UFO Public Programme #5: The Studio as Experimental Playground
30.05.2025

The fifth edition of UFO’s public programme is co-hosted by MORPHO and focuses on the theme of process-driven practices.

Playing to the gallery, optimizing performance, perpetual productivity: it sounds like chapters from a neoliberal playbook on the meaning of work today. Artistic work is not immune to these forces. Factory mindsets need to be countered by laboratory mindsets to make exciting artistic creation possible.

This public programme gives the floor to 6 international guests who invest in institutional or self-organized spaces for supporting the development of artists, in particular emergent bodies of work. During this evening, they share their strategies for holding space for process and ideas on why this is necessary. After their short individual presentations, you will be able to engage with them in smaller groups.

Speakers
• Ane Agirre Loinaz – Tabakalera (Donostia/San Sebastián, EUS)
• Roser Colomar Palazón – Cultura Resident (Valencia, Castellón, Alicante, ES)
• Ola Knychalska – Kem & Zakole (Warsaw, PL)
• Musoke Nalwoga – MOTORMOND (Amsterdam, NL)
• Anna Smolak – Gray Fruit (Brussels, BE)
• Inez Piso-Tuncay – Hotel Maria Kapel (Hoorn, NL)

The talks will be held in English and introduced by Dries Segers (UFO) and Caroline Dumalin (MORPHO).

Programme
19:00 Arrival
19:15 Start presentations
20:00 Table conversations
21:00 Drinks in the bar/garden
22:00 End

Location
Kunsthal Extra City, Provinciestraat 112, 2018 Antwerpen

Sign up
Participation is free of charge. Registration (here) is not mandatory but appreciated for more insight into the number of participants.

UFO
UFO is the platform of studio organisations MORPHO, Cas-co (Leuven), De Tank (Bruges), Level Five (Brussels), NUCLEO (Ghent) and VONK (Hasselt-Genk). UFO actively thinks about sustainable solutions and creative models to offer affordable workspace for artists in the urban context. UFO supports the artistic and professional development of artists and connects, enlarges and gives visibility to the network of its members. We engage a wide audience and sensitise different sectors and policies on the importance of this mission. This programme is part of the project ‘For and by Artists’ supported by the Flemish government and takes place in the framework of the Antwerp Art Weekend.