Mimosa Pudica. On Plants Memory
Artist Valentina Vetturi in conversation with horticultural engineer Maria Raicu /
Mimosa Pudica is an ongoing performative research by artist Valentina Vetturi and various collaborators, dedicated to the study of memory across vegetal and digital ecologies.
The main research question is how studying alongside plants about their memory could inform principles of digital ecologies.
Saturday, 18 October 2025, The Botanical Garden in Bucharest
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 11 October
11:00 – 18:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Fabiola Fiocco (Rome): Morphologies of Labour
11:00 – 13:00
More than twenty years after what has been described as the“social turn”, along with the waves of artistic and institutional experimentation and grassroots initiatives that followed, the context in which we operate has entered a renewed phase of intensified extraction and reorganisation of capital, and of the political paradigms that underpin it. Profound socio-economic and cultural shifts have reshaped the terrain of negotiation, while what were once marginal practices are repurposed to serve existing modes of production, consumption, and sociality. In this landscape, inherited binaries and conceptual frameworks from past movements, even the most recent, appear increasingly inadequate to address the complexities of labour, creativity, and collective struggle.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 27 September
12:00 – 19:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
Mihai Mihalcea (București): We walk, We breathe
12:00 – 14:00
We reclaim duration as common space, and we allow the air to circulate beyond the logics of productivity. This is not an exercise of mindfulness, but a form of micropolitical sabotage. I breathe, so I oppose is not a metaphor, but a life politics: every inhale is an act of refusal, every exhale a redistribution of the common space.
Lunch prepared by Diana Voicu
14:00 – 16:00
Ovidiu Țichindeleanu (Bucharest/Copenhagen) & Aldo Ramos (Mexico City/Amsterdam): A dream of water: a workshop feeling the territory
17:00 – 19:00
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Abundance. Resilience. Reconnection.
with Adina Moise at the Seeds House Garden
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Hourse 13:00 – 18:00
Intrarea Poianei 6, Domnești commune, Ilfov county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of practices and experiences in cultivating and relating, as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and documenting the sowing and growing processes, in 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 the gardens’ 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).
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 13 September
13:00 – 20:00
Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului:
• The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
• ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
• Fundația Trei frasini/Three Ashes
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The Earth Does Not Understand English*
Food, memory, and collective futures in Gaza, Ukraine and Jersey
With Dana Olărescu and other guests at the Cosmos Garden
Saturday, 6 September 2025
Hours: 11:00 – 18:00
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Intr. Primăverii 10, Siliștea Snagovului village, Gruiu commune, Ilfov county
What does it mean to cultivate life in times of genocide, occupation, and ongoing attempts to eradicate both human and more-than-human forms of existence?
On the 6th of September, the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life will host a day of conversation, co-learning, and collective cooking led by socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu and guests.
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
August – November 2025
Spring Entrance Community in Siliștea Snagovului:
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective)
The Three Ashes
In August, tranzit.ro/Bucharest is launching a new project which coincides with the official inauguration of two distinct entities on the land parcels around the Experimental Station: ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollective), a group formed by sound artist Mihai Mitran, artists Dan Vezentan, Mihaela Moldovan, Eduard Constantin, cultural manager and performer Maria Mora, curators Raluca Voinea, Adelina Luft, and architects George Marinescu and Daria Oancea; and the Three Ashes Association established by curator Charles Esche.
Shelter for collective dreaming proposes the co-production of a modular and mobile shelter on the land parcels of the ASK members through collective conceptualization, participation, and activation.
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The links between art and the garden
with Delia Popa in Crețești Studio-Garden
Saturday, 26 July 2025
Hours: 14:00 – 21:00
Crețești village, Vidra commune, Ilfov county
From spring to autumn, four different gardens located in close proximity to Bucharest engage in an exchange of practices and experiences in cultivating and relating as part of the project Cultivators of Life. Starting with a spring session of exchanging seeds and documenting the sowing and growing processes, in 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 the gardens’ 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 second event brings us together to the garden-studio of artist Delia Popa, located in Crețești village, Vidra commune. Used as a space for work and conceptualization, experimentation and interrogation of the existing links between artistic practice and gardening, Crețești Studio Garden is a place where the vegetable greenhouses, mixed herbs and the shrubbery in the garden, together with paper works in pencil and ink, video or objects produced in the studio, become part of the same endeavor to situate an artistic practice in the context of the topography of the village and to research the relationship between ecological awareness, gentrification and cultivating practices. The itinerary starts with a short visit at the artist’s solo exhibition „Place of action – Crețești” at Anca Poterașu Gallery (26, Popa Soare Str.) and next to the studio-garden in Crețești where participants will visit a few objectives that make the subject of the artist’s works (the bridge, the neighbor’s house and permaculture garden, the greenhouses in the village), followed by a presentation of the studio-garden, group discussions, a video screening, a planting session of shrubs, and a collective dinner.
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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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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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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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