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Observant, the independent university newspaper of Maastricht Univeristy, recently interviewed Reinier Hoon who started a PhD trajectory at MERIAN in January 2026. To read the full interview, please visit the Observant website: “You can make your point in words, but I prefer to communicate through food”. ↗

For You: generous artistic research Tuesday June 23Time: 10.30h – 18.00hLocation: Brusselseweg 150, BR.2.21/22 Maastricht Register here! The research centre What Art Knows is a cookie tin.The research centre What Art Knows is not a cookie tin. In our end of the year symposium, researchers affiliated to the research centre What Art Knows and MERIAN… ↗

Marlies Vermeulen is the first MERIAN candidate to defend her PhD on the 15th of June 2026 at 12:45. Her PhD research is called: The Panoramic View of Cartopology: A journey on how to become a cartopologist. Marlies is an artistic researcher in the research centre What Art Knows (at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences),… ↗

An experimental evening at the MERIAN art-science lab about engaging the body in writing Wednesday 27 MayLocation: MERIAN art-science lab, Heksenstraat 8Time: walk-in 18.45; start 19.00; end 21.00 hrs. Drinks and light snacks will be served. Organised in the context of the Writing Bodies Schrijfdriedaagse, this event welcomes Schrijfdriedaagse participants and all others interested in… ↗

On May 26-28, we present the What Art Knows “Schrijfdriedaagse”: a three-day writing program that allows you to dive into your own writing, while stimulating your writing practice and challenging your assumptions of what writing is and how it is (best) done. This year, we specifically focus on writing as an embodied practice: how do the materialities… ↗

Organised and moderated by: Ruth Benschop  Second meeting: June 18th, 2026, 15:00 – 17:00  Location: MERIAN art-science lab, University College Maastricht (UCM) Heksenstraat 8, Maastricht. Sign up by emailing: ruth.benschop@zuyd.nl  The program line Oefenen Oefenen (pronounced as: [ˈufənə(n) ˈufənə(n)] asks questions about how in artistic (research) practices we rehearse, and what it means to learn to do so. Oefenen Oefenen is interested in a large variety of rehearsal… ↗

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, and researchers from Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Maastricht University, and the Jan van Eyck… ↗

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, 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 8 September to 5 October 2025, working together with artist and organizer Robin Weijers. To… ↗

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. ↗

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 (2022) strijken we dit keer neer bij Kanaal30 in Utrecht.  Tijdens DIS_SEMINAR #3 richten we… ↗

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 as a site of cultural practice and academic inquiry. Taking the specie Brassica Oleracea (cabbage in… ↗

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. ↗