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.
In the last decade thousands of people arrived in Europe crossing the Mediterranean as a result of political crises as refugees and asylum seekers, or due to economic migrations related to the consequences of climate change, the neo-colonial extractivism or war conflicts. In response to the insufficient response of the recipient countries, groups of citizens have organized self-managed structures to give access to basic rights such as health, education or culture.
Related activities
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–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.
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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.
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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.
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–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 VergèsAn oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
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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?
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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.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Team of Teams
This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.
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Sustainable Art Production
The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for four 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.
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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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Institute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb
Red, Green, Black and White
A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb
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Tongue and Throat Memories
On hospitality and conviviality through food
Knowledges and convenings
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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.
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–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.
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MACBA
The Open Kitchen. Map of edible tensions
with Marina Monsonís, Paisanaje and Ruralitzem
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. -
The Open Kitchen. Food networks in an emergency situation
with Marina Monsonís, the Cabanyal cooking, Resistencia Migrante Disidente and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial
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. -
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Kyiv Biennial 2025
L’Internationale Confederation is proud to co-organise this years’ edition of the Kyiv Biennial.
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–MACBAMuseo Reina Sofia
School of Common Knowledge 2025
The second iteration of the School of Common Knowledge will bring together international participants, faculty from the confederation and situated organizations in Barcelona and Madrid.
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–SALT
Plant(ing) Entanglements
The series of sound installations Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them ends with Fulya Uçanok’s sound installation Plant(ing) Entanglements.
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Museo Reina Sofia
School of Commoning Practices: Publication
Students, teachers and organizations of self-managed language and cultural mediation schools for migrants in Florence, Athens and Madrid share their experiences.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Sustainable Art Production. Research Residencies
The projects selected in the first call of the Sustainable Art Practice research residencies are A hores d'ara. Experiences and memory of the defense of the Huerta valenciana through its archive by the group of researchers Anaïs Florin, Natalia Castellano and Alba Herrero; and Fundamental Errors by the filmmaker and architect Mauricio Freyre.
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Museo Reina Sofia
Poetry readings: Culture for Peace – Art and Poetry in Solidarity with Palestine
Casa de Campo, Madrid
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–Museo Reina SofiaMACBA
Open Call – School of Common Knowledge 2025
Museo Reina Sofía and MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invite applications for the 2025 iteration of the School of Common Knowledge, which will take place in Madrid and Barcelona 11-16 November 2025. The School of Common Knowledge (SCK) draws on the network, knowledge and experience of L’Internationale. 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. This year, the SCK program focuses on the contested and dynamic notions of rooting and uprooting in the framework of present – colonial, migrant, situated, and ecological – complexities. Building on the legacy of the Glossary of Common Knowledge and the current European program Museum of the Commons, the SCK invites participants to reflect on the power of language to shape our understanding of art and society through a co-learning methodology.
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–Museo Reina Sofia
Study Group: Aesthetics of Peace and Desertion Tactics
In a present marked by rearmament, war, genocide, and the collapse of the social contract, this study group aims to equip itself with tools to, on one hand, map genealogies and aesthetics of peace – within and beyond the Spanish context – and, on the other, analyze strategies of pacification that have served to neutralize the critical power of peace struggles.
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–MSU Zagreb
October School: Moving Beyond Collapse: Reimagining Institutions
The October School at ISSA will offer space and time for a joint exploration and re-imagination of institutions combining both theoretical and practical work through actually building a school on Vis. It will take place on the island of Vis, off of the Croatian coast, organized under the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and the Island School of Social Autonomy (ISSA). It will offer a rich program consisting of readings, lectures, collective work and workshops, with Adania Shibli, Kristin Ross, Robert Perišić, Saša Savanović, Srećko Horvat, Marko Pogačar, Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Piškur, Theo Prodromidis, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Progressive International, Naan-Aligned cooking, and others.
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–MSN Warsaw
Near East, Far West. Kyiv Biennial 2025
The main exhibition of the 6th Kyiv Biennial 2025, titled Near East, Far West, is organized by a consortium of curators from L’Internationale. It features seven new artists’ commissions, alongside works from the collections of member institutions of L’Internationale and a number of other loans.
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–M HKA
Homelands and Hinterlands. Kyiv Biennial 2025
Following the trans-national format of the 2023 edition, the Kyiv Biennial 2025 will again take place in multiple locations across Europe. Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) presents a stand-alone exhibition that acts also as an extension of the main biennial exhibition held at the newly-opened Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN).
In reckoning with the injustices and atrocities committed by the imperialisms of today, Kyiv Biennial 2025 reflects with historical consciousness on failed solidarities and internationalisms. It does this across an axis that the curators describe as Middle-East-Europe, a term encompassing Central Eastern Europe, the former-Soviet East and the Middle East.
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MACBA
PEI Obert: Bodies of Evidence. A lecture by Ido Nahari and Adam Broomberg
In the second day of Open PEI, writer and researcher Ido Nahari and artist, activist and educator Adam Broomberg bring us Bodies of Evidence, a lecture that analyses the circulation and functioning of violent images of past and present genocides. The debate revolves around the new fundamentalist grammar created for this documentation.
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Everything for Everybody. Kyiv Biennial 2025
As one of five exhibitions comprising the 6th Kyiv Biennial 2025, ‘Everything for Everybody’ takes place in the Ukraine, at the Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture.
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In a Grandiose Sundance, in a Cosmic Clatter of Torture. Kyiv Biennial 2025
As one of five exhibitions comprising the 6th Kyiv Biennial 2025, ‘In a Grandiose Sundance, in a Cosmic Clatter of Torture’ takes place at the Dovzhenko Centre in Kyiv.
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MACBA
School of Common Knowledge: Fred Moten
Fred Moten gives the lecture Some Prœposicions (On, To, For, Against, Towards, Around, Above, Below, Before, Beyond): the Work of Art. As part of the Project a Black Planet exhibition, MACBA presents this lecture on artworks and art institutions in relation to the challenge of blackness in the present day.
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–MACBA
Visions of Panafrica. Film programme
Visions of Panafrica is a film series that builds on the themes explored in the exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, bringing them to life through the medium of film. A cinema without a geographical centre that reaffirms the cultural and political relevance of Pan-Africanism.
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MACBA
Farah Saleh. Balfour Reparations (2025–2045)
As part of the Project a Black Planet exhibition, MACBA is co-organising Balfour Reparations (2025–2045), a piece by Palestinian choreographer Farah Saleh included in Hacer Historia(s) VI (Making History(ies) VI), in collaboration with La Poderosa. This performance draws on archives, memories and future imaginaries in order to rethink the British colonial legacy in Palestine, raising questions about reparation, justice and historical responsibility.
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MACBA
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica OPENING EVENT
A conversation between Antawan I. Byrd, Adom Getachew, Matthew S. Witkovsky and Elvira Dyangani Ose. To mark the opening of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, the curatorial team will delve into the exhibition’s main themes with the aim of exploring some of its most relevant aspects and sharing their research processes with the public.
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MACBA
Palestine Cinema Days 2025: Al-makhdu’un (1972)
Since 2023, MACBA has been part of an international initiative in solidarity with the Palestine Cinema Days film festival, which cannot be held in Ramallah due to the ongoing genocide in Palestinian territory. During the first days of November, organizations from around the world have agreed to coordinate free screenings of a selection of films from the festival. MACBA will be screening the film Al-makhdu’un (The Dupes) from 1972.
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Museo Reina Sofia
Cinema Commons #1: On the Art of Occupying Spaces and Curating Film Programmes
On the Art of Occupying Spaces and Curating Film Programmes is a Museo Reina Sofía film programme overseen by Miriam Martín and Ana Useros, and the first within the project The Cinema and Sound Commons. The activity includes a lecture and two films screened twice in two different sessions: John Ford’s Fort Apache (1948) and John Gianvito’s The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001).
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Vertical Horizon. Kyiv Biennial 2025
As one of five exhibitions comprising the 6th Kyiv Biennial 2025, ‘Vertical Horizon’ takes place at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz, at the initiative of tranzit.at.
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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: Activities
To mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and in conjunction with our collective text, we, the cultural workers of L'Internationale have compiled a list of programmes, actions and marches taking place accross Europe. Below you will find programmes organized by partner institutions as well as activities initaited by unions and grass roots organisations which we will be joining.
This is a live document and will be updated regularly.
Related contributions and publications
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Activating Pink Triangle. Didactic materials and pedagogical proposals for a diverse school
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Prácticas lumbung para resistir y colaborar desde el arte
Constanza Yévenes BiénzobasEN eslumbungSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Algunos términos que guían a lumbung press: Definiendo “edición”
Erick BeltránEN eslumbungSituated OrganizationsMACBA -
Populism. A Dialogue on Art, Representation and Institutions in the Crisis of Democracy
Chantal Mouffe, Didier EribonDialoguesMuseo Reina Sofia -
Congresso Internacional Extraordinário dos Críticos de Arte, 1959
DialoguesMuseo Reina Sofia -
Art Museums and Democracy
Charles Esche, Manuel Borja-Villel, Bart de BaereDialoguesM HKAVan AbbemuseumMuseo Reina Sofia -
L'Internationale statement in support of MNCARS
L’Internationale ConfederationEN es sl nl trStatements and editorialsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Triángulo Rosa / Pink Triangle
Alicia Bernardos, Trinidad A. Labrador, Carolina León, Mercedes Sánchez Sáinz, Marco Antonio Theis Fuentes, Miquel MisséMuseo Reina Sofia -
Really Useful Knowledge
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Minimal Resistance. Between Late Modernism and Globalisation: Artistic Practices During the 80s and 90s
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Discomfort at Dinner: The role of food work in challenging empire
Mary FawzyLand RelationsSituated Organizations -
Mix tape: Let's funk up all genders!
Materia Hache / Others to the FrontEN esSonic and Cinema CommonsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Towards Collective Learning, or, Decompartmentalizing Education
María Berríos, Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Nick AikensSchoolsSituated Organizations -
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
The Free Palestine Initiative CroatiaInternationalismsPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsInstitute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb -
Reading list: School of Common Knowledge 2024
School of Common KnowledgeSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: Notes on Separation and Conviviality
Raluca PopaLand RelationsSchoolsSituated OrganizationsClimatetranzit.ro -
To Build an Ecological Art Institution: The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Raluca VoineaLand RelationsClimateSituated Organizationstranzit.ro -
Dispatch: In between the lessons. Staying together in uncertain times, laughing in the face of trouble, and disobeying; the future belongs to us
Antonela SoleničkiSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: The Commonsverse and Situated Organisations – or why the era of big institutions will come to an end
Denise PolliniSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Dispatch: A Buriti Tree
Lucas PrettiSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Poner el nombre a una causa en tierra extraña
Dagmary Olívar Graterol, Paola de la Vega VelasteguiEN esSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Dispatch: To whom it may concern – the voice of the censor and re-calibrating words as an act of survival
AnonymousSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Rethinking Comradeship from a Feminist Position
Leonida KovačSchoolsInternationalismsSituated OrganizationsMSU ZagrebModerna galerijaZRC SAZU -
Collective Study in Times of Emergency. A Roundtable
Nick Aikens, Sara Buraya Boned, Charles Esche, Martin Pogačar, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Ezgi YurteriInternationalismsPast in the PresentSituated Organizations -
Taking Part. A Guide to Participatory Tools and Techniques
EN esSchoolsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina Sofia -
Atención: participar en el Museo de los Comunes
Fran MM Cabeza de VacaEN esSchoolsSituated Organizations -
S come Silenzio
Maddalena FragnitoEN itInternationalismsSituated Organizations -
Statement in support of M HKA
L’Internationale ConfederationStatements and editorialsSituated Organizations -
Reading list: October School. Reimagining Institutions
October SchoolSchoolsSituated OrganizationsClimateMSU Zagreb -
Cultural Workers of L’Internationale mark International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Cultural Workers of L’InternationaleEN es pl roInternationalismsSituated OrganizationsPast in the PresentStatements and editorials