With great enthusiasm, HMK announces that Tirza Kater (left) is the new Artistic Director of Hotel Maria Kapel. Alongside Business Director Annelien de Bruin (right) the directorial team will work with the team, volunteers and board to further take care of the institution and provide a structure of support for young artists with the year programme On Shelter.
A Pool Without a Rim
Tamara Kuselman
Exhibition: 21 January – 27 February 2021
Accompanying presentation:
Time: navigating through the HMK archive
Presentation-in-progress: 21 January – 27 February
On Falling: Time, Care and Dependency
December 15, 2020
Aanvang: 19.00 GMT+2
Eind: 20.30 GMT+2
Platform: Youtube livestream
An online symposium on affecting change through Artist-in-Residencies
Online symposium, on December 8, 10, 2020 & January 14, 2021
With Anika Mariam Ahmed, Clare Butcher, Larose S. Larose, G, Sekai Makoni, Harriet Rose Morley, and more.
More info and links to the online programme will follow in the coming weeks – www.dutchculture.nl
Art History School: Performance Art
January 7, 19:30-21:00
an interactive lecture on performance art by Anne de Loos and an introduction by artist in residence Tamara Kuselman
this event is organised in Dutch
tickets €5,- via Eventbrite
Inside Poolside – poolside memories
HMK is looking back to an amazing summer with Rik Dijkhuizen’s installation Inside Poolside and Project Space at7’s To That Special Someone, Part II.
With a text and photo works by artist Rik Dijkhuizen, the podcast On Access Riders, in collaboration with Staci Bu Shea and Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee and a video report of To That Special Someone, Part II by Studio Wolphi.
Inside Poolside
installation by artist Rik Dijkhuizen
with a public programme and a summer residency by project space at7
on view: 1 August – 13 September 2020
Be like water – a synchronized swimming workshop
Saturday, 29 August
meeting at Hotel Maria Kapel: 13.00
workshop: 13.30-15.00
performance: 15.30
workshop synchronised swimming and performance in Hoorn
in collaboration with De Dolfijn Synchroonzwemmen
Art History School: community
20 August, 19.30-21.00
an interactive lecture on community and water by art historian Matisse Huiskens, with an introduction by artists in residence Rik Dijkhuizen and project space at7
*Watch the full lecture online on our Youtube channel (Dutch)
Poolside Picnic
Closing event for Inside Poolside, with food, activities and gatherings
Sunday, 13 September, 13.00-18.00 (free for everyone)
Visit our Facebook event for more information (Dutch)
Virtual Instant Choir #2
sing along with the second edition of HMK’s Virtual Instant Choir
this time: ‘Once in a Lifetime’ by Talking Heads
learn the music and lyrics and send your recording (audio+video)
before 13 August, and together we create an amazing video clip
Summer residency: project space at7
While a 7×4 meter pool by artist in residence Rik Dijkhuizen fills our chapel (on view until 13 September), Hotel Maria Kapel [HMK] presents resident project space at7 and a public programme that explores how we can host and care for our communities, local and international, with pleasure and accountability. Please join us for a day of learning, lounging, eating and performances curated by at7 on 22 August.
To That Special Someone, Part II – summer at HMK
A day of performances and care: Saturday, 22 August 2020, 12.00 – 21.00
To that special someone, part II
by project space at7
22 August, 12.00-21.00
A day of performances, screenings, workshops and presentations of collaborative art practices – co-programmed by Hotel Maria Kapel and project space at7.
Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry
Priscila Fernandes
Residency dates: 1 June – 11 July, 2020
Open for public: 11 June – 11 July, 2020
Cinema: Priscila Fernandes, Portrait of an Artist
After almost three months of being closed to the public, Hotel Maria Kapel [HMK] re-opened its doors for the public with Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry by artist Priscila Fernandes. With this residency we invited visitors to witness the creation of an impressive new work in Fernandes’ Labour Series, an ongoing reflection on the dichotomy between work and leisure. In times of an almost complete collapse of the boundaries between work private life, socialising and time to enjoy, Fernandes’ project offers a possibility to reflect on the connections between work, our bodies and the systems that connect them.
process: Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry
Priscila Fernandes
Residency dates: 1 June – 11 July, 2020
Open for public: 11 June – 11 July, 2020
Cinema: Priscila Fernandes, Portrait of an Artist
With Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry by artist Priscila Fernandes we invited visitors to witness the creation of an impressive new work in Fernandes’ Labour Series, an ongoing reflection on the dichotomy between work and leisure. A photo report.
Finissage: On Labour, Leisure and Endurance
11 July, 15.00-18.00, Hotel Maria Kapel
On Labour, Leisure and Endurance. With a video-introduction by dr. M. van Mechelen and a conversation between Priscila Fernandes and artist Sands Murray-Wassink, moderated by HMK’s creative director Miriam Wistreich.
Priscila Fernandes & They Shoot Horse, Don’t They?
30 June, 8 pm
in collaboration with Cinema of the Dam’d
Online movie programme with a Zoom-introduction and a Q&A with Priscila Fernandes
Art History School: Priscila Fernandes
25 June, 7:30-9 pm
Artist talk by Priscila Fernandes and an interactive lecture by Matisse Huiskens
In response to Black Lives Matter and the upcoming demonstration in Hoorn
On Saturday, FvD leader Thierry Baudet placed flowers at the foot of the statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629) in celebration of “his hero”. Although there should be room for different voices to speak up, we do not find the racist and horrific actions of the past heroic. We are in support of the removal of the statue of Coen and will be participating in the peaceful demonstration tomorrow evening (19 June, 19.00, Roode Steen, Hoorn) and strongly feel the demonstration should go forward as planned. We invite everyone who believes in rethinking, rewriting and changing history to work for a better present and future to join the gathering.
Podcast: Sekai Makoni – Black Women & Rest

Go straight to the podcast Black Women & Rest.
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A mix for indoor listening, with Katherine MacBride, Louise Shelley and The Voice of Domestic Workers, and Taraneh Fazeli
Broadcast available from 1 May 2020, 10 am, via Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
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ON THE LINE
New online programme, reflecting on recent events regarding the COVID-19 crisis, exploring ways of caring and coping, finding a new normal and imagining possible futures for ourselves and cultural institutions.
working on/working through/working with
[Image description: a photo taken by a phone camera looking into a large shopping bag filled with stinging nettles that have been picked and then given to the photographer, Katherine, by a friend for cooking.]
by Katherine MacBride
working potatoes: audiovisual memory
Vibe Overgaard and Emilia Bergmark
26 February – 7 March 2020
Thursday – Saturday 13.00-17.00
Working Potatoes
by Vibe Overgaard and Emilia Bergmark
Performative dinner lecture about work and potatoes in a changing world
Saturday, 22 February, 6:30 – 9 pm
Working Potatoes: meet Potato the Great
as part or Working Potatoes
by Vibe Overgaard and Emilia Bergmark
Performative dinner lecture about work and potatoes in a changing world
Working Potatoes: meet Antoine Parmentier Great
as part or Working Potatoes
by Vibe Overgaard and Emilia Bergmark
Performative dinner lecture about work and potatoes in a changing world
press release: ‘slow burn’
Hotel Maria Kapel [HMK] is pleased to announces its 2020 research programme. With Slow burn HMK takes time to reflect on what it means to care – for the art institution, for artists, for audiences and for ourselves.
13 Februari: Instant Choir
Thursday, 13 February, 7:30-9:15 pm
Admittance: €10,- per session, €27,- for 3 sessions
(Free admittance if you follow lessons at Muziekschool Boedijn or if you’re voluntering at HMK)
Please rsvp by sending an email to ciska.ruitenberg@gmail.com
sekai makoni, rest
A poem on allowing yourself to take some rest – as an act of self-care and resistance against performance, productivity and perfectionism.
what if it was all going to be ok?
Saturday, 14 December, 2-7 pm – a one-day meditation on navigating an artist residency, black womanhood, perfectionism and rest, lead by artist-in-residence Sekai Makoni.
kevin hunt, beweme
BEWEME is an open source, unlimited edition, single colour Risograph print that tessellates into a ‘wallpaper’. Designed to be a backdrop, installed within the social areas of public institutions; interior spaces people gather, work and interact.
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public event: solid care
A one-day conversation on art spaces and residencies as spaces of care
Wednesday 30 October, 14.30-19.30 h.
rsvp to office@hotelmariakapel.nl
The newly appointed Editorial Committee of Hotel Maria Kapel [HMK], Maja Bekan and Miriam Wistreich, in collaboration with Griet Menschaert, cordially invite you to join us for the launch of the research programme Slow Burn at HMK.