Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Exhibitions
Art Rotterdam Intersections
The Balcony invites Adele Dipasquale, Atlas of Ovens and Arjun Das to ‘Intersections’ at Art Rotterdam, exploring the concept of extraction of warmth for the creation of mystery, communal bonds, and storytelling.
28 – 30/03/2025
Suskewiet Visions
Filip Van Dingenen & David Shongo’s project Suskewiet Visions is part of the group show F**klore Reinventing Tradition at Abby, Kortrijk
29/03 – 14/09/2025
Reading Room
Reading Room #40: Agence & Notre condition (in French)
Jubilee’s 2025 cycle of Reading Rooms focuses on the book collection of artist Kobe Matthys (1970-2023). For this the second reading session Vermeir & Heiremans invite David Aubin, professor Political Science (UCLouvain). He proposes Aurélien Catin’s Notre condition – essai sur le salaire au travail artistique. At Agency’s Praticauthèque, Brussels
14/04/2025, 18-20:30h
Website and mapping
Mapping the network: Brussels Artist-Run Website pre-launch
The BARN Core Team presents a prototype of the website, with a workshop to map the Brussels Artist-Run Network. At SB34 The Pool, Brussels
18/04/2025, 14-18h
Sound work
A Heap of Stones
Audio installation and performance by Justin Bennett during the Oscillation Festival, Brussels
03/05/2025, 15-18h
Catalogue contribution
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
08/03 – 18/05/2025
Recent publications
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 will be presented during a programme staring with Jubilee’s Summer School 2024, July 2024.