The Invisible Collection

The Invisible Collection focuses on people’s stories about their favorite work of art. The Amsterdam based art initiative Mediamatic originally created the project in 2018 to help the visually impaired to imagine works of art based on audio descriptions by art experts.

In 2019, Marres developed a new version of The Invisible Collection by opening it up also for non-experts. Since then, Marres collected over 75 stories from a diverse group of story tellers among whom are artists, school children, elderly people, and visitors to Marres.

You can listen to the stories of The Invisible Collection here or on Spotify and Apple Podcast.

It’s also possible to listen to the podcast Sensing Art, Training the Body on both Spotify and Apple Podcast.

Education
Marres also launched The Invisible Collection at elementary schools. Children in which describe their favorite works of art by telling what they feel or think when they experience an artwork. The project aims at letting children reflect on their perception and the experiences of others. This archive of art stories enables teachers to discuss concepts such as identity, culture, society, language and history from different perspectives. The initiative was nominated for the Dutch Museum Education Prize 2019.

A workshop for The Invisible Collection is available for primary and secondary schools.