Institution(ing)s: (Cultural) Institutions in Semiperipheries | Collective study visit | Economy Lab | Iasi&Chisinau
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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
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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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Raut: Monsters in Art Show How to Escape Societal Expectations
Interview with Miriama Kardošová and Tina Hrevušová / cz /
In the seventh episode of the Raut podcast, we talk with artists Miriama Kardošová and Tina Hrevušová about autofictional methods in performance and about presenting sensitive content within the safe space of the gallery.
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Results of the call for Curators and Artists at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts 2026
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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
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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 / ro /
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
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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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Ana de Almeida: The Resistant Archive
Exhibition at tranzit sk / sk /
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Shelter for collective dreaming / Adăpost pentru vremuri incerte
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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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Live video lecture: hannah baer – I need you [in the club]
In collaboration with the Lunchmeat Festival / cz /
tranzit.cz and the Lunchmeat Festival have invited writer and psychologist hannah baer to give a live video lecture in Prague on September 25, which will offer a radical perspective on nightlife.
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Raut: From Elites to Inclusion. Babysitting as the Key to Cultural Participation
Interview with Bára Šimková and Petr Dlouhý on Building Support Structures for Parents in the Arts / cz /
Many people are leaving the world of culture and art due to caregiving responsibilities, with parents having to choose between their creative work and looking after their children. An interview with curator Petr Dlouhý from the Parent Friendly Culture initiative and artist Bára Šimková, founder of the children's studio Ateliér dětí at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, about creating spaces for intergenerational encounters and opportunities for the inclusion of parents and caregivers in arts education.
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Abundance. Resilience. Reconnection.
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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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2025 Editorial Plan
See what's coming out this year in the tranzit.cz publishing house! / cz /
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Newsletter
Latest information about the Biennale Matter of Art, new books from the tranzit publishing house, and other projects – straight into your mailbox. / cz /
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Online Bookshop
Order books published by tranzit.cz at knihy.matterof.art / cz /
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The Raut Podcast Has a New Season
Subscribe to Raut on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud / cz /
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Towards other possible artworlds
Lectures, discussion forums, screenings / sk /
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Biennale Matter of Art
The project comprises the international exhibition of contemporary art taking place once every two years as well as the platform’s long-term activities, which engage in critical reflection of the institutional aspects of the biennale format in the / cz /
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The Space of Opportunity is open
Community space under 63 Práter Street / hu /
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ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit:
