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Artistic council
The artistic council consists of external experts who act as a selection and reflection committee for the artistic team. They review the applications for the open call of the development residency and follow up on the artists they select by returning as mentors in the studio sessions. The advisors change every two years, in line with changing focus of our programme.
The full composition of the artistic council in 2026-2028 will be announced shortly. The council currently includes:
Zeynep Kubat
Zeynep Kubat is a curator and writer. Her work focuses on the intersections between art, culture and society. She currently works as curator at FOMU in Antwerp and was previously assistant curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels.
As an independent (co-)curator, Zeynep has made exhibitions for various institutions, such as Rhizome_ Kortrijk (2026), the University Gallery of die Angewandte in Vienna (2025) STUK, House for Dance, Image and Sound in Leuven (ARTEFACT 2024), Kunsthal Mechelen (2023-2024), Art Brussels – Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (2023), Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht (2022), Antwerp Art Weekend (2022) and Brussels Gallery Weekend (2021), among others.
Zeynep previously worked as Curator at Large for De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. In 2022 and 2023, she was the curator and mediator of five public art commissions in social housing projects with Platform Kunst in Opdracht – Atelier Vlaams Bouwmeester. From 2019 to 2023, she was a theory tutor at Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp. She was the chief editor of rekto:verso magazine (2021-2023) and TYPP Journal (2019-2023) and worked as editor for HART and FORUM+. She has published in art magazines, journals, catalogs and books. She is active as an artistic advisor on various committees.
Vijai Maia Patchineelam
Vijai Maia Patchineelam is an artist, researcher and educator. Vijai holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. His artistic practice focuses on the dialogue between the artist and the art institution.
Placing the role of the artist as a worker in the foreground, Vijai’s research-driven artistic practice experiments with and argues for a more permanent role for artists — one in which artists become a constitutive part of the inner workings of art institutions. As a final outcome of his doctoral thesis, Vijai has published the book The Artist Job Description: for the Employment of the Artist, as an Artist, Inside the Art Institution (2022).
As an educator Vijai has taught and conducted workshops at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, a.pass – advance performance and scenography studies (Brussels), Philippine Women’s University, (Manila), Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (New Delhi), Cona Foundation (Mumbai), Alternative Education Program at Rupert (Vilnius), and Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht). He is currently a guest tutor at the Advanced Master: master of Research in Art and Design at Sint Lucas Antwerp, and an 'etc.-artist', a self-designated role, in collaboration with KIOSK, Ghent.
morphoantwerp.be/vijai-patchineelam
Yemo Park
Yemo Park is an artist who develops her artistic practice through self-contained, often absurd fictional business concepts. Rather than aiming for market success, these projects function as conceptual frameworks that explore artistic autonomy, labor, the human condition, and the social forces shaping everyday life. Her sculptures and installations blur the boundary between functional objects and speculative tools, operating between the art market and the industries they mimic.
In 2026, Yemo presented her solo exhibition Wollamhsram at Lichtekooi in Antwerp and will participate in a group exhibition at KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels. In 2025, she presented the solo presentation Breadwinning at Masereel in Kasterlee and developed new work through residencies at Het Resort in Groningen (NL) and Jester in Genk. Previous residencies include MORPHO in Antwerp and Frans Masereel Centrum. Her work has also been shown at venues including De Souffleur, Reset Atelier, Publiek Park, Gevaertsdreef 01, Pilar and 1zwei3.
These are the five artists and curators of the artistic council in 2024-2026:
Dušica Dražić
Dušica Dražić is an artist and independent curator who lives and works in Antwerp. She researches the interrelationship of place and its users, rethinks them at the level of cultural continuity, symbolic irregularities and individual actions. She is interested in methods of knowledge production concerning social, political and aesthetic changes of (public) space.
Dušica has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and screenings, and has initiated and (co-)curated collaborative projects and exhibitions. Since 2018 she, together with Wim Janssen, has founded and lead OUT OF SIGHT in Antwerp, dedicated to experimental, audio-visual and time-based practices. In 2020 she also joined the wpZimmer team as a creative producer and artistic collaborator.
dusicadrazic.com / out-of-sight.be
Mekhitar Garabedian
Mekhitar Garabedian is an artist who was born in Aleppo and lives and works in Antwerp. Deploying a variety of media such as drawing, video, photography and installation, many of his works draw from his experience as an immigrant and play on the humour and poetic qualities he finds between languages, cultures and histories. Just as his personal diasporic history is layered, his work echoes with a multiplicity of references to literature, music, philosophy and visual arts.
In 2022, Mekhitar was commissioned by Middelheimmuseum/Kunst in de Stad to create a public sculpture in the Antwerp Stadspark. Previously he had solo exhibitions at BOZAR in Brussels, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, BE-Part in Waregem and KIOSK in Ghent. In 2015 he was invited to present several works at the Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which was awarded with the Golden Lion.
Bas Hendrikx
Bas Hendrikx is a curator based in Brussels. He focuses on participatory practices, digital art and queer art history. He is Curator of Participation and Audience Engagement at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels.
BAs has curated and organised numerous exhibitions and programmes for institutions such as BOZAR in Brussels, De Appel arts centre, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Inter/Access in Toronto, and the ULAY Foundation in Ljubljana. Hendrikx is the editor of ‘Authenticity?’ (Valiz, 2017) and 'Queer Exhibition Histories’ (Valiz, 2023).
Marlie Mul
Marlie Mul is an artist who lives in Brussels. Her artistic practice manifests somewhere in between sculpture, painting, print, fashion, distribution, writing, experiments in branding, the social, the flimsy, and the virtual. References to the flowing, the liquid, the oozing, recur in her work on a formal level and as metaphoric themes – from her folded paintings to facsimile sculptures of rain puddles and enquiries into the history of tobacco smoke.
Marlie has exhibited at, amongst others, Kunsthalle Wien, WIELS, Brussels, Etablissement d’en façe, Brussels, Tonus, Paris, Flat Time House, London, MACRO Museum, Rome, 49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine, Metz, Kunsthalle Bern, Fridericianum, Kassel, Swiss institute, New York, ICA, London, and Sculpture Center, New York. She also works in art education. Marlie is currently chair of the Course Committee of Visual Arts, and a coordinator of the Master in Fine Arts at KASK Ghent. She was previously directing the MFA programme Work.Master at HEAD–Genève.
Sorana Munsya
Sorana Munsya is an independent curator and psychologist based in Brussels. Focusing on contemporary visual arts created by African and black artists, she is interested in the notions of fugitivity (see her symposium "Notes on Fugitivity"), opacity and healing, and how they relate with blackness within the African diaspora.
Sorana has organised, among others, the solo exhibitions of Leonard Pongo at BOZAR (2021), Michèle Magema at Extra City (2021), Joud Toamah at Photoforum Pasquart (Biel, Switzerland in 2022), the group show 'The Act of Breathing' (2022) at Horst festival with Kanal-Centre Pompidou, and was assistant curator of the 5th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lubumbashi. She is a member of the editorial team of GLEAN, artistic advisor for a public art project in Brussels with the NGO SOS Villages d'enfants, and a member of the curator collective Celador.