Meet Francisca & Andrés!

Andrés and Francisca Khamis Giacoman are siblings born into the Palestinian diaspora in Chile. Their work explores questions of identity, memory, and belonging within this community, addressing the complexities of the Palestinian experience in the Chilean context.

Their creative practice is grounded in collaborative filmmaking and research-based processes.

Their films and video installations have been exhibited internationally at venues and festivals, including the Locarno Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, the Doha Film Festival, the Cairo International Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, FIDOCS, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025–26, Manifold Books, and Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research.

Date 22 October, 2026

Time 16.00-17.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Still from Baisanos, 2025, Francisca Khamis Giacoman and Andrés Khamis Giacoman

Opening Meet Me Under the Tree

Hotel Maria Kapel warmly invites you to join the opening of Meet Me Under the Tree, Melissa Cijntje’s presentation of the research she is conducting during her fellowship residency.

16.00 Inloop

17.00 Introductie door Melissa Cijntje

17.15 - 19.00 Feestelijke opening van de expositie met een domino-toernooi en drankjes

Closed event Katja Mater Mothers and daughters - how to say goodbye

Due to a private event, as part of Katja Mater’s residency, Hotel Maria Kapel will be closed for public visits on Saturday September 19th.

Program:

• Explore the project of the current artist-in-residence Katja Mater

• Guided tour by the Junior Curator

• Watch the HMK-movie in the cinema

• Make a drawing of what you imagine for inside the Chapel

• Coffee and tea and something sweet

For kids:

• Scavenger hunt!

• Make a drawing on the HMK-Kleurplaat

Dekoloniale Herdenking Hoorn-
16 augustus 2026

Inclusive commemoration of the shared history of Indonesia and the Netherlands.

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Walk-in
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Closing reception

Meet Katja!

Practical:

Date 13 August, 2026

Time 16.00-17.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Katja Mater is a visual artist, filmmaker, editor and educator working between Amsterdam and Brussels. Mater’s artistic practice is focused on the parameters of optical media and combines various disciplines such as photography, film, drawing, performance and installation.

Mater works to reveal the ways in which optical media and the human eye behave differently, the former being capable of recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be—holding them midway between information and interpretation. Revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through mediating between time, space, perception, and our understanding of them.

Alongside a solo practice as a visual artist, Mater is involved in different collaborative projects, as editor of Girls Like Us Magazine since 2014 and as one of the founding members of Mothers & Daughters, a Lesbian* and Trans* Bar.

Pictures shown are property of Katja Mater

Queer Coffee Creative

Please feel welcome to join the Queer, Coffee & Create hosted by Queer moments on Sunday in the HMK café.

Practical:

Date Sunday June 14th 2026

Time 11.00-13.30

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Next Queer, Coffee & Create:

November 8th  11.00-13.00

Front image by: rin@othermedia.nl 

Meet Melissa!

Practical:

Date 22 May, 2026

Time 16.00-17.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Melissa Cijntje (b. Curaçao, 1997) is a visual artist exploring colonial history, cultural memory, and resilience.

In What Remains, she uses clay to create forms that bear the marks of touch, absence, and fracture, connecting the Caribbean’s past to parallel histories in Southeast Asia.

Working in Hoorn, a former VOC hub, Melissa engages with local archives and interviews to uncover shared wounds left by Dutch imperial trade. Her works invite viewers to approach difficult histories through beauty, creating space for dialogue, reflection, and the possibility of repair.

Pictures are property of Melissa

Opening Dagmar Bosma

Dagmar & HMK invite you to the opening on May 1st, 4PM-7PM!

• Walk-in: 16.00 - 17.00

• Welcoming talk by Ayunda Stel (Junior Curator) & Dagmar Bosma (Artist): 17.00-17.15

• Visit the exhibition & 17th-century soup: 17.15 - 19.00

© Bart Treuren

Meet Dagmar!

Textiles are the main material in Dagmar's art practice, and dyeing with rust is a technique he uses continuously. During the residency, he will explore new techniques with which he is less familiar, such as operating the linen press and conducting archival research. During the development phase of the work, he will collaborate with various experts.

Want to learn more about the reasons Dagmar chooses to work with linnen and how it perfectly aligns the Chapel’s history? Join the meet & greet!

Practical:

Date 16 April, 2026

Time 16.00-17.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Dagmar Bosma (he/they) is an artist, writer, and gleaner living in Amsterdam. In his installations and sculptural work, he employs rust-dyeing techniques to trans*fer place-specific traces.

Past presentations include the solo exhibitions Male Ingredients at Digestivo in Madrid and Tough and Tender at Manifold Books in Amsterdam, and group exhibitions at W139 (Amsterdam), A Tale of a Tub (Rotterdam), Marres (Maastricht), Flippy’s Queer Bar (Melbourne), Rosa Kwir (Balzan),
and Dracul.la (Barcelona).

Mondriaan Fonds Prospects 2025, pictures by Tommy Smits

Woorden Hotel

Date April 15th, 2026

Time 19.00-21.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Do you enjoy writing, poetry, poems, or do you your creative outlet in spoken word? Then, the Woorden Hotel is a place for you. This initiative originated from teens with a common interest in words, searching for a place to get together.

Join the community and write anything you want. Woorden Hotel is here to welcome anyone, from life-long writers as newcomers.

Putting emotions into words

Woorden Hotel is more than a place to write; it is essential for speaking and listening skills for youth. Create new social contacts and express your emotions and feelings within a safe environment. Often, these are emotions that prove to be difficult to express into words, such as loneliness, gender and negative thoughts.

Writing sessions

During the writing sessions, you can either decide to write for an assignment, or entirely free. The assignments try to be surprising, new and are meant to stimulate you to perceive the world differently. Everyone is challenged to retrieve something from the art of language.

Open mic

At the end of the evening you will be offered to share your work - or any work that you brought - during the open mic. Words are the base of language, which is why the Woorden Hotel is welcoming all languages.

Woord Art on the facade

Woorden Hotel wants to inspire the city of Hoorn with a poem originating from these sessions, which will presented on the facade of Hotel Maria Kapel. After each session the poem will be selected. This way, the young writers and practitioners of poetry in Hoorn are offered the change to be exposed in the city for as long as a season .

Next session

Date May 13th 2026

Time 19.00-21.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Week tegen Racisme film screening

During the Week Tegen Racisme, we will be screening the film Judas and the Black Messiah in collaboration with Cinema Perdu. The film shows how racism, abuse of power, and state control played a role in the downfall of the Black Panther Party.

This film underscores how important solidarity and social engagement remain today.

Practical:

Date Friday March 27th 2026

Tijd 19.30 - 22.15

Walk in: starts 19:00

Locatie Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Queer Coffee Creative

Please feel welcome to join the Queer, Coffee & Create hosted by Queer moments on Sunday in the HMK café.

Practical:

Date Sunday March 15th 2026

Time 11.00-13.30

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Next Queer, Coffee & Create:

June 14th 11.00-13.00

Voorpagina foto door: rin@othermedia.nl 

GSA Film en Pizza-avond

Come to the movie night for young people to watch a film together, chat, and eat pizza. The Way He Looks (2014) will be screened in the cinema. This is a coming-of-age film with the themes of friendship and falling in love.

The event is free, you only have to sign up and share your dietary preferences. Sign up by e-mailing nhm@discriminatie.nl

Date Friday March 13th 2026

Time 18.00-21.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Raadkrachtige Vrouwen
Filmvertoning: Suffragette

Gratis filmvertoning alleen voor vrouwen op Internationale Vrouwendag!

Practical:
Date: Sunday March 8
Time: 11:00 - 14:00
Location: HMK, Korte Achterstraat 2a, Hoorn

Free entrance!
Sign up through the button:

Film: Suffragette
London, 1912. Since the end of the 19th century, British women have been waging a peaceful—but largely ineffective—struggle against the regime. They have only one goal in mind: women's suffrage. Come along for an inspiring day full of power and history! Suffragette is an impressive film about women fighting for their right to vote.

In this inspiring yet heartbreaking film, director Sarah Gavron shows us the real Suffragettes: not just the wealthy women who were supported by their spouses, but the working-class women who had so much more to lose. After the film, we will serve soup and offer the opportunity to talk with female politicians from the municipality of Hoorn.

Raadkrachtige Vrouwen
The Raadkrachtige Vrouwen of the municipality of Hoorn are a group of women from local politics who are committed to getting more women involved in politics. They organize events to inform and inspire women. The group includes female municipal councilors and committee members.

Program:

10:30 - Walk-in
11:00 - Screening
13:00 - Conversations with Raadkrachtige Vrouwen (incl. small lunch)
14:00 - End

• This will be a free event

• The event is voor everyone that identifies as a woman.

• Signing up is compulsory

Ipeh Nur: Silent Song

Ipeh & HMK invite you to the opening of Silent Song on February 13!

Program
16.00 - 17.00 : Walk-in
17.00: Welcome speech
17.10 - 19.00 : View exhibition

• The exhibition runs from February 13 to March 14, 2026.

• Open Thursday through Saturday between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

• Free admission at Hotel Maria Kapel.

Pictures by Bart Treuren or property of Ipeh Nur.

Singing Kumpulan

 *Kumpulan means an informal gathering with music and food

Open Call

Practical:

Date Saturday January 31

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

15:00 – 15:30 Drop-in

15:30 – 16:00 Introduction and story sharing section

16:00 – 17:00 Warm-up and vocal exercises

17:00 – 18:00 Sound recordings

18:00 – 19:00 Food & Drinks

Feeling curious? Learn more about Ipeh and her work here!

Invitation Kantelen Listening Session with Isabel Cordeiro – 29 January

Mariska van den Berg and Isabel Cordeiro are pleased to invite you to a listening session with an artist talk centred on the podcast Kantelen, on Thursday 29 January at Hotel Maria Kapel.

Practical information
Location: Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a, 1621 GA Hoorn
Date: Thursday 29 January 2026
Time: 7.30–9.00 pm (doors open from 7.00 pm)
Programme: listening session & conversation

Free admission | Listen to the full podcast here | More information: mariskavandenberg.nl

Episode #4 with Isabel Cordeiro will be available online on January 22 — the rest can already be listened to.

Over Kantelen:

Kantelen is a podcast in which artists and filmmakers explore how our perspective on the world can shift. Not by focusing on grand theories, but by looking closely, developing an eye for non-human worlds, and connecting with them. In all episodes, the question of our place as humans in the bigger picture plays in the background.

Isabel Cordeiro was a resident in the Hotel Maria Kapel program from June to September 2024. During this period, she developed a performance in which she explores how body, material, and environment are intertwined. In episode 4 of Kantelen, she talks about her research into the relationship between the human body and that which lies beyond it. Her work questions the anthropocentric view and challenges the sharp boundary between humans and their environment.

During the listening session, we will listen to the episode together. Afterwards, Mariska van den Berg and Isabel Cordeiro will engage in conversation with each other and with the audience.

The central question is: what does it take to live together in a more-than-human way?

The conversation will be in English.

Meet Ipeh Nur!

Date Thursday January 22

Time 16.00-17.00

Location Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a

Ipeh Nur (1993, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)  graduated from the Department of Printmaking, Indonesian Art Institute. Her works are primarily based on personal experiences, memories, resilience, and histories as background events. 

“I enjoy exploring and experimenting with materials.” In her works, she applies a variety of techniques, such as batik, ceramics, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, murals, painting, and drawing. This makes Ipeh an ardent mixed-media artist. 

The waves have not slept © Image by Ela Bialkowska OKNO studio

During this evening, a story will be shared that takes place in East Germany in the 1980s, where an officer of the state security service is assigned to observe a successful playwright. From a bare attic space, he follows the life in the apartment below and becomes personally involved when he develops feelings for the playwright’s partner. The story explores themes such as individual freedom, ethics, and the workings of a repressive system.

This evening’s choice was made by Louis, who will also provide an introduction.

Practical information

• Friday, December 12

• Walk-in 7:30 pm, start film 8 pm

• The film is spoken in German and subtitled in Dutch, has a runtime of 137 minutes, is Louis’s choice, and will also be introduced by him.

• Entrance fee € 5,-  excluding welcome drink (water is free as long as the Hoornse reserve pleases).

• If possible, we would like you to send us an email to inform us of your attendance (also possible for coming editions). Apart from that, a visit on the off chance is also possible, but any seating preferences are then more difficult to realise. Confirmation, or a reminder for this screening, will follow halfway through the week of the event.

Coming editions:

• Keep an eye on the calendar for more information or subscribe to the Cinema Perdu newsletter

Raadkrachtige Vrouwen - Film screening: Past Lives

On Friday, November 28, the Empowered Women of the Municipality of Hoorn are organizing a film night for women.

Come to the screening of Past Lives, a film about a woman who faces difficult choices in her life. The way she confidently takes control in a world where men’s opinions often carry more weight is inspiring.

📅 Practical Information

Date: Friday, November 28
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Doors open: 7:00 PM)
Location: Hotel Maria Kapel, Korte Achterstraat 2a, 1621 GA Hoorn (behind the Hema store)

Free admission – you can register using the button below

Empowered Women (Raadkrachtige Vrouwen )

The “Empowered Women” in Hoorn are a group of women from local politics who are committed to encouraging more women to become politically active and to increase their participation in politics. They organize events, such as gatherings on International Women’s Day, to inform and inspire women in an accessible way. They also offer courses to stimulate political participation. On November 28, they are organizing a film evening for women together with Hotel Maria Kapel.

Past Lives

In the debut film by director Celine Song, Nora and Hae Sung — two close childhood friends — are separated when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada. Decades later, the two reunite during one defining week. In this subtle and deeply emotional film, where anything seems possible, the story centers on Nora and the choices she makes.

This event is wheelchair accessible (entrance via the Weeshuistuin).