Celina Eceiza will transform the Marres house into an immersive, tactile environment that unfolds like a pleasure garden filled with textile delights. Created in collaboration with a broad network of craftspeople, the exhibition brings together murals, drawings, garments, sculptures, and textile works into one large-scale installation.
The walls and ceilings are covered with large, hand-worked textiles that have been painted, dyed, and embroidered, while the floors are composed of discarded clothing. A true multitalent, Eceiza transforms the exhibition space into a poetic, colorful, and soft environment. She draws, writes, and colors vast pieces of fabric, painting and embroidering scenes onto them—often referencing artworks and artists she admires, as well as titles and quotes she finds meaningful, alongside large bodies, kissing couples, fantasy animals, and oversized flowers. These large textile pieces are sewn together to cover the walls and parts of the ceilings of Marres, while the floors are made from stitched-together stray and discarded garments. Soft surfaces invite visitors to slow down and sit, lean, or rest. The exhibition is not just something to look at; it is a place to spend time—a refuge from our daily routines. The result is a house filled with spectacular, warm, and colorful environments where visitors can find peace and inspiration in an alternative universe, and explore and experience it through their senses.
Alongside the exhibition, there will be a series of workshops and a public program. Developed in part with the social production center Stichting Werkhuis in Maastricht, the exhibition offers a shared space for creation and gathering.
Grand opening
3 October 2026
Marres warmly invites you to the festive opening of the exhibition by Celina Eceiza.
Free entrance!
Date:
Saturday, 3 October, 2026
Time:
Doors open from 5PM / Entry until 7:30PM / Exhibition closes at 8PM
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
From October 4 onward, the exhibition will be open to the public. Photographs will be taken during the opening.
Sock Matchmaking
Do you have a collection of lonely socks whose partners have gone missing? Bring your clean, odd socks to the opening of Rubyfruit Jungle and find a new love for your single sock.
Pompeyo Audivert – Tarjeta de felicitación
left: Celina’s version, right: the original
Constellation of Affinities
Celina Eceiza views every museum collection as her own collection: not just an archive of art, but also of culture, tradition, and knowledge. By making copies of artworks by hand, she gets to know and understand them. She describes this process as a form of soft cannibalism: by taking an artwork apart and remaking it, she absorbs some of its qualities.
Her gallery of remakes at Marres brings together a rich web of connections, ideas, and visions between her own work and that of other artists. She chose some works because she was immediately drawn to them, and others because of where she encountered them. For Eceiza, an artist’s appeal often goes beyond the artwork itself. She is also interested in their ideas and position within the art world. Many of the artists represented here wrote manifestoes, founded artist collectives, or helped start new movements.
“I like to quote so that other people’s ideas can become my ideas, and vice versa. I feel an impulse to work with others, living or dead, near or far. I find the idea of the genius artist boring—no one invents anything alone, the world should be shared.”
— Celina Eceiza
Biography
Celina Eceiza (Tandil, Argentina, 1988) lives and works in Buenos Aires. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA). In 2016 she was affiliated with the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (CIA), and in 2024 she took part in the Art Omi residency in New York.
Her most important solo exhibitions include Villa Celina (Moria Galería, 2021), Personas que creo haber visto (Salón ACME–Moria, 2022), Desvelo (Moria Galería, 2023), Ofrenda (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2024), A Material Called Earth, Volume 1: The Life of Corners (Art Gallery of Burlington, Canada, 2026) and Dormancy (Frac Bretagne, Rennes, 2026). Ofrenda subsequently traveled to HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark in Graz in 2025. In 2025, Eceiza also participated in the 18th Istanbul Biennial.
She has participated in group exhibitions and collective projects at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the UB Anderson Gallery, and the First Biennial of Textile Art of Chile. In 2020, she received the First Prize for Painting from the Central Bank and the Konex Award for Textile Art.
In 2018, she published the novel El falsificador.
The Invisible Collection
Inspired by a number of works from the Limburg Biënnale 2026, she explains her ideas behind MABA’s work Nieuwe Verlangens (translated as New Desires) in relation to Wonne’s work Lieve Moeder (translated as Dear Mother). The Limburg Biënnale can be seen through August 23, 2026 at Marres in Maastricht and Odapark in Venray.
The Invisible Collection focuses on people’s stories about their favorite artwork. It is an online art collection that you cannot see but can hear. Marres harvests stories in which people of all ages and backgrounds share their art experiences.
For the press:
For more information, interviews and images, please contact Julie Cordewener, communications: julie.cordewener@marres.org
Partners / thanks to:
Rubyfruit Jungle was realized in collaboration with the social production centre Stichting Werkhuis in Maastricht, the Cultuurfonds, and a large number of volunteers. The public program, including free Friday evenings, is supported by the Elisabeth Strouven Fund.
Many thanks to:
Project coordinators: Becky Doonan , Bibice Piets
Volunteers: Francine Arts, Jose Bekx, Lena Cörvers, Emre Can, Melanie Jonkergouw, Annemiek Peeters, Lizzy Roede, Yvonne Roede, Aimée Rousseau
Werkhuis: Esther Janssen, Yomme Hoevenagel
The Rubyfruit Jungle artist club: Bonno van Doorn, Afra Eisma, Gijs Frieling, Karin Nurnberg
All workshop participants
The voices of Begonia Arriboni (for the video The Artist Never Thinks Alone): Paul Hauptmeier & Agustina Vizcarra
The artists who inspired Celina for Rubyfruit Jungle: Tarsila do Amaral, Alexandre Arrechea, Pompeyo Audivert, Melé Bruniard, Chalem, Tony Craig, Eugenia Crenovich, Juan Del Prete, Germaine Derbecq, Nacho Martín Encinas, Raquel Forner, Noemí Gerstein, Juan Grela, Alberto Heredia, Lido Iacopetti, Enio Iommi, Mark Janssen, Corina Karstenberg, Hilma af Klint, Ina Kooper, Alicja Kwade, Alfredo Londaibere, Keetje Mans, George Minne, Forest Myers, Claes Oldenburg, Aldo Paparella, Laure Prouvost, Gerrit van Ratingen, Will Ryman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carmen Schabracq, Omar Schiliro, Nicolás García Uriburu, Helen Verhoeven, Rose Wylie, Wonne
Marres receives structural support from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Province of Limburg, and the Municipality of Maastricht.
