Jury open call

Our open call for the 2025-26 residency programme has officially closed, and we are thrilled to share that we received an incredible 977 applications from artists across the world! We are currently reviewing all applications with great care and look forward to selecting the next cohort of Jester residents. We are excited to introduce this year’s jury, who will carefully review all applications: Zeynep Kubat, Sorana Munsya, and Yann Chateigné Tytelman. Results will be announced no later than March 31, 2025.

Thank you to everyone who applied—we are grateful for your enthusiasm and trust in Jester.

Zeynep Kubat

Zeynep Kubat is a curator and writer. Her work focuses on the intersections between art, culture and society, looking for intersectional practices in contemporary art. She currently works as assistant curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. As an independent (co-)curator, she has made exhibitions for various institutions, such as 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.

Sorana Munsya

Sorana Munsya is an independent curator and psychologist based in Brussels, specializing in contemporary visual arts by African and Black artists. Her work explores themes of fugitivity, opacity, and healing in relation to Blackness in Europe. Notable curatorial projects include exhibitions such as Primordial Earth (Léonard Pongo at Bozar in 2021),"The Act of Breathing" in collaboration with Kanal-Centre Pompidou (2022), “The Last Place They Thought Of” at Kunsthal Mechelen (2024) and the symposium The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity (2025). She is a member of the editorial team at GLEAN, contributed as assistant curator to the 5th Lubumbashi Biennale, and has written for catalogs, including the 12th Rencontres de Bamako. Sorana also often serves as an artistic advisor for decolonial public art projects.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a curator, educator and writer. His recent essays focus on sleep, silence and the politics of obscurity. He curated projects on ecology (How to be Organic?, County SALTS, Bennwil, 2022; Regenerative Futures, Thalie Foundation, Brussels 2024), alternative histories (Material It Never Ends, KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020-21) and destruction (A Gittering Ruin Sucked Upwards, HISK, Brussels (2022); Four Sisters, Jewish Museum, Brussels (2023). He lives and works in Brussels, where he co-founded celador, a space for "doing things with words".