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  • Maastricht strengthens position as hotspot for artistic research
    Maastricht strengthens position as hotspot for artistic research

    MERIAN receives €85,000 boost for artistic research With a joint learning environment for art and research in Maastricht, artistic research network MERIAN is taking the next step in the development of the art sector. In this learning environment, students, lecturers,

  • Mini-Festival Artistic Research
    Mini-Festival Artistic Research

    An exciting evening program on artistic research by and for students and staff of Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht University, and Jan van Eyck Academie.

  • Diana Ramaekers writes column for BK
    Diana Ramaekers writes column for BK

    Diana Ramaekers, visual artist, lecturer at the Academy of Arts in Maastricht, and researcher for What Art Knows, recently published a column about darkness in the Veluwe titled ‘Give the Night a Voice.’ Ramaekers was resident at Station Ellecom from

  • Oefenen Oefenen 
    Oefenen Oefenen 

    Oefenen Oefenen: Lectoraat What Art Knows start pilotonderzoek naar oefenpraktijken met studenten van de bacheloropleiding Docent Muziek Oefen je mee? Onderzoeker Ruth Benschop start dit jaar enthousiast gesteund door opleidingsmanager Felix Havenith een pilotonderzoek naar oefenpraktijken met bachelorstudenten van de opleiding Docent Muziek.

  • UITNODIGING DIS_SEMINAR #3
    UITNODIGING DIS_SEMINAR #3

    Aankomende maandag 16 maart organiseren we met het platform kunst ≈ onderzoek de derde editie van DIS_SEMINAR. DIS_SEMINAR is een terugkerend exposium waar je je kunt onderdompelen in artistiek onderzoek en disseminatie. Na de Tolhuistuin (2019) en Fort De Batterijen

  • Reinier Hoon has been selected for the MERIAN PhD candidature
    Reinier Hoon has been selected for the MERIAN PhD candidature

    Co-supervised by Christian Ernsten and Darian Meacham from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Maastricht University, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Tamarind Rosetti and Stephen Wright) and plant breeder Andrea Ghedina, Hoon brings forth OLERACEA, a research project that approaches agricultural practice

  • MACCH Spark Session 24 February: Critical Bestiaries – Research-in-Progress Work Session
    MACCH Spark Session 24 February: Critical Bestiaries – Research-in-Progress Work Session

    We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming MACCH Spark Session: a Critical Bestiaries – Research-in-Progress Work Session with Sina Seifee on Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14.30-16:30pm at The Plant at FASoS (Grote Gracht 76, ground floor). During this SPARK session, Sina will open up his Professional Doctorate project How to inherit

  • Tweede editie Consultatiebureau de Badkuip: Over de kunst van het programmamaken 
    Tweede editie Consultatiebureau de Badkuip: Over de kunst van het programmamaken 

    Festival Cement op 25 t/m 27 maart 2026 in Den Bosch Ben jij een programmamaker, een festival organisator, een curator, een programmeur, of doe je iets vergelijkbaars? Heb jij behoefte aan reflectie op dat prachtige, spannende, verantwoordelijke vak? Schrijf je dan hier snel in voor een gratis consult tijdens Festival Cement.

  • Second Reading Group Oefenen Oefenen  [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] 
    Second Reading Group Oefenen Oefenen  [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] 

    The program line Oefenen Oefenen asks questions about how in artistic (research) practices we rehearse, and what it means to learn to do so. To support and contextualize this research, Ruth Benschop has started an offline reading group to which you are invited.  The second reading group is on April 7th, 2026, 15:00 – 17:00 in Maastricht. 

  • Reading Group: Oefenen Oefenen  [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] 
    Reading Group: Oefenen Oefenen  [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] 

    Organised and moderated by: Ruth Benschop  First meeting: January 13, 2026, 15:00 – 17:00  Location: MERIAN art-science lab, University College Maastricht (UCM) Heksenstraat 8, Maastricht  The program line Oefenen Oefenen (pronounced as: [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] asks questions about how in artistic (research) practices we rehearse, and what it

  • Joint PD meeting at Zuyd: inspiring exchange between two domains
    Joint PD meeting at Zuyd: inspiring exchange between two domains

    Joint PD meeting at Zuyd: inspiring exchange between two domains On November 18, a joint PD meeting took at place at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. Zuyd participates in the Professional Doctorate pilot with four candidates in two domains: Leisure,

  • Monday November 17: first Joint meeting of the Professional Doctorate Programmes offered by Zuyd
    Monday November 17: first Joint meeting of the Professional Doctorate Programmes offered by Zuyd

    At November 17, we are hosting the first joint meeting of the Professional Doctorate Programmes offered by Zuyd UAS in the domains: The Arts and Leisure, Tourism & Hospitality. Location: Hotel Management School Maastricht/ Gastronomy Lab (0.27). The aim of this

  • MACCH Annual Conference – On Leaving: Contemporary Artists’ Estates and Legacies
    MACCH Annual Conference – On Leaving: Contemporary Artists’ Estates and Legacies

    We are pleased to announce the call for panels, papers, and artistic research contributions for the 2026 MACCH conference in Maastricht on 19-21 March 2026. This edition of our annual conference focuses on emerging networks of care around contemporary artists’

  • MCICM launches website Playing the Digital
    MCICM launches website Playing the Digital

    MCICM recently launched the website www.playingthedigital.nl. The website summarizes the insights and reflections of MCICM’s research line ‘Digital technologies in Classical Music’ by researchers dr. Denise Petzold, Jorge Lozano Diaz Granados and prof. dr. Peter Peters. The aim of the research

  • Minor Artistic Research in Situ (ARiS)
    Minor Artistic Research in Situ (ARiS)

    Het ENCI-gebied als laboratorium voor nieuwe onderzoeksmethoden in de kunsten.Studiejaar 2025–2026 · Periode 3 (9 feb – 20 apr, 10 weken) Hoe onderzoek je een landschap met je zintuigen, je verbeelding en je artistieke praktijk? In de minor Artistic Research