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 this autumn. The focus will be on textile, handicraft, 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.
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
Textile Workshop Rubyfruit Jungle
by Celina Eceiza
10 July 2026
Join a colorful drawing workshop 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.
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
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.
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
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
Lecture Embodied Memories
by Mees Elias van Zanten
Put on your ex’s sweater and come listen to stories about love attachment and longing
24 July 2026
You know that feeling? Every now and then, a memory of an ex just pops into your head. Something small: a scent, a song, a joke that only the two of you understood. And then you feel that longing, even though the relationship ended long ago. Even though you’re “supposed to be over it by now.”
This Friday evening is about those sneaky, quiet forms of attachment that linger, long after the love has faded. Through Embodied Memories, a work that is part of the Limburg Biënnale, artist Mees Elias van Zanten takes you into a personal and scientific exploration of the bond with former lovers.
You’ll hear fragments from Nesteldrang (translated as ‘nestal instinct’), a collection of autofictional memories of a lost love, interwoven with insights from research on long-term affective attachment. At the end of the evening, you’ll have the chance to anonymously write down one memory of an ex that you still cherish. These memories become part of a growing archive, which later reappears in performances and installations. In this way, a personal story shifts into a collective collection of affective memory and traces of connection.
Limburg Biënnale participant Mees Elias van Zanten (he/they) is a self-taught writer, maker, and performer. As a Dutch Studies scholar, he has a weakness for the written word, but is equally aware of its limitations: when words aren’t enough, only unspoken expression remains. His work addresses themes such as social inequality, trans identity, embodiment, masculinity, and intimacy. Depending on what the theme calls for, he uses text, installation, theater, film, sculpture, and/or classical visual art. Mees likes to sleep with his feet hanging off the bed, walks the line between attraction and repulsion, and doesn’t shy away from public confrontation. To do so, he employs discomfort, physical disgust, taboos, and debate to expose absurd normativity. He’s also not afraid to use unconventional materials, in his latest performance, he used chocolate as a central motif.
Free entrance with ticket
Date:
Friday, 24 July, 2026
Time:
5PM walk-in
5:30PM start lecture
Marres closes at 8PM
The Limburg Biënnale 2026 exhibition is open from 12PM—8PM, with free admission from 5PM.
Location:
Marres, Maastricht
The lecture is in Dutch.
If the lecture 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 gathering
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.
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.
