Currents #2: Rumour Has It

Curators: Hélène Webers and Mels Evers

With this series, Marres presents recent graduates from art academies in the Southern Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. While offering emerging artists and curators a platform, Marres also aims to build an international infrastructure for talent development.

Rumour Has It was curated by Hélène Webers and Mels Evers and presented a selection of contemporary art practice, featuring the work of inspired, young artists from the regions around
Maastricht. It was an impressive selection, with works by nineteen emerging artists, who, after their time at the academy, were now exhibiting their work to a wider public. These works were statements, each with its own execution and themes, which challenged the audience to view the work not as an irrefutable end product, but as a layered means of expression. In relation to current tendencies in contemporary art, the selected artists’ works were both surprising and convincing. They’ve taken flight from the art academies, with their sights firmly set on crossingborders. At the time of this exhibition, their work saw the light of day, it represented a contemporary current within the visual arts.

Rumour Has It was a proposition for searching and finding, both for the artists and the visitor. Amidst environments brimming with stories, shapes, colours, and performances, both met somewhere in the middle.