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Meet the guests: Aïda Sidhoum, curatorial assistent @kunstinstituutmelly @aidadhoum Schrijf je in voor het Publiek Programma - link in bio UFO Publiek Programma #8 Donderdag 14 mei 2026 @cascoleuven (The Public Program will be held in English) 14:00 - Daydreaming together for the next decade 16:00 - Visit Exhibitions at Cas-co Meet the artists of p.o.l.e.collective + Sofia Boubolis & Stans Vrijsen GASTEN - Stephanié Robin, @lefresnoy - Keren Detton, @fracgrandlarge - Ariane Skoda, @cwb_paris - Aïda Sidhoum, @kunstinstituutmelly - Klaartje Esch, @kunstpodiumt - Simon Delobel, @kioskgent This panel brings together curators, cultural workers, and organisers to reflect on evolving infrastructures of support. Moving beyond inherited models, it asks how residency formats, development programs and institutional responsibilities might be rethought in ways that are equitable, sustainable, and responsive to artists’ needs. Rather than offering fixed answers, the conversation opens a space for collective speculation: what should we preserve, abandon, or invent? It examines the tension between artistic ambition and institutional precarity, asking how support structures can evolve without reproducing exhaustion, extraction, or inequality. UFO International Visitors' Programme #8 ism @cascoleuven @levelfivebrussels UFO wordt gefinancierd door een projectsubsidie van de Vlaamse overheid

Meet the guests: Klaartje Esch @kunstpodiumt Schrijf je in voor het Publiek Programma - link in bio UFO Publiek Programma #8 Donderdag 14 mei 2026 @cascoleuven (The Public Program will be held in English) 14:00 - Daydreaming together for the next decade 16:00 - Visit Exhibitions at Cas-co Meet the artists of p.o.l.e.collective + Sofia Boubolis & Stans Vrijsen GASTEN - Stephanié Robin, @lefresnoy - Keren Detton, @fracgrandlarge - Ariane Skoda, @cwb_paris - Aïda Sidhoum, @kunstinstituutmelly - Klaartje Esch, @kunstpodiumt - Simon Delobel, @kioskgent This panel brings together curators, cultural workers, and organisers to reflect on evolving infrastructures of support. Moving beyond inherited models, it asks how residency formats, development programs and institutional responsibilities might be rethought in ways that are equitable, sustainable, and responsive to artists’ needs. Rather than offering fixed answers, the conversation opens a space for collective speculation: what should we preserve, abandon, or invent? It examines the tension between artistic ambition and institutional precarity, asking how support structures can evolve without reproducing exhaustion, extraction, or inequality. UFO International Visitors' Programme #8 ism @cascoleuven @levelfivebrussels UFO wordt gefinancierd door een projectsubsidie van de Vlaamse overheid

Meet the guests: Keren Detton @fracgrandlarge @kerendetton Schrijf je in voor het Publiek Programma - link in bio UFO Publiek Programma #8 Donderdag 14 mei 2026 @cascoleuven 14:00 - Daydreaming together for the next decade 16:00 - Visit Exhibitions at Cas-co Meet the artists of p.o.l.e.collective + Sofia Boubolis & Stans Vrijsen GASTEN - Stephanié Robin, @lefresnoy - Keren Detton, @fracgrandlarge - Ariane Skoda, @cwb_paris - Aïda Sidhoum, @kunstinstituutmelly - Klaartje Esch, @kunstpodiumt - Simon Delobel, @kioskgent This panel brings together curators, cultural workers, and organisers to reflect on evolving infrastructures of support. Moving beyond inherited models, it asks how residency formats, development programs and institutional responsibilities might be rethought in ways that are equitable, sustainable, and responsive to artists’ needs. Rather than offering fixed answers, the conversation opens a space for collective speculation: what should we preserve, abandon, or invent? It examines the tension between artistic ambition and institutional precarity, asking how support structures can evolve without reproducing exhaustion, extraction, or inequality. UFO International Visitors' Programme #8 ism @cascoleuven @levelfivebrussels UFO wordt gefinancierd door een projectsubsidie van de Vlaamse overheid

02.05.2026 | 11AM - 6PM SCREENING PROGRAM Level Five - Gabrielle Petit (continuous, starts every half hour) with films by: Olivia Joret, @rune_peitersen @emmavanderput @nicoletta.grillo La Chasse (Field notes on a missing film),  Olivia Joret (2026) The work displaces references across forests and interior spaces, treating sites as constructed and unstable. Taking its cue from the title, the film unsettles the logic of the hunt as a structure of pursuit and capture, while speculating on a form of objectivity that cannot be secured. Mining Town, Rune Peitersen (2021) The mines in and around Bor in the southeast of Serbia, have been an integral part of the city for more than a century. The film Mining Town is a registration of the landscape, the city and the mining activities. Videos and photos show the impact of the mines on the land- and cityscape. Project Panorama, Emma van der Put (2026) We circulate throughout the Botanical Gardens of Brussels, which were inaugurated in the nineteenth century. Here, Emma van der Put made video recordings of the sculptures that are still standing in the botanical garden today. The park becomes a time capsule, where past, present and future seem to be in suspended animation. Oltremare, Nicoletta Grillo (2025) Shot across the Tyrrhenian coast of Southern Italy between land and sea—in a marine sand quarry, an abandoned village, an industrial port, and a grotto church by the sea—the video explores, beyond human migration, what it means for a place to be left behind. Part of Open Studio Days — Atelier in Beeld @kunstwerkt Open 2nd May, 11am-6pm Address: Rue Gabrielle Petit 6, 1080, Molenbeek #levelfivebxl

Escargot is a first tentative intervention to use the new vitrine space of Level Five’s Van Volxem studios as an exhibition space. In this initial intervention by Julia Liedel, Adler Murada and Melissa Ryke, Escargot is put forward both as the name for the show, as well as a name for the space that recalls the spiral shell of a snail. This intervention pivots around our artistic practices, ideas that respond to the space and the theme ‘grit’. Grit, meaning: abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc. Or a firmness of character; tenacity; indomitable spirit; pluck.  Offered as a starting point for this collaboration, grit is ecologically, materially and politically relevant to the local contexts and ecologies of Level Five Van Volxem. Grit can be found within the renitent Wiels marais between busy train lines, the mettle of practicing artists and enduring artist studio spaces. Part of Open Studio Days — Atelier in Beeld @kunstwerkt Open 2nd May, 10am-6pm Live Radio streaming from Dunkirk 3pm-5pm Performance by Julia Liedel 5pm-6pm Address: Av. Van Volxemlaan 380, 1190 Forest/Vorst

Atelier in Beeld, organized by @kunstwerkt is an open atelier weekend for visual artists across Flanders & Brussels. On May 2–3, 2026, more than 1,700 studios open their doors. Step into the spaces where art takes shape: from collective studios to experimental workshops and hidden rooms, each atelier reveals a unique story. Free entry, no reservation 🌟 Here is our small selection of ateliers to discover in Brussels ↓ 𒇹 @werkplaats_walter : 25 artists and makers sharing a workspace where practices unfold between installation, painting, textile, charcoal, movement, woodcut and sound art. → for process-driven minds 𒇹 @levelfive.brussels : a Brussels-based artists’ cooperative offering affordable studio spaces through collective organization and mutual support, hosting 100+ artists across two locations (Forest & Molenbeek). → for collective thinkers 𒇹 @paraplufabrique : a multidisciplinary artists’ space fostering creation, exchange and connection, supporting practices to grow and become visible to a wider audience. → for curious makers 𒇹 @decoratelier_brussels : an open construction workshop in Molenbeek where scenography, temporary architecture and urban experimentation meet in spaces designed for collaboration and exchange. → for collaborative builders 📸 Cover: Willem Mevis / 2. Lieven Van Assche / 3. Dries Segers / 5. Bryan Nicola Maxwell

On May 2, 2026, Level Five opens its studios to the public. Everyone is warmly invited to meet the artists and join us for drinks between 11:00 and 18:00. Throughout the day, a wider network of Brussels’ initiatives will also open their doors, including MONA/Toestand, Constant – Figs, Pears & Euphorbias, Koook, Paraplufabrique, Max, Decoratelier, Globe Aroma, Moussem, Kiosk Radio, and Werkplaats Walter. Level Five Locations: Gabrielle Petit – Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 6, 1080 Molenbeek Van Volxem – Avenue Van Volxemlaan 380, 1190 Forest/Vorst Consult the map to chart your own trajectory through the programme: https://planatelier.vgc.be/ Programme organized in the framework of Atelier in Beeld, open studio days @nbrussel_

Lumbung Welkom! From 11 to 12 February, Level Five welcomed damdam in Brussels. damdam is an interwoven web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the Lumbung Practice Temporary Master Programme at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul’s Collective Study Programme in Indonesia. During two days we got together for a Majelis (an assembly), studio visits, Footage therapy with Emili Allahbeigi, a collective walk around the city and finally a dinner 'My mother is Turkish' but not really' hosted by Asli Hatipoglu. Thanks to everyone who joined and contributed! @jumbojado Elien Ronse Golnesa Rezanezhad @_aslihatipoglu Emili Allahbeigi @colinroustan Level Five thanks @brakkegrond for their support.

Carte Blanche — Nicoletta Grillo In ‘Carte Blanche’ krijgt een kunstenaar vrij spel in Kunstletters, het driemaandelijks tijdschrift van Kunstwerkt. BLANCO duikt geregeld op met projecten waarin het kunstenaars vraagt te reageren op een 'lege zone'. Deze keer vormt papier het speelveld. De kunstenaars worden geselecteerd i.s.m. de partners binnen de Vlaamse koepel van atelierorganisaties UFO: NUCLEO, MORPHO, Cas-co, Kunstplaats Vonk, De Tank en Level Five. In dit nummer okt > december 2025 Nicoletta Grillo via Level Five @nicoletta.grillo Nicoletta: ‘In mijn praktijk neemt het concept resonantie een belangrijke plaats in. De kern van mijn werk bestaat uit gesprekken die zich ontvouwen tussen beelden en woorden, in de vorm van stemmen of teksten, plaatsen of mensen. De twee beelden die ik hier toon maken deel uit van het project Noi (2022). Na de dood van mijn moeder vond ik thuis een verzameling van haar notities en foto’s, voornamelijk uit 1978. Dat jaar waren er in Italië demonstraties van feministen die een wet voor abortus eisten. Op de foto’s zijn die protesten te zien, maar ook alledaagse scènes, zoals beelden van vrienden en vakanties. Door de materialen te knippen, opnieuw samen te stellen en te herinterpreteren biedt dit project een blik op het dagelijks leven van een jonge vrouw in de jaren 1970 en haar verwevenheid met het politieke klimaat van die tijd, ergens tussen een persoonlijke en collectieve geschiedenis in.’ @nucleovzw @morphoantwerp @kunstplaatsvonk @atelierwerkingdetank @hetentrepot @levelfive.brussels #kunstwerkt #featuredartist #3d #carteblanche #kunstletters @platform.ufo #platformufo #nicolettagrillo #herinneringen

Tonight at WIELS! Welcome from 6pm onwards! On 10 October, at 6 pm at WIELS in Brussels, KASK Curatorial Studies programme from Ghent, Level Five from Brussels and Rupert Alternative Education Programme from Vilnius invite you to take part in the workshop The Secretary, the Shaman, the Scholar, the Lobbyist, the Publicist, and the Virtuoso. This participatory event is situated within an ongoing conversation between members from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and institutional backgrounds. The workshop creates a collective space to navigate and engage with cultural and political crises. Through exploring practical tools for communication, collaboration, (un)learning, radical pedagogy and global cultural (re)action, together with you, we want to make ideas and thoughts felt. Using methods of association and collage, we intend to reflect collectively in an open-ended process. You are welcome to bring any materials you wish to share, but above all, we look forward to this moment of self-organisation. @wiels_brussels @curatorial_studies_kask @levelfive.brussels @rupert_residency

On 10 October, at 6 pm at WIELS (@wiels_brussels ) in Brussels, KASK Curatorial Studies (@curatorial_studies_kask ) programme from Ghent, Level Five (@levelfive.brussels ) from Brussels and Rupert Alternative Education Programme visiting from Vilnius will present an open educational session inviting artists, cultural practitioners and anybody interested to join in a form of a public workshop.  Rooted in processes of collective, self-organised learning, the gathering will explore forms of alternative education, collective methodologies, and the often-unseen aspects of artistic labour beyond individual production. Through a generative sequence of questions and responses, artists, researchers, and curators from varied disciplinary and institutional backgrounds collaboratively developed a set of propositions — or ‘codes of conduct’ — reflecting their shared values and visions for working in the arts today. This public session invites visitors to encounter and engage with these outcomes. Participants of the 13th edition of the AEP: Alexandra Bondarev (@alexicalbond ), Anton Karyuk (@antonkaryuk ), Charles de Agustin (@charlesdeagustin ), Charline Gdalia (@charlinegdalia ), Chris Tegho (@cristegh ), Janina Fritz (@janinafritz_ ), Luisa Berghammer, Marta Finkelstein (@marta.finkelstein ), Oscar Mathieu le Bussy, SUNRS.  The programme in Belgium is led by AEP curator Goda Palekaitė (@goda__palekaite ) with the help of our volunteer Gustė Kripaitė (@gustekripaite ). 📷 Andrej Vasilenko (@andrejvasilenko )

Upcoming event: The Secretary, the Shaman, the Scholar, the Lobbyist, the Publicist, and the Virtuoso A public session between @curatorial_studies_kask , @rupert_residency and @levelfive.brussels 10.10.2025, 18:00 WIELS, Brussels On 10 October, Curatorial Studies and Rupert Alternative Education Programme (AEP) will host a public educational session, inviting artists, cultural practitioners, and all those interested to participate in this open workshop. Rooted in processes of collective, self-organised learning, the gathering will explore alternative educational models, collaborative methodologies, and the often-unseen aspects of artistic labour beyond individual production. Through a generative sequence of questions and responses, artists, researchers, and curators from diverse disciplinary and institutional backgrounds have collaboratively developed a set of propositions — or ‘codes of conduct’ — that reflect shared values and visions for working in the arts today. This public session invites participants to encounter, reflect on, and engage with these ideas. The workshop is curated by @laurammherman and @goda__palekaite , and @levelfive.brussels and will be moderated by @lailamelchior , coordinator at Level Five Artist Cooperative — a Brussels initiative that actively engages with the themes explored in the event.