Artists in residence

Agnieszka Kurant was born in 1978 in Lodz, Poland. She lives and works in New York. Agnieszka Kurant is a conceptual artist who explores collective intelligence, the future of work and creativity, and exploitation in surveillance capitalism. She is currently an Artist Fellow at the Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of the Human program and was an artist in residency at MIT CAST from 2017 to 2019. 

Agnieszka Kurant is working on the production of the short film entitled Singular Plural around cultural changes in our societies, various forms of subjectivity and the future of work and creativity. The film will question the role of crowds as goods in the economy of late capitalism, the self as a polyphony of agency, as well as human and non-human intelligences, from microbes to viruses to animals, social movements and artificial intelligence.

Her research focuses on the transformations of the human being and the self-organization of communities to reconstruct the commons. Through this project, Agnieszka Kurant is also interested in the future of cinema and cultural production in general, based on complex and collective forms.

Jule Kurbjeweit is a curator, cultural project manager and writer living in Lisbon. Her work centres on the connection between art and collective care, where the collective is understood as more-than-human. She explores questions of otherness and the notion of mutuality through various forms, in an interplay of poetics and politics.

Recent curatorial projects include the group exhibitions Plant-Thinking and Super Natural Voices, both at the artist-run space mono Lisboa, and the programme Palestinian Futures.

Jule is the project manager at Villa Villa, a platform for sustainability in the arts, supporting contemporary artists, curators, writers, thinkers, and other cultural and environmental practitioners and organisations committed to more ecologically sensitive practices. She is dedicated to implementing methods of environmentally sustainable exhibition-making in her own projects.

In 2020, Jule founded LAR (Lisbon Art Retreat), a programme of events and retreats that connect creativity with self-care and collective care. In this context, she develops Musings, a series of interviews with artists on artistic and wellbeing practices.

Jule has been responsible for communications and social media manager at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon. She holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from the University College Maastricht and an MA in Culture Studies (Management of the Arts and Culture) from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon.

Jule Kurbjeweit (Portugal) is laureat of the “Fondation Gulbenkian x Cité internationale des arts” programme.