Projects in 2025:
Co-organizer and Art curator – International Print Mail Art Project 2025 (IPMAP 2025) – Connect
More than 250 artists from 26 countries responded to the open call for the International Print Mail Art Project 2025, organised by the Grafein Foundation.
We have received prints from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Israël, Japan, Malaysia, Montenegro, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Sweden.
Printmakers all over the world carved, etched, printed, and pressed their thoughts on connection: to nature, to history, to memory, to music, to themselves, to each other. They approach the theme Connect through many angles – emotional, physical, social, environmental, and symbolic. Their interpretations vary widely, yet they share a desire to bridge distance: between people, places, memories, and even species.
The exhibition was held at de Kruisruimte, Generaal Bothastraat 7E, 5642 NJ Eindhoven, from July 17 July – July 20 and from July 24 – July 27.
The exhibition will be at de Kruisruimte, Generaal Bothastraat 7E, 5642 NJ Eindhoven, from July 17 July – July 20 and from July 24 – July 27, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 5 PM.
The exhibition will be at de Kruisruimte, Generaal Bothastraat 7E, 5642 NJ Eindhoven, from July 17 July – July 20 and from July 24 – July 27, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 5 PM
Co-organizer of Grafiek25
In the autumn of 2025, Foundation Grafein organized Grafiek25. The National Triennial in printmaking was a three-month celebration of printmaking throughout the Netherlands.
The theme Connecting offered many possibilities for inspiring exhibitions, workshops, open studios, and lectures during September, October, and November 2025.
Connecting was a positive and relevant concept in a time of uncertainty, hardened attitudes, and polarization.
Connections and Layers | Emptying the cup
Exhibition of prints, collages and installation in Ida M. Kleiterp Studio Gallery in Amsterdam (Maja A. Chris, Ida M. Kleriterp and Irene de Boer).
Projects in 2024:
Co-organizer of Druk en Proef 2 project and exhibition
Exhibition in the Amstelkerk, Amsterdam | February 9 to March 1, 2024
Projects in 2023:
Co-organizer of the Grafein International Print Mail Art Project 2023 IMAGINE
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Maja Anna Chris co-organized and/or curated the following art projects and exhibitions in 2022:
Co-organizer of the Triennial Grafiek2022
1 September – 30 November 2022
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people”
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961
The national graphic art and printmaking triennial Grafiek2022 took place in the autumn of 2022 in The Netherlands. Museums, galleries, printmaking studios, art centers, and artists organized various projects and activities related to graphic art – exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, and workshops. These three months were dedicated to printmaking as an art form and showed the wide scope of expressions and enormous variation in graphic art: from traditional printing techniques to contemporary crossovers, mixed media combined with other techniques, as well as the invention of new printing methods.
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Art Curator for the Dutch selection
Mirror – Face to Face 2022, Italian and Dutch Printmakers
- 1 – 30 September 2022, first exhibition in the Netherlands in the Amstelkerk (Amstelveld 10, Amsterdam)
- 15 October – 13 November 2022, second exhibition in the Netherlands in Kunstliefde (Nobelstraat 12A, Utrecht)
- 4 – 20 november 2022, exhibition in Villa Caldogno (Vicenza) Italië.
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Co-organizer of Druk en Proef project and exhibition
11 – 20 November 2022 Exhibition in Kunstruimte De Melkfabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
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Co-organizer of the Grafein International Print Mail Art Project 2022 MEETING UP
1 – 26 August 2022 Exhibition in the Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
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Art Curator and co-organizer of Meeting Up in Amsterdam Project and Exhibition
1 – 26 August 2022 Exhibition in the Amstelkerk, Amsterdam
