Past

Get Up Stand Up: Artists for Jamaica & Los Angeles

A Landmark Benefit Auction Co-Organized by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and CORE

Palestine is Everywhere Book Presentation at ARCO

Ukrainian sound artists Zavoloka, Slava Lepsheiev, and Nastya Vogan headline the electronic night No Silence Tonight.

Moby Dick – The Whale. The Story of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary Art

Doge’s Apartment and Chapel, Palazzo Ducale di Genova

John Akomfrah: Listening All Night To The Rain

Exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Public Program "Listening All Night To The Rain"

Concert: Polifeme, I m a g o s o n i

Organismo 2026 | Public Program

The Current V: Ancestral Ocean

Convening #1: Marine Intersections and Coastlines as Webs

OCEAN / UNI

Fall 2025: Spaces of Collaboration

OPEN CALL for participants: OCEAN / UNI Activations

On Filmmaking: co-creating narratives with Joel Kaudife Haikali

TBA21 at the 15th CoMuseum International Conference

Reflecting on the Past, Reclaiming the Future

Elyla participates in Loop Festival with Torita–encuetada at the Fundació Enric Miralles

Latai Taumoepeau: Deep Communion sung in minor (ArchipelaGO, THIS IS NOT A DRILL)

Biennale Son 2025, Switzerland

Join our digital event live from Venice:

Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

Compromiso con el Clima:

The Unthinkable

IV Autumn Conference on Cultural Law:

The Participation of Communities in Museums and Other Cultural Institutions

Organismo 2026

New Open Call is Live

The Great Collecting of Contemporary Art: New Canons and Their Interpreters

Francesca Thyssen and Markus Reymann — Conversation Series

Convivial Tables

otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua

Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

Echoes of the Sanctuary

Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

Concert in solidarity with Sudan and Gaza

at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua

OCEAN / UNI

The Current

Ocean Fellowship

Light Spectra, by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

Exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía

36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom

TBA21 at MONDIACULT 2025

UNESCO conference in Barcelona, Spain

OcéanoFuturismos: Speculative fiction for ocean governance

Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM–CSIC), Barcelona

Terraphilia: Beyond the Human in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025

Terrafilia Fest

Arts for political ecology and radical imagination

Terrafilia Fest

Sunday Program

Terrafilia Fest

Film Cycle

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: De espiral en espiral

Performance at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea / CCB, Lisbon

Terrafilia Fest

Saturday Program

Terrafilia Fest

Friday Program

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: De espiral en espiral

Performance at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Voices of Water: a Rights of Nature

Workshop at Tate Modern, London

Floating Cinema 2025

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean

An exhibition at Villa Arson, on the occasion of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice 2025

Clear, Lucid, and Awake - Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection

Exhibition at Art Sonje Center, Seoul

liquid kin

ocean comm/uni/ty festival

Organismo | Public program - Spring

Independent study program, Year One

Public Presentation of Organismo Year One

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies

TBA21 Solstice Festival

With Adelita Husni Bey, Nandita Kumar, and Carlos Casas

Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action: Contemporary Art Institutions as Agents for Ocean Sustainability

TBA21–Academy Artist Film Program

TIDAL SHIFTS

Exhibition at NEO VogelART LAB - Nice, France

The Protection Principle Task Force

An official UNOC3 Side Event & Reception at Villa Arson - Nice, France

POROUS — Ports as Interspecies Dwelling

Symposium & Live Program at Villa Arson - Nice, France

OcéanoFuturismos: Science Fiction prototyping future Ocean imaginaries

Workshop at C.U.M. L’Université de l’Océan (Nice City Council) - Nice, France

Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq | Public program

Tarek Atoui. At-Tāriq.

Exhibition at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum - Madrid

TBA21–Academy’s public program during the Venice Biennale of Architecture vernissage week

Clear, Lucid, and Awake | Public Program

Art Sonje Centre, Seoul

TBA21 and Ocean Space (Venice) host the Archipelago Summit 2025

A bold vision for Europe's cultural, ecological, and digital futures

The Ecologies of Peace

The Ecologies of Peace II

Exhibition

The Ecologies of Peace II - Winter Mediation Program

Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula

Curated by Chus Martínez

Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula

Public Program

Proximity program The Ecologies of Peace

Organismo | Year One

Public Program - Fall

OCEAN / UNI

bárawa

Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania

Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

Confluence of European Water Bodies 2024

Venice, Italy

The Current IV: Caribbean

Flotation #2 Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel
Bocas del Toro, Panama

El cine filipino y el archipiélago migrante

Ocean Imagination and Ocean Action Film Program

Contemporary Art Institutions as Agents for Ocean Sustainability

Stephanie Comilang. Search for Life

Curated by Chus Martínez

Public Program

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

OCEAN / UNI

Pacific Resistance

Remedios

Where new land might grow

Remedios

Directions to the old ways

Sopera de Yemayá, 2020

Programa de Proximidad Invierno

Liquid Intelligence, an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2023

Public Program Liquid Intelligence

OCEAN / UNI

Culturing the Deep Sea: Towards a common heritage for allkind

Programa de Proximidad

The Current IV: Caribbean

Convening #1 “...telling of oceanic transformations”
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Two-day workshop at Porto Design Biennale

As part of the OCEAN / UNI semester: Culturing the Deep Sea: Towards a common heritage for allkind

Third Margin Deepest Spring

12th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 4-7, 2023 | Dharamshala, India

Thus waves come in pairs:

Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano

Convivial Tables:

Sapid Soil

The lagoon / has the moon / between its legs / playing ball

Venice as a Model for the Future?

Encounters

Works from the TBA21 Collection

The Art of Reparation

Opening Program 'Remedios: Directions to the old ways'

The Current IV: Caribbean

Flotation #1 Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel
Guatemala

Commoning Collective Care

Curating on the Move – International curatorial and artistic workshop

Wu Tsang

Of Whales

Conversation Studio 21: Of Whales

Symposium: Down alive to wondrous depths

Exploring the oceans from contemporary ecology, science, speculation and fiction.

Performance

Open Call Meandering

Snakes, whales, tongues, mountains, hats

When fate catches us up

Desperate actions in the face of the sixth extinction

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

Wu Tsang. Film MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

Remedios: Where new land might grow

Opening program

Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender

~ Second Cycle ~ The Mediterraneans Beyond Aridity

Abundant Futures in Troubled Times

Works from the TBA21 Collection

Abundant Futures

Works from the TBA21 Collection

Proximity Program

Opening Performance MOBY DICK; or, The Whale (2022)

Himali Singh Soin with music by David Soin Tappeser

The Third Pole

Himali Singh Soin

Performances

Himali Singh Soin

Technologies of Love

OCEAN / UNI

Studies in Blue Agency — Six global tales against eco-anxiety

An Ocean Without Shore

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

The Soul Expanding Ocean #4: Diana Policarpo

Ciguatera

Cohabiting within Wetness.

Venice as a Model for the Future?

Imagine the ocean / dry as lavender

Online exhibition after OCEAN / UNI

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

The Murder of Crows

Commented visits

Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection

We Passed Through Earth Lightly as Water

The Current III: Mediterraneans
Sardinia

Prismas

Ragnar Kjartansson

Emotional Landscapes

Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)

The Journeying Stream

OCEAN / UNI: Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender

Mediterraneans as hotspot for climate change and adaptation

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21 Collection

Opening Program

Walid Raad: Cotton Under My Feet

Walid Raad

Two Drops per Heartbeat (walkthrough-performance)

OCEAN / UNI

How to Wade Through Water? Storytelling as a Method

The Soul Expanding Ocean #2: Isabel Lewis

O.C.E.A.N.I.C.A.

The Soul Expanding Ocean #1: Taloi Havini

Answer to the Call

Antarctic Resolution

Lagoon Micro-ecologies.

Venice as a Model for the Future?

SUPERFLEX:

Vertical Migration

Territorial Agency:

Oceans in Transformation

Claudia Comte

After Nature

Walking a wavy line

The Current III: Mediterraneans
Venice

OCEAN / UNI Spring Semester:

Ocean Commons – Reclaiming the common oceans

How to Tread Lightly

st_age expanded, an exhibition

Sense to Act:

The Aquatic Observatory

OCEAN / UNI

Fall Semester

The Sea:

Sounds and Storytelling

Joan Jonas

Moving Off the Land II

John Gerrard

Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno

More-than-humans

Joan Jonas.

Moving Off the Land II

Amar Kanwar

The Lightning Testimonies and The Sovereign Forest

The Current II: Deep Sea Minding: A Desert In Pink

Convening #2 led by SUPERFLEX

Armin Linke: Prospecting Ocean, an exhibition at ISMAR, Venice 2018

Oceans.

Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview

Symposium:

Return to the Sea

John Akomfrah

Purple

Océans

Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues

TBA21–Academy at Dhaka Art Summit

Tidalectics

Fishing for Islands

Tidalectics Tidal Timings

bára, 2017 by Jana Winderen

Are We Human? Design of the Seabed

Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin – Aru Kuxipa | Sacred Secret

June 25–November 29, 2015 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

RARE EARTH

February 19-May 31, 2015 | TBA21-Augarten, Vienna

Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness

May 14–October 5, 2014 | MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico

Ragnar Kjartansson and friends – The Palace of the Summerland

April 3–June 8, 2014 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

Ragnar Kjartansson

The Visitors

Ragnar Kjartansson

The Visitors

Ernesto Neto and the Huni Kuin – Assembleia

The Rise of the Phyto Age
June 26–27, 2015 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

SHARON LOCKHART | NOA ESHKOL
November 23, 2012–February 24, 2013 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

ephemeropteræ 2014
June–September 2014 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

Field Recording in Iceland

Silencing of the Reefs

Expedition

Deep Blue Notes in Silver Bank

Expedition

Surveying Reef Health

Expedition

The Galápagos Islands

Expedition

Underwater Ambisonic Recording

Expedition

Uncovering Legends in Cocos Island

Part I

Burying Treasure in Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Part II

Mexico – Plan B, Expedition

Atolls and Lagoons, Expedition

7th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 1-4, 2018 | Dharamshala, India

Moving Off the Land II | Public Program
April 15 – 28, 2020 | www.vdrome.org

Abecedarium: The Ocean in Sign Language

Class of Interpretation | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Simon Starling / SUPERFLEX – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests | May 30–October 14, 2012 | TBA21, Vienna

4th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 5–8, 2015 | Dharamshala, India

Simon Starling
Prouvé (Road Test), 2012

ephemeropteræ 2012
June–September 2012 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

ephemeropteræ 2013
June–September 2013 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

Olafur Eliasson – BAROQUE BAROQUE
November 21, 2015—March 6, 2016 | Winter Palace, Vienna

Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas
May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line, 2008

Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness
August 10–September 29, 2016 | Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador

Olaf Nicolai
Mourning and Melancholia

Olaf Nicolai
Trauer und Melancholie, 2009/2012

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
March 12–July 29, 2016 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

The Current I: The Kula Ring

Convening #1 led by Ute Meta Bauer

Brightness | July 4–September 28, 2003
Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Janet Cardiff: Walking thru'
April 20–June 26, 2004 | TBA21, Vienna

ein-leuchten
July 25–September 5, 2004| Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

Modus Operandi
November 25, 2004–April 30, 2005 | TBA21, Vienna

Puppets and Heavenly Creatures
June 4–September 9, 2005 |TBA21, Vienna

Deseos fluidos
September 22-December 23, 2005 | TBA21, Vienna

Nature Attitudes
April 4–September 9, 2006 | TBA21, Vienna

Küba: Journey against the Current | May 1–September 9, 2006
Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria

The Kaleidoscopic Eye
April 4–July 5, 2009 | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph | March 6–October 26, 2008 | Kunsthaus Graz

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
October 6, 2010-February 21, 2011 | LABoral, Gijón / Spain

Mario García Torres – An Arrival Tale
June 17–November 20, 2016 | TBA21– Augarten, Vienna

freq_out 12 [the last edition] April 22–May 1, 2016
The Third Mann Sewer, Vienna

Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space | February 8–September 21, 2008 | TBA21, Vienna

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Sculptural Discourses
November 23, 2006–April 29, 2007 | TBA21, Vienna

Rirkrit Tiravanija | The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

RELATED PROGRAM
Treasures from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
May 4–October 12, 2019 | Lopud Island, Croatia

COI #005 – Mohammad Salemy on Future Educational Platforms
April 24, 2019 | Prague

Shooting Back
June 6–December 16, 2007 | TBA21, Vienna

The Way Things Are
June 14–October 31, 2008 | Znaki Czasu, Torun Poland

A Question of Evidence
November 20, 2008–May 31, 2009 | TBA21, Vienna

The Current I: The Distant Islands

Convening #2 led by Ute Meta Bauer & Cesar Garcia

Figura cuncta videntis (the all-seeing eye) / Homage to Christoph Schlingensief | November 16, 2010–April 16, 2011 | TBA21, Vienna

Walid Raad – Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
May 26–June 15, 2011 | Wiener Festwochen / TBA21, Vienna

Los Carpinteros: Handwork - Constructing the World | October 15, 2011 - January 22, 2012 |Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma

Tactics of Invisibility
April 16–August 15, 2010 | TBA21, Vienna

ephemeropteræ 2016
June–September 2016 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness | March 1–May 29, 2016 | MamBo, Bogota, Colombia

The Current I: The Kula Ring | Convening #1

Films

5th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 3–6, 2016 | Dharamshala, India

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
February 24 – May 6, 2017 | Moody Center for the Arts, Houston

Allan Sekula – OKEANOS
February 21–May 14, 2017 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

6th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
November 2-5, 2017 | Dharamshala, India

Transitory Objects
July 3, 2009–March 14, 2010 | TBA21, Vienna

Jonathan Meese ist Mutter Parzival
March 16, 2005 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Don't Trust Anyone over Thirty. Entertainment by Dan Graham and Tony Oursler featuring Japanther and The Huber Marionettes

John Bock – Malträtierte Fregatte
September 2006 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker – No night No day
June 4–6, 2009 | Teatro Goldoni, Venice

Chicks on Speed, Douglas Gordon and Christopher Just – ART RULES!
April 28, 2007 | Gartenbaukino, Vienna

Gregor Schneider 7–8:30 PM, 05.31.2007
May 31, 2007 | Magazin der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
October 2, 2008–January 11, 2009 | Seville

Between Architecture, Science, and Sound
June 8–9, 2011 | Stadtkino, Vienna

ephemeropteræ 2017
June–September 2017 | TBA21–Augarten, Vienna

Olafur Eliasson – Green light | An artistic workshop
May 13–November 26, 2017 | La Biennale di Venezia

The Current I: Tabu / Tapu

Convening #3 led by Ute Meta Bauer

Atopia – Migration, Heritage and PlacelessnessAugust 16–November 26, 2017 | Museo de ArteContemporáneo, Lima, Peru

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
June 7, 2011–2012 | Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch – The Morning Line
May 22–September 19, 2010 | Istanbul

We Can't Breathe. Social Responsibility Project

COI #006 – Antonia Majaca
May 23 – 24, 2019 | Prague

The Current II: The Solomon Exercises

Expedition #2 led by Chus Martínez

The Current II: Deep Sea Minding

Expedition #1 led by SUPERFLEX

The Current II: To Find The Vegan Lion

Expedition #1 led by Chus Martínez

The Current II: The Waves of the Oh!s and the Ah!s

Convening #1 led by Chus Martinez

COI #001 - ANON #AltWoke Manifesto

COI #002 - Chus Martínez and Ingo Niermann
November 21–22, 2018 | Prague

Book launch – Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview Through Art and Science

Book launch – Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview Through Art and Science

COI #003 – Kenneth Goldsmith
January 28–29, 2019 | Prague

COI #004 – Keller Easterling
March 16, 2019 | Prague

World Ocean Day 2024

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary opens new office in Madrid September 12, 2019

The Current II: Deep Sea Minding: Surface

Expedition #2, led by SUPERFLEX

More-than-humans: a two day otherwordly experience

Inhabitants, What is Deep Sea Mining?
November, 2019 | LOOP Barcelona and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.

Roundtable "COP25 as Fieldwork"
December 10, 2019 | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

The Current II: Life for Beginners

Expedition #3 led by Chus Martínez

freq_wave: 7 seas

curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Eduardo Navarro with BaRiya (Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini), Octo-Durga, 2020

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
A Dream Dreaming a Dream Dreaming, 2020

9th DIFF Dharamshala International Film Festival
Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2020| Streaming from Dharamshala, India

st_age
Season 1
Online September 28 – December 20, 2020

st_age
Temporada 1
Online 28 septiembre – 20 diciembre, 2020

Sissel Tolaas
Smell 3_4 2020, 2020

Yeo Siew Hua
An Invocation to the Earth, 2020

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Te Moana - The Ocean

Will Benedict, DIS.ART,
All Bleeding Stops Eventually

Backst_age conversation with artists Joan Jonas and Patricia Domínguez
Live October 13, 19:00 CET

Watery Witnesses–An online screening series
VIDEOCLOOP, LOOP Barcelona
November 10–December 10, 2020

Works from st_age, TBA21’s platform for digital productions, travels to the City Museum of Ljubljana to be part of When in Doubt Go to a Museum

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

ARCO Roundtable Conversations

Fishing Fly
Publication

TBA21 + C3A Agreement

Walid Raad: Artist Talk and Book Presentation

Walid Raad: Artist Talk and Book Presentation

Plata
Vegetal Acupuncture: Plants for a Future without Petroleum, 2022

Fishing Fly
From the worm to the mouth

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Prelude

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Halophice-cream

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

The Name For World Is Tide

Move & Meet Like the Ocean

ocean comm/unity/festival

Open call! TBA21–Academy Artistic Residency in South America

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