The format of the session combines a traditional workshop with an artist talk, which will focus on the theme of absence and working with both emotional and material legacies. Magdalena and Oana will explore the concept of the studio as physical and mental space and its role in artistic practice. The workshop relates to a project currently being carried out by the artists, centred on the figure and work of the Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, as well as the relationships between the artists’ practices. The participants will be invited to work with words, archival papers and, later in the session, with nature, the garden and the soil.

Duration of the session: 4 hours including a break, 12:00-16:00
Number of participants: 12 people, based on registration
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The session will be held in English.

𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐳𝐚𝐤 (she/her), visual artist, researcher. She is the author of drawings, photographs, objects, art books and narrative sculptural forms that interact with the surrounding environment in public spaces. She is the creator of the Nomadic Studio and co-curator of the project Manifestos for the Future (2020, 2025). A member of the artistic collective that created the Polish pavilion at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. Her artistic practice investigates the relationship between community, space, and narrative through site-specific installations and sculptural forms. By reconfiguring fragments of the everyday into utopian compositions, she explores materiality and spatiotemporality as vessels for social resonance, crafting environments where every voice is empowered to speak.

𝐎𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐞 (b. 1985) is an artist working and living in Cluj-Napoca. Oana is a performer, author, composer, working primarily in the performing arts. In her work, she explores fragility, intimacy, personal space, rituals and routines of everyday life. She is interested in memory, subjectivity, language, and works with visual and sound archives and collections. Oana works at the intersection of literature, poetry, and dramaturgy, with a cinematic point of view. She likes to mix reality and fiction, and experiments with narration and visualisation in theatre. In the larger idea of stage as a multidisciplinary ground, her research often intersects with philosophy and anthropology.

This event was made possible with the support of Tranzit House and the Polish Institute in Bucharest.