Jade Meili Barget curates and writes on fallenness, the elements, networks and spirits. Her recent recent multi-chapter and ongoing program, The well tempered, dreamt atmospheres after nature with evenings of performances at Espace Niemeyer (Paris) and soft power (Berlin), as well as group exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco (both in Romainville). She is currently developing a new research project on technology and the sacred.
In 2024, Jade was curator and editor of the 15th Gwangju Biennale, PANSORI: A soundscape of the 21st century. She was also part of the curatorial team of Berlin's annual festival on cultural transformation from a post-digital perspective, transmediale, working on the 2020-21, 2023 and 2024 editions, respectively researching Content, Scale, and Refusal. As an independent curator, she curated a series of programmes for Tropez (Berlin), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo (Guarene), Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham), amongst others.
Her curatorial B-side features Fatal & Fallen, shadow-tracing revenge fantasies. Grounded in the study of East Asian grindhouse culture and contemporary media trends, Fatal & Fallen was presented at Nguyen Art Foundation (Hồ Chí Minh City), Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (Taipei), Sinema transtopia (Berlin), and Asian Film Archive (Singapore).
Her reviews, essays and fiction texts can be found in Momus, frieze, The White Review, Art Monthly, THE SEEN, diaCRITICS Los Angeles Review of Books et AQNB.
The well tempered (TwT) is an evolving curatorial project examining passive absorption—both chemical and informational. From the planned and unplanned redistribution of elements within our chemosphere to the ways power structures exert influence through ambient design, the programme explores the atmospheric dimensions of toxic regimes. Framing the atmosphere as simultaneously meteorological, social, geophysical, and political, TwT invites artists and thinkers to investigate how we might understand, sense, and live within unstable chemosphere and volatile systems. Curated programmes include Sérum Radiance, an exhibition at Frac Île-de-France and Les Réserves (Romainville); evenings of performances such as Omen Central at Soft Power (Berlin) and Daisy World at Espace Niemeyer (Paris).