The exhibition brings together artists, gardeners and researchers to explore cultivation as a way of producing knowledge and imagining new relationships with the living world.
Organized by tranzit.ro/București in partnership with MODEM and curated by Adelina Luft and Krisztián Gábor Török, the exhibition presents artistic practices that approach cultivation not simply as agriculture, but as a form of knowledge production, community building, and ecological imagination.
Bringing together artists, researchers, gardeners, and community practitioners from Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, the exhibition explores how artistic practice intersects with ecology, science, indigenous knowledge, and everyday forms of care. Rather than treating the garden as a metaphor, Cultivators of Life understands it as a living structure where relationships between people, plants, soil, memory, and place are continuously cultivated.
Participants:
Alex Bodea (Berlin), Annalee Davis (Barbados), Aterraterra (Palermo), Colectivo Suumil Móokt’aan (Yucatán), Fuzzy Earth (Budapest), Harun Morrison (London), Horia Bernea (Bucharest), Kitti Gosztola & Bence Pálinkás (Budapest), Marina Sulima (Groningen/Chișinău), Martin Piaček (Bratislava), Mónica de Miranda (Lisbon/London), de Onkruidenier Collective (Amsterdam), Orsolya Gál (Cluj-Napoca), PARI feat. Anang Saptoto (Yogyakarta), Raluca Popa (Berlin/Bucharest).
Cosmos Garden at the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life (with contributions from Raluca Voinea, Eduard Constantin, Adelina Ivan, and others), the Seed Bank Garden (Adina Moise and works from Codruta Birsan), Uzura Garden (Ana Barbu), Studio-Garden Crețești (Delia Popa), the garden of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Science in Debrecen (documented by Lilla Váczi) alongside research about the kertségek (the garden districts of Debrecen).