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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.
Drawing 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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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:
Matteo Marangoni – Chorusing Symbionts
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.
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
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
Read more about the Marres city gardenParents can enjoy a book in the garden, or relax at Marres Kitchen.
Marres Garden Festival 2026
The Marres Garden Festival takes place on June 12 and 13 in Maastricht’s largest public city garden. Explore workshops, performances, and moments of connection in the heart of the city.
Mos
Nature-conscious workshop and sensory tent
by Anneke Wubbolts
Free entrance
Discover the magic of moss! As appreciation for nature declines, so does the willingness to take climate action. The project Moss explores this development through a sensory installation that encourages calm, awareness, and respect for the natural environment. In addition, visitors are invited to search for moss in the Marres garden. During this exploration, special attention is given to this small yet important plant, which can be found almost everywhere and plays an essential role in the ecosystem.
While studying visual communication in Maastricht, Anneke Wubbolts learned to look at art, creators, and the world around her in a new way. After graduating, she founded her own company, studio KEANS. In her work, she combines various media and techniques to make social themes accessible and stimulate dialogue. Through this, she aims to spark awareness and forge new connections.
Date:
Friday, 12 June, 2026
Project Mos will also be on display on June 13!
Time:
5:30—8PM
Entrance:
Free
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
20 persons
Location:
Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!
Hidden Stories of the Garden
Guided tour on history and green heritage
by Angelina Valleau
Discover the hidden layers of Marres’s urban garden and join us in exploring its history, value, and future, gaining practical knowledge and insights along the way.
Angelina Valleau (1971) is an expert in built heritage and its sustainability, with a growing specialization in green heritage: an often-overlooked aspect of historic preservation. Drawing on her “Green Heritage” program at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, she focuses on analyzing, evaluating, and future-proofing historic gardens and landscapes.
Date:
Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Time:
10—11AM
Entrance:
Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
20 persons
Location:
Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!
The Willow Women Project (Wilgenvrouwen)
Alchemical & Cyclical Garden workshop, including a group lunch
by Pleun Moons and Beatrice Pittman
Explore how a garden can function as a living workplace, where the relationship between art, spirituality, and natural cycles is brought to life through artistic inquiry, daily care, and self-sustaining practices.
At lunchtime, we’ll enjoy a plant-based meal together.
Pleun Moons draws inspiration from her collaboration with her garden, which centers on the relationship between humans and the earth. Her practice combines physical labor with more contemplative methods, resulting in a variety of forms such as paintings, dinners, and harvest festivals. She works cyclically: what grows is processed and returns as the foundation for new work. In this way, she develops a sustainable, ever-evolving practice.
Beatrice Pittman sees the bringing together of people, objects, and rituals as a form of “weaving.” This gives rise to interactive situations in which people and their surroundings enter into dialogue with one another. Her work is exploratory and experiential, with a focus on physicality and encounter. She draws on ancient crafts and rituals and works as a spaceholder: she creates and maintains a setting in which exchange and shared experience take center stage.
Date:
Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Time:
11AM—3:30PM
Entree:
Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra
Language:
Dutch
Group size
20 persons
Location:
Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!
Performance Plantelectra Orchestra / in roots connected
by Julia van de Kar and Ananya Samyt
Experience an intimate performance in which plants use technology to produce sound, effectively becoming musicians themselves. In a small, immersive setting, a performer moves among the plants and interacts with them, while their rhythms and vibrations become audible to the audience. Get closer to nature, which takes center stage here as a living presence.
Julia van de Kar is a theater artist, performer, and educator who graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts. She works intuitively and physically, focusing on voice and movement as universal forms of communication. Her performances exist in the space between the visible and the hidden, creating opportunities for connection and reflection. She also develops participatory workshops and works as a museum educator.
Ananya Samyt is a performer and sound artist who works at the intersection of nature and technology. Using modular synthesizers and biosensors, she translates electrical signals from plants into sound, with the plants acting as active creators. Her work often emerges in collaboration with musicians and invites a new way of listening, where nature and electronics converge.
Date:
Saturday, 13 June, 2026
Tijd:
3:30—5PM
Entrance:
Day pass for Saturday: €15
This includes:
– Guided tour by Angelina Valleau
– Workshop (including lunch) by Wilgenvrouwen
– Performance by Plantelectra Orchestra
Language:
Dutch/English
Group size:
20 personen
Location:
Marres city garden
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Please check in at the front desk first!
Hans Engelbrecht
Throughout the day, ecological gardener Hans van Engelbrecht will be on hand to answer a wide range of questions about the flora and fauna in the Marres garden, which he knows like the back of his hand.
Hans Engelbrecht is the owner of the company De Groene Stap. He skillfully weaves together cultural history, ecology, and the surrounding environment. This results in a connection between gardens and landscaped spaces where nature and natural processes take center stage. In Maastricht, his projects include the Marres city garden, the Sphinxpark, and the Garden of Mercy.
Information
The workshops will take place regardless of the weather, so please dress appropriately!
Questions? Email receptie@marres.org
Partners / thanks to
Marres receives ongoing support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the City of Maastricht.
Thanks to the Elisabeth Strouven Fonds.
Thanks to everyone who, through the workshops, guided tour, or performance, took us into their world and connected us just a little more with nature.
Marres would also like to thank Hans Engelbrecht, the ecological gardener and designer of the city garden, our volunteer Thuur, and everything that grows and blooms in the garden.
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.
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
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.
Marres Garden program
The garden of Marres is, at around 1,000 square meters, the largest public city garden in Maastricht. In August, Marres invites you to take part in workshops exploring all the beauty this hidden piece of nature has to offer.
Drawing workshop De Verborgen Taal van de Tuin (The Hidden Language of the Garden)
by Gladys Zeevaarders
Marres x Kasteel Wijlre Estate
How can you capture the essence of a place in a drawing? And how much space do we actually include when we draw a scene? In this special drawing workshop, we’ll dive into the garden of Marres and uncover its hidden language—a language of shapes, memories, and wonder.
You’ll receive a handmade field guide as your starting point, inviting you to set off on an adventurous pencil journey through the garden. This field guide will serve as the foundation for a personal archive we’ll build together, filled with sketches, mementos, and stories.
We’ll use this collection to question and explore the space and to create a visual narrative without words—told entirely through shapes and images. Inspired by old botanical illustrations, you’ll combine your own sketches with fragments of photos and stories from the past and present of the Marres garden.
With a variety of drawing materials and visual examples, Gladys will show how wordless visual stories can come to life. Explore books on forgotten plants to help shape a unique, personal interpretation of this walled garden.
This workshop is an invitation to slow down, to feel, and to connect deeply with the nature around us through drawing.
Date:
Saturday 23 August 2025
Times:
You can sign up for one of the two workshops:
12—2PM (Fully booked)
3—5PM (Last tickets!)
Admission:
€5,00 per person
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
Maximum of 12 persons per workshop
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Materials included:
- Handmade field guide printed with Riso
- A4 Arches 640gsm paper for the visual narrative
- Various pencils and drawing materials
- Collage paper
- Botanical books (reference material)
Linocut workshop
by Elisa Verkoelen
Fully booked!
The garden of Marres was the source of inspiration for the linocut that Elisa Verkoelen created a few years ago. “In the Marres garden, I saw how light and shadow alternated, and how the garden was made up of layers.”
On Sunday, August 24, 2025, she will lead a linocut workshop. Discover the Marres garden in a new way: work with negative space and let shadows and shapes tell new stories, which you will then translate into blind drawings and black-and-white linocuts.
No prior experience with linocutting is necessary to participate in the workshop. It is recommended to wear clothing that can get dirty.
Date:
Sunday 24 August 2025
Time:
You can sign up for one of the two workshops:
12—2PM (Fully booked)
3—5PM (Fully booked)
Admission:
€5,00 per person
Language:
Dutch
Group size:
Maximum of 8 persons per workshop
Location:
Marres
Capucijnenstraat 98, Maastricht
Materials included
Information
The workshops will take place in all weather conditions—please dress and equip yourself accordingly!
Questions? Email receptie@marres.org
Would you also like to visit Vultures & Fireflies? You can with a valid admission ticket.
Museum Card holders, ICOM members, children under 18, students of the Maastricht Institute of Arts / Jan van Eyck Academy / Maastricht Academy of Performing Arts / Maastricht Conservatory, and Friends of Marres always receive free admission.
Partners / thanks
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht.
In addition, Marres thanks Hans Engelbrecht, our volunteer Thuur, as well as everything that grows and flourishes in the garden.
Gluren bij de Buren
On Sunday, June 29, the Gluren bij de Buren (translated as Peek Next Door) initiative will spark an explosion of local talent. Musicians, theater makers, poets, and dancers will showcase their artistry with lawns as their stage and ivy as their backdrop, with around 4,000 performances taking place throughout the country.
Jeroen Tessers
Cabaret / Poetry / Performance Art
Friend and Foe
In a time when enmity lurks around every corner, Jeroen tries to hold on to what is truly valuable in the bonds between people. So bring your best enemy and worst friend to this cabaret performance and enjoy a guaranteed musical and playful afternoon!
Date: 29 June
Times: 1PM, 3:15PM, 5:30PM
Location: Marres City Garden, Maastricht
Free entrance
This show is performed in Dutch.
glurenbijdeburen.nlNational Outdoor Play Day
National Outdoor Play Day at Marres!
On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 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 11, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: The city garden of Marres in Maastricht
The garden is free to enter
Read more about the Marres city gardenFor parents, there’s the option to visit the Vultures & Fireflies exhibition, enjoy reading a book in the garden, or relax at Marres Kitchen.
25 years of Marres – Volunteer gathering
To give our dear volunteers some extra recognition, this month’s 25th celebration was all about them!
Volunteer & gardener Thuur and floor manager Tineke planted a symbolic walnut tree in the Marres city garden. Snacks were be prepared with fruit from the garden and glasses were raised in the historic ice house.
25 years of Marres program
25 years of Marres – The Secluded Garden workshop
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Marres, marked on the 25th of each month, an extra garden workshop will be organized for November 25.
Workshop: The Secluded Garden
With Hans Engelbrecht
In the urban garden at Marres, the shift from fall to winter is unfolding. We often see this as a process of fading: leaves change color and fall, plants wither, birds migrate, and other animals begin their hibernation. But much more is happening. Gardener Hans Engelbrecht will highlight the processes occurring during this period and discuss the unique plants and animals found in the garden and on its historic walls.
Bundle up and explore Marres’ winter garden with a nice hot chocolate afterwards. We look forward to welcoming you!
Time:
The workshop will be held at two different times:
11:00AM – 1:00PM
2:00PM – 4:00PM
Location:
Marres Urban Garden, please check in at the reception
Tickets:
€5,00
Tickets are no longer available
Be quick! Each workshop has a maximum of 15 participants.* The workshops will take place in all weather conditions, so please dress accordingly and wear appropriate footwear! Questions? Mail to receptie@marres.org
Attention! The workshops are conducted in Dutch
Hans Engelbrecht
Hans Engelbrecht is an ecological gardener and owner of the company De Groene Stap. His aesthetic approach to landscaping intricately weaves cultural history, ecology, and the local environment. This forges a relationship between gardens and their surrounding environments, giving prominence to nature and natural processes. In Maastricht, he has developed projects such as the city garden of Marres, Sphinxpark, and “De tuin der barmhartigheid” (Garden of Mercy).
Podcast
In this episode, you can listen to a (Dutch) interview by Petra Quadvlieg with Hans Engelbrecht, who is responsible for the development of the Marres city garden.
Hans Engelbrecht is an ecological gardener and developer of the Marres garden. Petra Quadvlieg is a journalist and writer. She recently published the book “Je hond eet je niet op” (“Your dog won’t eat you”).
