Living Thought Conversations
Yasmeen Al-Qaisi & Sujatro Ghosh: Nourishment, Kinship, and Hope /
Friday, 5 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The Legacy, Gazelei Str. 44, Bucharest
Sujatro Ghosh explores hunger not as absence but as political construction, tracing the afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in contemporary land struggles from India. Through the cultural significance of Annapurna, understood not as a distant goddess of nourishment but as a cultural framework, nourishment is seen as a right and as something political, spiritual, and relational, while rice as an archive and cosmological element. The result is a form of political theory connected to the global food sovereignty struggles, one that is inviting practices of learning from each other through land, care, community, and shared abundance. Yasmeen Al-Qaisi shares reflections, sounds and voices from a unique trajectory of finding and carefully relating to sources of nurturing and communion, by listening and learning from the wise grandmother from Teleorman and from night workers, from Ottoman and Arabic legacies, from peatlands in Lithuania, mines in Brazil, and the cohabitation with storks.
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Living Thought Conversations
Aldo Ramos: On Rooted Thought /
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Sala Acvariu
Monetăriei Str. 3, Bucharest
The current existential and planetary crisis underscores the need to envision other ways of understanding what goes on in the world and the need to relate differently to Earth and the other. Aldo Ramos questions in his work, in conversation with indigenous thought: If our thoughts are threads on a larger weaving, a fabric that shapes our reality, then what is the fabric our thoughts are woven into? How can we root our thoughts in the fabric that sustains life and us?
Aldo Ramos (born 1986, Mexico). Aldo is using art as a platform to promote pluriversal rather than universal knowledge. His practice is a service, a retribution to Earth that is shaped by the experience of listening and encourages relational ways of being with the Earth as re-existence. His practice is directed towards social healing by facilitating spaces for the practice of ancestral knowledges. In his practice, relationality is more important than the work itself. Aldo has established a connection through his practice with other people who aspire to construct alternatives to the current system. He also co-founded Pluriversity Umunukunu (Pluriversity Weavers), together with the Iku (Arhuaco), who are considered living seeds of hope in other possible worlds. Aldo is a co-founder of the Weaving Realities collective, with which he organizes performances and workshops by thinking-feeling with living Earth. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Living Thought Conversations
Areej Ashhab: On Material Losses and Returns /
Friday, 28 November 2025, 6-8 pm
Rezidența9, Ion Luca Caragiale 32, Bucharest
Across Palestine’s hills and valleys, plants, soil and stone hold memory both materially and intergenerationally: the prickly-pear hedges that redraw erased village boundaries, remnants of lime pits that once held fires for transforming stone into plaster, or the scattered earths of construction sites once kneaded and shaped into everyday objects. While these materials might fade into the background, they carry the imprints of loss as well as the capacities for return.
In this talk, Areej Ashhab reflects on how her work with land-based collectives and material practices cultivates ecologies of continuity—ways of working that persist through interruption, transmit knowledge across generations, and reorient our relation to place. Moving through walking-based research, arboreal histories, and recent inquiries into material archiving, she traces how engagement with the land can activate submerged histories, build communal infrastructures of care, and imagine futures in the midst of escalating settler colonial violence and dispossession.
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Rendezvous with the Spring Entrance Community
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 6-8 pm
The Romanian Order of Architects
Pictor Arthur Verona 19, Bucharest
We invite you to the closing event of the project Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte, in which members of ASK (Amaranth Seed Kollektive) will present the activities of the community, the mobile shelters built within the project framework, and the connecting events organized over three months with local and international guests.
The scope of the rendezvous is to socialize the activities of the community to an urban audience and to open up a dialog on transdisciplinary practices that combine art with ecology, architecture, manual work, collaboration and translocal dialogue to shape an ethical and sustainable artistic community.
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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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Quiet Food Sovereignity in Eaestern Europe
Lecture /
With Natalia Momonova (Ukraine/Norway)
respondent: Valer Simion Cosma (Romania)
Friday, 19th 2024, 6-8 p.m
at The National Museum of Romania Peasant (Sala Acvariu entrance from the restaurant)
Cover credits: watercolor painting by Natalia Mamonova
Feeding a growing world population with sustainably produced food has been a challenge and it became critically important in the wake of covid-19, climate change, the wars in ukraine and gaza, and the rise of the far right in europe. while politicians debate how to make our food systems more innovative and resilient, there is a solution that has been available and practised in eastern europe for decades. smallholder farming and local food networks are widespread in many post-socialist countries, but are not typically seen as sustainable alternatives to globalised industrial agriculture. meanwhile, as the example of ukraine has shown, these practices are not only environmentally friendly and sustainable, but also capable of feeding the country’s population with healthy food in peace and wartime.
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Discussion around the book Bright Ecologies with Caretto/Spagna
Saturday, 6th of July.2024, at 2. p.m
A meeting at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
GPS Coordinates
The Italian artistic duo Caretto/Spagna will present their first monograph entitled "Bright Ecologies. Caretto/Spagna: experiences, forms, materials" which extensively traces and documents more than 20 years of their artistic research structured on research involving care, the transformation of matter and experiments in form, materialized in sculptures, site-specific installations, laboratories, residencies, actions, and collective projects based on encounter, process, gift, participation, and co-authorship. The result of a close dialogue between artists, curators, and the publisher, the publication blends a documentary approach, critical and theoretical interpretation, and a rich body of descriptions and images.
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Forever – is composed of Nows –
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Siliștea Snagovului
GPS Coordinates
In this present in which the future is almost cancelled, #solarpunk imagines a way to be together based on other options than denial or despair. In this speculative imaginary, manifested as sci-fi literary and artistic forms, and rapidly expanding in multiple forms of popular culture, the solar, understood as renewable energy, meets punk as form of self-organisation, thus representing a trend in discontinuity with genres like cyberpunk, dieselpunk or steampunk.
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Arief Yudi Rahman/ Jatiwangi art Factory: The New Rural Agenda
Saturday, 23rd of July 2022, 5-8 p.m.
Discussion moderated by Adelina Luft, accompanied by dinner
The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, Silistea Snagovului
For documenta fifteen in Kassel, the Jatiwangi art Factory has developed the New Rural Agenda—a transnational summit among rural community networks. The summit was preceded by the New Rural School, a series of knowledge and narrative exchanges in the form of conferences, amateur radio talks, and the Bulletin Rural School. It emphasized diverse perspectives from below and peripheries, challenging uniform ideas of progress and sustainability.
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FEINART / Symposium on Socially Engaged Art
Saturday, 26 of March - from 9 to 6 PM.
Location: Aðalbygging, University of Iceland
Entrance: free admission
tranzit.ro, partner institution within FEINART programme, announces a full-day conference which will take place at the University of Iceland on 26 of March 2022. The conference was dedicated to contemporary challenges in socially engaged art practice addressing questions on democracy, social and cultural policy as well as new forms of artistic and curatorial practice.
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Halfway to Paradise
A discussion about artistic initiatives’ (re)turn to nature. /
With: Adriana Chiruta, Irina Botea & Jon Dean, V. Leac, Daniela Palimariu, Delia Popa
Sunday, 30 January 2022, 4 p.m.
https://whereby.com/public-meetings
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Guided Urban Walks on Viitorului Street
“Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain.” /
tranzit.ro/ București organises from 20th of September to the 1st of November 2021 the project “Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain.*” Exhibitions and intersections, Paris Viitorului [Paris Future], a project co-financed by Bucharest City Council through ARCUB within the Programme Bucharest – Open City 2021
In the frame of this project, we invite you from 21 October to the 1st of November to a series of urban walks guided by: Mara Mărăcinescu, Florin Dumitrescu, Rucsandra Pop, V. Leac, Alice Gancevici & Remus Pușcariu, Ioana Tudora.
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From local to planetary: changing the way of life
Gilles Clément in dialogue with Civic Movement R-Urban /
27 July 2021, 6 pm
Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151, Bucharest
“As planetary gardeners, we depend on all the biological diversity that we harness for a living. We must preserve it to ensure a future. What kind of model do we want to develop, to allow both the exploitation of diversity for the benefit of an expanding world population, and the preservation, in quality and quantity terms, of that diversity on which we depend? We must respond to this question as quickly as possible if we are not to succumb to the inevitability of irreversible forces of destruction, but rather to develop in every conceivable field a mental territory of optimism – a garden.” (Gilles Clément, 2021)
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The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art
FEINART Lecture Series with Gregory Sholette, Artist, Activist, Writer /
19.03.2021 – starting at 5:00pm CET
In the frame of the FEINART lecture series the author Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the unusual dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist). He describes a new wave of activist art taking place not only within community-based protest groups, as it has for decades, but also amongst professionally trained, MFA-bearing art practitioners, many of whom, by choice or by circumstance, refuse to respect the conventional borders separating painting from protest, or art from utility.
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The Problems and Horizons of Socially Engaged Art Today
FEINART Lecture Series with Prof John Roberts /
The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art
We are proud to announce the first of the FEINART Lecture Series.
On March 5 at 18:30 CET Prof John Roberts from the University of Wolverhampton will give a lecture on ‘The Problems and Horizons of Socially Engaged Art Today’. The talk will address the core questions of democracy, collaboration, and autonomy and will be moderated by Prof Karen van den Berg of Zeppelin University.
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The Convenient Percent: the Humanistic Research
A debate with Veronica Lazăr and Delia Bădoi /
Organised by Sofia Nădejde Awards project together with tranzit.ro/Bucureşti
Monday, 17 February 2020, 7:00 pm
Londohome, Str. David Praporgescu 31, București
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Launch of Corner magazine #7 & #8
CORNER fottball + society
Combo launch
Monday, 16 December 2019, 7 p.m.
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Contemporary Art Institutions: The Kunstverein Model.
A presentation by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ /
Monday, 24th of June, 2019, 7 p.m.
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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This is My Home, My Land and My Country
A presentation by Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari /
Wednesday, 5th of June 2019, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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stealing earth
A presentation by Karan Shrestha /
Saturday, 18 May 2019, 6:30 pm
tranzit.ro/Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
We invite you to a presentation by Karan Shrestha and an informal discussion with him about his work and about the artistic scene in the places where he lives.
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Arc Talks: Mathilde Villeneuve/ Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Solitude Projects /
Tuesday, 9 October 2018, 7 pm
The Experimental Station for Research
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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Re-building with Rammed Earth
Presentation by Mihai Silvestru, Arhigest /
Thursday, 4 October 2018, 6:30 p.m.
The Experimental Station for Research
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
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Regional museums and contemporary art collections
Presentation by Zdenka Badovinac /
Monday, 18 June 2018, 8 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
An event organized in partnership with PAV (Visual Art Platform), developed by Dan Perjovschi within FITS – The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, 25th edition, 2018.
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Museums, Biennials and Politics
Presentation by Charles Esche /
Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 9 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei 44, sector 4
An event organized in partnership with PAV (Visual Art Platform), developed by Dan Perjovschi within FITS – The International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, 24th edition, 8-19 June 2017.
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The Spontaneous Flora
Lecture by Professor Mihaela Ioana Georgescu /
Thursday, 25 May 2017, 6 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event curated by Iuliana Dumitru and Athena Dumitriu
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ARTA Magazine presents: Structural censorship, crackdown and resistance. What’ going on in the cultural politics in Hungary?
A talk by artportal.hu editor in chief Gergely Nagy /
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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The Magurele Laser: A Solution Looking for a Problem
Presentations and Discussion with Ana Bazac and Nicolae Zamfir
An event curated by Claudiu Cobilanschi
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Technologies of Love
Artist Talk with Ania Nowak /
Monday, 3 April 2017, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Christiane Erharter: Bees in Art
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 6:45 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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h.arta
A definition of politics in a physical form /
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 6 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Katharina Koch: Feminist approaches in art curating
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 7:30 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Nicoleta Esinencu: Book launch
Introduction by Nora Dorogan /
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 8:15 pm
Tranzit Orangery
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Plant Shamanism and the Seven Gates of Wisdom
A presentation by Joanne Richardson /
Saturday, 26 November 2016, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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A Guide of Medicinal Plants
A presentation by Ovidiu Bojor /
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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If it doesn't work, make it bigger
Prezentare de geheimagentur /
In the frame of Actopolis project
Monday, 11 April 2016, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
Căminul Cultural presents two conferences as part of the series The Chomsky-Foucault Debate:
Nick Srnicek
Inventing The Future: Postcapitalism And A World Without Work
Saturday, 7 November 2015, 5 pm
and
Helen Hester
After Work: What's Left and Who Cares?
Monday, 9 November 2015, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Manifesto For The Gynecene - Sketch For A New Geological Era
A discussion with Alexandra Pirici and Raluca Voinea /
29 October 2015, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized by Caminul Cultural
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Vegetal
A conversation with the writers Dănuț Ungureanu & Marian Truță and the literary critic Mihai Iovănel /
A conversation with the writers Dănuț Ungureanu & Marian Truță and the literary critic Mihai Iovănel, starting from the book with the same title, published by the two authors in the collection “Nautilus – science fiction” of Nemira Publishing House in 2014.
Wednesday, 10 June 2015, 6-8 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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The paradoxical post-communist utopia of artist-led-spaces in Bucharest
A round-table discussion organized and moderated by Igor Mocanu /
Participants: Adrian Guță, Farid Fairuz, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Simona Dumitriu, Suzana Dan, Veda Popovici
Monday, 9 March 2015, 7:30 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Towards an understanding of the Anthropocene landscapes
Presentation by Axel Braun /
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized together with Goethe-Institut Bucharest.
“Large scale technologies, like reservoirs and hydro power plants, are perfect examples for how humans alter landscapes to satisfy their growing needs. This artistic research project aims to investigate the relation of power and responsibility in the context of...
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From below and to the left: the revolutionary law of indigenous women and the decolonial cosmovision
Presentation and discussion with Sylvia Marcos and Ovidiu Țichindeleanu /
On the occasion of the launch of the new book collection PLURITOPIC at IDEA Publishing House, with the book of Sylvia Marcos, “Femeile indigene și cosmoviziunea decolonială”.
Monday, 6 October 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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Is political news real? Or is it only a fiction that covers economic interests?
- an evening with artists Jacopo Tomassini and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson - /
Italian artist Jacopo Tomassini and Danish artist Rikke Ehlers Nilsson, both of them currently in residence at Bucharest Air, have come together to present their individual practices in order to start a conversation about European identity, Bucharest’s new landscape and the visual economy they are researching for their artistic works.
Thursday, 31st of July 2014, from 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44
This event is part of the residency of artists Jacopo Tomassini and Rikke Ehlers Nilsson at Bucharest Air.
http://www.bucharestair.com/#news
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Ion Grigorescu. Diaries 1970-1975
Bucharest book launch /
tranzit.at & tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti invite you to the launch of the book:
Ion Grigorescu
Diaries 1970-1975
Edited by Georg Schöllhammer and Andreiana Mihail.
Translations by Nicolae Dumitru.
Published by Sternberg Press, 2014
Bucharest launch: Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 7pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
With the participation of: Ion Grigorescu, Andreiana Mihail, Georg Schöllhammer and Alina Şerban
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Walking Sounds
Sound walk with Maria Balabaș and Daria Ghiu; concert with Maria and Mihai Balabaș /
“Walking sounds” with Maria Balabaș and Daria Ghiu – sound walk in the Filaret-Unirii neighbourhood
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12-2 pm
Concert with Maria and Mihai Balabaș
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 7 pm
Meeting point for the walk and concert venue: tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
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River School Bucharest
Tour of the Văcărești Bucharest Delta
9 May 2014, 2-4 pm
River School Seminar
9 May 2014, 5-8 pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti
Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4, Bucharest
Presentations and a discussion on the planetary dimensions of energy and ecology, with artist Ursula Biemann, social anthropologist Miruna Tîrcă, and curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes, moderated by Raluca Voinea, curator tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti. The River School Seminar is followed by the opening of the exhibition Like a Bird: Avian Ecologies in Contemporary Art.
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Congress of Pessimism
A series of lectures presented by The Bureau of Melodramatic Research /
For four evenings this week, darkness will resurrect the grim spirits during The Congress of Pessimism. The Bureau of Melodramatic Research presents:
Nicola Masciandaro: A Matter of Sorrow: The Trouble with Not Being Born & Following the Sigh
Wednesday 23rd of April, 19:00
Thursday 24th of April, 19:00
Ben Woodard: This Wandering Insignificance: The Desert of Reason & The Sea of Nature
Saturday 26th of April, 17:00
Sunday 27th of April, 17:00
Where:
tranzit. ro/ București,
Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
More: http://thebureauofmelodramaticresearch.blogspot.ro/
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An informal discussion about permaculture with Rakesh
Organized by Transition Towns Romania within the Tranzit Garden /
An informal discussion about permaculture with Rakesh
Organized by Transition Towns Romania within the Tranzit Garden
4 April 2014, 7 pm
tranzit.ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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Five Times Bucharest/ Olivia Mihălțianu & How to Make Your First Million/ Bogdan Costin
Film screening and public reading /
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 7 pm
tranzit. ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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“Reclaiming the City” by Ștefan Rusu
Followed by a discussion with Alma Cazacu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu and Andra Matzal. /
Goethe-Institut București and tranzit.ro/ București invite you to the screening of the film:
“Reclaiming the City” by Ștefan Rusu
Followed by a discussion with Alma Cazacu, Ștefan Ghenciulescu and Andra Matzal.
Friday, 7 February 2014, 6 pm
Address: tranzit. ro/ București, Str. Gazelei, nr. 44, sector 4
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tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti - CHIŞINĂU - CITY DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE
Screening and discussion with Pavel Brăila /
Chişinău - city difficult to pronounce
Screening and discussion with Pavel Brăila
Friday, 18 November 2013, 6pm
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4
An event organized by Goethe-Institut Bucharest and tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Utopian Vestiges: The Phalanx from Scaeni
tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti
UTOPIAN VESTIGES: THE PHALANX FROM SCĂENI
Friday, 22 March 2013, 18h30, tranzit.ro/ Bucureşti, Str. Gazelei nr. 44, sector 4: presentations and discussions with Adrian Dohotaru, Ştefan Tiron and Ion Dumitrescu. Screening of the film „Falansterul”, 1979, directed by Savel Ştiopul.
Saturday, 23 March 2013, 11h30, Casa de Cultură from Boldeşti-Scăeni: roundtable together with local personalities from Boldeşti-Scăeni.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Debate and book launch with CriticAtac
A year since the 2012 protests + launch of CriticAtac 2012 Anthology /
On the occasion of the publication of CriticAtac 2012 Anthology (published by Editura TACT, Cluj), you are invited to a book launch and debate, starting from what was probably the most important event with political implications lately: the social movements from January 2012.
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tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti - Silver Academy - a project by Pavel Sterec
An event organized by the Czech Centre Bucharest /
Together with our friends from the Czech Centre in Bucharest we're inviting you to an event by Pavel Sterec - an occasion also to preview our tranzit.ro space in Bucharest. With smell of fresh paint, some tools still around, hot tea and a vivid discussion about education at any age.
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