Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Tranzit Garden and Cosmos Garden are included in the Festival
Wild, Uncultivated and Spontaneous at La Casa Encendida, Madrid
18 March – 6 April 2025
As part of the Salvajes, Silvestres y Espontáneas 2025 festival at La Casa Encendida, Paisanaje collective in Madrid creates a mural-diagram installation, which presents an open map of projects that reinterpret community gardens as spaces for learning and experimentation.
Paisanaje, with its dual curatorial and artistic nature, presents a selection of initiatives that, from different cities, are exploring new ways of inhabiting the world alongside other species. These gardens invite us to imagine alternative relationships with living beings, where scientific knowledge intertwines with the poetics of our coexistence with plants, animals, and fungi.
Installed on the mezzanine wall, the exhibition functions as a living archive—a space for the exchange of knowledge and the convergence of inspiring proposals. Eight invited projects will share documents, photographs, audio recordings, and manifestos, allowing connections to emerge between their experiences and those of visitors to the space.
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Spring works at the Station
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village, north of Bucharest, Romania
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The Station is a participatory place, where the fruits of the earth are more plentiful when grown with a multiplicity of hands, where the songs of birds reverberate through many ears that are willing to hear them, where we see the generosity of the plants in return for us taking care of them and where we can touch the stories of those who helped building the structures we use. If you want to take part in this process, of planting, building, mending, accompanied by cooking, listening, remembering, drop us a line at raluca.voinea@tranzit.org. The open sessions usually take place on Saturdays.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until APRIL 6th, 2025 /
The Fellowships for Curators and Artists at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg are part of ERSTE Foundation’s educational program and its long-term endeavour to support and strengthen contemporary art especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The fellowship program is realized together with ERSTE Foundation’s long-time cooperation partners from tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection collaborates with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.
ERSTE Foundation offers fourteen fellowships for young artists and emerging curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2025.
Every summer some 300 students from more than 50 countries participate in over 20 classes at the Salzburg Summer Academy. Well-known artists, curators and critics from all over the world offer courses focusing on topical questions of art production, as well as curatorial practice and writing about art.
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Moving away from Meta
tranzit.ro/București is gradually withdrawing from the social media platforms owned by Meta corporation. To be consistent with our programmes and mission, we can no longer legitimate and invest (time, energy, data) into an instrument of censorship and repression, which is currently in the service of a political regime that is prioritizing the violent erasure of truth and the disestablishment of the most common human rights.
In active search for other platforms where we can communicate with our peers and our publics, you can meanwhile find us on Bluesky: @tranzitb.bsky.social, on Pixelfed: pixelfed.social/Statia, and you can subscribe to our newsletter on https://ro.tranzit.org/en/newsletter/.
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In the Blink of an Ear
An interdisciplinary sound art workshop,
10th - 15th of February 2025
Public presentation,
Saturday, 15th of February 2025
tranzit.ro/ Iași
Adress: Sf. Atanasie Street, no. 25, Iași, Romania
Workshop Description
The hands-on workshop In the Blink of an Ear delves into the multi-layered concept of listening and the constellation body-sound-space. Through various listening exercises and soundwalks, we will explore the intricate relationship between our body, the bodies of others and the surrounding space. This year’s workshop will focus on the theme of “Playing The City”. The city of Iasi will be our inspiration to develop ideas or scores and to collect materials for creation, such as acoustic phenomena, environmental sounds, or reflections on and about sound.
To expand the interaction between sound and space, we will introduce, alongside our physical presence, simple and readily accessible devices: piezo, coils, recorders or MP3 players, smartphones or small speakers. This will form the basis for the individual / collaborative artistic works created as part of this project, which will be presented in an open atelier day format at the tranzit.ro gallery in Iași.
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Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
tranzit.ro/București and The Last Archive present:
Mihaela Moldovan: The Endless Thread of Hope
21 December 2024, 2-6 p.m.
A temporary intervention at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Int. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village
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A ball of straws is wrapped in a lacery made from fragile but strong cord, bringing together the organic and modest material that forms the core of the work and the thread as a long-standing symbol of connectedness in the world and to the other layers of life. Situated in the field and interacting with the natural elements, the object becomes a small sun fallen on the ground, a glimmer of colour and hope during the short winter days. Gradually, surrounded by the growing vegetation in spring and baked by the real sun in summer, the ball of straws and string will become and belong to the earth, will disappear into the landscape which, for a short while, it had attempted to treat as an upside down sky.
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L’Internationale presents two new publications: Soils & Collective Study in Times of Emergency
L’Internationale presents two new publications:
Soils
internationaleonline.org/publications/soils
Soils was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum.
Soil is a strong and resistant material. It is alive, it breathes, and it can recover. In this exhibition, soil is seen as both matter and metaphor. For some, soil is used as an artistic vehicle. For others, soil is a metaphor for the possibility of not only resistance but also the re-existence of under-standing about our relations with the Earth today.
This book is a reflection on the Soils exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum. The exhibition was five years in the planning and the book leads you through the various phases of its realisation. Alongside a rich selection of images, it includes texts by the three curators, artists and key interlocutors: Teresa Cos Rebollo, Zena Cumpston Charles Esche, Wapke Feenstra/Inez Dekker, Victoria Lynn, Struggles for Sovereignty and Rolando Vazquez.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life had a small display presented in the Soils exhibition, curated by the Resurrection Committee (Adelina Luft, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea), with contributions from Anonymous artist (Transylvania, 19th century), Adelina Ivan, Anang Saptoto, Eduard Constantin, Livia Pancu.
vanabbemuseum.nl/en/see-and-do/exhibitions-activities/soils
Collective Study in Times of Emergency
internationaleonline.org/publications/collective-study-in-times-of-emergency/
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News from the Station
Dear friends, followers and distant readers,
It has been a tough year for us at the Station: drought, sorrow, building work advancing too slowly and older age settling in too quickly. Yet: the plants we saved from being completely scorched, the vegetables that our neighbours still managed to harvest, the new neighbours who did not let themselves discouraged and joined us on the lands nearby the Station, the friends who came to plant and the new visitors who came to listen, what we did manage to build, the allies and peers from distant places, the sunsets and the green grass emerging after the rain, the insects we didn’t have last year, the lizards called Sam, they were all so many reasons for encouragement, helping us to counter the agenda of doom guiding life in other places, close and afar.
December should have been a time of celebrating our collective survival for another year, instead, we find ourselves stranded in the only territory that still feels safe for the moment: our imaginary of hope, our horizon of trust in people’s desires for the common good rather than for the individual capitulation in front of the apocalypse. We (people at and around the Station, birds, artichokes, insects, lizards, stray dogs and more) think this territory can be as wide as we want to stretch it, as fertile as we struggle to irrigate it, as welcoming as we dare to make it.
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Reading Evald Ilyenkov
Friday, 22th of November 2024
tranzit. ro/Cluj,
Napoca str, no 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca
Evald Ilyenkov (1924-1979) is the most important Soviet Marxist philosopher of the postwar. He has written on a large gamut of subjects, from problems of theoretical philosophy, theory of knowledge, the concepts of the “abstract” and the “concrete”, the “ideal”, and the universal, to Marx’s materialist dialectical method in Capital, problems of cybernetics, automation, machine-thinking, to problems of pedagogy, theory of education, psychology, human mind, and ethics and aesthetics. Ilyenkov can be considered the philosophical originator of what is known as “activity theory” in the Soviet Union, which in its turn precedes what is known as Cultural-Historical Activity Theory internationally nowadays. The concepts, ideas and theories of Ilyenkov have influenced generations of younger philosophers from the 1950s to present in Eastern Europe, while recently enjoying an increased attention in the anglophone world.
The aim of these monthly reading seminars is to closely familiarize the participants with the key concepts and theories developed by Ilyenkov with the hope of utilizing them in the face of contemporary polycrisis.
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Observator
Group exhibition: November 9, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Public presentation and public reading:
Saturday, November 9, 5 p.m. / Sf. Atanasie Street no. 25, Iași (tranzit.ro/ Iași)
Exhibition opening:
Saturday, November 9, 7 p.m. / Sf. Atanasie Street no. 25, Iași (tranzit.ro/ Iași)
On November 9, the Observator group exhibition opens in Iași, organized in the frame of the cultural project with the same name. The exibition presents contributions by Astronomical Observatory in Bârlad & Ciprian Vîntdevară (RO), Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor (RO), Andreea Cioară (RO), Edi Constantin (RO), Nebojsa Milikic (SRB), Ana Maria Micu (RO), Mălina Moncea (RO), Andrei Nacu (RO/UK), Tudor Pătrașcu (RO), Maxim Polyakov & DRUJBA (MD), s.a.b.a. Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu (RO), Kristin Wenzel (DE/RO), Ovidiu Țichindeleanu (RO/DK). The group exhibition is curated by Florin Bobu & Delia Bulgaru and can be visited until the end of January 2025.
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Some of Us Did Not Die
Autumn planting workshop /
Saturday, 9 November 2024, 11 to 5 p.m.
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life,
Intrarea Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului village, north of Bucharest, Romania
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In Autumn 2022 we planted the first trees of the Cosmos Garden, when the war in Ukraine was still in its early days and the earth was sending vibrations of the bombs falling and the ecocide in progress. In Autumn 2023, after the 7th of October attack of Hamas and the ensuing massacre of Palestinians, turned into an ongoing genocide, we were planting fruit trees that were to become an orchard of hope. Apricot, pear, sour cherry, almond and quince trees. In Jewish Palestinian Aramaic language, quince was known as the miraculous fruit. In Autumn 2024, while Lebanon is being bombed, we organise another collective planting session. We will plant a Lebanese cedar, more fruit trees including a quince type named Constantinople, grape vine and others.
With the privilege and responsibility of being still alive, we continue to plant life and to cultivate hope, even when reason itself turned against it.
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Results of Artist-in-Residence programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna in 2025
Congratulations to all artists and curators who will participate in the MQ - MuseumsQuartier residency program in Vienna in 2025!
From July-August 2025 MQ - MuseumsQuartier in Vienna will be happy to host 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐢 from Romania.
The Artist in Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s long-term endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the fragile situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The residency programme is carried out in close cooperation with ERSTE Foundation's key cultural partners: tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection (Kontakt Collection will collaborate with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.) Thus, the residencies are aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
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Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy 2025
CALL for APPLICATIONS now open until APRIL 6th, 2025 /
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