Chapel with sculpture.

From October 2007 until December 2010, I was director and curator of Artist-in-Residence programme HMK {Hotel MariaKapel}, in Hoorn, The Netherlands, together with Daniel Dennis de Wit. We curated three international year programs, revamped the residency space, set up an exchange project with Art Bakery in Cameroon, and opened up room for research residencies. The publication HMK {Hotel MariaKapel} 2008-2010 offers a peek of projects conducted during this time.

About HMK.
HMK {Hotel Mariakapel} is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, receiving artists and curators from all over the world. It has grown from the ideal to create a work- and presentation place where dialogue and collaboration inform experimental, context-based art projects. The program involves artists working in a wide range of media, focusing 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.

About the year programs.
From the onset, Daniel Dennis and I wanted to create coherent year programs. We hoped this would enable in-depth investigations of topics, allowing for contrasting angles to be explored and interrelations between projects to appear. From 2009 onwards, we presented the year programs as such in print. 2009 was themed The Future is Near, and 2010 The Catalysts Agenda. Each year program consisted of artists’ projects, shows by guest curators and projects we curated ourselves. More about a few of the latter can be found on the subpages.
The HMK year programs were supported by the Gemeente Hoorn, Provincie Noord-Holland and the Mondriaan Stichting. Individual projects were sponsored by a host of additional foundations, amongst them the Art Council, VSB fonds, and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

View the HMK yearprogramme of 2010 (pdf).

Installation view ‘Quiet is the New Loud,’ 2010. Curator: Teresa Ianotta. photo Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.

Detailed view of ‘Lanskip,’ Rebecca Birch and Charles Danby, 2009. photo Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.

Shipbuilding for Swintaks ‘Ship of Fools,’ 2009.

Front of yearprogramme 2010. Design by Michiel Schuurman.