Counter-institutional Infrastructures
Curatorial

Setting the Table
Co-curated with Natalija Gucheva 
& Abel Hartooni
Exhibition and public programme.
Pilar, Brussels. 2026.


Setting the Table used food and gathering as a curatorial methodology for rethinking institutional access. Taking the table — who sets it, who sits, who clears — as both subject and structure, the programme proposed the exhibition space as a site of hospitality rather than passive reception.
 
Charbel Alkhoury & Monica Basbous traced how a WhatsApp gaming group became a mutual aid network during Lebanon’s 2019-2020 crises; Pushing Hands and ar kiều bỉ wove together textile, mapping, and food to animate Vietnamese-Belgian community archives; Lou Cocody-Valentino assembled domestic fabrics into fragmented memory landscapes. Across the works, diasporic experience, food, and collective memory were treated not as content to display but as practices of relation.

Artists & Collectives
Pushing Hands
Tashattot
Lou Cocody-Valentino
Shift-t*
ar kiều bỉ (invited by Pushing Hands)





yellow brick, blue brick, perpetuallyExhibition and public programme.
B32. 2024.

‘yellow brick, blue brick, perpetually’ connects the site-specific history of the planned residential area ‘De Ravelijn’ to a broader idea of enclosure: of land, but also of knowledge, of bodies, and of our relationship to nature and to one another.

Five artists, Mounir Eddib, Helena, Samuel White, Angelina Nonaj and Alaa Abu Asad (علاء أبو أسعد), present works that respond to the neighbourhood's history. The works reflect on acts of division, measurement and repetition, and on how these shape our lives in ways we often don't see.

In the coming weeks, a public programme will include performances by Angelina Nonaj and Alaa Abu Asad (dates to be announced). In it, the artists reimagine the neighbourhood's former identity as a ‘woonschool’ (residential school) as a place to unlearn, question the politics of space and restore connections that enclosure has broken.

This project is supported by the city of Maastricht & Mondriaan Fonds.






To Weave.a Story
Co-curated with Natalija Gucheva
Conventional storytelling revolves around a singular male Hero. Other characters, non-human life and the environment matter only as instruments in his quest, and nature becomes a backdrop, ready to be used. These conventions reaffirm the separation between man and nature, and with it a gendered division of labour and a heteronormative idea of success. Whatever cannot be measured by that success, including the queer subject, remains unintelligible.

To Weave a Story set out to diversify not only who our stories are about, but how stories are formed and told. The artworks became story elements: props, characters, natural life and backdrops. In a workshop aimed at queering modes of storytelling, these elements were taken apart and recombined. The outcomes formed the basis for performances and oral storytelling sessions, so the exhibition's narrative kept changing throughout the day. Each hour, a new story wove the same elements together differently.

Artists
Aidan Abnet
Justine Grillet
Guillaume Jannes
Jochem Mestriner
Samuel White Evans
& Natalija Gucheva

Writers
Isa Vink
Jule Köepke
Jesse Kempkes
Babette Lagrange
& Sjoerd Beijers

This project is supported by Alles Kan & Stad Gent.








Cosmovisions
Curated and co-produced by MaggZ & Sjoerd Beijers
Exhibition and performances, Medusa Offspace, Brussels, August 2023


As ecological mutation entangles our realities ever further, the Western urge to divide and classify grows increasingly incompatible with what this moment demands. Over the course of one evening, Cosmovisions brought sculpture and performance together to explore alternatives to the Western division between man and nature, and the former's mastery over the latter.

A white figure stares into a mirror. Sharp fangs cling around a poem. A tail, like a horse's, wags slowly as they step through space.

Throughout the evening, the linearity of time and progress was set aside in favour of a reading in which past, present and future coexist. Reconnecting with forgotten practices and knowledges of spirituality, magic and the natural world, the artists took a position akin to that of the shaman: negotiating with the invisible and mediating with the realms of animals and nature. In doing so, they sought, if only temporarily, to reveal what the current cultural paradigm suppresses.

A passage of rite, an offering beneath treelike plastic structures. A heart-shaped pendant. Dry branches snapping. Dissonant spinal movements, mimicry.



Artists: Che Go Eun, Tristan Bründler, Kyra Nijskens, Natalija Gucheva, Benjamin Schoones, Aidan Abnet, Alexis Gerlach, Adriaan de Roover, Anca Bârjovanu, MaggZ

DJ: kn1ps

Supported by the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC) & À Fonds






Home Sweet Home
What makes a home? Is it material or immaterial, a space or a body, a shelter or a sanctuary? In Western cultures, home and house have become closely linked. With the enclosure of common land, communal structures gave way to private homes, and the divide between public and private came to shape our relationships with others, with nature and with knowledge.

Home Sweet Home brought eight participants together to explore what a home is, or could be, and to look for alternative forms of kinship. Performance work and edible sculptures by the invited artists opened up the communal side of the home, and a collective reading gave space to reflect on it. Using objects brought by the participants and materials prepared by the curators, the group then built a home together.

This collectively built home later opened to the public as an exhibition. For a moment, the private became public: the home turned into a meeting ground and a place for collective reflection.

Performance: Adriana Joëlle

Contributions: Lorenço, Kyra Nijskens, Abel Hartooni, Beljita Gurung, Lizzy Jongedijk, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans, Jessica Marlieke van Egmond







sjoerd beijers
srlbeijers@gmail.com
+31 6 23209720
@sjoerdbeijers
Social designer and cook, curator and researcher, Sjoerd Beijers is based in Maastricht (NL). Trained as a graphic designer, they work at the intersection of design, critical theory and pedagogy.

Their practice asks how material things and immaterial systems shape the way we come together: which relations they reinforce, and which they allow us to renegotiate. Beijers explores this through counter-institutional infrastructures: small, self-organised structures that challenge dominant cultural logics and redistribute agency. Working collectively, they question individual authorship and the regimes of ownership that have eroded the commons.

This takes shape in decentralised formats of gathering, from dinner performances to collective readings, in which care is a method rather than a metaphor. As chair of B32 Artspace, they initiated and coordinate Anti-Class, an experimental residency and summer school grounded in Harney and Moten's notion of study, where participants shape the curriculum together through shared meals and collective activities. They also host a monthly commons café in their home, an informal space for mutual support and humanitarian fundraising.












Education
MFA Graphic Design - KASK, Ghent (Graduated with highest distinction) | 2024

BFA Graphic Design - ABK, Maastricht | 2019




Employment  Chair & artistic programming
B32 | May 2025 - present

Coordinator & Coach - YOUNG OFFICE
Bonnefanten Museum | Feb 2025 - present

Lead Diversity & Inclusion
Bonnefanten Museum | April 2025 - present

Independent curator
2023 - present

Indepent graphic designer
2019 - present




Exhibitions & events
2026

Anti-Class 26
Residency for colletive study.
B32, Maastricht, NL

commons café
Monthly fundraising dinner series.
Home, Maastricht, NL.

Shaggy Dough
Performance and temporary cooking station.
Kunsthal, Gent, BE.


2025

nuage, bulut, nuvola, chmura, سَحَابة ,ڪڪر, wolk
Interactive hotpot performance.
Art Au Centre, Liege, BE.

Setting the Table
Exhibition & public programme. 
Pilar, Brussels, BE.

picnic
Performative walk & publication launch.
B32, Maastricht, NL.

Des Bons Enfants
Exhibition with YOUNG OFFICE. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht.

Sage in the Fall, Grape Leaves in the Spring
Collective Reading & Dinner.
B32, Maastricht, NL.

Anti-Class open studios
Open studios, collective cooking &community dinner.
B32 & Parking lot, Maastricht, NL.


2024

Yellow Brick, Blue Brick, Perpetually
Exhibition & public programme. 
B32, Maastricht, NL.

To Frame, To Fail, To Surface, workshop on queer intelligibility at Het Paviljoen, Ghent

Jumping Fences
Group exhibition.
Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL.

Jumping Fences, artist residency at Het Paviljoen, Ghent

2023

To Weave a Story, exhibition and workshop at De

Home Sweet Home, workshop at SECONDroom, Antwerp

Meeting Grounds, coordination of KASK project week under guidance of Paul Bailey, at Kunsthal, Ghent

Salad Days, groupshow at Design Museum, Ghent

Cosmovisions, exhibition and public programme





WritingAgainst Smoothness
Self-published essay, printed at Jan van Eyck Academy
2025.

Porous walls
Letter essay, published by Seppe-Hazel. 
2024.

Where the Earth Meets the Sky:
In search for an alternate perception of the horizon, as tool to navigate away from aesthetic and epistemic injustice of Euclidean space in digital 3D
MA Thesis. 2024.






Awards & nominationsHorlait-Dapsens
Nomination, 2023.




Press & publications
Yellow Brick, Blue Brick, Perpetually
On KUBAparis
2024.

Porous walls
Letter essay, published by Seppe-Hazel. As part of 
2024.

Cosmovisions
On KUBAparis,
RUNDGANG,
Tzvetnik,
2023.  









Last Updated 29.09.2026



Sjoerd Beijers

srlbeijers@gmail.com
+31 23209720
@sjoerdbeijers


Social designer and cook, curator and researcher, Sjoerd Beijers is based in Maastricht (NL). Trained as a graphic designer, they work at the intersection of design, critical theory and pedagogy.

Their practice asks how material things and immaterial systems shape the way we come together: which relations they reinforce, and which they allow us to renegotiate. Beijers explores this through counter-institutional infrastructures: small, self-organised structures that challenge dominant cultural logics and redistribute agency. Working collectively, they question individual authorship and the regimes of ownership that have eroded the commons.

This takes shape in decentralised formats of gathering, from dinner performances to collective readings, in which care is a method rather than a metaphor. As chair of B32 Artspace, they initiated and coordinate Anti-Class, an experimental residency and summer school grounded in Harney and Moten's notion of study, where participants shape the curriculum together through shared meals and collective activities. They also host a monthly commons café in their home, an informal space for mutual support and humanitarian fundraising.


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