Maison d'Artiste 2026
About this Event
For three days the whole building opens. Thirty makers across eight levels of the Metzgebouw, from the gallery floor to Rietveld's glass dome on the roof — a room most people have never stood in.
Talks, tours, sound, a wine bar and a table where three makers sit down to say how they got here. Free to walk in, 10:00 – 18:00. A few things fill up: those are marked.
Thu 17
🕑: 10:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Lunch during GLUE
Host: Vermaat
Info: In between seminars, walks and talks, Vermaat serves lunch on the first floor. A moment to sit down and refuel before heading back into the day.
Tomato soup · three bruschetta, each with its own topping: cream cheese, smoked salmon and chives; pesto, mozzarella, tomato and basil; pesto, rocket, parma ham and parmesan · one drink of your choice: wine, beer, 0.0, coffee or tea.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Artist talk
Host: Inge Bečka
Info: Fifteen minutes with the maker about her work, and about her artist residency in China.
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
The hospital: care or cure?
Host: Andreea Pirlica
Info: Hospital rooms have the reputation of being notoriously ugly, uncomfortable, and unwelcoming. As clinical efficiency has taken over patient-centered care, the hospital has turned into a techno-utopia, and care has turned into cure.
Hospitals are designed to treat us, but are they designed to help us heal? Starting from my own experience as a patient, this lecture traces the history of the hospital room and brings together architectural analysis and patient experiences to explore how spaces of care have become spaces of cure — and what gets lost in between.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
MADART Table Talk
Host: Maaike Rabbinge
Info: Maaike Rabbinge studied psychology in Utrecht and political science in Amsterdam, became a circular designer, and now runs the collective ECHO. Loutje Hoekstra never went to an academy and taught herself everything she knows. Sandra Keja Planken spent a career as an interior architect before she began making autonomous work.
Three makers who arrived here by three different routes, and not one of them the route the system recognises. Dutch funds date a career from a first presentation inside the established circuit. Galleries want a signature they can place. Both measure a path that none of these three walked — and neither has anything to do with the quality of the work.
That is what MADART Foundation exists for, and it is easier to hear it from them than from us. They sit down at Ignore’s table and talk about how they got here, and about what they made for GROUND. Justin Karijoredjo leads the conversation.
Forty-five minutes, standing room.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Wine bar
Host: VINVIN Wines
Info: Open through the afternoon on the gallery floor, between the work.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Colour in design
Host: Femke Hofhuis
Info: Colour as a design tool. Designer Femke Hofhuis, founder of Femm Amsterdam, on the power of colour and of how a space is experienced. How does colour shape the way we feel, and the way we read a room?
And why are colour, light and art becoming more important in a world that keeps getting more digital? A talk about designing for the eye and for the feeling.
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Where neuroscience, behaviour, design and business meet
Host: Martijn den Otter
Info: Martijn den Otter is a neuroscientist, profiler and founder of Neurofactor. As a co-researcher he was involved in the Mauritshuis study of Girl with a Pearl Earring, which used EEG, eye-tracking and fMRI to examine what art does inside the human brain.
In his talk he brings those worlds together: what happens in the brain when we look at art, and how art, neurodesign and our surroundings shape the way we feel, think and function at work. With a live demonstration of a measurement.
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Devoonsound session
Host: Devoonsounds
Info: Half an hour of sound written for the dome, at the end of the day.
🕑: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Maison d'Artiste 2026 — Opening Night
Host: MADART Foundation
Info: The building closes to the public at six, and opens again for the evening. Eight floors of the Metzgebouw after hours, the makers there to talk about their work, and a sound session under Rietveld's glass dome as the light goes.
Welcome drink included. Wine by VINVIN Wines and Bon Vivant. Music to be announced.
Fri 18
🕑: 10:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Lunch during GLUE
Host: Vermaat
Info: In between seminars, walks and talks, Vermaat serves lunch on the first floor. A moment to sit down and refuel before heading back into the day.
Tomato soup · three bruschetta, each with its own topping: cream cheese, smoked salmon and chives; pesto, mozzarella, tomato and basil; pesto, rocket, parma ham and parmesan · one drink of your choice: wine, beer, 0.0, coffee or tea.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Tour of the whole building
Host: Justin Karijoredjo
Info: From the gallery floor to the dome, with the makers speaking about their own work along the way. Maaike Rabbinge talks about ECHO, the room she initiated. It ends with a short sound session under Rietveld's glass roof.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Music experience and line art workshop
Host: Loutje Hoekstra
Info: A musical experience and a workshop all around the subject of circles — circling sounds in a circular space, circling motions towards swirling line drawings that embrace fluidity and motion.
Musician Sami Abou Louh opens the session with a live set crafted for the Rietveldkoepel, a circular space high above the city with sweeping views over Amsterdam. Participants are invited to listen and tune in, before Loutje Hoekstra, currently exhibiting at MADART Foundation but also known for her line drawings, leads a hands-on introduction to drawing as motion, flow and rhythm rather than structure.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Wine bar
Host: VINVIN Wines
Info: Open through the afternoon on the gallery floor, between the work.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Rietveld × linoleum × 3
Host: Thomas Eurlings
Info: Thomas Eurlings on three projects where Gerrit Rietveld's work and linoleum come together. From historical colour research and restoration to a new application of Furniture Linoleum on a classic Rietveld design.
Across the three projects, the range of linoleum as a design and interior material becomes visible.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Short tour of the building
Host: Justin Karijoredjo
Info: A shorter walk through the building, from the gallery floor up, ending with a sound session in the dome.
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Material as the deciding factor
Host: Marc Th. van der Voorn
Info: How does an idea grow into a successful design? Marc Th. van der Voorn takes you through his process: from the first sketch and the choice of material to form, detailing and production.
Using his own work, he shows how material is not only a practical choice but can be the factor that decides whether a design succeeds.
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Devoonsound session
Host: Devoonsounds
Info: Half an hour of sound written for the dome, at the end of the day.
Sat 19
🕑: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Morning yoga
Host: Arben Sinani
Info: Ninety minutes under the glass roof, with sound built for the room. Saturday only.
🕑: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Walk and talk
Host: Herma de Wit
Info: Her work runs up the staircases of the building, from the ground floor to the fifth. She walks it with you and talks about how it got there.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 05:00 PM
Lunch during GLUE
Host: Vermaat
Info: In between seminars, walks and talks, Vermaat serves lunch on the first floor. A moment to sit down and refuel before heading back into the day.
Tomato soup · three bruschetta, each with its own topping: cream cheese, smoked salmon and chives; pesto, mozzarella, tomato and basil; pesto, rocket, parma ham and parmesan · one drink of your choice: wine, beer, 0.0, coffee or tea.
🕑: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Before Noon Club
Host: BEFORE NOON CLUB
Info: Weekends feel different before noon. Great music, spectacular coffee and a community full of good energy.
No alcohol, no late nights — just an unforgettable morning that might become the best part of your weekend.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Artist talk
Host: Inge Bečka
Info: Fifteen minutes with the maker about her work, and about her artist residency in China.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Wine bar
Host: VINVIN Wines
Info: Open through the afternoon on the gallery floor, between the work.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Talk
Host: Nicola Cherubini
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The last tour of the festival
Host: Justin Karijoredjo
Info: The final walk through the building, from the gallery floor up to the dome. It ends there with the last sound session of Maison d'Artiste 2026, under Rietveld's glass roof. Afterwards the wine bar stays open until six.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
EUR 0.00 to EUR 19.50
