Hotel Maria Kapel is delighted to enter the new year with the 2022 programma Connective tissue and the group of artists in residence with whom we’re going to explore much-needed notions of repair and healing. We would also like to officially welcome Inez Piso as interim artistic director of HMK, replacing Tirza Kater since December 2021 with developing the projects for the coming year.

During last year, Kabinet Studio worked hard to develop a new visual identity and website for Hotel Maria Kapel, which better represents HMK in its current shape, as well as making our content accessibly in a more accessible and engaging way. Huge thanks!

Hotel Maria Kapel is pleased to announce the 2022 program Connective tissue, with artists: Dasha Golova, Benjamin Francis, Ana Linhares, Afra Eisma & Kubilay Mert Ural, Pérez Bravo Collective, Niki Milioni and Vita Buivid.

From 27 September to 1 October 2021, Hotel Maria Kapel is hosting the ‘Post-Precarity Autumn Camp: How to survive as an artist’, together with Platform BK and Institute for Network Cultures.

With Inside Archive, artist and HMK alumnus Rik Dijkhuizen places a monumental yet understated yellow cube on the mezzanine of HMK’s minty green reception area, which explores practices of care within the context of spatial design, archiving, and mental wellbeing.

With pleasure and excitement, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK) invites proposals from all kinds of artistic practitioners to develop a project at Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK) in 2022. This open call does not invite practitioners to respond to a theme, rather we invite you to raise and conceptualise your questions and urgencies in the form of a project proposal.

HMK is proud to announce its 2021 programme and artists in residence. The residents were chosen on the basis of a juried open call in spring 2020: Ganesh Nepal (NP), Setareh Noorani & Matt Plezier (NL), Minne Kersten (NL), Danai Giannoglou (GR), Alina Lupu (RO), Ada Patterson (BB), SX Juul (DK).

With great enthusiasm, HMK announces that Tirza Kater (left) is the new Artistic Director of Hotel Maria Kapel. Alongside Business Director Annelien de Bruin (right) the directorial team will work with the team, volunteers and board to further take care of the institution and provide a structure of support for young artists with the year programme On Shelter.

After two years at HMK, our Creative Director, Miriam Wistreich, is heading for new adventures as Director of UKS, Oslo, starting from February 15, 2021. During her time at HMK, Wistreich guided HMK through a transition period, reorganising HMK through the year programme Slow Burn, co-conceived with artists Maja Bekan and Griet Menschaert. 

Apply now for a six-week residency or one-year residency for HMK’s 2021 year programme ‘On Shelter’. Deadline is 25 May 2020.

We’ve taken time to reflect and have decided that HMK will remain closed until 4 June, due to the recent developments concerning the Covid-19 pandemic.