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23 feb · 23 mar · 20 apr · 18 may · 22 jun · 21 sept · 19 oct · 16 nov · 14 dec

 

info

location: resort HQ – Nieuwe Sint Jansstraat 35, Groningen

entry: €3,– (free for students)

language: English

accessibility: wheelchair friendly

 

 

monday 23 march, 19:00 – 21:00

talk + workshop: This is not about football

Maurice van Es

 

On Monday, March 23, studium resort presents 'this is not about football' with artist Maurice van Es. An evening dedicated to the strange, colorful, and obsessive world of collecting photography from football magazines from the 1990s.

 

During studium resort, host Ellis Kat will speak with Van Es about his fascination with football culture and photography. How did hours of scanning evolve into making art books? How did this shift affect his experience of pleasure and play within what started as a hobby? And what happens when a private pastime becomes a shared artistic exploration?

 

After the conversation, participants will get to work themselves. Using pages from old football magazines, you will cut, rearrange, and compose your own collection.

 

about

Since 2019, Maurice van Es began spending hours leafing through football magazines from the 1980s and 1990s. What began as a personal fascination gradually developed into an ongoing artistic practice. Using these magazines as material, he has created artist books of Maradona and a book of footballers in their role as fathers.

 

 

about studium 2026

In 2026, the program of studium resort revolves around the year theme of het resort: I <3 HOBBIES. Almost every month, we invite an artist for an evening where conversations, lectures, workshops and performances flow into one another. Together with the audience, we assemble a new tasting of hobbies each time.

From flower arranging to birdwatching, from football to dungeons & dragons: studium resort explores how personal passions shape artistic practices. When does something stop being a hobby and become work? And what happens when relaxation, play and dedication begin to edge closer to professionalism?

Each evening offers a low-threshold opportunity to try something new and perhaps discover an unexpected fascination.

 

 

about the programmer: Ellis Kat

A new year also brings a new program maker. In 2026, Ellis Kat will curate studium resort. Ellis is a curator, writer and moderator. Until 2025, she was director of the art space Nieuw Dakota in Amsterdam. As a freelance curator, she has worked with institutions including the Cobra Museum, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Kunstinstituut Melly.

In her exhibitions and programs, Ellis Kat explores the boundaries of what art can be and who it is for. As program maker and moderator of studium resort, she continues this approach by challenging both artists and audiences to look differently - at art, at each other and at the world around us.

 

 

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februari 23 – accidental florist w/ bart eysink smeets

During the first edition, flower arranging took center stage, featuring artist Bart Eysink Smeets in conversation with host Ellis Kat.

Eysink Smeets showed how hobbies - from birdwatching to flower arranging - appear as a recurring thread throughout his practice, while his working method itself is strikingly obsessive. His advice: if you want to keep the joy, don’t turn your hobby into an artistic practice. Once it becomes an obligation, its freedom disappears.

After the talk, flower arranging transformed into flower arranging Xtreme: with glue guns, pinking shears, and stickers, bouquets grew into almost sculptural artworks.