TBA21–Academy

OCEAN / UNI Spring Semester 2026

Plural Seas, Porous Futures: Exploring the human dimensions of Mediterranean biodiversity as strategies for coexistence and resilience

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

Join our digital event live from Venice:

Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

Compromiso con el Clima:

The Unthinkable

Organismo 2026

New Open Call is Live

otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua

Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

OcéanoFuturismos: Speculative fiction for ocean governance

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

Confluence of European Water Bodies 2025

Voices of Water: a Rights of Nature

Workshop at Tate Modern, London

Organismo | Public program - Spring

Independent study program, Year One

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

TBA21–Academy Artist Film Program

TBA21 at the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice 2025

Webs of Water

An Online Activations Series

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

OCEAN / UNI

bárawa pt.2

The Current IV: Caribbean

Convening #2

OCEAN / UNI

bárawa

Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania

Exhibition at Ocean Space - Venice

The Current IV: Caribbean

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

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

OCEAN / UNI

Pacific Resistance

OCEAN / UNI

Culturing the Deep Sea: Towards a common heritage for allkind

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

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?

The Current IV: Caribbean

Flotation #1 Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel
Guatemala

Performance

Open Call Meandering

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender

~ Second Cycle ~ The Mediterraneans Beyond Aridity

OCEAN / UNI

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

An Ocean Without Shore

Becoming Riverine

Open Call

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?

Ocean Archive Stories

Open Call

Imagine the ocean / dry as lavender

Online exhibition after OCEAN / UNI

We Passed Through Earth Lightly as Water

The Current III: Mediterraneans
Sardinia

Becoming Fresh & Salty Drops (of water)

OCEAN / UNI “Imagine the Ocean Dry as Lavender”

Mediterraneans as hotspot for climate change and adaptation

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

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

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

Sense to Act:

The Aquatic Observatory

OCEAN / UNI

Fall Semester

The Sea:

Sounds and Storytelling

Joan Jonas.

Moving Off the Land II

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

Janaina Tschäpe, Aquatica

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs, 2011

Chris Watson
Deep Blue Notes, 2013

Tony Myatt, Paul Modler, Peter Worth, Pascal Wyse

Underwater Ambisonic Recordings, 2013

Treasure of Lima:

A Buried Exhibition, 2014

Introducing East Portland Fish Sanctuary

Pelagic Research and Conservation Project

Field Recording in Iceland

Silencing of the Reefs

Expedition

Deep Blue Notes in Silver Bank

Expedition

Natural History Filming in Turneffe Atoll, Belize

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

Dive Expedition and TBA21–Academy Symposium

Atolls and Lagoons, Expedition

Abecedarium: The Ocean in Sign Language

Ship To Shore

Livestream on Ocean-Archive.org

About The Current

Jana Winderen
Between Dry Land, 2010

Jana Winderen
Silencing of the Reefs: Departure Iceland, 2012

The Current I: Eppur Si Muove

Expedition #1 led by Cesar Garcia
October 2015

Glowing Turtle Discovery

Expedition, 2015

Video: The Glowing Turtle Discovery

The Current I: The Kula Ring

Convening #1 led by Ute Meta Bauer

Introducing The Alligator Head Foundation

The Current I: The Kula Ring

Expedition #1 led by Ute Meta Bauer
October 2015

About TBA21–Academy Residency at Alligator Head Foundation

Claudia Comte at the Alligator Head Foundation

The Current I: The Distant Islands

Convening #2 led by Ute Meta Bauer & Cesar Garcia

The Current I: The Kula Ring: Meet the participants

Expedition #1 led by Ute Meta Bauer
October 2015

The Current I: The Kula Ring | Convening #1

Films

Lopud Seminar – The Forgotten Space
September 8–11, 2016 | Lopud Island, Croatia.

Tidalectics Reading #3

Routes and Roots

Armin Linke

Prospecting Ocean, 2018

Open Ocean Space X COP23
November 10, 2017 | Kunstmuseum, Bonn

Tidalectics: Imagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science.
MIT Press, 2017

Tidalectics Reading #2

Hope at Sea

Atif Akin
Tepoto Sud morph Moruroa, 2017

Em'kal Eyongakpa
Gaia beats/bits III-i/
doves and an aged hammock, 2017

Tue Greenfort
Tamoya Ohboya, 2017

Alexander Lee
ME-TI'A - An Island Standing, 2017

Eduardo Navarro
Hydrohexagrams (For Tahuata), 2017

Jana Winderen
bára, 2017

Sissel Tolaas
Ocean SmellScapes, 2017
03.2017 : 10.5438700 / 84.4537700 / 10.5 / 84.5

Janaina Tschäpe
Fictionary of Corals and Jellies, 2017
Blood, Sea, 2017

Laura Anderson Barbata
Ocean Calling, 2017

The Current I: Tabu / Tapu

Convening #3 led by Ute Meta Bauer

John Akomfrah

Purple, 2017

Tidalectics Reading #1

On mere men and mermaids

Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land

Performance

Dark Morph
The So(ng)qe/Tovuto Kyrrahafið Sound Field, 2019

The Current II: The Solomon Exercises

Expedition #2 led by Chus Martínez

The Choir of Hapatoni
Te Tanieka O Taiuoho, 2017

Territorial Agency.

Oceans in Transformation—Overfishing

Sounds Too Many

Lecture performance by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

Oceans in crisis in conjunction with Eco Visionaries

Joan Jonas – Moving Off the Land. Oceans – Sketches and Notes

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

Armin Linke

Photoessay related to the “Prospecting Ocean” project, 2016-2017

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

Convening #1 led by Chus Martinez

Armin Linke

OCEANS. Dialogues between ocean floor and water column, 2017

Inhabitants

What is Deep Sea Mining?, 2018–2020

The Current II: The Ocean is on Air

Convening led by Chus Martínez & Julieta Aranda

The Current II: Phenomenal Ocean. Featuring Ocean Archive

Convening #2 led by Chus Martínez

Ocean Academy Fund– A New Fund to Support and Protect the Ocean

The Current II: Deep Sea Minding: Surface

Expedition #2, led by SUPERFLEX

Stefanie Hessler: Prospecting Ocean
MIT Press, 2019

PhD program in cooperation with SUPERFLEX, Jordan Lab MPI and Alligator Head Foundation

Susanne M. Winterling
Planetary sensing: navigations below the surface, 2018–

Ingo Niermann
Sea Lovers (2020) and Wet Gods (2020)

Olafur Eliasson in conversation with David Gruber

Afterall Journal Launch

with Ute Meta Bauer and Michael Mel

Nate Petre at the Alligator Head Foundation

Nabil Ahmed
INTERPRT (2019)

SUPERFLEX
Deep Sea Minding, 2019–2021

The Current II: Life for Beginners

Expedition #3 led by Chus Martínez

freq_wave: 7 seas

curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Eduardo Navarro
Monuments, 2015

Taloi Havini and Michael Toisuta,
Hyena Lullaby, 2020

Ocean-Archive.org presents:
Togetherness stories for healing (with) the Ocean

SUPERFLEX
Hunga Tonga, 2019

SUPERFLEX

Vertical Migration, 2021

SUPERFLEX
Dive-In, 2019

Claudia Comte
Yellow Sponge (two tubes), 2020

Claudia Comte
Small Jamaican Cactus, 2020

Claudia Comte
Sun Coral (nine headed hydra), 2020

Claudia Comte
Fire Coral (five fingers), 2020

Claudia Comte
Soft Coral (three teeth), 2020

Temitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer
How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps)

Stephanie Comilang

Diaspora Ad Astra, 2020

Rossella Biscotti,
Disorientation Notes

Petrit Halilaj and Alvaro Urbano,
Un Sogno, Un Pesce

TBA21–Academy Radio

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Te Moana - The Ocean

Will Benedict, DIS.ART,
All Bleeding Stops Eventually

OCEAN FELLOWSHIP 2021

Claudia Comte
Underwater Cacti, 2019

OCEAN FELLOWSHIP 2020

Membership Offer

Joan Jonas

Moving Off the Land IV, 2014-2020

The Current III “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan),”
led by Barbara Casavecchia (2021–2023)

Biennale Opening program at Ocean Space

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, lacuna, 2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans

TBA21–Academy Residency Program in Venice

Fishing Fly
Publication

Taloi Havini
Answer to the Call, 2021

Invernomuto, Black Med, Chapter VI, 2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Aridity Lines

Podcast

Ocean Wants

Podcast

OCEAN FELLOWSHIP 2022

Rossella Biscotti, The Journey's Sonic Diary, 2020–2021
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Susanne Winterling
Glistening Troubles, 2017

The Future of High Waters: Nature-Based and Geo-Engineering Solutions for the Venetian Lagoon

Networking Event

TBA21–Academy's Program at Floating Cinema

Unknown Waters

Wu Tsang

MOBY DICK; or, The Whale

Meandering

Floating Cinema 2023

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

Culturing the Deep Sea

Dineo Seshee Bopape
lerato laka le a phela le a phela le a phela / my love is alive, is alive, is alive, 2022

Convivial Tables

The Cross Between Food and Ecology

The Underground Ocean Fellowship

Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022

To Become a Sea / عمول منيح وكب بالبحر
2021-2022
The Current III: Mediterraneans

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies

Independent study program, Year One

pantea,
⚪, 2022

Lodovica Guarnieri
When I breathe, I swallow the Lagoon, 2022

Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas
Breathings of the moon. Expedition, 2022

Deepwaters of Digital Oceans (DODO)

Bauhaus of the Seas Sails

ocean comm/uni/ty

TBA21–Academy’s meeting place for diving deep and crossing disciplines

Floating Cinema 2024

Program conceived by TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space

Thus Waves Come in Pairs. Thinking with the Mediterraneans
Sternberg Press, 2023

Fishing Fly
From the worm to the mouth

The Current IV: Caribbean: "otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua"

(other mountains, adrift beneath the waves)
Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel (2023–2025)

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Prelude

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

Halophice-cream

Convivial Tables: Sapid Soil

The Name For World Is Tide

The Anglerfish Chronicles

Podcast

Sonia Levy

We Marry You, O Sea, as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion, 2023

Presencias de Organismo I Arte en ecologías críticas aplicadas

Programa de estudios independientes - Enero a junio 2024

Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations

Podcast

Corona Under the Ocean

Podcast

Mae Lubetkin, Seafloor Futures

Ocean-Archive.org Digital Residency 2023–2024

Pablo Diserens, Upstream Ensemble

Ocean-Archive.org Digital Residency 2022/2023

Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
Sternberg Press, 2024

TBA21–Academy Residency Program in Venice

2024–2025

Move & Meet Like the Ocean

ocean comm/unity/festival

Daniela Zyman: Das Lachen der Quallen

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024

Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini: Silent Whale Letters
Sternberg Press, 2023

Organismo | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies

Independent study program, Year Zero

“River Running Free / You Know How I Feel”

Considering Rights of Nature for European Water Bodies, from the Venice Lagoon and its Basin

TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space Wins Flash Art Italia Award for Innovation and Sustainability

Federico Pérez Villoro: World Wide Waters

Ocean-Archive.org Digital Residency 2025

Confluence of European Water Bodies

OcéanoFuturismos / Oceánicos

OPEN CALL: Become an Oceánico – Help shape the future of our ocean

Armin Linke

Sea level rise at Kulili Plantation Village, 2017

Nandita Kumar

Sounding the Invisible: An Elegant Symbiosis, 2025

Carlos Casas

LACUNAE, 2025

Adelita Husni Bey

Il Fiato del Suolo, forum theater, 2025

Research

OPEN CALL for interdisciplinary practitioners | OCEAN / UNI 2026 Activations

Apply by February 28, 2026

Join Organismo's Critical Encounters

Register until January 12, 2026

The Declaration of the Rights of the Venice Lagoon

Organismo 2026 | Art in Applied Critical Ecologies

This is not just a project; it’s an experimental ecosystem where art, research, and activism converge in a six-month applied research program.