We are an assembly of international artists, performers, curators, researchers, authors, activists, care practitioners and allies who refuse to think of art as detached from the relations that shape our lives, care and community.
M.A.R.S. is both a laboratory and a solidarity echo chamber, where individual voices grow into collective visibility. We create exhibitions, performances, publications, editions, workshops, talks, and collective experiments that link aesthetics with social imagination.
Art is our tool, our language, our resonance space. Our practice emerges from everyday realities where art making and care work collide, intertwine and sometimes resist each other within systems that often make this balance impossible. It is rooted locally while unfolding connections that extend beyond cities and countries.
Our incentive is rooted in the belief that art does not act in isolation, but carries responsibility: for people, for structures, for futures. We retell stories, make invisible work visible and open spaces in which power and care can be renegotiated.
M.A.R.S. stands for Maternal Artistic Research Studio. The term “maternal” relates not primarily to the role of mother or woman in society, but more broadly to a nurturing position historically devalued, privatized, and romanticized. We reclaim and queer this position as a site of knowledge. Through creative and collective practice, it unfolds into radical transformation and emancipation. Rather than referring to motherhood itself, the “maternal” speaks to all who recognize care as a cultural and socio-political force and embrace it as collective transformation.
MARS envisions an art that emerges from a position of taking care – not as a limitation, but as a generative and integrative force for futures built on compassion and interdependence.
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This membership is for cultural producers such as artists, performers, curators, writers and researchers who wish to actively engage with the M.A.R.S. collective.
This membership grows from a mutual collaboration. You can reach out and propose a project, join a workshop, co-create a publication or join one of our collaborations.
Once a collaboration has taken place and mutual interest is expressed, a formal membership of the collective is decided collectively by the group.
– Participation in collective projects, residencies and workshops
– Visibility on our website and in M.A.R.S. publications
– Voting rights in association assemblies
– Invitations to member meetings and community gatherings
– Eligibility to propose new collaborative formats or host events under the M.A.R.S. framework
Annual contribution: 25 € (reduced fee available on self-assessment basis)
UPCOMING AND CURRENT EVENTS
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Exhibition of MARS in the gatehouses of the Old Slaughterhouse in Karlsruhe.
PERFORMANCE : 14:00
Visible through the windows until June 8
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PAST EVENTS
Exhibition of MARS in the gatehouses of the Old Slaughterhouse in Karlsruhe.
PERFORMANCE : 14:00
Visible through the windows until June 8 Write in Address
Custom linkExhibition of MARS in the gatehouses of the Old Slaughterhouse in Karlsruhe.
PERFORMANCE : 14:00
Visible through the windows until June 8 Write in Address
Custom linkExhibition of MARS in the gatehouses of the Old Slaughterhouse in Karlsruhe.
PERFORMANCE : 14:00
Visible through the windows until June 8 Write in Address
Custom linkExhibition of MARS in the gatehouses of the Old Slaughterhouse in Karlsruhe.
PERFORMANCE : 14:00
Visible through the windows until June 8 Write in Address
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