You are cordially invited to the opening of the project ‘What About a Garden‘ on Sunday 10 April from 15.00-17.00 in the Koetshuis (Kasteel Wijlre). ‘What About a Garden’ is an initiative of Kasteel Wijlre estate and Van Eyck (Maastricht), in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Writing/Maastricht University.
What About a Garden
10 April – 30 October 2016
An exhibition, routes, interventions, and educational activities
With work by Jason Hendrik Hansma, Alessandro Bertelle, Stefan Peters, Stefan Cools, Sanne Vaassen, Donald Judd, Ger van Elk, Mitja Tusek, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Joëlle Teurlinckx, Nicholas Pope, Niek Kemps, and Richard Long.
The What About a Garden exhibition takes place in the Koetshuis of Kasteel Wijlre estate. The exhibition explores the significance of the garden in relation to our thinking and our endeavours. The exhibition includes work by three attendees of the Van Eyck in Maastricht: Jason Hendrik Hansma, Alessandro Bertelle, and Stefan Peters. Each in their own way, these artists are fascinated by the idea of the garden and the illusion of ‘uncultivated nature’. Their work is interwoven with artworks from the (former) Eijck Collection, which is part of the collection of the Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht since 2012.
Extending the What About a Garden exhibition, Stefan Cools presents his laboratory and artistic research on butterfly species and their residues in the Hedge House’s orchid greenhouse.
Throughout the spring and summer, routes by artists, including contemporary artist
Sanne Vaassen and writer/poet Anneke Brassinga, will be added to the project.
What About a Garden is an initiative of Kasteel Wijlre estate and Van Eyck (Maastricht), in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Writing/Maastricht University.
What About a Garden is realised with the financial support of VSB Fonds, BNG Cultuurfonds, Brand Cultuurfonds, the Municipality of Eijsden-Margraten, the Municipality of Gulpen-Wittem, and the Municipality of Maastricht, and thanks to loans of the Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht.
Kasteel Wijlre estate
Kasteel Wijlreweg 1 / 6321 PP Wijlre (Hedge House entrance, at the side of the park)
+31 (0)43 4502616 / info@hedgehouse.eu / www.hedgehouse.eu
