Upcoming: The fifth edition of Ecologies of Emancipation – Imminent horizon: fascism or imperialism?
Organizational work of the fifth edition of the Ecologies of Emancipation summer school has begun. The school will take place at the hypha_etc campsite in Câmpu Cetății, between 10-16 August 2025.
The latest political and geopolitical developments, local and global, seem to confront us with a threatening double horizon: an accelerated slide towards fascism, or an equally precipitous retreat into imperialism - with all the overlaps, complicities and continuities between them. On the one side, then, a European democratic establishment that can only articulate its immediate future by renouncing the last remnants of a distributist state and democratic appearances, in a general arms race that promises nothing but authoritarianism and austerity at home, and devastating inter-imperialist conflicts on a global scale. On the other side, a populist insurgent bloc with deep roots and complicity in the very systems and apparatuses of Euro-Atlantic democracies, which is no longer shy in displaying its assumed fascism, and which promises, just as grimly, a harsh regime of austerity and authoritarianism at home, coupled with an equally provocative and bellicose attitude abroad, only in the name of a different set of values.
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In Between Ourselves: Perspectives on art, political imaginaries and realpolitik
Six -day intensive, July 22-27. 2025 in Iași and Chișinău /
This six-day intensive, July 22–27, 2025 in Iași and Chișinău brings artists, curators and theorists together to exchange practices and perspectives on art, political imaginaries and realpolitik. It includes screenings, presentations, site and studio visits, performance work, an evening of Radio Listening, a red thread of daily group reflection and a series of informal social gatherings. Participation is free, however, in person places are limited, book here by June 22. We provide the bus transport from Iași to Chișinău and return for the first 25 bookings. All other costs are borne by the participants. There is also the possibility of attending part of the programme online, book here for online access.
Contributor include: Luminița Apostu Toma (Iași), Valeria Barbas (Chișinău ), Florin Bobu & Livia Pancu (tranzit.ro/ Iași, 1+1), Nora Dorogan & Nicoleta Esinencu (Teatru-Spalatorie, Chișinău ), Lilia Dragneva (Ksa:k, Chișinău), Chris Dreier & Gary Farrelly (Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Brussels, Berlin), Tatiana Fiodorova (Chișinău), Cătălin Gheorghe (G. Enescu Art University Iași), Minna Henriksson (Helsinki), Kristina Jacot (Chișinău), Cezar Lăzărescu (Iași), Diana Mărgărit & Adrian Cioflâncă (Iași / Bucharest), Maxim Polyakov (3rd space / Kolhoz/ Drujba, Chișinău), Ghenadie Popescu (Chișinău), Andrei Pripasu (ZO Kraft, Iași), Vitalie Sprînceană (Platzforma.md, Chișinău), Oana Toderică (Iași), Vladimir Us (Oberliht Association, Chișinău), Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand/CAPIm, Göteborg)
Questions of the political have been engaged within artistic practice and wider art systems with increasing intensity in recent decades. At the same time we seem to be witnessing radical upheaval in the actualities of everyday political cultures, locally, nationally, and internationally. We are faced with a challenge to consider, that given the rapidity of wider transformations, are these forms of engagement – these strategies, ways of proceeding, operating principles across art and the political – adequate to these changed conditions? And where do we approach these questions from?
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CALL for APPLICATIONS 2026 now open until September 14, 2025
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna 2026 /
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.
During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants. Each residency grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1.300,– plus a one-time travel grant of EUR 300,– (non-EU: EUR 500,–).
Together with its cooperation partners from tranzit.at, tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija, ERSTE Foundation forms the jury to select the participants.
Everyone eligible is invited to take part in the open call.
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Slow practices of autonomy and regeneration
with Ana Barbu in Uzura Garden /
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Hours 15:00 – 20:00
Manasia commune, Ialomița county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of seeds, practices and experiences in cultivating and relating as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and further documenting the growing processes, throughout summer and autumn each gardener opens their space to a public, invited to observe, learn and engage with the knowledge of plants and their network of relationality. Each event is choreographed following each garden’s particular conditions and contexts, as well as each gardener’s own sensibility, expertise and experiences. The process and events are documented by three young harvesters through different media: writing (Irina Bobei), illustration (Maria Doni), and video (Gabriela Cozma).
The first open garden event begins with Ana Barbu, who for ten years has been growing, in a slow process of learning and unlearning, a garden of biodiversity in a 600 sq m land located in Manasia commune, approximately 60 km north-east of Bucharest. For the event, Ana Barbu will invite participants to read together a reflective essay about the garden, followed by walks guided by texts, questions and sensorial and imaginative exercises to connect to plants and the soil that grounds them.
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City of Glass – exhibition by Andreas Fogarasi followed by roundtable discussion
A project initiated by Desire Foundation and the Căși Sociale ACUM!/Social Housing NOW! movement from Cluj, and implemented in collaboration with Aluvial and tranzit.ro/Cluj.
opening June 20th, 6pm
Address: tranzit.ro/Cluj, Str. Napoca no. 16, 1st floor, Cluj Napoca, Romania
For his exhibition City of Glass at tranzit.ro/Cluj, Andreas Fogarasi is continuing the series “Nine Buildings, Stripped”, a project first presented in his solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2019.
“Nine Buildings, Stripped”, follows a selection of buildings that are to be demolished or stripped for refurbishment. Fogarasi’s work consists in collecting and presenting materials and surfaces from these buildings, creating sculptural portraits of specific places through time. For his exhibition in Cluj, Fogarasi and the members of the research project focused on three industrial sites of that have ceased or are about to cease production (and will soon be developed into commercial and apartment complexes): Sanex/Cesarom, Armătura and the Combinatul de Utilaj Greu. Fogarasi collected fragments, surfaces, and design elements from these sites, which will be or have been abandoned by industrial production and demolished to give way to new real estate investment projects which will reshape the city’s structure and life. City of Glass will feature the artworks created by Fogarasi from these materials, which condense the transformations that take place at the urban scale. The title suggests a particular sensitivity to the frailness of cities and could be read not just as remembrance of the once sparkling, now broken glass of the industrial city, but also a warning to the new and shining reflective façades of the developments that take their place. This frailty is also one of reflection: what do we see in the broken or cloudy surfaces of old industrial architecture, and how are we to appear in the seamless reflections that are produced by shopping malls and luxury apartments?
Andreas Fogarasi is an artist based in Vienna/Austria. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions internationally, among others at MUMOK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; New Museum, New York; Ludwig Museum, Aachen/Germany; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as well as the 52. Biennale di Venezia, where he was awarded the Golden Lion for best national participation.
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To Give a House the Form of an Event
Launch of the eco-prototypes built in the frame of the project
Architecture, Biodiversity, Culture
Saturday, 14th of June, 2025, 12-8 pm
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primaverii no. 10, Silistea Snagovului
Eco-prototypes
Cosmos Garden: Georgiana Strat
The Eastern Glasshouse: Ștefan Gorie, Vlad Nicolae
The Oven Demeter: V. Leac
The Summer Kitchen Acaret 44°N 26°E: Atelier AdHoc Arhitectură
The phyto-epuration system: atelier d’architecture autogérée
Garden furniture
Relaxation bench: Adrian Filip, Edi Constantin, Oana Radu
Community table: Andrei Ștefan Păsărică, Larisa Danciu, Medeea Sandu, Miruna Roșu, Timea Cristea
Hosts
Adelina Luft
Edi Constantin
Raluca Voinea
Contributions
Adelina Ivan & Mihai Mitran, Alexandra Pirici & Andrei Dinu, Alina Ușurelu, Ana Kun, Anamaria Pravicencu, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Anna Smolak, Athena Dumitriu, Cătălina Frâncu & Teodor Călinoiu, Charles Esche, Dan Vezentan, Dimitrie Grigorescu, Elena Vlădăreanu, Iuliana Dumitru, Konrad Petrovszky, Liliana Basarab, Livia Pancu, Maria Mora, Mihaela Moldovan, Octavia Anghel, Olivia Mihălțianu & Stoyan Dechev, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Popa, V. Leac, Vlad Basalici, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Yujin Lee
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A World in Common(s)
From Marxist Feminism to Solidarity Economy /
18–24 August 2025,
Vármező/Câmpu Cetății (Romania)
Deadline for applications: 30 June
The purpose of this summer school is, first, to introduce theoretical frameworks such as Marxist feminism, world-systems analysis, and global labour studies to show how social reproduction is subordinated to endless capital accumulation in the capitalist world system. Second, it aims to explore what alternatives exist to this, i.e., how it is possible to engage in economic activities directly aimed at satisfying human needs.
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Results of the call for Curators and Artists at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts 2025
Intensive workshops of between two and three weeks, dealing with topical questions of art production and directed by outstanding artists from all over the world – this is what awaits you at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
Founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the "School of Seeing", in Hohensalzburg Fortress, it is the oldest of its kind in Europe.
Every year, some 300 participants from more than 50 countries attend some 20 courses offered in two fixed locations: Hohensalzburg Fortress and the Untersberg quarry in Fürstenbrunn, as well as in further temporary spaces in the town of Salzburg.
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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Recipes for Ripe Societies
Marina Sulima’s residency, part of the program Cultivators of Life
11.05 – 25.05.2025
Following a previous collaboration for the project Images of the Good Life in the East, a group exhibition organized in Chisinau last year, we have invited Marina Sulima to join us in a two-week residency in Bucharest and at the Station. The residency marks the beginning of the program Cultivators of Life taking place between 2025-2026 with a series of residencies, lectures, workshops and a group exhibition.
During her residency, Marina continued her artistic research Recipes for Ripe Societies. In this project, she aims to draw attention to the relationship between resource extraction and soil degradation through writing of alternative recipes. She took several things with her on her journey: pickled tomatoes, a handful of copper sulfate, crystals, and a bunch of grapevines. Around the village near the Station, she searched for houses made of clay, painted with lime and copper sulfate. She sketched different support structures found in the village for climbing vines to provide shade to the houses, both from wood and clay, or cement and tiles.
“High-tech tomato greenhouses rely on precarious migrant labor, tons of minerals spread out in the form of LED greenhouse lights, sprinklers, sensors and fertilizers. The entire edifice of intensive viticulture would collapse without fungicides, of which copper sulfate is the proudest. What kind of recipes for ripening fruit and our minds will be needed when the earth’s resource belly empties and the LED lights go out?”
We first screened the film Marina recently directed, Consider a Tomato, at The National Peasant Museum in a pre-premiere on the 22nd of May. The film follows the story of tomatoes, from closed-off Dutch greenhouses to Moldova, home to the filmmaker, to the many greenhouse workers who leave their own tomato patches to work behind glass walls. Narrated by Marina herself, the film looks into her family’s story of migration using her mother’s recipe book as an instrument to draw connections between tomatoes-as-protagonist and the social and economic imbalances of tomato production, from the abandoned land parcels of Moldova to the industrial glasshouses in the Netherlands.
More about the movie here.
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Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence
10.5.2025 - 9.8.2025
Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta, Nyykoolinkatu 25, Seinäjoki, Finland
An exhibition curated by The Resurrection Committee: Adelina Luft, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
With contributions from:
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life & Adelina Ivan, Darya Tsymbalyuk, Eduard Constantin, Jaana Kokko, V. Leac, Vlad Basalici
Collectivo Suumil Móokt’aan & Valiana Aguilar
Weaving Realities & Aldo Esparza Ramos, Yuchen Li
PARI (Panen Apa Hari Ini) & Anang Saptoto
Ingenious trackers overcame the limits of what can be seen by putting their ears to the ground in order to listen to the movement of horses or of a herd of animals coming from a distance. The Earth, large and all-welcoming, holds the weight of all our movements, across seas and continents. Can we learn though to listen to each other? Do we still have time – and do we give ourselves the time to listen beyond silence?
Four different collectives that are re-learning to listen to the Earth beyond silence are bringing here signs from the lands of China, Indonesia, Netherlands, Romania, and Yucatan, among others.
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CULTIVATORS OF LIFE
Announcement of a new two-year program: CULTIVATORS OF LIFE, initiated by tranzit.ro/Bucharest Association in partnership with MODEM – Center for Modern Contemporary Art in Debrecen, co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund.
Cultivators of Life is a cultural program that continues and supports the activities started in 2021 at the Experimental Research Station for Research on Art and Life in Siliștea Snagovului, focused on conserving biodiversity, testing ecological prototypes, and rethinking the relationship between soils, materials and artistic production. The program proposes the study and formulation of a new lexicon and practices related to an emerging relationship between indigenous/ancestral knowledge, land cultivation and natural sciences. It will be carried out by organizing a series of artistic residencies at the Experimental Station and in the city of Debrecen in Hungary, public events in four gardens outside Bucharest, applied workshops, conferences with indigenous philosophers and local guests at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, and a final group exhibition at MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen scheduled to open in October 2026.
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Marxism in the Sciences: Toward an International Critical Knowledge Network
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION /
Marxism & Sciences Journal, in collaboration with tranzit.ro/cluj, organises its second symposium at the hypha_etc campsite in Câmpu Cetății (Romania) between 1–6 September, which attempts to foster a forum for discussing the chances for collectively building up an international network of projects in particular pertaining to Radical Science and Art activism, Socialist Heritage Studies and Critical Contemporary Research.
In today’s situation, when Marxist thought seems ‘undead’ and has retreated to the academic realm, all we offer, it seems, are attempts at dissemination of ideas and publication projects (book series, journals etc.). We want to discuss what can be done about it and how that ‘retreat’ is not fortuitous, since Marxist terminology seems indispensable especially in the realm of ‘knowledge production’ and ‘knowledge economy’. We would like to discuss the possibility of building up a platform of exchange, education and information that goes beyond a collection of papers, pamphlets, and books that describe the situation, but to actively connect local grassroots activism and global academic and artistic research. The split of the realms seems to be a major obstacle to us nowadays. This aim in mind we should start in the fields we already work in.
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In Between Ourselves: Perspectives on art, political imaginaries and realpolitik
Six -day intensive, July 22-27. 2025 in Iași and Chișinău /
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Upcoming: The fifth edition of Ecologies of Emancipation – Imminent horizon: fascism or imperialism?
CALL for APPLICATIONS 2026 now open until September 14, 2025
Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna 2026 /
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