Hotel MariaKapel
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Netherlands
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HOTEL MARIAKAPEL - GENERAL INFORMATION
Hotel Mariakapel is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, a 16th century town by the IJsselmeer, just 40 km north of Amsterdam. In the old center of the town, in a mediaeval orphanage with adjacent inner garden and Maria Chapel, Hotel Mariakapel receives artists from all over the world.
Hotel Mariakapel has grown from the ideal to create a concentrated work- and presentation place, where dialogue and collaboration inform experimental, context-based art projects. It was set up and is still run by a dedicated team of artists, assisted by local and international volunteers.
The programme involves artists working in a wide range of media, focussing on installation and context based work, video/film and performance art. Projects are developed both in public space and in the chapel’s exhibition space. Artists arrive on an individual basis or in groups, but the aim is always to create new work and during the process, gain from each other’s vision, questions and experience.
RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
The residency programme at Hotel Mariakapel has been in effect since January 2003. Accommodation and living facilities are provided for invited artists/artists groups to complete a period of work culminating in a final exhibition in the adjacent exhibition space. Each spring we send out an open call for proposals. Artists and curators are invited to respond. We tend to select projects which involve special collaborations, are site-specific, and have either a strong element of mental surprise or one of spatial poetics. The call for proposals is sent out via our mailing list (subscribe on the website!) but also via networks such as trans artists. More information on how to apply can also be found on our website (under 'about' and then 'application procedure') Residencies vary in length but usually last 3-8 weeks. The resulting exhibitions are open to the public.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Irregularly, one-day events take place (performances, lectures, research
projects.) Forthcoming events are advertised on the website.
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Address
Exhibition space:
korte achterstraat 2a, Hoorn, NL
Postal address:
korte achterstraat 6
1621GA, Hoorn, The Netherlands
telephone: +31(0)229-752252, but we don't alwayw work from the office. sending an email is better: office@hotelmariakapel.nl
you are welcome to register for our newsletter and/or mail invites via our website.