With great pleasure, Marres and Odapark present the fourth edition of the Limburg Biënnale, an exhibition that offers a cross-section of visual art in Limburg and its surroundings.
Open Call
Following the tremendous success of the previous editions, Marres and Odapark will launch an open call at the beginning of 2026. For the last edition in 2024, we received an overwhelming 1,600 submissions. In the end, 500 works by 350 artists were presented, spread across Odapark in Venray and Marres in Maastricht.
Datum
23 February – 8 March 2026
More information about the open call, how to submit your work, frequently asked questions, and the selection process will follow!
Jury
The jury and curator team, consisting of professional artists, reviews the submissions without knowing who created the artworks. They then use their selections to design a space at Marres or Odapark, where they also display their own work.
The jury members for the Limburg Biënnale 2026 are:
Marres
Morena Bamberger
Mounir Eddib
Arash Fakhim
Henri Jacobs
Juul Kraijer
Charl Landvreugd
Bodil Ouedraogo
Ilke Paddenburg
Misha de Ridder
Lydia Schouten
Koen Taselaar
Simone Trum (Team Thursday)
Odapark
Simone Albers
Sara Bachour
Maarten Bel
Club LAM: Marloes IJpelaar, Ella Kamerbeek, Ayla Çekin Satijn
Karin Peulen
Puck Verkade
date jury days
16 & 17 April 2026
Bios of the jury members
Morena Bamberger ( the Netherlands, 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work operates at the intersection of installation art, sculpture, video, painting, and scenography. Her practice is deeply rooted in a sensory, mystical visual language that feels both surreal and enchanting. She creates immersive experiences in which scent, sound, and color come together in a poetic interplay of the visible and the invisible.
A recurring theme in her oeuvre is the intertwining of the everyday with the ethereal. Bamberger regards her work as “a visual channel between worlds,” guided by intuition, the subconscious, and supernatural experiences.
Raised within the Sinti community, her cultural background forms an unspoken yet essential layer in her work. “Most people see a washed-up pebble,” she observes, “but they don’t realize they are looking at a fragment of an ancient mountain range.”
Mounir Eddib (Belgium, 1995) is a Moroccan-Belgian painter and mixed media artist, born in Waterschei, a working-class neighborhood on the edge of decommissioned coal mines in Genk. As the grandson of a miner and the son of Amazigh (Berber) parents from the border regions of Western Sahara, his autobiographical art is inspired by issues such as migration, the rawness of industrial landscapes, and North African mythology. Eddib’s work responds to the partially hidden legacy of Limburg’s mining sites.
He depicts the bodies of exploited people of color, often as ancestral spirits haunting the land. Drawing from Amazigh, Sahrawi, and Islamic folk rituals and magical practices, he imbues his art with amulet-like qualities, particularly through the use of traditionally protective materials such as lead, tar, and indigo. Additionally, he incorporates industrial waste, such as blast-furnace slag from abandoned mine heaps, physically connecting his work to these locations.
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Arash Fakhim Esmaeilian (Iran, 1987) came to the Netherlands in 1992 with his family as a political refugee. Growing up in a working-class neighborhood, a career as an artist was not an obvious path, yet Fakhim found his place in the art world. His practice explores painting through unconventional materials and methods, stretching and questioning the boundaries of the medium. A recurring theme is the clash with imposed rules and conventions—not to reject painting, but to critically examine its history and limitations. He draws inspiration from chance discoveries, everyday environments, and the tension between personal memory and collective form. His work does not seek definitive answers but opens a space between surface and depth, absence and memory, object and echo.
Fakhim works with the awareness that the art world is often shaped by closed doors and power structures. For him, art is not a neutral space, but a field where access and visibility are continually negotiated. Behind the façade of inclusivity and refinement often lies a preference for the familiar, excluding others in the process. Fakhim does not position himself as a dissident, but as a disruptive force pointing out what remains unwelcome. Through projects such as Bar Haram and Sofreh, he creates temporary, horizontal spaces as an alternative to the exclusionary logic of institutions.
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Henri Jacobs (the Netherlands, 1957) has been living and working in Brussels since 1993.
His 40 years of artistic production have resulted in a diverse oeuvre ranging from paintings, woven tapestries, murals, brick and cobblestone mosaic commissions, and ceramics, to drawings in various techniques.
In September 2013, the book Henri Jacobs – Journal Drawings was published by Roma Publications Amsterdam. The book is a record of nine years of drawing and image collecting.
In November 2024, the book New Surface Research was released by the same publisher. It presents the culmination of ten years of paper weaving. The concept of Surface Research serves as the guiding principle in exploring two-dimensionality: the tactility and recto-verso proposition of the paper surface.
henrijacobsjournaldrawings.blogspot.com
Juul Kraijer (the Netherlands, 1970) graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam in 1994.
Since then, her drawings, sculptures, photographs, and video works have been exhibited worldwide in museums and galleries and are included in numerous museum collections, including MoMA, New York; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; MONA, Tasmania; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; and various museums in the Netherlands.
Her work has received several awards, including the Pendrecht Culture Prize, the Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze Portrait Prize, and three LensCulture Awards (Portrait and Black & White in 2018, Critics’ Choice in 2023). In 2018, her drawings were nominated for the prestigious French Prix Guerlain du Dessin Contemporain.
Charl Landvreugd (Suriname, 1971) is an artist, curator, and educator who serves as Head of Research & Curatorial Practice at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London and has held various fellowships, including at BAK Utrecht, the Van Abbemuseum, and the Research Center for Material Culture. His writing has been published in leading art journals and magazines such as Open Arts Journal, Small Axe Magazine, ARC Magazine, Uprising Art, and Metropolis M. Landvreugd is a member of the Akademie van Kunsten and the author of Becoming Afro-Dutch: Hybrid Being in Black Art and Culture.
Bodil Ouedraogo (Suriname, 1995) is an artist and fashion designer whose work seeks to uncover connections between different cultural forms of self-presentation. In her practice, she explores how fixed ideas about people or objects can be set in motion by introducing alternative hierarchies and perspectives. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she weaves movement, fabrics, photography, film, dance, and sculpture into what she considers the art of dressing up.
Her practice is guided by a deep sense of connectedness. Inspired by her experiences in Burkina Faso, where she often encounters the notion that a person is never alone but always part of a larger whole, she draws connections between personal and collective histories. In her work, this forms a web of stories and identities in which forgotten or neglected elements are brought back into view. By doing so, she opens a space for a radical imagination in which all parts can coexist.
bodilouedraogo.com
Ilke Paddenburg (the Netherlands, 1988) is an award-winning actor, writer, and director, known for her powerful and versatile presence on stage and screen. Since graduating from the Arnhem Theatre School in 2011, she has worked with leading companies and has been a permanent member of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) since 2019, performing leading roles in productions by, among others, Eline Arbo and Ivo van Hove.
In 2016, she received the Colombina Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Een soort Hades (Theater Utrecht). In 2022, she was nominated for the same award again for her role in In de Dokter (ITA) by Robert Icke.
On screen, Paddenburg has appeared in productions including Het Kamp (Golden Calf nomination for Best Lead Role in a Short Film) and Modern Love Amsterdam. In recent years, she has expanded her work to directing and screenwriting. Her short film debut, A Day in the Life of a Female Frame, premiered at the Les Arcs Film Festival in 2023. Her second film, A Shot at Art, is currently in post-production.
Misha de Ridder (The Netherlands, 1971) is a visual artist working with photography, video, and digital media. His contemplative images invite viewers to engage deeply with the ways we perceive and interpret the world around us.
De Ridder’s work has been widely exhibited at renowned institutions including Foam Photography Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. His works are part of major collections such as the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Museum Voorlinden.
Lydia Schouten (the Netherlands, 1948) is a leading performance, video, and installation artist. Her experimental work, which explores controversial themes such as gender, mass media, loneliness, and sexual violence, has resonated internationally.
In 2024, ROZENSTRAAT in Amsterdam presented her new video installation Yes, There Will Be Singing In Dark Times—in which early performances are brought to life in an experimental way alongside new work that maps nearly fifty years of her oeuvre.
This coming fall, Museum Arnhem will host the solo exhibition Lydia Schouten – Forever Young in honor of her fifty-year artistic career. The exhibition opens on October 4, 2025, and will feature new work alongside historical videos, collages, staged photographs, and a restored installation.
Koen Taselaar (Netherlands, 1986) creates a distinctive artistic universe full of visual wordplay and layered imagery. He often begins with elaborate drawings, which then expand into other media such as ceramics, screen printing, textiles, and sculpture.
In 2025, his work will be shown at CCCOD Tours, the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, and the Asger Jorn House in Albisola.
Simone Trum (1986, the Netherlands) is a graphic designer and co-founder of Team Thursday, a design studio based in Rotterdam, which she runs together with Loes van Esch. The studio focuses on creating visual identities, books, and spatial objects, with a particular interest in typography, a curiosity for materials, and the potential performativity of objects. Always searching for patterns in their surroundings and beyond, they explore how these can be transformed into designs.
In addition to their design practice, Trum and van Esch occasionally give workshops internationally, teach Typography at ArtEZ Arnhem, and organize exhibitions. Previously, these were held in the front part of their studio, TTHQ, and from now on in their new workspace, the J.J.P. Oud Church in Rotterdam South, where TTHQ will take on a new form.
Simone Albers (the Netherlands, 1990) creates colorful paintings, sculptures, and installations that focus on the more-than-human environment and the ways in which we are connected to it. Through her practice, she aims to cultivate an openness to the vibrant, complex, and dynamic nature of the world around us, ultimately challenging anthropocentric ways of thinking.
Albers studied Fine Art at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Valkhof Museum, Kunstenlab, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, and Platform POST. In 2019, her work was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting, and in 2022 she won the Sieger White Award, after which her book Myriad Ways of Being ~ Being of Myriad Ways was published by Jap Sam Books. Her practice is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund through the Kunstenaar Basis program (2025–2029).
Sara Bachour (Italy/Syria, 1988) approaches her practice like an internet anthropologist or, more honestly, like a stalker. She gathers the traces people leave behind online: a meme, a screenshot, a half-forgotten comment, a video confession, a gesture.. These fragments are residues of how people try to make sense of the world as changes move faster than our bodies can adapt.
In her practice, Bachour brings these fragments to a human scale, insisting that digital traces, like ideas, are never immaterial; they can shift opinions and influence how we live. She uses the slowness of handwork as a way to return to human time. Her work ranges from installations and video to sculpture, painting, and whatever form the work asks for.
She lives and works in Maastricht, where she graduated in Fine Arts at the Maastricht Academy, and where she now teaches. When she’s not lost in online rabbit holes, she tries to touch grass.
Maarten Bel (Netherlands, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist with a socially and educationally oriented practice. From Het Belhuis—his workspace in the heart of Rotterdam-West—he develops projects at the intersection of art and education. Het Belhuis serves as a base for both his own work and collaborations with the local community. Bel operates across a variety of cultural contexts, from the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the VPRO (De Cadeaufabriek) to the neighborhood community center around the corner.
His work is characterized by playfulness, wonder, and a strong engagement with the world around him. Recurring fascinations—such as rats, branches, and creating little gifts—serve as unexpected entry points to larger questions about humanity and imagination. In addition to his own practice, Bel is a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy.
Club Lam is a feminist collective that brings together theater, film, text, image, and other disciplines in bold, sharp, and playful performances. Ayla Çekin Satijn, Marloes IJpelaar, and Ella Kamerbeek create work that places female perspectives at the center and retells stories that have long been dominated by men. With humor, musicality, and audacity, Club Lam questions existing structures and creates space for imagination, confrontation, and liberation. Their style is eclectic and unpredictable, their content urgent and socially charged. In a landscape where old voices often remain the loudest, Club Lam makes itself heard: poetic, punk, and uncompromising.
clublam.nl
Karin Peulen (the Netherlands) studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and Painting at the Universidad de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. Her practice centers on the interplay between color and structure, shaped by themes such as memory, legacy, and social connectedness. Working with classical media including screen printing, photography, and textiles, she explores the tension between art and social dynamics. Architecture and urban planning often provide a guiding thread, serving as connective elements throughout her work.
Peulen continually questions the relationship between people and their surroundings, and the ways in which these are perceived and experienced. She lives in Maastricht and teaches at the academies in Maastricht and Hasselt. Her work is represented by Galerie Belleparais in Munich.
Puck Verkade (the Netherlands, 1987) received her BFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London. Her work has been shown at various international venues, such as the 16e Biennale de Lyon: Manifesto Of Fragility, Artissima Art Fair in Turin, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in Poland, Kunstmuseum The Hague, LISTE Art Fair and Kunstmuseum Gegenwart in Basel. She was selected as a 2017-2018 resident artist at Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation in London. In 2021 she received the prestigious Charlotte Koehler Prize from the Prins Bernhard Culture Fund in The Netherlands.
Verkade’s work is held in private and public collections internationally such as Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Servais Family Collection in Brussels, EKARD Collection in Wassenaar, amongst others. Since 2018 Verkade has been invited to teach, lecture and host workshops at various BA and MA studies across Europe.
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