#34: We pay artists.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#4: Pay what you can.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#61: No all male install teams.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#119: Be a space of production.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#124: Do less, do it better.|#111: Do it together.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#28: Make Contracts.|#62: Don’t be a dick. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#40: Follow the artist|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#36: We support production separately.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#34: We pay artists.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#4: Pay what you can.|#54: What about disabled artists?|#91: Embrace doubt.|#89: Build-in impurity within the organisation.|#61: No all male install teams.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#65: No excuses: Thursday morning, team meeting.|#119: Be a space of production.|#51: How do we invite the true unknown?|#64: Arrange a distribution of forces.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#68: Once in a while we need to get out of utopia and get something done.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#84: The White Cube is a lie.|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#131: A visitor who comes back after a week might discover new additions to the exhibition.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#105: Kunsthal Gent is local in scale, but globally connected.|#37: Operate with radical transparency.|#132: Things will always look weird when you’re the first doing it.|#88: Changing internships, artists, curators,... are important propositions to keep a fresh set of eyes.|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#130: Be a uniquely charged and curated gallery that is an artwork in itself.|#14: Can you also remain a toddler institution?|#39: Be the early stepping stone in an artist’s career|#23: That’s a very interesting piece, but how would it behave in a pizza joint?|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#87: Always keep in mind there is something really special about being in a room that is 19 meters tall.|#2: Bring something new to the city of Ghent.|#16: Kunsthal Gent will always be a construction site.|#120: The new type of art institute cannot merely be an art museum as it has been until now, but no museum at all. The new type will be more like a power station, a producer of new energy.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#17: An exhibition is never finished.|#70: Have the office space inside the exhibition space, it reminds of you what you are doing.|#137: Use the publication as programming space|#98: The success of it will not lie in the result but in the process.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#94: No objections? Just do it.|#44: No name tags at dinner.|#5: Kunsthal Gent is a city where different identities collide in an ongoing exhibition without end date. New exhibitions are always a new layer in this ongoing story.|#112: Spaces today don’t need to be curated, but occupied.|#6: Demand that visitors are active.|#55: Keep basic human needs on the forefront.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#124: Do less, do it better.|#111: Do it together.|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#141: Start a Publication Studio at Kunsthal Gent in the nearby future.|#56: Take a lunch break.|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#117: Consider design, organisational structures and architecture as programme.|#35: The artist fee should be good.|#32: Be pan-gender polyphonic.|#24: We invest long-term in individual artists’ careers, working over time in different contexts. This also applies to designers / web-developers / photographers / volunteers /…|#79: The layered painting in the Old House has the potential to become the emblem to explain what Kunsthal Gent is doing.|#15: Kunsthal Gent aims to be an extension of public space.|#29: We make the program for the artist that we exhibit.|#28: Make Contracts.|#62: Don’t be a dick. Full dishwasher: empty it.|#57: Volunteers must be: cared for / hands on / ready to learn / willing to share / in it to win it / show new or old tricks.|#40: Follow the artist|#53: Immaterial support for artists is important.|#36: We support production separately.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#47: Artists need to be supported more than ever in the development of their practice due to the gaps that have been created in the field of fine art|#81: Things come alive when there is friction.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|