On Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2026, MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven will open its doors for a new edition of Rooms.
Enter—skipping resiliently—into a specially built butterfly opera house: an electro-acoustic terrain of fluorescent light, a performative installation of puffer jackets, and a house party among beer cans and a sagging couch.
More and more artists are exploring the borderlands between disciplines. This leads to experiences that can no longer be captured within a single art form. Rooms Performance Festival has emerged in this twilight zone: a festival dedicated to the hybrid practices of performance artists. Rooms offers makers the possibility to explore this in-between space as a fertile ground where new forms can arise, while inviting visitors to open themselves to unexpected perspectives.
The festival is an initiative of Marres, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Via Zuid, Dansateliers, Spring Festival, and MU Hybrid Art House, who annually bring together young makers and established talents in a context where experiment and curiosity take center stage.
As a partner, de Brakke Grond presents Nikima Jagudajev with the work What.
Nikima Jagudajev - What
The house party referred to in What takes place in a house that doesn’t count, a house that isn’t a home. It exists only for the desperate gathering of lost souls who temporarily come together there, among beer cans and a worn-out couch. Navigating such a house party can feel like playing an open-world, multiplayer role-playing game. People sit, drink, talk, and drift between passion and ugliness. Audience and performers together form the players. The question is who they become in relation to one another in the various rooms of the house. Inspired by her fascination with world-building and game structures as forms of integrated art, What is an initial compact prototype of a larger work that will eventually be played as an open-ended game.
The program is the same on both days, and a day pass provides full access to all five performances spread throughout the day.
Tickets & all info can be found here.
