“What is the capacity of art – in and for public life, in times of community making and international law breaking?” This question has guided the work of American artist Jeremiah Day for over two decades, across various mediums and contexts. In Means and Ends, he takes the contemporary art gallery—an essential yet often under-described institution—as a point of departure.
Jeremiah Day's Means and Ends performance explores key questions: What are the responsibilities of artists and institutions? How do freedom and self-censorship coexist? And what forms of collaboration are needed to build and maintain public cultural spaces? The piece emerged from conversations with Eléa De Winter, guest editor of the upcoming De Witte Raaf issue on the art market (July 2025), and from Day’s wrestling's with the economic, cultural, personal and political tensions within this field.
Presented in the framework of De Witte Raaf’s forthcoming issue, Means and Ends invites reflection on the role of art, its market and its actors in public life today.
May 10, from 15:30 to 16:30, Meeting point : Staircase, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles.
The performance will take place outside, near the museum.
Free access.
