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Depression

On Saturday, September 19th at 17:00, Marres starts off the new cultural season with the international group exhibition Depression. This will be the first exhibition produced by Lisette Smits in her new role as curator at Marres. Depression is presented in the context of the Marres program, which in the coming years will reflect on the 20th century and the idea of avant-garde. Marres typifies that century as the era in which man was transformed from the civilian into the consumer. Against this background, Depression presents an exhibition with works by 18 artists which propose a reading of the theme 'depression', both in its psychological and economical form. 

Depression was realized in cooperation with the British art critic and curator Dan Kidner. Parallel to the exhibition in Marres, a filmprogram is offered in cooperation with Filmtheatre Lumière. Later this year a publication coming forth from the exhibition will be presented. Click here for more information.

Installation in Marres by Stephan Dillemuth

MARRES BOOKS

Publicaties bij Depression

On the occasion of the exhibition Depression, Marres Books has composed a special selection of publications. There are recent publications available by Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Karl Holmqvist, Jim Shaw and Barbara Visser, all represented in the exhibition. For more information we kindly refer to the website of Marres Books.

Film still from The Last Days of Jack Sheppard by Anja Kirschner & David Panos

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Marres during 'Het Parcours'

Parallel to the exhibition Depression in Marres, there will be filmscreenings at Filmtheatre Lumière in the period September-November. In films from various periods from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present, ceveral themes will be covered: the excess of consumerism, economical speculation, financial and political crises, and collective and personal loss.

During Het Parcours on Sunday, September 13th, the first film of this program, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936), will be shown in the garden of Marres at 21:00 (free entrance, no reservation necessary, indoor screening in case of bad weather). The filmprogram at Lumière furthermore contains, among others, Roger and Me (1989) by director Michael Moore and Pasolini's Accatone (1961).

Film still from Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin

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Guus Beumer artistic director Utrecht Manifest

UM 2009 will be held in Utrecht, 4-17 October 2009. This biennial is intended to draw attention to the question of how and where the social is produced today: not thematically, but by approaching the cultural models of which biennials are usually composed, such as the museum exhibition, the educational project, the model of the 'real intervention', and even the communication trajectory, primarily as social models. As artistic director, Guus Beumer is responsible for the program, which he explicitly sees as a group result with a multidisciplinary character, fed by the social questions of diverse groups in combination with the coincidence and the improvisation of the participants. With contributions by Claudia Banz, Binna Choi, Deneuve Cultural Projects (Daniël Bouw & Taco de Neef), EventArchitectuur (Herman Verkerk & Christian Muhr in cooperation with Gregor Eichinger), Metahaven (Daniël van der Velden, Vinca Kruk), Anneke Moors, Louise Schouwenberg, Debra Solomon, Gert Staal, Studio Makkink & Bey (Jurgen Bey & Merel van Tellingen), Bas van Tol, traast + gruson (Edith Gruson), Urban-Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner).

Click here for more information.

Cover of the invitation for Utrecht Manifest by Metahaven

 PROJECT

The Great Indoors 2009

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 ends September 15th, so last call for entries! Click here  for more information.

Installation at Marres by San Ming, part of the Dandy

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