Jumping Fences

The Jumping Fences team is delighted to announce the launch of a publication exploring the questions, processes and experiences that emerged from the event and exhibition project held at Het Paviljoen. The publication serves as an interpretive logbook, offering readers a window into the different dialogues that defined this six-month residency in the first half of 2024.

While the residency offered a physical and collaborative environment for creative exploration, the publication translates these experiences into a medium for retrospection. Through interconnected chapters, it probes the questions raised in this shared setting, documenting how each participant navigated the fluidity of their practice and, in turn, contributed to shaping Het Paviljoen.

To celebrate the launch, we invite you to join us for a talk event. This gathering will offer a space to revisit the dynamics of the residency, explore key moments, and discuss the interplay between individual agency and collective influence. Together, we will delve into topics such as the elasticity of artistic roles, the impact of Het Paviljoen’s space on boundary-pushing practices, and how cross-disciplinary collaboration can foster new, hybrid forms of expression. 

Jumping Fences, which ran from February till June 2024 at Het Paviljoen, was presented as an exploration of artistic identity in a historically rich space marked by transitory periods. Het Paviljoen has long hosted a diverse spectrum of artistic practices, and during the residency it became a lively site for artists and designers to examine the boundaries separating art from design. Structured as an open dialogue, this residency allowed participants to engage with one another’s work, question their practices in relation to each other, and reimagine their creative approaches beyond conventional limits. 

Credits

• Curators: Ismini Kyritsis, Manon Laverdure, Justine Mckenna, Karel Op ’t Eynde, Hugo Roger, Paula Swinnen,Camille Van Meenen and Lisa Verhaeghe
• Artists: Haron Barashed & Lore Janssens, Sjoerd Beijers, Céleste Buyle & Quinten Vermeulen, Yawen Fu, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans, Paola Siri Renard and Jan Vandeplancke
• The project andpublication was kindlysupportedbyCuratorial Studies: Curatorial Studies, KIOSK, KASK & Conservatorium, Stad Gent, Vleeshal, Stad Middelburg, Nederlands Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Alles Kan and Duvel.

Grains of Sand Like Mountains makes a bridge to another cultural island in Ghent. Seppe-Hazel Laeremans organises a collective reading at the exhibition in Kunsthal Gent and a collective gathering at the experimental art space Het Paviljoen. They invite you along on a walking tour from one space to another.

The afternoon will start by gathering in the exhibition Grains of Sand Like Mountains where a collective reading will happen, hosted by Laeremans. This performance will seep into a walking tour, and the event will end at Het Paviljoen with a moment for afterthoughts on the grass of the Bijloke site. Seppe-Hazel Laeremans is one of the residents of the project, Jumping Fences in Het Paviljoen.

The picnic will provide vegan-friendly snacks and drinks. The walking tour from Kunsthal Gent to Het Paviljoen will last around 30 minutes.

Seppe-Hazel Laeremans

Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (b. 2000) is a Belgian graphic designer, artist, writer, and editor currently based between Porto and Ghent. Their work has been featured in De Verffabriek (Ghent), Projectvierennegentig (Ostend), EKA GD Stand-in School (Berlin) and Bikini Books (Porto). Seppe-Hazel is currently one of the residents of Jumping Fences in Het Paviljoen, Ghent.

As part of their residency for Jumping Fences at Het Paviljoen, Sjoerd Beijers and Seppe-Hazel Laeremans organize ’To frame, to fail, to surface’, a workshop, on Friday, June 14th, starting at 13:00. 

As part of their residency for Jumping Fences at Het Paviljoen, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans invites painter Abel Hartooni and performance artist Fae Felis for ‘To confuse, to disorient,’ a collective reading with focaccia poems, on Friday, June 7th, starting at 16:00.

Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (they/them) is a graphic designer, artist, writer and editor currently based in-between Porto and Ghent. 

As part of their residency for Jumping Fences at Het Paviljoen, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans invites designer and artist Marthe Huyse for ‘To twirl,’ a series of attempts, on Tuesday, June 4th, starting at 14:00.

Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (they/them) is a graphic designer, artist, writer and editor currently based in-between Porto and Ghent.

As part of their residency for Jumping Fences at Het Paviljoen, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans invites writer Barbi García and Cinema Spreekhond for ‘To fragment, to shatter,’ a collective reading and film screening on Thursday, May 30th, starting at 20:00.

Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (they/them) is a graphic designer, artist, writer and editor currently based in-between Porto and Ghent.

Vleeshal invites the evolving exhibition project Jumping Fences organised at Het Paviljoen to Middelburg.

Opening

Vleeshal cordially invites you to the opening of the group exhibition Jumping Fences by Céleste Buyle, Quinten Vermeulen, Jan Vandeplancke, Lore Janssens, Haron Barashed, Yawen Fu, Sjoerd Beijers, and Seppe-Hazel Laeremans on Friday May 3, 2024 from 19:00 tot 21:00.

After the opening, you can stay for our afterparty, which starts at 21:00 at Vleeshal.

Vleeshal Bus

The Vleeshal bus drives from Ghent via Rotterdam to Middelburg (and back):

18:00 Departure Ghent (exact location will follow)
19:00 Arrival Vleeshal, Middelburg

22:00 Departure Vleeshal, Middelburg
23:00 Arrival Ghent

Tickets for the Vleeshal bus
One-way ticket: € 10
Return ticket: € 15

Please email office@vleeshal.nl to reserve your ticket(s).

On Thursday, March 14th Jan Vandeplancke, Quinten Vermeulen and Céleste Buyle invite you to their first event for Jumping Fences. Every week they will add to their intervention, allowing the space to grow gradually. During their first event, the artists welcome you to view their sculptural, photographic and performative collaboration.

Their weekly interventions will take place on the following dates:

• Thursday 14.03.24
• Friday 22.03.24
• Thursday 28.03.24
• Thursday 04.04.24
• Thursday 11.04.24

On Thursday 22 February, you are invited to the opening of Jumping Fences, an exhibition and event project at Het Paviljoen. During this evolving exhibition, artists will gradually transform the space and experiment with the limits of their practices.