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The Meeting

Maarten Heijnens
Date
Thu May 12 til Sun May 17 08:00-20:00
Duration
On going
Language
English spoken
Country
The Netherlands
Price
Free entrance / pay what you want
+ € 0,25 per transaction
Themes
Beyond the Human, Performing Public Spaces
Edition
SPRING 2026

The Meeting is a performative installation that explores how we experience closeness and distance. Amid the rush of passing travelers, you are invited to pause and truly meet the other and yourself. Through light, sound, and interaction, the boundaries between the world around you and your own inner world momentarily dissolve.

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The Meeting is a performative installation that explores the distance between you and others.

When, why, and how do we experience closeness or distance? And what do our projections onto others reveal about ourselves — and vice versa?

Amid the rush of Utrecht Central Station, you are invited to pause and meet the other — and yourself. Through a carefully designed interplay of space, light, presence and absence, interactivity, and sound, a meeting beyond the everyday emerges.

The work invites you to blur the boundaries between yourself and others, between seeing and being seen, and between public and private.

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Credits

Concept: Maarten Heijnens
Design: Han Ruiz Buhrs & Maarten Heijnens
Construction: Han Ruiz Buhrs & Neal Groot
Technical Production: Neal Groot
Sound & Light Design: Maarten Heijnens
Interactive Hardware Design: Ben Vrielink
Production: Maarten Heijnens
Coproduced by: Via Zuid
Documentation: Peteris Viksna
Thanks to: Lotte van den Berg, Celine Daemen (Studio Nergens), Joachim Robbrecht & Erik van de Wijdeven

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