Institution(ing)s:
6th November 2025 | Nomadic School | tranzit ro/ Iași (Sf. Atanasie, 25, Iași)
Tereza Stejskalová (tranzit.cz, Prague), Georg Schöllhammer (tranzit.at, Vienna), Dóra Hegyi (tranzit.hu, Budapest), Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu (tranzit ro/ Iași), Marius Alexandru Dan (independent researcher, Iași), Theo Prodromidis (independent artist, Athens), Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand/CAPIm, Gothenburg)
Cultural institutions usually operate locally, regionally and at most, at the national level, while wider, transnational configurations have been historically difficult to sustain both conceptually and infrastructurally. Attempting to answer how we connect remotely to places and people situated hundreds or thousands of kilometers away—across differences in infrastructure, resources, and political borders, this nomadic school brings together curators, historians, and artists to explore transnational cultural practices.
The public program includes a new art commission by artist Theo Prodromidis, a presentation on statehood and nation-building by historian Marius Alexandru Dan, and a discussion on transnational curating with representatives of tranzit.org network (Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Iași) moderated by Mick Wilson.
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Theo Prodromidis, Alăgam frate, tu tuti părțâli (We're running, brother, in all directions)
new commission /
OPENING:
Thursday, 6th of November, 2025, 7 p.m.
@tranzitiasi
Address: Str. Sf. Atanasie nr. 25, Iași
„We're running, brother, in all directions!" is a new work by Theo Prodromidis realized with tranzit ro/Iași in the frame of the project Institution(ing)s. At this moment it consists of four casted aluminium plaques of 15x20x 1,5 cm, on which one can read an inscription in Aromanian/Vlach language, written in Latin alphabet. One of the plaques was installed in August 2025 in the village of Vrysochori, Greece and one is installed on the building where tranzit.ro/Iași is located and open to the public starting with 6th of November 2025.
In Iași, the plaque is accompanied by two photographs from Vrysochori. The first photograph, taken in August 2025, depicts teenagers gathering in the main square of the village. Behind them stands a multifunctional building that serves as both the village council headquarters and post office. On its wall, next to the post box, one can distinguish the installed plaque mentioned above. The second photograph was taken by Theo Prodromidis during his visit to Vrysochori after returning from Iași in May 2025. It shows a silver gelatin print from approximately the 1920s depicting the peak Tsouka Rossa (2,379 m) on Mount Tymfi in the Zagori region, part of the Ioannina regional unit in Epirus, Greece.
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Institution(ing)s: (Cultural) Institutions in Semiperipheries | Collective study visit | Economy Lab | Iasi&Chisinau
3rd of November 2025 | 19.30 – 20.30 | Iași
Pavel Brăila: Schoes for Europe, screening | tranzit-ro/ Iași (Sf. Atanasie 25, Iași)
4th of November 2025 |16.00 – 19.00 | Chișinău
Economy Lab | tranzit-ro/ Iași (Sf. Atanasie 25, Iași): Nora Dorogan & Nicoleta Esinencu (Teatru Spalatorie / Laundry Theater, Chișinău), Ioana Florea (independent researcher, Bucharest), Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand/CAPIm, Gothenburg)
5th of November 2025 | 15.30 – 18.30 | Iași
Collective study visit and public presentation | Economy Lab | Zpațiu, Zemstvei Museum (Alexei Sciusev, 103, Chișinău): Maxim Polyakov (3rd Space, Chișinau), Cătălin Gheorghe (UNAGE/Vector, Iași), Vladimir Us (Oberliht Association, Chișinău), Rusanda Alexandru Curcă & Elena Russu (Coalition of Independent Cultural Sector, Chișinău), Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu (tranzit ro/ Iasi)
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Institution(ing)s: Collective Study Visit & Content Debate Assembly
3-7 November 2025
| Intermediary Meeting#2 | Collective Study Visit | Content Debate Assembly |
tranzit.ro/ Iași (Sf. Atanasie, 25, Iași)
During a five-day gathering in Iași and Chișinău, representatives of the 8 partner organizations of Institution(ing)s - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, CAM - Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Jan van Eyck Academie, MOCA NGO, Museum of Impossible Forms, Tensta konsthall, The Listening Biennial | Errant Bodies, tranzit. ro/ Iași - together with invited participants will question what cultural institutions are and how are these (re)created within the current international relations—caught between neoliberal economics, globalizing forces, nationalist resurgence, and protectionist impulses?
With contributions by: Maria Duarte (UCP, Lisbon), Yuliia Hnat (MOCA, Kiew), Cecilia Widenheim (tensta konsthall, Stockholm), Alba Lindblad (tensta konsthall, Stockholm), Hicham Khalidi (Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht), Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu (tranzit. ro/ Iași), Pavel Brăila (Chișinău), Tereza Stejskalová (tranzit.cz, Prague), Georg Schöllhammer (tranzit.at, Viena), Dóra Hegyi (tranzit.hu, Budapest), Marius Alexandru Dan (Iași), Theo Prodromidis (Athens), Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand/CAPIm, Gothenburg), Ioana Florea (Bucharest), Nora Dorogan & Nicoleta Esinencu (Teatru Spălătorie, Chișinău), Cătălin Gheorghe (UNAGE/ Vector, Iași), Vladimir Us (Oberliht Association, Chișinău), Rusanda Alexandru Curcă & Elena Russu (Coalition of Independent Cultural Spaces, Chișinău), Maxim Polyakov (3rd Space, Chișinau).
Detailed info, here.
Institution(ing)s is a medium-scale collaboration project co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. Co-funded by the European Union.
The main partner of tranzit ro is the ERSTE Foundation.
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Results of the call for Curators and Artists at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts 2026
Congratulations to all artists and curators who will participate in the MQ – MuseumsQuartier residency program in Vienna in 2026:
January – February 2026
EtchingRoom 1 from Ukraine
March – April 2026
𝐕𝐢𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐫 Č𝐞𝐜𝐡 from the Czech Republic
March – April 2026
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐌𝐮 from Croatia
May – June 2026
𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢 in Romania
May – June 2026
𝐊𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐍𝐠𝐮𝐲ễ𝐧 in the Slovak Republic
July – August 2026
𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠 in Slovenia
September–October 2026
𝐒𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐲 from Hungary
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
Saturday, 25 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
Eugenia Morpurgo (Venice): Intentional Uncertainties. Biobased materials between caring and extractive practices.
12:00 – 14:00
The increasingly pressing ecological crisis requires design to question dominant production models, moving towards the use of biobased materials and the reorganisation of local and circular supply chains. With my work, I argue that such strategies, based on the principle of substitution, are not sufficient unless accompanied by a shift away from systems based on certainty in favour of approaches capable of embracing uncertainty as a necessary condition for embedding production within complex ecologies. Looking at plant and animal-based materials samples, we will critically discuss concepts such as regeneration, renewability, circularity, and bioregionalism, exploring how commoning practices allow us to embrace intentional uncertainties together.
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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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INSTITUTION(ING)S: GLOSSARY - OPEN CALL
About the Glossary
What does it mean to restitute and repair through the usage of languages, long excluded within institutional spaces, but are today sometimes over-represented? They are present in the museum, the gallery, the format of the exhibition, the performances, the conferences, among others.
Today, the creation of a glossary is an exercise to complement and continue to build from the work of writers, linguists, cultural workers in understanding how the politics of language is deeply inscribed in the ways we work, live with one another and define culture(s).
Languages, here, are described beyond words. They are not only verbal communication but also all the practices in which self and collective expression continues to visibilise, archive and evidence people, cultures and communities through the material, sonic, visual, cultural and bodily practices, inside and outside of the institution.
The glossary is a digital platform that will continue to reflect and think through the coexistence of contemporary cultures with the ones that are either lost, erased, endangered as they continue to be persecuted and ought to be revived — what are the languages we want to dismantle within our diverse vocabularies, or those we want to be loudly shared and acknowledged?
1. About the Open Call
For us, languages don't just mean words but relate to social and cultural practices, conviviality, collective, plural and fluid identities, emancipation, liberation and resistance. Often, they are things that cannot be translated into words — they are experiences to be lived.
The open call invites languages to be submitted to create a compilation of words /practices/actions/experiences that populate our lives. Therefore, they are sometimes dissonant or cannot be inside institutional walls. The submissions can be of both existent and new terms/practices/actions/experiences. We are creating an online resource that will be in dialogue with the broader Institution(ing)s project.
We are looking for materials that contain a multiplicity of meanings that a language cannot always encompass. The online glossary aims to be a platform that will host a plurality of these languages.
The submission can include but is not limited to: an image (such as a photograph; an archival document); an object; a song; a video; a choreography; a dish; a symbol; a drawing.
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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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ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit:
