The current four year programme of L’Internationale is Museum of the Commons and includes over 60 activities carried out by the network, in partner institutions, online or across multiple sites. Listed here are activities from 2023 onwards, when Museum of the Commons begun. Previous programmes of the network can be found here.

  1. M HKA

    Apple. An Introduction (over and over and once again)

    ‘Apple. An Introduction (over and over and once again)’ by Antje Majewski and Paweł Freisler is the second part of the Superhost project at M HKA. Curated by Joanna Zielińska and Anne-Claire Schmitz, it includes guest works by Chantal Akerman, Agnieszka Polska, Jimmie Durham, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joris de Rycke, Kasper De Vos and many more.

  2. Museo Reina Sofia

    Sustainable Art Production

    The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for 4 residencies of artistic practice for projects that address the emergencies and challenges derived from the climate crisis such as food sovereignty, architecture and sustainability, communal practices, diasporas and exiles or ecological and political sustainability, among others.

  3. SALT

    Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them

    ‘Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them’ is a series of sound installations by Özcan Ertek, Fulya Uçanok, Ömer Sarıgedik, Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, and Passepartout Duo, presented at Salt in Istanbul.

  4. SALT

    Sound of Green

    ‘Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them’ at Salt in Istanbul begins on 5 June, World Environment Day, with Özcan Ertek’s installation ‘Sound of Green’.

  5. Van Abbemuseum

    The Soils Project

    ‘The Soils Project’ is part of an eponymous, long-term research initiative involving TarraWarra Museum of Art (Wurundjeri Country, Australia), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It works through specific and situated practices that consider soil, as both metaphor and matter.


    Seeking and facilitating opportunities to listen to diverse voices and perspectives around notions of caring for land, soil and sovereign territories, the project has been in development since 2018. An international collaboration between three organisations, and several artists, curators, writers and activists, it has manifested in various iterations over several years. The group exhibition ‘Soils’ at the Van Abbemuseum is part of Museum of the Commons.

  6. Institute of Radical Imagination
    Museo Reina Sofia

    Cinema as Assembly

    Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.

  7. HKW

    Tongue and Throat Memories

    On hospitality and conviviality through food
    Knowledges and convenings
    Cooking Sessions

  8. Museo Reina Sofia

    School of Commoning Practices

    This exchange programme gathers different schools organized by volunteers and migrant communities in Athens (Open School for Migrants) and Madrid (School of Rights, Escuela de Español and Situated mediation School) in order to share their knowledge, exchange strategies and reflect on the experience of working together with migrant communities.

  9. MACBA

    The Kitchen: Workshop by Marina Monsonís

    The Kitchen is a meeting place open to the participation of all, especially people and organizations that want to share their knowledge and experiences around the kitchen.

Upcoming

  1.  
    HDK-Valand

    Climate Forum III

    The Climate Forum is a series of online meetings hosted by HDK-Valand within L’Internationale’s Museum of the Commons programme. The series builds upon earlier research resulting in the (2022) book Climate: Our Right to Breathe and reaches toward emerging change practices.

Past

  1.  
    HDK-Valand

    Climate Forum II

    The Climate Forum is a series of online meetings hosted by HDK-Valand within L’Internationale’s Museum of the Commons programme. The series builds upon earlier research resulting in the (2022) book Climate: Our Right to Breathe and reaches toward emerging change practices.

  2. Museo Reina Sofia

    Open Call: Research Residencies

    The Centro de Estudios of Museo Reina Sofía releases its open call for research residencies as part of the climate thread within the Museum of the Commons programme.

  3. Moderna galerija
    ZRC SAZU

    Summer School: Our Many Easts

    Our Many Easts summer school is organised by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons.

  4. MACBA

    Before We Go Down in History (we have to make a living) I. Class Composition

    Two-day seminar organised by MACBA as part of Museum of the Commons and the year-long project ‘[contra]panorama’.

  5. M HKA

    The Lives of Animals

    ‘The Lives of Animals’ is a group exhibition at M HKA that looks at the subject of animals from the perspective of the visual arts.

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    Museo Reina Sofia

    Palestine Is Everywhere

    ‘Palestine Is Everywhere’ is an encounter and screening at Museo Reina Sofía organised together with Cinema as Assembly as part of Museum of the Commons. The conference starts at 18:30 pm (CET) and will also be streamed on the online platform linked below.

  7. MSU Zagreb
    Van Abbemuseum
    Moderna galerija
    ZRC SAZU

    School of Common Knowledge

    School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge, a project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, it continues its co-learning methodology. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world.

  8. Institute of Radical Imagination

    Gathering into the Maelstrom (exhibition)

    ‘Gathering into the Maelstrom’ is curated by Institute of Radical Imagination and Sale Docks within the framework of Museum of the Commons.

  9. Institute of Radical Imagination

    Gathering into the Maelstrom

    ‘Gathering into the Maelstrom’ in Venice at Sale Docks is a four-day programme curated by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Sale Docks.

  10. Moderna galerija
    ZRC SAZU

    Open Call – Summer School: Our Many Easts

    Our Many Easts summer school takes place in Ljubljana 24–30 August and the application deadline is 15 March. Courses will be held in English and cover topics such as the legacy of the Eastern European avant-gardes, archives as tools of emancipation, the new “non-aligned” networks, art in times of conflict and war, ecology and the environment.

  11. MACBA

    Song for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation

    An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening.

  12. MSU Zagreb
    Van Abbemuseum
    Moderna galerija
    ZRC SAZU

    Open Call – School of Common Knowledge

    MSU (Zagreb), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), MG+MSUM (Ljubljana), ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana) and L'Internationale invite applications for the new School of Common Knowledge (SCK) to be held in Zagreb and Ljubljana 24–29 May 2024. The School of Common Knowledge draws on the network, knowledge and experience of the L’Internationale museum confederation. Its ambition is to be both nomadic and situated, looking at specific cultural and geopolitical situations while exploring their relations and interdependencies with the rest of the world. The SCK is built on the basis laid by the Glossary of Common Knowledge project initiated by Zdenka Badovinac and Moderna galerija (Ljubljana) and continues its co-learning methodology.

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    Institute of Radical Imagination
    MSU Zagreb

    Red, Green, Black and White

    A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb

  14.  
    MACBA

    Anti-imperialism in the 20th century and anti-imperialism today: similarities and differences

    PEI OBERT seminar
    Lecture by Ramón Grosfoguel

    In 1956, countries that were fighting colonialism by freeing themselves from both capitalism and communism dreamed of a third path, one that did not align with or bend to the politics dictated by Washington or Moscow. They held their first conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

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    M HKA

    SUPERHOST | Club Antena. Intimate listening and dancing experience

    with Nele Möller, Farida Amadou, Le Réalism, Céline Gillain, Roberta Miss, Elena Colombi

    CLUB ANTENA is an intimate listening and dancing session with a lecture, concert, performance, catering and DJ sets, exploring what it means to listen with our bodies.

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    HDK-Valand

    Climate Forum I

    The Climate Forum is a space of dialogue and exchange with respect to the concrete operational practices being implemented within the art field in response to climate change and ecological degradation. This is the first in a series of meetings hosted by HDK-Valand within L'Internationale's Museum of the Commons programme.

  17. tranzit.ro

    Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life

    The experimental course ‘Non-Western Technologies for the Good Life’ (November 2023–May 2024) celebrates as its starting point the anniversary of 50 years since the publication of Tools for Conviviality, considering that Ivan Illich’s call is as relevant as ever.

  18. VCRC

    Kyiv Biennial 2023

    L’Internationale Confederation is a proud partner of this year’s edition of Kyiv Biennial.

  19. MSN

    Multicultural Youth Center

    The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, together with the confederation of museums L'Internationale, is establishing a Multicultural Youth Center. This is a unique space for 16-24 year olds to explore and develop their creativity, make new friends and hang out in a friendly and supportive environment.

  20. Museo Reina Sofia

    Team of Teams

    This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.

  21. Van Abbemuseum

    Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School

    Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity
    Course Directors: Prof. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando Vázquez

    Recalling Earth and learning worlds and worlds-making will be the topic of chapter 14th of the María Lugones Summer School that will take place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

  22. MSN

    Archive of the Conceptual Art of Odesa in the 1980s

    The research project turns to the beginning of 1980s, when conceptual art circle emerged in Odesa, Ukraine. Artists worked independently and in collaborations creating the first examples of performances, paradoxical objects and drawings.

  23. MACBA

    Where are the Oases?

    PEI OBERT seminar
    with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise Vergès

    An oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.

  24. MACBA

    The Open Kitchen. The fermented seed, colonialism and extractivism

    The MACBA Kitchen is a working group situated against the backdrop of ecosocial crisis. Participants in the group aim to highlight the importance of intuitively imagining an ecofeminist kitchen, and take a particular interest in the wisdom of individuals, projects and experiences that work with dislocated knowledge in relation to food sovereignty.

  25. MACBA

    Mobile Garden. A Place to Meet

    An open space, a social space. How could the Museum be more open to the needs of the neighbourhood?