studium resort

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save the dates!

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 20 april, 19:00 – 21:00

artist talk + workshop:  birding

annelein pompe

 

On Monday, April 20, studium resort will focus on the hobby of birding. During the programme Birding, the work of artist Annelein Pompe takes center stage.

 

The evening opens with a screening of her film ‘The Shadow Workers’, in which a pigeon, acting as narrator, guides you through a dreamlike world between fiction and documentary.

This is followed by a conversation between host Ellis Kat and Pompe about her fascination with birds as a reflection of humanity, her working process in which chance plays a major role and how she creates stories that exist between reality and imagination.

 

We will close with an invitation to draw birds together. Inspired by Pompe’s characteristic bird portraits, we reflect through drawing on the question: “what does a bird actually look like?”

 

 

about

Annelein Pompe (1988, BE) likes to dig up stories that hide in the interstices of our mostly unconsidered daily lifes. The Dutch painter and filmmaker blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction by interweaving autobiographical elements, stories from her surroundings and daydreams. The narrative threads follow playful associations of ideas and jump between the now and then, the here and elsewhere. With humor, curiosity and a great sense of composition, she thus transforms a grizzled reality into a colorful contemporary tale.

 

Want to already dive in to the practice of Pompe? Listen to the podcast ‘Kan niet bestaat niet’ by Mister Motley (april 21, 2023).

 

 

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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march 23 – this is not about football w/ maurice van es

Studium resort explores, through the theme I<3HOBBIES, how hobbies can shift from casual pastimes into artistic practices. The latest edition focused on collecting 1990s football images with artist Maurice van Es.

In conversation with host Ellis Kat, Van Es shared how his fascination grew into a professional practice while retaining its playful nature. Through his publications - featuring themes like footballers as fathers, intimacy in football and Maradona - he showed how collections can connect sports history, visual culture, and emotion.

After the talk, participants created their own collections in a hands-on workshop, ranging from players with receding hairlines, singing crowds and teamphotos.

 

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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.