Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Exhibition
Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201
This autumn, Katya Ev Anton presents their inaugural solo exhibition Lactating Bodies 20251031-0201 at CC Strombeek
31/10/2025 – 01/02/2026
Reading Room
Reading Room #44: Agency & Law & Magic
Jubilee’s 2025 cycle of Reading Rooms focuses on the book collection of artist Kobe Matthys (1970-2023). For this sixth reading session Jubilee invites Erika Sprey, researcher, curator, soon-to-be bookshop keeper and long-time friend of Kobe Matthys. Erika guides us through fragments from Art & Magic, a collection compiled by Christine A. Corcos that explores ways in which the rule of law and the practice of magic enrich and inform each other. At Agency’s Praticauthèque, Brussels
10/10/2025, 18-21h
Vinyl release & performance
Prick up your ears!
Prick up your ears! is a 12” vinyl LP by Justin Bennett’s performance collective BMB con. An accompanying short performance will take place at Fried Records, Den Haag
12/10/2025, 15:30h
Website demonstration
Demonstration: Brussels Artist-Run Website & Apéro
The BARN Core Team invites you for the fourth workshop on the Brussels Artist-Run Website, a tool for the Brussels Artist-Run Network. At Bardaf, Brussels
17/10/2025, 14-18h
14-15h: visit Bardaf
18h: apéro
Visits
Brussels Artist-Run Visit: Brasserie Atlas
We visit two exhibitions in the monumental brewing tower of our favourite Brasserie in Anderlecht on its 100th birthday
07/10/2025, 16-18h
Brussels Artist-Run Tour: Laeken/Laken
The BARN Core Team of the Brussels Artist-Run Network organises visits to 3 artist-run spaces in Brussels
22/10/2025, 17-20h
Memorandum
Artist Workspace Memorandum 2025-2030
A broad range of artist-run workspace have written a letter addressed to elected officials and administrations in Brussels, asking them to develop policy for workspaces for artists and arts workers, studio collectives, dance studios, film laboratories and so on. Such policies around our places of production hardly exist yet.
Recent publications
Der Rattenfänger
Vincent Meessen contributed an image from his Blues Klair research to the curatorial initiative and resulting artist’s book Der Rattenfänger by Pierre-Philippe Hofmann
Attention all Zookeepers
Attention all Zookeepers is a book on Justin Bennett’s performance collective BMB con. designed by Joe Marner, part of KABK’s graduation show, Den Haag
Art in Permacrisis #8: Vermeir & Heiremans between Speculative Fiction and Operational Realism
Vermeir & Heiremans in conversation with Sepp Eckenhaussen for the podcast Art in Permacrisis
Essay by Vincent Meessen for Ana Vaz’ Meteoro
Vincent Meessen wrote an essay for the catalogue published in the framework of Ana Vaz’s solo show Meteoro at Secession, Vienna
Venise 1972-2024
Vincent Meessen participates through a dialogue with art historian, curator and teacher Raphaël Pirenne to Venise 1972-2024, a retrospective edition of the artistic projects produced by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB) in the Belgian Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice. Personne et les autres – Vincent Meessen and guests was a research-based and collective pavilion curated by Katerina Gregos in 2015 in the framework of the 56th Venice Biennale.
A Modest Proposal (in a Black Box)
Publication of the text A Modest Proposal (in a Black Box) by Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans and a link to their video essay for the ‘Cinéma et spéculation financière’ issue of Images secondes – cinéma & sciences humaines
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations
Seasonal Neighbours examines the ongoing material and social transformations of cohabitation in contemporary rural areas. The collective, based in the EU, brings together artists, designers, chefs, writers and architects whose practices touch on aspects of seasonality, temporary cohabitation, agricultural practices, cultural memory, and practices of belonging.
Constant’s New Babylon
Podcast by Justin Bennett about the soundtracks produced by Constant for his New Babylon project in the 1960’s, available on UFMC (Umbrella for Music Curators)
Do Bureaucrats Dream of Excel Sheets?
Vermeir & Heiremans’ A Modest Proposal features in the essay ‘Do Bureaucrats Dream of Excel Sheets? On Imagination and Administration’, in the book The Sleep of Reason. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art by curator and art critic Pieter Vermeulen.
Listening to / in Public Space
Online publication by Justin Bennett in Research Catalogue, of research into audio walks and listening. Featuring detailed documentation of Justin Bennett’s audio walks made over the last 20 years
What is (Not) Had: Reflections on Emptor
In this essay, art historian Steyn Bergs reflects on Jubilee’s collective research project Emptor
Volatile Properties. A Modest Proposal revisited
Contribution by Vermeir & Heiremans in the Special issue of the online journal Finance & Society on Volatility in finance, art, and culture.
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.