#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#34: We pay artists.|#36: We support production separately.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#119: Be a space of production.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#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.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|#99: Evolve according to changing needs.|#34: We pay artists.|#36: We support production separately.|#58: Kunsthal Gent is a monument. If you plan to drill a hole, contact Tomas first.|#107: Build a community / scene.|#119: Be a space of production.|#75: A building is a capricious thing: it is inhabited and changed, and its existence is a tale of constant and curious transformation.|#25: Never ask the artist to just present their work, ask them to co-create and co-organise the space.|#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.|#20: Are exhibitions the most suitable form for the art that we present?|#74: Last one out turns of the lights.|#26: More artists, less borders.|#21: Live with the exhibition, spend time with it.|#19: Have fun at the exhibition.|#33: We will ensure work by female artists and curators make up at least 50% of our programme each year.|#59: Always protect the floor when painting (or pouring concrete)|#3: Entrance to all exhibitions at Kunsthal Gent is free.|#82: Clean and sterile looks professional, but really boring.|#124: Do less, do it better.|#90: The best systems have a failure or ‘a hole’ in them…|#10: Don’t be obsessed with numbers.|#92: We’re a learning organisation.|#127: Remain practical: what happens to the work in an endless exhibition?|#30: Don’t work with artists who are assholes.|#60: Look after all tools. The moment it looks like things are missing it means that things are missing.|
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This is draft #1.2 of the user’s manual for Kunsthal Gent.

It explains what the organisation is made of, how it is set up, whom it is for, how it can be used and what it can offer. This document is made for the users (this includes the public) as well as the staff and the artists. As would be the case for operating a machine or learning a subject, the manual may be necessary for getting the full use out of Kunsthal Gent.

Content in this manual was gathered from User’s Manual draft #1, personal notes, team and board meetings, interviews, artist talks, publications and specific artist contributions.

User's Manual: Draft #1