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Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean
Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection
Clear, Lucid, and Awake | Public Program
NICE2025: TBA21 and Ocean Space (Venice) host the Archipelago Summit 2025
Open call! TBA21–Academy Artistic Residency in South America
Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies
Independent study program, Year One
Organismo | Public program
Independent study program, Year One
Otras montañas las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice
POROUS — Ports as Interspecies Dwelling
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq
A Journey into the Rural Music Traditions of North Africa and the Arab World
Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq | Public Program
TBA21 at the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice
TBA21–Academy’s public program during the Venice Biennale of Architecture vernissage week
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Echoes of the Sanctuary
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice
April 5 – November 2, 2025
Ocean Space Venice
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Ocean Space Venice
Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean
Exhibition at Villa Arson - Nice
May 8 – August 24, 2025
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Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection
Exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul
May 9 – July 20, 2025
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Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq.
Exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum - Madrid
February 18 – May 18, 2025
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otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua
Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice
April 5 – November 2, 2025
Ocean Space Venice
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Ocean Space Venice
The Ecologies of Peace
April 26, 2024 – March 30, 2025
C3A Córdoba
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The Ecologies of Peace II
Exhibition
September 27, 2024 – March 30, 2025
C3A Córdoba
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Terraphilia
Exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum - Madrid
July 1 – September 28, 2025
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Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula
Curated by Chus Martínez
October 8, 2024 – January 12, 2025
MNTB Madrid
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Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania
March 23–October 13, 2024
Ocean Space, Venice
Ocean Space Venice
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Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss (2021–2024)
March 23–October 13, 2024
Ocean Space, Venice
Ocean Space Venice
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Stephanie Comilang. Search for Life
Curated by Chus Martínez
March 5 – May 26, 2024
MNTB Madrid
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Remedios
Where new land might grow
April 14, 2023 – March 31, 2024
C3A Córdoba
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Remedios
Directions to the old ways
September 22, 2023 – March 31, 2024
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Liquid Intelligence
October 10, 2023 – January 28, 2024
MNTB Madrid
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Thus waves come in pairs:
Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano
April 22 – November 5, 2023
Ocean Space Venice
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Encounters
Works from the TBA21 Collection
May 31 – October 8, 2023
MNTB Madrid
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Wu Tsang
Of Whales
February 21 – June 11, 2023
MNTB Madrid
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Abundant Futures in Troubled Times
Works from the TBA21 Collection
October 19, 2022 – March 5, 2023
C3A Córdoba
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Abundant Futures
Works from the TBA21 Collection
April 1, 2022 – March 5, 2023
C3A Córdoba
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C3A Córdoba
Himali Singh Soin with music by David Soin Tappeser
The Third Pole
October 25, 2022 – January 29, 2023
MNTB Madrid
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Ragnar Kjartansson
Emotional Landscapes
February 22 – June 26, 2022
MNTB Madrid
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows
February 17 – July 25, 2022
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The Soul Expanding Ocean #3: Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive
April 9 – October 2, 2022
Ocean Space Venice
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The Soul Expanding Ocean #4: Diana Policarpo
Ciguatera
April 9 – October 2, 2022
Ocean Space Venice
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Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet
October 6, 2021 – January 23, 2022
MNTB Madrid
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The Soul Expanding Ocean #2: Isabel Lewis
O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A.
September 17 – October 17, 2021
Ocean Space Venice
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Ocean Space Venice
Territorial Agency:
Oceans in Transformation
August 27, 2020 – August 29, 2021
Ocean Space Venice
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Ocean Space Venice
Claudia Comte
After Nature
May 11 – August 22, 2021
MNTB Madrid
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The Soul Expanding Ocean #1: Taloi Havini
Answer to the Call
May 3 – October 17, 2021
Ocean Space Venice
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Taloi Havini
Answer to the Call, 2021
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How to Tread Lightly
st_age expanded, an exhibition
October 5, 2020 – January 17, 2021
TBA21 on st_age
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Joan Jonas
Moving Off the Land II
February 25 – September 13, 2020
MNTB Madrid
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno
More-than-humans
September 25 – December 1, 2019
MNTB Madrid
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John Gerrard
Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017
December 2 – December 13, 2019
MNTB Madrid
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Joan Jonas.
Moving Off the Land II
May 24 – September 29, 2019
Ocean Space Venice
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Amar Kanwar
The Lightning Testimonies and The Sovereign Forest
February 27 – May 19, 2019
MNTB Madrid
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Oceans.
Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview
July 4 – September 30, 2018
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Armin Linke
Prospecting Ocean
May 23 – September 30, 2018
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Océans
Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues
February 10 – April 22, 2018
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John Akomfrah
Purple
February 20 – May 25, 2018
MNTB Madrid
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Tidalectics
June 2 – November 19, 2017
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Atopia – Migration, Heritage and PlacelessnessAugust 16–November 26, 2017 | Museo de ArteContemporáneo, Lima, Peru
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Allan Sekula – OKEANOS
February 21–May 14, 2017 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
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Video: Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness
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Mario García Torres – An Arrival Tale
June 17–November 20, 2016 | TBA21– Augarten, Vienna
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Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
March 12–July 29, 2016 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
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Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness
August 10–September 29, 2016 | Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador
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Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness | March 1–May 29, 2016 | MamBo, Bogota, Colombia
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Olafur Eliasson – BAROQUE BAROQUE
November 21, 2015—March 6, 2016 | Winter Palace, Vienna
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Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin – Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret
June 25–November 29, 2015 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
June 25 – November 29, 2015
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RARE EARTH
February 19-May 31, 2015 | TBA21-Augarten, Vienna
February 19 – May 31, 2015
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Carsten Höller – LEBEN
July 11, 2014–January 4, 2015 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
January 11, 2014 – January 4, 2015
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Treasure of Lima:
A Buried Exhibition, 2014
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Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness
May 14–October 5, 2014 | MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico
May 14 – October 5, 2014
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Ragnar Kjartansson and friends – The Palace of the Summerland
April 3–June 8, 2014 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
April 3 – June 8, 2014
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Amar Kanwar – The Sovereign Forest
November 23, 2013–March 23, 2014 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
November 23, 2013 – March 3, 2014
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Cerith Wyn Evans – The What If?... Scenario (after LG)
July 5–November 3, 2013 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
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Ragnar Kjartansson
The Visitors
March 7 – June 16, 2013
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SHARON LOCKHART | NOA ESHKOL
November 23, 2012–February 24, 2013 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna
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Simon Starling / SUPERFLEX – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests | May 30–October 14, 2012 | TBA21, Vienna
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Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
June 7, 2011–2012 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
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Walid Raad – Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
May 26–June 15, 2011 | Wiener Festwochen / TBA21, Vienna
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Figura cuncta videntis (the all-seeing eye) / Homage to Christoph Schlingensief | November 16, 2010–April 16, 2011 | TBA21, Vienna
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Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
October 6, 2010-February 21, 2011 | LABoral, Gijón / Spain
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Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
May 22–September 19, 2010 | Istanbul
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Tactics of Invisibility
April 16–August 15, 2010 | TBA21, Vienna
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Transitory Objects
July 3, 2009–March 14, 2010 | TBA21, Vienna
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The Kaleidoscopic Eye
April 4–July 5, 2009 | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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A Question of Evidence
November 20, 2008–May 31, 2009 | TBA21, Vienna
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Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
October 2, 2008–January 11, 2009 | Seville
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The Way Things Are
June 14–October 31, 2008 | Znaki Czasu, Torun Poland
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph | March 6–October 26, 2008 | Kunsthaus Graz
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Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space | February 8–September 21, 2008 | TBA21, Vienna
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Shooting Back
June 6–December 16, 2007 | TBA21, Vienna
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THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Sculptural Discourses
November 23, 2006–April 29, 2007 | TBA21, Vienna
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Küba: Journey against the Current | May 1–September 9, 2006
Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria
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Nature Attitudes
April 4–September 9, 2006 | TBA21, Vienna
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Deseos fluidos
September 22-December 23, 2005 | TBA21, Vienna
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Puppets and Heavenly Creatures
June 4–September 9, 2005 |TBA21, Vienna
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Modus Operandi
November 25, 2004–April 30, 2005 | TBA21, Vienna
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ein-leuchten
July 25–September 5, 2004| Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
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Janet Cardiff: Walking thru'
April 20–June 26, 2004 | TBA21, Vienna
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Brightness | July 4–September 28, 2003
Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Wu Tsang. La gran mentira de la muerte
MACBA. Barcelona
July 20 – November 3, 2024
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Wu Tsang. La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death)
MACBA. Barcelona
July 19 – November 3, 2024
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