“At nearly every moment in art history artists have been working together in one way or another and under many different arrangements, sharing a common dialect.

Within the project A Common Dialect, curated by Femke Dekker, Marres examines the concept of the ‘school’ as a historical model for the self-organizing ability of artists. This research takes shape in the form of an exhibition, which includes reflections on the Tilburgse School and the Leipziger Schule. Alongside the exhibition, a group of alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts & Design Maastricht will attend a so-called summer school at Marres, where they will look for contemporary versions of the ‘school’. The results of this investigation will also be presented in A Common Dialect”