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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On language, history, care
Artist talk: Theo Prodromidis
Friday, 11th of April, 2025, 7 pm - 8.30 pm
@tranzitiasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
Theo Prodromidis will expand on his personal history of art practice through collaborative processes and working relationships as a starting point and take a self-reflective look through the challenges of aesthetic production of crisis (for and from Athens) but also through involvement in initiatives on solidarity education and social movements. Theo will invite us to follow threads of language, fragments of oral history and reflect upon places of care.
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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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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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Museum of Real Estate Development
EXHIBITION /
3rd of August 2024 – 31st of October 2024
OPENING: 3rd of August 2024, 8.00 p.m. with a public event starting at 4.00 p.m. @tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
Participants: Škart(group), Andreas Fogarasi, Preeti Kathuria, Sarah Muscalu, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Vladimir Us & Oberliht Association, REDURB Research Group (Enikő Vincze, Sorin Gog, Ioana Florea, George Zamfir, Mișa Dumitriu, Marina Mironica, Livia Pancu, Manuel Aalbers).
On 4th of August 2024, performative events with Cezar Lăzărescu, Cătălin Gheorghe and Cristina Moraru, Andrei Pripasu, Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu and Andrei Gavril. (closed event)
During the last few decades, the city became a nexus of social struggles and an important point of reference for artists, architects, social scientists, urbanists and activists and this expressed in movements such as the “Right to the City” that emphasized the need for inclusivity, accessibility, and democracy in urban spaces. The neoliberal turn with its overall transformation of our societies and the promotion of capital-intensive models of development as compared to the extractivist or labor intensive ones also opened the space of contestation in which all these social, cultural and political practices are broadly situated.
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The Museum of Real Estate Development Assembly
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
2nd of August 2024, 10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. (closed event)
Participants: George Zamfir, Enikő Vincze, Mișa Dumitriu, Vladimir Us, Mick Wilson, Andreas Fogarasi, Andrei Timofte, Dumitrița Gurău, Sarah Muscalu, Delia Bulgaru, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor, Cătălin Gheorghe, Cristina Moraru, Preeti Kathuria, Sorin Gog, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Ioana Florea, STEALTH.unlimited, Škart, s.a.b.a., Andrei Pripasu.
3rd of August 2024, 4.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m., (public event)
Participants: Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Enikő Vincze, Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Preeti Kathuria, Mick Wilson, STEALTH.unlimited.
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I, the city
Screening of videoworks from Iasi and the region (1994-2024)
Starting at 8 p.m. on the 1st of August 2024, (public event)
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
The Museum of Real Estate Development invited us to imagine ourselves in the future, in a museum space where the public can see the material traces of real estate development from the beginning of the third millennium in several cities of the world. This exercise of imagination (the detachment from the present) aimed to allow us a critical position towards the phenomenon studied as part of contemporary capitalism. Real estate development was not seen as a finished process, but as an all-pervasive phenomenon that continued to be perpetuated and reinvented, and the cutting of spatio-temporal manifestations of this process turned them into targets of the social-political-cultural critique.
Such moments of attempted critique are also represented by the selected video materials that were produced during the last 3 decades (1994-2024) in Iasi or in the region.
At one level of analysis - that was many times erroneously identified as the city - we can observe in these video productions how the political-economic and social transformations of the last 3 decades have often become objects of artistic and intellectual critical reflection. At different levels of analysis, during the same period of time, we also uncritically experienced paradigmatic shifts in the domain of cultural production itself, the purpose of which was constantly re-calibrated aiming at the emergence and solidification of individual subjectivities that speak for and on behalf of the entire society.
Curated by Florin Bobu & Livia Pancu
Section I (projection):
Matei Bejenaru, Alexandru cel Bun, 1994-2003, 10 min. 16 sec, 2003, Dan Acostioaei, Dragos Alexandrescu, Bahlui by Night, 2 min, 2004, Dan Acostioaei, Reconstruction Scapes, 14 min 50 sec, 2005, Andreea Faciu, Touching the City no. 1 (Iasi, RO) 13 min 25 sec, 2007/2008, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI, 00:59, 2012, Vladimir Us, Marșul (The March), 4 min. 29 sec, 2012, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Prosper Center AW16, 8 min. 26 sec, 2016, Cezar Lăzărescu, ȚESĂTURA IAȘI vs. LIDL, 01:01, 2017, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu) Video Monuments, part 1 (Mitriță & Silvia sr.), documentary, 21 min. 01 sec., 2018, s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Video Monuments, part 2 (Doru), documentary, 15 min. 30 sec., 2018, Andrei Timofte, Arhitectură-mobilă (Fluid Architecture), 10 min 25 sec., 2019, Andreea Cioară, LC Waikiki, 2 min 17 sec, 2019, Sit Vertical (Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu), Silk District, 4 min 14 sec, 2021, Cătălin Gheorghe, Fragments of a walk through time. A public walk with Florin Bobu and Cătălin Gheorghe, video, 7 min., 14 sec., 2021, Sarah Muscalu, Monument pentru memoria viitoare II / Monuments for future memory II, 5 min 29 sec, 2023, Drazen Crnomat, Kiew, video, 1 min. 29 sec., 2024.
Section II (archive):
s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu), Reheating the industry in transition, 14 min 54 sec., 2012, Oberliht Association (Vladimir Us, Ina Ivanceanu, Vahe Budumyan, Gaëlle Mege), Chișinău Civic Center – beyond the red lines, video documentation, 55 min 23 sec, 2013-2014, Florin Bobu, Vacanțe exotice în inima orașului(Exotic Holidays in the Heart of the City), video, 25 min 29 sec, 2016, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.3 (Limerick, IE), 28 min. 00 sec, 2009/2010, Andrea Faciu, Touching the City no.2 (Firenze, IT), 25 min. 00 sec, 2007/2010.
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Institution(ing)s
2024 - 2028
tranzit.ro/ Iași is happy to inform you that it is four year long travel together with other colleagues across Europe in a new collaboration project.
The Institution(ing)s is a European Cooperation Project that encourages contemporary art and cultural organizations to co-create innovative institutional models. Composed of 8 organizations of different scales, impacts, and target audiences, in seven European countries, the Institution(ing)s represents the diversity of the ecosystem of the cultural sector and establishes a sustainable cooperation by coming together with differences and commonalities in a sort of an institution without walls, a living organism in constant processes of exchange and transformation of practice.
Project Leader: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas | Universidade Católica Portuguesa
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Oberliht Association & Drujba Collective
@tranzit.ro/ Iași – traveling exhibition /
Zpace / 3rd Space studio / Stalker Garden (The House of Zemstvo, 103, Al. Șciusev St., Chisinau)
May - June 2024
Oberliht Association & Drujba Collective
@tranzit.ro/Iași is an exhibition that resulted from a collaboration between tranzitiasi and Oberliht Association back in 2023. Initially presented in September, 2023 at tranzit.ro/ Iasi, in the frame of Ways of Organisation project, this year we have decided to exhibit the works that make it up in the spaces of the House of Zemstvo and thus make it accessible to the public in Chisinău.
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MUSEUM OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
4.03 – 15.11.2024
@tranzit. ro/Iași
For most of 2024, tranzitiasi has been and is involved in building a very ambitious project called the Museum of Real Estate Development, alongside a wide range of artists, thinkers, theorists and academics from the most diverse backgrounds and geographies. So far, a number of six online meetings have been held, meetings in which a group of sociologists - in dialogue with the rest of the guests - tried to expand, in a transdisciplinary framework, the multi-methodical empirical research from the theoretical framework of capitalist accumulation processes, as well as on the role of real estate development in these processes today. They considered the results of the REDURB project (and the 8 case studies from Romania: Cluj, Iasi, Brașov, Craiova, Bragadiru, Tg. Jiu, Reșita, Bârlad). Through these meetings was attempted to build a broad delimitation of the parameters in which the establishment of such a museum is possible and transferable in different, globalized geographies. The meetings were held in English and were followed by extensive discussions on how this body of knowledge can be translated into a multidisciplinary environment. The joint effort started online will take a more material form between August 1 and 5, 2024, when the whole group will meet, in person, in Iasi for a few intensive days where we will alternate presentation sessions, discussions, cooking, workshop situations or guided tours that will culminate with the vernissage of the Museum of Real Estate Development exhibition that will be opened in the transitiasi space.
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Sophie Goltz.Building and Repairing Civic Life: call for public space.
Saturday, 10th of February 2024, 6 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi @ GreenHouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
tranzitiasi is welcoming you on this Saturday, the 10th of February to join us for a public lecture with curator and art educator Sophie Goltz.
”Based on the repercussions of Documenta Fifteen and connected with the question of public (art) spaces, this lecture will present artistic and curatorial strategies around notions of remembering. Lately, what it was called "Versöhnungstheater" (spectacle of reconciliation, Czollek), the German Erinnerungskultur (remembrance culture) is questioned in these projects and its institutional manifestations be it a memorial site, museum, archive, walkabout, ritual, or gesture.
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Research Transformation
an autotheoretical lecture by Cătălin Gheorghe
based on a book mediation event
Saturday, December 16, 2023, at 5 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ Iasi
Address: Greenhouse, Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
Book mediation:
Catalin Gheorghe, Transformarea cercetării. Noi estetici aplicate în practica cercetării artistice critice (Research transformation. New aesthetics applied in the practice of critical artistic research), tranzit.ro/Iași, Iași, 2022, ISBN 978-606-94455-9-4
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