Limburg Biënnale 2026
Jury members Odapark
The jury and curator team, consisting of professional artists, reviews the submissions without knowing who created the artworks. They then use their selections to design a space at Odapark, where they also display their own work.
Simone Albers
Simone Albers (the Netherlands, 1990) creates colorful paintings, sculptures, and installations that focus on the more-than-human environment and the ways in which we are connected to it. Through her practice, she aims to cultivate an openness to the vibrant, complex, and dynamic nature of the world around us, ultimately challenging anthropocentric ways of thinking.
Albers studied Fine Art at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Valkhof Museum, Kunstenlab, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, and Platform POST. In 2019, her work was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting, and in 2022 she won the Sieger White Award, after which her book Myriad Ways of Being ~ Being of Myriad Ways was published by Jap Sam Books. Her practice is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund through the Kunstenaar Basis program (2025–2029).
simonealbers.com
Photo: Marc Elisabeth
Sara Bachour
Sara Bachour (Italy/Syria, 1988) approaches her practice like an internet anthropologist or, more honestly, like a stalker. She gathers the traces people leave behind online: a meme, a screenshot, a half-forgotten comment, a video confession, a gesture.. These fragments are residues of how people try to make sense of the world as changes move faster than our bodies can adapt.
In her practice, Bachour brings these fragments to a human scale, insisting that digital traces, like ideas, are never immaterial; they can shift opinions and influence how we live. She uses the slowness of handwork as a way to return to human time. Her work ranges from installations and video to sculpture, painting, and whatever form the work asks for.
She lives and works in Maastricht, where she graduated in Fine Arts at the Maastricht Academy, and where she now teaches. When she’s not lost in online rabbit holes, she tries to touch grass.
sarabachour.com
Maarten Bel
Maarten Bel (Netherlands, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist with a socially and educationally oriented practice. From Het Belhuis—his workspace in the heart of Rotterdam-West—he develops projects at the intersection of art and education. Het Belhuis serves as a base for both his own work and collaborations with the local community. Bel operates across a variety of cultural contexts, from the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the VPRO (De Cadeaufabriek) to the neighborhood community center around the corner.
His work is characterized by playfulness, wonder, and a strong engagement with the world around him. Recurring fascinations—such as rats, branches, and creating little gifts—serve as unexpected entry points to larger questions about humanity and imagination. In addition to his own practice, Bel is a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy.
maartenbel.nl
Club Lam: Ayla Çekin Satijn, Marloes IJpelaar, Ella Kamerbeek
Club Lam is a feminist collective that brings together theater, film, text, image, and other disciplines in bold, sharp, and playful performances. Ayla Çekin Satijn, Marloes IJpelaar, and Ella Kamerbeek create work that places female perspectives at the center and retells stories that have long been dominated by men.
With humor, musicality, and audacity, Club Lam questions existing structures and creates space for imagination, confrontation, and liberation. Their style is eclectic and unpredictable, their content urgent and socially charged. In a landscape where old voices often remain the loudest, Club Lam makes itself heard: poetic, punk, and uncompromising.
clublam.nl
Karin Peulen
Karin Peulen (the Netherlands) studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and Painting at the Universidad de Bellas Artes in Barcelona. Her practice centers on the interplay between color and structure, shaped by themes such as memory, legacy, and social connectedness. Working with classical media including screen printing, photography, and textiles, she explores the tension between art and social dynamics. Architecture and urban planning often provide a guiding thread, serving as connective elements throughout her work.
Peulen continually questions the relationship between people and their surroundings, and the ways in which these are perceived and experienced. She lives in Maastricht and teaches at the academies in Maastricht and Hasselt. Her work is represented by Galerie Belleparais in Munich.
Puck Verkade
Puck Verkade (the Netherlands, 1987) received her BFA from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and completed an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London. Her work has been shown at various international venues, such as the 16e Biennale de Lyon: Manifesto Of Fragility, Artissima Art Fair in Turin, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in Poland, Kunstmuseum The Hague, LISTE Art Fair and Kunstmuseum Gegenwart in Basel. She was selected as a 2017-2018 resident artist at Sarabande The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation in London. In 2021 she received the prestigious Charlotte Koehler Prize from the Prins Bernhard Culture Fund in The Netherlands.
Verkade’s work is held in private and public collections internationally such as Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Servais Family Collection in Brussels, EKARD Collection in Wassenaar, amongst others. Since 2018 Verkade has been invited to teach, lecture and host workshops at various BA and MA studies across Europe.
puckverkade.com