Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Cutting back on culture
The Flemish government is once again cutting subsidies. In total, the savings amount to half a billion euros by 2029. For Welfare the cuts come to roughly €90 million. Minister of Cultur Caroline Gennez (Vooruit) announced she will cut €47 million from culture in the new budget.
Jubilee expresses its shock and deep concern. We stand in solidarity with the organisations affected. We emphasise that the arts field, like society at large, consists of mutually dependent actors. Cutting the budgets of museums and other institutions has implications for everyone, from artists to small institutions to the larger public.
Find an overview of the plans as published by 2 October compiled by Jubilee, as well as a press release issued by De Federatie, Overleg Kunstenorganisaties (oko) and Overleg Cultureel Erfgoedorganisaties (OCE)
Join us with the Culture Bloc during the protest on 9 October about federal policy, such as the art worker’s allocations.
Reading Room
Reading Room #53: Notes for an Art School
The ‘art school’ in the title of this Reading Room shall be a prefigurative rather than a literal one: for this fifteenth session Jubilee coordinator Jesse van Winden proposes to read parts of two books, as an occasion to reflect on Jubilee as a learning environment. Notes for an Art School (2006) was part of the research for Manifesta 6. Commons Museums, Pedagogies for Taking Ownership of What is Lost (2024) is Nuraini Juliastuti’s essay about two initiatives in rural Indonesia to rethink infrastructures for collective practice, learning and survival. At Agency’s Practicotheque, Brussels
29/10/2026, 18-21:00h
Workshop
Filters and Categories
The BARN Core Team presents yet another feature of our website, Filters & Categories. With this workshop we want to deepen our understanding of which words each initiatives uses to describe them selves and where we can see overarching categories. At Agency’s Practicotheque, Brussels
04/11/2026, 14-17h
Lecture
Sounding Urban Places
Lecture by Justin Bennett on this 2 year research project involving artists, educators and local people in The Hague. Part of the Polyphonic Performance Spaces Research Festival
23/11/2026, 09-10h
Radio episode
S for Sound, S for Solidarity, Episode 10: Learning through the soles of our feet
An hour radio broadcast from the Jubilee Summer School organised in collaboration with F.eks and Skal at and around Asger Jorn’s farmhouse on Laeso, Denmark in 2022. Featuring among other things, talks on Jacques Élisée Reclus, N.F.S. Grundtvig, alternative pedagogy, clay and seaweed gathering, salt-making and sonic performances. Location: to be announced
28/11/2026, 15-16h
Publication
Goodbye Poverty Jetset
Sepp Eckenhaussen wrote a rich book on the art world conditions and alternative models artists are developing together. During his research period in Brussels he familiarized himself with Jubilee’s practice and interviewed with Vermeir & Heiremans
Opening
Kanal Centre Pompidou opens
The desire to welcome a full-fledged museum of modern and contemporary art to Brussels—and, by extension, to the European capital—has a long history, but now Kanal Centre Pompidou is set to open its doors on November 28, 2026. The program announces ten exhibitions, as well as performances, film, dance, music, and sound art.
The museum, located in the iconic, restored Citroën garage along the canal, has set itself the challenge of being a “horizontal” museum. It is bisected by two intersecting streets that open onto the city, allowing diverse audiences to explore and make the semi-public spaces within Kanal their own as they stroll through. Jubilee welcomes this challenge and ambition to engage with artists, organizations, neighbors, and residents of the canal zone.
Opening in Kanal Centre Pompidou in November 2026
Vincent Meessen please send information
Vermeir & Heiremans, 7 Walks (Salon Monplaisir)
10/03 – 18/04/2027
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.
Commoning
Seasonal Work: Learning in Common
Stijn Van Dorpe and Elien Ronse take part in ‘Seasonal Work: Learning in Common’, a commons-based summer school, working process and exhibition at Clublokaal in Breda, running from 2026 to 2027
Recent publications
Who Cleans the Academy? Stories of Relational Resistance
Wie maakt de academie schoon? Verhalen van relationeel verzet (‘Who Cleans the Academy? Stories of Relational Resistance’) is a publication for the art journal Collateral, edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne as part of their long-term trajectory with cleaners at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent campus
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, published by LeA. In Dutch
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.