Caveat is a collective research project initiated by Jubilee, reflecting and acting on the ecology of artistic practice. Emptor continues along the methodology and efforts of Caveat. It actively applies the practice-based approach to 'property', a concept that highly defines the economy of visual arts.

Produsers

Produsers (users producing value as they use) is a concept that stresses the merging of ‘producer’ and ‘user’. It was coined by Australian media scholar Axel Bruns and is now developed by Belgian peer-to-peer theorist Michael Bauwens to rethink the interplay between exchange value and use value for a community of users, between private property and the commons. As Caveat is an ongoing research, the produsers below are regularly updated.

Artists

Agency

is an international initiative that was founded in 1992 by Kobe Matthys and has office in Brussels. Agency constitutes a growing 'list of things' that resist the radical split between the classifica…

Eva Barto

graduated from the School of Fine Arts (Paris, 2013) and attended the post-graduate program at Ensba (Lyon, 2014). Recent solo shows include La BF15 (Lyon, 2015), Primo Piano (Paris, 2015), gb agenc…

Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin

, currently based in Nantes, France, have worked collaboratively for over a decade, developing a varied body of work that combines writing, performance, installation, photography and film. Throughout…

Sofia Caesar

makes videos, performances, sculptures, and installations. The body in motion is central to her work. She often engages herself and the public in seeing how the structures that act on us, such as ar…

Laurie Charles

(1987, works and lives in Brussels) graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, France. She makes videos in which she invites her friends to play: there she mixes folklores, humanities and h…

Eline De Clercq

created a lesbian garden, Gesamthof, in the monastery garden of Kunsthal Extra City and Morpho, Antwerp. As many plants are non-binary, beautiful in their own terms, and do not bear fruit to be expl…

Katya Ev

(1983, Moscow, based in Paris and Ghent) carefully constructs situations out of elements rooted in the geographies, temporalities, conventions, social and legal contexts of where she works. She crea…

Loraine Furter

is a graphic designer and researcher based in Brussels. Specialized in hybrid publishing, she designs paper, web and digital publications. Her graphic design education allowed her to experiment with…

Ciel Grommen & Maximiliaan Royakkers

Ciel Grommen (°1989, Sint-Truiden) and Maximiliaan Royakkers (°1988, Hasselt) are a duo of artists/architects, whose work on the threshold of artistic research, education and spatial design questions…

David Hilmer Rex

is an artist currently pursuing a practice-based PhD titled ‘Artistic Practice and Systems Change’, funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation and hosted by Aarhus University and The Royal Danish Academy…

Heide Hinrichs

is an artist, who works with found and existing material. She responds to situations and continues to draw lines. For the first Kathmandu Triennale (2017) she developed the project On Some of the Bi…

Joséphine Kaeppelin

(FR, 1985) is an artist working between France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Kaeppelin has decided to introduce herself as an Intellectual and Graphic Service Provider. As a consultant, she proposes…

Eleni Kamma

(Athens, 1973) lives and works in Brussels and Maastricht. Her practice moves along a Moebius strip schema, that keeps circulating from her as individual artist (through drawings and objects), to di…

Ben Kinmont

(born 1963 in Burlington, Vermont) is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller living in Sebastopol, California. His work is concerned with the value structures surrounding an art practice a…

franck leibovici

(born 1975, lives and works in paris) is a poet and artist. he’s currently working with julien seroussi on the making of the international criminal court (the hague, the netherlands) through a serie…

Vincent Meessen

was born in Baltimore, USA, in 1971, and lives and works in Brussels. His artistic work is woven from a constellation of actors, gestures, and signs that maintain a polemical and sensible relation t…

Grace Ndiritu

(Kenya/UK) studied Textile Art at Winchester School of Art, UK; De Ateliers, Amsterdam 1998-2000: guest tutors included Marlene Dumas (painter), Steve McQueen (film director), Tacita Dean (artist) a…

Vijai Patchineelam

's practice-based research in the field of art focuses on questioning the configuration of the contemporary art field, with a particular focus on dialogue between the artist and the art institution. …

Scott William Raby

is an artist, writer, teacher, and researcher who currently lives in Aalborg, Denmark and works on art projects in a multitude of international contexts. He is currently researching the relationship…

Eric Schrijver

is a Dutch interaction designer, artist and author, born in Amsterdam in 1984. With performances and publishing projects in new and digital media, he uses the internet as a performative space. Eric …

Stijn Van Dorpe

By formatting different methods of cooperation Stijn Van Dorpe infiltrates in realms of urban, social, pedagogical and political contexts - often in places where the word ‘art’ doesn’t necessarily ev…

Clémentine Vaultier

Vaultier’s interest, although trained as a ceramist, is in the surroundings of the fire rather than the production it engenders. Her long-term research on how we raise, use and diffuse warmth connect…

Vermeir & Heiremans

Katleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans live and work in Brussels. Through their work, Vermeir & Heiremans investigate the complex relationship between art, architecture and the economy in today’s hi…

Katleen Vermeir

is a member of the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans. Together with Ronny Heiremans, Vermeir's artistic practice focuses on the dynamics between art, economy and the built environment. She is a fou…

Co-producers

a.pass

(advanced performance and scenography studies) is a platform for professionals in the fields of art and theory who wish to engage in a self assigned research trajectory. It provides a place and infr…

ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media

Argos was founded in 1989 for the purpose of stimulating and promoting audiovisual art. Located in Brussels, at present it is the country’s main source of reference for this type of artistic practice…

Beursschouwburg

is a multidisciplinary arts centre, situated in the heart of Brussels. A place for theatrical productions, performances, films, concerts, exhibitions, debates, lectures, parties and a drink in the b…

BUDA

Besides its arthouse cinema (Budascoop) and its performance programme (including 2 annual festivals), BUDA uses its know-how and infrastructure to support various creations in the performing arts. It…

Bâtard Festival

is festival yearly taking place in Brussels with theatre, dance, performance, film, plus a discursive program and a publication. It is a platform for non-established artists, thinkers, and writers. …

Eté 78

is a philanthropic collector-run space called Ixelles, Brussels. It is carried out by Olivier Gevart, founder of Eté 78 and a private collector. The idea of Eté 78 is to develop a programme that usu…

Jester

is the organisation that was born from the merger between FLACC and CIAP in Genk, BE. A common direction preserves the special qualities of both organisations in Jester. In this way, the solo exhibi…

Kunsthal Gent

is an experimental intersection for the presentation and development of contemporary art, located in a monumental fourteenth-century Carmelite monastery in the centre of Ghent since 2018.

Encou…

M HKA

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in …

Netwerk Aalst

is an international centre for contemporary art and an independent cinema located in Aalst, Belgium. Netwerk Aalst commissions work by national and international artists within a programme of exhibi…

Penthouse Art Residency

In response to cultural budget cuts and the effects of the financial crisis on artistic production around the world, NH Brussels Bloom and Harlan Levey Projects gallery have cooperated on a new artis…

radical_house

is a long term project that stems from radical_hope’s practices: it presents a physical place, a framework and a logic. Initiated in 2020 by Heike Langsdorf, radical_house is currently co-curated to…

State of the Arts (SOTA)

State of the Arts (SOTA) is an open platform to reimagine the conditions that shape the art world today.

SOTA operates through the collaborative intelligence of independent artists and artworkers…

The Kitchen

is a safehouse and a refuge for filmmakers, artists, and other cultural workers in and passing through Brussels, a meeting point for collaborative praxes.

The Kitchen
c/o Globe Aroma
Moutstraat 26…

école de recherche graphique (erg)

école de recherche graphique (ERG) is a place of artistic, plastic and graphic practices that enter theoretical and formal risk zones. A place and pedagogies to define and redefine collectively. It i…

Other professionals

Sarah Mekdjian & Marie Moreau (Bureau des dépositions)

Bureau des dépositions is a milieu of creation and study initiated in 2018 by Sarah Mekdjian and Marie Moreau, where ten co-authors create performances, immaterial works, activated in public. Activel…

Sari Depreeuw

works at law firm Daldewolf, mainly in the field of intellectual property law (with a focus on copyright) and IT law (in litigation, legal advice and contracts). She graduated from the law faculties…

Gareth Bell-Jones

(b. 1982) is curator/director of Flat Time House, a gallery and archive in the former home of post-war conceptual artist John Latham. After graduating from the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the…

Antony Hudek

is director of the postgraduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent. Previously he was curator at M HKA, Antwerp, and director of Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp. Before m…

Victoria Ivanova

is a curator, writer and consultant living in London. Her core focus is on systemic and infrastructural conditions that shape socio-economic, political and institutional realities. To this extent, s…

Judith Ickowicz

is a law researcher. She is the author of the book Le droit après la dématérialisation de l’oeuvre d’art (Les presses du réel, 2013) which proposes an exhaustive cartography of the relationships bet…

Dieter Lesage

is a Belgian philosopher, writer and critic. He is a Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Arts at the Department of Audiovisual and Performing Arts Ritcs (Erasmus University College Brussels) and a…

Sven Lütticken

teaches art history at VU University Amsterdam, and art theory at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Recent books include Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy (Berlin: Sternberg Pr…

Daniel McClean

is a lawyer specialized in art and cultural property law working with d ifferent sectors of the art market. He advises clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious issues from disputes invo…

Vanessa Joan Müller

is an art historian, curator, and writer. From 2000 to 2006, she was curator at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main, from 2007 to 2011 director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und…

Olivia Hernaïz

is a Belgian-Spanish artist born in 1985. She first studied law in Belgium and Argentina. While practicing as a copyright lawyer, she completed a BFA at La Cambre, ENSAV in Brussels. In 2016, she ob…

Niels Van Tomme

is a curator and critic. He is director of ARGOS, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels. Until 2018, he was director of de Appel, centre for contemporaty art in Amsterdam.

Louis Volont

is a PhD researcher within the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO.eu). Working at the interstices between cultural and urban sociology, his work relates to the idea of commons in contemporary archit…

Team

Jesse van Winden

is researcher-curator at Jubilee, an artist-run platform for artistic research and production, where he functions as an intermediary for the six artist members. For Caveat, one of Jubilee's cooperat…

Julie Van Elslande

co-coördinated the second phase (innoviris) of the research as 'the legal voice' in a three-headed coördination team consisting of an artist, a curator and a legal advisor. She continues to cooperat…

Open Source Publishing

is a group of individuals from different background and practices: typography, graphic design, cartography, programming, mathematics, writing, performance. Through collaboration, research and pedago…

Ronny Heiremans

is a member of the artist duo Vermeir & Heiremans. Together with Katleen Vermeir, Heiremans' artistic practice focuses on the dynamics between art, economy and the built environment. As one of t…

Florence Cheval

is a Brussels-based curator and researcher. She has been involved in Caveat since 2017, she collaborated with Jubilee on the development of the project. She was a Caveat team member from 2018 until …

Lola Martins-Coignus

was a research assistant for Caveat from autumn 2018 until spring 2019.

Partners

Harlan Levey Projects

is a contemporary art gallery and consultancy based in Brussels, Belgium. http://hl-projects.com

Jubilee

is an artist-run platform for artistic research and production. Jubilee was first established as a dialogue among artists and cultural workers in 2012 in Brussels. Since then it has evolved into an …

No New Enemies

vzw is an internationally recognized non-profit organization active in public art and arts education.

https://www.facebook.com/NoNewEnemies

OSP

(Open Source Publishing) makes graphic design using only free and open source software—pieces of software that invite their users to take part in their elaboration. Founded in 2006 in the context of…

Dramaturgs

External experts who, in their role as 'dramaturg', follow the research from their own expertise.

Greg Nijs

is a sociologist working as a researcher at Urban Species (hosted by Université Libre de Bruxelles – Faculty of Architecture/Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy & LUCA School of Arts – Int…

Luke Mason

is a philosopher and academic lawyer. Much of his published work focuses on labour law and social policy, in particular the nature of working relationships and their constitution by law. Another bro…

Sara Martinetti

is a researcher in the history, anthropology, and theory of art. Her thesis (2020, EHESS), was entitled "‘I never write, I just do’: Written Practices and Theoretical Issues in the Work of Seth Sieg…

Steyn Bergs

is an art critic and a researcher. Currently, he is conducting his PhD research on the commodification of digital artworks at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Together with Rosa te Velde, he was co-edi…

Twee-eiige Drieling (TWIIID)

Twee-eiige Drieling is a legal consultancy office. Offering advice and guidance to artists, cultural workers, organizations and companies active in the broad creative sector, they also actively look …