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Opening times
open during exhibitions on Saturdays & Sundays 2–5 pmAccessibility
Our door is open during projects-on-show. Often, but not always, projects-on-show can be experienced while the door is closed as well: through the windows or crannies such as the mailbox or air vent.
We are situated on the ground floor, where four large windows make up the facade. Our door is 80 centimeters wide and 275 centimeters high, and currently inaccessible for wheelchairs. There is a ramp upon entering the door that is 9 centimeters in height.
We house a small toilet and there is drinking water and hot water coming from a tap with a sink. There are possibilities to sit down during your visit, and always someone present to assist you during your stay.
Location
Fokke Simonszstraat 12, 1017 TG Amsterdam
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About
Marwan is a collective artist-run project space founded by Tirza Kater and Tim Mathijsen in 2017 and since 2021 run with Dieuwertje Hehewerth.
Marwan is a collective body through which making space is practiced by stretching, shrinking, s l o w i n g, growing limbs, and hibernating. Marwan aims to build sustainable, supportive scaffoldings through which artists in and connected to Amsterdam can practice and celebrate their work. We consider Marwan a collective practice that is materialised in close dialogue with the artists and objects that we host.
Marwan is an ongoing exercise in exhibition making and programme composition that questions notions of production and efficiency that push artist-run spaces into unsustainable modes of work. Marwan’s practice takes shape from the negative space between work, study, and the individual practices of Tim, Tirza, and Dieuwertje. Marwan works from where we are and through what we are personally and collectively able to do, and developing that mode of production through the growing network with whom we work.
Marwan consists of:
Dieuwertje Hehewerth
Tirza Kater
Tim Mathijsenand could not exist without AKINCI gallery, Anllel Maria Tanús Guillén, Elki Boerdam, Karin Iturralde Nurnberg, Philipp Gufler, Rieke Vos and its extended community.
Colophon
© Images Marwan and the artists, '16, '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23
banner typeface and DIY toolkit:
Mislav Žugaj & Gaile Pranckunaitewebsite design and development:
oddd & Karoline Świeżyńskitypefaces:
Authentic Sans, and the custom stencil font by Gaile Pranckunaite and Mislav Žugaj.If you miss our old website:
Marwan Website until 2023 -
Occupational Health & Safety Fund bequest (OHS Fund)
The Marwan OHS Fund is a legacy of artists Isabelle Sully and Valentina Curandi within the framework of their exhibition 'Two in a Coffin' (2019) that dealt with a feminist rewriting of Occupational Health and Safety and property assessment. A small sum of obtained subsidies is continuously funneled into the Marwan OHS, of which 50 euros per project is made available to impede a measure of safety by the artist-in-question. This could be a measure of safety for that person themselves, for the space, its visitors, the street, the city: up to the receiver of the fund.
Expenditures
OHS expenditures over time:
- Valentina Curandi and Isabelle Sully placed a fire blanket in Marwan’s boiler room.
- Evita Vasiljeva has sunken her fund into a year-long Dutch liability insurance.
- Yashaswini Raghunandan got extra headphones for listener/viewer endurance.
- Erika Roux & Victor Santamarina have acuired seven umbrellas to be used outside Marwan when rainy, in order to care for social distancing within the space itself.
- Reinier Vrancken gifted the occupational health and safety fund to Marwan’s curators Tim & Tirza in the form of a gift voucher to go to the sauna.
- Karin Iturralde Nurnberg bought a meditation pillow in order to host meditation sessions in the exhibition 'Are my children are my parents'.
- Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir knitted pairs of socks for the Marwan team for warmth and comfort.
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