Artists: 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).

OPENING: 3rd of August 2024, 8.00 p.m. with a public event starting at 4.00 p.m.

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 extractives or labor intensive ones also opened the space of contestation in which all these social, cultural and political practices are broadly situated.

The history of the Iași contemporary art scene itself is connected to these historical transformations of which the proliferation of the biennial culture and its in-depth analysis of the urban spaces is a clear symptom. In the late 90s and the 2000s, the Periferic Biennial focused on the city of Iași and reflected the political efforts to join the European Union. Under the banner of decentralization, cities became much more relevant than before while important changes occurred also at the level of the nation states, so in many of the cultural productions of this entire period we have the city as a very important level of analysis and critical scrutiny.

The exhibition Museum Of Real Estate Development attempts to join the discussion regarding the financialization of the economy, whereby financial markets dictate what happens on the markets and exploit the created objects through their financial value (beyond their use or social value), reflects on how financialization affects the ”real economy” in processes such as deindustrialization, privatization, etc. and interrogates how our cities change as a result of these processes.

For more information please visit: tranzit.ro / exhibition / museum-of-real-estate-development

Cover picture: Video still, When I work I miss them, when I sleep also I miss them (2015), Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor