The Reclaimed Anthology of Flowers
E X H I B I T I O N
Carina Burghelea, Maria Chirilă, Mălina Moncea, Cristina Ostafi, Ioana Rusu, and Claudia Ungureanu
Co-curator: Mălina Moncea
Co-curator: Cristina Ostafi
Opening: Friday, 12th of September, 2025,
Time: 18:00
tranzit.ro/ Iasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
“The Reclaimed Anthology of Flowers brings together six artists: Carina Burghelea, Maria Chirilă, Mălina Moncea, Cristina Ostafi, Ioana Rusu, and Claudia Ungureanu, united by the desire to reconfigure the ways in which female presence is perceived, embodied, and integrated within the exhibition space. Under the curatorial guidance of Mălina Moncea and Cristina Ostafi, the project initiates a process of reflection on how institutions, curatorial discourses, and historical frameworks have sought to define and constrain women’s artistic experiences. Situated within a context in which female artists have repeatedly been positioned under the male gaze, their subjects and relevance dictated accordingly, the collective interventions of this exhibition articulate a counter-narrative: a gesture of reclamation and reappropriation of the exhibition space.
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Baran Caginli: Baking Books
Artist Talk
Friday, 5th of September, 2025,
18:30- 20:30
@tranzitiasi,
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
tranzitiași is pleased to welcome artist Baran Caginli for a lecture on his artistic research and practice.
He is exploring the intersections of materiality and memory through dissected monuments in Estonia, Lithuania, Albania, Armenia and Romania in his research project. His practice engages with temporary materials such as bread, to reflect on socio-political and cultural histories. Since 2023, He has been making edible bread sculptures and shares as a performative act in various locations as part of his research.
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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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Screening of video works produced [in Iași, Chișinău and more] between 2002 - 2024
July 22, 2025, @tranzitiasi
6:30 p.m - 8:30 p. m
Screening of video works by: Pavel Braila (Shoes For Europe, 26 min, DV, Colour, Non-Spoken, 2002), Matei Bejenaru (Looking for Caslav, 8:54, 2002 and Moldova, 10:07, 2016), Dan Acostioaei (Crossroads, 2 min 32 sec, 2004), Edi Constantin (302.22.46.08, 3 min 56 sec, 2005 and Romania is Waiting, 3 min 57 sec, 2005), Cristina David (The Real Reason of the Migration of People in Europe to West (Adevaratul motiv al migratiei oamenilor catre vest), 1 min 57 sec, 2006 and Gustavus Adolphus Magnus, 1 min 29, 2011), Andreea Faciu (Touching the City, No. 1 (Iasi, RO), 13 min 25 sec, 2007), Vladimir Us (The March, 4 min. 29 sec, 2012), Simona Dumitriu & Ramona Dima (Bahlui Arcadia, 31 min 20 sec, 2015), Dan Acostioaei (Mari sub pustiuri, 9 min 53 sec, 2017), s.a.b.a (Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu): (Video Monuments, part 1 (Mitrita & Silvia sr.), documentary, 21 min. 01 sec., 2018 and Video Monuments, part 2 (Doru), documentary, 15 min. 30 sec., 2018), Sit Vertical (Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu) (Silk District, 4 min 14 sec, 2021), Ghenadie Popescu (Lant trofic, video, 8 min 30 sec, 2022), Drazen Crnomat (Kiew, video, 1 min. 29 sec., 2024).
The artistic works included in this video program were produced by former or current friends, colleagues and collaborators of tranzit iași starting from the 2000s and span almost 25 years. In a spirit of solidarity, they were offered free of charge to be presented to colleagues who chose to participate in the intensive program about art and politics in Iași and Chișinău. This is not the first such attempt of tranzit iasi to critically reflect on the video production realized in this context and we feel that this gesture of solidarity cannot be explained only by the need for visibility that many of these artists (rightfully) share. Therefore, we look at these video works with an additional sense of responsibility that derives from the fact that they are entrusted to us to be analyzed and historically contextualized.
The various aspects of economic, military and ideological separation that we have witnessed in recent years, the proximity of the war in Ukraine, the increasingly acute awareness of the regional and global character of this conflict, the confluence and continuity with other regional conflicts, as well as the imminent composition and generalization of the conflict at a global level leaves an extremely pronounced imprint on the reception of these video works.
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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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