Activities

The project activities include social labs, material labs, economy labs, workshops, residencies, a glossary of future practices, nomadic schools, community gardens, collective study visits coinciding with content debate assemblies, sustainability campaigns (online), fieldworks for policymakers, and seals for good practices. The activities are carried out by the network, in partner institutions, online or across multiple sites.

Will you keep the lighthouse bright?

Apparatus 22

Apparatus 22. Positive Tension (on curating)

Grafting Utopia

Artists in Residency Programme - Apparatus 22

On Naming as a Technology to See the World Differently. An intermediate report

a video by Apparatus 22

How Close to Hold the Mirror? and A Most Amazing Offer

two performances by Apparatus 22

Arctic Routes, Southern Ways and Institution(ing)s Curatorial Research Residency - Francisca Portugal

Collective Study Visit and Content Debate Assembly

Intermediary meeting in Iași

"We're running, brother, in all directions!"

Public presentation at Zpațiu, Republic of Moldova

Presentation of Institution(ing)s by Livia Pancu and Florin Bobu (tranzit.ro/ Iași)

Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

'Sometimes things also need to collapse for reimagination'

(Cultural) Institutions in Semiperipheries

Reading Group: Goddess Change

a gathering with Marly Pierre-Louis, hosted by Anna Hoetjes and Müge Yılmaz

'The Body in the Middle'

a conversation with Landra on foraging, body, and earth

The Collective Glossary

Meeting with the MA Students in Curatorial Studies of Colégio das Artes, Coimbra

visit and presentation of Institution(ing)s in the reading area

Cada poema, o tatear | Each poem, a feeling gesture

visit accompanied by a poetry reading, by André Tecedeiro

Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making

talk and presentation at MNAC

The Listening Biennial Lisbon 2025

Balls and galls from Francisco Trêpa

Francisco Trêpa. Gall Ball

Gall Ball! Sculptures in Motion

Open Call - Institution(ing)s Glossary

Peace with Earth

Landras

workshop by Landra

O Corpo no Meio | The Body in the Middle

reading session by Landra

James Webb, tuuui trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Re-Wall, spatial manifesto

From the surrounds, we build the present

Interview for Contemporânea

Francisco Trêpa

'The result is an exhibition in constant metamorphosis'

Building Institution(ing)s' Collective Glossary

with Cindy Sissokho

Mycelial Methodologies

talk by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

Becoming Fungal

workshop by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez

The Age of Excess

XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

Root(ing)s: the art institution as an ecosystem

Toolkit: model(s) for replication

Institution(ing)s: imagi(nin)g artistic institutions for the future

Public presentation of the Institution(ing)s by Luísa Santos

Open Call

Curatorial Research residency in Bergen, Norway in the frame of the Arctic Routes, Southern Ways and the Institution(ing)s

Mirna Bamieh

'Theme ephemeral traces recipes, songs, or the scent of a lemon, are the breath of history, not its footnotes.'

Institution(ing)s Kickoff meeting and content debate assembly

On Institution(ing)s

talk by Cindy Sissokho

Sour Things: the workshop

by Mirna Bamieh

From the Gut: Food, Power, and Installations of Resistance

an artist talk by Mirna Bamieh

How Close to Hold the Mirror & A Most Amazing Offer

by Apparatus 22

Public presentation of the Institution(ing)s

introduced by Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and CAM – Gulbenkian Foundation

Workshop with the students: Frans Jacobi

The All Ready Workshop with Frans Jacobi