MUSEUM OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

The Museum of Real Estate Development group exhibition brings together contemporary artworks by ŠKART (SRB/SI), Andreas Fogarasi (AT), Sarah Muscalu (RO), Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (RO), Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu (RO) with a series of artistic, activist and sociological research projects, by Vladimir Us (MD), Preeti Kathuria (AT/IND), REDURB Research Group (RO).

The Museum of Real Estate Development invites us to imagine ourselves in the future, in a museum space where the public can see the material traces of the real estate development of the beginning of the third millennium in several cities of the world. We need this exercise of imagination (detachment from the present) to position ourselves in a critical way towards the studied phenomena as a part of contemporary capitalism, noting that real estate development is never a finished process, but one that is continually reinventing itself. We propose to cut out some spatio-temporal manifestations of this process with the aim of transforming them into targets of social-political-cultural criticism.

In this context, a public conference will bring together the theoretical contributions of REDURB research group (Enikő Vincze, Manuel B. Aalbers (NL/BE), Mihail Dumitriu, Ioana Florea, George Zamfir, Sorin Gog) with contributions of theorists and activists such as Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw (ET), ***STEALTH .unlimited – Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen (SRB/NL), Ovidiu Țichindeleanu (DK/RO/MD), Mick Wilson (IE), Preeti Kathuria (IND/AT) and those of such artists as Matei Bejenaru, Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Cătălin Gheorghe, Dumitrita Gurău, Cezar Lăzărescu, Cristina Moraru, Andrei Pripasu, Cristina Moraru , Delia Bulgaru, Andrei Gavril for whom the city of Iași is not only an object of research or theoretical reflection but is simultaneously also the place where they live and work.

The joint effort will materialize between August 1 and 5, 2024, when the entire group will meet in Iași for a few intensive days where we will alternate video screenings, discussions, cooking, workshop situations or guided tours that will culminate with the actual opening of the exhibition Museum of Real Estate Development at tranzit.ro/iasi space. More detailed information about the public program of this project can be found below.

In our current understanding, the Museum of Real Estate Development mediates the transfer of knowledge constituted in the form of specific sociological research on urban space and real estate development – in the making, to the field of contemporary art and research as well as vice versa. This mutual transfer is necessary insofar as we consider the cultural field as the one through which critical reflexes and dialectical processes regarding the common present can be developed. Thus, this transdisciplinary and international group, made up of social researchers, theorists and contemporary artists, using a methodology that is increasingly present in the field of contemporary art – the retrospective view from a possible future – tries to imagine a museum of real estate development. Held in Iasi and online, the project is built around three modules: “analysis/debate/display”, that are focussing on 3 themes: Financialization; Privatization/ Deindustrialization; Urban planning.

Museum of Real Estate Development Public Program:

1st of august 2024 – ora 19:00 – 21:00 – Screening of video works 2007- 2024. Participants: Matei Bejenaru, Andreea Faciu, Dan Acostioaei, Dragoș Alexandrescu, Cezar Lăzărescu, Vladimir Us, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, tranzit.ro/ Iași, Andrei Timofte, Andreea Cioară, Sit Vertical (Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu), Cătălin Gheorghe, Drazen Crnomat (BA)

2nd August 2024 – 9:00 – 16:00: Round Table: 3 moderated sessions, 20 public presentations followed by discussions. Participants: Vladimir Us, Cătălin Gheorghe, Dumitrita Gurau, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Andrei Timofte, Andreas Fogarasi, Mick Wilson, Eniko Vincze, Sorin Gog, George Zamfir, Ioana Florea, Mișa Dumitriu, ŠKART, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Cristina Moraru, Sarah Muscalu, Delia Bulgaru, Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu

3rd of August 2024: Exhibition opening & public presentations livestreamed on tranzit.ro’s official facebook page. 17:00 – 22:00 – Presentations by Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Preeti Kathuria, ***STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić & Marc Neelen), Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Eniko Vincze, Mick Wilson.

4th August 2024: Propaganda Bus Tour (on personal invitation)
9:00 – 16.00: Curated stops along a city route by Cezar Lăzărescu, Cristina Moraru & Cătălin Gheorghe, Sarah Muscalu, Livia Pancu & Florin Bobu, Andrei Pripasu (ZO Kraft), Delia Bulgaru, Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu.

Curated by Florin Bobu & Livia Pancu

More information about the REDURB project here.

The project is organized by tranzit.ro/ Iasi and 1+1 (Iași) in partnership of Oberliht Association (Chisinau), Fundația Desire (Cluj-Napoca), Asociația Quantic (București) and National University of Arts George Enescu (Iași).

The main partner of tranzit.ro is the ERSTE Foundation.

This is a cultural project co-financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. (AFCN). This project does not necessarily represent the position of The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how project results can be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.