Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to survive as an artist?

| August 20, 2021


27 September – 1 October, 2021

During this autumn camp, the INC, Hotel Maria Kapel, and Platform BK invite fifteen recent graduates in art, design, and theatre to five days of workshops to boost the hard and soft skills required to live and work in the Dutch cultural sector. The resulting zine will be a toolkit for all (young) cultural workers, collecting insights on work in the gig economy, money flows in the cultural sector, experiments with crypto, staying happy and healthy, and durable self-organization.

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Missing Homes

| August 19, 2021


with Arie de Fijter, Sarah Naqvi, Paky Vlassopoulou, Shreya de Souza and Mylou Oord (organizers of the Queer Choir Amsterdam together with Sarah Naqvi) and Setareh Noorani & Matt Plezier (SMET), curated by HMK resident Danai Giannoglou.
Exhibition and programme: 4 July – 5 September 2021

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Art (History) Actuality School: Soft resistance, hard resistance.

| July 13, 2021

Subtitle: Walks, queering, squatting, something to hold on to, and the neoliberal turn.

an interactive art history or rather an actuality referencing lecture by the artist in residence Alina Lupu, responding to the exhibition Missing Homes, curated by Danai Giannoglou, with Arie de Fijter, Sarah Naqvi, Paky Vlassopoulou, Shreya de Souza, and Mylou Oord, as organizers of Queer Choir Amsterdam, together with Sarah Naqvi and Setareh Noorani & Matt Plezier (SMET).

Thursday, 22 July 2021, 19:30-21:00 – in English.

Go to the Facebook event, make a reservation or join us on Instagram Live via following link

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Shelter in Place

| July 13, 2021

Setareh Noorani & Matt Plezier (SMET)
Residency: February – June 2021
Workshops: May-June 2021

Installation: on view 4 July – 5 September 2021, as part of the exhibition Missing Homes.
Info boot tours through Hoorn, departing from HMK*:
Saturday, 17 July, 12.00 to 13.00, with SMET
Saturday, 31 July (time TBA), with Martijn Aerts

*During the info booth tours, the project travels outside the walls of HMK and through the city to actively, physically and metaphorically continue the exchange between SMET and (the residents of) Hoorn. Everyone is welcome to attend the tour; meeting point is HMK and a reservation is not necessary.

Follow Shelter in Place on Instagram: @shelterinplace_smet

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Producing one another

| July 13, 2021

by Alina Lupu & Valy Lupu
residency in Hoorn: July 2021
residence at a distance: until end 2021

Alina Lupu’s residency at HMK is one of two long-term research residencies of the year program On Shelter. Through this theme the artists in residence are examining notions of home and safety, motherhood and reproductive labour, climate catastrophe and transness and sleep. The long-term residencies don’t necesseraly develop into an outcome such as an exhibition, so stay tuned to follow continuous process. 

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Inside Archive

| March 2, 2021

Rik Dijkhuizen
permantent installation
opening (online): 1 June – 5 June 2021

With Inside Archive, artist and HMK alumnus Rik Dijkhuizen places a monumental yet understated yellow cube on the mezzanine of HMK’s minty green reception area, which explores practices of care within the context of spatial design, archiving, and mental wellbeing. The permanent installation double-functions as a public archive and private hide-out and reflects on the idea of the archive as a living body that needs continuous caring, and living bodies as archives that need caring sanctuaries to withdraw to in times of (personal) peril.

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Art History School; Enter/Exit

| March 1, 2021

an interactive art history lecture by Iskra Vukšić, responding to the project Schelter in Place by Setareh Noorani & Matt Plezier
Thursday 10 June, 19:30,
RESERVE YOUR SEAT or join us via HMK’s Instagram Live (In Dutch)
*online publication on Youtube in the week after

Enter/Exit is a lecture around architecture as shelter. In a series of personal notes and associations, Iskra Vukšić juxtaposes the act of withdrawing inside our homes with that of departing. Through anecdotes of her home country and explorations of the material of concrete, she wonders: when do buildings harbour us, and under what conditions are we bound to leave them?

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Constant Companion

| March 1, 2021

Constant Companion, Minne Kersten
Residency: 1 March – 22 April 2021
Exhibition: 23 April – 29 May 2021
Art History School: 7 May, with Matisse Huiskens (online publication)
Online finissage: 28 May, with Maria Barnas (more info follows soon)

HMK is currently closed. We will keep engaging you with Minne Kersten’s project ‘Constant Companion’ through our website and social media. For a professional studio visit, people are invited to make an appointment by sending an email to Minne, minne.kersten@gmail.com.

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Finissage: Constant Companion

| March 1, 2021

Friday 28 May 2021, 17.00-18.00 (CEST)
Online via YouTube

Join us for the online closing event of the exhibition ‘Constant Companion’ by artist Minne Kersten at Hotel Maria Kapel in Hoorn.

17:00: Introduction
17:10: Exhibition view (video)
17:15: A conversation between artist Minne Kersten and HMK’s artistic director Tirza Kater
17:30: Premiere of the film ‘Constant Companion’ by Minne Kersten
17:40: Audio recording of ‘Of the raven’ by Maria Barnas
17:45: Room for questions

Continue reading via Linktree or attend the Facebook event

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Art History School; Verstrooide Vrienden

| March 1, 2021


an interactive art history lecture by Matisse Huiskens, responding to Minne Kersten’s exhibition Constant Companion (in Dutch)
7 May, 17:00, via HMK’s Instagram Live
–> online publication on Youtube

After months away from our friends, in isolation, after numerous attempts to distract ourselves in private, not all of us long for a way to escape? Can we find solace in art, while our loved ones are also distracted (or otherwise absent)?

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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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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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Tender Loving Care – Kevin Hunt & Harriet Rose Morley

| October 1, 2019

For the period September-October 2019, artists Kevin Hunt and Harriet Rose Morley have been invited to redevelop the reception rooms of HMK. Together they will investigate how the spaces are currently being used, where the specific needs of the users and the public lie, and come up with inventive solutions to turn HMK into a pleasant, welcome place again. This ‘update’ does not proceed according to a predetermined plan but must be understood as an ongoing dialogue between artist, space and the organization. At the end of October the first results will be shown at HMK.

HMK has launched a crowdfunding campaign for this project. Donate now via voordekunst.nl, receive nice rewards and help us to realize this project.

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Tender Loving Care – Self-care in self-build

| September 19, 2019

Thursday 19 September HMK organised a DIY furniture test workshop together with one of the current artists in residence, Harriet Morley. The HMK team and the participants of the De Appel Curatorial Programme were invited to work together on building a chair, solely using wooden sticks, a saw, a hammer and some nails.

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Tender Loving Care for HMK

| September 2, 2019

Crowdfunding campaign: 31 aug – 6 okt 2019
voordekunst.nl

HMK needs your help to perform some much needed maintenance to the entrance, bar, shop and office. With your donation to the crowdfunding campaign we can turn the building back into a pleasant, welcome place for artists, employees and visitors.

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