WASP Working Art Space and Production

10/03/2026

🌍 What does it mean to live — and create — from the “edge”?

Arts on the Edge Spaces (ARES) has officially launched.

From 4–6 March we gathered in Düsseldorf with 🇷🇴
Sciaena 🇵🇹
HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme 🇫🇮
— hosted by Kompliz:innen 🇩🇪

to begin a 2-year journey connecting art, ecology and communities across Europe.

This kick-off was about building the foundation:
• a shared Green Code for sustainable residencies and production
• a Diversity & Fair Selection framework
• itinerant exhibition strategies
• long-term cross-border collaboration

We immersed ourselves in Grund und Boden. How We Live Together at (K21), exchanged with curator Jessica Aydin and artist Miriam Bornewasser at , and discussed with Caspar Weimann (onlinetheater.live) how digital communities and hybrid artistic practices respond to polarised realities.

ARES unfolds in places often seen as peripheral — treating “edge positions” as sites of knowledge, resilience and imagination.

🚀 Open call results coming soon.
2026 Residencies + touring exhibition in 2027.

Follow the journey.

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.

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26/11/2025

TEMPORALIA / Eco-connections
27.11.2025, 19:00
WASP Working Art Space and Production
Artists: Andreea Căpitănescu, Mălina Ionescu &Andreea Medar, Carmen Tofeni, Floriama Cândea, Maia Ștefana Oprea, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter, Vasile Rață
Curator: Andreea Căpitănescu

Our world is in urgent need of profound transformation, and artistic practices that work with the body, time, and the environment have become essential tools for rethinking how we relate to ecosystems and social structures. Through presence and embodied attention, the body becomes a vector of perception rooted in the world, echoing anthropologist Tim Ingold’s view that humans and their environments shape one another through immersion, rhythm, and interdependence.
In the broader context of green policies and today’s debates on ecological transition, art takes on the role of making visible the invisible processes, tensions, and vulnerabilities shaping our landscapes — from the shifting border of the Prut River to the post-industrial terrains of Iași, from the geological layers of Oltenia to the tourism pressure confronting fishing communities in Culatra, and the intimate ecologies revealed in botanical installations. The works in the exhibition demonstrate that transformation cannot be separated from territory, memory, or responsibility toward shared habitats.
This perspective invites us to move beyond anthropocentrism and reconsider our place within the web of life — resonating with ecofeminist theories and the ethics of care articulated by thinkers such as Val Plumwood and Anna Tsing, who emphasize cooperation, fragility, and interdependence as foundations for a sustainable future.
In this sense, art becomes a model of regeneration: a space where creativity and care coexist with ecological responsibility. Through collaboration, shared processes, and attunement to environmental rhythms, the works presented not only reflect the current crisis but actively participate in acts of renewal, healing, and collective imagination.
Curated by Andreea Căpitănescu, the exhibition TEMPORALIA engages with both urban and ecological contexts, proposing a dialogue between tradition and innovation, territory and memory

15/07/2025

On July 25th from 7:00 PM at WASP, Ioana Aron will present a sequence from her performance "We Are Here", a project developed in collaboration with choreographers Favela Vera Ortiz and Georgeta Corca, and composer Abigel Varga.

"We Are Here" is a performance-manifesto, a call addressed to the entire art world — a wake-up call and, at the same time, a return to essence: the artist as a living, fragile, complex being, not a product for consumption. The work explores the relationship between history, time, and space, delving into personal and collective memory through a series of emotionally charged performative moments.

Following the performance, we invite you to an open talk with Ioana Aron and Călina Coman, curator and art historian, to further explore the themes and creative processes behind this work.

18/06/2025

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