Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers

 

Summer School

Jubilee Summer School 2026: Montavoix
Every summer, Jubilee members organise a summer school for each other and invited guests. In 2026, Maximiliaan Royakkers and Vincent Meessen prepared a week in and around Wim Cuyvers mountain hut Montavoix in the Haut-Jura, France

 

Exhibitions

Seasonal Neighbours at Kunstenfestival Watou
Together with the other members of the collective Seasonal Neighbours, Ciel Grommen and Maximiliaan Royakkers present three projects during kunstenfestival Watou 2026 titled gemene wegen (‘common ways’)
15/07 – 30/08/2026

 

Permanent artwork in public space

k:scope
On the anniversary of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the City of Leuven inaugurates k:scope, a new permanent public artwork by Filip Van Dingenen and Jean Katambayi Mukendi
30/06/2026, 18-21h

 

Artist’s archives

Vincent Meessen joins scientific commitee of CAPARC
Vincent Meessen has joined the scientific board of CAPARC, a new non-profit organisation devoted to preserve contemporary artists’s archives in the French-speaking community and the Brussels Region

 

Artist Residency

Vincent Meessen in residence at Agency
Vincent Meessen is one of the six artists invited to activate Agency’s Praticotheque in 2026. The Praticotheque is the space where the List of Things and Kobe Matthys’ library are installed. Meessen will mainly focus on Thing 000782 (Bruits de la nature n.2), in relation with a film work in development

 

Recent publications

L’Internationale situationniste. Vies, textes et pratiques
Vincent Meessen contributed an essay titled ‘De la vie quotidienne sous la colonisation à la colonisation de la vie quotidienne’ to this edited book about the Situationist International

Contested and Controversial Heritage
Louise de Bethune contributed a chapter to the book Betwist en beladen erfgoed (‘Contested and Controversial Heritage‘), pubished by LeA. In Dutch

Vermeir & Heiremans in Dannie.io
Dannie.io (2025) brings together the stories, threads and images of Kunst & Zwalm (about/with/in/through) water, an art route in the Zwalm region, curated in 2023 by manoeuvre and nadine

Into the Garden
An audio work about an existential finitude situation by Justin Bennett, published by Petit Bardo, 2026

PROTOCOLS & DIPLOMACY for undisciplined practitioners
Filip Van Dingenen’s monograph Protocols & Diplomacy for undisciplined practitioners published by Hopper & Fuchs, 2025

 

Collective research

Eavatea
In partnership with nadine, f.eks and several artists, Jubilee developed a mapping tool for artistic practices. Titled Eavatea, the tool for developing, visualising, archiving and relating practices, it is specifically designed for sharing practices that do not present themselves easily in conventional exhibition contexts: research-based, often in situ, nomadic, collective, ephemeral, interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary practices. It is currently a working prototype, and is presented during Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a one-year programme of presentations, performances, conversations, walks, and more at nadine, Kunsthal Gent, and M HKA/CKV, from summer 2024 to summer 2025.