Are you curious about other people and cultures? Have you always wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes at a cultural institution? Are you between the ages of 16 and 21? Join Extended!
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October 2026 – April 2027
Are you up for something different on Saturdays? Are you between 14-21 years old and curious about art, culture, and creating things together? Join EXTENDED, the youth collective of Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie.
A new edition starts on 31 October 2026. Together with other young people, you’ll work directly with artists, explore their creative worlds, visit exhibitions, try out workshops, go on excursions, and experience a behind-the-scenes of what happens inside a cultural institution.
This years theme is Shelter: what does it mean to feel at home?
A shelter can be a physical place, but it can also be a person, a community, a shared experience, or a space where you feel safe, seen, and accepted. What makes a place feel like home? And what happens when different people, stories, and perspectives come together?
You’ll have the freedom to experiment, exchange ideas, make things, and develop your own answers. Together, you’ll turn these ideas into a project that will be presented during Museumnacht Maastricht 2027.
Every Saturday from 12:00 to 14:30, you’ll meet up. You don’t need any experience with art or culture. And yes, you’ll get paid for taking part.
Extended Weekend Overview 2026
What is Extended?
Marres and the Jan van Eyck Academie collaborate on the education program Extended: the youth program of both institutes, where you work on a social art project for four months under professional guidance. At Extended, you research in a team how to make young people use or experience their senses in a different way. How can you make people hear, feel, smell, see or taste something to make them think?
Marres researches the senses in contemporary culture. Extended offers you an unique look behind the scenes through your own project. With the knowledge and assistance of curators, scientists, artists and communication heroes, you’ll discover contemporary culture from different sides.
Customized education programs
Marres develops customized programs for educational institutions, companies and organizations and regularly supervises interns. Curious about the possibilities? Please contact us to discuss the possibilities.
What’s new?
Curious what Marres’ education team is up to? Check out all the projects and read the latest news in the education blog.
Support
Extended introduces teenagers and young adults from different backgrounds to contemporary art and the urgent societal topics on its agenda, such as sustainability and inclusivity. Focusing on one topic or discipline, the young researchers will investigate how they can translate their knowledge to their peers. The programme is carried out twice a year and each time runs for four months.
Marres and Jan van Eyck Academie work together with different schools and organizations to make this project a success;
– LVO – Stichting Limburg Voortgezet Onderwijs
– Cultuurbegeleiders PABO Sittard
– Stichting SIEN
– Kumulus
– Het Kunstcarroussel
– Maastricht University
– Zuyd Hogeschool
– Bernard Lievegoed College
– United World College
Thank you to the Municipality of Maastricht for the support in realising this programme.
