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 the 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.

zeynepkubat.com

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.

yemopark.com