Street View is the sixth major group exhibition in the public space of Viewmaster Projects. This year, ‘public space’ is not only the location, but also the subject. The alienating current time – which has a major impact on the use and perception of public space – is the reason for Viewmaster Projects to make a powerful and topical follow-up to previous presentations in the city.

The pandemic has created a different, more penetrating experience of what our public space can mean. This has led to a greater awareness of the risks, the vulnerability, but also the shared value of a common zone. The selected video works, presented as street projections, have acquired extra layers of meaning due to current events and can activate or problematize today’s intensified view of the public domain.

Street View is not a ‘corona’ exhibition with desolate squares and empty roads. On the contrary, virtually all of the video works in the exhibition were created before the pandemic broke out. Street View dives deeper into the meanings of public space. Viewmaster Projects presents 21 diverse contemplative, activist, social or poetic approaches to public space with work by: Jérôme Bucquet, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Dries Depoorter, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Douwe Dijkstra, Jeroen Jongeleen, Karel van Laere, Siavash Naghshbandi , Paulien Oltheten, Su Tomesen, Kuang Yu Tsui and students from Maastricht Academy of Arts.

The street projections are each a window to another city, another country, another time: Johannesburg (South Africa), Yogyakarta and Jakarta (Indonesia), Tirana and Durres (Albania), Medellín (Colombia), Taipei (Taiwan), Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Netherlands), London (England), São Paulo (Brazil), Seattle (United States), Tehran and Isfahan (Iran), Cologne (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Samara (Russia), Madrid (Spain), and Paris (France). They offer a perspective on a different use and a different meaning of public space. All 21 works are spread over the Entre Deux shopping center and a few streets in the old city center of Maastricht. Works by a number of artists are shown in the Entre Deux as well as in the city. All works enter into a relationship with each other, with the environment and hopefully also with you as a viewer.

Street projections can be seen on the Markt, Spilstraat, Sporenstraat, Amorsplein, Havenstraat and Kesselskade. Entre Deux can be accessed through the small entrance next to the Dominicanen Church/Bookshop (Dominicanenplein, Maastricht).