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Depression

The new cultural year will open at Marres with the international group exhibition Depression. It is the first exhibition produced by Lisette Smits in her new role as curator. Depression is part of the current program in which the focus lies on the 20th century and the idea of the avant-garde. Marres typifies the 20th century as an era in which man definitively transformed from civilian to consumer. Against this background, Depression presents an exhibition with works by 16 artists, which reflect on the theme ‘depression’ in both its psychological and economical form. Depression is produced in collaboration with the British art critic and curator Dan Kidner. Alongside the exhibition in Marres, there will be a film program in October and November in cooperation with film-theatre Lumiere. Later this year, a publication in connection with the exhibition will appear. Click here for more information.

Stephan Dillemuth, Failure to control the animal spirits (2009)

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Acquisition Capucijnenstraat

Some years ago, a decision was taken to leave the historical building in the centre of Maastricht, where Marres is located, for an industrial location in the periphery. However, the program of the past period has shown that the specificity of the current location offers an essential contribution to the national position of Marres as institute for presentation. Thanks to the Alderman of Culture sir Jean Jacobs, the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Maastricht and last but not least the Communal Development Company, negotiations started a few months ago with the objective to purchase the building at the Capucijnenstraat for Marres. Recently, an overwhelming majority of the City Council decided to agree to these plans, with which the continuity of Marres on this location is guaranteed! For Marres, this acquisition is an indication for her current local embedding and national legitimacy and of course the best possible result of years of effort.

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The Great Indoors 2009

Recently, the Province of Limburg decided, in praising words, to support The Great Indoors. The Great indoors is a collaboration of Marres, NAiM/Bureau Europa and the magazine Frame. With her program and prizes, The Great Indoors aspires to contribute to the discussion about the growing importance of the interior, among other things for the organization of the public space. By analyzing developments and selecting and rewarding best-of-practice cases, the importance of interior design becomes visible and part of a more public debate. This year, The Great Indoors is subtitled ‘Changing Ideals’. Since the last edition in 2007 the world around us changed drastically and although most projects have been realized before the crisis it is inevitable that both the jury and the wider audience will weight the current crisis and its consequences for interior design in their assessments. A novelty of this edition is that the international jury will select both the nominees and the final winners. Moreover, the workshops, consisting of students from Liege, Aachen and Maastricht, will start earlier and will be open for the audience in the weekend of the award ceremony. At the end of November, the awards of the second edition of The Great Indoors will be handed out. The registration period has started! Click here for more information.

Zaha Hadid - winner 2007 category Relax & Consume

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Neumann & Luz

To intensify our international communication and public relation, Marres has started a new cooperation with Neumann Luz Communication, Cologne/Berlin. The agency is specialized in culture and art communication, from pr to marketing, and belongs to the leading agencies in the German speaking countries.

The core team consists of five persons who have experience with clients like Venice Biennial, Skulptur Projekte Münster/Grand Tour, Art Cologne, Frieze Art Fair, Quadriennale Düsseldorf, BMW, Museum Ludwig Cologne or Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf. For more information see www.neumann-luz.de.

Marres is pleased with this partnership and strives to develop innovative and creative communication strategies with Neumann & Luz in order to make the special position of Marres and her more anthropological approach better accessible for specific audiences.

marres books

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The Marres Bookshop is gradually being transformed and, next to artist books, there are books in the collection about photography, design, fashion and architecture. Tineke Kambier, Marthe Schulkens and Naomi de Fretes are responsible for Marres Books. All three are prepared to answer any questions concerning the collection or orders. The full collection of the bookshop is presented on our website – go to Marres Books – as well as a presentation of the newest titles.

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Annual Report 2008

Although annual reports contain first and foremost an account regarding finances and content, Marres used the opportunity of the annual report of 2008 to reflect on some institutional developments:

“Marx as an answer to the Market inevitably calls into memory an earlier period, but the museum and in extent the institute for presentation as an expression for an ‘experimental institutionalism’, and with that of a new avant-garde presents a question that is both unknown and intriguing. Not in the last place because as a consequence, questions concerning the role of the government as a facilitating body and grants as its connected instruments are possibly answered in very different terms than thirty years ago! For Marres and her more anthropological view on culture, the idea of an avant-garde is…”

For more information, download the annual report 2008 here from our site (Dutch only).
 

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Weblog Guus Beumer

Despite the lack of regularity, Guus Beumer still supplies his blog with fresh reflections, where he indulges in contemplations about notions such as ‘little child’ or takes a last melancholic look at The Russian Schizorevolution.
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