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Marres Summer Program: Free Friday Evenings
Marres is open later every Friday evening until 8PM, with a special program and free admission. Bring your friends, family, or date along for a cultural start to your night out.
Open Call: Marres Friday Evening Program
Marres invites makers to program our Friday evenings! We’re offering you a space in which to create your own event, such as a workshop, performance, lecture, presentation, film screening, or anything else you can think of.
We are still looking for artists for the Friday evening program around Celina Eceiza’s exhibition Rubyfruit Jungle this autumn. The focus will be on textile, handicraft, feminism, and collaboration.
Limburg Biënnale
Summer Program Calendar
Friday Evenings July 2026
Paper Face Workshop Creating a Character
by Shirin Hejazi
3 July 2026
This workshop invites you to craft expressive paper faces using recycled materials and homemade, eco-friendly glue.
You start by sketching a simple face outline, then gradually transform it into a three-dimensional paper sculpture using basic sculpting techniques. Along the way, we’ll explore how subtle changes in lines and shapes can shift expression: You’re not just folding paper, you’re playing with emotion.
By the end, each participant will have a unique paper face sculpture ready to take home and hang on the wall.
Limburg Biënnale participant Shirin Hejazi is an Iranian artist with a background in architecture. She previously worked as an architect in Iran and China before dedicating herself fully to art. She works across a range of media, including sculpture, painting, digital art, 2D and 3D animation. Her work explores themes such as climate change, animal rights, human rights, women’s rights, and emotions. In her art, she combines honesty with humor to create pieces that connect emotionally and invite people to reflect more deeply on human behavior and its impact on the future of our world.
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 3 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start workshop
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The workshop is in English.
If the workshop is fully booked, you are more than welcome to visit the exhibition. And who knows, there might still be a spot available! You can also sign up for the waiting list at reserveringen@marres.org
Textile Workshop Rubyfruit Jungle
by Celina Eceiza
10 July 2026
Join a colorful drawing marathon inspired by the principles of sport by Argentine artist Celina Eceiza. With the exhibition Rubyfruit Jungle opening this fall, she will transform the Marres house into an immersive, tactile environment that unfolds like a pleasure garden filled with textile surprises, including murals, drawings, garments, sculptures, and textile works.
Celina Eceiza lives and works in Buenos Aires. After studying Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, she developed a diverse practice spanning painting, textiles, installations, and literature
Her work centers on making visible what often remains unspoken. In solo exhibitions such as La conquista del reino de los miedos, Villa Celina, and Ofrenda — the latter at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and later shown in Austria — she explores themes of identity, domesticity, and rituals of loss and consolation. She has exhibited at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the UB Anderson Gallery, and participated in the First Biennial of Textile Art of Chile. In 2020, she received both the First Prize for Painting from the Central Bank and the Konex Prize for Textile Art. In 2018, she published her novel El falsificador.
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 10 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start workshop
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The workshop is in English.
If the workshop is fully booked, you are more than welcome to visit the exhibition. And who knows, there might still be a spot available! You can also sign up for the waiting list at reserveringen@marres.org
Workshop Chorusing Symbionts
by Matteo Marangoni
17 July 2026
Listen to nature and technology merge! During this workshop, the garden of Marres becomes a place to explore how sound and music can bridge the worlds of humans, robots, plants, and animals. Matteo Marangoni developed a group of small sound sculptures hidden in the greenery, creating spatial electronic music that invites listeners to pay close attention to their surroundings. They draw energy from their immediate environment and blend so seamlessly into the landscape that it feels as if they’ve always belonged there.
The project Chorusing Symbionts draws inspiration from new ideas in artificial intelligence and eco- and bioacoustics, particularly how animals communicate through sound. It imagines a future where new, artificial beings coexist naturally with real animals, as a form of embodied and sensory science fiction.
Chorusing Symbionts can be discovered throughout the month of July in the city garden of Marres. Behind the project lies an invitation: can we use the attention around artificial intelligence, which today often focuses only on human intelligence, to develop a broader perspective? And can we learn from nature how different species coexist peacefully, helping to create a more balanced relationship between humans and the biosphere?
Matteo Marangoni is a musician and visual artist specializing in sound rituals, DIY media, and utopian ideas. He makes art that explores the relationship between people and things, as well as between nature and technology. Together with Dieter Vandoren, he created Chorusing Symbionts and Komorebi: a swarm of sound creatures that make music synchronized with the play of light through leaves moving in the wind. He is interested in how artificial intelligence can help us connect with other forms of intelligence on our planet. Marangoni is a co-founder of the instrument inventors initiative (iii) in The Hague.
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 17 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start workshop
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres City Garden, Maastricht
The workshop is in English.
If the workshop is fully booked, you are more than welcome to visit the exhibition. And who knows, there might still be a spot available! You can also sign up for the waiting list at reserveringen@marres.org
Workshop Painting with Egg Tempera
by Daniella de Grood
24 July 2026
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to make egg tempera paint using a historical recipe. You mix your own paint with a binder made from egg and other ingredients, adding pigments to it, and then get started experimenting with painting.
Egg tempera is a special paint: it contains no solvents or microplastics, unlike many ready-made paints. It lends itself well to detailed painting, but thanks to its vibrant colors, it’s also very suitable for free work.
As a participant, you don’t need to bring any materials, but if possible, please bring a few soft (watercolor) brushes. The workshop is suitable for adults with an interest in historical painting techniques with a contemporary application.
Limburg Biënnale participant Daniella de Grood (Nijmegen, 1969) studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. She has been working as a designer since 1996 and as a painter since 2020. Since 2024, her studio has been based in Heerlen. In her paintings, she uses natural materials and historical paint recipes. “I love working in detail. It’s often a meditative observation of small objects, which I render in detail on my painting panel.”
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 24 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start workshop
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The workshop is in Dutch.
If the workshop is fully booked, you are more than welcome to visit the exhibition. And who knows, there might still be a spot available! You can also sign up for the waiting list at reserveringen@marres.org
Lecture Embodied Memories
by Mees Elias van Zanten
Put on your ex’s sweater and come listen to stories about love attachment and longing
24 July 2026
You know that feeling? Every now and then, a memory of an ex just pops into your head. Something small: a scent, a song, a joke that only the two of you understood. And then you feel that longing, even though the relationship ended long ago. Even though you’re “supposed to be over it by now.”
This Friday evening is about those sneaky, quiet forms of attachment that linger, long after the love has faded. Through Embodied Memories, a work that is part of the Limburg Biënnale, artist Mees Elias van Zanten takes you into a personal and scientific exploration of the bond with former lovers.
You’ll hear fragments from Nesteldrang (translated as ‘nestal instinct’), a collection of autofictional memories of a lost love, interwoven with insights from research on long-term affective attachment. At the end of the evening, you’ll have the chance to anonymously write down one memory of an ex that you still cherish. These memories become part of a growing archive, which later reappears in performances and installations. In this way, a personal story shifts into a collective collection of affective memory and traces of connection.
Limburg Biënnale participant Mees Elias van Zanten (he/they) is a self-taught writer, maker, and performer. As a Dutch Studies scholar, he has a weakness for the written word, but is equally aware of its limitations: when words aren’t enough, only unspoken expression remains. His work addresses themes such as social inequality, trans identity, embodiment, masculinity, and intimacy. Depending on what the theme calls for, he uses text, installation, theater, film, sculpture, and/or classical visual art. Mees likes to sleep with his feet hanging off the bed, walks the line between attraction and repulsion, and doesn’t shy away from public confrontation. To do so, he employs discomfort, physical disgust, taboos, and debate to expose absurd normativity. He’s also not afraid to use unconventional materials, in his latest performance, he used chocolate as a central motif.
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 24 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start lecture
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The lecture is in Dutch.
If the lecture is fully booked, you are more than welcome to visit the exhibition. And who knows, there might still be a spot available! You can also sign up for the waiting list at reserveringen@marres.org
Limburg Biënnale
Summer Program Calendar
Friday Evenings August 2026
Neighborhood get-together
21 August 2026
After two fun and successful editions, Marres will host another neighborhood gathering. Come catch up after the holidays in the Marres city garden. Everyone is welcome: neighbours, friends, and passers-by.
Enjoy speedtours through the exhibition Limburg Biënnale 2026, a workshop for the kids and summery snacks.
Partners / Thanks to:
The public program of the Limburg Biënnale is generously supported by the Elisabeth Strouven Fund.
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Listening Session Maguette Dieng & Lynnée Denise x DAR Cultural Agency
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.
Fall Program: free entrance on Friday Nights
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.
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
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.
Behind the scenes tour with Leopold Emmen
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.
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
Marres and Queer Art Club are hosting a storytelling evening on Friday evening, 10 October 2025.
We invite you to gather around a campfire in Marres’ intimate city garden and listen to stories with “queer” as the theme.
With:
Marc Boas
Pia Breuer
Brunei Deneumostier
Frida Roper
Date:
Friday, 10 October 2025
Time:
inloop vanaf 18:00
storytelling: 18:30—20:30
Location:
Marres garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Free admission
Please reserve a spot via reserveringen@marres.org. There’s a maximum of 50 visitors. The event is in English.
Partners / With thanks to:
Made possible by Cultuurmakers Maastricht
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Beginner’s Crochet workshop by Maasstitch
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
Partners / With thanks to:
Made possible by Cultuurmakers Maastricht
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
Didianne Leusink – Performance ‘Verdwalen tussen lichaam en materiaal’ (Lost Between Body and Material)
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
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
Overview
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
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
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.
Neighborhood Gathering pictures
Friday Night Openings
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.
Date: Every Friday evening until 5 Oct 2025
Time: 5PM—8PM (open from 12PM)
Location: Marres, Maastricht
Free admission from 5PM