Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Exhibition
Åsa Lie & Jadran Sturm: Humanitas
Jubilee’s friends of the Jadran Sturm & Åsa Lie Private Stichting present their exhibition Humanitas as well as their new website. At AMVB, Brussels
02/04 – 29/05/2026
Summer School
Summer School Archives x Data. Paper meets digital documentation
Louise De Béthune contributes to this Summer School, bringing together experts from physical and digital archives, galleries, museums, and libraries to discuss vital questions around digital archiving, ontologies, the cost of archiving, and more. At the National Archives of Belgium, Brussels
04 – 07/05/2026
Screening
City of Progress
Justin Bennett’s City of Progress is screened at Resonances. This programme brings together films on urban interventions from the argos collection. By reframing their own perception through performance, critical engagement and joyous rebellion, the artists offer contrasting perspectives on public space. At Beursschouwburg, Brussels
06/05/2026, 15-16h
Doctoral Presentation and Defense
Polyphony and Dissonance: Exploring Collective Art Practice as a Space for Democracy and Dissensus
A public programme bringing together students and invited guests to explore the relationship between collective practices, political engagement, and aesthetics, followed by Doctoral Presentation and Defense by Stijn Van Dorpe. At LUCA School of Arts, Ghent
11/05/2026, 12-19:30h
Open Mike
Brussels Artist-Run Open Mike 2
A stage where the artist-run scene can informally share projects, news, ideas, questions, etc. Part of Offestival 2026. At Komplot, Brussels
27/05/2026, 19-22h
Reading Room
Reading Room #50: Agency & Lawscape
Jubilee’s 2025-26 cycle of Reading Rooms focuses on the book collection of artist Kobe Matthys (1970–2023). For this twelfth session Agency and Jubilee invite Julie Van Elslande and Louise de Bethune. From their ongoing research at Agency’s Praticothèque ‘Drawing a framework for Eavatea’ they propose a reading starting from Law, Art and the Commons by Merima Brumevic (2017). At Agency’s Praticotheque, Brussels
29/05/2026, 18-20:30h
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
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.