, 5 September, 2025

Time:

Start 6:30PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Free entry
Claim your spot: reserveringen@marres.org

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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.



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 

25 years of Marres – Neighborhood Gathering

Photo: Rob van Hoorn

Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a series of ten special events held on the 25th of every month. On the eve of King’s Day, which falls on April 26 instead of April 27 this year, we warmly invite our neighbors to a special evening at Marres.

Enjoy guided tours in English, Spanish, Dutch and Maastricht dialect by our team. Activities and a guided tour for the little ones, and a refreshing Marres beer or a glass of Aperol in our city garden.

Even if you don’t live nearby, you’re more than welcome to join us in celebrating our anniversary.

Date:

Friday, April 25

Time:

5—8PM

Location:

Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht 

Admission is free, but we appreciate your RSVP at reserveringen@marres.org.



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Friday Night Openings

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Marres will have extended hours every Friday evening! From 5PM to 8PM, you can drop by with free admission. Explore the current exhibition and bring your friends, family, or date for a cultural start to your night out.

During the summer months, special events are scheduled for these Friday evenings.

Summer Line Up

Date: Every Friday evening until 5 Oct 2025
Time: 5PM—8PM (open from 12PM)
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Free admission from 5PM

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