Programme

| October 30, 2020

Dear HMK visitors and followers,

HMK reopens on November 26 after a partial lockdown period with new COVID-19 measures. We follow RIVM and government guidelines closely and tailor our program and opening hours to the latest developments in order to keep us all safe. Please keep an eye on our website and social media for updates.

While our doors have been closed to the public we have worked on maintaining our old house. We now have freshly painted surfaces inside and out, our archive is slowly being cared for and current resident Tamara Kuselman is preparing her upcoming project A Pool Without A Rim. We look very much forward to sharing it all and to welcoming you at our chapel very soon.

– December 3-12: presentation-in-progress, A Pool Without a Rim, Tamara Kuselman
– December 3-12: archive presentation, Time: navigating through the HMK archive
– December 8, 10 & January 14, 2021: A Symposium On Affecting Change Through Artist-in-Residencies – co-organised with Kunsthuis SYB and DutchCulture | TransArtists (online programme)
– December 15, 19.00-20.30: Lisa Baraitser: On Falling – Time, Care and Dependency (online talk)
– December 17, 2020 – January 7, 2021: HMK closed
– January 7, 19:30-21:00: HMK Art History School: Performance Art (at HMK, in Dutch)
– January 7 – end February, 2021: exhibition, A Pool Without a Rim, Tamara Kuselman
– January 7 – end February, 2021: archive presentation, Time: navigating through the HMK archive
– February 6: Performance (more info follows soon)
– February 26: HMK Salon (more info follows soon)

A Pool Without a Rim

| October 29, 2020


Tamara Kuselman
Residency: 21 October – 30 November
Presentation-in-progress: 3 December – 12 December
Exhibition: 7 January – end February 2021
Performance: 6 February 2021

Accompanying presentation:
Time: navigating through the HMK archive
Presentation-in-progress: 3 December – 12 December / January 14 – 6 February

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Summer residency: project space at7

| July 12, 2020

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

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Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry

| June 16, 2020

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.

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process: Happier Than a Seagull with a French Fry

| June 15, 2020

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.

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In response to Black Lives Matter and the upcoming demonstration in Hoorn

| June 10, 2020

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.

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13 Februari: Instant Choir

| February 7, 2020

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

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kevin hunt, beweme

| December 19, 2019


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

| October 24, 2019


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.

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